Changelog

Terminal presentation: /appearance, /input, and /maxxing have been removed along with their saved settings. fx now uses the same input and transcript layout everywhere.

Foreground command timeouts: terminal.exec calls now require timeout_ms between 1 millisecond and 10 minutes. Use terminal.start for services, watchers, GUI apps, and other long-running work.

Remote MCP servers: /mcp add --transport http <name> <url> now saves or replaces a remote Streamable HTTP server and reloads MCP immediately. The existing local stdio form is unchanged.

Retained command output: Captured command output can now be read later with read_tool_result, including after a saved session resumes. With --no-save, output remains available until fx exits.

Auto mode review prompts: Auto mode now uses fewer tokens when reviewing unresolved actions.

Native binary size: The macOS arm64 binary is 0.3% smaller (6.12 MiB vs 6.13 MiB).

Gateway defaults: New Gateway sessions now use Kimi K3 with Fast mode enabled by default.

Setup hub: /setup now groups sign-in methods under Connections and shows the current provider, Vercel team, and credential source. Child screens return to the setup hub, and active sign-in controls remain visible in compact terminals.

Provider model preferences: Gateway, Codex, and Grok now keep separate saved model selections, so switching providers no longer replaces another provider's preferred model.

Subscription session longevity: Codex and Grok sessions remain usable beyond 64 consecutive requests.

Usage tracking: Rejected completions no longer appear in usage tracking, and duplicate completion callbacks are recorded once.

MCP discovery: MCP searches still find the selected tool when a request includes surrounding context, and another server's authentication failure no longer replaces an empty search result.

MCP authentication: MCP authentication stays responsive while configuration reloads or logout is in progress, and pending authentication stops when MCP reloads or fx exits.

Linked skill errors: Linked skill errors now distinguish an unavailable linked directory from an unreadable SKILL.md and explain whether to repair, remove, or authorize the link.

Live permission modes: Shift+Tab permission-mode changes now apply to later tool calls in the current turn. Actions already in progress keep the mode under which they were admitted.

Tool action summaries: Denied and deferred tool rows now show the actual command or target, and those details and denial labels survive session resume.

Terminal resize: Terminal resizing no longer leaves empty scrollback behind.

Subscription sign-in: Codex and Grok sign-ins now survive unrelated, stalled, reset, or stale browser connections. Grok authorization codes can also be pasted when the browser cannot return to fx.

OAuth callback pages: OAuth callbacks now show a completion or failure page after returning from the browser.

Nested rebuilds: Interactive terminal helpers continue working after a nested rebuild replaces the fx binary on disk.

Terminal recovery: fx recovery no longer pauses commands already running in tmux.

Terminal cancellation: Terminal cancellation no longer reports failure when the command exits during cancellation.

MCP resource compatibility: MCP resources and prompts no longer fail on servers that require their configured name.

MCP credential recovery: MCP credentials with no advertised scopes remain usable after restart. Malformed stored entries no longer prevent valid servers from loading and are removed on the next successful credential write.

MCP stdio environments: Configured MCP stdio environment variables now override inherited values without discarding the rest of the child environment.

Captured command failures: Captured command output remains readable after timeout or cancellation. Output-capture failures now fail the tool call instead of returning an incomplete result.

Resumed review labels: The Safety caution and Review unavailable labels now survive session resume.

Exact-action reviews: Auto mode reviews each unresolved action against the current request and relevant results from the current turn. A clear review applies only to that exact unchanged action and is checked again before execution.

Blocked cautions: Cautioned or unavailable actions remain blocked without opening a permission prompt or ending the turn.

Untrusted tool output: Actions copied from untrusted tool output remain blocked unless the user's request independently authorizes them.

Current-branch pushes: Explicit pushes to the current branch use the branch reported by the local Git checkout rather than repository text.

Provider recovery authority: After restart, fx continues unfinished Codex or Grok work only for the account that started it. If that account cannot be verified, fx preserves completed work and sends nothing.

Sensitive command output: Command output flagged as sensitive is not saved with the session, including secrets split across output chunks or oversized lines.

OAuth callback validation: OAuth authorization denials and successes apply only when the callback state matches the active sign-in attempt, and Grok browser callbacks accept only the expected xAI origin.

MCP issuer validation: MCP sign-in stops before exchanging a token or saving credentials when the authorization response comes from a different issuer than the server advertised.

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Host command execution: Run approved captured, background, and monitor commands as ordinary host subprocesses, and retire sandbox configuration, status fields, and commands

Interactive provider switching: Move provider selection to /setup and remove the /provider slash command while keeping the top-level fx provider command

Codex subscriptions: Sign in with an eligible subscription through fx login codex, then use authenticated Codex models for interactive sessions, fx ask, native ACP, images, subagents, and automatic reviews

Grok subscriptions: Sign in with an eligible Grok subscription through fx login grok, then use authenticated xAI models, effort levels, images, local tools, persistent sessions, and automatic reviews

Workspace status line: Opt in to the active workspace path and Git branch through /settings, /statusline workspace, or statusLine.workspace

fx-native workspace skills: Discover project skills from .fx/skills before other workspace and compatibility roots

External skill authorities: Allow symlinked skills under explicitly trusted external directories through FX_SKILL_SYMLINK_AUTHORITIES

Provider setup: Activate a catalog-valid model after subscription login, reauthenticate logged-out providers through /setup, and show Codex authorization as a clickable terminal link

Provider model catalogs: Show provider-advertised models, context windows, and effort levels in /model and the status line

Session listings: Show saved session names, readable UTC timestamps, language names, and singular turn counts while preserving the existing JSON fields

Session cache reads: Keep session listings and latest-session resume responsive while another session defers cache publication

Terminal tab titles: Label interactive tabs with the session or workspace and active model, keep them current across rename, resume, and model changes, and clear them on exit

Terminal activity: Keep each command or shell attached to its terminal activity row through completion, distinguish graceful close from force close, and hide no-op cd . && prefixes

Terminal action arguments: Advertise only the fields relevant to the selected action and limit unsaved fx ask sessions to terminal.exec

Auto mode reads: Run routine read-only commands and hardened Git inspection directly without automatic review

Automatic denial recovery: Return destructive actions to the agent for replanning and finish repeated no-progress denials as normal assistant output instead of opening a permission prompt

One-off subagents: Keep active one-off subagents visible, deliver one final result, and retire them after completion while leaving persistent subagents reusable

Startup preferences: Show saved reasoning effort and Fast mode immediately while model capabilities load

Dev build identity: Add the commit and [dev] marker to dev-channel welcome headers without changing stable release headers

MCP reload feedback: Replace internal health details with concise server availability and recovery guidance

Help layout: Keep command descriptions close to command names on wide terminals

Native binary size: Reduce the macOS arm64 release footprint while preserving existing behavior

Stable upgrades: Restore forward-only version ordering across manual, automatic, and Ctrl+G upgrades

Oversized images: Normalize large macOS image snapshots without changing the originals and reject attachments locally when a bounded snapshot cannot be prepared

Corrupt memory stores: Report malformed, oversized, or unreadable stores and preserve their original bytes instead of overwriting them

Non-regular file reads: Reject FIFOs and other non-regular read_file targets before they can block

Malformed tool loops: End a turn after three consecutive malformed-only tool batches and reset recovery after a valid batch

Terminal null placeholders: Treat textual "null" values as absent for unused terminal fields while preserving real command text that contains the word

Terminal keyboard input: Ignore unknown completed escape sequences and handle Ghostty kitty Escape reports with Caps Lock, Num Lock, and event suffixes

Credential fallback: Continue to a stored API key when saved fx login credentials cannot load or refresh while keeping the login failure available for diagnostics

Vision recovery: Retry replay-safe requests once after a post-Vision assistant-prefill rejection

Thinking status: Keep the Thinking indicator and elapsed timer visible while automatic command review runs

Terminal helper compatibility: Reject unsupported start, signal, and force-close requests from stale terminal helpers without losing unrelated sessions

WASM project context: Skip unavailable local project-instruction probes in browser hosts while preserving host-supplied context

Idle terminal traffic: Stop polling the terminal theme while idle and continue retinting after supported theme notifications

Command approval patterns: Restrict wildcard command allows to static shell words and keep destructive shell commands and file deletion outside automatic review

macOS login storage: Store native fx login sessions in Keychain with verified migration, refresh, restart, and logout behavior

MCP configuration writes: Save ~/.fx/mcp.json atomically with private permissions, reject linked targets, and preserve the previous configuration when a write fails

MCP session retirement: Keep retired HTTP session IDs alive until in-flight requests drain

Provider response limits: Reject oversized Codex and Grok catalogs, streams, tool data, and replay state while keeping later input usable

ACP permission validation: Validate permission input before writing JSON-RPC frames

Session resume command: Resume the latest workspace session or an exact session ID with fx session resume

Headless permission prompts: Add --prompt-permissions so JSON and quiet fx ask runs can request Y/N approval on a TTY while keeping stdout clean

Auto mode permissions: Run routine reversible development commands and new-file creation directly, then ask for human approval after repeated automatic review denials

Command discovery: Rank exact, prefix, and substring slash-command matches and highlight the selected help description

Terminal attention bells: Emit one terminal bell when fx pauses for permission or other input so terminal multiplexers can flag waiting panes

Transcript scrollback: Preserve retained transcript rows in native scrollback across pruning, resize, and reflow

Session cache contention: Continue same-workspace session writes and keep listing and resume results current while another process holds the latest-session cache lock

Reasoning effort settings: Change reasoning effort without crashing or replacing the selected model

Web redirects: Follow HTTP 303 redirects in web_fetch

Command output separation: End command output that lacks a trailing newline before rendering the next fx ask tool header

Skill discovery: Show one entry for skills reached through symlinked compatibility roots while preserving distinct same-name skills

libfx session transitions: Cancel active cooperative turns before starting a fresh session so the terminal remains responsive

Memory activity: Present memory list as a read instead of a write

Unsupported login shells: Fall back to zsh on macOS or Bash elsewhere when the configured login shell is unsupported

Process cleanup: Cancel and reap headless terminal commands on SIGTERM, preserve signal status, and tolerate short-lived Linux processes disappearing during cleanup

Model output limits: Omit invalid limits that consume a model's full context window

Terminal lease transitions: Reject write payloads on lease acquisition, release, and revocation before session state changes

JSON recovery progress: Report retry, recovery, and safety-pause status on stderr during fx ask --json while keeping stdout parseable

Notification sounds: Improve six notification sounds for clearer, more consistent playback while keeping the click sound unchanged

Memory actions: Reject unsupported memory actions before execution instead of reporting a successful no-op

Memory clearing: Succeed when memory is already absent, but report real deletion failures instead of claiming memories were cleared

Background URLs: Refuse /background open for stopped or stale tasks so saved URLs cannot open an unrelated process after port reuse

Model catalogs: Reject malformed catalog responses with a nonzero exit instead of treating them as an empty model list

Skill creation: Show invalid /skills create names inline and keep the current session, transcript, and composer usable

GLM 5.2 responses: Restore responses for fx login sessions without changing requests for other models

Unified terminal execution: Run captured foreground commands and durable interactive sessions through the terminal tool, with the user's shell profile loaded by default and clean as an explicit opt-out

Saved session permissions: Store exact allow or deny rules with /permissions remember, list them by stable ID, and remove them with /permissions revoke

MCP server awareness: Show the agent the configured server aliases, availability, and visible tool counts so it can find and use MCP capabilities

Auto mode recovery: Let the agent revise its plan after denied, timed-out, or invalid reviews and return a tools-disabled response after repeated blocks instead of stalling for approval

Trusted auto mode actions: Allow bounded reads, hardened read-only Git commands, and prepared workspace edits to proceed without extra review while keeping ambiguous or sensitive actions gated

MCP connection reliability: Connect to legacy stdio servers, cancel stalled reloads, and report the required oauth.issuer override when issuers do not match

MCP failure handling: Show concise server errors and stop a third matching failed call before it runs

Terminal action recovery: Reject invalid terminal fields before running anything and return one complete correction without repeating the same repair loop

Fast mode default: Keep zai/glm-5.2 as the default model for new sessions, but leave Fast mode disabled unless explicitly enabled. Preserve saved preferences and /fast

WebAssembly terminal input: Keep input responsive during continuous streams, queue follow-up prompts until the active response completes, and preserve the queued prompt text

Terminal job cleanup: Force-close descendant jobs spawned by any Linux thread and return session_lost when fx cannot confirm complete cleanup

Answers about fx: Consult the current public documentation before answering questions about fx

Scoped project instructions: Continue safe read-only inspections after loading more specific project instructions and defer only affected state-changing tools

Light terminal readability: Improve syntax highlighting and help contrast on light terminal backgrounds while keeping redirected and structured output uncolored

Transcript review navigation: Preserve tail following, scroll bookmarks, and expanded command history when switching between Ctrl+O Review and Full detail

Linked project guidance: Load project instruction and workspace skill symlinks when their targets remain within their allowed scope

Tool scrollback: Keep completed tool groups in native scrollback while later tools are still running

Wrapped diff layout: Keep wrapped file-diff rows aligned with their gutters across Inline, Review, and Full detail

Inline picker layout: Keep the transcript and composer adjacent when closing inline pickers instead of leaving a blank band in the frame

Native Node.js fetch lifecycle: Keep native sessions reusable after early response completion, cancel only the matching host fetch, and reject incompatible addon versions before startup

Terminal cleanup: Allow tmux sessions a bounded settling period after shutdown while retaining strict ownership checks