docker-agent

This release adds significant new capabilities including a Kanban board TUI, NVIDIA provider support, parallel tool dispatch, and numerous compaction and context-window improvements, along with several important bug fixes.

What's New

• Adds docker agent board, a full-screen Kanban TUI for orchestrating multiple agents across pipeline stages (Dev → Review → Push → Done), each on an isolated git worktree
• Adds NVIDIA (NIM / build.nvidia.com) as a supported model provider via a new nvidia alias
• Adds /context slash command with a categorized context-window breakdown dialog, including a stacked usage bar and copy-to-clipboard action
• Adds the ability to list and drop attached files directly from the /context dialog
• Adds wait_background_job tool to the shell toolset, blocking until a background job finishes instead of requiring polling
• Adds shell background job recall, routing completed job output back to active or idle sessions
• Splits background jobs into a separate background_jobs toolset, leaving the shell toolset with only synchronous shell tools
• Adds unix:// URL support in the remote MCP client for connecting over Unix domain sockets
• Adds a Lean Mode checkbox to the agent picker (--agent-picker), toggled with l or mouse click
• Adds compaction_threshold as a configurable key per agent (and per model), replacing the previously hardcoded 0.9 constant
• Adds per-sub-agent context accounting in the TUI sidebar and agent inspector
• Runs tool dispatcher calls in parallel, serializing only interactive confirmations
• Extends the HCL file() function with an optional variables argument to render the file as a template
• Groups the /sessions browser by current workspace instead of showing a flat global list

Improvements

• Reconciles the compaction token estimator with provider-reported usage, using exact counts where available and a session-calibrated correction for unreported content
• Wraps lean TUI tool calls in a padded themed box for improved rendering
• Supports steering (sending messages while the agent is running) in the lean TUI, with pending messages displayed in muted styling

Bug Fixes

• Fixes compaction replacing session history with a stale reply when the summarization model returns an empty response
• Fixes compaction outcome reporting to accurately reflect applied/skipped/failed status on the completed event
• Fixes whitespace-only compaction summaries being applied instead of treated as a no-op
• Fixes --yolo flag not being applied correctly on session resume, causing safer_shell to prompt despite the flag
• Fixes Gemini models failing with MCP tools that declare non-string enum values in their JSON schemas
• Fixes session Message.AgentName silently dropping on load when reading files using the legacy agentName JSON key
• Fixes database migration rollback errors being silently swallowed
• Removes Anthropic Files API usage
• Updates stale Anthropic model IDs in examples to current IDs

Technical Changes

• Standardizes agent_name JSON tag on Message.AgentName, replacing the previous agentName camelCase tag
• Shares git-branch detection logic between the lean and full TUIs via a new pkg/gitbranch package
• Refactors lean TUI model into cohesive subsystems (usage/tool trackers, transcript type) with no functional change
• Replaces context-smuggled emitters with an explicit tools.Runtime handle in the tool dispatcher

What's Changed

• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.98.0 by @docker-read-write[bot] in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3445
• feat(tui): group /sessions browser by current workspace by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3446
• docs: point rel=canonical at the docs.docker.com mirrored pages by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3447
• feat(config): make the auto-compaction threshold configurable (compaction_threshold) by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3448
• feat(compaction): reconcile token estimator with provider-reported usage by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3449
• feat(mcp/remote): support unix:// URLs in remote MCP client by @maxcleme in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3453
• ci: build and publish docker-agent sandbox templates by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3454
• feat(tui): add /context command with a categorized context-window breakdown by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3458
• refactor(leantui): decompose the model into cohesive subsystems by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3455
• refactor: share git-branch detection between the lean and full TUIs by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3457
• fix: box lean TUI tool calls by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3460
• fix: remove Anthropic Files API usage by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3466
• feat(hcl): render file() as a template when given variables by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3464
• feat(shell): add wait_background_job tool by @simonferquel-clanker in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3463
• docs: sync documentation with recent changes by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3468
• feat: run tool dispatcher calls in parallel by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3467
• feat: add shell background job recall by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3461
• feat: add NVIDIA provider as supported model provider by @Priyanshu-sde in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3421
• fix: support steering in lean TUI by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3474
• Tweak the golang dev by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3472
• Split background jobs into separate toolset by @rumpl in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3473
• docs: document lean TUI steering support by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3475
• feat(tui): list and drop attached files from the /context dialog by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3465
• docs: switch github.io site from Jekyll to Hugo by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3459
• feat: add docker agent board, a Kanban TUI for orchestrating agents by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3451
• fix: update stale Anthropic model IDs in examples by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3480
• chore: bump direct Go dependencies by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3481
• fix: backfill SafetyPolicy on session resume with --yolo by @melmennaoui in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3482
• chore: standardize agent_name JSON tag in Message struct by @Piyush0049 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3471
• fix: handle tx.Rollback error in database migrations by @Piyush0049 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3476
• fix: compaction data loss on empty summary + honest compaction outcome reporting by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3470
• fix(session): accept legacy agentName JSON key when unmarshaling Message by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3483
• fix(gemini): stringify non-string enum values in tool schemas by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3485
• feat(tui): per-sub-agent context accounting in the TUI by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3486

New Contributors

• @Priyanshu-sde made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3421
• @Piyush0049 made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3471

Full Changelog: https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/compare/v1.98.0...v1.99.0