@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent 0.84.1 → 0.84.3

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,144 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+## [0.84.3] - 2026-08-24
+
+### New Features
+
+- **PowerShell tool** — Use optional native PowerShell command execution on Windows. See [PowerShell Tool](docs/windows.md#powershell-tool).
+- **Safer managed updates** — Stage, verify, and atomically activate updates for installer-managed installations. See [Install and Manage](docs/packages.md#install-and-manage).
+- **Model and thinking controls** — Select thinking levels with `/thinking`, search defaults, keep selections session-scoped, and persist them explicitly with Ctrl+S. See [Models and Thinking](docs/keybindings.md#models-and-thinking).
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- Renamed the inherited `GoogleThinkingLevel` type to `GoogleApiThinkingLevel` and added `ResolvedGoogleThinkingLevel` for normalized adapter levels.
+
+### Added
+
+- Added an optional `powershell` tool for Windows, configurable through `defaultTools` and the SDK. See [PowerShell Tool](docs/windows.md#powershell-tool).
+- Added a `/thinking` selector and searchable default choices to the model and thinking selectors; Ctrl+S saves the selected model as the global default. See [Models and Thinking](docs/keybindings.md#models-and-thinking).
+- Added optional routing session IDs to exported compaction summary helpers so callers can preserve provider routing without enabling prompt cache writes.
+- Added transcript usage notices for compaction and branch summaries when cache miss notices are enabled.
+- Added `session_compact_failed` extension events so compaction failures and aborts expose their reason, retry state, source, and error message to handlers ([#8175](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8175)).
+- Added inherited provider-neutral `toolChoice` support to simple stream requests.
+- Added inherited automatic Anthropic server-side refusal fallback for supported first-party models, including returned-model usage pricing ([#8017](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8017)).
+- Added inherited configurable OpenAI-compatible thinking-token budget fields for vLLM, Qwen/SGLang, and llama.cpp servers. See [OpenAI Compatibility](docs/models.md#openai-compatibility) ([#8275](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8275) by [@bnsd55](https://github.com/bnsd55)).
+- Added inherited China-specific ZAI Coding Plan models, including GLM-4.6V vision support and API-equivalent usage cost estimates ([#8220](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8220)).
+- Added inherited `deepseek-v4-pro-0813` support to the Qwen Token Plan Individual catalog ([#8194](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8194)).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Changed experimental installer-managed installations so `pi update` stages, verifies, and atomically activates the selected release in place. See [Install and Manage](docs/packages.md#install-and-manage).
+- Changed inherited built-in xAI models to use the Responses API with encrypted reasoning replay and made Grok 4.6 the default xAI model ([#8124](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8124) by [@Jaaneek](https://github.com/Jaaneek)).
+- Changed inherited Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Google, Mistral, and OpenAI adapters to send Pi's default `User-Agent` unless overridden ([#8305](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8305)).
+- Changed Windows and WSL keybinding defaults to avoid terminal-reserved shortcuts for image paste, model cycling, editor undo, fullscreen transcript navigation and search, and message queueing ([#8372](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8372)).
+- Changed Bun release archives to ship the native clipboard binary only inside the wrapper package, removing a duplicate platform package from each archive.
+- Changed package resource glob expansion to use Node.js's built-in implementation with deterministic visible-path matching, reducing the installed runtime dependency tree.
+- Changed the bundled Node.js runtime to load jiti only when importing an extension and Babel only when uncached source needs transformation, reducing CLI startup time and bundle size.
+- Changed syntax highlighting to initialize only twenty common languages eagerly and defer the remaining grammars until after the initial TUI render, reducing CLI startup time.
+- Changed the Node.js CLI and RPC entrypoints to load a bundled runtime, reducing startup filesystem reads while keeping the public library and legacy module paths on the modular runtime for normal dependency identity.
+- Changed session sharing to render clickable terminal links, display only the canonical Radius artifact URL, and include the current system prompt and active tool definitions in Radius session shares.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed failed extension factories leaving event subscriptions, provider registrations, and default flag state active ([#8424](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8424) by [@acmerfight](https://github.com/acmerfight)).
+- Fixed `models.json` typings omitting the documented OpenAI-compatible `compat.supportsFinishReason` provider and model override ([#8487](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8487) by [@petrroll](https://github.com/petrroll)).
+- Fixed `/model` and `/thinking` selections being persisted globally unless explicitly saved with Ctrl+S ([#5263](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/5263)).
+- Fixed JSON and RPC `toolcall_start` events omitting the tool call id and name ([#7953](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7953) by [@christianklotz](https://github.com/christianklotz)).
+- Fixed extensions failing to load when the Node.js CLI runs as a single-executable application ([#8237](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8237)).
+- Fixed nested Markdown skills inside `.agents/skills/` grouping directories not being discovered.
+- Fixed compaction and branch summarization requests exposing tools to providers.
+- Fixed single-object `edit` tool inputs failing validation by accepting them as one-edit arrays in both coding-agent and harness edit tools ([#7835](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7835)).
+- Fixed root Markdown files such as `README.md` and `AGENTS.md` in skill directories being reported as broken skills unless they declare valid skill frontmatter ([#7805](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7805)).
+- Fixed the default Cerebras model referencing an unavailable Z.AI model.
+- Fixed inherited OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions reasoning replay to preserve and resend assistant-level `reasoning_details` verbatim and in order ([#7994](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7994)).
+- Fixed inherited Anthropic server-side fallback responses being priced with the requested model instead of the returned fallback model ([#8285](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8285)).
+- Fixed inherited GitHub Copilot login triggering model-policy rate limits by limiting policy updates, retrying model discovery once, and honoring server retry delays ([#7850](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7850)).
+- Fixed inherited Amazon Bedrock dropping and failing to replay opaque redacted reasoning from non-Anthropic models ([#8314](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8314) by [@seiji](https://github.com/seiji)).
+- Fixed inherited Z.AI Coding Plan models deriving incomplete reasoning-effort metadata, including missing GLM-5.3 low, high, and max levels ([#8336](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8336)).
+- Fixed inherited DeepSeek V4 Flash on OpenCode and OpenCode Go omitting its supported low thinking level ([#8181](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8181) by [@tianshuang](https://github.com/tianshuang)).
+- Fixed inherited Azure OpenAI Responses ignoring `toolChoice` in provider-specific stream requests.
+- Fixed inherited Amazon Bedrock response hooks receiving only a synthesized request id instead of the raw response headers ([#8234](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8234)).
+- Fixed inherited Kimi usage reporting so top-level `cached_tokens` count as cache reads instead of normal input tokens ([#8075](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8075)).
+- Fixed inherited Google custom models ignoring `thinkingLevelMap`, which dropped extended thinking controls ([#8135](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8135)).
+- Fixed writes to `auth.json` and `models-store.json` overriding administrator-managed file permissions and ACLs ([#7779](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7779)).
+- Fixed UTF-8 BOM markers preventing frontmatter and user configuration files from loading ([#8337](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8337)).
+- Fixed invalid settings files being easy to miss during interactive startup by rendering warnings with the file path inside the TUI ([#7829](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7829)).
+- Fixed the subagent example repeatedly prompting before running project-local agents in trusted repositories ([#8261](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8261)).
+- Fixed npm package update checks treating older registry versions as available updates, preventing `pi update` from downgrading already-newer installed packages ([#8226](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8226)).
+- Fixed built-in llama.cpp models disappearing from `/model` when `/llama` refreshed a configured server under `PI_OFFLINE`, and included idle-slept `sleeping` router models in the selectable catalog ([#8167](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8167)).
+- Fixed `pi.registerFlag()` accepting default values that do not match the declared flag type ([#8064](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8064)).
+- Fixed Z.AI Coding Plan defaults referencing the removed GLM-5.1 model ([#8096](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8096)).
+- Fixed repeated ambiguous truncated-response recovery being mislabeled as context overflow ([#8130](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8130)).
+- Fixed duplicate fullscreen right-click paste in VS Code-based terminals on Windows ([#8186](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8186)).
+- Fixed inherited padded text exceeding narrow terminal widths ([#8252](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8252)).
+- Fixed inherited wrapped Markdown table links leaking color into borders and neighboring cells, including tables inside blockquotes ([#8335](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8335)).
+- Fixed llama.cpp login guidance to direct users to `/llama` before `/model` when no local models are loaded ([#8203](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8203)).
+- Fixed hung pi.dev model catalog requests consuming the entire refresh deadline without retrying ([#8198](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8198)).
+- Fixed inherited Xiaomi model catalogs listing shut-down MiMo V2 models in `/model` and `--list-models` ([#8187](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8187)).
+- Fixed branch summary entries recording the navigation destination in `fromId` instead of the pre-navigation source leaf.
+- Fixed threshold auto-compaction being skipped when providers omit streaming usage data ([#8328](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8328)).
+- Fixed dash-prefixed prompts being parsed as options by supporting `--` as an end-of-options delimiter ([#7269](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7269)).
+
+## [0.84.2] - 2026-08-14
+
+### New Features
+
+- **Fullscreen transcript search** — Search and navigate matches in fullscreen mode. See [TUI Fullscreen Viewport](docs/keybindings.md#tui-fullscreen-viewport).
+- **Configurable default tools** — Choose startup built-in tools globally or per project. See [Tools](docs/settings.md#tools).
+- **Configurable fullscreen exit output** — Print the transcript or only a resume hint on exit. See [Interactive Mode](docs/usage.md#interactive-mode).
+
+### Added
+
+- Added fullscreen transcript search with `Ctrl+Shift+F`, incremental match highlighting, configurable search match theme colors, and next/previous navigation with `Enter`/`Ctrl+G` and `Shift+Enter`/`Ctrl+Shift+G`.
+- Added experimental strict JSON-schema constrained sampling for the default `read`, `bash`, `edit`, and `write` tools under `PI_EXPERIMENTAL=1`.
+- Added a fullscreen exit output setting to choose between printing the final transcript and only a session resume hint.
+- Added the `defaultTools` setting for configuring the initial built-in tool selection globally or per project.
+- Added `--use-theme <name[/name]>` to choose an initial per-run interactive theme without changing saved settings ([#7722](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7722) by [@rwachtler](https://github.com/rwachtler)).
+- Added `expandPromptTemplates` to extension `pi.sendUserMessage()` options for explicitly dispatching commands and expanding skills and prompt templates. See [`pi.sendUserMessage()`](docs/extensions.md#pisendusermessagecontent-options) ([#7857](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7857) by [@mrexodia](https://github.com/mrexodia)).
+- Added inherited `createGatewayBindingFetch()` for routing Cloudflare AI Gateway requests through a Workers AI binding without an API token ([#7901](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7901) by [@Maximo-Guk](https://github.com/Maximo-Guk)).
+- Added inherited `AssistantMessage.endTurn` to preserve OpenAI Codex's terminal `end_turn` signal for diagnostics ([#7766](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7766)).
+- Added inherited unbound single-line transcript scrolling actions for fullscreen mode. See [TUI Fullscreen Viewport](docs/keybindings.md#tui-fullscreen-viewport) ([#7903](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7903) by [@midastruth](https://github.com/midastruth)).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Changed inherited Kimi Coding requests to use pi's runtime `User-Agent` header.
+- Replaced the inherited Mistral SDK transport with a native Chat Completions HTTP stream, eliminating its generated client and schema runtime overhead.
+- Documented the generic `AI_AGENT=pi` process marker and how it differs from `PI_CODING_AGENT=true` ([#7747](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7747)).
+- Changed inherited OpenAI Responses deferred tool loading to prefer message-anchored `additional_tools` where supported while retaining tool-search and top-level fallbacks ([#7709](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7709)).
+- Reduced inherited fullscreen rendering allocation churn by painting full-width layout rows directly instead of recompositing them on every frame.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed root Markdown files such as `README.md` and `AGENTS.md` in skill directories being reported as broken skills unless they declare valid skill frontmatter ([#7805](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7805)).
+- Fixed single-object `edit` tool inputs failing validation by accepting them as one-edit arrays in both coding-agent and harness edit tools ([#7835](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7835)).
+- Fixed managed-tool downloads delaying TUI startup and hiding diagnostics in fullscreen mode by mounting the TUI first and showing download progress and warnings inside it.
+- Fixed opening a model selector immediately after startup cancelling and restarting the in-progress model catalog refresh.
+- Fixed inherited GitHub Copilot login triggering API rate limits while enabling model policies by limiting concurrent policy updates ([#6187](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/6187)).
+- Fixed fullscreen transcript search snapping back to the current match during manual scrolling and fragmented mouse input leaking into the search query.
+- Fixed inherited required LaTeX arguments starting on a new line being parsed as empty ([#7760](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7760)).
+- Updated the transitive `nanoid` development dependency to address a denial-of-service vulnerability.
+- Fixed fallback rendering for extension tool results to collapse long output and honor tool expansion ([#7979](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7979)).
+- Fixed JSON and RPC `message_update` events dropping cumulative usage during streaming. See [JSON Event Mode](docs/json.md) and [RPC `message_update`](docs/rpc.md#message_update-streaming) ([#7982](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7982) by [@christianklotz](https://github.com/christianklotz)).
+- Fixed `pi.sendMessage(..., { triggerTurn: false })` steering an active run instead of only recording the custom message ([#8022](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8022) by [@cristinaponcela](https://github.com/cristinaponcela)).
+- Fixed the `defaultTools` setting dropping extension and SDK custom tools when selecting built-in defaults.
+- Fixed the subagent example rejecting YAML array syntax for the `tools` frontmatter field ([#7598](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7598) by [@alexsavio](https://github.com/alexsavio)).
+- Fixed the subagent example dropping parent session model, thinking, and tool configuration ([#7897](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7897) by [@virtuald](https://github.com/virtuald)).
+- Fixed custom system prompts concatenating the current working directory with later appended prompt content ([#7887](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7887) by [@distributedlock](https://github.com/distributedlock)).
+- Fixed inherited OpenAI Responses function and custom tool calls losing namespaces during streaming, proxying, and replay ([#7709](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7709)).
+- Fixed inherited upstream request buffer failures not triggering automatic assistant retries.
+- Fixed inherited built-in and custom DeepSeek API models sending output limits through an unsupported field.
+- Fixed inherited Amazon Bedrock replay rejecting tool arguments that contain empty object keys while preserving all valid nested values ([#7882](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7882) by [@muyiyr](https://github.com/muyiyr)).
+- Fixed inherited DeepSeek compatibility detection for base URLs whose hostname contains uppercase letters ([#7933](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7933) by [@yearth](https://github.com/yearth)).
+- Fixed inherited Google Generative AI and Vertex AI responses with tool calls incorrectly treating output-limit or provider-error stops as normal tool use ([#8059](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/8059)).
+- Fixed inherited fullscreen mouse drag selection and OSC 8 link activation in terminals that report generic SGR mouse release button codes ([#7963](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7963)).
+- Fixed inherited focused fullscreen overlays not receiving mouse wheel or viewport scroll keys such as PageUp and PageDown ([#7894](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/7894)).
+- Fixed inherited LaTeX control spaces split across line endings causing complete expressions to fall back to raw source.
+- Fixed split `Alt+Enter` input over SSH being misread as Escape, added `PI_TUI_ESC_TIMEOUT` for high-latency terminals, and limited that timeout to lone Escape input ([#7899](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7899) by [@powerfooI](https://github.com/powerfooI)).
+- Fixed inherited idle fullscreen sessions repainting and clearing text selection when the terminal loses focus ([#7892](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/7892) by [@terrorobe](https://github.com/terrorobe)).
+- Fixed fullscreen selection copy to use the host clipboard and report failure instead of claiming success when OSC 52 is unsupported ([#8110](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/pull/8110) by [@Panoplos](https://github.com/Panoplos)).
+
 ## [0.84.1] - 2026-08-07
 
 ### New Features

package/README.md

@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ Read the [blog post](https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/)
 ## CLI Reference
 
 ```bash
-pi [options] [@files...] [messages...]
+pi [options] [--] [@files...] [messages...]
 ```
 
 ### Package Commands
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ cat README.md | pi -p "Summarize this text"
 | `--no-builtin-tools`, `-nbt` | Disable built-in tools by default but keep extension/custom tools enabled |
 | `--no-tools`, `-nt` | Disable all tools by default |
 
-Available built-in tools: `read`, `bash`, `edit`, `write`, `grep`, `find`, `ls`
+Available built-in tools: `read`, `bash`, `powershell` (Windows), `edit`, `write`, `grep`, `find`, `ls`
 
 ### Resource Options
 
@@ -609,9 +609,11 @@ Combine `--no-*` with explicit flags to load exactly what you need, ignoring set
 | `--system-prompt <text>` | Replace default prompt (context files and skills still appended) |
 | `--append-system-prompt <text>` | Append to system prompt |
 | `--tui-mode <mode>` | TUI mode: `regular` (default) or experimental `fullscreen` |
+| `--use-theme <name[/name]>` | Set the initial interactive theme for this run without changing settings |
 | `--verbose` | Force verbose startup |
 | `-a`, `--approve` | Trust project-local files for this run |
 | `-na`, `--no-approve` | Ignore project-local files for this run |
+| `--` | Stop option parsing; remaining arguments are prompts or `@file` inputs |
 | `-h`, `--help` | Show help |
 | `-v`, `--version` | Show version |
 
@@ -634,6 +636,9 @@ pi "List all .ts files in src/"
 # Non-interactive
 pi -p "Summarize this codebase"
 
+# Prompt beginning with a dash
+pi -p -- "- Summarize these points"
+
 # Non-interactive with piped stdin
 cat README.md | pi -p "Summarize this text"
 
@@ -677,7 +682,7 @@ pi --thinking high "Solve this complex problem"
 | `PI_CACHE_RETENTION` | Set to `long` for extended prompt cache (Anthropic: 1h, OpenAI: 24h) |
 | `VISUAL`, `EDITOR` | Fallback external editor for Ctrl+G when `externalEditor` is unset; defaults to Notepad on Windows and `nano` elsewhere |
 
-Commands run by the LLM-callable bash tool also receive current session metadata:
+Commands run by the LLM-callable `bash` and `powershell` tools also receive current session metadata:
 
 | Variable | Description |
 |----------|-------------|
@@ -687,7 +692,7 @@ Commands run by the LLM-callable bash tool also receive current session metadata
 | `PI_MODEL` | Currently selected model ID |
 | `PI_REASONING_LEVEL` | Current effective reasoning level |
 
-These values are resolved when each command starts. See [Environment Variables](docs/environment-variables.md#bash-tool-session-environment) for semantics, examples, and custom-tool opt-out.
+These values are resolved when each command starts. See [Environment Variables](docs/environment-variables.md#shell-tool-session-environment) for semantics, examples, and custom-tool opt-out.
 
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