Nio v0.1.251

Nio v0.1.251

Unattended tasks finish more often: replies that only plan, reruns of a
failing test and oddly formatted tool calls no longer end them early. With
these changes GPT-5 mini matches its direct calls on our calculator benchmark,
and Claude Haiku 4.5 averages 96.

What changed

• Plans get turned into changes. When the model describes what it will do
  but makes no tool call while requested work is still missing, Nio asks again
  (up to three times) and asks for the changes themselves, starting with a
  file the request names that doesn't exist yet.
• Nio checks the request item by item. Exact names the request lists, such
  as M+, MR or localStorage, must be in the code, and each item after a
  colon ("square root, power, sine, cosine, and tangent") is checked on its
  own, so missing features are asked for instead of slipping through.
• A failing test gets fixed, not rerun. When the model asks to rerun a
  failing check without changing anything, Nio shows it the failure (the error,
  file and line) and asks for the fix first.
• Restarting a server doesn't pause the task. If the model tries to stop
  every program of one name to restart its server, Nio tells it which
  processes the task started and how to stop only those, instead of waiting
  for your approval. Stopping programs by name still asks first.
• Tool calls aren't dropped for small formatting slips. A call followed by
  a stray quote now runs, and when a call can't be read Nio tells the model
  exactly why.
• Files land in the right folder. A file written into a folder named like
  the project itself (app/package.json inside a project folder app) is
  placed at the project root when the request names it there.
• Benchmark on nioai.run. The landing page shows the latest calculator
  results, including the October 20 runs for GPT-5 mini, GPT-5.1 and Haiku 4.5.
  October 20 results.

Install

Windows PowerShell:

powershell -c "irm https://github.com/luisMan/Nio/releases/download/v0.1.251/nio-installer.ps1 | iex"

macOS and Linux:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/luisMan/Nio/releases/download/v0.1.251/nio-installer.sh | sh

If you have v0.1.195 or later, Nio offers this update when it starts, or
run nio update.

Downloads

• Windows x64 MSI
• Windows x64 portable ZIP
• macOS Apple Silicon
• Linux x64
• VS Code extension 0.1.251

Each native archive and the MSI include a SHA-256 sidecar. Publishing this
release does not reset account token limits.