KnightCode
Changelog

Changelog

Release notes pulled live from the project changelog - the notable changes per version, shorter than the raw commit history.

Latest - v0.4.1Apache-2.0
GitHub releases

  1. v0.4.1

    Latest
    Fixed
    • Re-inject the current todo list after each tool round so the model's plan stays in context during long turns. Only fires when the list has unfinished items and has changed since the last round.

  2. v0.4.0

    Harness reliability: safer edits and recovery from flaky model streams.

    Added
    • No blind or stale edits. A file must be read before it can be edited, and an edit is rejected if the file changed on disk since that read — so a write can't silently clobber newer changes. The read state is rebuilt from the transcript, so it survives a session resume.
    • No accidental repeats. Identical read-only tool calls in one round run once instead of duplicating, and the loop guard stops repeated identical calls sooner.
    • Auto-retry on flaky streams. Transient stream failures and empty responses retry with exponential backoff (honoring Retry-After); cancelling mid-backoff no longer fires an extra model call.
    • Tool errors self-correct. An invalid tool call no longer ends the turn — the model gets the error back and can fix it.
    • No misleading diffs. An edit diff shows only after the edit actually applies; failed or rejected edits don't render one.

  3. v0.3.1

    Fixed
    • Fix the /exit command freezing the terminal in packaged builds. Process cleanup used spawnSync(process.execPath, ["-e", ...]) as a sleep, but in a compiled standalone binary process.execPath is the CLI itself, so it relaunched the TUI and blocked forever. Replaced it with an in-process sleep and made exit terminate the process explicitly.

  4. v0.3.0

    Add automatic skill discovery, hot-reload, and path-scoped skills so installed skills surface and get loaded without having to be named explicitly.

    Added
    • Skill auto-discovery. Each turn a cheap side-query compares your request against the installed skills, surfaces the relevant ones, and directs the model to load them via the Skill tool before responding. Surfaced skills appear as a visible ↳ Relevant skills: … line in the chat. Controlled by the skills.autoDiscover setting (on by default).
    • Skill hot-reload. A file watcher picks up added, edited, or removed SKILL.md files mid-session, so changes take effect without restarting. Controlled by the skills.hotReload setting (on by default).
    • Path-scoped (conditional) skills. A skill with a paths frontmatter glob is kept out of the always-on skill list and surfaces only when you edit a file matching its globs.
    Changed
    • The skill index injected into the system prompt is now size-bounded: descriptions are truncated to fit the budget and, in the extreme, the listing falls back to names only — but every skill name is always shown, so no installed skill becomes undiscoverable.

  5. v0.2.1

    Added
    • Memory follow-ups: feed recent tool usage into the recall selector as an extra relevance signal, frame extraction's "new messages" window from a per-session cursor (so durable facts mentioned during gate-skipped turns are still reconsidered), and drain any in-flight memory extraction on /exit (bounded) so a save isn't dropped at shutdown.
    • Refresh the supported model catalog with new OpenRouter models: nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free (Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B), nex-agi/nex-n2-pro:free (Nex N2 Pro), qwen/qwen3.7-plus (Qwen3.7 Plus), z-ai/glm-5.2 (GLM 5.2), and moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code (Kimi K2.7 Code). New qwen and nex model aliases accompany them.
    • Accurate per-session cost: enable OpenRouter usage accounting (usage.include) so each request returns its actual cost. The in-app /cost "Session cost" now sums real costs (correct for free/cached/uncurated models) and only falls back to the local price table when a message has no reported cost.
    • Session grouping on OpenRouter: send the session id as the x-session-id header so a session's requests are grouped in OpenRouter's logs (Sessions tab) and routed stickily to the same provider for better prompt-cache hits. Requests are also tagged with the session id via the user field for per-request "Client User ID" attribution.
    Changed
    • Default model is now nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free (was z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free). The glm, kimi, and nemotron aliases were repointed to their successor models (z-ai/glm-5.2, moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code, nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free), and the onboarding shortlist was updated to match the new catalog.
    • OpenRouter app attribution: HTTP-Referer → https://knightcode.raghavseth.in and X-Title → KnightCode (was "KnightCode CLI").
    Fixed
    • Tab mode cycle so it reaches AUTO: previously Tab only toggled between BUILD and PLAN, making AUTO selectable solely via the /agents dialog. Tab now cycles BUILD → PLAN → AUTO → BUILD.
    Removed
    • Drop two unused dependencies from @knightcodeai/cli: pretty-ms (never imported) and hono (the toast provider's useMemo now imports from react instead of hono/jsx).
    • Drop discontinued/older version models: z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:free, z-ai/glm-5.1, moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, and nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free, along with their glm_air and deepseek aliases.

  6. v0.2.0

    Standalone query engine, concurrent tool scheduler, and Apache-2.0 licensing. This release replaces the React `useChat`-based chat harness with a dedicated, framework-agnostic query engine, adds a concurrency-aware tool scheduler, and hardens the interactive terminal experience. The project is now formally licensed under Apache-2.0.

    Added
    • Standalone query engine. A new engine loop drives a turn end-to-end, independent of the React render tree (lib/engine/). It owns engine event and params types, a transcript-repair pass that resolves dangling/unresolved tool calls, and tool-gating decisions backed by a loop guard to prevent runaway tool cycles.
    • `useQueryEngine` hook. A thin React hook that drives the engine loop and replaces the previous useChat harness entirely.
    • Concurrency-aware tool scheduler. Engine-owned scheduling policy runs tool rounds with bounded concurrency. Introduces an engine ToolHost contract and a hook adapter so the engine can execute tools without depending on the UI layer.
    • Cross-session project memory. Durable, non-obvious facts are extracted automatically after completed turns into a per-project store (~/.knightcode/projects/<cwd>/memory/) with a MEMORY.md recall index. Relevant memories are recalled into the system prompt, a consolidation ("dream") pass merges and prunes the store, and a Memory tool lets the model review, correct, or forget entries.
    • Per-row tool spinners. Concurrently running tools each get their own inline spinner instead of a single shared indicator.
    • `@`-mention path expansion. Paths referenced with @ in a prompt are expanded into the model's context at submit time.
    • PostToolUse `systemMessage` surfacing. Messages emitted by PostToolUse hooks are now surfaced to callers.
    • Apache-2.0 license. Added root LICENSE and NOTICE files and license fields in the workspace and CLI package.json.
    Changed
    • Extracted compactHistory out of the old use-chat module and moved chat message types into lib/engine/messages.
    • Exposed a hook-free executeRegisteredTool for engine use.
    • Unified all interactive prompts onto a single shared permission panel.
    • Dropped the unused sessionId from QueryParams.
    • Pointed repository URLs at the KnightCodeAI org and scoped the publish workflow to publishable paths.
    Fixed
    • Quit behaviour: /exit is now the only way to quit; Ctrl+C never exits.
    • Permissions: every confirm-gated tool now shows a permission prompt, and every awaited tool decision is guaranteed a resolvable prompt; scoped the always-allow sweep correctly.
    • Markdown rendering: convert <br> to real line breaks in prose, expand <br> table cells into continuation rows, and stop rendering literal <br> tags.
    • Interrupts: render the interrupted marker after the partial response, with a plain interrupted notice (no emoji or completion verb); render interrupted aborts and surface queued mid-turn submits.
    • History integrity: stop schema-validating history and instead quarantine invalid tool calls.
    • State sync: synchronize message-ref writes, guard submit re-entry, persist the final turn snapshot, queue mid-turn submits, clear finished todos, and only clear the compacting state when it was actually set.
    • Hardened file reads, question cancellation, and transcript text handling, plus a sweep of code-review findings across the engine and UI.

  7. v0.1.0

    Added
    • Initial public release: knightcode ships as a self-contained compiled binary (no Bun required) distributed via platform-specific npm packages, with a headless --version and doctor, embedded database migrations, and a non-blocking update check.