docker-agent

This release adds several new TUI features including an interactive getting-started tour, an effort picker dialog, and Lean Mode support in the agent picker, along with stability fixes for startup, shutdown, and proxy recovery.

What's New

• Adds an interactive getting-started tour offered on first run and replayable on demand, implemented as a floating card that observes the real UI's message stream
• Opens an effort picker dialog when /effort is used with no argument, instead of printing a usage hint
• Adds a Lean Mode checkbox to the agent picker panel, toggleable with the l key or mouse click
• Agent picker now discovers ~/.agents config files (.yaml, .yml, .hcl) when no explicit list is given, in addition to the built-in default and coder agents
• Adds cross-process locking and atomic writes for SQLite memory storage

Bug Fixes

• Fixes toolset Start during startup so the sidebar tools spinner can no longer animate forever when Docker is wedged
• Fixes TUI exit being blocked by a wedged resource cleanup
• Fixes --record proxy bypassing the configured models gateway, which caused HTTP 401 errors when gateway-managed credentials were expected
• Hardens gateway forwarding in record mode against credential leakage
• Fixes proxy recovery after cooldown — previously a socket error would permanently latch the transport to direct connections for the lifetime of the process
• Fixes /tools dialog showing Go type names (e.g. *skills.ToolSet) instead of human-readable names for loader-created toolsets
• Fixes telemetry incorrectly recording an error on a chat span after a successful LLM completion
• Fixes agent picker hardening: windowing, escapes, FIFO skip, sentinel, and description guard
• Keeps agent picker panel geometry stable and windowing math in sync

Technical Changes

• Fixes flaky frame synchronization in TUI test driver sendSync
• Fixes file descriptor double-close corrupting parallel tests in TestListen_FD
• Guards fdOwnershipPin with a mutex to fix a data race in server tests
• Trims comments in the fallback transport

What's Changed

• test: fix flaky tuitest frame sync and TestListen_FD fd double-close by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3420
• fix: bound toolset startup and never block the TUI exit when Docker is wedged by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3423
• docs: update CHANGELOG.md for v1.97.0 by @docker-read-write[bot] in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3424
• feat(tui): open effort picker when /effort has no argument by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3425
• fix: route --record proxy through the configured models gateway by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3428
• docs: sync documentation with recent merges by @aheritier in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3430
• feat(tui): interactive getting-started tour on first run, replayable on demand by @Sayt-0 in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3427
• fix: show proper toolset names in /tools dialog for loader-created toolsets by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3441
• feat(memory): add cross-process locking and atomic writes for sqlite by @yunasora in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3114
• fix(remote): recover proxy after cooldown instead of latching to direct by @trungutt in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3431
• telemetry: don't record error on chat span after successful LLM completion by @jedp-docker in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3281
• feat(picker): add Lean Mode checkbox to agent picker by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3443
• feat: agent picker discovers ~/.agents configs when no list is given by @dgageot in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3444

New Contributors

• @yunasora made their first contribution in https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/pull/3114

Full Changelog: https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/compare/v1.97.0...v1.98.0