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.
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.
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.
Notify users when automatic chat renaming cannot reach the Utility Model, while keeping the rename task best-effort. Normalize saved generated titles, mark WebUI state dirty after successful saves, and cover the success and failure paths with focused tests.
When Responses mode accepts a plain-text final answer, reuse the active generating log item as a finished response entry so the WebUI does not remain on the Calling LLM step.
Skip normal tool JSON and existing live response-tool logs, and cover the fallback with focused regression tests.
Route the Configure credentials banner link through the welcome banner action dispatcher so it opens Settings directly at External Services > Authentication.\n\nAdd coverage for the unsecured connection banner and document the structured banner action contract for future banner links.
Store explicitly loaded skill IDs as chat-wide context data while keeping full skill bodies in normal tool-result history. Reattach any loaded skill body that is no longer visible after compaction by reimporting the current skill from its source, without revision hashes or protocol reinjection.
Update compaction and summary prompts to preserve loaded skill names only, refresh DOX contracts, and add focused coverage for context-data persistence, legacy agent-data migration, duplicate suppression, and post-compaction reattachment.
Rework the welcome screen around the shared new-chat composer, renewed quick actions, discovery cards, OAuth accounts, and dedicated system resources panel.
Restore static button colors and neutral surfaces, move microphone state feedback onto the icon, and keep Rubik/code-font composer behavior.
Add focused static regressions for the welcome composer, OAuth discovery panel, and speech button contract.
Skip persisted tool-result files for BACKGROUND contexts, remove ephemeral direct parallel worker chat folders during cleanup, and ignore chat directories without chat.json during startup loading.
Add focused regressions for background output persistence, parallel worker cleanup, and orphan directory loading.
Introduce a new prompt "protocol" separate from extras: add LoopData.protocol_temporary and protocol_persistent, include protocol contents before message history during prompt construction, and clear temporary protocol data each turn. Add helper _build_context_message to render protocol/extras, update response input conversion to include protocol, and move project instructions & active/loaded skills injection into protocol. Update docs, prompts, plugin metadata, the SkillsTool message, and add tests to verify protocol placement and behavior.
When compression hides an explicitly loaded skill body, reattach the current missing revision as a normal skills_tool history result under one fixed budget. Preserve skill name and revision metadata in automatic and manual compaction summaries without copying full skill bodies.
Move explicit skill loads out of per-turn prompt extras and into normal tool-result history, with revision metadata for duplicate detection. Duplicate load calls now omit the full body only when the same revision remains model-visible after history output assembly.
- add a parallel wrapper and runtime for concurrent background tool calls
- run parallel call_subordinate jobs as child chats with visible subagent steps that match normal subordinate args
- render parallel child tool steps with normal tool-call args while keeping job handles in wrapper results and prompt extras
- group parallel child chats in the sidebar with persistent accordion and caret behavior
- add prompt, extension, DOX, and regression coverage
Add project-scoped MCP server configuration with global/project merge semantics, a richer settings UI, and chat composer access. Introduce MCP config scanning plus project-aware status/detail/log/apply APIs while preserving the raw JSON editor. Strengthen MCP runtime handling for dotted tool names, timeouts, status accuracy, and project-aware tool execution, with focused regression coverage.
Add a core startup migration that refreshes /exe/self_update_manager.py from the repository copy when the installed runtime updater is missing the socket-safe backup and Desktop cleanup markers.
Validate the source updater before replacing anything, preserve the previous runtime script as a backup, and leave current or non-regular targets untouched. Add regression coverage for stale runtime replacement, safe no-op/refusal paths, and the real repository updater source.
Add comprehensive file-level DOX documentation across the repo and update directory AGENTS.md indexes. Many new `*.py.dox.md` files were added under api, helpers, tools, plugins, extensions, webui, and other dirs to document endpoint purpose, ownership, runtime contracts, work guidance, and verification. Several AGENTS.md files were created or updated (agents profiles, api, docker, extensions, helpers, plugins, skills, webui components, etc.) to list child DOX files and clarify documentation/work guidance. Also add example and bundled profile DOX files (agent0, default, developer, hacker, researcher) and minor updates to helpers/dirty_json.py and its tests. These changes improve on-disk documentation coverage and establish the convention that each direct runtime file should have a matching `*.dox.md` describing its contracts and verification steps.
Introduce DOX (AGENTS.md) contracts across the repository to formalize ownership and local work contracts: adds .github/AGENTS.md plus AGENTS.md files for agents, api, conf, docker, docs, extensions, helpers, knowledge, lib, plugins, prompts, scripts, skills, tests, tools, usr, webui (and several subfolders). Update root AGENTS.md (content and last-updated date) to include DOX framework guidance and a child DOX index. Update .gitignore to allow usr/ and usr/plugins AGENTS.md files. Remove legacy deep-dive files under docs/agents (banners, components, modals, plugins) and migrate frontend/plugin references to webui/ and plugins/ DOX locations. Also adjust plugins/README.md and several skills/*/SKILL.md files to align with the new DOX layout.
Expose Agent Zero over the Agent Client Protocol as a builtin stdio plugin with session lifecycle support, streaming bridges, registry metadata, and editor workspace handling.
Add lazy dependency installation through the ACP plugin hook using the root requirements pin so self-updated instances can recover without a fresh Docker image.
Pin agent-client-protocol, add focused static coverage, and allow ACP sessions to override the per-context workdir for code execution and workdir prompts.
Let users hide skills from the model-facing available catalog through the chat Skills selector while keeping pinned skill injection as a separate mode.
Hidden skills are filtered from skill listing, search, loading, relevant recall, and loaded-skill prompt injection, with chat-level show/hide overrides and persistent default hidden-skill config support.
Add user-configurable timezone and 12/24-hour preferences, then wire them through settings, runtime snapshots, scheduler payloads, wait handling, notifications, backups, memory, plugin metadata, and frontend formatters.
Keep UTC as the boundary for absolute instants while serializing user-facing dates in the configured or browser-resolved timezone. Preserve scheduler wall-clock inputs in the selected timezone, propagate TZ into desktop/runtime process environments, and restart active desktop sessions when the runtime timezone changes.
Cover the risky paths with timezone regression tests for settings normalization, auto and fixed timezone resolution, scheduler round-trips, memory timestamp conversion, and desktop timezone sync.
Detect stalled automatic history compression so the prompt-prep wait loop cannot spin forever when no further reduction is possible.
Split large manual chat compaction input by verified token budget instead of line midpoint, covering single-line 85k+ character histories.
Add regression tests for stalled compression, max-pass bailout, and large single-line compaction chunking.
Validate and persist API chat lifetime: lifetime_hours is validated as a positive number and stored in the AgentContext data, and context.last_message is set using UTC. Removed the in-class threading-based cleanup state and old _cleanup_expired_chats method. Introduced a new job-loop extension (extensions/python/job_loop/_20_cleanup_expired_api_chats.py) that periodically scans AgentContext instances and removes expired API chats (using persist_chat.remove_chat) in a UTC-aware manner. Added tests (tests/test_api_chat_lifetime.py) to verify lifetime persistence and that the job loop removes expired chats.
Standardize multi-action tools around tool_args.action while keeping parser compatibility for older tool/args, tool_name:action, and method-shaped requests. This keeps new prompts clean without breaking agents that learned the previous dialect.
Move A0 connector remote execution/file tools into stable standard prompts, make remote targeting independent of the active chat context, and skill-gate beta computer-use remote so it no longer weighs down the always-on tool list.
Align text editor, scheduler, skills, office artifact, memory, notify, and browser prompts/tools around the canonical action contract. Add scheduler update/timezone handling, skills_tool read_file, text editor patch coverage, and fixes for memory_forget, behaviour_adjustment, and code execution progress warnings.
Reduce default prompt pressure by compacting browser and scheduler prompts into skill-backed manifests, shortening skill catalog descriptions, and pruning noisy framework knowledge. Remove obsolete connector prompt stubs and root tool-call knowledge examples.
Tests: conda run -n a0 pytest tests/test_a0_connector_prompt_gating.py tests/test_tool_action_contracts.py tests/test_task_scheduler_timezone.py tests/test_text_editor_context_patch.py tests/test_tool_request_normalization.py tests/test_office_document_store.py::test_odf_is_advertised_and_docx_remains_explicit_compatibility tests/test_office_document_store.py::test_document_artifact_accepts_method_alias_for_ods_create tests/test_skills_runtime.py tests/test_default_prompt_budget.py::test_a0_small_profile_removed_and_prompt_text_generic -q
Restyle Settings and standard modals around a streamlined left-rail layout, clearer section hierarchy, advanced settings disclosures, and stronger update states.
Add persistent update visibility with quieter once-daily update notifications, plus Remote Link and Space Agent actions in the canvas rail. Refresh the tunnel experience as a normal Remote Link modal with clearer copy, QR/mobile affordances, and safer state handling.
Add a builtin `a0-setup-cli` skill for guiding host-side A0 connector setup,
and restore the lightweight trigger-word based skill matching flow, which many users asked for.
- add builtin `skills/a0-setup-cli/` with installer-first host setup guidance,
container guardrails, fallback install paths, and example responses
- fix `helpers.skills_cli` so builtin skills under `/skills` are discoverable,
searchable, and validatable
- restore trigger-pattern scoring in runtime `search_skills()`
- re-enable `skills_tool:search` in the current tool flow
- add lightweight lexical relevant-skill recall for the current user message
without reintroducing memory/vector-db skill recall
- update skill prompts to steer the agent toward search/load when requests
match skill trigger phrases
- Refactor API key management: move from global env-only to per-model config with dotenv fallback
- Add API key placeholder masking and reveal functionality in WebUI
- Consolidate API key validation logic into `has_provider_api_key()` helper
- Improve update system: add branch filtering for tags, simplify backup naming
- Add branch detection to version info and default to current branch for updates
- Extract configure model settings link to constant
- Change @extensible decorator to generate extension paths from full module and qualname hierarchies instead of flattened names
- Update extension path format from `{module}_{qualname}_{start|end}` to `_functions/<module>/<qualname>/{start|end}`
- Move all extension files to new deep directory structure under `_functions/` to match new path format
- Replace PathSpec.from_lines(GitWildMatchPattern, ...) with PathSpec.from_lines
- Rename /state_sync namespace to /webui throughout codebase
- Remove get_event_types() from WebSocketHandler - handlers now process all events for their namespace
- Replace per-event handler registration with namespace-wide registration
- Add validate_event_type() class method for runtime event name validation
- Update UserMessage instantiation to use keyword arguments (message=, attachments=)
- Move send_data
- split monolithic _10_system_prompt.py into focused extensions: main (10), tools (11), mcp (12), skills (13), secrets (13), project (14)
- each extension exposes a build_prompt() function with call_extensions_async hook for plugin extensibility
- move tool prompt collection from VariablesPlugin to _11_tools_prompt using subagents.get_paths for proper directory coverage
- add {{include original}} directive to process_includes allowing prompt inheritance without copy-paste
- add agent.system.main.specifics.md for subagent-specific additions without overriding entire role
- remove redundant plugin prompt extensions (_15_text_editor, _20_code_execution) that duplicated tool collection
- add _09_text_editor_config to register per-file kwargs via agent.data instead of VariablesPlugin in prompts dir
- Move allow_chat_override from chat_model to top-level configuration
- Update all references to use new config path
- Set default to true in default_config.yaml, false in migration
- Fix datetime parsing to handle timezone-less ISO strings by appending 'Z'
- Remove inline style from tune icon in config.html
- Add `watchdog` dependency to requirements.txt
- Implement cache entry timestamps with `CacheEntry` dataclass for LRU-style tracking
- Add `trim_cache` function to remove stale entries based on age
- Update cache operations to track and update entry timestamps on access
- Add `_get_matching_areas` helper for wildcard pattern matching in cache clearing
- Register watchdogs for API handlers, extensions, and plugins to
- Extract presets into global presets.yaml; move editor to plugin main screen
- Add project-wide override sync and three-layer permission checks
- Fix embedding change detection, new-chat inheritance, and preset name leak bugs
- Clean up dead imports/params and fix description text
Redesign extension handling to support explicit async/sync execution. helpers/extension.py rewrites the extensible decorator, adds call_extensions_async / call_extensions_sync, and a helper to gather extension classes; caching flag adjusted. Updated call sites across the codebase (agent, APIs, plugins, tools, settings, extensions) to use extension.extensible and the new call_extensions_async/sync API, and converted several extension handlers from async to sync. Also small frontend tweaks (use globalThis.runtimeInfo) and minor import updates (csrf_protect in run_ui). This centralizes extension discovery/execution and avoids previously scattered asyncio.run usage.
