v0.9.8 - Skills, UI Redesign & Git projects
- Skills
- Skills System replacing the legacy Instruments with a new
SKILL.mdstandard for structured, portable agent capabilities. - Built-in skills, and UI support for importing and listing skills
- Skills System replacing the legacy Instruments with a new
- Real-time WebSocket infrastructure replacing the polling-based approach for UI state synchronization
- UI Redesign
- Process groups to visually group agent actions with expand/collapse support
- Timestamps, steps count and execution time with tool-specific badges
- Step detail modals with key-value and raw JSON display
- Collapsible responses with show more/less and copy buttons on code blocks and tables
- Message queue system allowing users to queue messages while the agent is still processing
- In-browser file editor for viewing and editing files without leaving the UI
- Welcome screen redesign with info and warning banners for connection security, missing API keys, and system resources
- Scheduler redesign with standalone modal, separate task list, detail and editor components, and project support
- Smooth response rendering and scroll stabilization across chat, terminals, and image viewer
- Chat width setting and reworked preferences panel
- Image viewer improvements with scroll support and expanded viewer
- Redesigned sidebar with reusable dropdown component and streamlined buttons
- Inline button confirmations for critical actions
- Improved login design and new logout button
- File browser enhanced with rename and file actions dropdown
- Git projects
- Git-based projects with clone authentication for public and private repositories
- Four new LLM providers: CometAPI, Z.AI, Moonshot AI, and AWS Bedrock
- Microsoft Dev Tunnels integration for secure remote access
- User data migration to
/usrdirectory for cleaner separation of user and system files - Subagents system with configurable agent profiles for different roles
- Memory operations offloaded to deferred tasks for better performance
- Environment variables can now configure settings via
A0_SET_*prefix in.env - Automatic migration with overwrite support for
.env, scheduler, knowledge, and legacy directories - Projects support extended to MCP, A2A, and external API
- Workdir outside project support for more flexible file organization
- Agent number tracking in backend and responses for multi-agent identification
- Many bug fixes and stability improvements across the UI, MCP tools, scheduler, uploads, and WebSocket handling