This release improves the session browser interface and fixes several issues with the docker-agent standalone binary.

Improvements

• Shows message count in session browser dialog for better session overview

Bug Fixes

• Fixes recognition of cobra internal completion commands as subcommands
• Fixes help text display for docker-agent standalone binary exec
• Fixes version output for docker-agent CLI plugin and standalone exec

Technical Changes

• Renames internal schema structure

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.23.4 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1792
• Rename schema by @dgageot in #1793
• Show message count in session browser dialog by @dgageot in #1791
• Fix bash/zsh/... completion by @dgageot in #1794
• Fix help for docker-agent standalone binary exec by @gtardif in #1796
• Fix docker-agent version for cli plugin & standalone exec by @gtardif in #1802

Full Changelog: v1.23.4...v1.23.5

This release introduces parallel session support with tab management, major command restructuring, and enhanced UI interactions.

What's New

• Adds parallel session support with a new tab view to switch between sessions
• Adds drag and drop functionality for reordering tabs
• Adds mouse click support to elicitation, prompt input, and tool confirmation dialogs
• Adds X-Cagent-Model-Name header to models gateway requests
• Adds Ask list to permissions config to force confirmation for read-only tools
• Defaults to running the default agent when no subcommand is given

Improvements

• Restores ctrl-r binding for searching prompt history
• Updates Claude Sonnet model version to 4.6
• Prevents closing the last remaining tab with Ctrl+W
• Makes fetch tool not read-only
• Handles Claude overloaded_error with retry logic

Bug Fixes

• Fixes ctrl-c in docker agent and docker agent defaulting to docker agent run
• Fixes completion command
• Fixes cagent-action to expect a prompt
• Fixes gemini use of vertexai environment variables
• Fixes CPU profile file handling and error handling in isFirstRun

Technical Changes

• Removes cagent config commands (breaking change)
• Removes cagent feedback command (breaking change)
• Removes cagent build command (breaking change)
• Removes cagent catalog command (breaking change)
• Moves a2a, acp, mcp and api commands under cagent serve (breaking change)
• Replaces cagent exec with cagent run --exec (breaking change)
• Moves pull and push under cagent share (breaking change)
• Hides cagent debug
• Adds skills to the default agent
• Defaults restore_tabs to false

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.23.3 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1753
• Parallel sessions! Tabs! by @krissetto in #1695
• Restore ctrl-r binding for searching prompt history by @krissetto in #1759
• Review cagent commands by @dgageot in #1755
• default restore_tabs to false by @krissetto in #1760
• Fix completion command by @dgageot in #1761
• fix: cagent-action expects a prompt by @derekmisler in #1762
• feat: add X-Cagent-Model-Name header to models gateway requests by @tdabasinskas in #1751
• chore(config): Update Claude Sonnet model version to 4.6 by @aheritier in #1768
• Add mouse click support to elicitation, prompt input, and tool confirmation dialogs by @dgageot in #1766
• temp home dir to avoid issues in some environments by @krissetto in #1773
• drag 'n drop tabs by @krissetto in #1772
• fix: gemini use of vertexai environment variables by @abaez-pantheon in #1763
• fallback: Handle overloaded_error by @vvoland in #1780
• permissions: add Ask list to force confirmation for tools by @dgageot in #1785
• Bump Go dependencies by @dgageot in #1777
• Fix ctrl-c in docker agent serve api and fix docker agent defaulting to docker agent run by @dgageot in #1782
• Make fetch tool not read-only by @dgageot in #1786
• Keep same error handling for main cli plugin execution by @gtardif in #1789
• tui/tabbar: Prevent closing the last remaining tab by @vvoland in #1790
• Fix path and typo by @dgageot in #1788
• Daily fixes for the Nightly issue detector by @dgageot in #1787

New Contributors

• @abaez-pantheon made their first contribution in #1763

Full Changelog: v1.23.3...v1.23.4

This release adds Docker CLI plugin support and improves TUI performance by making model reasoning checks asynchronous.

What's New

• Adds support for using cagent as a Docker CLI plugin with docker agent command (no functional changes to existing cagent command)
• Handles Windows .exe binary suffix for CLI plugin compatibility

Improvements

• Makes model reasoning support checks asynchronous to prevent TUI freezing (previously could block for up to 30 seconds)
• Threads context.Context through modelsdev store API to allow proper cancellation and deadline propagation

Technical Changes

• Renames cagent OCI annotation to io.docker.agent.version while maintaining backward compatibility with the old annotation
• Updates config media type to use docker.agent
• Adds TUI general guidelines to AGENTS.md documentation

What's Changed

• Thread context.Context through modelsdev store API by @rumpl in #1747
• Rename cagent OCI annotation, keep old one by @gtardif in #1745
• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.23.2 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1746
• Move ModelSupportsReasoning calls to async bubbletea commands by @rumpl in #1749
• Allow to use cagent binary as a docker cli plugin docker-agent. No functional change for cagent command. by @gtardif in #1748

New Contributors

• @gtardif made their first contribution in #1745

Full Changelog: v1.23.2...v1.23.3

This release adds header forwarding capabilities for toolsets and includes several bug fixes and code improvements.

What's New

• Adds support for ${headers.NAME} syntax to forward upstream API headers to toolsets, allowing toolset configurations to reference incoming HTTP request headers

Bug Fixes

• Fixes race condition in isFirstRun using atomic file creation
• Fixes nil pointer dereference when RateLimit is present without Usage
• Fixes double-counting of session costs with cumulative usage providers
• Fixes Ctrl+K key binding conflict in session browser by reassigning CopyID to Ctrl+Y
• Fixes model selection functionality

Improvements

• Adds input validation and audit logging to shell tool
• Adds input validation and error handling to RunBangCommand

Technical Changes

• Extracts shared helpers for command-based providers to reduce code duplication
• Removes duplication from config.Resolv
• Moves GetUserSettings() from pkg/config to pkg/userconfig as Get()
• Removes redundant Reader interface from pkg/config
• Fixes leaked os.Root handle in fileSource.Read
• Makes small improvements to cmd/root

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.23.1 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1727
• Fix two issues with costs by @dgageot in #1732
• Daily fixes by @dgageot in #1731
• Cleanup config code by @dgageot in #1729
• Support ${headers.NAME} syntax to forward upstream API headers to toolsets by @dgageot in #1725
• refactor(environment): extract shared helpers for command-based providers by @dgageot in #1730
• Small improvements to cmd/root by @dgageot in #1734
• fix(#1741): resolve Ctrl+K key binding conflict in session browser by @aheritier in #1742
• Fix model switcher by @dgageot in #1740

New Contributors

• @aheritier made their first contribution in #1742

Full Changelog: v1.23.1...v1.23.2

This release introduces a new OpenAPI toolset for automatic API integration, task management capabilities, and several improvements to message handling and testing infrastructure.

What's New

• Adds Tasks toolset with support for priorities and dependencies
• Adds OpenAPI built-in toolset type that automatically converts OpenAPI specifications into usable tools
• Adds support for custom telemetry tags via TELEMETRY_TAGS environment variable

Improvements

• Preserves line breaks and indentation in welcome messages for better formatting
• Updates documentation links to point to GitHub Pages instead of code repository

Bug Fixes

• Fixes recursive enforcement of required properties in OpenAI tool schemas (resolves Chrome MCP compatibility with OpenAI 5.2)
• Returns error when no messages are available after conversion instead of sending invalid requests

Technical Changes

• Replaces time.Sleep in tests with deterministic synchronization for faster, more reliable testing
• Refactors models store implementation
• Adds .idea/ directory to gitignore
• Removes fake models.dev and unused code

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.23.0 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1714
• Tasks toolset by @rumpl in #1704
• preserve line breaks and indentation in welcome messages by @maxcleme in #1718
• Add openapi built-in toolset type by @dgageot in #1719
• return error if no messages are available after conversion by @krissetto in #1720
• fix: recursively enforce required properties in OpenAI tool schemas by @dgageot in #1710
• Replace time.Sleep in tests with deterministic synchronization by @dgageot in #1722
• Allow passing in custom tags to telemetry by @derekmisler in #1723
• Update documentation links to GitHub Pages by @lorenrh in #1726
• Speed up fallback tests by @dgageot in #1724
• Refactor models store by @dgageot in #1721

New Contributors

• @maxcleme made their first contribution in #1718
• @lorenrh made their first contribution in #1726

Full Changelog: v1.23.0...v1.23.1

This release improves TUI display accuracy, enhances API security defaults, and fixes several memory leaks and session handling issues.

What's New

• Adds optional setup script support for evaluation sessions to prepare container environments before agent execution
• Adds user_prompt tools to the planner for interactive user questions

Improvements

• Makes session compaction non-blocking with spinner feedback instead of blocking the TUI render thread
• Returns error responses for unknown tool calls instead of silently skipping them
• Strips null values from MCP tool call arguments to fix compatibility with models like GPT-5.2
• Improves error handling and logging in evaluation judge with better error propagation and structured logging

Bug Fixes

• Fixes incorrect tool count display in TUI when running in --remote mode
• Fixes tick leak that caused ~10% CPU usage when assistant finished answering
• Fixes session store leak and removes redundant session store methods
• Fixes A2A agent card advertising unroutable wildcard address by using localhost
• Fixes potential goroutine leak in monitorStdin
• Fixes Agents.UnmarshalYAML to properly reject unknown fields in agent configurations
• Persists tool call error state in session messages so failed tool calls maintain error status when sessions are reloaded

Technical Changes

• Removes CORS middleware from 'cagent api' command
• Changes default binding from 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1:8080 for 'cagent api', 'cagent a2a' and 'cagent mcp' commands
• Uses different default ports for better security
• Lists valid versions in unsupported config version error messages
• Adds the summary message as a user message during session compaction
• Propagates cleanup errors from fakeCleanup and recordCleanup functions
• Logs errors on log file close instead of discarding them

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.22.0 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1663
• Better default security for cagent api|mcp|a2a by @dgageot in #1657
• Fix tick leak by @rumpl in #1669
• Session store cleanup by @rumpl in #1668
• eval: add optional setup script support for eval sessions by @dgageot in #1673
• Fix Agents.UnmarshalYAML to reject unknown fields by @simonferquel in #1684
• Remove redundant stdin nil check in api command by @dgageot in #1688
• Close the session by @dgageot in #1686
• Fix A2A agent card advertising unroutable wildcard address by @dgageot in #1685
• Return error response for unknown tool calls instead of silently skipping by @dgageot in #1689
• Make /compact non-blocking with spinner feedback by @dgageot in #1687
• fix: show correct tool count in TUI when running in --remote mode by @dgageot in #1648
• Add documentation gh-pages by @dgageot in #1692
• Add the summary message as a user message by @rumpl in #1693
• Add more documentation by @dgageot in #1694
• Fix MCP tool calls with gpt 5.2 by @dgageot in #1696
• Fix issues found by the review agent by @dgageot in #1699
• Bump direct Go dependencies by @dgageot in #1703
• List valid versions in unsupported config version error by @dgageot in #1700
• Improve the Planner by @dgageot in #1705
• Improve error handling and logging in evaluation judge by @dgageot in #1706
• Persist tool call error state in session messages by @trungutt in #1711
• Bump Go to 1.26.0 by @dgageot in #1697

Full Changelog: v1.22.0...v1.23.0

This release enhances the chat experience with history search functionality and improves file attachment handling, along with multi-turn conversation support for command-line operations.

What's New

• Adds Ctrl+R reverse history search to the chat editor for quickly finding previous conversations
• Adds support for multi-turn conversations in cagent exec, cagent run, and cagent eval commands
• Adds support for queueing multiple messages with cagent run question1 question2 ...

Improvements

• Improves file attachment handling by inlining text-based files and fixing placeholder stripping
• Refactors scrollbar into a reusable scrollview component for more consistent scrolling behavior across the interface

Bug Fixes

• Fixes pasted attachments functionality
• Fixes persistence of multi_content for user messages to ensure attachment data is properly saved
• Fixes session browser shortcuts (star, filter, copy-id) to use Ctrl modifier, preventing conflicts with search input
• Fixes title generation spinner that could spin forever
• Fixes scrollview height issues when used with dialogs
• Fixes double @@ symbols when using file picker for @ attachments

Technical Changes

• Updates OpenAI schema format handling to improve compatibility

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.21.0 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1649
• better file attachments by @krissetto in #1640
• OpenAI doesn't like those format indications on the schema by @dgageot in #1650
• feat: add Ctrl+R reverse history search by @Mostamhd in #1630
• Prevent title generation spinner to spin forever by @dgageot in #1645
• Refactor scrollbar into more reusable scrollview component by @krissetto in #1654
• fix scrollview using too much height with dialogs by @krissetto in #1660
• Fix: persist multi_content for user messages by @trungutt in #1652
• fix: use ctrl modifier for session browser shortcuts to avoid search conflict by @dgageot in #1656
• Fix pasted attachments by @krissetto in #1659
• deleting version 2 so i can use permissions by @derekmisler in #1661
• Multi turn (cagent exec|run|eval) by @dgageot in #1662

Full Changelog: v1.21.0...v1.22.0

This release adds a new generalist coding agent, improves agent configuration handling, and includes several bug fixes and UI improvements.

What's New

• Adds a generalist coding agent for enhanced coding assistance
• Adds OCI artifact wrapper for spec-compliant manifest with artifactType

Improvements

• Supports recursive ~/.agents/skills directory structure
• Wraps todo descriptions at word boundaries in sidebar for better display
• Preserves 429 error details on OpenAI for better error handling

Bug Fixes

• Fixes subagent delegation and validates model outputs when transfer_task is called
• Fixes YAML parsing issue with unquoted strings containing special characters like colons

Technical Changes

• Freezes config version v4 and bumps to v5

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.20.6 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1634
• Support recursive ~/.agents/skills by @dgageot in #1631
• Help fix #1419 by @dgageot in #1632
• Fix subagent logic by @krissetto in #1637
• Add OCI artifact wrapper for spec-compliant manifest with artifactType by @dgageot in #1633
• unquoted strings are fine until they contain special characters like : by @derekmisler in #1641
• Wrap todo descriptions at word boundaries in sidebar by @rumpl in #1643
• Preserve 429 error details on OpenAI by @dgageot in #1647
• Freeze v4 and bump config version to v5 by @dgageot in #1635
• Add a generalist coding agent by @dgageot in #1625
• Bump Go dependencies by @dgageot in #1646

Full Changelog: v1.20.6...v1.21.0

This release introduces branching sessions, model fallbacks, and automated code quality scanning, along with performance improvements and enhanced file handling capabilities.

What's New

• Adds branching sessions feature that allows editing previous messages to create new session branches without losing original conversation history
• Adds automated nightly codebase scanner with multi-agent architecture for detecting code quality issues and creating GitHub issues
• Adds model fallback system that automatically retries with alternative models when inference providers fail
• Adds skill invocation via slash commands for enhanced workflow automation
• Adds --prompt-file CLI flag for including file contents as system context
• Adds debug title command for troubleshooting session title generation

Improvements

• Improves @ attachment performance to prevent UI hanging in large or deeply nested directories
• Switches to Anthropic Files API for file uploads instead of embedding content directly, dramatically reducing token usage
• Enhances scanner resilience and adds persistent memory system for learning from previous runs

Bug Fixes

• Fixes tool calls score rendering in evaluations
• Fixes title generation for OpenAI and Gemini models
• Fixes GitHub Actions directory creation issues

Technical Changes

• Refactors to use cagent's built-in memory system and text format for sub-agent output
• Enables additional golangci-lint linters and fixes code quality issues
• Simplifies PR review workflow by adopting reusable workflow from cagent-action
• Updates Model Context Protocol SDK and other dependencies

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.20.5 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1610
• Only create a new modelstore if none is given by @rumpl in #1612
• Improve @ attachments perf by @krissetto in #1611
• [evals] Fix tool calls score rendering by @dgageot in #1613
• Added space between release links by @derekmisler in #1614
• Simplifies PR review workflow by adopting the new reusable workflow from cagent-action by @derekmisler in #1595
• Automated nightly codebase scanner by @derekmisler in #1573
• Model fallbacks by @krissetto in #1589
• Opus 4.6 by @dgageot in #1617
• Update Go deps by @dgageot in #1621
• Fix schema and add drift test by @dgageot in #1624
• Add debug title command for session title generation by @dgageot in #1622
• Add skill invocation via slash commands by @dgageot in #1623
• Enable more linters and fix existing issues by @dgageot in #1627
• Update Nightly Scan Workflow by @derekmisler in #1619
• feat: add --prompt-file CLI flag for including file contents as system context by @derekmisler in #1618
• /attach use file upload instead of embedding in the context by @jeanlaurent in #1620
• Branching sessions on message edit by @krissetto in #1578

Full Changelog: v1.20.5...v1.20.6

This release improves stability for non-interactive sessions, updates the default Anthropic model to Claude Sonnet 4.5, and adds support for private GitHub repositories and standard agent directories.

What's New

• Adds support for using agent YAML files from private GitHub repositories
• Adds support for standard .agents/skills directory structure
• Adds deepwiki integration to the librarian
• Adds timestamp tracking to runtime events
• Allows users to define their own default model in global configuration

Improvements

• Updates default Anthropic model to Claude Sonnet 4.5
• Adds reason explanations when relevance checks fail during evaluations
• Persists ACP sessions to default SQLite database unless specified with --session-db flag
• Makes aliased agent paths absolute for better path resolution
• Produces session database for evaluations to enable investigation of results

Bug Fixes

• Prevents panic when elicitation is requested in non-interactive sessions
• Fixes title generation hanging with Gemini 3 models by properly disabling thinking
• Fixes current agent display in TUI interface
• Prevents TUI dimensions from going negative when sidebar is collapsed
• Fixes flaky test issues

Technical Changes

• Simplifies ElicitationRequestEvent check to reduce code duplication
• Allows passing additional environment variables to Docker when running evaluations
• Passes LLM as judge on full transcript for better evaluation accuracy

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.20.4 by @docker-read-write[bot] in #1577
• Fix cagent eval metric by @dgageot in #1579
• Update default anthropic model to sonnet 4.5 by @krissetto in #1580
• Support aliases to urls by @dgageot in #1581
• Bump dependencies by @dgageot in #1582
• Produce a session db for the evals by @dgageot in #1583
• Allow passing more env to docker run when running evals by @dgageot in #1585
• Fix flaky test by @dgageot in #1587
• Include reason in relevance check failures by @dgageot in #1584
• 🫡 by @krissetto in #1588
• Don't go negative in tui dimensions in collapsed sidebar by @krissetto in #1598
• Put back the sessions json. It was useful after all by @dgageot in #1597
• Add a timestamp to runtime events by @dgageot in #1590
• Fix current agent in TUI by @dgageot in #1596
• Support using agent yamls from private github repos by @dgageot in #1594
• Fix cagent acp session persitence by @krissetto in #1601
• cli: prevent panic when elicitation is requested in non-interactive s… by @Pnkcaht in #1567
• make aliased agent paths absolute by @krissetto in #1607
• Add deepwiki to the librarian by @dgageot in #1608
• Pass LLM as a judge on the full transcript by @dgageot in #1605
• fix: prevent title generation from hanging with Gemini 3 models by @dgageot in #1602
• Support for the .agents/skills standard by @krissetto in #1609

Full Changelog: v1.20.4...v1.20.5