Release Notes
All notable changes to Codistry, the privacy-first AI coding assistant, are documented here.
[0.6.1] - 2026-06-23
Fixed
- Improved tool-calling reliability for OpenAI models when Skinny Tools is enabled.
[0.6.0] - 2026-06-18
Added
- Context Engine — Codistry now builds a local index of your codebase to give the agent more relevant context automatically and on-demand.
- Chat Sessions — run several conversations at once, and name, pin, reorder (drag), and queue messages per session.
- Subagents — the agent can delegate self-contained tasks to focused sub-agents.
- Dynamic Skills — repo-specific skills that live in your project and are discovered automatically.
- Japanese and Korean language support across the UI and native prompts and notifications.
- Personalization (renamed from "Context") — Codistry now checks into git architectural insight and learnings to tailor the agent to you and your project.
Changed
- Default model is now Claude Sonnet 4.6.
- Skinny Tools is on by default for more efficient tool calling.
- Tool steps now show descriptive names instead of raw tool names.
- Settings UI cleanup and general UI performance improvements.
- When auto-update is off you're notified of new commits; when it's on, you're told so.
- Removed deprecated models.
Fixed
- Indexing now works smoothly even when no Anthropic or OpenAI credentials are configured.
- Improved embedding reliability.
- Improved conversation summarization and handling of large tool results.
- Improved stability of "thinking" output for open models.
- Smoother streaming of step-by-step output.
- More robust and responsive model streaming.
[0.5.7] - 2026-06-03
Changed
- Improved Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for connecting external tools and data sources.
[0.5.6] - 2026-05-29
Added
- Support for the Claude Opus 4.8 model.
- A dedicated step view for grep searches, so search progress and results appear inline in the conversation.
Changed
- Faster, more reliable file and text (grep) search.
- The agent now shows a diff when it updates your Worldview, so you can see exactly what changed.
- Added loading spinners while diagrams are generated and while your Worldview is updating.
Fixed
- More accurate handling of context between conversation turns.
- Improved cleanup of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers when a session ends.
[0.5.5] - 2026-05-07
Fixed
- Improved handling of large tool results within the model's context window.