Preview build 2026-08-31-b1ff4582e968

Built from b1ff4582e968 on master.
Base stable: v0.8.2
Compare: b5c4a01...b1ff458

Added

• Add muse agent with generic Pick blocked detection (#2489)
• Add per-mode theme overrides (#2324)

Fixed

• Detect pi bundled cli (#3207)
• Make test-one work on Windows (#3442)
• Detect copilot background agents as working (#3403)
• Encode antigravity windows hook command (#3352)
• Report the foreground group leader's cwd, not a descendant's (#3386)
• Reject oversized git ref files in workspace status reads (#3373)
• Detect claude mcp elicitation dialogs as blocked (#3383)
• Handle associated text on special keys (#3350)
• Keep OSC evidence through first agent acquisition (#3326)
• Trust worktree repositories per request (#3344)
• Ignore cursor events in claude hooks (#3342)
• Ignore codex weak blockers above the current prompt (#3339)
• Require explicit workspace group close (#3206)
• Accept reordered agent report arguments (#2928)
• Route osc 8 file links to plugin handlers (#2942)
• Keep wayland clipboard copies responsive (#3015)
• Report agent explain file errors as json (#3023)
• Refresh shared agent manifest caches (#3204)
• Batch kitty image row lifecycle (#3166)
• Serve a google-eligible favicon
• Keep omp panes working through scheduled continuations (#3122)
• Start lifecycle subscriptions from live events (#3134)
• Add local cmd installer bootstrap (#3133)
• Preserve non-us shifted text (#3055)
• Clear Windows Terminal identity in panes (#3127)
• Copy selections before delayed mouse release (#3102)
• Preserve focus after background worktree removal (#3099)
• Publish Claude MCP detection manifest
• Match generated characters in prefix bindings (#3085)
• Keep background Claude MCP tasks working (#3094)
• Preserve multiline paste in terminal attach (#3056)
• Isolate oversized kitty images (#3035)
• Detect cursor bundled node process (#3034)
• Add claude screen activity fallbacks
• Synchronize plugin pane pwd (#2985)
• Honor mouse capture config in terminal attach (#2995)
• Preserve mouse forwarding through handoff (#3002)
• Strip ansi sequences from tab bar status (#3003)

Maintenance

• Trigger ai reviews and add maintainer
• Restrict release workflows to canonical repository
• Move changelog curation to release prep
• Document macos keychain launch context
• Keep kennel authority private
• Pin kennel maintainer identities
• Use native path in docs parity assertion (#3043)
• Remove akbash maintainer authority
• Support immutable preview releases
• Publish preview documentation

Preview build 2026-08-19-b5c4a0176e91

Built from b5c4a0176e91 on master.
Base stable: v0.8.2
Compare: v0.8.2...b5c4a01

Changed

• Rebuilt preview from the current master branch.

Added

• CLI help now points coding agents to Herdr's plain-text guide, documentation index, and built-in control skill.
• Added Qwen Code detection for idle, working, and user-confirmation states, plus optional native session restore. (#2730, #2743)
• Herdr now keeps the outer terminal window title in sync with the session through ui.window_title, so window managers and terminal tab bars show the active workspace and the host the panes actually run on. (#2627, thanks @dhh)
• The desktop tab bar now has configurable right-aligned status entries for zoom state, hostname, date/time, literal text, and asynchronously refreshed command output.
• Optional keys.move_tab_previous and keys.move_tab_next bindings now reorder the active tab in place, wrapping at either end. (#2561, thanks @dhh)
• Optional keys.resize_pane_left, keys.resize_pane_down, keys.resize_pane_up, and keys.resize_pane_right bindings now resize the focused pane in one keystroke without entering resize mode. (#2558, thanks @dhh)
• Windows clients can now use herdr --remote to attach to Herdr servers on Linux and macOS. (#2329)
• Cursor Agent CLI, MastraCode, Hermes Agent, and Grok CLI integrations now install and run natively on Windows.
• Panes can now route normal right-click gestures to mouse-reporting applications through the pane menu, herdr pane input, pane.input.set, or the pane split --right-click pane launch option.
• ui.pane_outer_borders can now keep or hide the outside edges of split-pane borders independently from internal dividers. (#2535, thanks @dhh)
• theme.custom.sidebar_bg can now give the desktop sidebar its own background without changing built-in theme defaults.
• Settings and ui.status_indicators = "symbols" can now use distinct static shapes for blocked, working, done, idle, and unknown agent states. (#2260)
• Navigate-mode selection rows now use a dedicated per-theme cursor color, customizable via theme.custom.selection_bg, so the cursor stays distinguishable from the active Space and Agent highlight.
• Copy mode now supports B, E, and W motions over whitespace-delimited big words. (#2270, thanks @jplew)
• The plugin marketplace now discovers valid manifests at repository roots and subdirectories, groups multiple plugins under each repository, and publishes their versions and exact default-branch commits.

Changed

• Windows support is now generally available through stable releases and uses the stable update channel by default. Existing preview installs stay on preview until explicitly switched.
• Headless servers now use a configurable 120×40 virtual terminal instead of 80×24 when no client is attached, giving newly created panes a practical default size. (#2828)
• Desktop tab labels are now centered in their tabs, so the active-tab highlight has symmetric padding. (#2570, thanks @dhh)
• Experimental pane graphics now support bounded named layers, acknowledged full-RGBA primary-layer direct file frames on audited local terminals, owned BGRA fallback, exact pixel mouse input, and placement-only resize replay.

Fixed

• Unix CLI commands now exit quietly when a downstream pipe closes instead of panicking with exit 101. (#2994)
• The terminal theme now keeps the active Space row fill visible when the Navigate cursor lands on it, in both expanded and collapsed sidebars. (#2987)
• Busy multi-pane sessions now avoid redundant hidden-pane wakeups and full terminal-state formatting in pane-scaled paths, preventing CPU regressions from high-rate background output, scrollbars, and enhanced keyboard modes. (#2550, #2901, #2962)
• Chinese IME commits now reach panes on macOS when the focused application requests printable key-release events. (#2924)
• Windows now recognizes Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+9 keybindings instead of decoding those key records as control characters. (#2910)
• PowerShell panes now keep their process-reported working directory synchronized with the shell's logical location. (#2879, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Foreground typing no longer waits behind render cadence consumed by output from panes in hidden tabs. (#2890)
• The Windows ARM64 installer now waits for x64 emulation to release the verified executable before activating the downloaded release. (#2916)
• On Unix, Ctrl-click URL openers are now reaped after they exit, preventing defunct child processes from accumulating on long-running servers. (#2903)
• Windows updates now reuse only verified local packages, avoiding security-tool download blocks while preserving checksum validation. (#2751, #2816, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Herdr no longer sends the full OSC 4 palette query burst under WSL, preventing reply fragments from leaking into the shell through ConPTY. (#2440)
• Qwen Code panes now use locale-independent terminal-title states and localized confirmation fallbacks, preventing active or blocked turns from appearing idle. (#2756)
• Claude Code panes now recognize and strip every half-circle title spinner frame, preventing active turns from appearing idle and keeping titles clean. (#2707, #2709, #2760, #2762)
• Copilot prompts now focus the target pane before sending input, so background panes do not silently drop prompts. (#1698, #2734, thanks @xkrogen)
• Agent hooks now invoke the running Herdr binary instead of whichever binary appears first on PATH. (#2722, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Closing a terminal running herdr --remote no longer produces a local client core dump while the remote session stays alive. (#2424)
• Active Space and Agent rows now use dedicated theme colors that remain visible when the host terminal background matches the selected Herdr theme. (#2792)
• agent prompt now rejects agents already waiting at approval or question dialogs with agent_blocked, without sending text or Enter. (#2788)
• agent start now waits for new pane shells and first-run agent prompts to become ready instead of racing them or reporting premature readiness. (#2410, #2537, #2773, #2774, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• prefix+e now preserves logical lines when opening soft-wrapped scrollback in an editor. (#2733)
• Alternate-screen pane reads avoid unnecessary ANSI formatting work, reducing read latency for TUI agents. (#2387, #2426)
• Tab bar clicks are now properly registered when using Ghostty in native fullscreen. (#796, #2736, thanks @HackAttack)
• Prefix keybindings now disambiguate layout-aware shifted punctuation, so a shifted \ no longer triggers prefix+| on keyboard layouts where the same key produces both characters. (#2674)
• Remote clients now continue redrawing at very large terminal sizes instead of freezing when a full ANSI frame exceeds the transport limit. (#2670)
• Windows Git status refreshes now reuse repository configuration instead of repeatedly triggering security scans for WSL repositories. (#2643, #2688, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Windows idle agent detection now shares process snapshots across panes, reducing CPU use in sessions with many Git Bash panes. (#2459, #2494, #2642, #2651, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Embedded bare repositories now derive the correct repository name and worktree location. (#2657, #2660)
• Root-repository workspaces now retain their saved labels across update restarts. (#2594, #2727)
• Elevated Windows panes no longer expose PowerShell's administrator decoration as the terminal title. (#2632, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Modal name inputs now anchor the host IME cursor to the text field instead of the pane behind the dialog. (#1755, #2569, thanks @kataokatsuki)
• Session Navigator movement ignores modified j, k, and arrow keys instead of consuming unrelated pane input. (#1981, #2377, thanks @atomsbaza)
• OpenCode panes now track the root conversation selected in their own TUI for native restore without adopting activity from attached clients. (#2450)
• Server stop requests now bypass pane and API traffic, preventing busy sessions from blocking shutdown or admitting a client while shutdown is pending. (#2612)
• Fish Ctrl+Alt keybindings now work in panes after legacy Alt-prefixed control bytes are decoded with both modifiers. (#2514)
• Windows recent-history reads no longer perform redundant snapshots, restoring recent output while reducing read cost. (#962, #2474, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• The Windows installer now activates releases with an atomic directory swap, preventing interrupted updates from leaving an empty release directory. (#2356, #2530, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• herdr config check now reports unknown built-in theme names instead of silently accepting them. (#2452)
• macOS herdr --remote clients now keep the accepted bridge socket blocking, preventing an immediate disconnect after the protocol handshake. (#2478, thanks @mathijshenquet)
• Prefix keybindings now preserve Shift in WezTerm Kitty keyboard mode, so commands such as config reload no longer trigger their unshifted action. (#2435)
• Pane applications now receive modifyOtherKeys releases and shifted alternate reports without dropped releases or leaked Ctrl+Tab sequences. (#2296, #2302, #2303)
• Detaching now restores host keyboard reporting, preventing enhanced keyboard sequences from leaking into the shell after Herdr exits. (#2393, #2395)
• Default mouse reports are decoded instead of leaking escape bytes into the focused pane. (#2309, #2312)
• BEL characters emitted by pane programs now reach the outer terminal so its audible and visual bell settings can react. (#2453)
• Stable direct installs, self-updates, and remote helper downloads now require and verify the SHA-256 digest published for each GitHub release asset.
• pane read and pane wait-output now accept --flag=value and options before or after the pane ID. (#2183, thanks @KyleCo76)
• pane current, pane get, and pane layout --current now resolve the calling pane instead of another client's focused pane. (#2297, #2298)
• Configs containing the retired Herdr-written ui.agent_panel_scope setting no longer report it as an unknown key after upgrades. (#2292)
• Claude Code confirmation prompts using Enter to confirm · Esc to cancel now report blocked instead of idle. (#2268)
• Kiro CLI prompts now have positive idle detection instead of remaining in an unknown state. (#2301, thanks @smileynet)
• Cursor's Run Everything footer no longer produces a false blocked state. (#1763, #2220, thanks @Nagi-ovo)
• Versioned Python agent wrappers such as python3.13 are now detected. (#2188, thanks @plarson)
• Pi state reporting now ignores RPC, JSON, and print-mode helper processes that are not interactive TUI sessions. (#2159, thanks @rhjoh)
• Collapsed workspace and Agent rows keep their status and active indicators visible, including with ten or more workspaces. (#2216, #2239, #2382, thanks @ianks)
• Sidebar agent lists keep scrolling when differently sized clients are attached to the same session. (#2255, thanks @aiworkflowpro)
• The Session Navigator now searches renamed single-tab labels. (#2320)
• New splits return focus to the pane they were opened from. (#2266, thanks @jondkinney)
• Halfwidth Katakana voiced and semi-voiced marks now render in the correct cell. (#2257, thanks @kazunari-kamata)
• Ctrl-clicking a URL no longer forwards its release after the browser takes host focus, preventing duplicate tabs. (#2290, #2291, thanks @kataokatsuki)
• OSC 4 palette overrides now render with the requested color instead of forwarding the palette index. (#2162, thanks @hamidi-dev)
• Host terminal appearance is re-queried when focus returns, keeping automatic light and dark themes current. (#2416, #2417)
• The bundled and installable Herdr agent skill now matches this stable release's CLI and lifecycle behavior. (#2847)
• pane send-keys and agent send-keys now preserve Shift when sending shift+tab, allowing agent permission modes to be cycled programmatically. (#1561, thanks @keinstn and @tomohisa)

Preview build 2026-08-18-9fac51722653

Built from 9fac51722653 on master.
Base stable: v0.8.0
Compare: 1147e60...9fac517

Added

• Make Windows generally available
• Plugin marketplace discovery shelves — trending and new arrivals

Fixed

• Preserve macOS IME commits in report-all mode (#2947)
• Isolate hidden pane render cadence (#2892)
• Retry Windows installer activation after transient locks (#2921)
• Raise timeout on docs release integration test for slow builders
• Link agents to config reference data
• Reap ctrl-click url openers (#2906)
• Sync powershell process working directory (#2879)
• Match Windows Ctrl+digit keybindings (#2913)

Maintenance

• Publish preview documentation

Preview build 2026-08-17-1147e60bc0a4

Built from 1147e60bc0a4 on master.
Base stable: v0.8.0
Compare: d78e3d3...1147e60

Added

• Make headless terminal size configurable (#2829)
• Guide agents to Herdr resources
• Publish agent-readable documentation
• Add qwen code detection and restore (#2743)
• Keep the outer terminal window title in sync with the session (#2627)
• Add move tab keybind actions (#2561)
• Add configurable tab bar status (#2586)
• Add direct pane resize keybindings (#2558)
• Add direct pane frame streaming (#2523)
• Make outer pane borders configurable (#2535)
• Add per-pane right-click routing (#2504)
• Support all agent integrations on windows (#2496)
• Rebuild compare page in new design with runtime positioning
• Track star history for trending and new plugin surfaces
• Add big-word motions (#2270)
• Support remote attach to unix hosts (#2329)
• Add optional sidebar background
• Add distinct status indicators (#2282)
• Index marketplace manifests

Fixed

• Keep agent skill aligned with stable releases
• Skip host palette queries under wsl (#2852)
• Keep default active rows subtle and add navigate cursor color (#2838)
• Handle remote terminal hangup (#2827)
• Detect qwen localized active states (#2818)
• Use verified local packages for windows updates (#2816)
• Speed up alternate-screen history reads (#2426)
• Keep active sidebar rows visible (#2794)
• Publish channel-aware documentation indexes
• Apply llms patch during website builds
• Reject prompts to blocked agents (#2790)
• Detect all claude half-circle spinner frames (#2762)
• Wait for new pane shell readiness (#2774)
• Keep tab and sidebar clicks when the terminal reports a stray drag (#2736)
• Support high-dpi direct file frames (#2680)
• Preserve logical lines in scrollback editor (#2735)
• Focus Copilot before prompting (#2734)
• Strip claude title spinner frames (#2709)
• Use the running binary in agent hooks (#2722)
• Preserve workspace labels for root repositories (#2727)
• Synchronously terminate cancelled status commands
• Detect claude 2.1.228 half-circle busy spinner
• Disambiguate shifted punctuation keybinds (#2676)
• Compact large terminal redraws (#2675)
• Reduce idle agent detection CPU (#2651)
• Make just build cross-platform (#2647)
• Derive repo name for embedded bare layouts (#2660)
• Wait for agent prompt readiness (#2537)
• Ignore modified j/k/up/down in session navigator (#2377)
• Strip elevated terminal title decoration (#2632)
• Prioritize shutdown requests (#2624)
• Track opencode tui session selection (#2455)
• Anchor the host cursor to modal name inputs (#2569)
• Center tab labels for symmetric highlight padding (#2570)
• Avoid abort on terminal hangup (#2427)
• Preserve alt-prefixed control keys (#2543)
• Improve plugins page readability on dark ground
• Reclaim scrollbar gutter in alternate screen (#2538)
• Make windows installer swaps atomic (#2530)
• Forward pane terminal bells (#2498)
• Share Git Bash agent candidate scans (#2494)
• Report unknown theme names (#2488)
• Avoid redundant Windows recent-history snapshots (#2474)
• Preserve shift in kitty alternate reports (#2479)
• Restore blocking bridge streams (#2485)
• Verify stable release checksums
• Publish stable release checksums
• Refresh host appearance on focus (#2417)
• Ignore Cursor Run Everything status (#2220)
• Add positive idle detection for kiro-cli prompt (#2301)
• Restore keyboard reporting on detach (#2395)
• Recognize versioned Python agent wrappers (#2188)
• Accept --flag=value and reordered options in pane read/wait-output (#2183)
• Keep plugin marketplace counts current
• Render OSC 4 palette overrides instead of forwarding the index (#2162)
• Avoid ctrl-tab escape sequences in legacy panes
• Repair contributor gate handling
• Highlight active agent in collapsed sidebar (#2382)
• Update author X profile
• Accept retired agent panel scope (#2295)
• Preserve modifyOtherKeys key releases (#2303)
• Make issue gate structural
• Render halfwidth katakana voiced marks (#2257)
• Return focus to the pane a split was opened from (#2266)
• Search single-tab names in navigator (#2320)
• Parse default mouse reports (#2312)
• Resolve pane query --current from caller (#2298)
• Keep pending url clicks across host focus loss (#2291)
• Detect claude confirmation prompts
• Copy heading links to clipboard
• Preserve sidebar scroll across clients (#2280)
• Preserve shift-tab in pane automation (#2259)
• Allow corrections to published versions

Performance

• Avoid repeated Git config reads (#2688)
• Avoid full pane mode reads for scrollbars (#2554)

Maintenance

• Sync localized configuration updates
• Update contributor list
• Refresh english documentation
• Clean up homepage
• Remove automatic issue gate
• Serialize media player environment access (#2619)
• Guard pane-scaled render performance
• Approve dhh as contributor
• Update website
• Document custom agent integrations
• Update canonical repository references
• Restore approved contributor gate
• Remove project-local worktree extension
• Refresh readme and sponsors
• Publish preview documentation

Preview build 2026-08-04-d78e3d3b5126

Built from d78e3d3b5126 on master.
Base stable: v0.8.0
Compare: v0.8.0...d78e3d3

Fixed

• Keep collapsed workspace status visible (#2239)

Maintenance

• Refine cpu optimization blog post

Added

• Added herdr --skill to print the agent skill bundled with the running Herdr binary.
• Added ui.pane_scrollbars = false to hide terminal pane scrollbars and reclaim their reserved column. (#2167)
• Added ui.tab_bar_position = "bottom" to place the desktop tab row below terminal panes. (#2117)
• Added live filtering to the keybind help with /, Backspace, and Ctrl+U. (#1825, #1832, thanks @corrius)
• Added Windows support for experimental.switch_ascii_input_source_in_prefix with Korean IMEs. (#1802, #1823, thanks @joonhwan)
• Added Grok CLI session reporting and native restore with grok --resume <id>. (#1800, #1807, thanks @carlesso)
• Added Antigravity CLI session reporting and native restore with agy --conversation <id>. (#1011, #1571, #2087, thanks @ludoo)
• Added automatic text history reads for idle alternate-screen agents, with the application viewport restored after collection.
• Added workspace.move_block, the workspace.reordered event, and atomic worktree-group reordering. (#1694)
• Added a Simplified Chinese README. (#1990, thanks @patrick-xin)

Changed

• Experimental options are no longer exposed in the Settings TUI and remain available through the config file.
• Agent status indicators now use the same static workspace marks across the sidebar, navigator, and mobile views, eliminating continuous spinner rendering while agents work.
• Hidden pane output no longer triggers unnecessary TUI rendering.
• Windows preview downloads now include Herdr and a modern app-local ConPTY runtime in one archive. (#1533, #1644, #1828)
• Worktree parents and children now stay packed together in the sidebar, including while groups are reordered.
• Public documentation now separates stable, preview, and immutable versioned release snapshots.
• Repository and installation links now use herdrdev/herdr after the GitHub organization migration.
• Relicensed Herdr from AGPL-3.0-or-later to Apache-2.0.

Fixed

• Pane applications now receive semantic light/dark query responses and live Mode 2031 updates when the host appearance changes. (#714)
• Remote attach now falls back to sh when the login shell cannot perform path discovery. (#1201)
• PTY output continues to be read while pane input is temporarily blocked. (#1295)
• Worktree CLI help and docs no longer advertise the redundant --json flag; worktree commands remain JSON-only and continue accepting the flag for compatibility. (#2171)
• OpenCode 2 preview panes now appear as OpenCode agents and use the existing OpenCode status detection. (#2169)
• Pane text copied through VS Code Remote Tunnels now reaches the viewing machine's clipboard instead of overwriting the remote host clipboard. (#2015)
• Windows agent detection now follows Git Bash-launched agents across emulated exec process boundaries. (#2107)
• Detached Windows servers and pane processes now survive logout from the OpenSSH session that started them. (#2008)
• Windows agent start now launches agents without native arguments instead of timing out on an invalid empty PowerShell argument list. (#2072)
• Headless servers now resume restored agent sessions without waiting for a TUI client to attach. (#2064)
• Vibe and other Kitty-keyboard pane applications now receive shifted letters and punctuation when they request associated text. (#2020)
• Kitty-keyboard pane applications now receive printable key releases without duplicate text input. (#1746)
• Kitty graphics remain visible during host repaints. (#1628)
• Pane applications now receive correct XTWINOPS terminal and cell-size query responses. (#835)
• WSL clients query the host cell size when the terminal ioctl reports no pixels, keeping graphics sharp instead of using the 8x16 fallback. (#2146, #2160, thanks @WakaTaira)
• Linux runtimes without terminal foreground process groups can opt into child-group agent detection with HERDR_PROCESS_DETECTION=child-groups. (#1982)
• Installing the Herdr agent skill with the skills CLI no longer copies the entire repository. (#2022)
• Nix builds now include the bundled agent skill required by herdr --skill. (#1889, #1890, thanks @olafkfreund)
• Agent prompts now wait briefly after sending text before pressing Enter, preventing prompts from remaining in agent composers without starting a turn. (#1878)
• Empty clipboard writes from pane applications no longer erase existing clipboard contents or show a copied confirmation. (#1893)
• Plain mouse movement no longer triggers continuous full renders while preserving Herdr menu hover and pane application mouse tracking. (#1865)
• Extended-button drags now preserve Herdr hover state while applications receive the drag.
• ui.copy_on_select = false now retains drag and double-click word selections without copying; Ctrl+C, or Cmd+C when the host terminal forwards it, copies and clears the selection. (#1782)
• Pane and agent read responses now report truncated: true when older terminal rows were omitted. (#1717)
• Pane applications that query OSC 4 palette colors now inherit the host terminal palette. (#1752)
• Ctrl-clicking a pane URL no longer forwards an unmatched mouse release to alternate-screen applications, preventing duplicate browser tabs. (#1761)
• Known-agent integrations now leave pane ownership to confirmed process exit, so restarting Pi with the same saved session restores lifecycle state even with custom working UI. (#1648, #1792)
• Nested or ephemeral Codex sessions no longer replace the owning pane's resumable session. (#1789, #1927, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Pi RPC, JSON, and print processes no longer claim pane lifecycle state intended for Pi TUI sessions. (#2159, thanks @rhjoh)
• Hermes state now comes from screen detection while its plugin reports resumable session identity, avoiding stale lifecycle authority from incomplete hooks.
• OMP integration install, status, and uninstall now respect PI_CONFIG_DIR when PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR is not set, and installation refuses extension-directory collisions with Pi. (#1696)
• OMP integrations now preserve Windows absolute session paths for native restore. (#2092, thanks @art-wiedzmin)
• Claude integration updates preserve existing settings key order and formatting. (#2066)
• Physical Escape key records on native Windows now bypass raw VT report framing, so pane applications receive Escape immediately and reliably. (#1736)
• Native Windows key presses, grouped repeats, and releases now preserve their physical lifecycle and stay with the pane that received the initial press. (#2077)
• Windows pane send-keys and agent send-keys now deliver semantic Escape as a complete key tap, preventing a following key from being interpreted as an Alt chord.
• Shift+Enter now reaches native Windows pane applications with its modifier intact. (#1743, #1909, thanks @Pimpmuckl)
• Ctrl+_ input bytes now decode as Ctrl+_ instead of Ctrl+-. (#2164, #2165, thanks @Sertug17)
• Prefix and navigate modes now recognize non-US shifted keybindings while retaining legacy US punctuation support. (#1870)
• Closing a non-focused workspace no longer changes the focused workspace. (#1328, #1877, thanks @yianL)
• A background workspace that closes after its last pane exits no longer moves focus or hides the current workspace. (#1621, #1912, thanks @season179)
• Directional pane focus now keeps Navigate mode active. (#1850, #1993, thanks @we11adam)
• Closing a workspace's last tab through the CLI or API now closes the workspace like the TUI does. (#1760, #1899, thanks @season179)
• Linked worktree workspaces retain their labels during Git metadata refreshes.
• Clients repaint after transient terminal resizes instead of leaving stale or missing rows.
• Repeated workspace Git discovery and foreground-cwd checks no longer block rendering or API handling. (#1838, #2206)
• Relative plugin commands now resolve from the plugin root. (#1949)
• Windows installation preserves inherited PATH and related environment variables. (#1947)
• Windows agent process discovery preserves the owning parent agent across wrapper processes. (#1514)
• The Rose Pine surface_dim color remains visible when the outer terminal uses a matching theme. (#1946, #2002, thanks @brabli)
• CLI socket commands now report a clear server_not_running error instead of a raw I/O error. (#1941, #1963, thanks @season179)
• Non-UTF-8 CLI arguments now produce a usage error instead of panicking. (#2207, thanks @VialFlorian)
• Copy-mode e now crosses long soft-wrapped CJK lines when a read window ends on a wide glyph. (#2145, thanks @kiakiraki)
• Clients restore terminal state when they receive SIGHUP or SIGTERM. (#2041, thanks @MattJColes)
• Windows now shows system notifications and completes MP3 notification sounds without leaving PowerShell players waiting for a timeout. (#1330)

Preview build 2026-07-29-44b3adb12552

Built from 44b3adb12552 on master.
Base stable: v0.7.5
Compare: 0f10e14...44b3adb

Added

• Print bundled agent skill and hint next cli steps
• Switch IME to ASCII in prefix mode on Windows (Korean IME) (#1823)
• Filter keybind help (#1832)
• Add grok cli integration for native session restore (#1807)
• Publish versioned release documentation

Fixed

• Preserve parent agent ownership
• Preserve windows path variables during install
• Restore system notifications and sound playback (#2019)
• Preserve navigate mode after pane focus (#1993)
• Restore python3 commit hook
• Select windows python command in commit hook (#1994)
• Count ptmx master fds under devpts layouts (#1984)
• Preserve linked worktree workspace labels
• Ignore nested codex session reports (#1927)
• Resolve relative plugin commands from plugin root
• Keep focus on the current workspace when another self-closes (#1912)
• Make native windows checks reliable (#1925)
• Close workspace when api closes its last tab (#1899)
• Preserve shift-enter in windows panes (#1909)
• Delay agent prompt submission
• Ignore empty clipboard writes
• Restrict unapproved pull requests to bug fixes
• Include SKILL.md in the package fileset (#1890)
• Repaint after transient terminal resizes
• Preserve prefix mode for modifier events
• Preserve focus when closing a non-focused workspace (#1877)
• Support non-us shifted keybindings (#1876)
• Improve sidebar worktree hierarchy and reordering (#1873)
• Avoid renders for passive mouse motion (#1872)
• Add rust-analyzer to development shell
• Copy retained mouse selections with keyboard shortcuts
• Run pi worktree ext on background
• Bundle modern ConPTY on Windows (#1828)
• Harden hermes lifecycle detection
• Report truncated pane reads
• Make known-agent exit process-owned
• Answer XTWINOPS size queries in panes
• Prefer branded homepage search image
• Consume handled url click gestures
• Preserve kitty graphics during host repaints
• Inherit host palette in pane queries (#1759)
• Preserve kitty printable key releases
• Preserve physical escape on windows
• Respect OMP config directory override
• Keep reading while pty input is blocked
• Fall back to sh for remote path discovery

Performance

• Skip rendering hidden pty updates
• Replace agent spinners with static status marks
• Avoid full pane renders for spinner animation (#1868)
• Eliminate repeated workspace git discovery (#1842)

Maintenance

• Remove flaky sound timing assertion
• Remove approved contributor bypass
• Add simplified chinese readme (#1990)
• Update sponsor acknowledgements
• Harden pull request workflow execution
• Gate pull request review by scope
• Consolidate project skills
• Define maintainer and agent contribution workflows
• Relicense herdr under apache-2.0
• Centralize new terminal cwd selection
• Name darwin nix toolchain inputs
• Simplify macos input source ownership
• Clarify opencode event state mapping
• Simplify cursor session reporting
• Simplify kimi lifecycle reporting
• Simplify qoder session reporting
• Replace pane mouse and clipboard internals
• Add alternate-screen output fallback

Preview build 2026-07-21-0f10e1453a7f

Built from 0f10e1453a7f on master.
Base stable: v0.7.5
Compare: v0.7.5...0f10e14

Fixed

• Add agent automation to docs sidebar

Breaking Changes

• Installed and linked plugins, including their enabled state, are now global to the current user instead of isolated by Herdr session. Plugins installed only in a named session on Herdr 0.7.3 must be installed or linked again. (#1174)

Added

• Added a live-agent CLI facade with named start, atomic prompt, logical send-keys, and server-owned wait workflows. Agent startup targets an existing pane without changing topology, validates the requested interactive agent kind and strict agent name, and accepts native arguments after --.
• Added transient declarative Agent view queries through agent.view.set/clear; filtered and sorted views now define sidebar, mobile, mouse, and agent-keybind navigation order.
• Added one-shot plugin [[startup]] hooks for restoring plugin-owned state after server startup and live handoff.
• Added per-token foreground, bold, and dim styling to expanded Space and Agent sidebar row layouts.
• Added ui.sidebar_start_collapsed to launch Herdr with the sidebar collapsed. (#1463)
• Added ui.prompt_new_workspace_name to ask for a workspace name before interactive TUI creation.
• Added macOS support for the HERDR_AGENT=<agent> foreground-process hint, allowing agents hidden behind host-visible wrappers such as nono to use the named agent's screen manifest. (#679)

Changed

• Agent commands now accept only a unique live agent name or the pane ID currently hosting that agent. Names are cleared when the occupant exits, is released, or is replaced. The old top-level wait commands were replaced by agent wait and pane wait-output, and agent send was replaced by agent send-keys.
• The session navigator now uses connected tree glyphs, groups matches by workspace, and automatically selects the first result when a search begins. (#1611)

Fixed

• CLI requests now return a machine-readable protocol_mismatch error when the client and server protocols differ, while recovery commands remain available. (#1435)
• Linux sound notifications now terminate and reap audio players that do not exit, preventing unavailable audio from leaving CPU-bound mpg123 processes behind. (#1622)
• Oversized bracketed text pastes are now rejected with a client-local notification instead of disconnecting the client. (#1665)
• Agent prompt waits now report agent_prompt_stalled after five seconds without an observed state change instead of waiting indefinitely after an ineffective submission.
• herdr config check now reports unknown config keys with their full paths instead of treating ignored typos as valid configuration. (#1573)
• Codex panes with customized static terminal titles now fall back to the live working footer instead of remaining idle, while OSC activity remains preferred. (#1563)
• Grok panes now preserve working and blocked state from terminal signals and pinned background-work status instead of falling back to idle mid-turn.
• OpenCode lifecycle reports are now serialized so out-of-order plugin events cannot leave an idle pane marked working. (#1519)
• Kimi question prompts now report blocked until the user answers or dismisses them.
• Pi lifecycle reporting now uses settled events, preventing transient message boundaries from publishing an idle state mid-turn.
• The Pi, OMP, OpenCode, and Kilo Code integrations can now be installed on Windows and report lifecycle state and native session identity through Herdr's named-pipe API. (#1531)
• Named agent prompts now honor live bracketed-paste mode before sending Enter, preserving OpenCode text such as A != B instead of triggering shell mode. (#1525)
• New panes, tabs, layouts, and workspaces using new_cwd = "follow" now inherit the foreground process-group leader's working directory instead of an unrelated helper process directory. (#1472)
• Cached pane working directories no longer trigger repeated filesystem checks, avoiding slow sidebar rendering on network filesystems such as Ceph. (#1603)
• Windows foreground-process snapshots are now shared across panes, reducing idle CPU use in sessions with many panes. (#1158)
• Terminal diff streams now batch contiguous writes, reducing the visible wave effect while scrolling pane history. (#283)
• A standalone Escape arriving beside another key is now preserved as its own input instead of being combined into a fabricated Alt chord. (#541)
• Pane viewports that were following live output now continue following after a resize.
• Mouse selections now remain visible when ui.copy_on_select = false while clipboard writes stay disabled. (#1471)
• Workspace close confirmation now shows the current workspace name instead of a stale or unrelated label. (#1364)
• Plugin command arrays now preserve whitespace-only arguments. (#1594, #1613)
• Plugins can now be installed or linked while no Herdr server is running. (#1670)
• Remote attach now discovers Herdr installed in mise's canonical tool path before offering to install a sidecar binary. (#1201)
• Noninteractive update, plugin, integration, sound, custom-command, and Git subprocesses no longer flash console windows on Windows. (#1468)
• Live handoff now preserves installed plugins and no longer lets the next plugin installation overwrite the existing registry. (#893)
• herdr agent wait now returns agent_not_running promptly when its target pane closes instead of waiting for the full timeout. (#1439)
• Pane graphics streams now shut down cleanly when a client disconnect races stream teardown.