Windows Support 🪟

This release brings full Windows support to Vibium, including daemon mode, process management, and build tooling.

• Windows daemon IPC via named pipes — Daemon mode now works on Windows using native named pipes (go-winio), replacing the Unix socket approach that was previously a no-op on Windows.
• Fix zombie Chrome/chromedriver processes (#78) — Running make test on Windows left behind ~170 orphaned processes. Process cleanup now uses taskkill /T /F to kill the entire process tree, and error paths properly call KillAll() before exiting.
• Build and test pipeline on Windows — Makefile now detects the OS and adapts (Git Bash shell, .exe suffix, cp instead of ln -sf, taskkill via cmd.exe). Test helpers are platform-aware with shared binary path resolution.
• GnuWin32 Make 3.81 compatibility — Workaround for GnuWin32's CreateProcess behavior by requiring Git's usr/bin on PATH.

Binary Rename: clicker → vibium

The binary and all surrounding tooling have been fully renamed from clicker to vibium.

• Binary output: bin/clicker → bin/vibium
• Daemon socket/pid files: clicker.sock/clicker.pid → vibium.sock/vibium.pid
• Environment variable: VIBIUM_BIN_PATH
• npm bin entry: vibium
• JS client: ClickerProcess → VibiumProcess
• Platform npm packages: "main" field updated from bin/clicker → bin/vibium

Go source directories remain as clicker/ internally.

Docs

• Windows setup guide finalized (removed draft warning)
• Setup docs synced across platforms (PAT sections, PowerShell tips, winget install)

Full Changelog: v0.1.7...v0.1.8

Bug Fixes

• Show correct binary name in help output — Help and version output now shows vibe-check when invoked via the symlink or npm wrapper, and clicker when called directly.
• Fix MCP setup instructions — All docs now correctly use npx -y vibium mcp (the mcp subcommand was missing from setup commands).

Developer Experience

• Auto-copy binary for local dev — make build-go now copies the built binary into node_modules/@vibium/ when present, so local changes are immediately available without reinstalling.

Full Changelog: v0.1.6...v0.1.7

Highlights

14 new browser tools — Page reading (get_text, get_url, get_title, get_html), element queries (find_all, wait), input actions (hover, select, scroll, keys), and tab management (new_tab, list_tabs, switch_tab, close_tab). All available via MCP server, daemon, and CLI.

Daemon mode — The browser now stays open between commands by default, eliminating cold-start overhead. Use --oneshot for the old one-command-per-process behavior.

Agent skill system — vibe-check add-skill installs a browser automation skill to ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code. CLI alias renamed from vibium to vibe-check.

Other Changes

• Add browser_evaluate tool for JavaScript execution (thanks @jolks! — #60)
• Add evaluate() method to Python client
• Fix CLI arguments not being forwarded to clicker binary
• Fix macOS Gatekeeper blocking chromedriver (xattr -d quarantine fix — #33)
• Suppress macOS notification permission dialog on Chrome launch
• Show helpful info when running clicker mcp directly in a terminal
• Add Gemini CLI MCP setup tutorial and fix Claude Code tutorial
• Fix Windows x86 local dev setup guide
• Fix npm bin entry for vibe-check CLI command

New Contributors

• @jolks made their first contribution in #60

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v0.1.6

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix: require Chrome for Testing, remove system Chrome fallback

  • Fixes #32

• Suppress macOS notification permission dialog on Chrome launch

• Fix Python websockets deprecation warnings

• Make make targets work from clean clone by @coty

  • PR #34

• Fix increase WebSocket message size limit to 10MB by @evanniedojadlo

  • PR #46

Issues Fixed

• #32 - Python does not execute launch browser

New Contributors

• @coty made their first contribution in #34

Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.1.4

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix MCP server compatibility with Claude Desktop (#42) - thanks @evanniedojadlo

  • Add additionalProperties: false to tool schemas for Zod validation
  • Fix notifications/initialized handling per JSON-RPC 2.0 spec
  • Fixes #48, #38, #26

• Fix BiDi error response parsing to follow WebDriver BiDi spec

  • Fixes #50, #25

• Fix Python platform packages to include clicker binaries

  • Windows wheel now includes clicker.exe
  • Fixes #49, #47, #31

• Disable Chrome password manager and leak detection prompts

Issues Fixed

• #50 - vibe.screenshot() fails intermittently when BiDi error payload is a string
• #49 - Python Windows: vibium_win32_x64 installs without clicker.exe
• #48 - Vibium MCP sends invalid JSON-RPC message after initialization
• #47 - ClickerNotFound Error workaround on Windows
• #38 - Vibium showing error with Claude Desktop on macOS
• #31 - ClickerNotFoundError on Windows
• #26 - Using MCP with Claude Desktop returns errors
• #25 - BiDi error responses incorrectly parsed