CLI Assistant 2.5.9

CLI Assistant 2.5.9

Fixes the Assistant (the built-in AI chat, renamed from “Neural Link”) becoming slow/unresponsive when set to Codex — it no longer hangs on Codex’s folder-trust prompt; it now runs Codex read-only from a trusted working directory.

Previous release notes:

The Assistant now works with more than just Claude. In Settings → Assistant, pick which AI CLI powers it — Claude Code, Codex (OpenAI), or GitHub Copilot — and choose the model. Claude Code stays the default. The app was also broadened throughout to reflect that CLI Assistant is a companion for your AI coding CLIs, not just one, and the sidebar now reads “Powered by KVRNL.”

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New name — Claude Assist is now CLI Assistant. Same app, same features; the name just reflects what it really is: a companion for your AI coding CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and more), not just one of them.

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Swapped the lightning-bolt icon for a brain icon everywhere it appeared (Neural Link button, dashboard, popups, About) — a better fit for the assistant.

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Neural Link now just files a bug report when you ask — no more arguing, stalling, or making you repeat yourself. It composes the report from the conversation and sends it immediately. It also no longer makes up an 'effort level' when asked about its settings.

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Neural Link now thinks harder and digs deeper: a bigger step budget lets it chain more file reads, searches, and kvrnl.io lookups in one answer, and its instructions now push it to reason carefully and verify before responding — for smarter, more thorough help.

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Hotfix: fixed a bug introduced in 2.5.2 that made Neural Link reply with an error/garbled text to every message. Chat works normally again.

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Neural Link upgrades: it can now look things up on kvrnl.io (latest version, changelog, docs, account help), file a bug report to the KVRNL team for you (with an ATTACH button to include a screenshot), and there's a new AUTO-SCROLL toggle in its header to turn chat auto-scrolling on or off.

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Tidied up the Neural Link header bar — removed the lightning-bolt icon, the memory counter, and the model badge for a cleaner look.

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Neural Link is now more powerful: it can read and search your files and projects (read-only) to answer questions, explain code, and help you find things — running on your own Claude Code CLI. It stays strictly read-only: it can never write, edit, delete, run commands, or go online. For actual changes, start a real Claude Code session.

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Neural Link's memory is now hardened to survive restarts, crashes, and app updates: it lives in a dedicated folder outside the install location (so updates never touch it), saves are crash-safe, and it keeps a backup copy that auto-restores the memory if the main file is ever corrupted.

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Fixed a bug where Neural Link could mistake the maker's name (KVRNL) for the user's own identity and greet people as KVRNL. Neural Link now never treats the app's maker as the user, and any profile that was already affected is cleaned up automatically on next launch.

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Clicking a sidebar section now auto-collapses the Neural Link panel to its header bar, so switching tabs tucks the assistant out of the way (one click on its header reopens it).

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Neural Link is now a proper in-app assistant: it knows how to explain every feature of CLI Assistant and walk you through using it, remembers who you are between chats, and keeps a small optional profile (name, business, email, role, what you're working on) — it'll ask for those gradually and use them to personalize help. All optional, never pushy.

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Neural Link now has its own private home folder (C:\CLIAssistant\NeuralLink). Its chat sessions run there — fully isolated from your real project folders — and its memory lives there so it stays separate and secluded while still remembering you.

• The Agent Hub has been fully removed from CLI Assistant (it's now its own separate app).
• Removed the leftover Codex CLI integration and the Codex line on the About screen; the app no longer looks for or connects to Codex at all.

Previous release notes:

Neural Link runs exclusively on Claude Sonnet 5 — one fast, capable model, no picker.

Neural Link privacy + memory fixes:

• Neural Link no longer opens inside your most recent project folder. It had been auto-attaching to your last-used project (with read access to its files) — it now has NO access to your files or folders at all and is purely a chat + session-recall assistant. If you want it to read or change code, start a real Claude Code session.
• Neural Link now actually remembers who you are — it learns and saves your name/details, and the memory counter updates as it learns.

Also includes the 2.3.1 update-button hotfix and the full 2.3.0 bug-sweep release below.

• Fixed a licensing check that could lock everyone out if our server had an outage (the app now correctly falls back to the 14-day offline grace).
• Voice notifications (read aloud) now actually work.
• Backup fixes: retention cleanup could delete backups belonging to a similarly named folder; failed backups no longer leave half-written archives; deleting a backup now asks for confirmation.
• Quitting the app no longer leaves a hidden background process running.
• Popup answers can no longer get mixed up between multiple Claude Code sessions.
• The Claude Code integration no longer crashes on emoji or special characters.
• Popups now position correctly on multi-monitor setups.
• Your notes, tasks, timeline and settings files are now crash-proof (atomic saves) and survive corruption instead of being silently wiped.
• Crash/support reporting now routes through the KVRNL backend instead of a hardcoded endpoint (more secure, rotatable server-side).
• Removed leftover Discord Rich Presence code from an older version.
• Dozens of smaller crash fixes and edge-case guards throughout.