VT Code

What's Changed

0.86.5 - 2026-03-04

Highlights

Bug Fixes

• Update terminal notification handling for ghostty to use bell-only (ca512670)

Features

• Add Windows user profile root exclusions and enhance sensitive path matching (0a024067)
• Add new tools and policies for cargo and git commands (110d0326)
• Implement continuation arguments for tool execution and enhance read chunk handling (19db1b72)

Other Changes

Other

• Update API key and model provider in vtcode.toml (2939fceb)
• Implement task guards for background operations and improve async handling in various modules (23a114ab)
• Implement interactive diagnostics with quick and full options in the slash command (6876ae63)
• Implement Markdown parsing with support for lists, links, and tables (0ded92d5)
• Implement prompt cache shaping mode and enhance caching strategies (5f43940d)
• Implement history normalization for LLM requests and enhance execution context management (ad977a32)
• Refactor tool output helpers and improve cache management (3c825982)
• Refactor configuration layer loading and error handling; add support for tracking layer origins in merges; implement API for reading and writing configuration with version checks. (5fe3d2da)
• Refactor shell command building, update justification messages, enhance search metrics, improve web fetch domain matching, and adjust tool policies in configuration. (3c5d7600)
• Refactor code for improved readability and consistency across multiple files (adb2ad30)

Refactors

• Streamline response handling and output printing in AgentRunner (d98a5e55)
• Simplify function output handling in HuggingFace and OpenAI providers (71381dd3)
• Enhance diff rendering styles and streamline background color handling (c85edbcf)
• Enhance color detection logic for terminal compatibility (af35cbf6)
• Update configuration section markers and adjust merging logic for user settings (79bce0e0)
• Enhance settings search functionality and improve nested key handling (81f799ca)
• Remove agent command and related logic, update slash command descriptions (d672e41a)

Contributors

@vinhnx

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode/compare/0.86.4...0.86.5