AionUi

Highlights

Direct-CLI Sessions for Claude and Codex

• Claude and Codex now run over a new direct-CLI session path that talks to each CLI's native protocol instead of going through a third-party ACP shim. Sessions get a persistent per-conversation process that resumes with your model, mode, MCP servers, and permission settings intact.
• The chat stream now surfaces backend advisories — like a rejected model/mode switch or a Codex deprecation notice — as inline tips, without confusing the running/timer state.

Faster, More Resilient Teams

• Entering a team session no longer wakes up every member behind a full-screen overlay. Only the leader warms up first; teammates stay dormant (shown with a distinct outlined badge) and wake lazily when work is first delivered to them.
• If a single member fails to start, it no longer takes the whole team down — you can retry starting just that member.
• The sidebar now shows a live running indicator on each team while it is accepting, executing, or cancelling work, even when you navigate away from the team page.

Permission Panel Redesign

• Permission requests from both built-in and ACP agents now share one cleaner inline panel: a clear operation badge (execute / edit / read), simple option rows, and a single explicit Confirm action. New requests no longer steal focus from the chat composer.

Assistant & Agent Management

• New "Enabled" tab in Assistant Settings lets you drag-and-drop reorder all enabled assistants in one list — CLI, custom, and official alike. The saved order applies everywhere assistants are picked: new conversation, home, team creation, and scheduled tasks.
• Custom agents can now use image avatars, not just emoji — pick from the built-in gallery or upload your own image.

Scheduled Tasks Made Discoverable

• Every conversation row in history now has a timer action that pre-fills a localized /cron example, so turning an existing conversation into a scheduled task takes one click.
• Input placeholders now hint at hidden affordances: "/" for commands on the home input and ↑/↓ for message history in conversations.

Bug Fixes

• Update downloads can be minimized again — the downloading card no longer blocks the chat input until the transfer finishes.
• Messages with many attached files no longer stretch the conversation wider than the window; the file list scrolls internally as designed.
• ACP file change panels are back: edit diffs render with the full file changes panel and insertion/deletion counts instead of collapsing into a bare path label.

Engine updates (AionCore v0.1.50 → v0.1.51, Aion CLI runtime v0.2.6 → v0.2.7)

• Aion CLI file edits are far more reliable: exact matches are prioritized, and line-ending differences (CRLF vs LF) no longer cause edit failures.
• Streaming is more robust: partial UTF-8 characters split across network chunks no longer corrupt output, and errors embedded in streaming responses are handled gracefully instead of breaking the turn.
• Context compaction now accounts tokens correctly, and an agent stuck on repeatedly failing tools finalizes its answer instead of looping.
• Conversation cron schedules now use the host machine's timezone, so tasks fire when you expect.
• Grok startup environment is hardened with npx recovery, and the system keep-awake lock is properly released on shutdown.
• Groundwork landed for an upcoming Project Explorer feature (project/folder data layer) — no user-visible change yet.

What's Changed

• fix(update): allow minimizing active downloads by @eyaeya in #3663
• fix(chat): bound HorizontalFileList to conversation width to prevent overflow by @taekchef in #3659
• fix(chat): restore ACP file change panels by @eyaeya in #3665
• feat(team): show running state in sidebar by @eyaeya in #3666
• feat(cron): add scheduled-task action to history by @eyaeya in #3674
• feat(desktop): support image avatars for custom agents (#3599) by @taekchef in #3667
• fix(i18n): add discoverability hints to input placeholders by @taekchef in #3658
• feat(team): dormant teammate UI with lazy warmup and per-member retry-start by @piorpua in #3712
• feat(permissions): redesign request panel by @eyaeya in #3676
• feat(assistants): support reordering enabled assistants by @taekchef in #3696
• feat(session-port): AionUi frontend support for the direct-CLI claude/codex session path by @BlackKeyZ in #3572
• chore: bump version to 2.1.40 by @piorpua in #3716

New Contributors

• @eyaeya made their first contribution in #3663
• @BlackKeyZ made their first contribution in #3572

Full Changelog: v2.1.39...v2.1.40