v0.25.0 — GPT-6 Astra and Adaptive Work

v0.25.0 — GPT-6 Astra and Adaptive Work

Forge v0.25.0 adds GPT-6 Astra as a new Codex family, introduces an Adaptive work posture and specialist Rosters, brings PDF previews into the artifact panel, and expands Source Control and Bitwarden workflows. It also tightens Secure Sessions behavior and removes retired GPT-5.4 and Grok-era selections.

Highlights

• GPT-6 Astra. The new pi-6 family is available for managers, compaction, specialists, and worker spawns, with low, medium, high, xhigh, and max reasoning. High is the family default; GPT-5.5 remains Forge’s global default. Astra has a 1.05M-token context window and 128k maximum output.
• Adaptive work and Rosters. Adaptive joins Delegate first and Hands-on, choosing direct work or delegation outcome by outcome. Specialist configuration is now presented consistently as Rosters, including project and session selection and the built-in roster-management skill.
• PDF artifacts in context. Assistant-presented local PDFs can open directly in the artifact panel with page navigation, zoom, fit, and reload controls. Preview reads use one-use authorization tickets and are capped at 16 MiB. Forge Desktop can also open the PDF in the operating system’s default app.
• Publish a local branch. Source Control now offers Publish Branch when the current branch has no upstream. Forge fetches origin, refuses to overwrite a remote branch that has commits missing locally, pushes without force, and sets origin/<branch> as the upstream.
• Create Bitwarden Logins from private entry. A saved private value can be written directly to a selected Bitwarden Password Manager collection as a Login item. The entry flow supports username metadata plus cryptographically generated passwords and passphrases. Configured locked vaults can prompt for unlock at launch or when Team Secure Mode needs them.
• SuperGrok usage in the sidebar. A stored xAI OAuth credential can populate a weekly-only xAI credits gauge with reset timing. API-key-only and environment-only xAI setups do not provide this gauge, and transient polling failures retain the last good reading.

Security and reliability

• Structurally valid multiline OpenSSH private keys with CRLF or CR line endings are normalized only in the copy passed to ssh-add; saved bytes and non-matching material remain unchanged.
• Matching manual approvals and automatic project grants reuse an equivalent active lease instead of creating duplicate leases or false conflicts.
• State-changing secret-settings requests now require an authorized secure-control path.
• Claude OAuth compatibility now advertises client version 2.1.259 instead of 2.1.75.
• Opening a local PDF in the default app now returns a structured failure if the file disappears or becomes unreadable during header inspection, instead of rejecting the IPC call.
• Publishing a local branch still reports success when the remote branch is created even if local upstream tracking cannot be set. Forge keeps origin/<branch> as the published destination and surfaces the tracking failure as a warning.
• Work Graph cards now remain opaque so connector lines stay behind them.

Migrations and compatibility

• GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 Mini, Grok 4, Grok 4 Fast, and the retired Grok 4.20 variants are no longer offered. Persisted legacy selections load through current replacements: GPT-5.5 for retired GPT models and the current pi-grok default for retired native Grok models.
• Existing roster IDs and saved roster settings remain compatible; Rosters replaces the former “delegation preset” product language rather than introducing a second configuration system.
• The installed Pi catalog does not yet include GPT-6 Astra. Forge projects the official model ID from its checked-in catalog, and actual availability still depends on OpenAI enabling Astra for the account.
• The xAI gauge has no session window or historical pace curve. PDF previews remain bounded to 16 MiB, and opening a local PDF in the default app is a Forge Desktop capability.

Attribution

• All changes in this release are by a-mart.
• Multiline OpenSSH private-key support: a-mart, PR #7.