The rewritten cst_agent_store_info() counted a transcript line that ran past a
whole 64 KiB read block a second time, when the newline ending its tail
arrived: a session with one very long line (a tool that read a file back)
reported one message too many -- exactly what the sidebar shows the person.
- src/agent_store.c: the tail's newline ends a line that was already counted.
- tests/test_store.c: test_info_scan() holds the scan down -- a 70 KiB line is
one line, the first user message comes from the head of the file, and a user
line past the window is not called the first one.
- tests/test_tools_ext.c: a byte budget stops the session_search walk, says so
in the result, and never reports a match it did not reach; the same query
without a budget finds it.
make check and make asan are green.
- consent: on_permission / on_ask_user wait at most two / five minutes, and in
the background (a phone off screen, a window that is gone) the answer is
refused at once with a reason -- a dialog nobody can see blocked the worker
for good, which is what "the app hangs while the agent works" looked like.
- finishTurn() no longer joins the thread it is called from; the event loop
reaps the Turn instead.
- AndroidTools: the hop to the GUI thread pings first and gives up after 3 s
instead of waiting forever on a busy GUI thread.
- the session list stopped reading every transcript: cst_agent_store_info()
counts newlines in 64 KiB blocks (first_user only within the first 256 KiB),
and AgentCore::sessions() reuses a row while (mtime, size) is unchanged.
- session_search gets a budget (max_bytes 32 MB, max_seconds 5 s), skips lines
over 64 KiB, and says when the budget stopped the walk.
- the header shows the phase ("shell: make -j8"), so a long turn no longer
looks like a stuck one.
- md_to_pdf: the front end's own Qt tool (owner app:qt, every platform):
markdown or a workspace .md/.html becomes an A4 PDF with 15 mm margins,
paginated by hand, written into the workspace and delivered as a file card.
No PrintSupport, so the phone gets it too.
- --uitest runs md_to_pdf through the registry with Chinese text and checks the
bytes are a PDF; app/CMakeLists.txt no longer drops src/web_md.c from the
standalone engine build, which the window needs to render markdown.
Version 0.9.7.
A session's transcript lived beside its attachments, both named after an id
that was a timestamp. Two things fell out of that: on a workspace two
machines share, a timestamp is not an id (the same second on both is enough
to hand out the same name), and "delete this conversation" had to chase the
jsonl, the title and a directory in a shared attachments/ tree, guessing what
belonged to whom. A phone's app data has nobody to tidy it by hand.
Now one session is one directory:
<workspace>/.agent/sessions/
<uuid>/session.jsonl the transcript
<uuid>/title the window title, one line
<uuid>/attachments/ images and delivered files (img-…, art-…)
<uuid>/sub-1.jsonl an agent role's own transcript
CURRENT the id the next run opens
- src/agent_store.c: new_id() makes a uuid v4 (16 bytes from /dev/urandom,
clock+pid only as a fallback), dir_for_id/flat_for_id/nested_for_id/
shape_of_id decide which shape an id has, so every reader takes either.
An id is a directory name, so it is checked as one (no "/", no "..",
nothing starting with ".", not CURRENT or attachments). path_for_id() keeps
the shape a session already has and makes the directory for a new id, so
nothing had to change in the callers. store_list() lists the directories
that hold a transcript plus the flat files, newest first. delete() is one
rm_tree of the session's directory, plus the old shared attachments/<id>
and CURRENT when it pointed there.
- cst_agent_store_migrate() (--migrate-store, or plain cst-agent for a
session): moves a flat store in — <id>.jsonl to <id>/session.jsonl,
<id>.title in, the shared attachments/<id>/ to <id>/attachments/. rename
first, copy when the filesystem says no, and counts what it moved, so a
second run is a no-op that says "nothing to move". On the real workspace:
6 sessions moved, the shared directory gone, --list-sessions reads them
back unchanged, a second run moved 0.
- cst_agent_store_id_of_path(): the id of a session path. This is the bug the
whole change had been hiding: cst_agent_session_id() took the id from the
file name, and the new file name is session.jsonl -- every session would
have called itself "session" (the sidebar, CURRENT, undo, an agent role's
directory, and the metrics file, which now also goes through the helper).
- src/attach.c: a session that owns its directory keeps its payloads inside
it (<id>/attachments/); only the flat layout needs the shared directory and
the id stem. Attachments behave exactly as before otherwise.
- tests/test_store.c: uuid shape and uniqueness, a small buffer refused, a
new session's path and directory, write/list/info/title read back, the
payload landing in <id>/attachments/, delete taking the directory with it;
then an old-layout store: readable before the move, moved byte for byte,
its payload readable through the new path, listed once, a second migration
a no-op, deletion covering the migrated payload. Also in the Makefile and
CMakeLists test lists.
- app/src/ui/UiTest.cpp: the image directory check wanted "/attachments/",
which the new layout has no trailing slash for.
Desktop: build clean, make check 35/35, --uitest all green, --selftest and
cst-app-selftest OK, and --selftest opens a session of the migrated workspace.
Version 0.9.5.
Sessions: rename, delete and search; /api/retry regenerates the last
answer, editing a prompt resends from there; /api/export downloads the
transcript as Markdown (cst_session_export_md). Session messages carry
note/tool_result markers, so a reload rebuilds the tool steps with
their arguments, output and exit status; subagent progress is shown.
Diff and settings: /api/diff shows the real diff; /api/settings covers
protocol, max_steps, tool switches and confirm; /api/permissions edits
the rules; sandbox status is reported. Session rename no longer reads
past a short title.
Commands: slash commands with completion in the composer (/model,
/provider, /new, /retry, /undo, /compact, /export, /diff, /init,
/skill and more), a Ctrl+P palette, Shift+Tab cycles the approval
mode, F1 or ? shows the keys. "Thinking expanded" is saved in the
settings (show_thinking), "expand all tool output" in the browser.
Extensions: GET /api/extensions lists MCP servers, plugins, skills,
agent roles and subagent runs; POST /api/extensions/reload and
/api/extensions/trust; a workspace switch reloads them. /api/init and
/api/skill run on the server (cst_init_prompt shared with the TUI).
Errors, statuses and [cst] notes are shown in Chinese with a readable
reason instead of rc=; a failed turn's error survives the reload.
Tests: scripts/e2e_webui_sessions.py, e2e_webui_workspace.py and
e2e_webui_ext.py, run from e2e_webui.sh.
Images
- vision gate: text-only models get a note instead of image parts and no
view_image tool; unknown models retry once without images on HTTP 400
- paste: Ctrl+V and /attach paste read the clipboard (wl-paste, xclip,
pngpaste/osascript, Win32 PNG or CF_DIB converted to PNG); pasting image
file paths attaches them
- MCP image content is stored in the session and sent with the tool result
- attach: rel path validation, base64 decode, /retry keeps images
Model registry
- built-in src/models_builtin.json embedded at build time, merged with
<config>/models.json and cached GET /models metadata (context, vision,
pricing); most specific rule wins per field
- /model labels, /status source, --list-models [provider]
Cache and cost
- stable request prefix (frozen tools, notes as messages), DeepSeek prefix
completion, OpenAI/Anthropic cache hints, /cost and hit rate in the status
Build
* cross build switches to pkgsCross.ucrt64 (shell-win.nix); curl (Schannel),
winpthreads and ncurses 6.6 are linked statically, so the release is
cst-agent.exe + busybox.exe (busybox-w32 Unicode) with no extra DLLs
* windres embeds a manifest with activeCodePage=UTF-8 and a version resource
* ncurses 6.6 Windows console driver patches (mouse button state, A_DIM,
wide-char declarations): scripts/patches/
* scripts/bootstrap_msys2.sh builds the same release natively in MSYS2
UCRT64; PR #1's MINGW64 notes now point there
* vendor/tre-regex (musl's TRE) provides <regex.h> on MinGW
UTF-8
* paths cross the system call boundary as UTF-16 (*W APIs); console code
pages set to 65001 and restored on exit; files are read and written in
binary mode
* child output that is not valid UTF-8 is decoded from the console, OEM or
ANSI system code page
* read_file hides CR; edit_file, apply_patch and write_file keep CRLF line
endings and a UTF-8 BOM
OS layer and processes
* os_dir_* and cst_fnmatch replace the POSIX-only directory walks in
subagent, plugins, skills, undo and fs_tools; realpath / path_under and
symlink rejection work on Windows
* every child goes through CreateProcessW with its own environment block
inside a Job Object, so timeouts and Esc end the whole process tree
Sandbox (auto mode, "auto · lowil")
* run_shell runs with a restricted Low integrity token; the workspace gets
an inheritable Low label once, the sandbox TEMP is labeled Low, and the
credentials file gets a no-read-up label
* drive roots, the profile and system folders are never labeled
* network commands still ask, since Low IL does not block the network;
Access denied and MSYS2's 0xc0000142 offer a rerun outside the sandbox
* /sandbox lists labeled folders, /sandbox reset-labels restores them
TUI
* raster console fonts are switched to Consolas / NSimSun while running
* the home logo falls back to text when the console font lacks U+2580
* mouse drag copy goes to the Windows clipboard
Distribution
* scripts/install_windows.ps1 installs a Gitea release into
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\cst-agent and adds it to the user PATH;
cst-agent-update.cmd reruns it; scripts/release_windows.sh uploads the
zip with the token taken from the environment
* scripts/run_windows.bat is gone; docs/README-windows.md is rewritten
Tests
* new test_lowil, test_win_utf8 and test_os_dir; tests made portable
(cst_test_util.h)
* scripts/win_test.sh and scripts/winvm/ run the suite on English and
Chinese Windows Server VMs as Administrator, a standard user and a
Chinese user name: 29/29 on all six
Tools
- Table-driven tool registry with permission classes and default/minimal
profiles; new tools: edit_file, list_dir, glob, grep, delete_file,
move_file, todo_write, web_fetch, ask_user (plus read_file paging).
- Built-in Myers diff; write tools return unified diffs.
- Persistent permission rules (.agent/permissions.json), per-turn undo
snapshots (.agent/undo), AGENTS.md project notes, auto-compact at 80%
of the model context, cancellable run_shell with process-group kill.
TUI
- Table-driven slash commands: /provider /key /effort /status /tools
/permissions /yolo /undo /retry /diff /export /copy /rename /delete
/init /max-steps /todo, with / and @ completion.
- Permission modal with diff and prefix rules, ask_user modal, todo
panel, header with model/effort/context, bracketed paste, line editing,
wide-char cursor, NO_COLOR and ASCII fallback; Esc never quits.
Startup and configuration
- API keys are entered in the TUI (hidden) and saved per provider in
<config>/credentials (0600); env variables are only a fallback.
- Last provider, per-provider model and reasoning effort are remembered
in <config>/settings.json; --effort/-e and /effort send
reasoning_effort (low|medium|high|max) to models that accept it.
- DeepSeek preset uses deepseek-flash / deepseek-v4-pro.
- Session flags --new/--continue/--resume/--list-sessions, --yolo,
--confirm.
Compatibility and tests
- ncurses detection, macOS/Homebrew support, make install, XDG config
dir, POSIX cleanups; Gitea CI (gcc/clang/asan/musl/macOS).
- Unit tests for diff, fs tools, registry, undo/perms and config;
e2e fixtures multi_file_refactor and ask_or_todo; vendored cJSON.
WHC