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What's New in Sidekick 26.1

This page covers what changed for users moving from Sidekick 26.0 to 26.1.

Note

Upgrading from Sidekick 5.x? Read Migrating from 5.x to 26 first — that page covers the 5.x → 26.0 changes, which this page does not repeat.

A new Sidekick view

26.1 adds Sidekick as a view type in the center pane, alongside Binary Ninja's built-in views such as Linear Disassembly, Graph, and Hex. It brings the chat, your session briefing, and your recorded outcomes into one tabbed view instead of splitting them across sidebars.

The Sidekick view has four tabs:

  • Chat — a work-item drawer alongside a single chat. When no chat is active, the tab shows a home state summarizing the current binary and suggesting places to start.
  • Briefing — the Session Briefing, Sidekick's rolling summary of the current workspace.
  • Artifacts — a feed of artifact outcome cards recorded in the Notebook, showing draft and verified outcomes.
  • Findings — a feed of finding outcome cards recorded in the Notebook, showing draft and verified outcomes.

Opening the Sidekick view

  • Plugins > Sidekick > Open Sidekick View opens (or focuses) the Sidekick view for the active binary on its Chat tab.
  • Plugins > Sidekick > Open Session Briefing opens the Sidekick view directly on the Briefing tab.
  • You can also select Sidekick from the view type selector, the same way you'd switch to Graph or Linear Disassembly.

It's the default view the first time you open a file

With Prefer Sidekick View enabled — the default — the Sidekick view is the view Binary Ninja opens the first time you open a given file. Switch to another view type at any time using Binary Ninja's normal view switching; Sidekick will not switch you back for that file.

If you'd rather binaries open in your usual view, disable the setting from Binary Ninja Settings (sidekick.ui.prefer_sidekick_view, titled Prefer Sidekick View).

For the full tab-by-tab guide, see Working in the Sidekick View.

26.0 split workspace content across four separate sidebars: Sidekick Indexes, Sidekick Notebook, Sidekick Code Maps, and Sidekick Repositories. In 26.1 those four sidebars are retired. Their content now lives in a single Sidekick Resources sidebar: one searchable browse list over notebook entries, indexes, code maps, and workspace repositories, with a shared detail view and pin-to-pane support for any resource you select.

26.0 sidebar Where its content lives now
Sidekick Indexes Indexes, inside Sidekick Resources. See Building and Using Indexes.
Sidekick Notebook Notebook entries, inside Sidekick Resources. See Recording Analysis in the Notebook.
Sidekick Code Maps Code maps, inside Sidekick Resources. See Visualizing with Code Maps.
Sidekick Repositories Workspace repositories, inside Sidekick Resources. See Workspace Repositories.

For a tour of the unified sidebar itself — browsing, searching, the detail view, and pinning a resource to a pane — see Browsing Workspace Resources.

What didn't change

The Sidekick Chat, Sidekick Transaction Log, and Sidekick Library sidebars are unchanged in 26.1. In particular, the Library sidebar (scripts, agents, and skills) was not folded into Resources — workspace repositories (now in Resources) and Library items remain distinct concepts. See How workspace repositories differ from Library items for how the two relate.