CodeWhale 0.8.51 ڈاؤن لوڈ

Added
- Arcee AI as a direct provider. New [providers.arcee] config block and ARCEE_API_KEY / ARCEE_BASE_URL / ARCEE_MODEL environment variables, wired through CLI auth (codewhale auth set --provider arcee), the TUI provider picker, and the model registry. The default direct-API model is trinity-large-thinking (reasoning-capable, 262K context and 262K max output); trinity-large-preview (262K context, non-reasoning) and trinity-mini (128K context) are also selectable. OpenRouter's arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking route remains separate.
- Arcee Cloudflare-WAF compatibility. The opening turn to the Arcee gateway uses a benign read-only tool surface (read_file, list_dir, file_search, grep_files, git_status, git_diff, checklist_write, update_plan) and splits example payloads such as python -c … out of the system prompt, so the WAF does not reject the first request; the full tool catalog stays reachable through tool-search. trinity-large-thinking's reasoning_content is recognized and replayed on tool-call turns.
- Expanded model catalog. Added context-window, max-output, and reasoning-capability metadata for additional model IDs, including qwen/qwen3.6-flash, qwen/qwen3.6-plus, qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview, and Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 chat/ASR/TTS variants; trinity-large-preview's context window was corrected to 262K.
- Provider-aware model picker. The picker groups models by provider, shows per-model hints, and remembers a saved model per provider.
Changed
- Auto-compaction is now percentage- and model-aware. The per-model threshold helper is compaction_threshold_for_model_at_percent(model, percent) (replacing the effort-based variant), and the default auto_compact_threshold_percent is 80%. Auto-compaction defaults on for models with a context window of 256K or smaller and stays opt-in for 1M-token models (e.g. DeepSeek V4) to protect prefix-cache economics, unless the user has explicitly set auto_compact.
- Clearer provider/gateway errors. HTTP error bodies are sanitized before display — HTML interstitials and Cloudflare "Access Denied" pages collapse to a one-line reason (with the ray/error ID) instead of dumping raw markup into the transcript — and 403s are split into authentication vs. authorization (gateway/WAF block) categories.
- The invalid-model error now names the active provider and lists Arcee among the options.
Removed
- The session "cycle" / checkpoint-restart system. Removed the /cycles, /cycle <n>, and /recall commands, the recall_archive tool, the cycle-handoff briefing prompt, the sidebar "cycles" lines, and the cycle_manager engine plumbing (EngineConfig.cycle, Event::CycleAdvanced, seam-manager cycle thresholds and flash briefings). Long sessions no longer auto-reset their context at a fixed token boundary — reclaim budget with /compact or model-aware auto-compaction instead. Existing on-disk cycle archives are left untouched but are no longer read or written.
Fixed
- Assistant turns no longer leave an orphaned role glyph (the stray "blue dot") when a turn streams only whitespace between reasoning and a tool call.
- Scrolling the mouse wheel over the right-hand sidebar no longer leaks into the transcript scroll.
- The sidebar hover tooltip now appears only for truncated lines, sits below the cursor, and uses a neutral surface color instead of the warning-orange highlight that overlapped neighbouring rows.
- Corrected the README's description of the Constitution (Article VII is the hierarchy itself; Article II's truth duty overrides even a user request) to match prompts/base.md.
- Repaired release-blocking unit and integration tests left failing by the cycle-removal and compaction-threshold refactors (relay instruction, model-reject message, compaction budget, mock-LLM threshold helper).
- Fixed DEC private-mode CSI fragment leakage into composer text after terminal resets, restoring clean prompt editing (#2592).
- The engine now recovers from turn-level panics instead of killing the main event loop, keeping the session alive through transient failures (#2583, #1269).
- Deeply nested files are now discoverable via @-mention and Ctrl+P file picker; the default walk depth was relaxed to handle monorepo layouts (#2488).
- Command-palette selection stays visible when scrolling through long lists instead of scrolling off-screen (#2590).
- exec_shell child processes now inherit .NET/NuGet and Windows app-data environment variables, fixing toolchain resolution on Windows (#1857).
- A warning is emitted when shell/sandbox config keys are nested under unknown top-level sections instead of being silently ignored (#2589).
- Diff-render now preserves leading whitespace in patch content lines, fixing an extra-space regression in PR previews (#2591). Thanks @zlh124.
- Model selection from the /model command now persists per-provider across restarts, with a warning when persistence fails.
Community
Thanks to @zlh124 (#2591) and @reidliu41 (#2601) for the fixes harvested into this release. Thanks also to @idling11 (#2602), @gordonlu (#2585), @cyq1017 (#2593), @xyuai (#2587, #2584), and @IcedOranges (#2584) for reports, drafts, and investigations that shaped this release cycle.