VT Code

What's Changed

0.98.1 - 2026-04-09

Highlights

Bug Fixes

• Prevent blocked handoff on tool-free recovery tool calls (f3d5a7ee)
• Make external editor opens transient and suppress escape leaks (1e8bd327)
• Update theme configuration to use homebrew style (4205a879)
• Update agent configuration and tool policies for improved functionality (f9cdc03d)

Features

• Enhance tool policies and workspace header signals for improved user experience (07910f3c)

Other Changes

Other

• Refactor slash command messages and update guidance for installation (09028a6a)
• Implement status line setup and configuration, deduplicate terminal title items, and update task tracker permission in config (c4b7cb48)
• Implement fallback handling for failed tool-free recovery and adjust turn completion logic (4e58ac64)
• Implement structured timeout error handling and add tests for timeout scenarios (c214f667)
• Update tool policies, enhance exec command preparation, and improve documentation clarity (43c048e4)
• Commit (8ed8fb87)
• Bump version to 0.50.12 and remove chat-related commands and references (8a8efa6c)
• Bump version to 0.50.13 (337fe1ab)
• Implement subagent executors and enhance tool intent handling (c550faa2)
• Refactor exec session handling and add error reporting and tool search functionality (dc9e150f)
• Refactor tool handling and enhance session management for improved output processing (8d8c47ab)
• Refactor MCP provider initialization and enhance tool fetching logic (ecff001a)
• Refactor compaction thresholds and remove context awareness support from LLM providers (31b771d0)
• Update TODO (203ec0f3)
• Update tool policies, enhance recovery context previews, and improve structural search handling (a5db2b86)
• Enhance tool output handling and summary generation (c10d90fd)
• Refactor CLI action resolution and improve header display logic (61f15e54)
• Enhance CLI argument parsing and error reporting for workspace validation (77c3efbe)

Refactors

• Clean up tool policies and improve CLI help output (b32129ff)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode/compare/0.98.0...0.98.1