Plan Mode Enhancements: Significant updates to Plan Mode, including new
commands, support for MCP servers, integration of planning artifacts, and
improved iteration guidance.
Core Agent Improvements: Enhancements to the core agent, including better
system prompt rigor, improved subagent definitions, and enhanced tool
execution limits.
CLI UX/UI Updates: Various UI and UX improvements, such as autocomplete in
the input prompt, updated approval mode labels, DevTools integration, and
improved header spacing.
Tooling & Extension Updates: Improvements to existing tools like
ask_user and grep_search, and new features for extension management.
Bug Fixes: Numerous bug fixes across the CLI and core, addressing issues
with interactive commands, memory leaks, permission checks, and more.
Context and Tool Output Management: Features for observation masking for
tool outputs, session-linked tool output storage, and persistence for masked
tool outputs.
Expanded IDE Support: Now offering compatibility with Positron IDE,
expanding integration options for developers.
Enhanced Security & Authentication: Implemented interactive and
non-interactive OAuth consent, improving both security and diagnostic
capabilities for bug reports.
Advanced Planning & Agent Tools: Integrated a generic Checklist component
for structured task management and evolved subagent capabilities with dynamic
policy registration.
Improved Core Stability & Reliability: Resolved critical environment
loading, authentication, and session management issues, ensuring a more robust
experience.
Background Shell Commands: Enabled the execution of shell commands in the
background for increased workflow efficiency.
Event-Driven Architecture: The CLI now uses an event-driven scheduler for
tool execution, improving performance and responsiveness. This includes
migrating non-interactive flows and sub-agents to the new scheduler.
Enhanced User Experience: This release introduces several UI/UX
improvements, including queued tool confirmations and the ability to expand
and collapse large pasted text blocks. The Settings dialog has been improved
to reduce jitter and preserve focus.
Agent and Skill Improvements: Agent Skills have been promoted to a stable
feature. Sub-agents now use a JSON schema for input and are tracked by an
AgentRegistry.
New /rewind Command: A new /rewind command has been implemented to
allow users to go back in their session history.
Improved Shell and File Handling: The shell tool’s output format has been
optimized, and the CLI now gracefully handles disk-full errors during chat
recording. A bug in detecting already added paths has been fixed.
Linux Clipboard Support: Image pasting capabilities for Wayland and X11 on
Linux have been added.