Command Code 1.31.0 ships free Ox Alpha; Desktop 0.1.14 adds GitHub skill installs

Command Code listed two product drops under Aug 20, 2026: CLI v1.31.0 and Desktop v0.1.14. The CLI release adds Ox Alpha, described in the changelog as a free 1M-context reasoning model on every plan (#3951). A companion fix in the same version gives Ox Alpha its full tool set instead of deferred tools. Desktop 0.1.14 adds a Skills section in Settings and a GitHub-repository skill install flow with a native confirmation.

On Aug 21, 2026, the official @CommandCodeAI account called Ox Alpha a stealth frontier model, said it is absolutely free for all plans, and pointed to 1M context plus a tool-repair harness. That post also claims 100T tokens per day of free capacity and no 5-hour usage limits. Treat the capacity number as vendor marketing. It is not independently measured in the material here.

The practical change for practitioners is simpler. While Command Code's stealth preview lasts, Ox Alpha requests cost no credits. Desktop can finally install, group, and toggle skills the way the CLI already does.

Ox Alpha on every plan, with the full tool set

The v1.31.0 changelog is two lines:

Add Ox Alpha, a free 1M-context reasoning model, on every plan
Give Ox Alpha its full tool set instead of deferred tools

Deferred tool calling is not new. CLI v1.19.0 introduced it. For this model, Command Code is not staging tools behind that path. Ox Alpha gets the full set in 1.31.0.

The pricing page matches the free claim for the plans it lists. Go, GOAT, and Max each include a "Free on Ox Alpha" line. The side-by-side comparison marks Ox Alpha effective usage as Free on Go, GOAT, Pro, Max 10×, and Max 20×, with this note: requests cost no credits while the stealth preview lasts. Those same compared plans list a context window of up to 1M.

When the stealth preview ends is not stated in the fetched changelog or pricing copy. Unknown. Who trained Ox Alpha is also unknown. The official post ends with "guess who made it?" The fetched pages do not name a lab or a base model.

What the announcement claims, and what it does not prove

The Aug 21 post is more colorful than the changelog. It describes Ox Alpha as a stealth frontier model, free in Command Code, with:

100T tokens per day free capacity, and no 5-hour usage limits
"1M content" — the changelog's wording is 1M-context
a claim that Command Code benchmarked about 5B tokens
a tool repair harness built to improve tool calling
absolutely free for all plans

The 100T-per-day figure and the ~5B-token benchmark are Command Code's own statements. Do not read them as audited throughput. If you are sizing long sessions, the sourced facts that hold without extra faith are the changelog's 1M-context description, the full tool set, the every-plan placement, and the pricing page's no-credit rule for the duration of the stealth preview.

The post also says there are no 5-hour usage limits. That limit language does not appear in the fetched changelog or on the pricing comparison table. It is an announcement claim, not a changelog bullet.

Desktop 0.1.14: Skills in Settings, install from GitHub

Desktop's 0.1.14 notes are the skills story CLI users have been waiting on.

You can manage installed skills from a new Skills section in Settings. Skills are grouped by project, global, or bundled source, and each skill shows its token cost. You can install skills from a GitHub repository, choose which skills to add and where to save them, and review a native confirmation before installation. From Desktop you can enable, disable, and remove managed skills while keeping the same skill state in the CLI.

That confirmation step is the difference between a convenience and a foot-gun. GitHub-repo skill install is now a first-class Desktop action, not a side channel you have to finish in the terminal.

Token cost on each skill is the other useful detail. If you are filling a 1M-context window, you can see what a bundled or project skill is going to consume before you leave it enabled.

A related fix in the same Desktop release: switching projects during skill installs or toggles no longer applies stale results to the newly selected project.

0.1.14 also adds copy-sent-message in chat, copy of selected terminal text via shortcuts or the right-click menu, terminal text size from Settings or zoom shortcuts, per-feature model picks (compaction, session titles, command explanations, image vision, and other feature tasks), and automatic titles on new chats after the first completed exchange. Renaming a chat always wins over an automatic title that is still being generated, and a rename started from another sidebar project now saves to the correct project and persists after restart.

Those are quality fixes. They are not why 0.1.14 is in this story. Skills parity with the CLI is.

The pairing

CLI 1.31.0 and Desktop 0.1.14 landed on the same changelog date. One gives every plan a no-credit 1M-context reasoning model with a full tool set for as long as the stealth preview lasts. The other gives Desktop a Skills UI, GitHub install with confirmation, visible token cost, and CLI state sync.

Command Code has not published independent evals, Ox Alpha-specific rate limits, or an end date for the free preview in these sources. What it has published is enough to act on: update, select Ox Alpha, and open Settings → Skills.

Before you burn a long session on the new model, read the Aug 20 changelog entries for CLI v1.31.0 and Desktop v0.1.14, then check the pricing page's Ox Alpha line so the stealth-preview caveat is in front of you. If you maintain skills, install one from a GitHub repo in Desktop and confirm the CLI skill state matches.