v0.16.0 — Sessions, Agents & Portability

notMyShell v0.16.0

NMSh grows into a more complete workspace around your real shell: live sessions, agent activity, richer completion, local help and a calmer, more configurable interface. This release brings the work planned across v0.8–v0.15 together with v0.16.

Highlights

• Switch between zsh, Fish and Bash without giving up the NMSh composer and transcript.
• Find live sessions, track attention and inspect agent activity.
• Explore richer completion, smarter history and local Ask.
• Customize appearance, cursor effects and Clean or Rich motion through expanded Setup.

Shells & sessions

/shell supports zsh, Fish and Bash 4.4+, with a default-shell setting for new sessions. Persistent sessions keep commands running when a window detaches; /resume and /sessions show factual state and duration. Short-lived notices surface changes in other sessions. /agents offers local activity statistics, while /ai brings managed and observed agent sessions into view.

Ask, completion & tooling

Ask explains NMSh capabilities, with optional local Qwen understanding configured through /llm. Downloads always require confirmation. Completion combines live shell knowledge with static Fig and Carapace data and custom specs. History gains context ranking and filters. Optional providers, project tasks, mise awareness, /watch and a curated /tools catalog help with everyday work.

Appearance & interaction

/appearance brings prompt, cursor and motion controls together. Clean and Rich motion have their own tuning; cursor effects use portable rendering or supported host integration. Expanded Setup, grouped Config and Status, paste preview and review, transcript find/filter, editor opening and diff viewing make the interface easier to navigate. Images and links use capability checks and fallbacks.

Maintenance / portability

/doctor reports local diagnostics. Export/import moves settings between machines, and uninstall previews launcher removal while keeping data by default. Linux/WSL groundwork and host capability handling are included; physical Linux/WSL and additional terminal-host validation remains follow-up work. Host-specific effects depend on what your terminal supports.

Upgrade

From a clean official source checkout, use /update, review the plan, then /update apply. Restart NMSh to load the new build. Existing configurations are preserved and migrated where needed; updating does not replace your shell profile or remove transcripts. Older session services keep their live sessions running, but a newer frontend may not attach to sessions from an incompatible protocol version. Finish those sessions with the older frontend if needed.

Source installs require Node.js 22 or newer: npm install followed by npm run build. The package remains private and is not published to npm.