Beta v0.8.1

What's Changed

🚀 New Features

• Manual compaction that always runs and shows its summary in an Earlier context panel (309e171, 59b5fb5) — /compact (alias /summarize) now forces a summary even when the history still fits the retained tail, keeping only the latest user turn verbatim, and prints the result in a rounded Earlier context panel under the transcript. Set showCompactionSummary to false in config.json to hide it; automatic compaction keeps printing only Compacted context, and a session with nothing earlier prints Nothing earlier to compact.

• Sending the queued follow-up with an empty enter while a turn runs (e0a7575, fbcd82f) — pressing Enter on an empty composer now sends the queued follow-up immediately by interrupting the running turn or the in-progress compaction. Pressing empty Enter with nothing queued still does nothing.

• Host context for plugin tools (becce01) — operator plugins can implement IHostTool and IHostMultimodalTool so their tools receive the live session context, such as the workspace, on each call.

• A {{git_root}} prompt placeholder (99ac7ae) — prompt templates can use {{git_root}} to resolve the repository root when the workspace is inside a git repository, and the environment block prints Git root when one is set.

🐛 Fixes

• Correct provider usage, tool calls, and error bodies (ba9dfec) — Gemini now reports usage once from the cumulative totals when the response completes, Ollama holds tool calls until the finish reason confirms them so non-tool finishes no longer emit phantom calls, and OpenAI-compatible errors whose body is a plain string now surface that message.

• Plugin sessions that follow a replaced conversation or workspace (f1c34c1) — /clear, /fork, /resume, and a workspace change now end and reopen the plugin session around the switch, so hooks and plugin tools stay bound to the live conversation and workspace.

• Skill discovery order and frontmatter validation (9ce65ce) — project OpenCode skills now override home OpenCode skills, nested SKILL.md files below a skill directory are ignored in favor of the immediate file, and whitespace-only quoted names or descriptions are rejected.

• Compaction failure handling (3d7f097) — a summarizer exception is contained to the summary round and reported as exhausted instead of escaping, and an empty candidate list now yields no summary instead of a blank one.

• Unreadable instruction files during discovery (5cc8bcb) — instruction discovery now skips files it cannot open instead of failing the scan.

• Reserved prompt set handling (1b95a94) — a prompt set directory named default is now rejected as reserved with a clear note, and default is no longer accepted as a valid set name.

• Empty side-question announcement (0436137) — the /btw side-question view no longer announces an empty snapshot before content is available.

📝 Documentation

• README command-line, provider, and roadmap documentation (4162f5a) — the README now documents the crystal run, crystal space, crystal version, crystal plugins, and crystal tools commands, the built-in provider catalog, and a roadmap section.

• Anthropic provider setup documentation (e5cc53e) — the user guide now shows how to add a ~/.crystal/providers.json entry for Anthropic Messages (Claude) and set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.

• Installer alias and command section clarifications (3735744) — the README now explains the crystal alias on Linux and macOS versus CrystalCode on Windows, and separates everyday slash commands from shell commands.

• README badges, emoji headings, and terminal screenshot (326ee8f, d56fefa) — the README now shows status badges, emoji section headings, and a captured terminal session image.

• Deferred model-list fetching in the roadmap (f3650b3) — the README and user guide now list automatic provider model-list fetching as planned but not implemented, and the README screenshot moved below the navigation links.

Full Changelog: B0.8.0...B0.8.1