docker-agent

This release adds a new scheduler toolset, inline Mermaid diagram rendering, model switching in the lean TUI, project config autodiscovery, and a range of bug fixes and performance improvements across the agent, TUI, and server.

What's New

• Adds a built-in scheduler toolset with create_schedule, list_schedules, and cancel_schedule tools, enabling agents to schedule instructions to run once at a time, after a delay, or on a recurring interval
• Adds prompt cache miss warnings via an opt-in warn_on_cache_miss user setting that emits notifications when cached input tokens are absent after the first session response
• Adds inline Mermaid diagram rendering in the TUI
• Adds model switching (/model) to the lean TUI and shares fuzzy model search between the lean and full TUIs
• Adds autodiscovery of docker-agent.yaml, docker-agent.yml, and docker-agent.hcl project config files for no-argument local docker agent run
• Surfaces background-job elicitation (user-input) requests in the TUI, ensuring each request opens exactly one dialog regardless of which runtime delivers it
• Makes a custom base_url on a model automatically imply bypass_models_gateway: true, removing the need to set it explicitly

Improvements

• Improves session cost details in the TUI: aligns layout, color-codes cost percentages per message, groups averages together, and puts "Total" on its own line
• Speeds up model switcher credential discovery by deduplicating credential names and resolving lookups concurrently, reducing model-picker latency
• Parallelizes toolset startup and prefetches the MCP catalog off the load critical path, reducing agent startup time

Bug Fixes

• Fixes glob wildcard matching in permissions so * and ? span path separators (/) in argument values such as file paths and URLs
• Fixes a bug where setting defer_all: true on a toolset caused the toolset's custom Instructions to be permanently dropped from the agent's context
• Fixes SafetyPolicy not persisting across turns, causing users to be re-prompted for tool approvals they had already opted into
• Fixes background elicitations over the API so requests from concurrent background jobs are replayable and answerable instead of being auto-declined
• Fixes Anthropic cache breakpoints exceeding the hard limit of 4 when deferred tools are present, which caused API errors at runtime
• Fixes the TUI editor not regaining focus after external editing (Ctrl+G), which caused Enter to route to the transcript instead of sending the composed message
• Fixes the scheduler schema so type: scheduler is accepted in agent config files (was previously rejected by JSON schema validation)
• Fixes foreground elicitations being delivered twice into the app event stream
• Fixes a mutex unlock in the scheduler's setRuntime method to use defer for safer lock release
• Fixes VCR cassette path normalization for portable prompt-file matching
• Fixes CI workflow YAML indentation that caused all CI runs to fail before any job could start

Technical Changes

• Adds MapSlice fan-out helper in the concurrent utilities package and uses it for parallel toolset operations
• Serializes interactive OAuth flows across toolsets to prevent concurrent conflicts
• Brings the documentation portal to WCAG 2.1 AA conformance across light and dark themes and adds a pa11y-ci CI gate to maintain it
• Adds new documentation pages for the scheduler toolset, sandbox templates, custom commands, user settings, context and compaction guide, and fixes stale command syntax in the Named Commands docs

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.110.0 by @docker-read-write[bot] in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3665
• fix: repair CI workflow YAML and failing AgentsMd e2e test on main by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3666
• feat(tools): add "scheduler" toolset to run instructions on a time or recurring interval by @dwin-gharibi in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3632
• fix(config): add scheduler toolset to agent-schema.json type enum by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3670
• feat: custom base_url implies bypass_models_gateway by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3667
• feat: add prompt cache miss warnings by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3671
• Improve session cost details by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3672
• perf: speed up model switcher credential discovery by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3673
• Add model switching to the lean TUI by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3674
• feat(tui,app): surface & correlate background-job elicitations (#3584) by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3624
• chore: bump go-isatty, openai-go, and libopenapi by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3675
• ci: bump golangci-lint-action to v9.3.0 and fix DeferMutexUnlock lint offense by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3676
• ci: bump pinned actions to latest same-major versions by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3677
• feat(server): session-scoped elicitation sink for API/server runtimes (#3584) by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3625
• Render Mermaid diagrams inline by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3679
• fix(server): surface background elicitations over API by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3678
• fix(teamloader): preserve deferred toolset instructions by @Piyush0049 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3680
• fix(permissions): match glob wildcards across path separators by @parveshsaini in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3605
• docs(agents): fix stale command syntax and sub_agents claim in Named Commands by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3684
• docs(sandbox): document Docker Sandboxes integration and published sbx templates by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3682
• docs: surface orphan pages and add compaction, commands, and user-settings docs by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3683
• fix(docs): WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility remediation for the docs portal by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3687
• fix(tui): refocus the editor after external editing so Enter sends the content by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3690
• Implements the path-aware, two-tier documentation accessibility CI gate by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3691
• feat(run): autodiscover project agent config by @HajimohammadiNet in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3681
• perf: parallelize toolset startup and prefetch MCP catalog by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3688
• fix(anthropic): keep cache breakpoints within Anthropic's limit of 4 with deferred tools by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3692
• fix(docs): render --link-hover on light-mode callout-link hover by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3693
• build(deps): bump the pip group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3697
• fix(session): persist SafetyPolicy across turns by @trungutt in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3685

New Contributors

• @parveshsaini made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3605
• @HajimohammadiNet made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3681

Full Changelog: https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/compare/v1.110.0...v1.111.0