🎉 Orchard v0.6.2 Release Notes

✨ New Features

• Recurring events and reminders - Calendar events and reminders now support recurrence rules (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly, plus custom combinations like "every other Mon/Wed/Fri" or "the last day of the month"), ending on a date or after a fixed number of occurrences. When editing or deleting a recurring item, you can choose to affect just that occurrence or it and every future one.
• Status and doctor commands in the terminal - orchard status reports sign-in, subscription, and per-feature status; orchard features enable/disable toggles a feature right from the terminal; orchard doctor checks the app, CLI, Skill installs, and AI client configuration in one pass. Calendar, Mail, and other everyday commands now also launch Orchard automatically and retry if it wasn't already running.
• Works with sandboxed clients like Claude Cowork - Cowork runs its tasks in an isolated sandbox that can't reach the Mac's command-line tool, so the Skill used to dead-end there. It now recognizes that situation and routes calls through Claude Desktop's bridge instead. Installing or updating the Skill also writes the connection config for Claude Desktop and Cursor for you, so there's nothing to copy and paste by hand.
• More complete command-line options - Calendar, Mail, Maps, Messages, and Reminders commands gained parameters that were previously missing — scheduled mail and messages can be cancelled in bulk by status, location search takes a radius and result limit, and reminders can be filtered by a due-date range.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Cancelling a scheduled item no longer wipes everything - Cancelling scheduled mail or messages without specifying a target used to clear every related record; it now requires an explicit id, list of ids, or status, and rejects the call otherwise.
• Terminal and MCP connections no longer get stuck after a crash - Fixed an issue where an unclean Orchard exit could leave the CLI and MCP unable to reconnect even though the menu bar icon was still there. Orchard now clears leftover connection state automatically on launch.
• Reminder priority now matches Apple's scale - Fixed a mismatch that could cause "high priority" requests to be saved as a low-priority value instead.
• Cleaner MCP results - Tool results returned over MCP (Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and similar clients) no longer mix descriptive text with embedded data — they're now split into clearly separated parts.