CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[2.24.3] - 2026-08-20

Added

• Slash commands and setting pickers can be used while the agent or a command is running
• The process is named "Vibe CLI" and the bottom bar shows its PID

Changed

• Models are shown by display name instead of the raw config alias
• Python dependencies updated to clear known security advisories

Fixed

• Connector bootstrap failures are surfaced instead of reporting no connectors

[2.24.2] - 2026-08-18

Added

• In-app session picker with live preview
• /log-level command for runtime log-level control
• /retry is exposed to ACP clients
• Created worktrees are shown in the transcript
• Worktrees are cleaned up when their local session is deleted

Changed

• Faster startup: the TUI renders before session initialization and imports are deferred
• Faster session resume
• Edit and read tool headers show paths relative to the current directory
• Admin config fetch retries with exponential backoff
• Custom tools are flagged as deprecated

Fixed

• New worktrees branch from the remote default instead of local HEAD
• Configured temperature is respected for reasoning models
• Thinking setting updates correctly for routed models
• Path picker stays open on / and supports ../ traversal
• Escape sequences in command output no longer flood the input box
• Live tool-permission bypass propagates to child agent loops
• Managed shell output is no longer sent to the LLM twice
• Adding a tool to the allowlist keeps the default allowlist
• OpenTelemetry traces are sent to the correct endpoint

[2.24.1] - 2026-08-11

Added

• Inline ghost-text completion for mid-prompt skills
• /clear and /new accept an optional first prompt and show the resume id
• Compacted conversation history is preserved
• OpenTelemetry tracing configuration is now available

Changed

• Default agent renamed to ask and defaults to accept-edits
• Auto worktrees are named with a model
• Faster resume by deferring sub-agent instantiation

Fixed

• Surface MCP server startup failures to the user
• Text selection is now visible in the chat input
• Provider reasoning is replayed verbatim
• Detect and retry incomplete LLM streams
• Surface voice transcription errors instead of swallowing them
• Proactively refresh expired MCP OAuth tokens
• Theme switching is now responsive
• Crash on undo of a large multiline insert in the chat input
• Config modal headers stay visible on wrap, with a tighter layout
• Trusting the cwd no longer untrusts <cwd>/.vibe
• Home directory is no longer treated as a project root
• Explain the fallback when the configured default model is invalid
• Scope sensitive-file read grants and stop chat bypass
• Git Bash paths no longer create bogus C:\c\... directories on Windows
• Use POSIX separators when shortening home paths in display
• /clear resume hint gated on session persistability

[2.24.0] - 2026-08-05

Added

• Admin config layer for shared/enforced config that applies over user config
• "Default" (unpinned) model option in /model and /config to track the recommended model without pinning a specific alias
• Server-side default model routing via experiment, never overriding explicit pins
• LLM retries surfaced in ACP/VS Code conversations via _session/retrying notification
• Explore subagent can load skills
• Local sessions start in the selected worktree
• User and project config layers compose; trusted project config overlays user config instead of replacing it
• Startup duration telemetry (vibe.startup)

Changed

• Experiment variants routed through the config schema; TOML/env/overrides now take precedence over GrowthBook assignments
• Autocopy: keyboard copy shortcuts give feedback, double/triple-click drag improved, and autocopy_to_clipboard documented

Fixed

• Drag-and-drop of files into the terminal when unfocused (iTerm2, Ghostty)
• Subagent session handoff after compaction
• Stale devstral-small thinking setting migrated to off
• Noisy non-Vibe events dropped from Sentry
• ACP returns max_turn_requests stop reason instead of erroring on turn limit
• /resume listing speed no longer scales with total session count (persistent index)

[2.23.3] - 2026-08-03

Added

• /retry command to retry an interrupted response
• /rewind now lets you choose between forking and rewinding in place
• LLM retries surfaced in the UI and logs
• Read the config catalogue without an attached session

Changed

• /status shows provider prompt-cache usage and discounts cached tokens from the session cost
• Native copy hint on the clipboard notice

Fixed

• Refused config change no longer wipes the picker
• Git fsmonitor hook disabled in project context
• Signed reasoning blocks preserved
• Tab hint colored in config edit modal
• UPX disabled in the PyInstaller specs
• List formatting preserved when copying a selection from the TUI
• Duplicate approval widget prevented when callbacks overlap
• ACP usage update sent on session resume, fork, and new
• Context token display updated on session resume
• More frequent context window updates in ACP

Removed

• Unreachable chat mode

[2.23.2] - 2026-07-30

Added

• Skill-creator built-in skill: a guided flow to author, update, and delete your own skills
• Browser sign-in can target a custom login domain for self-hosted or private-gateway deployments
• Session stats now track provider cache-hit (cached) tokens

Changed

• Redesigned /config as a searchable, full-screen settings browser with typed edit modals and per-layer origin display
• App-server protocol extended and packaged as a standalone vibe-app-server binary for desktop integration

Fixed

• Cached-token counts now reported in session stats instead of always zero
• Zed ACP packaging preserves symlinks by shipping .tar.gz archives
• grep result chips open the correct file and no longer leak absolute host paths into context (ACP)
• ACP /rewind truncates in place instead of forking
• Extra fields in the whoami response no longer rejected
• ACP session history sorted by recency
• Blank permission prompt and duplicated user message in the ACP/VS Code webview
• WhoAmI result again tolerates extra fields

[2.23.1] - 2026-07-28

Fixed

• Crash when @-mentioning a file, which aborted the turn

[2.23.0] - 2026-07-28

Added

• [A/B testing] OS-native managed shell tools
• vibe mcp add and vibe mcp remove commands to add and remove remote MCP servers without editing TOML
• Auto theme that follows terminal/OS appearance
• ACP project links surface for desktop integration
• Dense, grouped tool-call rendering in the TUI

Changed

• Trust dialog now defaults to "Trust folder" and is simplified
• Tool descriptions compressed to reduce context bloat
• Smoother, faster scrolling in long conversations
• Fixed unnecessary textual relayout computation on constant-size animation frames, removing lag spikes
• Major internal refactor introducing a JSON-RPC 2.0 app server as the single runtime owner between delivery surfaces (TUI, -p, ACP) and the core engine, replacing direct AgentLoop/callback coupling with a typed, projected protocol

Fixed

• Option+Left/Right word navigation in the chat input
• Unsigned thinking blocks dropped on backend replay
• SGR mouse protocol renegotiated when the emulator sends x10 bytes
• Crash on /resume delete confirmation
• Empty mapping treated as absent in CONCAT/UNION config merge
• LC_CTYPE used instead of LC_ALL in the bash tool environment
• Chunk text emitted before its tool call in the streaming loop
• Text selection guarded against detached widgets
• OSError on over-long @-mention autocompletion candidates
• MCP registry created when the first server is added via /mcp add
• CLI conversation ID preserved after teleport
• Data-retention link accessible to non-admins

[2.22.0] - 2026-07-21

Added

• /new command as an alias for /clear
• ACP review support: approve or revert agent changes from ACP clients, with live refresh

Changed

• Full migration to ConfigOrchestrator for configuration handling
• Defaults now filled at merge time via DefaultConfigLayer; config.toml stores only user-set values

Fixed

• read_file no longer prompts for approval on plan files in plan mode
• Benign Sentry noise suppressed (EIO, clean exits, broken pipe, transcription 401)
• Exception on unsafe configuration read

Removed

• Teleport context summary flag

[2.21.0] - 2026-07-17

Added

• Registry skills content store and manifest for skill discovery
• Config schema exposed through ACP
• Checkpointer engine state model, owner union, and pending hunks

Changed

• [Breaking — hooks] Hooks graduated from experimental; hooks.toml is now stable. Every hook type is renamed: post_agent_turn → post_agent, before_tool → pre_tool, after_tool → post_tool (the hook_event_name payload field is renamed to match). Update existing hooks.toml files accordingly.
• @file mentions now inject as read_file tool calls
• Telemetry routed through client-side redaction
• Models field migration from list to dict
• VibeConfig cutover prep with persisted-config read and orchestrator SSL parity
• Reduced feedback survey frequency for users who already responded

Fixed

• Duplicate model aliases deduplicated instead of failing config load
• UTF-8 BOM stripped in decode_safe
• UTF-8 BOM stripped from SKILL.md before parsing frontmatter
• MCP server connection errors now surface in the TUI
• MCP discovery failures now surface in ACP sessions
• stdin content no longer discarded when /dev/tty is unavailable
• GitPython import deferred off the ACP startup path
• @file mention suggestions stretched to full width
• Blank line removed between approval options
• Connector tool permission content scrolls instead of cropping
• ConfigOrchestrator gained an explicit copy() for forking

Removed

• enable_experimental_hooks config flag (and VIBE_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_HOOKS env var); hooks now load unconditionally when declared

[2.20.0] - 2026-07-13

Added

• Warning when the Narrator is enabled without working audio output

Changed

• Windows command prompt is now shell-aware
• Hardened bash tool permissions and cross-platform shell handling
• Rewind now triggers on a double Esc when the input is empty, with improved keybindings
• Teleports now include summarized context
• Renamed user plan labels (Teams → Team, Education → Student)
• ask_user_question selection now works via mouse and supports free-text entry

Fixed

• More robust SSE streaming in the generic backend
• NoneType crash when stopping voice recording during a drain-timeout race
• Windows ProactorEventLoop teardown tracebacks on /exit
• MCP OAuth tokens are no longer dropped on transient refresh errors

[2.19.1] - 2026-07-08

Added

• Experimental managed bash tool for running and tracking shell sessions
• --disabled-tools CLI flag to turn off specific tools for a run
• Per-tool description overrides via <tools-dir>/prompts/<name>.md
• Setting to clear context when a plan is accepted
• Discovered AGENTS.md files are now surfaced during read_file tool calls

Changed

• Reactive compaction with a dedicated summary fallback and stricter summaries
• User-invoked skills now load as a synthetic tool call
• Tool config now merges via deep merge
• MCP panel now refreshes silently in the background
• Debounced the agent-switch spinner
• Neutral color for keyboard shortcut hints
• Falls back to the first available model when the active model is unknown
• HTTP requests now honor CIDR notation in NO_PROXY
• History now loads lazily on resume, and session writes are off the event loop
• Faster startup by deferring heavy imports
• PII and identifying paths are now scrubbed from Sentry reports

Fixed

• Rewind now happens in place instead of forking the session
• No longer includes pydantic URLs in error messages
• Text can now be scrolled while selecting at the chat bottom
• Click text selection is now scoped to word and paragraph
• DuplicateIds crash when the recording UI starts twice
• Git subprocess output is now decoded as UTF-8
• Corrected the truncated indicator position and removed a duplicate fetch link

[2.19.0] - 2026-07-03

Added

• --worktree NAME option to create or reuse a git worktree and run inside it
• Rewind support over ACP for both the agent and the host

Changed

• Teleport URL in the CLI is now clickable
• Raised the Leanstral context limit
• Sentry auto integrations are now disabled

Fixed

• Path prompt work is now offloaded from the UI thread
• StopIteration crash in QuestionApp when submitting an empty multi-select
• User message index now accounts for the deferred system prompt
• No longer reports benign Sentry noise (KeyboardInterrupt and destroyed pending tasks)

[2.18.4] - 2026-07-01

Changed

• Whole-line content now shown in the edit diff
• Declined or skipped tool calls now render as a muted square
• Auto-approve now works in lean mode

Fixed

• Session resume with --continue now matches the resolved working directory
• Long tool call titles now wrap instead of being cropped
• Duplicate mcp_servers names in config are now rejected
• MarkupError crash when a tool error contained square brackets
• Teleport now uses the matched GitHub remote
• Raw compaction user messages are now preserved
• ACP now honors default_agent on new and resumed sessions
• Ambiguous teleport session creates are now retried

[2.18.3] - 2026-06-30

Added

• j/k navigation in selectable lists across the TUI (questions, theme picker, rewind, voice, MCP panels)
• ask_confirmation_on_exit config option to prompt before quitting
• Project-level .vibe/config.toml now persists config option changes

Changed

• Consistent styling and casing for keyboard shortcut hints across the TUI
• ask_user_question now supports more than 4 options and questions

Fixed

• No longer prompts to log in for disabled MCP servers
• Teleport diff no longer mutates the real git index

[2.18.2] - 2026-06-29

Added

• Sentry crash reporting for unhandled exceptions in the TUI (gated by enable_telemetry; off when telemetry is disabled)

Changed

• Recoverable tool-call errors are now muted in the UI; only terminal errors render as a hard failure

Fixed

• MarkupError crash when tool output contained square brackets
• OpenTelemetry chat/LLM spans missing after Mistral Python SDK 2.4.10+ telemetry opt-in gate

[2.18.1] - 2026-06-26

Added

• /mcp add slash command for adding OAuth MCP servers
• Petit chat animation idle pauses

Changed

• Bare exit synonyms (exit, quit, :q, :quit) now treated as slash commands instead of prompts

Fixed

• MCP OAuth login crash when keyring backend is un-loadable

[2.18.0] - 2026-06-25

Added

• Clickable URLs in web fetch and web search tool output
• Context window usage display in tokens at the bottom of the TUI
• Clipboard image paste support in the TUI (macOS)
• Max generated tokens set_config_option in ACP

Changed

• MCP OAuth authentication UX improvements in /mcp panel
• Diff gutter and body split into separate widgets
• Faster UI startup with lazy heavy imports
• Improved connector performance with bootstrap caching

Fixed

• macOS keychain access for Vibe credentials
• Standalone denylist incorrectly blocking commands with heredocs
• Copy selected text from prompt input and text areas
• Repeated keyring requests in Vibe Code
• Brew upgrade now always runs even when uv upgrade succeeds
• Terminal kill/release bounding for ACP to prevent hangs

[2.17.1] - 2026-06-19

Changed

• Commands in /help are now listed alphabetically in both the CLI and ACP
• /teleport is now always available and shows an explicit error when its prerequisites aren't met, instead of being hidden

[2.17.0] - 2026-06-19

Added

• /mcp login, /mcp logout, and /mcp status commands to authenticate OAuth-backed MCP servers from the TUI
• vibe --check-upgrade to force an immediate update check and exit
• --yolo as an alias for --auto-approve
• ACP now accepts inline image content blocks

Changed

• API keys are now stored in the OS keyring instead of plain text
• Edit diff view now shows all replaced occurrences instead of just the first
• Completion popup now uses a two-column layout
• Chat messages now have right padding so text no longer collapses into the scrollbar
• Faster CLI shutdown by deferring resource cleanup on exit

Fixed

• Skill autocomplete popup now dismisses after Tab completion
• Stdio MCP connections now persist across tool calls
• Retryable 5xx responses from the Mistral backend are now retried instead of failing

[2.16.1] - 2026-06-16

Added

• ACP workspace trust gated behind the workspace-trust client capability

Changed

• /resume now opens much faster
• Startup update-failure message is now gentler and no longer alarms when an update can't be applied

[2.16.0] - 2026-06-15

Added

• Fuzzy search in slash command autocomplete
• Syntax-highlighted, line-numbered, theme-aware diffs for file edits

Changed

• /resume now scopes the session picker to the current folder
• Clipboard copy confirmations now appear inline instead of stacking toast notifications
• ACP teleports now use the client title as the Vibe Code project name when no explicit project name is configured

Fixed

• ACP max-output-token responses now stop gracefully with max_tokens instead of surfacing internal errors
• Context-too-long responses wrapped as HTTP 422 are now classified correctly
• SSE streams are parsed on CR/LF boundaries only, avoiding crashes on valid Unicode line separators in JSON strings
• CLI banner now shows the Free plan correctly
• Mistral backend no longer sends reasoning content when model thinking is off

[2.15.0] - 2026-06-12

Added

• [Experimental] before_tool and after_tool hooks: shell scripts declared in hooks.toml that fire around every tool call; hooks can deny the call, rewrite tool inputs, or append context to the output — enable with enable_experimental_hooks = true
• Message queue: messages typed while the agent or a !bash command is running are queued and shown above the input; Esc pauses the queue, Ctrl+C drops the last queued message (LIFO), Enter flushes the queue when paused
• Tool result output is now collapsed by default to keep responses scannable
• Common read-only shell commands (ls, cat, pwd, etc.) are allowed without approval by default
• Session deletion available directly from the resume picker
• [mcp_servers.auth] block in config for per-server MCP authentication
• Collapsed web tool output now shows the URL and search query at a glance
• max_turns support exposed over ACP via set_config_option

Changed

• Compaction now re-injects prior user messages so the agent retains the original task goals across context resets
• [Breaking — experimental hooks] post_agent_turn retries no longer use exit code 2; hooks must now exit 0 and return {"decision": "deny", "reason": "..."} on stdout to trigger a retry — exit code 2 is treated as a failure
• Model refusal stop reason is now surfaced to the user instead of stopping silently

Fixed

• CLI UI no longer goes blank during app switches
• User messages are preserved correctly across repeated compactions
• Non-UTF-8 input is handled gracefully across all CLI surfaces
• --resume now shows history when launched from a dangerous directory
• Startup no longer crashes in unowned folders or when a git ancestor is unreadable
• Plain-string answers from web_search are handled without crashing
• NaN SGR mouse reports no longer leak into the chat input

[2.14.1] - 2026-06-08

Added

• /teleport slash command exposed over ACP, mirroring the TUI command for IDE integrations
• Startup prompt to install a pending Vibe update before continuing the session

Fixed

• JetBrains IDEs no longer trigger a preemptive auth prompt over ACP and no longer drop terminal arguments
• Initial ACP slash-command advertisement is delayed so Zed registers commands like /help instead of rejecting them
• Built-in tool prompts no longer reference the removed search_replace name and now point to edit

[2.14.0] - 2026-06-04

Added

• Image attachments via @-mentions in the TUI for vision-capable models
• Session deletion, exposed over ACP as the session/delete extension method
• Browser sign-in now shows a copyable fallback URL when the browser does not open, so SSH and remote sessions can complete onboarding
• Toast notification when a SKILL.md file fails to parse instead of silently dropping the skill
• Trust prompt now proposes the git repository ancestor as a trust target
• EnvironmentLayer in the layered configuration, populated from VIBE_-prefixed environment variables

Changed

• New tool-call format for read and the file edit tool
• write_file is now create-only and refuses to overwrite existing files
• Bumped agent-client-protocol to 0.10.1

Fixed

• LLM calls now retry on network errors and timeouts (connection, read, write, remote protocol, timeout)
• Approval modal now sizes itself so the bottom of long tool-call payloads stays visible above the options block
• Banner connector count and /mcp panel ordering now reflect which connectors are actually usable and the user's enable/disable choices
• disabled_tools from runtime is merged with the TOML configuration instead of replacing it, and is enforced inside ToolManager.get()
• shift+backspace and shift+delete now work in the chat input
• Crash in the ACP todo plan-update handler when the model's tool call failed validation

Removed

• Recursive search for nested harness files

[2.13.0] - 2026-05-29

Added

• enable_system_trust_store config flag to switch the shared SSL context to the OS trust store for corporate TLS / private CA setups

Changed

• MCP HTTP transport now uses Vibe's shared SSL context so it honors SSL_CERT_FILE / SSL_CERT_DIR and the system trust store opt-in
• API key onboarding and plan-upgrade CTAs now link to the new Mistral Vibe Code extensions page
• Compaction summaries are now injected into the conversation instead of replacing it

Fixed

• Crash during initialization
• VS Code extension promo banner now sits at the top of the conversation instead of being pinned above the input

[2.12.1] - 2026-05-27

Fixed

• VS Code extension promo link in the CLI banner now points to the renamed mistralai.mistral-vibe-code extension

[2.12.0] - 2026-05-27

Changed

• /teleport now uses the new Vibe Code Web sessions

[2.11.1] - 2026-05-27

Added

• Custom compaction prompts via the compaction_prompt_id config setting, resolved from ~/.vibe/prompts/ or .vibe/prompts/
• --max-tokens flag for programmatic mode (-p)
• ACP _auth/status and _auth/signOut extension methods so IDE extensions can show auth state and sign the user out
• Auth source assessment in vibe.setup.auth to classify the active credential source
• VS Code extension promo line in the CLI banner when launched from a VS Code, Cursor, or VS Code Insiders terminal
• OverridesLayer and ProjectConfigLayer for the layered configuration system

Changed

• Programmatic mode (-p) no longer auto-approves tool calls by default
• Browser sign-in is enabled by default for Mistral providers; the enable_experimental_browser_sign_in flag is no longer required (stale entries are silently ignored)
• Compaction quality improved
• Refreshed user message styling and slash/teleport variants
• /teleport to Vibe Code Web now carries the working diff and last commit, matching the legacy teleport
• Reworded /teleport help and completion copy to say "Vibe Code Web"

Removed

• Zed extension publishing job from the release workflow

[2.11.0] - 2026-05-25

Added

• Load skills from ~/.agents/skills so they can be shared across agents
• Restore the textual theme selection system with an onboarding theme picker
• Surface unauthenticated connectors in /mcp with needs auth / needs setup labels and start the OAuth flow from inside the CLI
• Current date injected into the system prompt
• minimal system prompt variant for eval and training

Changed

• Refreshed manual API key onboarding screen to match the new onboarding panel layout
• Newly discovered connectors are now disabled by default; existing user choices are preserved

Fixed

• Preserve original line endings in ACP search_replace
• Show MCP/connectors count as enabled/total in the banner
• ACP grep tool displays the search path as a chip and no longer drops the filename

[2.10.1] - 2026-05-20

Added

• Pretty session titles that format @mention syntax for human-readable display
• Auto-emit SessionInfoUpdate on the first prompt so IDE session pickers reflect the title immediately
• End-to-end layered config read path with TomlFileLayer, ConfigBuilder, and ConfigOrchestrator

Fixed

• MCP menu no longer shows D/E shortcuts in the detail view when there are no tools to enable or disable
• Parallel bash tool calls in ACP each render their own live terminal instead of racing on shared state

[2.10.0] - 2026-05-19

Added

• GrowthBook A/B testing layer with first system prompt experiment
• --add-dir flag to pull additional repository roots into a session
• --no-autofill flag for bump_version.py script
• TTY-keyed --continue scoping to current terminal
• Improved plan mode readability with live-editable plan display (Ctrl+G to edit)
• ACP dispatch user rating telemetry
• enable_connectors config flag to control connector availability
• Connectors migrated to public GA endpoints

Changed

• Combine git subprocess calls in SessionLogger for improved performance by @MichisGitIsKing
• Indent assistant message content to align with other messages
• Deprecate retrying workflow status and expose retry source
• Drop consecutive user-message merging in LLM backends

Fixed

• Share session permissions with subagents
• Bump pydantic-settings to >=2.13.0
• Avoid closing in-use backend on agent reload
• Slash commands broken when automatic IDE context is enabled
• Debounce tool approvals to avoid interrupting user typing
• Preserve newline style in search_replace
• Reset cursor position on up-arrow
• Remove hardcoded API key env var in websearch
• Fix whoami hardcoded url
• Pin dependencies in published wheel

[2.9.6] - 2026-05-11

Added

• Syntax-highlighted file diffs for write_file and search_replace in the IDE agent webview
• Spinner and loader for ! (bang) command output
• prepare release script can resume after resolving merge conflicts

Fixed

• Strip wildcard suffix when persisting bash allowlist patterns
• Build a combined SSL context for all outbound HTTPS requests
• Hide non-interactive tools from the LLM in ACP and programmatic mode

[2.9.5] - 2026-05-06

Added

• /loop command to run a prompt or slash command on a recurring interval
• default_agent config setting
• Telemetry instrumentation for the teleport command
• Logging environment variables documented in --help

Changed

• enable_telemetry now takes precedence over enable_otel

Fixed

• Non-retryable errors raised by sub-activities now correctly stop the retry when the agent loop runs inside a Temporal activity (deepens the 2.9.4 fix to walk the exception cause chain)
• Compacted session IDs displayed correctly
• Reload the history file before writing so parallel instances don't clobber each other
• read_file flagged as truncated when the limit is reached
• CLI loader left-alignment
• Default scroll sensitivity in the TUI restored
• Loosened the "no git commit" constraint
• Ensure enable_telemetry takes precedence over enable_otel

[2.9.4] - 2026-05-05

Added

• /rename command to rename the current session
• feat: vibe.at_mention_inserted telemetry event
• "Always allow" tool permissions persist across sessions
• Eager agent-loop warmup so vibe.ready telemetry fires sooner

Changed

• bash (!command) bang commands run via async subprocess for better latency
• Bumped mistral SDK to 2.4.4
• Bumped cryptography to address upstream CVEs

Fixed

• Preserve non_retryable flag on exceptions raised through _chat / _chat_streaming, so callers driving the agent loop from a Temporal activity can signal "do not retry"
• /clear no longer chains parent_session_id to the previous session
• vibe.new_session telemetry no longer fires when resuming a session

Removed

• Windows ARM build artifacts (no longer published; required to bump cryptography)

[2.9.3] - 2026-04-30

Added

Changed

Fixed

• Fix textual version

Removed

[2.9.2] - 2026-04-29

Fixed

• Teleport surfaces the latest GitHub connection status while polling

[2.9.1] - 2026-04-29

Added

• Connector OAuth authentication flow in /mcp menu
• ConfigPatch operation types for Vibe Code
• extra_headers field to ProviderConfig
• Structured metadata on ACP tool results
• vibe.user_cancelled_action ACP telemetry coverage
• vibe.new_session telemetry event emitted whenever the session is reset

Changed

• Migrated default model to mistral-medium-3.5

[2.9.0] - 2026-04-28

Added

• Scratchpad directory for temporary working files shared with subagents
• /copy slash command
• Experimental hooks system with post-agent-turn lifecycle
• OpenAI Responses API adapter
• ACP session fork and session close support
• Thinking level picker in ACP CLI
• --trust session-only flag and fail-fast behavior in -p mode
• Opus 4.7 model support
• ConfigLayer for layered configuration resolution
• ~/.vibe/prompts overrides for builtin prompts
• Enable/disable MCP servers and individual tools from /mcp menu
• Custom compaction instructions via /compact
• vibe.ready telemetry event
• Usage updates sent after every LLM turn for ACP
• Headless section in system prompt to prevent bad model behavior

Changed

• Renamed auto_approve config to bypass_tool_permissions
• Increased feedback bar frequency with cooldown and TOML cache
• Feedback bar only shown when active model is Mistral
• Centralized telemetry metadata construction and wired through entrypoints
• Preserved stable session identity across compact/fork/rewind
• Filtered remote sessions by current user and deduped continue-as-new
• --continue now only looks for sessions of the current working directory
• Batched widget mounts and narrowed CSS selectors for UI performance

Fixed

• Autocomplete popup height calculation for wrapped lines
• Autocomplete popup dismissed on tab completion and escape
• Double Ctrl+C/Ctrl+D required to quit instead of killing session immediately
• Context window overrun now shows a friendly error message
• MallocStackLogging error messages suppressed in CLI input
• index.lock leftover on interrupted deferred init
• Safe find commands allowed by default
• Session ID preserved when resuming sessions through ACP
• Usage updates sent after tool results instead of tool streams in ACP
• KV cache warming via x-affinity in count tokens

[2.8.1] - 2026-04-21

Fixed

• Fixed changelog and whats_new

[2.8.0] - 2026-04-21

Added

• Builtin skills system with self-awareness skill
• cwd configuration parameter for MCP stdio servers
• /connectors as alias for /mcp and R refresh shortcut in MCP browser
• MergeFieldMetadata and annotated merge strategy helpers for config schemas
• vibe.request_sent telemetry event fired before each LLM API call
• Model alias to tool_call_finished telemetry event

Changed

• Deferred heavy init in subagents and ACP sessions to background thread
• Renamed request_sent telemetry fields and added nb_prompt_chars
• Sorted connectors in /mcp menu by connection state then alphabetically

Fixed

• /debug command no longer throws
• Race condition in banner initialization dropping initial state

Removed

• /terminal-setup command

[2.7.6] - 2026-04-16

Added

• MergeStrategy enum and merge logic for configuration
• call_source=vibe_code field in LLM request metadata
• "Other" task type for non-code requests in CLI prompt

Changed

• Parallelized git subprocess calls during startup
• Extracted command registry and refactored skill resolution
• 1M context window and thinking budget max for opus
• Updated default telemetry URL to api.mistral.ai

Fixed

• Markdown fence context loss causing streaming rendering problems
• Proxy chain URLs in api_base parsing

Removed

• Alt+Left / Alt+Right key bindings from chat input

[2.7.5] - 2026-04-14

Changed

• Display detected files and LLM risks in trust folder dialog
• Text-to-speech via the Mistral SDK with telemetry tracking
• Deferred MCP and git I/O to background thread for faster CLI startup
• Made telemetry URL configurable
• Bumped Textual to 8.2.1

Fixed

• Encoding detection fallback in read_safe for non-UTF-8 files
• Config saving logic cleanup

[2.7.4] - 2026-04-09

Added

• Console View for enhanced debugging and monitoring
• /mcp command to display MCP servers and their status
• Manual command output forwarding to agent context

Changed

• Improved web_fetch content truncation for better readability
• Lazily load heavy dependencies to improve startup time
• Optimized folder parsing at startup using scandir
• Include file name in search_replace result display

Fixed

• Stale configurations from subagent switch
• ValueError on OTEL context detach in agent_span
• Clipboard toast preview replaced with fixed text
• Only agents with type "agent" are loadable with --agent flag
• Made chat_url nullable in ChatAssistantPublicData
• Normalized OTEL span exporter endpoint
• Removed redundant permission prompts for parallel tool calls needing the same permission
• Removed bottom margin issue in UI
• Never crash before ACP server starts
• Use skill in recent commands via the up-arrow navigation
• Fixed loading order issues in vibe initialization

[2.7.3] - 2026-04-03

Added

• /data-retention slash command to view Mistral AI's data retention notice and privacy settings

[2.7.2] - 2026-04-01

Added

• Alt+Left / Alt+Right keyboard shortcuts for word-wise cursor movement in chat input

Changed

• Refactored narrator into a dedicated narrator manager

Fixed

• Broken build on Linux
• Errored MCP servers are now excluded from the banner count
• Improved bash denylist matching and error messages
• Command messages are now skipped during rewind navigation

[2.7.1] - 2026-03-31

Added

• ACP message-id support for reliable message boundary identification
• Reasoning effort parameter for supported models

Changed

• Updated MistralAI SDK
• Updated ACP SDK dependency
• Refined system prompt wording and structure
• Reduced scroll sensitivity to 1 line per tick for smoother scrolling

Fixed

• Non-standard HTTP 529 status codes now handled gracefully in error formatting and retried
• Text selection errors when copying from unmounting components
• Excluded "injected" field from user messages in generic backend

[2.7.0] - 2026-03-24

Added

• Rewind mode to navigate and fork conversation history

Fixed

• Preserve message_id when aggregating streaming LLM chunks
• Improved error handling for SDK response errors

[2.6.2] - 2026-03-23

Changed

• Pinned agent-client-protocol dependency back to 0.8.1

Removed

• Context usage updates via ACP

[2.6.1] - 2026-03-23

Changed

• Loosened agent-client-protocol version constraint from pinned to minimum bound

[2.6.0] - 2026-03-23

Added

• OTEL tracing support for observability
• Skill tool for managing task lists and workflows
• Text-to-speech (TTS) functionality
• Standalone --resume command for session picker
• BFS for vibe folders to improve startup performance
• List-based model picker for /model command
• is_user_prompt flag to Mistral metadata header
• Correlation ID in user feedback calls
• Current date added to system prompt in vibe-work
• TypeScript type inference for large tool outputs in vibe-work-harness

Changed

• Updated agent-client-protocol to 0.9.0a1
• Changed inline code color from yellow to green
• Removed "You have no internet access" from CLI prompt
• Fine-grained permission system improvements
• Inject system certs into vibe-acp frozen binary via truststore

Fixed

• Streaming for currently streamed message when switching agents
• Proper UI updates when tools switch current agents
• Space key functionality when holding shift
• Empty TextChunk not appended when reasoning has no text content
• Messages removed from user feedback event
• Bash allowlist/denylist activation on Windows
• Improved scrolling performance
• ACP error handling in webview
• Context usage updates sent via ACP
• Include exit_plan_mode tool only in plan mode

[2.5.0] - 2026-03-16

Added

• Dedicated theorem proving agent powered by leanstral, setup with /leanstall
• More advanced AGENTS.md support:
  • AGENTS.md in ~/.vibe/ folder for user-level agent instructions
  • AGENTS.md for subfolders and in parent folders
• Mistral Code API key info displayed in CLI banner
• Voice mode with real-time transcription support
• Parallel tool execution for improved performance
• Structured ACP error classes for better error handling

Changed

• Bash allowlist/denylist now active on Windows
• Auto-completion relevance improved with better filename and path matching
• History navigation no longer filters by prefix
• Updated to Mistral SDK v2 import structure
• Removed find from bash default allowlist to prevent -exec abuse

Fixed

• Improved scrolling performance
• Web search tool now infers server URL from provider config

[2.4.2] - 2026-03-12

Added

• Session ID included in telemetry events for better tracing

Changed

• Skills now extract arguments when invoked, improving parameter handling
• Auto-compact threshold falls back to global setting when not defined at model level
• Update notification toast no longer times out, ensuring the user sees the restart prompt
• Removed file_content_before from Vibe Code, reducing payload size

[2.4.1] - 2026-03-10

Added

• HarnessFilesManager for selective loading of harness files, enabling SDK usage without accessing the file system.

Changed

• Web search tool infers server URL from provider config instead of hardcoded production API
• ask_user_questions tool disabled in prompt mode

Fixed

• Space key fix extended to all Input widgets (question prompts, proxy setup) in VS Code terminal
• Ruff isort/formatter config conflict resolved (split-on-trailing-comma set to false)

[2.4.0] - 2026-03-09

Added

• User plan displayed in the CLI banner
• Reasoning effort configuration and thinking blocks adapter

Changed

• Auto-compact threshold is now per-model
• Removed expensive file scan from system prompt; cached git operations for faster agent switching
• Improved plan mode
• Updated whoami response handling with new plan type and name fields

Fixed

• Space key works again in VSCode 1.110+
• Arrow-key history navigation at wrapped-line boundaries in chat input
• UTF-8 encoding enforced when reading metadata files
• Update notifier no longer crashes on unexpected response fields

[2.3.0] - 2026-02-27

Added

• /resume command to choose which session to resume
• Web search and web fetch tools for retrieving and searching web content
• MCP sampling support: MCP servers can request LLM completions via the sampling protocol
• MCP server discovery cache (MCPRegistry): survives agent switches without re-discovering unchanged servers
• Chat mode for ACP (session/set_config_options with mode=chat)
• ACP session/set_config_options support for switching mode and model
• Tool call streaming: tool call arguments are now streamed incrementally in the UI
• Notification indicator in CLI: terminal bell and window title change on action required or completion
• Subagent traces saved in agents/ subfolder of parent session directory
• IDE detection in new_session telemetry
• Discover agents, tools, and skills in subfolders of trusted directories (monorepo support)
• E2E test infrastructure for CLI TUI

Changed

• System prompts rewritten for improved model behavior (3-phase Orient/Plan/Execute workflow, brevity rules)
• Tool call display refactored with ToolCallDisplay/ToolResultDisplay models and per-tool UI customization
• Middleware pipeline replaces observer pattern for system message injections
• Improved permission handling for write_file, read_file, search_replace (allowlist/denylist globs, out-of-cwd detection)
• Proxy setup UI updated with guided bottom-panel wizard
• Smoother color transitions in CLI loader animation
• Dead tool state classes removed (Grep, ReadFile, WriteFile state)

Fixed

• Agent switch (Shift+Tab) no longer freezes the UI (moved to thread worker)
• Empty assistant messages are no longer displayed
• Tool results returned to LLM in correct order matching tool calls
• Auto-scroll suspended when user has scrolled up; resumes at bottom
• Retry and timeout handling in Mistral backend (backoff strategy, configurable timeout)

Removed

[2.2.1] - 2026-02-18

Added

• Multiple clipboard copy strategies: OSC52 first, then pyperclip fallback when system clipboard is available (e.g. local GUI, SSH without OSC52)
• Ctrl+Z to put Vibe in background

Changed

• Improve performance around streaming and scrolling
• File watcher is now opt-out by default; opt-in via config
• Bump Textual version in dependencies
• Inline code styling: yellow bold with transparent background for better readability

Fixed

• Banner: sync skills count after initial app mount (fixes wrong count in some cases)
• Collapsed tool results: strip newlines in truncation to remove extra blank line
• Context token widget: preserve stats listeners across /clear so token percentage updates correctly
• Vertex AI: cache credentials to avoid blocking the event loop on every LLM request
• Bash tool: remove NO_COLOR from subprocess env to fix snapshot tests and colored output

[2.2.0] - 2026-02-17

Added

• Google Vertex AI support
• Telemetry: user interaction and tool usage events sent to datalake (configurable via enable_telemetry)
• Skill discovery from .agents/skills/ (Agent Skills standard) in addition to .vibe/skills/
• ACP: session/load and session/list for loading and listing sessions
• New model behavior prompts (CLI and explore)
• Proxy Wizard (PoC) for CLI and for ACP
• Proxy setup documentation
• Documentation for JetBrains ACP registry

Changed

• Trusted folders: presence of .agents is now considered trustable content
• Logging handling updated
• Pin cryptography to >=44.0.0,<=46.0.3; uv sync for cryptography

Fixed

• Auto scroll when switching to input
• MCP stdio: redirect stderr to logger to avoid unwanted console output
• Align pyproject.toml minimum versions with uv.lock for pip installs
• Middleware injection: use standalone user messages instead of mutating flushed messages
• Revert cryptography 46.0.5 bump for compatibility
• Pin banner version in UI snapshot tests for stability

[2.1.0] - 2026-02-11

Added

• Incremental load of long sessions: windowing (20 messages), "Load more" to fetch older messages, scroll to bottom when resuming
• ACP support for thinking (agent-client-protocol 0.8.0)
• Support for FIFO path for env file

Changed

• UI redesign: new look and layout for the CLI
• Textual UI optimizations: ChatScroll to reduce style recalculations, VerticalGroup for messages, stream layout for streaming blocks, cached DOM queries
• Bumped agent-client-protocol to 0.8.0
• Use UTC date for timestamps
• Clipboard behavior improvements
• Docs updated for GitHub discussions
• Made the Upgrade to Pro banner less prominent

Fixed

• Fixed inaccurate token count in UI in some cases
• Fixed agent prompt overrides being ignored
• Terminal setup: avoid overwriting Wezterm config

Removed

• Legacy terminal theme module and agent indicator widget
• Standalone onboarding theme selection screen (replaced by redesign)

[2.0.2] - 2026-01-30

Added

• Allow environment variables to be overridden by dotenv files
• Display custom rate limit messages depending on plan type

Changed

• Made plan offer message more discreet in UI
• Speed up latest session scan and harden validation
• Updated pytest-xdist configuration to schedule single test chunks

Fixed

• Prevent duplicate messages in persisted sessions
• Fix ACP bash tool to pass full command string for chained commands
• Fix global agent prompt not being loaded correctly
• Do not propose to "resume" when there is nothing to resume

[2.0.1] - 2026-01-28

Fixed

• Fix encoding issues in Windows

[2.0.0] - 2026-01-27

Added

• Subagent support
• AskUserQuestion tool for interactive user input
• User-defined slash commands through skills
• What's new message display on version update
• Auto-update feature
• Environment variables and timeout support for MCP servers
• Editor shortcut support
• Shift+enter support for VS Code Insiders
• Message ID property for messages
• Client notification of compaction events
• debugpy support for macOS debugging

Changed

• Mode system refactored to Agents
• Standardized managers
• Improved system prompt
• Updated session storage to separate metadata from messages
• Use shell environment to determine shell in bash tool
• Expanded user input handling
• Bumped agent-client-protocol to 0.7.1
• Refactored UI to require AgentLoop at VibeApp construction
• Updated README with new MCP server config
• Improved readability of the AskUserQuestion tool output

Fixed

• Use ensure_ascii=False for all JSON dumps
• Delete long-living temporary session files
• Ignore system prompt when saving/loading session messages
• Bash tool timeout handling
• Clipboard: no markup parsing of selected texts
• Canonical imports
• Remove last user message from compaction
• Pause tool timer while awaiting user action

Removed

• instructions.md support
• workdir setting in config file

[1.3.5] - 2026-01-12

Fixed

• bash tool not discovered by vibe-acp

[1.3.4] - 2026-01-07

Fixed

• markup in blinking messages
• safety around Bash and AGENTS.md
• explicit permissions to GitHub Actions workflows
• improve render performance in long sessions

[1.3.3] - 2025-12-26

Fixed

• Fix config desyncing issues

[1.3.2] - 2025-12-24

Added

• User definable reasoning field

Fixed

• Fix rendering issue with spinner

[1.3.1] - 2025-12-24

Fixed

• Fix crash when continuing conversation
• Fix Nix flake to not export python

[1.3.0] - 2025-12-23

Added

• agentskills.io support
• Reasoning support
• Native terminal theme support
• Issue templates for bug reports and feature requests
• Auto update zed extension on release creation

Changed

• Improve ToolUI system with better rendering and organization
• Use pinned actions in CI workflows
• Remove 100k -> 200k tokens config migration

Fixed

• Fix -p mode to auto-approve tool calls
• Fix crash when switching mode
• Fix some cases where clipboard copy didn't work

[1.2.2] - 2025-12-22

Fixed

• Remove dead code
• Fix artefacts automatically attached to the release
• Refactor agent post streaming

[1.2.1] - 2025-12-18

Fixed

• Improve error message when running in home dir
• Do not show trusted folder workflow in home dir

[1.2.0] - 2025-12-18

Added

• Modular mode system
• Trusted folder mechanism for local .vibe directories
• Document public setup for vibe-acp in zed, jetbrains and neovim
• --version flag

Changed

• Improve UI based on feedback
• Remove unnecessary logging and flushing for better performance
• Update textual
• Update nix flake
• Automate binary attachment to GitHub releases

Fixed

• Prevent segmentation fault on exit by shutting down thread pools
• Fix extra spacing with assistant message

[1.1.3] - 2025-12-12

Added

• Add more copy_to_clipboard methods to support all cases
• Add bindings to scroll chat history

Changed

• Relax config to accept extra inputs
• Remove useless stats from assistant events
• Improve scroll actions while streaming
• Do not check for updates more than once a day
• Use PyPI in update notifier

Fixed

• Fix tool permission handling for "allow always" option in ACP
• Fix security issue: prevent command injection in GitHub Action prompt handling
• Fix issues with vLLM

[1.1.2] - 2025-12-11

Changed

• add terminal-auth auth method to ACP agent only if the client supports it
• fix user-agent header when using Mistral backend, using SDK hook

[1.1.1] - 2025-12-10

Changed

• added include_commit_signature in config.toml to disable signing commits

[1.1.0] - 2025-12-10

Fixed

• fixed crash in some rare instances when copy-pasting

Changed

• improved context length from 100k to 200k

[1.0.6] - 2025-12-10

Fixed

• add missing steps in bump_version script
• move pytest-xdist to dev dependencies
• take into account config for bash timeout

Changed

• improve textual performance
• improve README:
  • improve windows installation instructions
  • update default system prompt reference
  • document MCP tool permission configuration

[1.0.5] - 2025-12-10

Fixed

• Fix streaming with OpenAI adapter

[1.0.4] - 2025-12-09

Changed

• Rename agent in distribution/zed/extension.toml to mistral-vibe

Fixed

• Fix icon and description in distribution/zed/extension.toml

Removed

• Remove .envrc file

[1.0.3] - 2025-12-09

Added

• Add LICENCE symlink in distribution/zed for compatibility with zed extension release process

[1.0.2] - 2025-12-09

Fixed

• Fix setup flow for vibe-acp builds

[1.0.1] - 2025-12-09

Fixed

• Fix update notification

[1.0.0] - 2025-12-09

Added

• Initial release