0.0.4 - 2026-06-14

Install

npm install -g crabcode  # npm
bun install -g crabcode  # or bun
cargo binstall crabcode  # or cargo-binstall (prebuilt binary, faster)
cargo install crabcode   # or cargo (build from source)
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Blankeos/crabcode/main/install.sh | sh # or linux/macos (via curl)

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Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Make file mutations atomic and context-safe by @Blankeos
• Preserve selected provider by id during refresh by @Blankeos

Documentation

• Update install docs and TODOs for search migration by @Blankeos

Features

• Add vision subagent fallback for non-vision image turns by @Blankeos
• Prevent new chat actions from wrapping by @Blankeos
• Add git status side panel and remote git API by @Blankeos
• Add configurable reasoning effort for subagent configs by @Blankeos
• Add persistent project expansion and expand-all sidebar control by @Blankeos
• Improve mobile chat layout and enable queued streaming prompts by @Blankeos
• Support unauthenticated free model browsing and requests by @Blankeos
• Add pluggable provider extension framework for models by @Blankeos
• Add xAI OAuth support and generalize provider OAuth flow by @Blankeos

Ci

• Harden release pipeline and Homebrew publish flow by @Blankeos

Install crabcode 0.0.4

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install blankeos/tap/crabcode

Download crabcode 0.0.4

File	Platform	Checksum
crabcode-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
crabcode-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
crabcode-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
crabcode-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
crabcode-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum

0.0.3 - 2026-06-10

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Treat assistant streaming as active before first token by @Blankeos
• Keep streaming status visible in compact terminal widths by @Blankeos
• Avoid accidental selection during cursor navigation by @Blankeos
• Normalize interleaved tool-call/result replay ordering by @Blankeos
• Improve markdown table wrapping and terminal error notifications by @Blankeos
• Improve compaction selection, token accounting, and stats messaging by @Blankeos
• Preserve draft media state when navigating prompt history by @Blankeos
• Fix chat selection shortcut ordering by @Blankeos
• Add active-tab scrolling and dynamic height sizing by @Blankeos

Chores

• Add Homebrew publishing pipeline by @Blankeos

Features

• Coalesce terminal mouse input and improve chat wheel scrolling by @Blankeos
• Add chat find bar and improve command-backspace line navigation by @Blankeos
• Optimize incremental streaming rendering and persistence by @Blankeos
• Add reasoning capability mappings for supported models by @Blankeos
• Add reusable action dialog for copy and message actions by @Blankeos

Install crabcode 0.0.3

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

Install

brew install blankeos/tap/crabcode # brew
npm install -g crabcode            # or npm
bun install -g crabcode            # or bun
cargo binstall crabcode            # or cargo-binstall (prebuilt binary, faster)
cargo install crabcode             # or cargo (build from source)
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Blankeos/crabcode/main/install.sh | sh # or linux/macos (via curl)

Download crabcode 0.0.3

File	Platform	Checksum
crabcode-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
crabcode-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
crabcode-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
crabcode-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux	checksum
crabcode-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux	checksum

0.0.2 - 2026-06-07

Install

npm install -g crabcode  # npm
bun install -g crabcode  # or bun
cargo binstall crabcode  # or cargo-binstall (prebuilt binary, faster)
cargo install crabcode   # or cargo (build from source)
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Blankeos/crabcode/main/install.sh | sh # or linux/macos (via curl)

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Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Gate platform-specific notification and sound-path code by @Blankeos
• Isolate reasoning effort overrides per instance and show workspace in notifications by @Blankeos
• Handle kitty key events and add textarea line shortcuts by @Blankeos
• Stabilize terminal restoration and preserve dialog scroll focus by @Blankeos
• Focus first session item when opening workspace dialog by @Blankeos
• Fail on remote-client missing during build by @Blankeos
• Clarify Tailscale workflow docs and stabilize composer dock layout by @Blankeos
• Handle wrapped prompt lines in history navigation. by @Blankeos
• Keep selected /models item visible when it is the last row by @Blankeos
• Match hidden command tokens during search. by @Blankeos
• Hide registered "skills" from autocomplete suggestions (they're not commands). by @Blankeos
• Stdin pipe for -p mode. by @Blankeos
• Preserve table line breaks in rendered markdown tables. by @Blankeos
• Keep list markers inline with item text when wrapping. by @Blankeos
• Kimi k2.6 fixes. by @Blankeos
• More fixes on premature complete esp for other models, qwen 3.7 max. by @Blankeos
• Anthropic-style for qwen 3.7 max. by @Blankeos
• Outside input box not triggering tooltip for copy. by @Blankeos
• Add bounded retry for websocket stream disconnects. by @Blankeos
• Diff bleeding. by @Blankeos
• Hyperlink on hover only. by @Blankeos
• Avoid false positive hyperlinks for single-segment absolute paths. by @Blankeos
• Exclude diff gutters from selection copy and highlighting. by @Blankeos
• Apply background color at line level for inline code rows. by @Blankeos
• Handle stale websocket connections and normalize assistant message shapes. by @Blankeos
• Address premature completion recurrence through prompt parity and structured tool history. by @Blankeos
• Preserve explicit newlines in user messages. by @Blankeos
• Premature completion 2. by @Blankeos
• Defer finish when tool messages still running. by @Blankeos
• Chat input box wrapping fixes. by @Blankeos
• Premature stops. by @Blankeos
• Use connect timeout instead of request timeout for streaming SSE connections. by @Blankeos
• Allow scroll passthrough when permission dialog is open. by @Blankeos
• Keep chat pinned to bottom when new stream content arrives. by @Blankeos
• Style image placeholders with markdown_image color. by @Blankeos
• Add structured stream logging with request/summary diagnostics. by @Blankeos
• Remove compact tool panel spacing special case. by @Blankeos
• Issue w/ opencodego models, replace parse_tool_calls with streaming ToolCallAccumulator. by @Blankeos
• Add vertical padding and background styling to user message bubbles. by @Blankeos
• Defer session creation until first message with pending title support. by @Blankeos
• Proper table rendering. by @Blankeos
• Plan to build so it can call tools. by @Blankeos
• Layout shifts when focusing timeline dialog. by @Blankeos
• Horizontal centering of mascot. by @Blankeos
• Better spacing using a clever glyph (upper half block). by @Blankeos
• Cache chat rendering and adapt event loop poll rate to reduce idle CPU usage. by @Blankeos
• For sessions and themes dialogs. autofocus what is current. by @Blankeos
• Minor spacings in scrollbar stuff. by @Blankeos
• Border-l of my chat messages. by @Blankeos
• Popup padding commands. by @Blankeos
• Ctrl+a in /models and a few jank fixes. by @Blankeos
• 'qui' instead of 'quit' (cutoff). by @Blankeos
• Fixed the esc in the dialog to stick to the right. by @Blankeos
• Minor fix on popup paddings. + lots more polish. by @Blankeos
• BIG! PASTE WORKS!!!!! by @Blankeos
• Focus highlight width. by @Blankeos
• Dialog item styles (description). by @Blankeos
• Fix bugs with session sorting and display. by @Blankeos
• Highlight list content area dialog thing. by @Blankeos
• Added padding for dialogs. by @Blankeos
• Completely working api key persistence. by @Blankeos
• Api key dialog shows up after entering on a provider in connect. by @Blankeos
• Cursor visibility improvmenets. by @Blankeos
• Minor UI fixes. by @Blankeos
• Issues after refactoring. by @Blankeos
• Shift+enter controls on zed. by @Blankeos

Chores

• Add git-cliff changelog generation to release pipeline by @Blankeos
• More readme details by @Blankeos
• Readme images. by @Blankeos
• Added a root favicon so crabcode/t3code picks it up. by @Blankeos
• Author by @Blankeos
• Remote usage plan. by @Blankeos
• Todo by @Blankeos
• Just progress mgmt stuff. by @Blankeos
• Remove aisdk_debug.log. by @Blankeos
• Todos by @Blankeos
• Add makeshift agent benchmarking script. by @Blankeos
• Added opencode ai plugin. by @Blankeos
• Remove ralphy. by @Blankeos
• Install script for linux/macos via curl. by @Blankeos
• Used the crabcode branch for my aisdk-rs fork. by @Blankeos
• Put plans in _plans. by @Blankeos
• Just local dev stuff. by @Blankeos
• Fmt. by @Blankeos
• Added more todos for myself. by @Blankeos
• Moved plans. by @Blankeos
• Other plans added. by @Blankeos
• Added old plans for implementing tool calls and system prompts. by @Blankeos
• Formatting. by @Blankeos
• Initial AGENTS.md by @Blankeos
• Added debug by @Blankeos
• Transferred all plan dcs in _plans. by @Blankeos
• Done on some features. by @Blankeos
• Added intiial justfile. by @Blankeos
• Added ratatui skill. by @Blankeos
• Deps. by @Blankeos
• Upgraded version lots of cleaning. by @Blankeos

Documentation

• Remove outdated ? command hint by @Blankeos
• Add WebSocket reset bug investigation to premature complete notes. by @Blankeos
• Add formatting reminder to AGENTS.md. by @Blankeos
• Fix config.mdx references, add remote-usage plan, enable theme and sounds. by @Blankeos
• Add --dangerously-skip-permissions to crabcode benchmark commands. by @Blankeos
• Added codex parity docs (but might not use). by @Blankeos
• Updated docs on multiworkspace. by @Blankeos
• More install options. by @Blankeos
• Added banner image. by @Blankeos
• Better docs. by @Blankeos
• Add bundled sound defaults and JSON schema for config by @Blankeos
• Initial docs w/ gittydocs. by @Blankeos
• Added some todos. by @Blankeos
• License and docs. by @Blankeos
• Chat experience plan. by @Blankeos
• Tracking progress. by @Blankeos
• Doc for first publish. by @Blankeos
• Mark git branch detection and CWD display as complete in PLAN.md by @Blankeos

Features

• Inline LLM SDK and migrate imports to local module by @Blankeos
• Add CommandCode remote provider discovery by @Blankeos
• Add configurable websearch integration with provider adapters by @Blankeos
• Add configurable macOS desktop notification backend by @Blankeos
• Add syntax-highlighted apply_patch and edit diff previews by @Blankeos
• Render apply_patch tool output as diff previews by @Blankeos
• Show active dialog entries as markers instead of right-side labels by @Blankeos
• Add vertical permission action list and keyboard navigation by @Blankeos
• Add dedicated weak text theme token for placeholders by @Blankeos
• Add remote host launch flow and grouped tool output by @Blankeos
• Preserve assistant tool-call lifecycle as ordered message parts by @Blankeos
• Centralize model dialog description helper by @Blankeos
• Add print-mode prompt size preflight. by @Blankeos
• BIG add remote mode support with client UI and release plumbing by @Blankeos
• Add command palette toggle for assistant thinking visibility by @Blankeos
• Persist theme selection as state fallback by @Blankeos
• Queue and batch user messages during active compaction. by @Blankeos
• Add /fork command with /branch alias for session cloning. by @Blankeos
• Add reasoning-effort override and apply_patch tool support. by @Blankeos
• Add non-interactive print mode and batched file write support. by @Blankeos
• Add issue triage pipeline benchmark task. by @Blankeos
• Extract bench-agents into modular benchmarking package. by @Blankeos
• Restore undo attachments and update terminal title state. by @Blankeos
• Optimization. by @Blankeos
• Add OpenCode-compatible agent registry with @mentions and markdown agents by @Blankeos
• Add reasoning_content support to tool call messages. by @Blankeos
• Handle text-only models when images are attached. by @Blankeos
• Add edge scrolling for text selection drag. by @Blankeos
• Enforce at most one in_progress item in update_plan. by @Blankeos
• Proper context compaction. by @Blankeos
• Add "Skills" command palette entry to open skills dialog. by @Blankeos
• Emit terminal BEL on permission/question events, fix scroll-on-click. by @Blankeos
• Add local Ollama provider integration with optional API keys. by @Blankeos
• Add tool image output support and chat hyperlinks. by @Blankeos
• Add view_image tool for local image inspection. by @Blankeos
• Add codex-imagegen skill (exampleonly). by @Blankeos
• Queue messages sent while streaming and auto-submit after current turn. by @Blankeos
• Group assistant turn parts into logical message blocks for clipboard, fork, click, and highlight. by @Blankeos
• Add storage dialog, refactor permissions, improve syntax highlighting. by @Blankeos
• Add syntax-highlighted diffs via syntect by @Blankeos
• Add configurable image opening and improve stream interruption handling. by @Blankeos
• Add OpenAI Responses WebSocket transport with incremental delta. by @Blankeos
• Gate app.log logging behind --emit-logs flag. by @Blankeos
• Open message actions on direct chat message click. by @Blankeos
• Normalize plan status markers and add helper functions. by @Blankeos
• Add command palette overlay accessible via ctrl+p. by @Blankeos
• Add premature-completion diagnostics and relax read-tool permissions. by ...