v0.4.1

Patch Changes

• 5ffa10b: Re-inject the current todo list after each tool round so the model's plan stays in context during long turns. Only fires when the list has unfinished items and has changed since the last round.

v0.4.0

Minor Changes

• aa2645e: Harness reliability: read-before-write safety and transient-failure recovery

  • Session-scoped file-state ledger: edits now require the file to have been read first and reject when it changed on disk since that read (read-before-write + staleness guard), seeded from the transcript so it survives a resume.
  • Edit tools collapse identical safe reads within a round and stop looping on repeated identical calls sooner (loop-guard threshold lowered).
  • Streaming recovery: transient stream failures and empty responses are retried with bounded exponential backoff (honoring Retry-After); a cancel during backoff no longer triggers an extra model call.
  • An invalid tool call no longer ends the turn — the model is given the error and a chance to self-correct.
  • A file edit diff is shown only once the edit actually applies; failed or rejected edits no longer render a misleading diff.

v0.3.1

Patch Changes

• a2679c6: Fix the /exit command freezing the terminal in packaged builds. Process cleanup used spawnSync(process.execPath, ["-e", ...]) as a sleep, but in a compiled standalone binary process.execPath is the CLI itself, so it relaunched the TUI and blocked forever. Replaced it with an in-process sleep and made exit terminate the process explicitly.

v0.3.0

Minor Changes

• 9531729: Add automatic skill discovery, hot-reload, and path-scoped skills so installed skills surface and get loaded without having to be named explicitly.

  Added

  • Skill auto-discovery. Each turn a cheap side-query compares your request against the installed skills, surfaces the relevant ones, and directs the model to load them via the Skill tool before responding. Surfaced skills appear as a visible ↳ Relevant skills: … line in the chat. Controlled by the skills.autoDiscover setting (on by default).
  • Skill hot-reload. A file watcher picks up added, edited, or removed SKILL.md files mid-session, so changes take effect without restarting. Controlled by the skills.hotReload setting (on by default).
  • Path-scoped (conditional) skills. A skill with a paths frontmatter glob is kept out of the always-on skill list and surfaces only when you edit a file matching its globs.

  Changed

  • The skill index injected into the system prompt is now size-bounded: descriptions are truncated to fit the budget and, in the extreme, the listing falls back to names only — but every skill name is always shown, so no installed skill becomes undiscoverable.

v0.2.1

Patch Changes

• b529674:

Added

Memory follow-ups: feed recent tool usage into the recall selector as an extra relevance signal, frame extraction's "new messages" window from a per-session cursor (so durable facts mentioned during gate-skipped turns are still reconsidered), and drain any in-flight memory extraction on /exit (bounded) so a save isn't dropped at shutdown.

Fixed

Tab mode cycle so it reaches AUTO: previously Tab only toggled between BUILD and PLAN, making AUTO selectable solely via the /agents dialog. Tab now cycles BUILD → PLAN → AUTO → BUILD.

Removed

Drop two unused dependencies from @knightcodeai/cli: pretty-ms (never imported) and hono (the toast provider's useMemo now imports from react instead of hono/jsx).

• 23a8811: Refresh the supported model catalog: add newer free and paid OpenRouter models, repoint aliases to their successors, change the default model, and drop discontinued entries.

  Added

  Refresh the supported model catalog with new OpenRouter models: nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free (Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B), nex-agi/nex-n2-pro:free (Nex N2 Pro), qwen/qwen3.7-plus (Qwen3.7 Plus), z-ai/glm-5.2 (GLM 5.2), and moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code (Kimi K2.7 Code). New qwen and nex model aliases accompany them.

  Changed

  Default model is now nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free (was z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free). The glm, kimi, and nemotron aliases were repointed to their successor models (z-ai/glm-5.2, moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code, nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free), and the onboarding shortlist was updated to match the new catalog.

  Removed

  Drop discontinued/older version models: z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:free, z-ai/glm-5.1, moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, and nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free, along with their glm_air and deepseek aliases.

• b529674: ### Added

  Accurate per-session cost: enable OpenRouter usage accounting (usage.include) so each request returns its actual cost. The in-app /cost "Session cost" now sums real costs (correct for free/cached/uncurated models) and only falls back to the local price table when a message has no reported cost.

  Session grouping on OpenRouter: send the session id as the x-session-id header so a session's requests are grouped in OpenRouter's logs (Sessions tab) and routed stickily to the same provider for better prompt-cache hits. Requests are also tagged with the session id via the user field for per-request "Client User ID" attribution.

  Changed

  OpenRouter app attribution: HTTP-Referer → https://knightcode.raghavseth.in and X-Title → KnightCode (was "KnightCode CLI").

v0.2.0

Minor Changes

• f2846df: Standalone query engine, concurrent tool scheduler, and Apache-2.0 licensing.

  This release replaces the React useChat-based chat harness with a dedicated,
  framework-agnostic query engine, adds a concurrency-aware tool scheduler, and
  hardens the interactive terminal experience. The project is now formally
  licensed under Apache-2.0.

  Added

  • Standalone query engine. A new engine loop drives a turn end-to-end,
    independent of the React render tree (lib/engine/). It owns engine event and
    params types, a transcript-repair pass that resolves dangling/unresolved tool
    calls, and tool-gating decisions backed by a loop guard to prevent runaway
    tool cycles.
  • useQueryEngine hook. A thin React hook that drives the engine loop and
    replaces the previous useChat harness entirely.
  • Concurrency-aware tool scheduler. Engine-owned scheduling policy runs tool
    rounds with bounded concurrency. Introduces an engine ToolHost contract and a
    hook adapter so the engine can execute tools without depending on the UI layer.
  • Cross-session project memory. Durable, non-obvious facts are extracted
    automatically after completed turns into a per-project store
    (~/.knightcode/projects/<cwd>/memory/) with a MEMORY.md recall index.
    Relevant memories are recalled into the system prompt, a consolidation
    ("dream") pass merges and prunes the store, and a Memory tool lets the model
    review, correct, or forget entries.
  • Per-row tool spinners. Concurrently running tools each get their own inline
    spinner instead of a single shared indicator.
  • @-mention path expansion. Paths referenced with @ in a prompt are
    expanded into the model's context at submit time.
  • PostToolUse systemMessage surfacing. Messages emitted by PostToolUse
    hooks are now surfaced to callers.
  • Apache-2.0 license. Added root LICENSE and NOTICE files and license
    fields in the workspace and CLI package.json.

  Changed

  • Extracted compactHistory out of the old use-chat module and moved chat
    message types into lib/engine/messages.
  • Exposed a hook-free executeRegisteredTool for engine use.
  • Unified all interactive prompts onto a single shared permission panel.
  • Dropped the unused sessionId from QueryParams.
  • Pointed repository URLs at the KnightCodeAI org and scoped the publish
    workflow to publishable paths.

  Fixed

  • Quit behaviour: /exit is now the only way to quit; Ctrl+C never exits.
  • Permissions: every confirm-gated tool now shows a permission prompt, and
    every awaited tool decision is guaranteed a resolvable prompt; scoped the
    always-allow sweep correctly.
  • Markdown rendering: convert <br> to real line breaks in prose, expand
    <br> table cells into continuation rows, and stop rendering literal <br>
    tags.
  • Interrupts: render the interrupted marker after the partial response, with
    a plain interrupted notice (no emoji or completion verb); render interrupted
    aborts and surface queued mid-turn submits.
  • History integrity: stop schema-validating history and instead quarantine
    invalid tool calls.
  • State sync: synchronize message-ref writes, guard submit re-entry, persist
    the final turn snapshot, queue mid-turn submits, clear finished todos, and only
    clear the compacting state when it was actually set.
  • Hardened file reads, question cancellation, and transcript text handling, plus
    a sweep of code-review findings across the engine and UI.

v0.1.0

Minor Changes

• 13af3df: Initial public release: knightcode ships as a self-contained compiled binary
  (no Bun required) distributed via platform-specific npm packages, with a headless
  --version and doctor, embedded database migrations, and a non-blocking update
  check.