1.7.0

Full Changelog: 1.6.5...1.7.0

[1.7.0] - 2026-04-29

Added

• Reusable banner component
• Chat-header component (renamed from chat-session)
• Further testing shell tool
• Send to chat from file tree — right-click files/folders in VSCode explorer to add them as context to the chat

Changed

• Extract animations to dedicated theme-animations module
• Move settings button to chat header and simplify session management
• Consolidate modal and dropdown state into activeModal/activeDropdown
• Convert settings modal to dropdown and reorganize chat components
• Add explanation parameter to all agent tools
• Consolidate UI state naming, component structure, and icons

Fixed

• Use Node path module for cross-platform path handling

[1.6.10] - 2026-04-24

Added

• Reusable collama-slider component with value labels, progress fill, and optional tick marks

Changed

• Settings modal now uses compact slider controls for toggles, verbosity, and snake loading speed
• Refactored loading pulse and shadow styles into shared theme helpers
• Shortened displayed tool target paths to the last two path segments
• Updated default snake loading animation speed to 1500 px/s

[1.6.9] - 2026-04-23

Added

• AGENTS.md support — place an AGENTS.md file in your project root to define custom agent rules and behavior guidelines

Changed

• Settings modal displays AGENTS.md status (active/not found) for transparency

[1.6.8] - 2026-04-23

Added

• Verbosity mode setting — control how concise or detailed chat responses should be (compact, medium, or detailed)
• Compact mode: aggressive compression, no filler, symbols over words, assumes expert user
• Detailed mode: thorough responses with context, edge cases, examples, and structured formatting

Changed

• Settings modal now includes a slider control for verbosity mode selection

[1.6.7] - 2026-04-23

Added

• Auto-summary — when context usage reaches high levels, a modal prompts you to summarize the conversation
• Context notifications — warns when context is nearly full or when messages have left the LLM context
• Flat design style option — toggle between flat and dimensional UI styles in settings
• Reusable action button components (accept/cancel) for consistent modal styling

Changed

• Improved error modal formatting with cleaner error message display
• Better context tracking — context usage now accurately reflects only the messages in the LLM context
• Optimized message reindexing during context trimming

Fixed

• Context trimming now properly accounts for previous context boundaries
• Summary operations correctly update context state after completion

[1.6.6] - 2026-04-22

Added

• Settings Button for extension and style settings
• Test implementation of a possible shell-tool (default off, keep off or check briefly)

Changed

• Improved tool result deduplication for all non-editing tools
• Better path truncation in tools
• Refactored ChatPanel — extracted agent, session, and handler logic into separate modules for better maintainability
• Replaced vscode.git with cli git

Fixed

• Several fixes when useing minimax2.7
• Tool calls metadata attached to assistant messages for better grouping

1.6.5

What's Changed

• f/ui and chat enhancements 3 by @bitdruid in #13
• f/ui and chat enhancements 4 by @bitdruid in #14

Full Changelog: 1.6.3...1.6.5

[1.6.5] - 2026-04-09

Added

• Chat search functionality — find messages in the conversation history
• Agent duration counter — track how long the agent has been running
• Summary progress indicator — visual feedback during conversation summarization
• Toggle ghost session state — convert between temporary and persistent sessions

Changed

• Tool confirmation modal
• Enhanced edit tool preview tab management
• Active states for buttons and controls
• Fine tuned styles

Fixed

• Auto-resize issues in chat components

[1.6.4] - 2026-04-08

Added

• File paths in chat messages are now clickable links for easy navigation
• Dynamic theme coloring between light / dark

Changed

• Simplified color scheme logic

Fixed

• Prune incomplete messages when agent is cancelled to prevent server errors

1.6.3

Full Changelog: 1.6.0...1.6.3

[1.6.3] - 2026-04-04

Added

• Temp button in session header — creates a ghost session (temporary, unlisted, never persisted)

Changed

• Temp-Chat button now converts active session to a temp chat (asks for confirmation)
• Active states for some buttons

[1.6.2] - 2026-04-04

Added

• Button for temporary chat
• Button to clear conversation

Changed

• Replaced all UTF symbols with Lucide SVG images

[1.6.1] - 2026-04-02

Fixed

• Prevent memory leaks in web components
• Centralize ChatContext in ChatSessionStore

Changed

• Reorganize type definitions and update imports
• Refactor query, state, property, event handlers
• Move shared web types
• Extract DismissalController for modals and popups
• Barrel export with index
• Migrate Lit components to customElement decorator
• Replace static properties with Lit decorators

What's Changed

• fix: prevent memory leaks and improve Lit component architecture by @bitdruid in #12

1.6.0

What's Changed

• b/streaming and ui fixes by @bitdruid in #11

Full Changelog: 1.5.0...1.6.0

[1.6.0] - 2025-06-18

Added

• Context file/folder search in chat input
• More detailed conversation summary
• Delete tool now supports deleting both files and folders (previously files only)

Fixed

• Use session state for summarize/delete operations instead of passing messages directly
• Defer popup-close event and add proper box-sizing to prevent UI issues
• Scroll timing and copy button state issues resolved

Changed

• Lit repeat directive for chat output rendering
• Tool names: readFile → read, lsPath → glob, searchFiles → grep, editFile → edit, createFile/createFolder → create, deleteFile → delete

[1.5.1] - 2026-03-25

Fixed

• Fixed response timeout issue with centralized chat-agent
• Fixed escaping characters issue in exploration-tools
• Fixed alignment of user message actions

Changed

• Refactored styles by centralized definitions and chat-input splitting
• Optimized LLM options for reduced tool hallucinations
• Reset loading timeout on chunk receipt for better streaming reliability

Added

• Errors are thrown into the chat with a dedicated modal

1.5.0

What's Changed

• f/ui and chat enhancements 2 by @bitdruid in #10

Full Changelog: 1.4.9...1.5.0

[1.5.0] - 2026-03-23

Added

• Tool confirmation modal with Accept/Accept All/Cancel buttons for agent operations
• Cancel with reason: provide feedback to the agent when rejecting tool actions
• Reusable slide-up modal component for better UI consistency
• Improved tokenizer initialization with background loading and caching

Changed

• Enhanced UI styling across chat components for better visual consistency
• Optimized token counting performance with lazy initialization

1.4.9

What's Changed

• f/ui and chat enhancements by @bitdruid in #9

Full Changelog: 1.4.8...1.4.9

[1.4.9] - 2026-03-18

Added

• Turn summarization - summarize individual user turns to reduce context
• Loading snake animation during agent operations
• Export chat history to JSON for backup and sharing
• Auto-accept all toggle for edits and creates to streamline workflow

Changed

• Moved token counter display from sidebar to input buttons during loading
• Updated theme colors and improved link styling
• Minor changes in ui colors / gaps
• Moved context usage calculation from backend to frontend for improved performance

Fixed

• Minor bug fixes and improvements

1.4.8

Full Changelog: 1.4.6...1.4.8

[1.4.8] - 2026-03-17

Added

• Tool message grouping in chat UI for cleaner display of consecutive tool calls

[1.4.7] - 2026-03-16

Added

• Anthropic client support (POC)

Changed

• Refactored chat container logic into modular components for better maintainability
• Improved edit cancel behavior with custom user feedback messages
• Code cleanup: removed commented code and simplified chat header structure
• Added a hidden llm-info tag to give the llm additional informations to chat-content

1.4.6

Full Changelog: 1.4.4...1.4.6

[1.4.6] - 2026-03-13

Added

• Improved readFile tool with enhanced deduplication logic
• Scroll-down button component for better chat navigation

Changed

• Refactored chat output into clean role objects (assistant, tool, user)
• Improved chat UI layout and edit tool UX
• Defer tokenization and add caching for improved context usage performance
• Agent counter now has reduced opacity for better visual hierarchy
• Removed model selection from status bar for cleaner UI
• Split output.ts into modular role-based components
• Cleaned up extensions.ts structure

Fixed

• Auto-scroll chat to bottom after message submit
• Clarified readFile tool description for better agent understanding

[1.4.5] - 2026-03-11

Fixed

• Edit tool can now fill empty files
• Reduced tool-use hallucination by removing JSON data from responses

Documentation

• Improved searchFiles tool descriptions

1.4.4

What's Changed

• enhance small model agents by @bitdruid in #4
• prompt-gallery added by @TheMaffels in #3
• f/bugfixes for scrolling and edit-window by @TheMaffels in #5
• f/chat logic and feel by @bitdruid in #6

Full Changelog: 1.4.1...1.4.4

[1.4.4] - 2026-03-10

Added

• Session copy functionality with preserved custom titles
• Dedicated Session class to manage chat session lifecycle

Changed

• Extracted ChatPanel class from monolithic subscriptions module
• Separated host-side and web-side utility modules (utils-host, utils-web)
• Encapsulated chat history logic in AgentContext
• Standardized all web component file and folder naming to kebab-case
• Restructured web components into a cleaner directory layout
• Renamed Context to EditorContext to avoid ambiguity
• Updated dependencies

Fixed

• Token counter only appears when data arrives
• Token counter resets when the chat completes
• Edit submit button not sending the changed message

[1.4.3] - 2026-03-05

Added

• Token counter for agent operations
• Deduplicate readFile calls

Changed

• Auto-focus textarea after loading and reset
• Remove empty assistant message template from backend

[1.4.2] - 2026-03-04

Fixed

• Handle LiteLLM tool call streaming duplicates
• Improve tool call handling and update agent prompt

Added

• Accept all edits functionality
• Improved agent robustness

Changed

• Update README, agent, and tool logic
• Cleanup tools in analyse.ts
• Merge several tools to reduce amount
• Trim tool list

1.4.1

What's Changed

• Feature: Agentic Chat by @bitdruid in #1
• Feature/refactoring by @TheMaffels in #2

New Contributors

• @bitdruid made their first contribution in #1
• @TheMaffels made their first contribution in #2

Full Changelog: 1.3.0...1.4.1

[1.4.1] - 2026-02-27

Changed

• Refactoring of chat related code to regain some readability

[1.4.0] - 2026-02-26

Changed

• Settings split into Subs for Completion / Instruction
• Manual settings for context window (input) and prediction (output)
• Backend detection loops when no connection was found

Added

• Agentic mode with tool-calling loop for autonomous multi-step tasks
• Turn on / off agentic mode via agentic setting
• Read-only mode via edit tools setting — disables all file-modifying tools
• Ignore verification of TLS certs (custom certs / testing or trusted network)

[1.3.0] - 2026-02-16

Added

• Edit-Message button into chat

Changed

• vscode engine to 1.109.0

[1.2.2] - 2026-02-16

Changed

• Metrics output for openai (channel)
• Warning if the output of an edit-command reached the token-limit
• Finetuning of request-parameters

[1.2.1] - 2026-02-15

Fixed

• Auto-Completion did not use "raw" on ollama