v0.17.0 Release Tracker — Agent UI Desktop App

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Overview

Ship GAIA as a usable desktop application. A user discovers GAIA via a website, installs with one click, and uses the Agent UI for chat, document Q&A, and file system navigation.

Intelligent onboarding, Agent Hub, and model upgrades follow in v0.18.0.

Status Summary

Status	Count
✅ Completed in v0.17.0	9
➡️ Deferred to v0.17.1	7
➡️ Deferred to v0.18.0+	4

Workstreams

🖥️ Workstream 1: Agent UI (P0)

• Agent UI: Ship Desktop Chat Application #501 — Agent UI: Ship Desktop Chat Application (PR Add GAIA Chat UI: privacy-first desktop chat with document Q&A #428)
• Tool execution guardrails: confirmation popup before dangerous commands #438 — Tool execution guardrails: confirmation popup before dangerous commands
• Cooperative execution cancellation from Chat UI #439 — Cooperative execution cancellation from Chat UI → deferred to v0.17.1
• Agent capabilities discovery API for Chat UI #440 — Agent capabilities discovery API for Chat UI → deferred to v0.23.0
• Stream tool arguments to frontend (command preview in agent activity) #441 — Stream tool arguments to frontend (command preview) → deferred to v0.17.1
• Windows and cross-platform shell compatibility for agent tools #442 — Windows and cross-platform shell compatibility for agent tools → deferred to v0.17.1

🗂️ Workstream 2: File System & Document Processing (P0)

• File System Agent: Navigation, Browsing & Scratchpad Tools #502 — File System Agent: Navigation, Browsing & Scratchpad Tools (PR Enhance ChatAgent with file navigation, web browsing, scratchpad tools, and write security guardrails #495) → deferred to v0.17.1
• Harden Document Processing Pipeline — P0 Security & Robustness #503 — Harden Document Processing Pipeline (P0 Security & Robustness) → deferred to v0.17.1
• Fix pickle deserialization vulnerability in RAG cache #447 — Fix pickle deserialization vulnerability in RAG cache → deferred to v0.17.1
• Fix TOCTOU race condition in document upload endpoint #448 — Fix TOCTOU race condition in document upload endpoint
• Fix LRU eviction silent failure allowing unbounded memory growth #449 — Fix LRU eviction silent failure allowing unbounded memory growth

🌐 Workstream 3: Website & Distribution (P1)

• GAIA Website #169 — GAIA Website (PR Add GAIA website #369) → deferred to v0.18.0
• Cross-Platform One-Click Installer #505 — Cross-Platform One-Click Installer
• Bundle Lemonade with GAIA Installer #506 — Bundle Lemonade with GAIA Installer
• Fix installer BOM and logger permissions #341 — Fix installer BOM and logger permissions (PR Fix installer BOM and logger permissions #341) → deferred to v0.18.0

🔧 Workstream 4: CLI & Infrastructure (P1)

• Improve CLI output #290 — Improve CLI output (PR Add MinimalConsole for cleaner CLI output #494) → deferred to v0.18.0
• MCP client: fix config stacking and tool display naming #475 — MCP client: fix config stacking and tool display naming (PR Fix MCP config stacking and tool display naming #477)
• ⚠️ Release notes generation failed for v0.16.0 #446 — Fix release notes generation

📝 Workstream 5: Documentation & Testing (P1)

• Documentation for Agent UI and File System Agent features #514 — Documentation for Agent UI and File System Agent features
• v0.17.0 Pre-Release Testing: Agent UI & Installer across platforms #515 — Pre-release testing: Agent UI & Installer across platforms → deferred to v0.17.1

Deferred Items

The following items were scoped for v0.17.0 but have been deferred to later releases:

v0.17.1 (7 issues): #439, #441, #442, #502, #503, #447, #515
v0.18.0 (3 issues): #169, #290, #341
v0.23.0 (1 issue): #440

Success Criteria

• User can discover GAIA via website and download installer (website deferred to v0.18.0; installer shipped)
• One-click install launches Agent UI with no terminal required
• File system navigation, web browsing, and document Q&A work end-to-end → v0.17.1
• Zero P0 security vulnerabilities in document processing pipeline → v0.17.1 (Fix pickle deserialization vulnerability in RAG cache #447, Harden Document Processing Pipeline — P0 Security & Robustness #503)
• Tool execution has confirmation guardrails for dangerous operations
• All new features documented
• Smoke tests pass on Windows, macOS, and Linux → v0.17.1 (v0.17.0 Pre-Release Testing: Agent UI & Installer across platforms #515)

[kovtcharov]

Closing v0.17.0 release tracker. 9 of 20 items shipped in v0.17.0; remaining items have been deferred to v0.17.1 (7), v0.18.0 (3), and v0.23.0 (1). See issue body for full breakdown.