Release v0.84.0

[wladimiiir]

Highlights

📁 Git Support for Every Project

Projects that aren't git repositories can now join the party! AiderDesk will automatically initialize a git repository for non-git projects, unlocking everything that comes with it: branches, worktrees, and version tracking. No more sitting on the sidelines - all of AiderDesk's git-powered workflow is now available for any project you open.

⚡ Major Performance Improvements

This release is full of speed-ups across the board:

• Workspace file trees are now virtualized (migrated to headless-tree), so large projects render smoothly regardless of how many files and folders they contain.
• Updated files diffs are loaded lazily on demand instead of being computed upfront with the file list - the diff modal opens noticeably faster.
• Background projects stay lightweight: a task is only loaded when you first activate the project, reducing memory usage while you work elsewhere.
• Tooltips render faster across the app.

🛡️ Safer Git & Worktree Workflows

We've hardened the git and worktree experience with a series of reliability improvements:

• Switching to local mode is now blocked when the worktree has uncommitted changes, so you'll never silently lose work again.
• Creating a task worktree whose branch is already checked out in another worktree now creates a unique sibling branch instead of failing.
• Task branches are no longer renamed when a worktree is shared with other tasks.
• Ignored files are now staged with --force on retry, so ignored files no longer fail to commit.
• Uncommitted diffs work in freshly initialized repositories with no commits yet (diffing against the empty tree, including untracked files).

🔐 OpenAI Zero Data Retention Support

A new "Store Responses" setting for OpenAI lets organizations with Zero Data Retention (ZDR) requirements use AiderDesk by running requests in stateless mode. If your organization doesn't allow OpenAI to store request data, this setting keeps you compliant.

✅ Bulk Tool Approval for MCP Servers

Approving MCP tools one by one is history: a new "All" select in the server tools list lets you bulk-approve tools per MCP server. Combined with the new keyboard navigation in the git branches dropdown (arrow keys, submenu controls, and Escape to close), power workflows just got a lot smoother.

Other Changes

• Task Management: Added an ephemeral indicator for transient message groups, and task IDs are now stored in the messages database, enabling per-task usage tracking.
• Agent Reliability: The agent no longer stops prematurely when a model finishes with stop but produces no messages (or only reasoning content) - the step is retried automatically.
• Updated Files Diff Modal: Files are now ordered to match the sidebar tree, commit errors show clean, selectable messages (no more IPC wrapper noise), and full old/new file contents are fetched on demand.
• Markdown Rendering: Numbered lists starting mid-paragraph now render as proper lists instead of plain text.
• In-Chat Search: The messages scroll container is now reliably detected via a dedicated callback.
• Model Library: The temperature column now fits its values.
• UI Polish: Toast notifications got a more visible border (errors use the error color), and the extensions search field is auto-focused when opening extensions settings.
• Extension API: projectDir is now passed to extension component wrappers on header placements.
• Platform: Updated Electron to 44.3.0.

🧩 Extensions

• Git Log: Added per-file diff sections with scroll-to-file, a commit context menu, and smarter project directory selection that prioritizes the current project.
• Task Scheduler: Added one-time scheduling - schedule a task to run once at a specific time.
• SearXNG Search: Now talks to the SearXNG API directly instead of spawning a CLI process - more reliable and faster.
• tps-counter: Improved streaming and subagent token rates (Thanks @pcfreak30)
• Cursor SDK: Fixed the vendored ripgrep path configuration.
• Reasoning Selector: Added an extension icon.

💡 We'd love to hear your thoughts! Your feedback helps us improve AiderDesk - feel free to share any suggestions or issues. Happy coding! 🚀

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