Release v0.2.0 · RikyZ90/ShibaClaw

[0.2.0] - 2026-05-02

Change models per session — no more single global model, but a flexible choice for every conversation.

Multi-Provider Search: Search through all models from all your configured providers (OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, etc.) in a single dropdown.
Session-Aware Routing: Each session remembers its chosen model. You can have a coding session with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and a research session with Gemma 4 simultaneously.
Runtime Switching: Switch models instantly without restarting the agent; the gateway automatically resolves the correct endpoint based on the selected model.
Dedicated Memory Model: Configure a separate model and provider specifically for memory consolidation and proactive learning, ensuring high-quality state extraction without affecting your chat budget.
Default-First: New sessions automatically start with the default model set in settings, ensuring immediate consistency.

Cross-provider model catalog — The WebUI now aggregates models from all configured providers into a single searchable catalog. Chat and settings both consume normalized model entries with canonical IDs and provider labels, so switching models no longer depends on a single provider-scoped dropdown.
Per-session model selection — Every session can now store and use its own model independently. The chat footer includes a searchable model picker, making it practical to keep different sessions on different providers or reasoning tiers at the same time.
OpenRouter OAuth in the WebUI — Added a browser PKCE flow for OpenRouter directly in Settings. On successful login, the returned API key is saved into the provider configuration automatically.

Dynamic Settings Hot-Reload — Saving settings in the WebUI no longer restarts the gateway process. The agent, channels, and heartbeat service are updated in-place via a new POST /reload endpoint on the gateway. Provider, model, tool configurations, MCP servers (lazy reconnect), and individual channels all hot-swap without interrupting active WebSocket connections or ongoing tasks. A full restart is still triggered automatically only when gateway.host, gateway.port, or gateway.ws_port change.
Model-first routing — Runtime provider resolution is now driven by the selected model instead of a static global provider assumption. Canonical model IDs such as openrouter/... or anthropic/... are normalized before dispatch so the gateway reaches the correct backend endpoint.
Settings UX refresh — The Agent tab is now centered on model choice: default model for new sessions, memory / consolidation model picker, and reusable searchable model menus. The old provider selector was removed from the Agent tab, and OAuth was moved directly below Providers in the settings sidebar.
Provider visibility in model search — Chat and settings model pickers now show provider labels alongside model names, making mixed catalogs usable even when multiple providers expose similarly named models.

Custom Provider support — The custom provider now correctly strips the custom/ prefix before making requests and implements get_available_models(), enabling full integration with localized REST endpoints.
URL sanitization for providers — Automatic stripping of trailing whitespaces and tabs in api_base properties, preventing invalid ASCII byte exceptions during chat fetches and model discovery.
Reasoning-only response visibility — Chat responses consisting solely of reasoning blocks (e.g. some LM Studio or DeepSeek scenarios) without standard content are now safely rendered as Process Group bubbles in the WebUI.
GitHub Copilot model discovery — Copilot now refreshes its short-lived session token before listing available models, fixing malformed authorization failures during catalog fetches.
Session override provider mismatches — Session-level model overrides now ignore a forced global provider when the chosen model clearly belongs to another backend, ensuring the gateway actually switches provider at runtime.
WebUI / gateway session desync — Session caches now reload when the underlying JSONL file changes on disk, preventing stale in-memory metadata from overriding model changes saved by the WebUI.
Model dropdown transparency — The chat model dropdown and search input now use solid theme-backed colors instead of undefined CSS variables, eliminating transparent or unreadable menus.