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Every AALookup release, newest first.

0.6.0

An AI agent on this computer can now be let into your own dictionaries: it looks words up through AALookup, shows you the entry, and helps you keep a large collection in order.

Added

  • AALookup can expose an MCP server that is off until you turn it on and listens only on this computer, and Settings ▸ Integrations sets up Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex / ChatGPT or WorkBuddy to use it.
  • A connected agent can look a word up in your installed dictionaries using the app's own spelling ladder, suggest headwords, and open a lookup in the panel or the Library for you to read.
  • A connected agent can also keep a large collection in order: creating, renaming and rearranging groups, moving dictionaries between them, changing the order they are searched in, and turning one on or off.
  • Results from a large collection can be narrowed to one dictionary group, through a searchable list that counts the hits in each group and everything beneath it.

Fixed

  • Search suggestions keep looking through your dictionaries until they have a list, instead of consulting one dictionary and leaving the rest behind a button.
  • The result dictionary bar holds still while a search runs: progress is a thin line along its edge, in place of a count that widened and pushed the tabs around.
  • Dictionaries that could not be opened are listed one per line in a panel that scrolls, so a long list no longer covers the settings above it.

Changed

  • How many dictionaries were searched, and how many could not be read, now appear when you point at or tap the count beside the result tabs, rather than in a block under the entries that could sit halfway up an empty page.