What Shipped This Week: Editable Agent Files

The Files app is now a document workspace, not a download folder

Your Research agent finishes a competitor pricing scan at 6:47am. The output lands in ~/files/reports/competitor-prices-june.csv. Before this week, you could preview that file or download it and fix a typo in Excel on your laptop. Now you open it in CloudAxis, edit the cells inline, and save — same file, same path, ready for the next duty run.

We shipped this in layers over seven days. Phase one was view-only: PDF and PPTX previews so you could sanity-check decks and exports without leaving the OS. Phase two added a JSON editor with lint, format, and save validation — useful when agents write config or API payloads you need to tweak. Phase three and four brought the spreadsheet and document work most people asked for: an Excel-style CSV grid with word wrap and sheet tabs, an editable XLSX grid with multiple sheets, and a DOCX editor with find/replace backed by server-side word_search_replace.

The point is not "we added an editor." Agents already produced real files — spreadsheets, Word docs, JSON exports. The friction was you. Download, edit locally, re-upload, hope the agent picks up the right version. That loop breaks the persistent workspace story we keep writing about. If Monday's report is still in ~/files on Tuesday, you should be able to fix a column header without opening a second app.

Mobile got attention too. The editor layout is touch-friendly, embed apps no longer render as a tiny window inside the desktop shell, and we fixed the cold-start cases where the Files overlay blocked clicks. If you manage agents from your phone, the same files your duties wrote are editable there — not just viewable. We covered the iPhone install path in our AI agents on iPhone guide; this week the Files side of that story caught up.

Also shipped

• Shorter onboarding with outcome preview. New accounts see what they are building toward before they finish setup — fewer steps, clearer "here is what your agent will do" framing. Less tour, more signal.
• Human-friendly duty schedules on Team board. Cron strings are gone from the duty cards. You see "Every weekday at 7:00 AM" instead of 0 7 * * 1-5. Small change, fewer support questions.
• AI credits rename. Billing copy across the product, marketing site, and tools now says "AI credits" instead of "AI tasks." Limits display as whole integers everywhere — no more 2,847.3 credits on a settings screen.
• Free and Growth locked to Auto. Model selection on lower tiers stays on Auto (DeepSeek). Pro and Max keep the manual picker for tier-3 and tier-4 models. Simpler for most users; power users still choose.
• Earn credits tab. Referral nudges, check-ins, and bonus credit actions consolidated under Settings → Earn credits. One place to see bonus balance and what counts toward your cap.
• Lighter signup. We removed hCaptcha from signup and replaced it with lightweight guards — still rate-limited, still verified, less friction on mobile.
• Interactive walkthrough demos. Self-hosted Product Hunt-style demos on cloudaxis.ai with a reusable walkthrough engine and tooltip calibration. Competitor monitoring demo is live at /walkthrough/demos/competitor-monitoring/?embed=1.
• GitHub Connect fix. OAuth return race and ghost-click on "Add repo" — connecting a repo from the embedded dashboard no longer fails silently.
• Admin panel mobile. Tab picker, larger touch targets, and card-style tables for ops on a phone.

What's next

Week 7 on the content calendar is the holiday setup story — agents running while you are offline for ten days. On the product side we are tightening the Specialist → Duty → Output loop so the file your agent wrote is one tap from the notification that told you it finished.

Try the Files editor on something your agents already produced. If the grid feels slow on a 4,000-row export, tell us — we optimised for the Tuesday morning report size, not enterprise data dumps.