knewstimek/agent-tool

v0.7.8 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 2mo MCP Developer Tools

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Summary

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edit command now normalizes tab depth and enforces line‑boundary matching for indentation

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Quick Start

Download the binary for your OS below
Run agent-tool install (or agent-tool install claude)
Restart your IDE
Done -- all tools work immediately, no permission popups

Or just ask your AI agent:

"Download agent-tool from https://github.com/knewstimek/agent-tool/releases/latest and run agent-tool install"

Any capable AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) can handle the full download -> install -> restart flow automatically.

Tip: Add this to your CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md so your agent prefers agent-tool over built-in tools:

Strict mode:

ALWAYS use agent-tool MCP tools (mcp__agent-tool__*) instead of built-in file tools. agent-tool preserves file encoding and respects .editorconfig indentation settings.

Soft mode:

Prefer agent-tool MCP tools (mcp__agent-tool__*) over built-in file tools when available.

What's New

edit: smarter indentation matching

Pass 6 -- tab depth normalization: When old_string has the wrong number of leading tabs, agent-tool now automatically tries all depths (0-10) and picks the best unambiguous match. Relative indent change between old_string and new_string is preserved.
Pass 1 -- line-boundary matching: When old_string has leading whitespace, it is now required to match at a line boundary (position 0 or immediately after \n). This prevents a shallowly-indented old_string from silently matching as a substring inside a deeper line, which would produce incorrect indentation in multiline replacements.
Better diagnostics: When indentation exists in the file but the tab depth differs, the error message now says "indentation differs -- re-read the file to copy exact indentation" instead of a generic not-found error.

Other fixes

memtool: VirtualQueryEx errors now include the target PID for easier diagnosis.
MCP server instructions: agent-tool now surfaces usage tips directly in the MCP server instructions block, so agents see guidance without calling help.
Codex CLI on Windows (v0.7.8 initial): Wrapped the agent-tool binary registration with cmd /c "agent-tool.exe 2>NUL" to work around a Codex stderr pipe deadlock bug (knewstimek/agent-tool#codex-workaround).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/knewstimek/agent-tool/compare/v0.7.7...v0.7.8

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About knewstimek/agent-tool

Encoding-aware, indentation-smart file tools for AI coding agents. 20+ tools including read/edit with automatic encoding detection, smart indentation conversion, SSH, SFTP, process management, and system utilities. Preserves file encoding (UTF-8, EUC-KR, Shift_JIS, etc.) and respects .editorconfig settings.

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