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v0.87.1

22. September 2026

• •Latest frontier models — Use Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna through supported providers, including GitHub Copilot. See Choose a Model.
• •Grok 4.7 by default for xAI — New xAI sessions now default to Grok 4.7. See Provider Authentication.
• •Added inherited Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna support for GitHub Copilot.
• •Added inherited GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna support for OpenAI API keys and OpenAI Codex subscriptions.
• •Added inherited Claude Opus 5.5 support for Anthropic with adaptive thinking and a 1M context window.
• •Changed the default xAI model to Grok 4.7.
• •Fixed split-turn compaction summaries being refused by Claude Fable 5.1 by clearly separating the conversation and using continuation-oriented instructions (#9908 by @davidbrai).
• •Fixed missing or invalid --mode values being silently ignored instead of reporting an error and exiting with a nonzero status (#9045).
• •Fixed inherited image-only user messages being rejected by some OpenAI-compatible providers because they included an empty text part (#9797).
• •Fixed inherited Anthropic OAuth requests reporting an outdated Claude Code version.

v0.87.0

21. September 2026

• •Canonical session context and extension boundaries — Edit model context without rewriting history and add actionable lifecycle hooks. See ContextEditEntry and extension events.
• •Full-transcript context extensions — Use context_with_system for per-request system-message transformations. See `context_with_system`.
• •Per-model image input limits — Configure cache-safe image resizing per model for attachments, read, and tool-result images. See Image Input Limits.
• •Removed the inherited shouldStopAfterTurn agent option. Use finishTurn and return { action: "end" } instead. finishTurn runs before turn_end but applies the decision afterward, and it also receives error and aborted responses; migrate normal-response predicates by returning undefined for those hard exits. See the @earendil-works/pi-agent-core changelog for a complete before-and-after example.
• •Added ContextEditEntry to the exported SessionEntry union. TypeScript consumers with exhaustive entry switches must handle context_edit; use replacement: null for omission and a content replacement otherwise.
• •Made SessionManager canonical for AgentSession provider context. Assigning session.agent.state.messages no longer replaces future request history; restore with SessionManager.inMemory(cwd, { id }, entries), navigate with session.navigateTree(), or append through session.sessionManager and call session.refreshContext().
• •Expanded TurnEndEvent with required boundary fields and added AgentBeforeSettleEvent to the exported ExtensionEvent union. Consumers constructing events or exhaustively switching on ExtensionEvent must handle the new shapes. ExtensionRunner.emit() no longer accepts turn_end; host integrations dispatch actionable boundaries with emitBoundary(baseEvent, buildContext).
• •Deferred runs requested from agent_settled handlers until all settled handlers finish. Handlers still observe ctx.isIdle() === true, but no longer see a reentrant agent_start during the same notification dispatch.
• •Added append-only model-context edits. For example, sessionManager.appendContextEdit(entryId, null) omits one message from future provider context without changing raw history, usage, or UI history.
• •Added actionable turn_end and agent_before_settle extension boundaries. Return { entries: [...event.entries, draft], continue: true } to persist structural entries in order and ensure one next provider request without changing steering or follow-up scheduling.
• •Added retain-none compaction input: sessionManager.appendCompaction(summary, null, tokensBefore) stores the compaction's own ID as its kept boundary.
• •Added the context_with_system extension event, which runs after context handlers on the full transcript including system messages and sends its result verbatim. See `context_with_system`.
• •Added per-model image resize profiles through inputLimits.images.resize in models.json, applied to file attachments, image reads, and tool-result images (#9631).
• •Fixed string context-edit replacements producing invalid assistant and tool-result message content instead of text blocks.
• •Fixed context-invisible boundary metadata and replacement edits causing newly appended or replaced input to be summarized before its first provider request.

v0.86.1

20. September 2026

• •Meta Muse provider — Sign in with Meta using /login meta or use META_API_KEY to access Muse Spark models. See Meta (Muse subscription).
• •Added Meta (Muse subscription) login via /login meta with automatic Model API key refresh, plus META_API_KEY support (#9096 by @xl0).
• •Enabled Node's persistent compile cache before loading the bundled CLI runtime, reducing repeat launch time.
• •Fixed /bug descriptions dropping line breaks from pasted diagnostics.
• •Fixed /bug hints appearing for user cancellations and retryable provider failures such as service unavailability.
• •Fixed clipboard copy failing in containers and WSL without WSLg by restoring the OSC 52 fallback when no display is available, and added a verified Windows clipboard backend for WSL (#9688).
• •Fixed inherited z.ai Prompt too long errors not being recognized as context overflow (#9805).
• •Fixed inherited Cerebras models advertising unsupported strict tool schemas, which caused HTTP 400 errors when strict and non-strict tools were mixed (#9804 by @EdenGottlieb).

v0.86.0

20. September 2026

• •Prompt cache warming — Keep valuable prompt caches alive during long tool runs and optionally while idle using cost-aware refreshes. See Cache Warming.
• •Bug reporting — Report problems with /bug using redacted diagnostics, optional transcripts, or exported ZIP archives. See Reporting Bugs.
• •Transcript-aware prompt and tool updates — Preserve instruction and tool changes across resume and branch navigation while retaining cached prefixes. See `before_agent_start`.
• •Offline Radius model catalog — Select Radius models immediately, with cached and live catalogs overlaid when available. See Radius.
• •Per-model compaction budgets — Configure reserved and recent-token budgets by model. See Per-model overrides.
• •Changed inherited pi-ai provider stream inputs from Context to normalized TranscriptContext values. Custom providers must read system prompts and tool declarations from context.messages with getCurrentSystemPrompt() and getCurrentTools(). See Custom Streaming API.
• •Restricted inherited ToolCall.arguments and ToolResultMessage.details to JSON-compatible values, changed ToolResultMessage into a conditional type, and made JsonValue arrays readonly.
• •user_bash now fails closed: errors or invalid defined results abort the command without invoking later handlers or executing locally. Return undefined to continue propagation; otherwise return { operations } or { result } (#9068).
• •Added transcript-backed mid-conversation system prompt and tool changes so instruction and tool updates survive resume and branch navigation while preserving cached prefixes on supported models. See `before_agent_start` and Entry Types (#9548).
• •Added inherited native deferred tool loading for Fireworks Messages models. Use ToolSearch or tool_search as the loader name for prompt-prefix deferral (#9323).
• •Added click toggling for branch summaries, compaction summaries, and skill invocation entries.
• •Added the public Radius model catalog for immediate and offline model selection, with cached and live gateway catalogs overlaid when available.
• •Added ctx.modelRegistry.stream() and streamSimple() for extension model calls through configured providers with resolved authentication (#8964).
• •Added per-model reserveTokens and keepRecentTokens settings through compaction.modelOverrides, with ordinary compaction settings as fallback (#8133).
• •Added compat.allowedFallbackModels configuration for overriding or disabling Anthropic server-side fallback models (#9294).

v0.85.1

5. September 2026

• •GPT-6 Astra — Available through OpenAI API keys and OpenAI Codex subscriptions. See API Keys and OpenAI Codex.
• •Added GPT-6 Astra for OpenAI API keys and OpenAI Codex subscriptions.
• •Added five-times-faster mouse wheel scrolling while holding Alt in fullscreen mode (#9166 by @xl0).
• •Fixed configurable save keybindings in the model and thinking selectors (#9149 by @rwachtler).
• •Fixed SDK import failures caused by unintentionally publishing internal experimental code and dependencies in 0.85.0. The experimental client and experimental/plugin subpaths and server/client commands are now source-only through pi-test.sh; the supported local SDK and stdio RPC API are unchanged (#9132).
• •Fixed mouse hover changing selection and recentering autocomplete and settings lists, causing clicks to target a different item.
• •Fixed long prompt-cache requests for GPT-5.6+ Responses models to use prompt_cache_options.ttl: "30m" instead of prompt_cache_retention: "24h".

v0.85.0

4. September 2026

• •Persistent Claude thinking effort — Supported Anthropic transports preserve per-turn effort and recover safely from signed-thinking mismatches. See Model Configuration.
• •Fullscreen transcript controls — Jump to the latest message from a scrolled transcript and use the embedded working indicator. See TUI Fullscreen Viewport.
• •Restorable in-memory sessions — Resume externally stored session entries through the SDK. See Session Management.
• •Added SessionManager.inMemory() support for restoring externally managed session entries (#8980 by @y-nk).
• •Added inherited OpenAI-compatible vllmPriority and supportsMaxOutputTokens model settings for vLLM scheduler priority and OpenAI Responses output-token limits (#9004 by @AppleDannyClegg, #8941 by @scturtle).
• •Added inherited LaTeX rendering for relational algebra join symbols (#9050 by @haoqixu).
• •Added a clickable "Jump to latest message" label with the tui.altScreen.bottom shortcut to the fullscreen transcript while it is scrolled up (#9080 by @rwachtler).
• •Moved the streaming working indicator into the default editor border and matched its default spinner and label to the thinking-level border color. Custom editors retain the standalone indicator unless they opt in to embedding it (#8799 by @cristinaponcela).
• •Reduced inherited fullscreen transcript search latency on large transcripts by caching unchanged search results, indexing ASCII runs, and limiting highlight work to visible matches (#8800 by @cristinaponcela).
• •Fixed managed fd and ripgrep downloads on Linux musl systems (#9070 by @Charlie0113-T).
• •Removed the unavailable inherited Grok Build 0.1 model from /model (#9093 by @Jaaneek).
• •Fixed inherited provider streams emitting incompatible event sequences and custom tool-call deltas.
• •Restored the @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent/client compatibility entry point.
• •Fixed the inherited Qwen Token Plan Individual catalog to include Qwen3.8 Flash (#9021).
• •Fixed inherited OpenAI Codex SSE parsing to process terminal events that are not followed by a blank line (#9047).

v0.84.4

29. August 2026

• •Terminal capability overrides — Override detected terminal hyperlink, image, and truecolor support. See Capability Overrides.
• •Extension UI prompt events — Integrations can distinguish active agent work from time spent waiting for ctx.ui prompts. See Extension UI prompt events.
• •RPC queue clearing — Retrieve and clear queued steering and follow-up messages with clear_queue. See RPC `clear_queue`.
• •Fullscreen selection copy controls — Disable automatic selection copying in fullscreen mode and use Ctrl+X to copy the active selection. See UI & Display.
• •DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (experimental) — Use the vision-capable model through the built-in DeepSeek provider. See API Keys.
• •Added ui_prompt_start and ui_prompt_end extension events so host integrations can distinguish active agent work from waiting on user-facing ctx.ui prompts (#8355 by @cristinaponcela).
• •Added detectSupportedImageMimeTypeFromFile() to the public library exports (#8600 by @xl0).
• •Added inherited experimental vision-capable deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model support.
• •Added transcript usage notices for compaction and branch summaries when cache miss notices are enabled.
• •Added RPC clear_queue to retrieve and remove queued steering and follow-up messages (#8432).
• •Added environment variables and advanced settings for overriding auto-detected terminal hyperlink, image, and truecolor capabilities (#8665).
• •Added fullscreenCopyOnSelect to disable automatic fullscreen selection copy; when disabled, Ctrl+X copies the active text selection before falling back to the last assistant message, while /tree still copies the selected message (#7720).
• •Fixed toggling thinking visibility clearing partial output from running Bash tools (#8611).
• •Fixed Windows shell aborts crashing Pi when taskkill.exe is unavailable on PATH (#6596).
• •Fixed resumed sessions corrupting the next appended entry when their JSONL file lacks a trailing newline (#8345).

v0.84.3

24. August 2026

• •PowerShell tool — Use optional native PowerShell command execution on Windows. See PowerShell Tool.
• •Safer managed updates — Stage, verify, and atomically activate updates for installer-managed installations. See 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.
• •Renamed the inherited GoogleThinkingLevel type to GoogleApiThinkingLevel and added ResolvedGoogleThinkingLevel for normalized adapter levels.
• •Added an optional powershell tool for Windows, configurable through defaultTools and the SDK. See 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.
• •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).
• •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).
• •Added inherited configurable OpenAI-compatible thinking-token budget fields for vLLM, Qwen/SGLang, and llama.cpp servers. See OpenAI Compatibility (#8275 by @bnsd55).
• •Added inherited China-specific ZAI Coding Plan models, including GLM-4.6V vision support and API-equivalent usage cost estimates (#8220).
• •Added inherited deepseek-v4-pro-0813 support to the Qwen Token Plan Individual catalog (#8194).
• •Changed experimental installer-managed installations so pi update stages, verifies, and atomically activates the selected release in place. See Install and Manage.

v0.84.2

14. August 2026

• •Fullscreen transcript search — Search and navigate matches in fullscreen mode. See TUI Fullscreen Viewport.
• •Configurable default tools — Choose startup built-in tools globally or per project. See Tools.
• •Configurable fullscreen exit output — Print the transcript or only a resume hint on exit. See Interactive Mode.
• •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 by @rwachtler).
• •Added expandPromptTemplates to extension pi.sendUserMessage() options for explicitly dispatching commands and expanding skills and prompt templates. See `pi.sendUserMessage()` (#7857 by @mrexodia).
• •Added inherited createGatewayBindingFetch() for routing Cloudflare AI Gateway requests through a Workers AI binding without an API token (#7901 by @Maximo-Guk).
• •Added inherited AssistantMessage.endTurn to preserve OpenAI Codex's terminal end_turn signal for diagnostics (#7766).
• •Added inherited unbound single-line transcript scrolling actions for fullscreen mode. See TUI Fullscreen Viewport (#7903 by @midastruth).
• •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).

v0.84.1

7. August 2026

• •Qwen Token Plan Individual — Use the built-in provider for models documented for Individual subscriptions. See API Keys.
• •Authentication readiness checks — Use pi auth check to verify provider or model credentials, optionally emitting the resolved credential.
• •Improved fullscreen interaction — Select words and paragraphs with multiple clicks and configure half-page transcript scrolling. See TUI Fullscreen Viewport.
• •Terminating blocked tool calls — Extension tool_call handlers can stop all-terminating batches without another model call. See Tool Events.
• •Added Qwen Token Plan Individual as a built-in provider with its documented subscription model catalog and the shared international QWEN_TOKEN_PLAN_API_KEY. See API Keys (#7659 by @arasovic).
• •Added pi auth check provider/model auth preflight with optional credential output (#7152).
• •Added terminate support to blocked extension tool_call events so all-terminating batches can skip the automatic follow-up model call. See Tool Events (#7715 by @muyiyr).
• •Added inherited double-click word and whitespace selection, granularity-aware drag selection, and triple-click paragraph selection in fullscreen mode (#7725, #7733 by @volsa).
• •Added inherited unbound half-page transcript scrolling actions for fullscreen mode. See TUI Fullscreen Viewport (#7735).
• •Softened the bash tool's PI_* environment guideline in an attempt to reduce unnecessary inspection commands (#7128).
• •Reduced worst-case automatic terminal theme detection delay from 200 ms to 100 ms by probing color-scheme and background support concurrently.
• •Fixed Bun standalone binaries crashing on startup when the cwd contains a bunfig.toml with preload by compiling with --no-compile-autoload-bunfig (#7685 by @geril07).
• •Fixed extension TUI method wrappers recursing indefinitely when delegating to the original method (#7731).
• •Fixed right-click not pasting clipboard text in fullscreen mode on Windows.
• •Fixed inherited Agent.reset() clearing transcript and runtime state during active runs; it now rejects until the agent is idle (#7717 by @wesleyzhangwq).

v0.84.0

6. August 2026

• •Fullscreen TUI mode — Switch between regular and fullscreen modes at runtime, with a sticky editor and footer, independently scrollable transcript, and draggable scrollbars. See UI & Display.
• •Mermaid and LaTeX rendering — Render Mermaid diagrams and terminal-friendly Unicode math in interactive transcripts. See Markdown settings and TUI Markdown.
• •Per-directory context overrides — Use AGENTS.override.md to replace context files for a specific directory. See Context Files.
• •Advanced custom model sampling — Configure arbitrary OpenAI-compatible samplingParams and opt-in vLLM thinking_token_budget values. See Sampling Parameters.
• •Baseten provider — Use built-in Baseten authentication and model support. See API Keys.
• •Renamed the inherited pi-ai ModelsStreamTransforms interface to ModelsRequestTransforms because its header transformation now applies to all authenticated provider requests.
• •Changed JSON and RPC message_update events to emit only assistantMessageEvent deltas, removing the cumulative message and assistantMessageEvent.partial fields that caused quadratic output growth. Clients that need partial messages must assemble deltas between message_start and message_end; the latter remains authoritative (#7290).
• •ModelRegistry.getApiKeyAndHeaders() now returns ProviderHeaders with string | null values and preserves null header-deletion markers. Extensions that inspect returned headers must handle null; extensions forwarding them to pi-ai streams should pass them through unchanged. This prevents placeholder OpenAI credentials from being sent through Cloudflare AI Gateway (#7030).
• •Changed ModelRegistry.refresh() to accept ModelsRefreshOptions and return ModelsRefreshResult instead of discarding cancellation and provider errors.
• •Changed ModelRuntime.setRuntimeApiKey() to accept auth cancellation options rather than catalog refresh options. Call refresh({ providers: [providerId], signal }) separately when remote freshness is required.
• •Required config-form extension OAuth refreshToken(credentials, signal) callbacks to accept and honor a concrete abort signal.
• •Replaced dynamic provider refresh context store access with the read-only context.stored snapshot and generation-checked context.publish() transaction.
• •Replaced the inherited pi-agent-core harness session model with the v4 lane-based Session, SessionStorage, and SessionRepo APIs, including durable operation records, global facts, shared sequence numbers, and tree-scoped lane views.
• •Promoted the inherited v2 session and AgentHarness API from pi-agent-core's experimental entrypoint to its default export and removed the experimental subpaths.
• •Removed the inherited legacy JSONL and in-memory repository APIs. Use pi-agent-core's v4 JsonlSessionRepo or InMemorySessionRepo, both implementing the new SessionRepo contract.

v0.83.0

30. Juli 2026

• •Credential export for external clients — pi auth print-api-key and pi auth print-bearer-token export configured credentials with automatic OAuth refresh and minimum-validity enforcement.
• •Headless OpenRouter sign-in — Complete /login over SSH by pasting the redirect URL or authorization code when the loopback callback is unavailable. See OpenRouter.
• •Claude Opus 5 on GitHub Copilot — Use Claude Opus 5 through GitHub Copilot with adaptive thinking and a 1M context window. See GitHub Copilot.
• •Upgraded bundled TypeBox aliases to 1.3.7, removing deprecated APIs including Type.Base, Type.Awaited, Type.Promise, Type.AsyncIterator, Type.Iterator, Type.Options, and Value.Mutate, while fixing compiled validation of nullable array tool arguments. Extensions using removed APIs must migrate to supported TypeBox APIs. See Package Dependencies (#7243 by @petrroll).
• •Added pi auth print-api-key and pi auth print-bearer-token commands for exporting configured credentials to external clients, including automatic OAuth refresh and configurable minimum token validity (#7168).
• •Exposed the session's resolved model scope as ctx.scopedModels to extensions. See Extension Context (#7191 by @pungggi, #7215).
• •Added inherited per-request fetch injection for supported text and image provider transports.
• •Added the inherited "pending" stop reason for partial streaming messages. See Custom Provider Stream Pattern (#7151 by @lucasmeijer).
• •Added inherited raw provider stop reasons across Google, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Mistral, and OpenAI streams; unmapped terminal reasons now surface as provider errors instead of successful stops (#7272).
• •Added manual redirect URL and authorization-code entry to OpenRouter login for remote and headless environments. See OpenRouter (#7114 by @rgarcia).
• •Added inherited Claude Opus 5 support for GitHub Copilot with adaptive thinking and a 1M context window. See GitHub Copilot (#7158 by @jay-aye-see-kay).
• •Changed inherited OAuth credential resolution to refresh tokens with less than five minutes of validity remaining instead of waiting until expiration (#7168).
• •Added a status line when the tool output expansion is toggled (#7180).
• •Fixed file-backed SYSTEM.md and APPEND_SYSTEM.md prompts being omitted from the interactive startup context listing. See System Prompt Files (#7096).
• •Fixed context files loading twice when a linked Git worktree is nested under its main repository. See Context Files (#7221 by @arajkumar).

v0.82.1

25. Juli 2026

• •Claude Opus 5 — Available on Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock with adaptive thinking (including xhigh), inference profiles, and prompt caching. See Providers.
• •Anthropic gateway bearer auth — ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN authenticates against Anthropic-compatible gateways that require Authorization: Bearer, including compaction and branch summaries. See Environment Variables or Auth File.
• •Faster, more resilient model catalogs — pi.dev catalogs revalidate with If-None-Match so unchanged providers answer with an empty 304, and llama.cpp models stay listed across restarts. See llama.cpp.
• •Exposed the outputPad setting to custom message renderers. See Extensions (#7045 by @xl0).
• •Added inherited ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN bearer authentication for Anthropic-compatible gateways. See Providers (#5871).
• •Added inherited Claude Opus 5 support for Anthropic and Amazon Bedrock with adaptive thinking, inference profiles, prompt caching, and preserved AWS validation messages (#7081 by @unexge, #7083 by @davidbrai).
• •Changed pi.dev model catalog refreshes to revalidate with If-None-Match, so unchanged provider catalogs answer with an empty 304 instead of a full download.
• •Changed inherited Radius OAuth device authorization, token exchange, and refresh requests to use the configured gateway directly.
• •Changed inherited model loading errors to append the underlying cause, so auth failures such as OAuth refresh failed for openai-codex report the provider response instead of a bare wrapper message.
• •Fixed compaction and branch summaries for providers whose authentication resolves entirely to request headers (#5871)
• •Fixed unavailable scoped models being hidden from /models, allowing them to be removed without editing settings manually (#6949, #7032 by @christianklotz).
• •Fixed startup context file discovery to skip directories that match context file names such as AGENTS.md, which produced EISDIR warnings (#7106 by @mrexodia).
• •Fixed the llama.cpp extension to persist its model catalog, so llama.cpp models stay listed before the first successful refresh. See llama.cpp (#7072 by @davidbrai).

v0.82.0

24. Juli 2026

• •Constrained tool sampling — Tools can prefer or require strict JSON Schema sampling or use OpenAI Lark/regex grammars, with model capability metadata preventing unsupported requests. See Constrained Sampling for Tools.
• •OpenRouter and Kimi Code sign-in — Use /login to authorize OpenRouter or a Kimi Code subscription without manually configuring API keys. See OpenRouter.
• •Session-aware, streaming bash integrations — Bash tools receive current session/model metadata, while direct RPC bash commands stream correlated output. See Bash Tool Session Environment and RPC bash events.
• •Added inherited Tool.constrainedSampling with strict JSON Schema (prefer/require) and OpenAI Lark/regex grammar variants across OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini, and Mistral. See Constrained Sampling for Tools.
• •Added inherited supportsGrammarTools and supportsStrictTools compatibility flags, expanded supportsStrictMode coverage, and generated model capability metadata to gate constrained sampling.
• •Added inherited Kimi Code subscription OAuth login for the Kimi For Coding provider, including device authorization and automatic token refresh (#6935 by @zaycruz).
• •Added inherited OpenRouter OAuth PKCE login through /login, minting a user-controlled API key. See OpenRouter (#6927 by @rsaryev).
• •Exposed PI_SESSION_ID, PI_SESSION_FILE, PI_PROVIDER, PI_MODEL, and PI_REASONING_LEVEL to commands run by built-in and factory-created bash tools. See Bash Tool Session Environment.
• •Added streaming bash_execution_update events for direct RPC bash commands, correlated with request IDs. See RPC bash events (#6971 by @ananthakumaran).
• •Changed inherited generated model catalogs to expose only provider-verified reasoning effort levels from models.dev (#6928 by @davidbrai).
• •Fixed inherited DNS lookup failures such as getaddrinfo, ENOTFOUND, and EAI_AGAIN to trigger automatic assistant retries (#6946 by @christianklotz).
• •Fixed inherited OpenRouter Anthropic cache breakpoints to advance through tool results and enabled cache control for ~anthropic/*-latest aliases (#6941 by @mteam88).
• •Fixed inherited OpenAI Codex WebSocket sessions to retry once without a missing previous-response continuation after previous_response_not_found errors (#6955 by @davidbrai).
• •Fixed TUI debug and crash logs to respect custom agent directories instead of always writing under ~/.pi/agent (#6958 by @davidbrai).
• •Fixed slow Ctrl+G external-editor startup when the system temporary directory contains many entries (#6903 by @christianklotz).

v0.81.1

21. Juli 2026

• •Verifiable release source archives — GitHub releases now include deterministic, checksummed source archives with instructions for rebuilding standalone binaries. See Building standalone binaries from release source.
• •Resilient compaction and branch summaries — Transient provider failures now follow the configured retry policy, with retry lifecycle events available to interactive, JSON, RPC, and SDK consumers. See Compaction & Branch Summarization and RPC retry events.
• •Added deterministic, checksummed source archives to GitHub releases with documented standalone binary rebuild instructions (#6913 by @christianklotz).
• •Fixed compaction and branch summarization to retry transient provider failures using the configured retry policy, with retry lifecycle events exposed to interactive, JSON, RPC, and SDK consumers (#6901 by @davidbrai).
• •Fixed interactive startup waiting for background model catalog refresh while computing the footer provider count.
• •Restored the default stream fallback for extensions using the pre-0.81 agent-core API (#6915).
• •Fixed inherited Kimi K3 models from Moonshot AI and Moonshot AI China to use the OpenAI thinking format and expose reasoning effort support.

v0.81.0

21. Juli 2026

• •Local llama.cpp model management — Connect to a llama.cpp router, search and download Hugging Face models, and explicitly load or unload models with live progress. See llama.cpp.
• •Full provider extensions — Extensions can register complete pi-ai providers with authentication, model refresh, filtering, and custom streaming. See Register New Provider.
• •Qwen Token Plan providers — Use the built-in international and China subscription providers with regional endpoints and API-key authentication. See API Keys.
• •Expanded usage accounting — Tool, compaction, and branch-summary usage is persisted and included in session totals. See Compaction & Branch Summarization.
• •Added Qwen Token Plan and Qwen Token Plan China to built-in provider setup, default model resolution, and provider documentation (#6858 by @QuintinShaw).
• •Added the get_available_thinking_levels RPC command and RpcClient.getAvailableThinkingLevels() method (#6865 by @cristinaponcela).
• •Exported message and tool execution lifecycle event types from the package root (#6772 by @davidbrai).
• •Added built-in llama.cpp router support with /login connection setup and /llama Hugging Face model search and downloads, explicit loading, unloading, and live progress. See llama.cpp.
• •Added extension registration for complete pi-ai providers, including native authentication, model refresh, filtering, and streaming behavior.
• •Added usage accounting for tools, compaction, and branch summaries in persisted sessions, footer totals, and session statistics (#6671 by @davidbrai).
• •Updated the packaged brace-expansion dependency to 5.0.7 (#6896 by @davidbrai).
• •Fixed persisted remote model catalogs from overriding newer bundled catalogs after an upgrade.
• •Fixed inherited stored API-key credentials to apply their provider-scoped env values, including Amazon Bedrock profiles (#6864 by @cristinaponcela).
• •Fixed inherited OpenAI-compatible cross-provider replay to keep tool call IDs unique when multiple calls share a provider call ID (#6854 by @cristinaponcela).
• •Fixed inherited Kimi K3 thinking levels to expose low, high, and max, and normalized the k2p7 alias to kimi-for-coding.

v0.80.10

17. Juli 2026

• •Kimi Coding thinking compatibility — Kimi Coding models now use adaptive thinking correctly; K3 exposes its supported max level and supports replaying empty-signature thinking blocks. See Kimi For Coding setup and Model Options.
• •Fixed inherited Kimi Coding requests to use Anthropic adaptive thinking effort without token budgets, and enabled empty thinking signatures for K3 and kimi-for-coding.
• •Fixed inherited Kimi K3 pricing metadata for Moonshot AI and Moonshot AI China.
• •Fixed inherited Kimi Coding K3 thinking-level metadata to expose only the supported max level (#6737).
• •Fixed inherited catalog generation restoring xAI models removed in 0.80.9 (#6736).

v0.80.9

16. Juli 2026

• •Kimi K3 and deferred tool loading — Use Kimi K3 across built-in providers, including progressive extension tool activation through Kimi’s native protocol. See Dynamic Tool Loading, OpenAI Compatibility, and the `kimi-deferred-tools.ts` example.
• •Added inherited Kimi K3 support for Kimi Coding, Moonshot AI, Moonshot AI China, OpenRouter, and Vercel AI Gateway.
• •Added Kimi deferred tool loading for extension-driven tool activation. See Dynamic Tool Loading, OpenAI Compatibility, and the `kimi-deferred-tools.ts` example.
• •Changed xAI login to use a prefilled device-authorization link labeled “Sign in with SuperGrok or X Premium,” and changed the default xAI model to Grok 4.5 (#6734 by @Jaaneek).
• •Fixed inherited Kimi K3 output limits for Vercel AI Gateway and OpenRouter models.
• •Fixed cloning or forking a session before its first assistant response to explain that the session must be saved first.
• •Removed Grok 3, Grok 3 Fast, Grok 4.20 variants, and Grok Code Fast 1 from the built-in xAI model catalog (#6734 by @Jaaneek).

v0.80.8

16. Juli 2026

• •Unified model runtime and provider authentication — ModelRuntime centralizes model configuration, provider-owned /login, and dynamic provider catalogs. See Providers.
• •Live model catalog refresh — /model refreshes configured providers in the background, and pi update --models forces an immediate refresh. See Install and Manage.
• •xAI device-code OAuth and Grok 4.5 Responses support — Sign in to xAI with a device code and use Grok 4.5 with low, medium, or high thinking. See xAI.
• •Replaced the SDK's CreateAgentSessionOptions.authStorage and modelRegistry options with the async modelRuntime option. AuthStorage and its storage backends are no longer exported; use ModelRuntime (or a custom pi-ai CredentialStore), or readStoredCredential() for one-off reads of auth.json.
• •Removed redundant ModelRuntime.getAll(), find(), getSnapshot(), and getAuthOptions() projections. Use the pi-ai Models methods getModels(), getModel(), getProviders(), and checkAuth() directly.
• •Replaced SDK request-auth assembly through ModelRegistry.getApiKeyAndHeaders() with ModelRuntime.getAuth(). Passing a provider ID returns provider-scoped auth; passing a model also resolves built-in, models.json, and extension model headers.
• •Changed extension-facing ModelRegistry.refresh() from synchronous void to Promise<void> because models.json loading is asynchronous. Extensions must await it before making synchronous registry reads.
• •Moved canonical dynamic catalog refresh to async ModelRuntime.refresh()/pi-ai Models.refresh(). Legacy extension OAuth modifyModels remains supported as a synchronous compatibility projection after credential initialization.
• •Added ModelRuntime as the canonical async SDK and internal model/auth facade while preserving the synchronous extension-facing ModelRegistry API. ModelRuntime.create() accepts any pi-ai CredentialStore through its credentials option.
• •Added provider-owned /login discovery directly from registered pi-ai providers, including ambient auth status and informational links.
• •Added file-backed dynamic catalogs in models-store.json, per-provider pi.dev catalog overlays, and Radius gateway support including offline migration from legacy credential-cached catalogs.
• •Added extension provider refreshModels(context) support for dynamic model discovery with optional provider-controlled persistence.
• •Added pi update --models to force an immediate model catalog refresh without updating pi or extensions.
• •Added inherited xAI device-code OAuth login and Grok 4.5 OpenAI Responses support, with low, medium, and high thinking levels (#6651 by @Jaaneek).
• •Changed ModelRuntime to compose built-in providers, immutable models.json configuration, and extension overlays through ad-hoc pi-ai provider methods.

v0.80.7

14. Juli 2026

• •Removed the openai-responses compat.sendSessionIdHeader flag from models.json. Session-affinity behavior is now controlled by compat.sessionAffinityFormat ("openai", "openai-nosession", or "openrouter"). Replace sendSessionIdHeader: false with sessionAffinityFormat: "openai-nosession" (#6496 by @petrroll).
• •Cache-friendly dynamic tool loading - Extensions can add tools during execution while supported Anthropic and OpenAI Responses models preserve prompt-cache prefixes. See Dynamic Tool Loading.
• •Message copy shortcut - Ctrl+X copies the last assistant message in the transcript or the selected message in /tree, making older and branched messages directly copyable. See Display and Message Queue.
• •Fable 5 `xhigh` and `max` thinking - Native xhigh and max thinking levels are available across generated provider catalogs. See Model Options.
• •Added cache-friendly dynamic tool loading for extension tools activated by tool results. Supported Anthropic and OpenAI Responses models load definitions where they become available, preserving the cached prompt prefix. See Dynamic Tool Loading (#6474).
• •Added inherited native xhigh and max thinking levels for Claude Fable 5 across all generated provider catalogs (#6490 by @davidbrai).
• •Added Ctrl+X to copy the last assistant message, or the selected message in /tree.
• •Added inherited toolChoice support for OpenAI and Codex Responses, including required and named tool selection (#6588 by @xl0).
• •Fixed inherited OpenRouter model context windows to use the top provider's actual context length (#6481 by @davidbrai).
• •Fixed inherited OpenRouter OpenAI-compatible session IDs to use the x-session-id header instead of OpenAI-specific session-affinity fields (#6496 by @petrroll).
• •Fixed Ctrl+V to paste clipboard text when the pasteboard does not contain an image.
• •Fixed /login amazon-bedrock to prompt for and save a Bedrock API key instead of only displaying ambient AWS credential setup instructions.
• •Fixed inherited Amazon Bedrock ambient AWS credentials to keep using SigV4 authentication, including for custom model IDs (#6532 by @ribelo).
• •Fixed inherited Cloudflare Workers AI and AI Gateway authentication to use ambient account and gateway IDs when stored credentials contain only an API key (#6292 by @markphelps).
• •Fixed inherited legacy terminal decoding for Alt+symbol key combinations such as Alt+, and Alt+. (#6523 by @ribelo).

v0.80.6

10. Juli 2026

• •`max` thinking level - New opt-in thinking level above xhigh, natively supported on GPT-5.6 and adaptive Claude models, available across CLI (--thinking max), SDK, RPC, and model selection. Custom themes can define thinkingMax. See CLI Reference.
• •Input-based pricing tiers - Request-wide input-token pricing tiers for accurate long-context cost accounting (e.g. GPT-5.4/5.5/5.6 long-context rates), also configurable for custom models in models.json and modelOverrides. See Model Configuration.
• •Added the opt-in max thinking level across CLI, SDK, RPC, model selection, and themes. Custom themes can define thinkingMax; existing themes fall back to thinkingXhigh.
• •Added request-wide input-token pricing tiers to custom model costs in models.json, modelOverrides, and extension-registered providers.
• •Added ~ (home directory) expansion for the shellPath setting (#6470 by @aaronkyriesenbach).
• •Fixed inherited post-compaction output-token budgeting to ignore stale assistant usage from before the compaction boundary (#6464).
• •Fixed inherited GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 long-context cost accounting while retaining the intentional 272K default context limit for models that require an explicit override.
• •Fixed inherited GPT-5.6 metadata to keep direct OpenAI requests in the 272K short-context tier while exposing the Codex backend's 372K context window with long-context pricing, and removed the nonexistent bare gpt-5.6 alias.
• •Fixed inherited Anthropic message conversion to preserve thinking blocks with empty thinking text but a valid signature instead of dropping them, avoiding thinking-block errors on newer Claude models (#6457 by @davidbrai).

v0.80.5

9. Juli 2026

Release 0.80.5

v0.80.3

30. Juni 2026

• •Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 support - Claude Sonnet 5 is available through inherited Anthropic-compatible and Bedrock provider catalogs with adaptive thinking enabled. See Providers and Model Options.
• •Configurable output spacing - outputPad controls horizontal padding for user messages, assistant messages, and thinking blocks. See Settings.
• •External editor configuration - externalEditor lets Ctrl+G use a configured editor before $VISUAL/$EDITOR fallbacks. See Settings and Keybindings.
• •Richer RPC session tree access - RPC clients can inspect session entries and tree snapshots with get_entries and get_tree. See get_entries and get_tree.
• •Extension session metadata updates - Extensions can observe session name changes through session_info_changed. See session_info_changed.
• •Modern Azure Foundry endpoint support - Azure OpenAI Responses provider setup supports current Microsoft Foundry endpoint URLs. See Azure OpenAI.
• •Added inherited Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 model support.
• •Added get_entries and get_tree RPC commands for reading session entries and tree snapshots over RPC (#6078 by @geraschenko).
• •Added a package ./rpc-entry export for launching Pi directly in RPC mode.
• •Added session-name change events for extensions (#6175 by @xl0).
• •Added inherited Azure OpenAI Responses support for modern Microsoft Foundry endpoint URLs (#6004 by @gukoff).
• •Added inherited Usage.reasoning token counts for providers that report reasoning/thinking token usage (#6057).
• •Added an externalEditor settings.json override for Ctrl+G external editor commands, with default fallbacks to Notepad on Windows and nano elsewhere (#6122).
• •Added an outputPad setting for user message, assistant message, and thinking horizontal padding (#6168).
• •Changed the default OpenAI model to gpt-5.5.

v0.80.2

24. Juni 2026

• •Changed inherited pi-ai ApiKeyCredential to use the auth.json-compatible discriminator type: "api_key" and provider-scoped env values instead of type: "api-key" and metadata.
• •Renamed the inherited agent-core public harness shell execution options type from ExecutionEnvExecOptions to ShellExecOptions.
• •Fixed inherited Anthropic-compatible custom models to use explicit compatibility metadata instead of provider-name heuristics for session-affinity headers and unsupported tool-field omissions.
• •Fixed inherited request-scoped apiKey and env values to participate in provider auth resolution, so providers such as Cloudflare can derive request-specific base URLs from explicit call options (#6021).
• •Restored inherited temporary legacy per-API stream aliases such as streamSimpleOpenAICompletions on the pi-ai compat entrypoint (#6016, #6017).
• •Restored inherited runtime detectCompat fallback in openai-completions for models without explicit compat metadata (#6020).

v0.80.1

23. Juni 2026

• •Fixed inherited Amazon Bedrock scoped AWS_PROFILE endpoint resolution for built-in inference profile endpoints.
• •Fixed inherited Fireworks Anthropic-compatible requests to apply session-affinity and unsupported tool-field defaults for custom Fireworks models.
• •Fixed inherited Together MiniMax M2.7 metadata to avoid unsupported Together reasoning toggles.

v0.80.0

23. Juni 2026

• •Added Ctrl+J as a default newline keybinding alongside Shift+Enter.
• •Renamed the displayed zai provider label to ZAI Coding Plan (Global) for clarity (#5965).
• •pi-ai's old global API (stream/complete/completeSimple, getModel/getModels/getProviders, registerApiProvider, getEnvApiKey, ...) moved off the @earendil-works/pi-ai root entrypoint to @earendil-works/pi-ai/compat. Extensions are not affected at runtime: the extension loader resolves the pi-ai root to the compat entrypoint (a strict superset), so existing extensions keep working unchanged. Extension sources that typecheck against pi-ai's published types should switch those imports to @earendil-works/pi-ai/compat (or migrate to the new createModels()/provider-factory API). The compat entrypoint and the loader alias will be removed in a future release with a migration guide.
• •Fixed session names to normalize newline characters before storing or displaying labels (#5999 by @haoqixu).
• •Fixed the session selector to order threaded session trees by the latest activity anywhere in each subtree (#5784 by @Perlence).
• •Fixed extension-related crash and startup-failure reporting to suggest restarting with pi -ne.
• •Fixed inherited OpenAI Responses streams to fail before missing terminal events and fixed context usage and compaction estimates to ignore malformed all-zero assistant usage after truncated responses (#5526 by @dmmulroy).
• •Fixed inherited OpenAI Codex Responses WebSocket sessions to reconnect once when OpenAI's connection limit is reached before output starts (#5973).
• •Fixed inherited Amazon Bedrock endpoint resolution to honor scoped AWS_PROFILE values.
• •Fixed inherited Cloudflare providers to require account/gateway configuration and route built-in compat calls through provider auth.
• •Fixed provider-scoped auth environment values to reach inherited Models/ImagesModels API calls and compat API-key injection.
• •Fixed inherited OpenCode Go GLM-5.2 metadata to expose xhigh reasoning and send the provider's max reasoning effort (#5967).
• •Fixed pi --resume to load user package themes and resolve automatic light/dark theme settings.
• •Fixed models.json custom providers so stored credentials can satisfy auth without a redundant provider-level apiKey (#5953).
• •Removed inherited selective-provider @earendil-works/pi-ai/base and @earendil-works/pi-agent-core/base entrypoints; use the root packages with explicit Models provider factories instead.

v0.79.10

22. Juni 2026

• •Extension compaction event context - Extension session_before_compact and session_compact events now include reason and willRetry, so extensions can distinguish manual /compact, threshold auto-compaction, and overflow retry flows. See session_before_compact / session_compact and Custom Summarization via Extensions.
• •Safer update flow - pi update installs the exact checked Pi version, and update notices show the changelog URL, making upgrades more predictable. See Install and Manage.
• •Added reason and willRetry metadata to extension session_before_compact and session_compact events so extensions can distinguish manual, threshold, and overflow compaction flows (#5962 by @PizzaMarinara).
• •Fixed the find tool to respect nested git repository boundaries when parent .gitignore rules ignore the nested repo (#5960).
• •Fixed the usage docs slash command table to include /trust and /import (#5959).
• •Fixed inherited OpenAI-compatible streaming to preserve encrypted reasoning_details that arrive before matching tool call deltas (#5114).
• •Fixed broken TUI documentation links to the plan-mode extension example (#5957).
• •Fixed transient extension UI and session-start messages emitted during session replacement or reload so they remain visible, and kept reload input blocked until reload completes (#5943).
• •Fixed the plan-mode example to preserve active custom tools, skip the action prompt when no plan is found, and queue refinement/execution follow-ups correctly from agent_end (#5940).
• •Fixed pi update to install the exact version returned by the Pi update check, make --force reinstall that checked version, fail instead of falling back to an unversioned reinstall when no version is available, and report both the old and updated versions.
• •Fixed update notifications to display the actual changelog URL as the hyperlink text.

v0.79.9

20. Juni 2026

• •Chat-template thinking compatibility - OpenAI-compatible custom providers can map Pi thinking levels into chat_template_kwargs, enabling vLLM/Hugging Face chat-template models such as DeepSeek to use provider-native thinking controls. See Custom Provider API Types and OpenAI Compatibility.
• •GLM-5.2 provider improvements - GLM-5.2 now has corrected Fireworks OpenAI-compatible routing and OpenRouter xhigh thinking support, improving /model behavior and high-effort reasoning for GLM-5.2 users. See Model Options.
• •Added inherited configurable chat-template thinking support for OpenAI-compatible providers that use chat_template_kwargs, such as DeepSeek models behind vLLM (#5673).
• •Fixed inherited Fireworks GLM-5.2 metadata to use the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint with reasoning_effort support (#5923).
• •Fixed same-directory session switches to reuse imported extension modules while preserving fresh extension instances and lifecycle events (#5905).
• •Fixed deep session branches taking quadratic time to build context or branch paths (#5909).
• •Fixed inherited OpenRouter GLM-5.2 metadata to expose xhigh reasoning and send OpenRouter's native xhigh effort (#5770).
• •Fixed inherited Markdown streaming code fence rendering so partial closing fences no longer make code blocks shrink or flicker while content streams (#5846 by @xl0).
• •Fixed fuzzy edit matches to preserve untouched line blocks instead of rewriting the whole file through normalized content (#5899).
• •Fixed bash commands through legacy WSL bash.exe to pass scripts over stdin so shell variables expand in the target bash (#5893).
• •Fixed /model to hide GitHub Copilot models that are unavailable to the authenticated account (#5897).
• •Fixed /model selector search to rank exact provider-prefixed matches before proxy-provider model ID matches (#5892).

v0.79.8

19. Juni 2026

• •Selective provider base entry points - SDK users can pair @earendil-works/pi-ai/base and @earendil-works/pi-agent-core/base with explicit provider registration to keep bundled applications from including unused provider transports. See `pi-ai` Base Entry Point and `pi-agent-core` Base Entry Point.
• •Mistral prompt caching - Mistral sessions now use provider-side prompt caching with session affinity and cached-token usage/cost accounting. See API Keys and Environment Variables.
• •Post-compaction token estimates - Compact results and compaction events now include estimated post-compaction token counts so clients can show the approximate context reduction. See RPC compact and compaction events.
• •OpenRouter Fusion alias - openrouter/fusion is available as a built-in OpenRouter model alias. See API Keys.
• •Added inherited @earendil-works/pi-ai/base and @earendil-works/pi-agent-core/base entry points for selective provider registration in bundled applications (#5348 by @FredKSchott).
• •Added inherited Mistral prompt caching using the pi session ID as prompt_cache_key, including cached-token usage and cost accounting (#5854).
• •Added estimated post-compaction token counts to compact results and compaction events (#5877).
• •Added the inherited OpenRouter Fusion alias as openrouter/fusion (#5866 by @dannote).
• •Updated vulnerable runtime dependencies, including undici and the packaged protobufjs transitive dependency.
• •Fixed compaction to refuse sessions with no eligible messages instead of producing empty summaries (#4811).
• •Fixed successful overflow-triggered auto-compaction to avoid retrying completed assistant responses (#5720).

v0.79.7

18. Juni 2026

• •Automatic theme mode - /settings can choose separate light and dark themes and follow terminal color-scheme changes. See Selecting a Theme.
• •Self-only updates by default - pi update now updates pi only, with pi update --all for updating pi and packages together. See Install and Manage.
• •Extension API helpers - extensions can use CONFIG_DIR_NAME for project config paths and import edit diff helpers for edit-style diffs. See `ctx.cwd` and SDK Exports.
• •Warp inline images - Warp terminals now get inline image rendering through Kitty graphics detection. See Image.
• •Added automatic theme mode so /settings can use separate light and dark themes and follow terminal color-scheme changes (#5874).
• •Added inherited Warp terminal image capability detection so inline images render through Warp's Kitty graphics support (#5841 by @dodiego).
• •Exported CONFIG_DIR_NAME from the coding-agent public API so extensions can resolve project config paths without hardcoding .pi (#5869 by @xl0).
• •Exported edit diff helpers (generateDiffString, generateUnifiedPatch, and EditDiffResult) from the public API for extensions that need edit-style diffs (#5756 by @xl0).
• •Changed bare pi update to update only pi, added pi update --all for updating pi and extensions together, and clarified extension update prompts.
• •Reserved / in theme names for automatic light/dark theme settings.
• •Updated extension docs, examples, runtime help, trust prompts, and config labels to use the configured project config directory instead of hardcoded .pi paths.
• •Fixed RPC unknown-command errors to include the request id so clients do not hang waiting for a response (#5868).
• •Fixed /model autocomplete and model selection searches to match provider/model queries regardless of whether the provider or model token is typed first.
• •Fixed the tree navigator to horizontally pan deep entries so the selected item remains readable (#5830).