v0.26.0-rc6

Important

Release candidate for v0.26.0. A pre-release for testing before the final ships. Installers and package managers keep offering the last final release unless you ask for this one.

GAIA v0.26.0 Release Notes

Breaking Changes

• Dynamic tool loading is on by default, and its old settings are gone — GAIA_DYNAMIC_TOOLS_TAU and GAIA_DYNAMIC_TOOLS_MAX no longer do anything, and a choice made under the old Beta toggle is not carried over. Turn it off with gaia config set dynamic_tools false or Settings → Advanced. (PR #6449)

What's New

• The first reply in a new chat is much faster — chat starts on the most-used tools in short form and loads the rest at most once, and a new search_tools tool finds any tool or installed skill it missed. A long conversation also keeps its cache when a background job runs. (PR #6449)
• Analyze long recordings and video links — give GAIA an hour-long video, an audio file or a video link, from the CLI or the Agent UI, and get a timestamped, speaker-labelled transcript, a report, subtitles and answers, with a live progress card. (PR #6451)
• Hear replies read aloud — a speaker button on every Agent UI reply, and /read-aloud and /voice in the TUI. Voice, speed and "read every reply" are shared under Settings › Read aloud. (PR #6489)
• See what the PC is doing while GAIA answers — every chat shows a strip with CPU, memory, each GPU, the NPU and the network, with a minute of history. On Windows the numbers match Task Manager. (PR #6548)
• See what a cloud model has cost — the composer shows this chat's and today's spend while a priced cloud model is in use; click it for a per-answer breakdown. (PR #6775)
• Save a problem report when a model call fails — the error names a local report you can save from the failed answer or Settings → Privacy and attach to a bug. Nothing is sent anywhere, and the report never holds your message text. (PR #6665)
• Use GAIA on stock GNOME without a tray extension — closing the window minimizes GAIA to the dock with the model still loaded, and the dock's Quit stops it. (PR #6868)
• Use a Lemonade on another computer — the install guide covers the three steps on the server computer. (PR #6865)

Bug Fixes

• Asking about an image no longer demands a Gemma download when another tested image-reading model is already on disk. (PR #6825)
• A Python snippet that fails on a missing library says how to retry with the standard library, and later chats remember what worked. (PR #6828)
• Averages the model works out by hand after a failed computation are checked and flagged when wrong. (PR #6831)
• An edit sent twice in one turn no longer damages the file — the second, identical edit is refused. (PR #6844)
• An agent left running for days on macOS keeps answering — the OS temp cleaner no longer deletes its unpacked files. (PR #6851)
• Another GAIA process can no longer load a model onto the NPU while a stopped reply is still draining. (PR #6821)
• gaia schedule --sink notification works on Windows. (PR #6503)
• A Fireworks key from FIREWORKS_API_KEY is no longer copied into the keychain, and it takes precedence over an older saved key. (PR #6811)
• The invented-figure check catches amounts written like 2,708.95 USD or 2,708.95 dollars. (PR #6817)
• The planted-instruction warning catches look-alike, zero-width and hyphenated AI addresses. (PR #6837)
• Stored memories can no longer imitate the per-turn memory footer. (PR #6843)
• On Gemma 4 E4B, three email tools that the compact tier cannot use are withheld. (PR #6842)
• Failed Agent UI turns are reported as errors over MCP, not as completed turns. (PR #6819)
• A web fetch that hits a rate-limit wait on a redirect no longer times out — the wait is no longer charged to the fetch deadline. (PR #6857)
• The email agent's published API contract lists its full /v1/email/agent/* surface. (PR #6200)
• gaia eval corpus generation fails on files the manifest does not declare, instead of passing silently. (PR #6869)
• Docs corrections for the Windows setup steps, the memory categories and the eval scenario example. (PRs #6852, #6864, #6863)

Contributors

Thanks to the community members who contributed to this release:

• @huong8373tt-beep — the NPU lease during reply drain, Windows schedule notifications, Fireworks keys, invented-figure and planted-instruction checks, the memory footer, compact-tier email tools, MCP turn errors, redirect rate waits, the email API contract, and test and lint cleanup (PRs #6821, #6503, #6811, #6817, #6837, #6843, #6842, #6819, #6857, #6200, #6840, #6802)
• @tylerbea — long-running agents on macOS (PR #6851)
• @rezamuliawijaya — undeclared eval corpus files (PR #6869)
• @ityashag — setup, memory and eval docs, and website CSS cleanup (PRs #6852, #6864, #6863, #6859)

Full Changelog

31 commits since v0.25.4. This list is regenerated before the final.

• 9bbe85cc2 — feat(voice): read replies aloud in the Agent UI and the TUI (#6489)
• 6117a66f7 — feat(audio): analyze long recordings and video links end to end (#6451)
• edea99b87 — feat(agents): load tools dynamically to cut first-turn time (#6449)
• 72b3f115f — fix(npu): hold model lease through reply drain (#6821)
• 303491a89 — feat(webui): live CPU, memory, GPU, NPU and network usage strip in every chat (#6548)
• 50295c54b — fix(email): publish stateful agent routes in OpenAPI contract (#6200)
• 5c35e9539 — fix(schedule): support Windows notification sink (#6503)
• 67d529dbc — fix(ci): remove Hub flake8 redefinition exemption (#6802)
• 3f65b90f0 — fix(cloud): keep Fireworks environment keys out of the keychain (#6811)
• eeb3aeabc — fix(grounding): catch prose amounts with trailing currency (#6817)
• 18026c29e — fix(vision): read images with a tested model already on disk (#6825)
• 2cc4c3499 — fix(memory): teach the next chat what worked after a failed Python import (#6828)
• 89687a2ca — fix(agent): check averages the model divides itself after a failed run (#6831)
• 80d1f1fce — fix(tools): refuse an edit already applied to the same file this turn (#6844)
• 9af54a9bb — fix(sidecar): keep a long-running agent's unpacked files from the OS temp cleaner (#6851)
• 170cd9ad4 — docs(install): explain how to use a Lemonade on another computer (#6865)
• 42b036d40 — fix(eval): catch corpus files the manifest does not declare (#6869)
• d39eb03af — docs(setup): remove nvm alias step from the Windows tab (#6852)
• 5ac440944 — docs(memory): list all nine knowledge categories (#6864)
• d26517bdb — docs(eval): use a fact id that exists in the scenario example (#6863)
• 25e9c9e5e — chore(website): delete the unused code panel CSS (#6859)
• 7fb2b4b0a — fix(mcp): report failed Agent UI turns as errors (#6819)
• 6a3576018 — feat(skills): release-test the desktop Agent UI with computer use (#6531)
• 3b48d948e — fix(agent): catch lookalike planted instructions (#6837)
• cccee571f — test(init): guard NPU profile from GPU last model (#6840)
• a8db3b424 — fix(agent): withhold compact-tier email tools (#6842)
• 4dd1cbcc4 — feat(ui): show cloud spend for this chat and today in the composer (#6775)
• 8e6b983a9 — feat(diagnostics): save a local problem report when a model call fails (#6665)
• a9f6da4eb — fix(linux): keep GAIA running on stock GNOME without a tray extension (#6868)
• d21094717 — fix(memory): harden the per-turn footer boundary (#6843)
• 350dd1ad2 — fix(web): keep redirect rate waits outside fetch deadline (#6857)

Full Changelog: v0.25.4...v0.26.0

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Installing this release candidate

Desktop app and terminal

Download the installer for your platform from the assets below:

• Windows — gaia-0.26.0-rc.6-win-x64-setup.exe: one installer for the desktop app, the terminal, or both. gaia-agent-ui-0.26.0-rc.6-x64-setup.exe is the desktop app on its own
• macOS — gaia-agent-ui-0.26.0-rc.6-arm64.dmg (Apple Silicon only)
• Linux — gaia-agent-ui-0.26.0-rc.6-amd64.deb (Debian/Ubuntu) or gaia-agent-ui-0.26.0-rc.6-x86_64.AppImage (any distro)

The terminal on its own:

• macOS — gaia-0.26.0-rc.6-darwin-arm64.pkg (Apple Silicon) or gaia-0.26.0-rc.6-darwin-x64.pkg (Intel)
• Linux — gaia_0.26.0-rc.6_amd64.deb (Debian/Ubuntu) or gaia-0.26.0-rc.6.x86_64.rpm (Fedora/RHEL/SUSE). They install as version 0.26.0~rc.6, so the final release upgrades over them

Installer checksums are in gaia-installers-SHA256SUMS.txt. The terminal hub is also attached as standalone binaries (gaia-<os>-<arch>, checksums in gaia-tui-SHA256SUMS.txt).

The GAIA agent itself is attached as gaia-agent-<os>-<arch>, built from this candidate's commit. This candidate's gaia init and gaia hub install gaia install it from here rather than from the Agent Hub, and say so if it is missing.

One-line installer

Installs this candidate's Python CLI, terminal and GAIA agent together:

curl -fsSL https://amd-gaia.ai/install.sh | GAIA_RELEASE_TAG=v0.26.0-rc6 sh

$env:GAIA_RELEASE_TAG = "v0.26.0-rc6"; irm https://amd-gaia.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Python CLI

pip install --pre amd-gaia            # newest pre-release
pip install amd-gaia==0.26.0rc6     # exactly this one

npm

npm install -g @amd-gaia/agent-ui@next

Found a problem? Open an issue and mention v0.26.0-rc6.