DevKnife Update 1.16.0

Version 1.16.0 is focused on making DevKnife easier to use from more places.

This release adds Workspaces for keeping separate DevKnife sessions, App Shortcuts for macOS automation, and command-line support for opening common lookups from the terminal.

Workspaces

DevKnife now supports Workspaces.

A workspace preserves a DevKnife window as a named session. This is useful when you are working on different tasks and want each one to keep its own tool state.

For example, you might have one workspace for debugging a production JWT, another for checking URLs and timestamps, and another for comparing text or inspecting JSON. Instead of losing that context when you close a window, you can save it as a workspace and come back to it later.

Workspaces are available from the new Workspace menu. From there, you can save the current window as a workspace, open an existing workspace, and manage saved workspaces when needed.

Read more about Workspaces in the docs.

App Shortcuts

This update also adds support for macOS App Shortcuts and Shortcuts actions.

DevKnife now promotes two shortcuts for quick access:

• Domain Whois
• IP Location

These can be used from places like Spotlight, Siri, and the Shortcuts app.

DevKnife also includes additional Shortcuts actions for common tasks such as encoding, decoding, hashing, password generation, and opening supported tools with input already filled in.

The goal is not to rebuild DevKnife inside Shortcuts. Instead, the actions are designed for quick input/output workflows or for jumping into the right DevKnife tool faster.

Read more about App Shortcuts in the docs.

Command Line

DevKnife now includes command-line support for opening Domain Whois and IP Location from the terminal.

After setting up the bundled command-line wrapper, you can run commands such as:

devknife whois example.com
devknife ip 8.8.8.8

These commands open DevKnife and pass the input into the matching tool.

This is intentionally lightweight. The terminal command is a bridge into the app, not a separate terminal version of DevKnife.

Read more about Command Line support in the docs.

Wrapping Up

That’s everything in 1.16.0.

The main theme of this release is continuity. Workspaces help you keep context inside DevKnife, while App Shortcuts and command-line support make it easier to bring data into DevKnife from the rest of macOS.