Lead with a sharper Linux-computer positioning, desktop hero, and scannable feature table.
Put the Launcher first, collapse alternate install paths, add basic troubleshooting, and move starter prompts above the deep dives.
Trim the mid-README Space Agent detour to a footer note while keeping the safety and documentation sections.
Pass each parent-visible child log into direct parallel worker execution so tool before_execution reuses it instead of creating a second generic tool log.
This keeps native badge types such as wait/progress (HDL) intact through execution, updates the parallel helper DOX contract, and adds a regression test for log reuse.
Resolve tool-specific log objects for all parallel child jobs, removing the code_execution_tool-only special case and using native get_log_object() when available, with generic fallback.
Update parallel_tools docs to reflect the shared logging contract and add coverage for wait/ fallback behavior in parallel-tool tests.
Drop queued debounced snapshots when the workspace directory is gone before the timer flushes.
This keeps transient delete/rename races from surfacing as Time Travel snapshot errors while preserving normal snapshot failures for existing workspaces.
Repair saved _model_config user config and presets so Venice model slots use chat completions with the Venice system prompt disabled. Leave a0_venice slots untouched and add regression coverage for parsing and slot preservation.
Introduce the _commands plugin with command storage, picker UI, bundled canonical command pack, and legacy migration into the built-in namespace.
Polish the Web UI picker behavior, hide WebUI-only-inappropriate commands from the popover, make /models always open model configuration, and add regression coverage for command CRUD, plugin discovery, migration, canonical names, hidden commands, and picker flows.
Skip usr/.time_travel during self-update user-data backups and add the same Time Travel shadow-history exclusion to default BackupService metadata.\n\nAdd focused regressions proving regular user files stay in backup coverage while Time Travel shadow repositories are omitted.
Expose plugins that declare the external settings section from the External Services settings page.
Wire the sidebar item, subsection mount, and settings DOX contract so plugin sections use matching tab IDs.
Promote the terminal agent work into the built-in plugins tree as _orchestrator with Orchestrator branding and the orchestrator skill.
Include adapter status APIs, settings UI, per-agent skill references, thumbnail asset, tests, and DOX coverage for the bundled plugin.
Start local PTY shells in a new process session and make close() escalate from SIGTERM to SIGKILL when a foreground command refuses to exit. This keeps code_execution_tool reset from blocking indefinitely on stuck terminal processes.\n\nAdd regression coverage for closing a TERM-resistant shell and document the reset lifecycle contract.
Ensure the Codex OAuth Responses proxy forwards list-shaped input for empty continuation turns while preserving string prompts as user input items. Add regression coverage for the gpt-5.5 continuation case and document the proxy contract.
Ensure x-component loading awaits cached dynamic import promises before appending deferred markup, matching first-load behavior and preventing Alpine bindings from running before imported stores register.
Document the loader contract in the WebUI JS DOX notes.
Raise notification toasts and Bootstrap tooltips above normal and legacy modal overlays while keeping confirmation dialogs on top.
Remove the duplicate tooltip CSS block and add a focused regression for the layer ordering contract.
Send current Codex client metadata and compatibility headers on proxied Responses requests so ChatGPT OAuth calls pass upstream call checks.
Return Codex model slugs as the primary list while preserving model metadata for descriptions in the OAuth settings UI.
Teach the agent prompt about the split framework and task Python runtimes so backend checks use /opt/venv-a0 while user-code tasks use /opt/venv.
Document the WebUI JSON API and CSRF token flow so terminal/API work can use the same session cookies and X-CSRF-Token correctly.
Load active-project AGENTS.md path-chain guidance into the protocol area without duplicating the project root instructions.
Move the AGENTS.md protocol wording into a prompt template, reuse existing file/path helpers, and cover direct-path discovery plus prompt assembly with focused tests.
Delete the empty active-skills prompt extension and its unused prompt template now that selected skills are loaded through chat history instead of protocol. Stop clearing legacy loaded_skills keys from protocol/extras in the loaded-skills hook while keeping history reattachment for compacted skill bodies.
Search the raw user message when recalling relevant skills instead of the rendered history wrapper.
Replace the stopword catalog with structural matching: names use normal terms, tags/triggers use long terms or phrase matches, and descriptions require phrase matches.
Switch the Skills catalog UI/API from scope-wide prompt pins to current-chat history loading, and remove user-facing removal of loaded skills.
Disable legacy active-skill prompt injection so forgotten scope config no longer inflates new-chat prompts.
Load startup vendor scripts with defer and serve Bootstrap locally so the first WebUI mount no longer depends on a parser-blocking CDN request.
Add a focused regression that rejects undeferred classic startup scripts in index.html and documents the vendor/startup contract.
Force chat-completions transport by default for local and broad OpenAI-compatible chat providers whose Responses API implementations are often missing or unstable.\n\nCovers LM Studio, llama.cpp, Ollama, Ollama Cloud, oMLX, vLLM, and Other OpenAI compatible while leaving embedding provider defaults untouched. Updates provider-default regression coverage for the new chat-only defaults.
Clear the active Responses provider continuation when automatic history compression or manual chat compaction rewrites local history, while preserving stored response IDs for cleanup.
Add focused regressions for both compression paths so compacted chats do not keep stale provider-side context.
Set the shipped direct Venice chat provider default to use Agent Zero's chat-completions transport while preserving the existing Venice API base and disabled Venice system prompt injection.\n\nAdd a focused regression check that direct venice gets the chat default, a0_venice and embeddings stay untouched, and explicit model kwargs can still override the provider default.
Use the code_exe log type for code_execution_tool children launched through parallel so the WebUI reuses the existing code execution renderer.
Add a focused regression test and document the parallel child-log contract.
Accept shell-style local MCP command values from the manager before spawning stdio clients, so configs like uvx workspace-mcp resolve to the correct executable and args.
Split collapsed option/value argument lines in the MCP manager, document the input contract, and add a regression for the google_workspace MCP shape.
Reduce Browser Settings host-browser choices to automatic and advertised debug endpoints, with a validated Custom endpoint input and faster inventory refresh.
Update Browser docs and regressions to document the custom endpoint workflow and CLI websocket selection.
Add Browser Settings guidance for supported Chromium-family remote debugging pages, including Opera and explicit remote-debugging endpoint fallback.
Update BYOB docs and troubleshooting to clarify that browser inventory comes from the connected A0 CLI and requires reconnecting the CLI after authorizing a browser.
Poll connected A0 CLI host-browser metadata while Browser Settings is open so newly authorized endpoints appear without saving or reopening.
Extend Browser Settings labels and remote-debugging guidance for Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and Chromium-family host browsers with regression coverage.
Add host_browser_selection config normalization, Browser Settings UI choices from CLI-advertised inventory, and browser_selection forwarding through connector browser operations.
Expose host browser ids, labels, and available_browsers through A0 connector metadata and the browser_runtime API, with regression coverage for selection normalization.
Expose Browser settings for separate per-chat tabs versus a shared tab strip, and surface the existing maximum-tabs-per-chat cap. Make viewer WebSocket payloads carry the selected tab scope so the Browser panel can render the right tab list without guessing.
Keep the default scoped per chat, preserve the shared mode as an opt-in fallback, and cover both paths with Browser regression tests.
Notify screencast consumers when a stream is stopped so the WebSocket frame supervisor restarts after viewport-driven screencast resets.
Keep the active canvas as the frame/input surface and avoid replacing live screencasts with click snapshots, preserving hover, click, and wheel feedback.
Tested: conda run -n a0 pytest tests/test_browser_agent_regressions.py -q
Wake the WebSocket screencast supervisor when the runtime frame task stops before delivering a consumer frame, and keep fatal frame exits eligible for normal CDP teardown.
Avoid resizing the Browser canvas backing store on every frame when bitmap dimensions are unchanged, preventing unnecessary clears and reallocations.
Render live browser screencast frames through a canvas/ImageBitmap path while keeping the existing image/data-url path for snapshots and fallback rendering.
Attach WebSocket streams as runtime screencast consumers so delivered frames are pushed to the server loop and acknowledged after emit, removing the per-frame read_screencast_frame runtime round trip.
Keep the live browser frame proportional while the viewer is being resized by using contain sizing instead of stretching the stale frame to the transient surface shape.
Update the regression guard so the viewer contract pins the proportional render path.
Disable WebUI binary-frame negotiation until its Socket.IO client reconstructs frame attachments as real Blob, ArrayBuffer, or typed-array values.
Reject placeholder binary payloads instead of wrapping them into broken image blobs, preserving the slim-frame path through base64 frames.
Document the transport constraint and pin the fallback behavior in browser regression coverage.
Negotiate binary and slim screencast frames so updated clients avoid base64-in-JSON and repeated viewer metadata on every frame.
Clamp screencast capture to the subscriber viewport and DPR, lower streaming JPEG quality while preserving snapshot quality, and teach the client to manage binary frame URLs safely.
Document the browser viewer performance plan and update regression coverage for the new transport contract.
Replace the WebSocket viewer frame pump's idle poll with read_screencast_frame so live screencast delivery follows the producer cadence instead of a 50 ms sleep cycle.
Keep idle-page timeouts inside the stream loop to avoid screencast restart flashes, and update the Browser regression test to pin the blocking read path and timeout handling.
Set LibreOffice Writer as the Desktop MIME default for Markdown and plain text while keeping Agent Zero Editor as the secondary Open With association.
Update the Desktop DOX contract and extend the routing regression test to pin the Writer-first association order.
Limit the Browser URL-intent handler to web URL schemes so custom Agent Zero schemes fall through to their owning surfaces.
Document the scheme-ownership contract and cover the a0-editor misroute regression in the desktop/editor routing test.
Render settings secrets as masked text inputs instead of browser password fields. Add a static regression test so settings password controls do not return during future refactors.
Render the OAuth model provider select as unchosen when the stored model slot still points at a non-connected or non-OAuth provider. This avoids showing Codex/ChatGPT as selected while the model input remains disabled, keeping account-backed model selection explicit.
Move active What's New content into an empty slide list so the startup modal stays quiet until new cards are added. Keep manual Open available with an empty state, and update the static test plus DOX contract for dormant periods.
Remove memory-plugin assumptions from root and non-plugin DOX contracts so disabled plugins are not implied as available runtime behavior.
Keep the memory plugin documented only in its owning plugin subtree and mark it optional from the parent plugin index.
Set the bundled model config, Balance preset, and onboarding OpenRouter default to anthropic/claude-sonnet-5. Refresh the model config README example to match.
Stop seeding stale Codex OAuth model metadata so connected accounts use the upstream /models response instead of the retired gpt-5.2-codex default.
Use gpt-5.5 as the Codex proxy fallback model, omit the fake legacy client version when Codex CLI is unavailable, and remove the stale Copilot fallback entry.
Add focused OAuth regressions for the current default model, upstream model-list behavior, and Copilot fallback ordering.
