v0.3.1

Added

• Background shells. The bash tool can now start long-lived commands such
  as dev servers with run_in_background: true. Background processes stay alive
  across agent turns, retain combined stdout/stderr and exit status for polling
  through bash_output, and can be stopped with bash_kill. Any remaining
  process group is terminated when the session closes.

v0.3.0

Added

• Interactive checkpointing. Claude Code sessions can now be checkpointed
  and reseeded, letting you roll a conversation back to an earlier point and
  continue from there.
• AskUserQuestion alias. The Claude Code loop recognizes the SDK's
  AskUserQuestion tool, and the TUI now requires a double Esc to dismiss a
  prompt so a question is never closed by accident.
• File-edit previews for SDK tools. Write/Edit/MultiEdit executed by
  the Claude Agent SDK now produce a unified diff — reconstructed by snapshotting
  the file before the write and diffing against disk — so the front-ends can
  preview those changes just like canarycode's own edit tools.

Fixed

• Native CLI binary resolution under compiled installs. The Claude Agent
  SDK's native claude binary is now resolved from canarycode's own module
  graph and passed explicitly, fixing "Native CLI binary for
  <platform>-<arch> not found" when running as a compiled/standalone
  binary or after an --omit=optional install.

v0.2.0

Added

• Claude Code provider. canarycode can now drive Anthropic's Claude Code
  through the Claude Agent SDK, so a Claude subscription (not just a raw API
  key) can power the agent loop. Select it like any other provider; see the
  README's provider section for setup.
• Provider-factory seam. Providers are now constructed through a single
  factory, making it straightforward to add new backends (Claude Code is the
  first to use it) without touching the core loop.
• Provider-qualified model IDs. Model identifiers can be qualified by
  provider (e.g. anthropic/…); the selected model is resolved and persisted
  so it survives across sessions.
• Ctrl+G opens your $EDITOR. A new external-editor action drops the
  current prompt into your configured editor and reads it back on save, with a
  matching footer chip advertising the shortcut.

Fixed

• Clipboard copy now works over SSH. Copy actions fall back to an OSC 52
  escape sequence, so copying from a remote canarycode session lands text on
  your local clipboard.

v0.1.2

Fixed

• install.sh aborted with a 403 when resolving the latest release. The
  installer looked up the newest tag through the api.github.com REST endpoint,
  which is rate-limited to 60 requests/hour per IP and returns HTTP 403 once
  exhausted — leaving a fresh curl … | sh to fail with "could not resolve the
  latest release tag". It now resolves the tag from the un-rate-limited
  github.com/…/releases/latest redirect, with the REST API kept as a fallback.
• Fresh-install "no API key" error now says where to put the key. Running
  canarycode with no key configured printed a bare "anthropic provider requires
  an apiKey" with no next step. The message now spells out both options — the
  recommended CanaryLLM path (CANARYLLM_API_KEY=clk…) and raw Anthropic
  (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) — and points at ~/.canarycode/config.json. The README
  gains a matching "First run" section.

v0.1.1

Fixed

• Nix flake installed a corrupted binary. The flake's package (used by
  nix run and the Home Manager module) ran the prebuilt release binary through
  autoPatchelfHook and stdenv's default strip. The release binary is a Bun
  single-file executable — the app is an appended payload Bun locates via a
  baked-in byte offset — so rewriting it shifted that payload and the binary
  degraded to the bare Bun CLI (canarycode just printed the Bun version). The
  flake now installs the binary byte-for-byte unmodified and runs it inside an
  FHS env on Linux. The install.sh and GitHub-release binaries were never
  affected — only the Nix install path was. The release workflow also now pins
  Bun for reproducible builds. No source changes.

v0.1.0

First public release.

Highlights

• Interactive TUI built on OpenTUI + React: scrollable transcript with
  mouse support, text selection, keyboard navigation mode, copy commands,
  themed cards, markdown rendering with syntax highlighting, and a help
  overlay.
• Headless print mode (canarycode -p "<prompt>") for scripting, with --json
  JSONL event streaming and stdin folded into the prompt as context.
• Providers: Anthropic-compatible and OpenAI-compatible APIs, CanaryLLM,
  OpenAI Codex (ChatGPT subscription) login, and OpenCode Zen models.
• Modes: read-only plan mode, autonomous auto mode, and extended thinking
  levels (/think off|think|think-hard|ultrathink).
• Extensions: web search, skills, custom agents and sub-agents, MCP
  servers, lifecycle hooks, a permission engine with an optional AI safety
  checker, and user extensions loaded from ~/.canarycode/extensions/.
• Sessions: SQLite-backed persistence with --resume/--continue, an
  interactive session picker, and mid-turn input queueing.
• Project context: CANARYCODE.md/AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files are prepended to
  the system prompt; /init generates a starter file.
• Self-update: canarycode update / /update downloads, checksum-verifies, and
  atomically swaps the release binary; a background check surfaces new
  versions at startup, and /changelog shows what changed.
• Install anywhere: install.sh for prebuilt binaries, or Nix flake with
  a Home Manager module.