Ctrl+B backgrounds the foreground shell directly (#3032), leaving the
two-step shell-control modal dead code that fails clippy -Dwarnings.
Delete ShellControlView/ShellControlChoice, the ModalKind and ViewEvent
variants, and open_shell_control; repoint the default-paste regression
test at HelpView; update the Ctrl+B keybinding description in all
locales to describe the new direct-background behavior.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three targeted error-message improvements extracted from community
PR #2933 (author cy2311), with additional model-not-found annotation:
1. dispatch.rs format_tool_error: pass through self-explanatory messages
that already name the cause (mode switch, allow_shell, feature flag,
denied by user) instead of appending a conflicting generic suffix.
Fixes the Plan-mode double-message (#2657).
2. subagent/mod.rs session-name conflict: include elapsed time
(started Ns ago / NmNs ago) so the parent can distinguish a live
worker from a stale/failed earlier spawn (#2656).
3. subagent/mod.rs annotate_child_model_error: catch model-not-found
patterns (Model Not Exist, does not exist, no such model, etc.) in
the raw error text even when the taxonomy classifies them as
Internal rather than Authorization/State (#2653).
Closes#2653, #2656, #2657.
Credit: cy2311 for the dispatch.rs and subagent conflict hunks from #2933.
Co-authored-by: cy2311 <29836092+cy2311@users.noreply.github.com>
- setup-vm.sh: bump RELEASE_TAG default to v0.8.57, add gh CLI install
step (official APT repo) and 4G swapfile creation (idempotent)
- agent-session.sh: new sourceable helper that exports the provider key
from /etc/codewhale/runtime.env for interactive agent sessions
- README.md: update version refs, add agent-session.sh to layout, add
Autonomous agent loop section with full pick->PR commands
The droplet ops (binary upgrade, PAT setup, first end-to-end issue run)
are documented as the next steps for the operator.
Headless exec hardening for benchmark/CI/droplet use:
- New CLI flags: --allowed-tools, --disallowed-tools, --max-turns, --append-system-prompt
- Add disallowed_tools to EngineConfig + command_denies_tool() helper
- run_exec_agent threads all four flags into EngineConfig and Op::SendMessage
- needs_engine now includes flag presence for standalone exec use
Previously Ctrl+B opened a two-step ShellControlView menu (Background /
Cancel). Now it directly calls request_foreground_shell_background(),
backgrounding the running foreground shell in one keystroke.
When no foreground shell is running, the existing status message
("No foreground shell command to background") provides the hint.
The ShellControlView and open_shell_control() remain available as a
programmatic entry point for views/tests.
Three targeted changes to reduce low-value detail in the default
compact/Live transcript view:
1. ExecCell: suppress "(no output)" line in Live mode. The success
header already conveys the outcome; Transcript mode keeps it for
exports/clipboard/pager.
2. ExecCell: suppress sub-second timing in Live mode. Calls under 1s
show no timing line; Transcript mode always shows exact timing.
3. render_preserved_output_mode: suppress "(no output)" for empty output
in Live mode. Same rationale — the header carries the signal.
Full command text, complete output, and exact timing remain available
in Transcript mode (pager, clipboard export, Alt+V detail view).
Three changes to replace raw UUIDs/hex-ids with stable user-facing labels:
1. Turn label: Add turn_counter to App, display "Turn N" instead of the
raw runtime_turn_id UUID prefix. Full UUID preserved in hover text.
2. Agent labels: Add agent_counter + agent_label_map to App. Populated
on AgentSpawned; sidebar rows use "Agent 1", "Agent 2" etc. instead
of agent_<hex>. Nicknames and user-assigned names still take priority.
3. Step counter: Add format_step_counter() helper. When max_steps is
u32::MAX (the unbounded sentinel), renders "step 16" instead of the
meaningless "step 16/4294967295". Concrete step budgets still show
the denominator.
When 4+ sub-agents run concurrently, each AgentProgress event triggers
a full terminal redraw via received_engine_event → needs_redraw. The
render loop saturates, sidebar recomputation dominates the frame budget,
and terminal input events (including Ctrl+C) are starved.
Limit progress-driven redraws to at most one per 100ms per agent. The
status-animation timer (80ms cadence) still guarantees sidebar updates.
Agent state is recorded immediately; the sidebar picks it up on the next
permitted redraw.
Adds last_agent_progress_redraw field to App to track throttle state.
SavedSession.messages is Vec<Message>, not AppendLog — .clone() already
returns Vec<Message>, so .into() was a no-op conversion that triggered
clippy::useless_conversion in CI lint.
- Wire AppendLog as the backing store for Session.messages
- Add Deref, From impls, and explicit mutation methods to AppendLog
- Narrow API: remove DerefMut, add push_batch/truncate_to/trim_front/clear/last_mut
- Update all direct message assignments to use .into() conversions
- Update tests to deref through AppendLog for comparisons
Rebased onto upstream/main (v0.8.57) to resolve merge conflicts.
- prompt_persist tests wrote through the developer's real
~/.codewhale/prompt_cache and raced each other (the eviction test could
delete another test's entry). cache_dir() now honors
CODEWHALE_PROMPT_CACHE_DIR and the tests run serialized against private
tempdirs.
- The raw TCP mock servers in mcp tests answered one request per socket
but never advertised 'Connection: close', so reqwest pooled dead
keep-alive connections and retried POSTs failed under parallel-suite
load with 'connection closed before message completed' (~50% failure
rate on the full suite).
The workflow hardcoded install boilerplate plus a contributor list that
had already drifted (v0.8.56's release thanked people 'for shaping
v0.9.0'). The body now comes from scripts/release/generate-release-body.sh:
static install/verify sections plus the tagged version's changelog section,
which already carries the per-release credits.
- scripts/release/prepare-release.sh bumps workspace + crate pins + npm
wrapper + README install tags, refreshes Cargo.lock, regenerates the
TUI changelog slice and web facts, then runs check-versions.sh
- check-versions.sh now also gates web/lib/facts.generated.ts and the
README install-tag examples (both drifted silently before)
- .cnb.yml validates the pushed tag against Cargo.toml before generating
mirror release notes
- RELEASE_CHECKLIST/RUNBOOK updated accordingly (v0.8.56 needed 9 fix
commits for exactly these sync points)
When the host sleeps while a model response is streaming, the connection
dies on wake with 'Stream read error: error decoding response body' and
the turn was lost. The engine now stamps every stream chunk with both
monotonic and wall-clock time; Instant pauses across a suspend while
SystemTime does not, so a >10s divergence on a stream error identifies a
sleep/wake cycle. In that case the partial output is discarded and the
identical request is re-issued (sharing the existing MAX_STREAM_RETRIES=3
budget) instead of failing the turn. Ordinary network flakes keep the
deliberate no-retry-after-content policy from #103.
- system prompt environment key deepseek_version -> codewhale_version
- drop legacy .deepseek/instructions.md from the Local Law prompt tier
(the engine still reads it for back-compat)
- instructions-file truncation marker now states how many bytes were
omitted so the model knows what it is missing
- CODEWHALE_CHANGELOG const + user-facing /change strings
- codewhale metrics doc headers
The packaged changelog is now a recent-releases slice produced by
scripts/sync-changelog.sh (which gains a --check mode); also restore the
SECURITY.md contact line the version gate guards, and finish the stale
binary-name sweep (--bin codewhale examples, qa harness doc).
Hunter Bown