Nimbalyst open source Obsidian, Codex app, and Linear for coding agents

What's new since v0.51.18

Bugs Addressed

• Excessive context - Fixed a bug where full file context was being passed on each query for some users
• Database corruption - Resolved corruption issues (especially on Windows) and fixed auto-restore from backup
• Message loss - Fixed rare issue where sessions would lose messages
• Cancel button - Fixed rare issue where ESC key and red X wouldn't appear to cancel a session

New Features for Developers

Nimbalyst will now ask you if you if you want to see developer features or not on first launch. You can change your selection at any time in Settings > Advanced.

Terminal

• Terminal bottom panel - Dedicated ghostty terminal with its own storage for sessions
• Worktree terminal button - Quick access to terminal for each worktree
• Persistent scrollback and history - Scrollback and history stored to the database and restore even after restart

Git Integration

• Interactive Claude-generated git commit proposals
• Manual git commits - Commit files edited in an AI Session
• Git file status colors for AI Sessions - Visual indicators for added/modified/deleted files
• Detect more Claude changes - Including rm, mv, echo >>, etc
• Uncommitted files count on sessions - See at a glance which sessions have pending changes

Worktrees

• Git worktrees for isolated AI sessions - Work on multiple branches simultaneously with separate working directories for each AI session
• Worktree Git Actions - Rebase from or merge to main, squash and manage commits
• Worktree terminal button - Quick access to terminal for each worktree

Improved plan mode

• Plan mode alignment - /plan now has all the behavior of the native Claude Code plan mode
• Options when exiting plan mode - Implement, implement in fresh session, or provide additional instructions

New Features

Workstreams

• Group multiple agent sessions into a workstream - Manage related sessions by unit of work
• Convert your session into a workstream with multiple sessions by clicking + to add a session tab

Edit Files in Agent Mode Sessions, Worktrees, and Workstreams

• Open files that the agent has read or edited in a central panel in the context of your session or worktree
• Hide or adjust files panel, open multiple files in tabs, edit the files
• Collaborate with Claude Code on the files
• Or open a file in Files mode by right clicking on it

AI Provider Expansion

• Configure Alternative Claude Code Providers - Set environment variables to enable Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry or any other third party AI provider

Navigation & UI

• Unified cross-mode navigation history - Seamless back/forward navigation across files (cmd+[, cmd+] or forward/backward mouse buttons)
• Prompt history quick-open dialog - Quickly access previous prompts (cmd+shift+L)
• Collapsible left panels - Click the icon again to toggle the left sidebar to maximize editor space

Agent Mode

• Session linked local history - Track changes by each session that made them
• Custom Bash tool widget - Terminal-style display for command execution by agent
• Show AI errors in transcript - Errors now visible instead of silent failures

Improvements and Fixes

Performance

• MCP tool search - Allows searching for MCP tools to reduce context window bloat
• Performance monitoring interval increased to reduce overhead
• AI Session content search sped up with FTS indexing
• Images auto-compressed for Claude API limits

Stability

• Sessions no longer incorrectly show as running after errors
• Prevent infinite render loop and UI freeze on Windows
• Fixed Claude Code resource cleanup on destroy

Session

• Pasted text starting with '#' no longer activates memory mode
• OS notifications when AI sessions are blocked waiting for user input
• PDF attachment support for Claude providers

Editor & UI

• Enter key no longer sends message during IME composition (Japanese, Chinese, Korean input)
• Cmd+Shift+A toggles AI chat panel correctly
• Fuzzy file search and content search in QuickOpen (Cmd+O)

Cross-Platform

• Windows backslashes in Files sidebar filename display
• Linux node-pty packaging fixed
• Apple Intel (x64) architecture now supported

PATH and ENV

• Improved handling of PATH and environment for both MCP tools and Claude Code sessions