v0.2.1

Standalone Windows executables in this release are not code-signed. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning when you first run them.

Improvements

• docs: Updated Volt's project overview and onboarding to explain built-in features, iPhone pairing, and installation requirements.
• extensions: Extension session_before_compact and session_compact events now include reason and willRetry, so extensions can tell manual, threshold, and overflow compaction apart. (#239)
• lsp: Subagents now share language servers with their parent session instead of starting their own. (#47)
  /reload now keeps healthy language servers running when their server settings are unchanged, and /lsp restart also restarts the servers shared with subagents. If subagents fail to start a missing language server, the interactive session still offers once to install it.
• subagents: Subagents no longer start their own copy of every eager and keep-alive MCP server; they connect to a server the first time they use it. (#498)
• tui: Completed and handed-off plans can now be closed from the plan pane or with /plan-close, and Volt notes when a plan finishes.

Fixes

• ai: The volt-ai CLI help now shows stable npm commands instead of the retired beta tag.
• auth: The local Anthropic and OpenAI Codex sign-in result pages now show the current Volt icon. (#486)
• compaction: Split-turn compaction now works with providers that permit only one active request, and compacting a split turn with no new history keeps the previous summary instead of replacing it with "No prior history." (#239)
• daemon: Daemon-hosted sessions now resolve tools from your login shell environment instead of the environment of whatever started the daemon. (#464)
  The login shell starts from your session's environment: the launchd or systemd user environment when the login service starts the daemon, or the systemd user manager's environment when a terminal starts it on Linux. Service-manager and desktop-session variables such as launchctl setenv values, environment.d files, display, and proxy settings are kept. Variables exported only in the terminal that started the daemon no longer reach its sessions. The environment is resolved once per daemon start; run volt daemon restart after changing PATH or your shell profile. Set VOLT_DAEMON_INHERIT_ENV=1 to keep the inherited environment, and check volt daemon status for the environment source.
• daemon: Fixed relay-disabled phone pairings failing to reconnect after a daemon restart. (#487)
  Existing relay-disabled pairings need to pair once more after upgrading; later restarts keep them working. A change of the host's LAN IP address still requires pairing again.
• lsp: Fixed language servers keeping outdated file contents when a file changed on disk while Volt was syncing it.
• models: Fireworks now defaults to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash because Fireworks retired Kimi K2.6.
  The Fireworks model list also drops the other models Fireworks retired. Choose another Fireworks model with /model or --model if you prefer a different default.
• remote: Fixed remote sessions rejecting every new message after a prompt failed before reaching the model and the session was later reopened. (#474)
• remote: Relay access now shows when Volt next checks a lapsed Volt Pro subscription, /remote can check immediately after renewal, and daemon status exits nonzero while relay access is unavailable. (#375)