Optional, feature-gated capabilities that let Maestro ship fast without bloating the core experience.
Encore Features are Maestro’s system for shipping powerful capabilities that aren’t essential for every user. They’re disabled by default and completely invisible when off - no shortcuts, no menu items, no command palette entries. This keeps the core app lean while letting power users opt into advanced workflows.They are now managed as plugins. Every Encore Feature ships as a built-in (“first-party”) plugin, listed in the same catalog as community plugins and turned on the same way. What changed is the plumbing and the settings screen, not the idea: a feature you have not enabled still adds nothing to your keyboard, your menus, or your palette.
Open Settings (Cmd+, / Ctrl+,) and go to the Plugins tab. Every built-in feature is listed there as a card with its category, its release date, and whether it is currently enabled.Click a card to open its detail view, then use the Enable / Disable button. Features that carry their own options show them on a Settings tab beneath that button, and the capabilities the feature is allowed to use are itemized under Permissions.Narrow the catalog with the category chips (Automation, Agents, Insights, UI, Data, Dev Tools, Other), the search box, or the Only installed toggle. Sort switches between A-Z and newest-first.
Built-in features work with the community plugin subsystem switched off - that is the default, and the banner at the top of the tab says so. Enable plugins turns on loading of third-party plugins as well. You do not need it to use anything below.
Organize agent groups into folders, and personalize them with icons and label colors
Pianola
Agents
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An autonomous manager agent that watches your other agents and answers or escalates their prompts
Coworking
Agents
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Lets an agent read terminal scrollback and inspect or drive browser tabs, through a per-agent MCP server
OpenCode Server
Agents
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Runs local OpenCode through a shared opencode serve process instead of spawning the CLI per prompt
Features without a shortcut are not opened from the keyboard: they change how something you already use behaves, rather than putting a new surface on screen.
Disabling a feature hides its surfaces; it does not delete what you already have. Turning Groups+ off, for example, collapses your group folders back to a flat list and stops drawing the icons and colors, but the nesting and appearance you set are still stored and come back when you re-enable it.
Usage & Stats is the one to know about. It is what records the activity every other reporting surface reads. With it off, the Usage Dashboard has nothing to show, and the gap is permanent - Maestro does not backfill activity from a period when recording was disabled.
Want to build a new Encore Feature? The architecture is designed for easy extension - add a flag, wire up the toggle, gate the access points, and your feature ships behind a clean opt-in.See the Encore Features contributor guide for the full implementation checklist, architecture details, and the canonical reference implementation (Director’s Notes).
