Mint v1.5.1
Mint Release Notes
v1.5.1
This release updates the desktop Live2D experience, CLI response loop, learned skills, and image attachment UX.
Desktop Live2D Model and Interaction UI
This patch adds an optional Live2D assistant model to the desktop UI and improves the top toolbar for easier model control.
Highlights
- Live2D Assistant Model: Added a Shiroko Live2D model panel to the Electron desktop assistant.
- Model Visibility Preference: The model panel can be shown or hidden from the toolbar. New installs start with the model hidden until enabled.
- Expression Cycling: Added a toolbar control for cycling Live2D expressions.
- Expression Toast: The active expression name is shown in a small on-canvas toast after changing expressions.
- Click-to-Chat Reactions: Clicking named model areas can trigger temporary expressions and send a short contextual prompt into the normal chat flow.
- Interaction Area Overlay: Added a transparent guide overlay for clickable regions such as
Head Pat,Cheek Poke,Hand Tap,Shoulder Tap, andCareful. - Safe Missed Clicks: Clicking outside the defined interaction zones no longer changes expression, sends chat prompts, consumes AI tokens, or starts cooldown.
- Interaction Cooldown: Model reactions use a 3-second cooldown to reduce accidental repeated AI calls.
- Live2D Lip Sync: Mint animates mouth parameters while speaking and resets them when speech ends.
- Toolbar Redesign: Desktop header controls are grouped into clearer model, utility, and window-control sections with readable labels.
Live2D Desktop Model
- The model is loaded from
models/Shiroko_Model. - The desktop model can be toggled from the
Modeltoolbar button. - The first launch defaults to hiding the model panel.
- The visibility setting is stored in
localStorageasmint-model-hidden. - Expression controls use the configured Live2D expression files and reset expression parameters before switching to avoid stuck expressions.
- Temporary click reactions return to the previously selected expression after 2 seconds.
Interaction Zones
The interaction guide overlay labels clickable regions without blocking pointer input:
Head PatCheek PokeHand TapShoulder TapCareful
Only clicks inside these configured regions trigger Live2D reactions. Clicks outside the regions are ignored.
Fast Mode, Live Replies, and Learned Skills
This patch improves the Mint CLI interaction loop and adds persistent skill/instruction learning from local markdown or text files.
Highlights
- Agent Status Label: The interactive CLI now shows
[Agent]instead of[Chat]for the normal agent loop. - Fast Mode: Added
/fast,/fast on,/fast off, and/fast status. - Fast Status: When Fast Mode is enabled, the status bar shows
[Fast]. - Quiet Trace Output: Fast Mode keeps
● Mint is thinking...visible but hidesThinking:and intermediate tool/progress trace messages. - Live Mint Replies: Final Mint responses now render into one live-updating
Mintmessage block instead of appearing all at once or splitting into multipleMintmessages. - Learned Skills: Added
mint learn <path>and/learn <path>for importing local.mdor.txtfiles as persistent skill/instruction context. - Skill Management: Learned skills can be listed and deleted from both the command line and interactive CLI.
- Expanded Slash Suggestions:
/memory skillsis now available in the/command suggestions. - Expanded Tests: Test suite now reports 137 passing tests.
Fast Mode
New interactive commands:
/fasttoggles Fast Mode./fast onenables Fast Mode./fast offdisables Fast Mode./fast statusshows the current Fast Mode state.
Fast Mode changes presentation only. Agent routing, tool calls, approvals, final answers, and provider/model behavior continue to work normally.
Live Response Rendering
Thinking:messages can appear before the final answer when Fast Mode is off.- Final responses stream into one active
Mintmessage block. - The completed message is stored in history after the response finishes.
- Fast Mode still streams the final answer, but hides the internal
Thinking:trace.
Learned Skills
New command-line examples:
mint learn ./skill.mdmint learn ./instructions.txtmint learn --listmint learn --delete <id|path|name>
New interactive CLI examples:
/learn ./skill.md/memory skills/memory skills delete <id|path|name>
Learned files are stored in Mint's SQLite memory as persistent skill/instruction documents. Mint injects learned skills into long-term context on later turns.
CLI Image Attachments & Paste UX
This patch improves the interactive Mint CLI input experience, especially for screenshots, clipboard images, and long pasted text.
Highlights
- CLI Image Attachments: Added
--image <path>support formint chatandmint code. - Interactive Image Paste:
Ctrl+Vcan attach clipboard images inside the interactive CLI without sending immediately. - Multiple Images: Users can attach several images before pressing Enter; the UI labels them as
[Image #1],[Image #2], and so on. - Attachment Controls:
Ctrl+Backspaceremoves the latest pending image, andEscclears pending images or pasted content before exiting. - Long Paste Placeholder: Long or multi-line pasted text is collapsed in the input as
[Pasted Content N chars]while preserving the full content for sending. - Natural Composition Order: Text typed before an image or pasted content, the attachment/content itself, and text typed afterward are sent in the same natural order.
- Vision Context Follow-up: The CLI keeps lightweight context from the latest image turn so follow-up questions can refer back to recently attached images.
- Expanded Tests: Test suite now reports 137 passing tests.
CLI Image Input
- Added
src/CLI/image_input.js. - Supported image formats:
.png.jpg.jpeg.webp.gif
- New command-line examples:
mint chat --image ./screenshot.png "What is on this screen?"mint code --image ./mockup.png "Build this UI"
- Interactive CLI examples:
Ctrl+Vto attach a clipboard image./paste [prompt]to attach a clipboard image through a command./image ./screenshot.png [prompt]to attach an image file while already insidemint.
Interactive CLI UX
- Clipboard images are now attached first and sent only when the user presses Enter.
- Pending image labels are rendered inside the input box.
- Multiple pending images are shown as compact labels:
[Image #1] [Image #2]
- Fixed terminal input edge cases where
Ctrl+Vcould insert strayvcharacters. - Long pasted text no longer breaks the input border or terminal layout.
- Pasted content can be combined with typed text:
- text before paste
- pasted content
- text after paste
- Image attachments follow the same composition model:
- text before image
- image labels
- text after image
Provider and Vision Handling
- Gemini image MIME handling now preserves the real image MIME type instead of assuming PNG.
- Chat provider paths can receive multiple images in one request where supported.
- Code Agent multimodal requests now pass attached image context to supported providers.
Current Test Status
- 137 tests passed
- 20 test suites passed