Seed Code CLI v6.2.5 — Release Notes

Seed Code CLI v6.2.5 — A faster, cleaner AI coding assistant for your terminal.

Version: 6.2.5 · Tag: v6.2.5

v6.2.5 is a UI, provider and distribution release. The startup screen lost its
ASCII logo (and gained a compact, structured header), tasks became
step-by-step, the built-in Default connection became a first-class provider
separate from OpenRouter and now ships with cohere/north-mini-code:free, and
installation moved to the official IRM installer system.

This pass also includes a distribution fix: the Windows installer's
SHA256SUMS.txt parser reported "No SHA256 checksum for …" for artifacts the
release did list. Both installers now parse the checksum file
whitespace-agnostically (one space, several spaces, tabs, CRLF, the *
binary-mode marker) and match the file name exactly — while still refusing to
install anything whose digest is missing or wrong.

Official installation

Windows:

irm https://seedcode-cli.vercel.app/install.ps1 | iex

Linux & Mac :

curl -fsSL https://seedcode-cli.vercel.app/install.sh | bash

Both installers download the official release artifact, verify its SHA256
against the release's SHA256SUMS.txt before installing, install per-user,
configure PATH, and finish by running seedcode --version. Verification is
mandatory: a missing checksum entry, a mismatching digest, or a host with no
SHA256 tool makes the installer stop instead of installing unverified code.

Release assets

Version 6.2.5, tag v6.2.5 —
https://github.com/Alshahriar-07/seedcode-cli/releases/tag/v6.2.5

Asset	Kind
`SeedCode-CLI-6.2.5-windows-x64.exe`	Standalone Windows executable (portable; downloaded by the Windows IRM installer)
`SeedCode-CLI-Setup-6.2.5.exe`	Windows setup installer (Inno Setup wizard, uninstaller, Start Menu entry)
`seedcode_cli-6.2.5-py3-none-any.whl`	Python wheel (downloaded by the Linux IRM installer when no prebuilt binary is published for the platform)
`seedcode-cli-6.2.5.tar.gz`	Python source distribution
`SHA256SUMS.txt`	SHA256 digest for every attached asset; verified by both installers

Artifact names are part of the release contract — the installers look each one
up by exact name in SHA256SUMS.txt, so they must not be renamed.

As published, the v6.2.5 release attaches only
SeedCode-CLI-6.2.5-windows-x64.exe, SeedCode-CLI-Setup-6.2.5.exe and
SHA256SUMS.txt — verified against the live release on 2026-09-21. The
release workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) is configured to attach the
wheel and sdist as well, so a release cut by the pipeline covers Linux; the
published one does not. Consequence: on Linux/macOS, install.sh finds no
verifiable platform artifact in that SHA256SUMS.txt and refuses (by design)
rather than installing unverified code.

Highlights

UI

The large ASCII logo is gone: seedcode.ui.logo was removed and nothing
renders block or box art at startup.

The startup screen is the restored structured dashboard — a bordered
reference panel with the branding cell, a divider and the live session
state — with one permanent change: the ASCII logo is gone. The brand is
plain text; nothing draws pixel or block art.

╭─ Seed Code CLI v6.2.5 ───────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                      │
│   Seed Code                                │ Seed Code  |  Eagox Studio
│   AI CODING AGENT                          │ Plant ideas. Grow code.
│                                            │
│                                            │ Provider   Default
│                                            │ Model      cohere/north-mini-code:free
│                                            │ Mode       Chat  •  ● Ready
│                                                                      │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

The header is responsive: 88-column design width on wide terminals, an info
section that slides left so the whole model value still fits (80 columns
shows cohere/north-mini-code:free in full), a compact one-row panel under
64 columns, plain lines under 40, and an all-ASCII rendering on consoles
that cannot draw or encode the glyphs.
Mode switches reprint the one-line session summary (provider · model · mode · status) instead of the whole dashboard.
The API Key row appears only for providers that require a key. Default and
Ollama never show one, and no key is ever displayed in full.

Task flow

Code Mode, Assist Mode and Agent Mode show a compact live task flow
(analyze → inspect → plan → implement → test → verify). The states
pending, running, completed, failed and skipped are driven by real
engine activity — a step the task did not perform reads skipped, and tests
are only marked done when a test command actually ran and exited 0.
A finished task prints a persistent summary (files changed, test result) and
then Ready for next task. — success, failure and Ctrl+C all return to the
prompt. Nothing in the task path can close the CLI.
Live command output is echoed compactly (first lines, then one elision
note); the model and the log file still receive the complete output.
Plain Chat Mode keeps its fast, clean spinner — no task view.

Default model

The Default provider now ships with cohere/north-mini-code:free
(seedcode.defaults.DEFAULT_MODEL), so a fresh install can work
immediately without choosing a model or entering a key.
The default is applied to Default's own config slot only; OpenRouter,
FreeModel, AeroLink and Ollama keep their own models, and switching
providers never copies one model onto another.

Providers

Default is a first-class provider: Seed Code's built-in connection, no
user API key, and the provider a fresh install starts on. It is separate
from OpenRouter in the picker, in config.json, in status, and in
credential handling.
Default resolves its own credential (own slot → embedded release credential →
OPENROUTER_API_KEY / SEEDCODE_DEFAULT_API_KEY) and never reads or writes
another provider's slot. The embedded credential is no longer copied into
OpenRouter's stored configuration.
Provider-specific API-key rules are enforced from one shared helper:
Default and Ollama require no key; OpenRouter, FreeModel Claude, FreeModel
Codex and AeroLink each require their own.
The provider picker groups choices by what they need (Built-in · no API key,
Your own API key, Local) and shows backend, current model and key state.
/status gained an API Key row and reads its backend label from the
provider.

Connectivity

Provider connection errors name the provider the user selected, not the
internal backend; a rejected built-in credential directs the user to
/provider rather than an inapplicable API-key prompt.
Terminal execution streams output live, captures stderr with stdout,
reports exit codes, bounds long-running commands, and kills the whole
process tree on timeout or Ctrl+C. A command that closes its output pipe
while still running can no longer block the UI loop.
A provider × mode matrix test covers every provider in Chat, Assist and Code
Mode, and asserts that an unreachable catalogue or unknown provider produces
a clear message instead of a crash.

Distribution

IRM_INSTALL/{install.ps1,install.sh,RELEASE_INFO.txt} is the official
remote-installer source. Neither script depends on a cloned repository.
The GitHub release workflow now attaches exactly the artifact names the
installers download, plus a SHA256SUMS.txt covering every attached asset,
and fails loudly on a version mismatch.
Stale v6.2.0 release artifacts, the old v6.2.0 WinGet manifests and untracked
build output were removed from the repository.

Verification performed

Full test suite: 773 tests passing (python -m pytest), including new
suites for the logo-free header (tests/test_dashboard.py), the task flow
(tests/test_task_flow.py), installer checksum parsing
(tests/test_installer_checksums.py), the provider × mode matrix
(tests/test_provider_matrix.py), Default/OpenRouter isolation, and
terminal streaming/stderr/exit-code behaviour.
seedcode --version prints Seed Code CLI 6.2.5.
IRM_INSTALL/install.sh passes bash -n and its argument validation paths
were exercised (--help, unknown option, malformed version).
IRM_INSTALL/install.ps1 parses cleanly under the Windows PowerShell
parser, and its checksum-matching, architecture detection and install-path
resolution were exercised directly. Both scripts are ASCII-only so Windows
PowerShell 5.1 cannot misread them as ANSI.
Both checksum parsers were executed against the real release formats and
adversarial ones (one space, two spaces, tabs, CRLF, surrounding
whitespace, * binary-mode marker, uppercase digest, truncated/non-hex
digests, comment headers, absent entry, prefix/suffix look-alikes). A
correct digest verifies; a wrong digest, a missing entry and a host with no
SHA256 tool all refuse with a non-zero exit.
The startup dashboard and the task flow were rendered directly at 40, 64,
80, 88 and 120 columns and on a legacy (raster-font) console; no line
overflows its terminal and the border never breaks.
The installers' version constants are asserted equal to
seedcode.__version__, so the release version cannot drift.

Known limitations

Compiled artifacts (SeedCode-CLI-Setup-6.2.5.exe,
SeedCode-CLI-6.2.5-windows-x64.exe, wheel/sdist) are produced by the
release pipeline (scripts\windows\build.bat and python -m build). This
working copy contains no compiled binaries; the previously present ones were
stale v6.2.0/6.1.5 builds and were removed rather than shipped.
Live provider calls (chat, /doctor connectivity) were not exercised
against the network here; the HTTP and provider layers are covered by
offline unit tests instead.
The Windows installer and the Vercel delivery of the installers were not
executed in this environment (no Inno Setup toolchain, no deployment
credentials).
The production installers at https://seedcode-cli.vercel.app are stale.
At the time of writing, GET /install.sh and GET /install.ps1 still serve
the pre-fix sources (the Linux script still bypasses verification when no
SHA256 tool is found, and still selects the release asset with a substring
match). The fixed sources live in IRM_INSTALL/; the Vercel deployment must
be re-deployed from them before the published one-liners pick up the fix.
No end-to-end production install was performed.

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