Nightly Build (2026-05-17)

This release contains the latest automated builds from the main branch.

0.0.35

Boxxy v0.0.35

Everything since v0.0.34

Characters & AI agents

• Characters system 🎉 — Full character system with bundled personalities (Niko, Levi, Kuro). Characters drive agent prompts and hot-reload from their TOML files without a restart.
• User profile with avatar upload — A "You" section at the top of the Characters page with an avatar (falls back to initials), display name field, and color picker, persisted in settings.json.
• Character avatar in Claw overlay — The active character's avatar and name are now shown in the Claw overlay.
• Drag-and-drop character reordering — Characters in preferences can now be reordered via drag and drop.
• Dynamic sounds & rich notifications — Long-running tasks (7s+) trigger rich GTK notifications with the character's avatar and task summary. Distinct audio cues for reminders and tasks, toggleable from preferences.
• Host-level agent daemon — Persistent agent daemon with memory consolidation, concurrency-safe model hot-swapping, and robust daemon handoffs.
• User name injected into model — The user's display name is passed into model context so characters can address the user by name.

Terminal & VTE

• Bold, italic, and underline rendering — The terminal renderer now correctly handles styled text from escape sequences.
• Modifier key support for arrow keys — Ctrl/Alt/Shift+Arrow now sends standard CSI sequences for word navigation. Pane focus keybindings moved to Ctrl+Alt+Arrow to avoid conflicts.
• Custom shell command in preferences — Option to run a custom command instead of the default login shell.

Claw AI engine & memory

• Robust memory reinforcement — Extracted facts sit in quarantine as unverified candidates and are promoted only after 2+ observations at ≥0.8 confidence, preventing hallucinations from poisoning agent context. Includes a Dream Auditor for conflict resolution and an auditable DREAMS.md promotion log.
• Background command execution — Agents can now launch GUI apps, dev servers, and background scripts without blocking the terminal. Processes are fully detached via setsid() with a 250ms early-crash detection window.
• Remote pane focusing via D-Bus — External integrations (e.g. GNOME Shell extensions) can call request_focus_pane on the Agent D-Bus interface to raise the window and focus a specific pane.
• Rotating usage tips in overlay — Tips rotate every 15 seconds via GtkRevealer crossfade while the agent is thinking.
• Isolated overlay history & real-time tool indicator — The sidebar retains the full debug log; the overlay filters out noisy ToolResult and ProcessList blocks, showing them in ClawIndicator instead.
• Reduced http_fetch context bloat — HTML is stripped from http_fetch responses (200KB raw → 50KB clean text).

AI providers & models

• Claude Opus 4.7 + extended thinking — rig-core upgraded to 0.36. Adds Claude Opus 4.7 to the model roster. Extended thinking (budget_tokens) wired for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6. Opus 4.7 uses adaptive thinking only and is excluded from the thinking dropdown.
• DeepSeek provider — DeepSeek is now available as an AI provider option.

Preferences & UI

• Agents page renamed to Toolbox & Permissions
• More conversational Claw chat layout — Bigger fonts, more padding, and character avatars on the left for a more readable conversation view.
• Overlay history enabled by default — maintain_overlay_history is now on by default.
• Character selection moved to bottom

Infrastructure

• disable-self-update cargo feature — Package maintainers can build without the internal updater: cargo build --release --features disable-self-update.
• New boxxy-sys-utils crate — System utilities extracted into a standalone leaf crate, removing the rig-core / reqwest dependency from non-AI crates.
• Minimum Rust version set to 1.95

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Various fixes and improvements throughout.

0.0.34

• feat(window, claw): native os notifications 0c6beb9
• feat(claw): add location and time context injection with privacy toggle e06ef5d
• feat(claw): implement swarm orchestration with pub/sub and resource locks 0621bb4
• feat(claw): add OpenRouter provider 8cd1eda
• feat(claw): implement robust task queueing and abort architecture cf0f4fc
• feat(msgbar): overhaul resume session UI with LLM titles and colored badges 5c20259
• feat(claw): persist and display user messages in sidebar session history 2f7c61d
• refactor(agent): isolate subsystems via decoupled D-Bus interfaces ca8394e
• feat: implement Memory Consolidation (Dream Cycle) pipeline e6cb970
• feat: implement robust Agent State Machine and Sleep/Wake protocol c84f6d0
• feat(logging): display the tools agents use in claw sidebar c32b3ed
• refactor(telemetry): implement SQLite journaling d8907f2
• chore(defaults): update preferred settings b2c20a5
• And various bug fixes and model insructions improvements

0.0.33

• transfer all repos to https://github.com/boxxy-dev
• feat: initial search support with Tavily
• feat: MCP support

0.0.32

• feat: rich attachments on Claw Overlays (similar to the claw msgbar) via a new AttachmentManager
• refactor: merge claw_indicator and agent_badge and animate them :)
• optimize context hygiene, cachine and memory deduplication; this massively reduces context and improves agents responses
• feat(core): implement dedicated 'BOXXY_DEBUG_CONTEXT' opt-in logging; use BOXXY_DEBUG_CONTEXT=1 to see exactly what is being sent to and received from the AI models
• feat(viewer): implement inline image rendering for markdown tags
• feat boxxy spinner with GTK 4.22 native animated GPA
• feat: auto-detect API keys from host environment variables
• feat: persistant claw context
• tune models to be more "explainful"
• feat: integrate OpenTelemetry with Supabase backend
• refactor: sidebars for high-performance history virtualization
• feat: pinned sessions
• feat: implement Ctrl+MouseWheel zooming
• fix(vte): support dead keys and input methods via GtkIMContext
• ui: add git hash in about and version
• Proactive mode is now default [0.0.32.1]
• you aren't thinking, you're drinking water [0.0.32.1]

And as always, lots more of bug fixes and improvements!

0.0.31

• feat: claw ui settings
• feat: tasks and reminders; we now can ask agents to set reminders like "remind me to walk my dog out in 10 minutes" or "start cleaning my PC in 3mins"
• since this release Boxxy has an official Flatpak remote
• Various fixes and improvements

0.0.30

• feat: claw mode per terminal (!window)
• feat: persistent agent sessions with resume
• feat: history in claw message-bar
• feat: token tracking
• feat(ui): ensure all boxxy icons are explicitly used over system themes
• feat: add support for OpenAI GPT-5.4 family and reasoning levels
• change domain name to dev.boxxy.BoxxyTerminal
• perf: reduce AI model token usage and cost
• fix: implement "Open in Files" action with ashpd
• fix: ensure proper deactivation of ClawSession and prevent duplicate init
• Various fixes and improvements

0.0.29

• feat: real-time foreground process tracking via agent D-Bus signals
• feat: improve agent awareness of interactive TUI modalities
• perf: make agent foreground process tracking strictly opt-in
• fix(claw): display agent badges immediately upon enabling claw mode
• feat: implement native GTK message bar with attachments. This entirely replaces the OSC 777 shell-based ? prompt. You can now press Ctrl+/ to open a native, floating GTK Entry

0.0.28

• Added. Agents self-awareness; Agents get names, can communicate each other, and send keystrokes
• (boxxyclaw) Switch from a Project based workspace, to a PC Workspace
• Added. Option to set BoxxyClaw on by default on new windows
• Feat: Core Toolbox. This introduces host operations (file, system, web, clipboard) into a dedicated boxxy-core-toolbox library, completely decoupling them from the core reasoning engine
• Dropped. Interactive Claw Sidebar
• Dropped. BoxxyApps (were hidden already)
• Dropped. Option to hide tabs when less than 2. Always display the tabbar
• Feat: Custom Tab Colors; also an option for new tabs to open in a random color; btw, we use the 9 Adwaita accent colors
• Feat: Custom Tab Title
• Various fixes & Improvements

0.0.27

• Added. GTK Light / Dark / Follow System option
• Added. Terminal Opacity option
• Added. Background image option
• Added. Underlining plain text URL with Control+Hover
• Improved search UX, with multi-selections, multi-llines support, and vibrant colors
• More robust Claw Settings and allow per Window Claw Modes
• Refactor Model Selections
• Fixed. Infinite loop when pasting an empty clipboard
• Set is_new_task from true to false, so the agent doesn't get amnesia when new "?" messages
• Various fixes and improvements