Intelligent Terminal v0.2.2192

[Hamza Usmani (hamza-usmani)]

Our first minor version bump: 0.1 → 0.2!

This is our biggest release yet, and it makes Intelligent Terminal significantly more flexible and easier to use: local models are now better supported, each tab can run the agent that best fits the job, Windows and WSL profiles can choose their own agents, OpenCode joins the supported agent lineup, and the Agent Pane gains richer navigation, history, mouse support, and clearer activity feedback. It also brings smarter Autofix behavior and a broad set of reliability fixes.

See the blog post here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/intelligent-terminal-0-2-is-here-with-local-model-support

Local model support is here!

We've heard you: one of the most common requests since our first release has been the ability to use local models. With 0.2, we're adding support for local models in the Agent Pane, so you can run your agent workflows against a model on your own machine, keeping them private, offline, and free of cloud dependencies. Add a BYOM (bring your own model) provider in the agent's settings, point it at an endpoint with a Base URL and Model ID, then select it from the Model dropdown. Works with GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.

New Features

Agents and backends

1. Choose a different AI agent for each tab with /agent. Switch agents without disturbing other tabs, select installed and policy-allowed agents from a picker, or complete agent names inline as you type. #296, #416, #487
2. Use OpenCode as a first-class Agent Pane or delegation backend. Launch OpenCode for chat and Autofix, resume its previous sessions, and optionally install tracking hooks so interactive sessions appear in session management. #458, #464, #476
3. Run agents where your work actually lives. ?<prompt> can execute inside the active WSL distribution, fall back to the Windows-hosted CLI when needed, and preserve multiline terminal context safely across Windows and Linux shells. #375, #398, #401, #405
4. Assign Agent Pane and Command Palette agents per profile. Pick a Windows-hosted or distro-local WSL agent for each profile while keeping unconfigured profiles on the global default. #481, #488

Agent Pane productivity

1. Move each tab's Agent Pane with /move. Reposition it independently with left, right, up, or down without changing the layout of other tabs. #429, #449
2. Search session history directly from /sessions. Press / to filter Unicode session titles, highlight matches, and resume the selected conversation faster. #471
3. Recall recent prompts with Up and Down. Each tab keeps up to 50 deduplicated entries while preserving drafts and multiline input. #478
4. Navigate and copy Agent Pane conversations with the mouse. Scroll precisely, drag to select text, double-click words, triple-click lines, and press Ctrl+C to copy Unicode-safe selections. #506
5. Let agents propose safe terminal actions as confirmation cards. Agents can present typed commands for insertion or execution while you remain the final approval boundary for terminal changes. #484

Improvements

Autofix and command understanding

1. Made Autofix recognize more real-world failures. Windows PowerShell 5.1 runtime errors, PowerShell parser errors, Bash prompt cycles, and command-not-found cases now produce more accurate failure signals and safer correction suggestions. #413, #416, #468, #472, #477
2. Made command understanding aware of your actual pane environment. Agents can resolve PowerShell profile aliases, local scripts, the active working directory, and packaged WTA tools instead of offering generic advice for commands you already have. #418, #531

Agents and connectivity

1. Improved Copilot installation and sign-in recovery. After installing Copilot, Intelligent Terminal now takes you directly to authentication and can restart a stale agent process after browser login instead of leaving the pane disconnected. #385, #406
2. Modernized ACP and Codex interoperability. Updated the shared agent protocol stack and moved Codex onto newer official adapters so current agent CLIs can connect, switch models, and exchange messages more reliably. #367, #450, #455, #462, #516

Agent Pane experience

1. Made Agent Pane activity easier to understand. Thinking remains visible in a stable row while work is in flight, and tool calls now show animated semantic states, operation glyphs, concrete paths or commands, and clearer permission targets. #434, #499, #501, #508, #509
2. Matched Agent Pane chrome to your theme. Title bars, text, dividers, and agent logos now adapt to each pane's background instead of staying hard-coded black. #381
3. Aligned selection styling across Agent Pane pickers. Command, model, agent, session, and completed-prompt selections now use a consistent active and inactive treatment. #467
4. Added token usage and cost to the agent status bar. See your token consumption and cost as you work, and toggle the display on or off in settings. #512
5. Made recommendation cards easier to operate from the keyboard. Up and Down cycle between cards and the input box, while inserting a command returns focus to the target terminal pane. #532, #533
6. Kept recommendation-launched sessions visible immediately. Supported agents receive a pinned session ID at launch, so session tracking no longer depends on hooks discovering them later. #469

Localization and administration

1. Localized the Agent Pane's double-Ctrl+C close hint. The close confirmation can now appear in the user's selected language instead of always using English. #503
2. Organized Intelligent Terminal policies outside the generic Windows Components category. Administrators can find and manage the product's Group Policy settings more easily. #337

Bug Fixes

Sessions and tabs

1. Kept live sessions live when dragging tabs between windows. Moving a tab no longer marks its still-running shell or agent sessions as ended. #383
2. Prevented internal Copilot sidekick workers from appearing as duplicate sessions. Session management now ignores hook-only memory workers instead of rebinding them to the parent pane. #399
3. Kept other tabs' agents working when one tab closes mid-response. Orphaned turns and permission requests no longer tear down the shared agent CLI, and affected sessions can be resumed cleanly. #425

Delegation

1. Kept delegate failures visible instead of flashing the tab closed. A missing or misconfigured ?<prompt> agent now leaves its real error on screen so you can diagnose the setup. #390
2. Stopped terminal context from leaking into delegate session titles. Delegated conversations now adopt the agent's generated summary rather than exposing the injected prompt and pane identifier. #400

Agent Pane input

1. Fixed multiline text throughout the Agent Pane. Pasted text is inserted without prematurely submitting the first line, and Shift+Enter prompts retain every line in the conversation transcript. #415, #493
2. Kept the model picker synchronized with the active agent session. Late model updates and tab switches now show the effective model instead of a stale initial selection. #538
3. Made pasted image attachments editable and unambiguous. Inline image tokens are uniquely numbered and behave atomically during cursor movement, deletion, draft restoration, and history navigation. #536

💜 Community

A huge thank you to the external contributors who helped make this release:

• @frarteaga (Frank Rafael Arteaga Salgado): added per-tab AI agent switching and the /agent workflow. (#296, closes #295)
• @adityabagchi24: brought ?<prompt> delegation into the active WSL distribution and localized the Agent Pane close hint. (#375, #503, closes #372 and #496)

We'll keep iterating on bugs and feature requests rapidly while Intelligent Terminal is in this experimental stage. Please file issues to help us make this product better!

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