v5.9.0

5.9.0 (2026-09-12)

What's Changed

• feat(summary): list PRs handled in the chat under the issue section by @shabaraba in #727
• feat: support backend model frontmatter completion by @shabaraba in #729
• fix(mcp): keep RPC routing out of cached prompts by @shabaraba in #730
• fix(codex): restore per-turn patches and diff previews by @shabaraba in #731
• fix(codex): recognize bundled MCP tool names by @shabaraba in #732
• feat(codex): load project-local permission profiles by @shabaraba in #734
• feat(codex): show token usage and configure auto-compaction by @shabaraba in #733
• feat(chat): add boundary-aware Tree-sitter parser by @shabaraba in #736
• fix(orchestration): stop workers reporting user-initiated turns to the orchestrator by @shabaraba in #737
• fix(build): prune stale Tree-sitter parser artifacts by @shabaraba in #738
• fix(diff): synthesize patches for gitignored files from PreToolUse backups by @shabaraba in #739
• fix(chat): split prose that follows a closing code fence by @shabaraba in #740
• fix(chat): open markdown links from label text by @shabaraba in #741
• test(orchestration): cover the held completion edge on the on_sent dispatch path by @shabaraba in #742
• feat(agent): pass cost-related environment variables to the Claude CLI by @shabaraba in #743
• feat(mcp): add agent.mcp.user_servers to exclude user-level MCP servers by @shabaraba in #745
• refactor(frontmatter): unify the frontmatter parsers behind one YAML codec by @shabaraba in #746
• feat(grok): fence lightweight calls from project instructions and hooks by @shabaraba in #748
• chore(deps): audit both npm trees in CI and clear the open advisories by @shabaraba in #747
• fix(orchestration): canonicalize chat paths in task projection and close out the #692 postmortem by @shabaraba in #744
• fix(mcp): rebuild the server in the background instead of missing its startup deadline by @shabaraba in #750
• chore(deps-dev): bump vitest from 4.1.11 to 5.0.0 in /claude-plugin/mcp-server by @dependabot[bot] in #749
• feat(adapter): support frontmatter effort across backends by @shabaraba in #751
• feat(diff): render the turn diff inline with mini.diff by @shabaraba in #752
• feat(mcp): manage Neovim-owned background jobs by @shabaraba in #757
• feat(mcp): manage Neovim-owned background jobs by @shabaraba in #756

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #749

Full Changelog: v5.8.0...v5.9.0