v2026.7.26

New Features

Breaking Changes

• Make bash_output a non-blocking snapshot operation; use background monitor subscriptions and completion notifications for event-driven waits.
• Remove the separate GPT-only Code Mode exec/wait tools in favor of persistent eval tool composition.

Added

• Add env-gated --grok-neo interactive chrome with grok-night and grok-day themes while keeping the classic TUI as the default.
• Compose up to five leading /skill: commands across prompt, steer, follow-up, and autocomplete paths, and add /exit as an alias for /quit.
• Add the background monitor tool, coalesced line-event notifications, and exit-code/output-tail completion messages for long-running terminal sessions.
• Auto-correct supported malformed todo calls, conservatively resolve fuzzy task names, and render every optional todo operation exhaustively.
• Project extension-injected app-server messages as tracked turns and emit session_extensions_removed when reloads or session replacement remove extensions.
• Add durable blocked-goal persistence and resume handling, including explicit user-abort lifecycle data.
• Add opt-in Inspector VM-import recovery and transfer fixed Inspector endpoints from the launcher to the interactive child (#336 by @minpeter).

Changed

• Retry transient failures on the same model before entering fallback chains, cap server-requested waits, and use shorter cooldowns for transport failures; Codex upstream websocket failures now participate in the retry path (#330 by @minpeter).
• Keep unchanged classic MCP servers alive across /reload, report reload timing phases, and eliminate redundant settings/model scans.
• Bound inline provider image history, preserve compaction ownership across preflight/abort races, and pin cheap compaction warmups to the active model (#341 by @minpeter).
• Speed up compaction across model switches and harden cross-provider replay (#380 by @realsigridjin).
• Bound compaction status rows to the terminal width while retaining cancellation guidance (#328 by @minpeter).

Fixed

• Retain extension-injected user messages when prompt admission rejects, and stop stale extension-context error spray after session replacement.
• Prevent classifier-refused partial tool calls from executing and route Anthropic policy blocks through the pinned refusal fallback.
• Preserve OpenAI freeform tool replay, repair Anthropic server-tool histories, and avoid cross-provider reasoning/tool-ID corruption (#256 by @ThewindMom).
• Ship the native sidecars and bundled dependency aliases that the compiled and npm-installed CLI probes at runtime.
• Stabilize alternate-chrome tool rendering, slash-menu colors, CJK/select-list layout, and compaction labels across narrow terminals.

Removed

• Remove the legacy out-of-process --neo Go TUI/daemon surface and the /sessions observer HUD.