Changelog

All notable changes to this project are recorded here. The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and the versioning follows Semantic Versioning.

0.11.2 - 2026-07-28

Highlights of this release:

• Stale-review marker: when a PR gets new commits, the review timeline draws a divider so reviews made against older code are clearly separated from newer ones — hover to see the commit.
• Commit-aware review: continuing a review conversation after new commits land — the agent now knows earlier discussion may reference code that has since changed.
• Quick single-PR refresh: refresh just the current PR from remote with F5, a new refresh button, or a command — instead of waiting for the periodic sync.

Plus fixes for inline-comment editing being interrupted by a refresh, comment positioning when a narrow diff collapses to unified, and an unexpected macOS media-library prompt.

✨ Added

• The review timeline now marks a divider whenever the PR gains new commits, separating reviews made against older code from newer ones (hover shows the commit's message), so it's obvious when earlier review results are based on outdated code.
• The review agent is now aware of code changes across commits: when you continue a conversation after new commits land, it knows earlier discussion may reference code that has since changed.
• You can now refresh just the current PR from remote — press F5, click the new refresh button next to "open in browser", or run the "Refresh PR" command — instead of waiting for the periodic background sync.

♻️ Changed

• Auto review moved from F5 to Ctrl+F5 to avoid triggering it by accident; F5 now refreshes the current PR.

🔧 Fixed

• An in-progress inline comment or draft editor in the diff is no longer interrupted when the comment list refreshes — whether from the periodic sync or a new remote comment arriving while you're typing.
• Inline comments and their markers now appear in the right place when a side-by-side diff automatically switches to unified because the pane is too narrow (comments anchored to the deleted / base side previously went missing); jumping to such a comment's anchor also lands on the correct line.
• On macOS, the app no longer prompts for access to Apple Music / your media library on launch.

0.11.1 - 2026-07-14

Highlights of this release:

• File-level comments: comment on a whole file, not just a single line, where the platform supports it (Bitbucket / GitHub).
• Replies as drafts: replying to a comment now creates a deferred draft — consistent with a new comment, persisted across switches, and published with the review batch.
• Project-aware reviews: the review now reads the reviewed repository's own AGENTS.md as context.
• Git LFS status in the diff: binary files show whether they're Git LFS-managed.

Plus a fix so an in-progress inline comment isn't discarded when the comment list refreshes.

✨ Added

• Binary files in the diff (images, office documents, PDFs, …) now show their Git LFS status — a "Git LFS · <size>" tag for LFS-managed files, or a "⚠ Not LFS" tag for files stored inline in git.
• Comments can now be anchored to a whole file (not only a single line) where the platform supports it (Bitbucket / GitHub): a "comment on file" entry in the diff, and existing file-level comments now display correctly instead of being shown as generic PR comments.
• Reviews now pick up the reviewed repository's own guidance file (AGENTS.md) as project context, so the review, description, and suggestions follow the project's stated conventions.
• Replying to a comment now creates a reply draft instead of posting immediately — consistent with adding a new inline comment. The reply is persisted (so an unsubmitted reply survives switching PRs/files/tabs), shown below its parent comment on every surface (activity timeline + inline diff), and published together with your other drafts via "Publish comments".

🔧 Fixed

• An in-progress inline comment reply or edit in the diff is no longer discarded when the comment list refreshes (e.g. the poller pulls a new remote comment while you're typing) — the open editor keeps its text.

0.11.0 - 2026-07-07

Highlights of this release:

• Richer @mention: autocomplete now searches users beyond the PR's participants on the code platform (GitHub / Bitbucket / GitLab), so you can mention anyone without knowing their exact username — and mentioning behaves consistently across every comment editor, including inline diff comments and review drafts.
• Review engine updated: the embedded pr-agent moves to 0.39.0, picking up upstream model-provider routing improvements and fixes.
• Consistent timestamps: displayed times now use a fixed, locale-independent 24-hour yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss format.

The rest of the release is a batch of review-experience fixes (security-result wording, single-line file diffs, inline-comment width, token-rotation auth, and more).

✨ Added

• @mention autocomplete can now find users beyond this PR's participants: after the local suggestions, it searches matching users on the code platform (GitHub / Bitbucket / GitLab), so you can mention someone without knowing their exact username. It works consistently in every comment editor — the activity composer, replies (including inline diff comment replies), and review drafts.

♻️ Changed

• Updated the embedded review engine (pr-agent) to 0.39.0, picking up upstream model-provider routing improvements and fixes.
• Displayed timestamps now use a consistent, locale-independent format — 24-hour yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss, with same-day times showing only HH:mm:ss — instead of following the OS locale (so they no longer differ from the app's language or between machines).

🔧 Fixed

• Inline review-draft comments now offer @mention participant autocomplete, matching the activity and reply composers.
• @mentions of a Bitbucket username containing special characters (e.g. a dot) are now inserted in the correctly quoted form, so the mention resolves and notifies the user.
• The review "Security" result now reads unambiguously when there are no concerns (a consistent "no security concerns") instead of a terse "No" that could be mistaken for a warning.
• Reviews of single-line file changes (e.g. a VERSION or hash file) no longer misread the change as the file containing both the old and new value.
• Inline comments no longer render at the wrong width (spilling past the editor) when a commented file is opened from the file tree — a manual window resize is no longer needed.
• The close button on the enlarged comment-image preview no longer sits beneath the window controls, and its icon is centered.
• Fetching upstream code no longer fails with an authentication error after a code-platform access token is changed (which previously required clearing the repo cache to recover).
• The default AI-suggestion draft layout again wraps its linked label and model name in brackets (the intended [label (model)] form).

0.10.0 - 2026-07-05

Highlights of this release:

• Brand website launched: a VitePress-based project website with a landing page / download page / FAQ and hosted bilingual user docs, auto-deployed via GitHub Pages.
• Project internationalization: the README and user docs are now fully bilingual (English default + Chinese).
• Customizable code-suggestion output: steer how AI suggestions are written and lay out the review-draft comment they produce (Settings → Agent → Strategy).

Beyond the external presentation, the desktop app gains customizable code-suggestion output; the rest of the desktop app and CLI behavior is largely unchanged from 0.9.0, aside from a minor startup fix.

✨ Added

• Brand website: the user-facing project website is now live (https://huhamhire.github.io/code-meeseeks/).
  • Landing page: one-line positioning + light/dark-adaptive product screenshots + core features + a model-ecosystem showcase + a download entry linking to Releases.
  • Download page: automatically recommends the matching installer for the visitor's OS, with GUI and CLI in separate columns; the CLI offers one-line install scripts for macOS / Linux; download info is fetched from the latest Release at runtime, with a build-time static fallback to withstand API rate-limiting.
  • FAQ on its own page.
  • Hosted user docs: the website builds and renders directly from the repo's user docs, bilingual and kept in sync with them, and site search supports a Chinese interface.
  • Deploy decoupled from releases: the website deploys to GitHub Pages via an independent pipeline, without occupying the app / CLI release flow.
• Project documentation internationalization: external docs are now fully bilingual (English as default / fallback, Chinese as the mirror).
  • The README is split into English (default) and Chinese, switchable from the top of each.
  • User docs are bilingual — English is canonical, Chinese is the mirror, and the website renders each by language.
• Customizable code-suggestion output (Settings → Agent → Strategy, both edited in an inline modal):
  • Suggestion spec (code_suggestion_spec): free-text guidance injected into /improve, /review, /ask to shape each suggestion's structure (e.g. Problem / Analysis / Suggestion) — a soft constraint the model generally follows.
  • Suggestion layout (code_suggestion_layout): a deterministic markdown template for the review-draft comment, with <TITLE> / <SUGGESTIONS> / <HOME> / <PR> / <MODEL> placeholders. Empty uses a default layout — a linked "AI suggestion" label + model name above the suggestion body (the default draft-comment prefix thus changes from the previous plain [AI suggestion]).

🔧 Fixed

• Startup now pings only the active connection instead of every configured one: a non-active connection's identity has no UI consumer, so pinging it only added startup network requests and, for an unreachable connection, a recurring warning on each launch. Switching the active connection still refreshes its identity on demand.

0.9.0 - 2026-07-02

Highlights of this release:

• External integration and CLI: open a local API to expose PR browsing and review-Agent operations to external integrations, plus a cross-platform command-line tool meebox

✨ Added

• External integration · local API service: Settings gains an "Integration" section where you can start a local API service that exposes PR browsing and review-Agent operations as endpoints for external agents / tools / scripts.
  • Off by default; enabling it enforces access-token authentication, with one-click token generate / show / copy / regenerate.
  • Custom listen address: reachable only from the local machine by default, optionally opened to the LAN (with a security warning when opened).
  • Exposes browsing (current identity / PR list / detail / diff / activity / commits / reviewers), the review Agent (status / history / auto-review / instructions / conversation / interrupt), and review write actions (approve / needs-work / comment); does not expose merge or change-type Agent tools (publish, etc.).
• External integration · command-line tool meebox: a cross-platform Windows / macOS / Linux command-line client shipped with the release that browses PRs, operates the review Agent, and performs review write actions (approve / needswork / comment) through the local API service — convenient for scripts and external agents. The PR list is compact and paginated; PR-scoped commands use --pr <id>; connection info must be provided explicitly (flag / environment variable / cli.yaml) and does not read the GUI's main config.
• Unread dots on PR-list discovery categories: when a discovery category (To review / Created by me, etc.) has new pending PRs, an unread dot is added after that category's label so you can see at a glance which category has new activity; the dot is always based on active PRs, correctly reflecting active-category unreads even while in the "Closed" view.
• Notifications for PRs I created: three new system notifications for your own PRs — a new comment from someone else, a reviewer marking "needs work", and a merge conflict; the Notifications section provides independent toggles, on by default.
• Command echo bubbles: when you issue /review, /describe, /improve, /ask, etc. directly in the review-Agent panel, the command is instantly echoed as a user bubble above its result card, matching conversational habit; subtasks dispatched by orchestration / AutoPilot are not echoed, avoiding duplication with the orchestration conversation's user messages.
• Launch the review Agent per commit: after switching the change scope to a specific commit in the Diff view, /describe, /review, /improve, /ask (including natural-language questions) typed directly in the review-Agent panel are automatically scoped to that commit's own changes (parent..sha) rather than the whole PR; the input bar marks the current commit with a scope chip, whose selected state derives from the view selection and can be temporarily disabled by clicking (not removed; switching to another commit auto-resets), consistent with the Diff-selection chip interaction. Only one scope is in effect at a time: when Diff lines are selected the selection takes precedence and the commit scope is suspended, restored automatically once the selection is cleared. Both running and completed review-result cards show the scoped commit's range badge. One-click auto-review still applies to the whole PR.

♻️ Changed

• The review Agent's /ask (local agentic-CLI provider) injects code-retrieval guidance: it steers toward read-only searches to locate symbols / read only the needed line ranges instead of reading whole files and scanning the whole repo, lowering exploration rounds and token consumption while preserving the depth of reading real files.
• The "follow-up count" cap now also constrains the free-conversation Agent's (conversation-as-delegation) automatic /ask: previously this cap applied only to the review micro-flow's conditional follow-ups, while the free planning loop was bounded only by "Agent max steps" and could /ask many times in a row (each a costly agentic exploration); now /ask in free conversation is likewise capped by "follow-up count" (always in effect, independent of the "auto follow-up" toggle), preventing runaway exploration cost.
• The status bar no longer routinely shows the pr-agent version (reducing steady-state noise), keeping only the warning when it is unavailable; the version now appears in the runtime-environment info on the Settings "About" page.
• The "pending" filter under the "Created by me" category now includes PRs with merge conflicts: from the author's perspective a conflicted PR needs their follow-up to resolve (even if the review has passed), so it counts as pending.
• The PR-list status sub-filter becomes width-adaptive pills: no wrap when a row fits, wrapping otherwise and distributing items evenly to fill each row, eliminating the ragged right-side gap after wrapping.
• Internal branches in the review Agent's derived temporary worktree no longer use a fixed branded name, switching to PR-associated pr-<localId>/head, pr-<localId>/base (layered naming matching platform PR-reference conventions): removes an identifiable fixed behavioral signature from the output while ensuring the internal branch name never leaks into externally published review content.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed PR-list group-header backgrounds and the Windows window's top-right control buttons not following the theme (editor color theme); both now derive their colors from the current theme, with light/dark and theme switches taking effect in real time.
• Fixed the unread-count chip at the title not clearing immediately after opening a PR with an "@me / replied to me" unread count and requiring the next poll to reset: marking as read now optimistically zeroes that count in sync (previously it only cleared the unread dot, missing the count chip).
• Fixed long labels in the Settings left nav (e.g. "Notifications") overflowing and being clipped in German and other locales; long labels now wrap and display in full.

0.8.0 - 2026-06-30

Highlights of this release:

• Notifications: system notifications (new PR / comment reply / @mention) + macOS dock badge + permission guidance
• Comment experience improvements: emoji reactions, @-mention completion, image attachments, emoji-code rendering — consistent across comments / replies / inline / drafts
• Command palette: Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P centralizes common actions
• Closed-PR browsing and open-by-URL: view historical PRs, add comments / re-run reviews
• Review-rule enhancements: recursive rule directory, multiple rules injected by Ruleset section
• 2026 theme colors and PR-list mention counts

✨ Added

• Comment experience improvements: the comment list, replies, inline (code-line) comments, and draft editing keep a consistent authoring and interaction experience.
  • Emoji reactions: existing emoji reactions (with counts and your own marks) are shown beneath comments (including inline comments), clickable to add / remove; GitLab / Bitbucket support searching for more emoji, GitHub offers its fixed set — provided per platform capability, hidden automatically where unsupported.
  • @-mention autocomplete: typing @ while writing a comment / reply lets you complete from this PR's participants (comment and commit authors); you can still freely type any username.
  • Image attachments: while writing a comment / reply / inline comment / draft you can paste an image or click the image button at the top-right of the input to upload, auto-inserting it into the body (provided per platform capability, entry hidden where unsupported).
  • Emoji-code rendering: emoji codes like :tada: in comment bodies render to the corresponding emoji per the built-in set (code blocks and unknown codes are preserved as-is).
• Notifications: a new "Notifications" settings section lets you enable system notifications and control them by event type — a new PR received, a comment reply received, being @-mentioned in a comment.
  • Windows / macOS pop native system notifications; whether they show respects the OS notification settings, silenced automatically when off.
  • Windows notifications carry the initiator's avatar, a type marker distinguishing PR / comment / reply, and the repository shown.
  • Notifications pop only for "pending" PRs — approved / needs-work PRs no longer disturb.
  • Click a notification to jump straight there: a new PR opens that PR; an inline comment jumps to the corresponding code line in the Diff, a top-level comment opens that PR's conversation tab.
  • For batch activity, at most 5 pop individually, more collapse into one "See more recent activity" prompt that opens the main UI on click, avoiding notification floods.
  • The macOS dock icon shows a badge with the count of comments awaiting your response.
  • macOS notification settings provide an "Open system notification settings" button to grant notification permission at the OS level (macOS does not allow an app to enable it on your behalf).
• PR-list mention counts: when unread comments include @-you / replies-to-you, the unread dot before the list-item title upgrades to a count marker showing the number (capped at "10+"), so you can see at a glance how many comments await your response; unread from new assignment / new commits alone still shows a dot.
• About-page system info: the Settings "About" page adds the operating system (platform + version) and CPU architecture, plus a "Copy info" button to copy all runtime-environment info at once, handy for attaching your environment when reporting issues.
• Closed-PR browsing and supplementary review: a new "Closed" scope switch in the sidebar to view PRs that have exited (merged / closed / no longer need your review); loaded on demand on entry.
  • Merged / still-open PRs can take additional comments and re-run AI review (a merged PR whose source branch was deleted locates diffs by commit); only merge / approval and other change actions are withheld.
  • Closed (declined) PRs are browse-only.
• Open PR by URL: the command palette adds "Open URL" (shortcut mac ⌘⇧U / otherwise Ctrl+Shift+U) — paste / type a PR link for the current platform to open it (trailing suffixes ignored), for viewing others' PRs you were not formally requested to review, including merged / closed PRs.
  • A PR already in the list or history is located directly; a new link is authenticated, fetched, and stored in history (cleared on the same lifecycle expiry), prompting on no permission / invalid link.
• Command palette: a command input in the title bar (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P) to quickly run common actions and centralize scattered features.
  • PR commands: view each discovery category (To review / Created by me, etc., per platform capability), view Closed, Open by URL, category filters (pending / all / conflict / mergeable, etc.), toggle the PR list.
  • Review commands: run auto-review, toggle AutoPilot, toggle the conversation panel.
  • Settings commands: switch display language / theme / model, toggle proxy, open Settings / About / DevTools.
  • Commands are categorized by domain prefix (PR / Review / Settings), with two-level selection (e.g. "Switch theme" expands the theme list); non-English UIs append the English name and always support Chinese-and-English search, with matches highlighted.
  • Opens with the last-used command selected by default; press Enter to repeat.
  • Common actions support shortcuts (toggle PR list / conversation panel, run auto-review, DevTools), with the corresponding keys shown in the palette.
• A README file is added to the Agent context directory: it introduces each file's purpose and links to the project home, making the directory easier to understand and maintain in a third-party editor.

♻️ Changed

• The default theme (follow system) switches to the 2026 series colors: dark / light use Dark 2026 / Light 2026 respectively, with the launch splash aligned; settings with a custom theme are unaffected.
• Exited (merged / closed / no-longer-need-your-review) PR data moves out of the active directory into separate archive storage, with the archive retention and expiry auto-cleanup policy unchanged.
• The Agent's SOUL (persona definition) file is now managed uniformly by the app: each load auto-aligns to the built-in template and local edits are no longer kept, so the Agent's behavior baseline updates uniformly with each version (AGENTS / MEMORY / USER and rules remain yours, freely editable).
• Review-rule enhancements: the rule directory supports recursive sub-directory organization, auto-loading all rule files; multiple rules matched by the same PR are no longer limited to the first — they are injected into the review by Ruleset section (sorted by priority, capped at 20 per run), and the match hint now shows a count with all matched rules previewable.
• The PR-list status sub-filter refines per discovery category: "pending" reflects "not yet reviewed by me", kept only in the "To review" category and, on platforms supporting a "needs work" review state (GitHub / Bitbucket), in categories like "Created by me"; GitLab (binary approval, no "needs work") no longer shows the meaningless "pending" in non-"To review" categories.
• The Agent directory's example rules are now generated only on first initialization; once deleted they are not recreated, making it easy to clear unwanted examples.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed the Agent context directory not being initialized and loading empty after pointing it to a custom or new location; now, whether changed via settings or by directly editing the config, the directory auto-fills the SOUL / AGENTS and other context templates before use.
• Fixed being unable to locate and open a running AI task's PR conversation from the status-bar execution indicator after its PR was auto-moved to "Closed"; it now correctly jumps to the "Closed" category, selects that PR, and opens the conversation.
• Fixed the status-bar "PRs to review" count including PRs like "Created by me" that are not for me to review; it now counts only PRs that need my review and are not yet handled by me.
• Fixed comment replies / @-mentions from others on some platforms (especially Bitbucket) often not popping a notification; comment changes are now reliably tracked for pending (To review / Created by me) PRs, with replies and mentions promptly alerted.
• Fixed clicking a system notification being unable to locate an archived PR (e.g. a running task's PR just moved to "Closed"); it now correctly jumps to the "Closed" category, selects that PR, and opens the corresponding position by type.
• Fixed inline comments needing a switch to another PR and back to refresh when the PR you are viewing (Diff) receives a new comment reply; the currently open comments now refresh immediately once polling detects a reply / mention.

0.7.0 - 2026-06-27

Highlights of this release:

• Dark / light themes and appearance system: theme switching, editor color themes, custom monospace font and size
• AI review runtime parameters: review-task concurrency, context length, Agent strategy (auto follow-up / code-suggestion count)
• PR-list unread markers
• Agent conversation enhancements: attached display of selection references, markdown-formatted thinking, /merge for direct merge
• Faster local agentic-CLI orchestration
• Domain-oriented refactor of the code-platform integration layer (behavior unchanged)

✨ Added

• Themes and appearance
  • Dark / light theme switching: choose light, dark, or follow system, with the UI switching instantly and persisting across restarts.
  • Editor color themes: several built-in options (VS Code 2026 / Modern, high-contrast, plus GitHub, Monokai, Dracula, Nord, Solarized, etc.), following the app theme or set separately.
  • Editor font and size: custom monospace font (multiple candidates) and size, applied to the editor and all app monospace text (diff / comments / code blocks) alike.
• AI review runtime parameters
  • Review-task concurrency: adjust the number of simultaneous review tasks (1–8) in the Settings "AI" section, effective immediately, no restart.
  • Context length: set the context-length cap for trimming input content (habitual tiers from 32k–1M) in the Settings "AI" section, so long PRs fit fully into the prompt; not in effect for local CLI mode.
  • Agent strategy: a new strategy group in the Settings "Agent" section — "auto follow-up" (when off, the review summarizes directly with no conditional follow-up, saving tokens) and "code-suggestion count" (uniformly constrains the number of code suggestions generated per /review·/improve·/ask, 2–8).
• PR list
  • Unread markers: a PR newly entering the review list (newly assigned / your review requested), or with new commits pushed since you last viewed it, or someone @-ing you / replying to you, gets an unread dot on the list item; opening the PR clears it.
• Agent conversation
  • Attached display of question references: when asking about code with a Diff selection, the referenced code is shown collapsed beneath the message bubble (comment-suggestion references reuse the locating badge on the re-review card).
  • Preformatted thinking: thinking / judgment content renders as markdown (code blocks / lists / line breaks).
  • New /merge command: a PR meeting the merge conditions can be merged directly in the conversation, with a confirmation prompt before triggering.

♻️ Changed

• The Agent's own orchestration steps (routing / follow-up judgment / review summary) respond faster in local agentic-CLI mode: each step no longer loads the unused API call stack, lowering the fixed startup latency per response, making conversation and auto-review more responsive overall.
• The settings panel switches to a left-right sectioned layout: section nav on the left (General / Connection / AI / About), config items grouped by section on the right, replacing the previous single-column layout; the section structure reserves room for later expansion (theme, editor style, context window, etc.).
• Domain-driven refactor of the code-platform integration layer (behavior unchanged): laying the groundwork for later platform integration and maintenance.
  • Split into independent services by the four domains of connection, PR operations, comments, and users & media, with clearer responsibilities, easier to maintain and test per domain.
  • Each platform's connection and proxy config is unified into the connection layer, and a new code platform can be integrated step by step per domain.
  • Platform-connection status hints (e.g. version-unsupported reasons) are now localized to the UI language.

🔧 Fixed

• When a side-by-side diff auto-degrades to a unified layout in a narrow window, the scrollbar-overview ruler's deletion marks were lost, leaving only additions in green; it now correctly distinguishes red/green per the actual layout.
• Window size and maximized state are now remembered across restarts (previously often lost after resizing or maximizing and closing).
• With scaling enabled on a high-DPI display, the default window size could exceed the screen; it now adapts to the current display's available area and centers.
• Temporary files occasionally left in the local state directory would keep accumulating each run; they are now cleaned up automatically at startup.

0.6.0 - 2026-06-23

Highlights of this release:

• /ask re-review loop: launch a re-review of review suggestions, auto-superseding / closing the original comment
• /ask structured sectioned output and full-file context
• Mid-run Agent input and the "Plan" panel
• Diff experience enhancements: selection-reference questions, view by change scope / single commit, conflict-file annotation, deleted-line comments, scrollbar-overview ruler
• PR "Activity" timeline
• Major domain-driven front/back-end refactor (behavior unchanged) and faster Agent orchestration

✨ Added

• Agent review and conversation
  • /ask re-review loop: launch a "re-review" of /review, /improve code-comment suggestions (findings), automatically superseding or closing the original comment per the verdict (supersede / keep / withdraw); the auto-review micro-flow can also trigger a re-review from the judge.
  • /ask structured sectioned output: free Q&A is presented color-coded in three sections — conclusion / analysis / suggestions, with code-targeted suggestions locatable by line number and adoptable as inline comments.
  • CLI-mode /ask takes full-file context: when the local CLI takes over it can read complete repo files to answer, clearing the repo's own agent-instruction files before reading to prevent injection contamination.
  • "Mid-run input" and the "Plan" panel: typing a message during a run queues it instantly and re-orders subsequent actions; the planning Agent maintains a visible todo plan, persisted with the conversation and auto-restored on PR switch / restart.
  • Run cards show the "actual model interaction scale": presenting prompt-cache hits and model interaction rounds, so multi-round token usage accumulated by the local CLI is not misread as over-limit.
• Diff reading
  • Reference selected code in a question: after selecting some lines, they are injected into the model as implicit context with the question and can be ignored with one click; deleted lines and unchanged lines can be referenced too.
  • View by "change scope": switch between viewing all changes or a specific commit's changes, clicking a commit renders a read-only diff locally instead of jumping to the browser.
  • File tree annotates conflicting files: a conflicted PR marks the conflicting files with an amber triangle warning icon, locating them without trying to merge file by file.
  • New inline comments / drafts on "deleted lines": in the side-by-side view the base side (deleted / context lines) can also hover "+" to create.
  • Scrollbar-overview ruler: projects add / change / delete and "lines with comments" beside the scrollbar, drag to locate quickly.
• PR detail and collaboration
  • The "Comments" tab evolves into an "Activity" timeline (GitHub / Bitbucket): comments, commit updates, and review decisions merge into one timeline, and you can post a summary comment not anchored to a file directly; GitLab keeps a pure comment view.
  • The PR header shows a reviewer avatar stack: reviewer avatars sorted by review status, with a decision corner badge, overflow collapsed into a "+n" dropdown.
  • Detail-tab internationalization and left-right layout: the whole panel renders text per UI language, changed to description on the left / timeline + reviewer list on the right, responsively stacked when narrow.
• Connection / LLM config modal exit interception: closing with uncommitted changes pops a confirmation, avoiding accidental loss of unsaved content.

♻️ Changed

• Major domain-driven front/back-end refactor (maintainability, behavior unchanged): reorganizes front/back-end code by domain boundaries, clarifying module responsibilities and dependency direction.
  • Front end: components layered by common (base UI) / layout (app skeleton) / features (business domains), with business logic pushed down to its domain and oversized components (ChatPane / SettingsModal / DiffView, etc.) split into "container + domain components + hooks".
  • Back end: extracts an IPC service layer, groups Agent services by domain, decouples the run queue; the Agent engine extracts a pluggable "step" abstraction to unify step recording and usage accumulation, with orchestration prompts externalized to resource files.
  • External interfaces, UI, and interaction behavior are all unchanged.
• Faster Agent orchestration response (behavior unchanged to users): conditional follow-ups are dispatched in parallel, follow-up judgment is slimmed to a lightweight route, the orchestration chain uniformly uses low reasoning + capped judgment output, and the global stable system prefix is wired into the Anthropic 1h prompt cache, lowering overall latency and cost.
• Re-review /ask supersede / withdraw now silently auto-closes the original finding, the "supersede" verdict promotes the suggestion into an adoptable code-feedback card, and the front end only shows the closed state read-only with a "view re-review" navigation.
• The Agent's "review summary" focuses on the PR's overall conclusion: it consumes only each follow-up's conclusion rather than the full answer detail, outputting a PR-level overall conclusion without duplicating detail.
• The PR commit list / activity timeline filters merged-in others' commits by first-parent, keeping only this PR's own commits; falls back without losing info when the mirror is not ready.
• Review / Diff UI interaction polish (a batch of small improvements): the review-summary and finding cards share styling and line spacing, collapsible cards expand from the whole title row with a transition animation, clicking a re-review reference badge locates and highlights the original card, danger buttons are unified to a saturated red, the settings modal reuses the first-launch wizard's left-right layout, and the "concurrency limit reached" banner is removed, the /review "estimate effort" section is hidden, etc.

🔧 Fixed

• After the source branch merges the target branch, the changes-page diff mixed in the target branch's existing changes. (#107, thanks @csj2000)
• /ask's structured sectioning / reference context / re-review verdict instructions previously had no effect on the model.
• The re-review "supersede" verdict's improvement suggestion becomes a directly publishable alternative comment, no longer a meta-discussion about the comment.
• Failed / canceled tasks no longer produce meaningless finding cards.
• CLI-mode /ask failed entirely when the repo's own agent-instruction files were under version control.
• A local mirror missing the PR head sha (source branch deleted / force-pushed) caused diff / review failure without self-healing.
• Eliminated multiple render jitters and flickers on PR switch / refresh / tab switch.
• Eliminated the Monaco console Missing requestHandler noise error.
• The review summary was occasionally truncated / fell back to "unable to parse suggestions".
• Fetching the changed-file list occasionally failed (ENOENT … diff-base.json).
• Merging an already-merged / closed PR gave an unfriendly error.
• Filled in the internationalization of hardcoded text like the PR review-status chip and Agent step rows.
• The Settings-page manual "Check for updates" result now syncs to the status bar immediately.
• The PR detail / comments-page body is width-constrained and centered, and the reviewers list sorts stably.

0.5.0 - 2026-06-17

Highlights of this release:

• Delegable high-level Agent (conversation-as-Agent + AutoPilot background pre-review)
• Frameless window + custom title bar
• Polish of heavy-component load jitter, nested comment display, etc.

✨ Added

• High-level Agent (conversation-as-Agent + AutoPilot pre-review): a delegable agent introduced into PR review, automatically available with the LLM config, no separate enable toggle.
  • One-click auto-review: runs a "describe → review → (serious issues only) follow-up → summarize" micro-flow for the current PR, giving non-binding advice (suggest approve / request changes / manual review) summarized into a "review summary" card.
  • Conversation-as-delegation: type natural language in the chat box, and the planning Agent calls read-only tools as needed to fulfill the request, politely declining requests unrelated to the PR and stoppable anytime while running.
  • AutoPilot background pre-review: automatically pre-reviews new PRs that are "to review" and "pending", with advice landing in the list badge and the summary landing in the conversation; write operations are gated by per-item authorization + red-line checks (only read-only tools open by default).
  • Review-status visualization: PR-list items show a blue "running" spinner or a review-advice ★ (covering the pure-thinking phase), and AutoPilot-triggered reviews are marked with a robot icon.
  • Parallel multi-question: the planning Agent can dispatch multiple /ask in parallel within one round.
  • Review-step token usage visible: each reasoning step shows that step's token usage on the right (not cumulative).
  • Agent context directory: SOUL / AGENTS / MEMORY / USER and rules/ constitute the Agent's persona and knowledge source, landing by default in ~/.code-meeseeks/agent, idempotently filled with templates on first launch.
• Frameless window + custom title bar (VS Code style): removes the native system title bar, renders a 36px title bar in the render layer, carries the dark theme all the way through, hands window-control buttons to the system to keep native behavior, and shows the brand name and current PR title in the title bar.
• The Settings page adds an "About & feedback" entry: three external links — GitHub repo / submit Issue / Releases.

♻️ Changed

• Heavy-component load-jitter convergence: when switching PRs / files, heavy areas like the diff (Monaco) and conversation content uniformly cover with a delayed loading state and reveal all at once when ready, with zero flicker on cache-hit fast switches.
• Removed the standalone ollama provider, unifying local Ollama via openai-compatible (with its own compatible endpoint, more standard); old config migrates automatically; openai-compatible is marked verified.
• Unified nested comment display (comment tab + inline): replies flatten to the same level at 5 deep, with nesting changed to a flat "left vertical line indent" style.
• describe's "file changes" category is collapsed by default, avoiding overly long output.
• The review summary no longer hard-truncates: summary_max_chars is only a soft constraint, generated content is preserved in full.
• A batch of UI details: the review-advice star changes to a four-point sparkle ✦, the unified PR-list status chip has high line height to eliminate drift, and appending a language requirement to the end of the /ask question improves answering in the UI language.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed the "changes reverted" misjudgment caused by the PR diff base drifting with the target branch.
• Fixed garbled Chinese logs in the Windows console.
• Fixed a finding-anchor parse error when the file path contains square brackets (e.g. a/[m-123]/x.ts).
• Fixed the Anthropic provider's self-built / relay base_url previously having no effect. (#65, thanks @dnvyrn)
• A broken mirror left by an interrupted local-mirror clone/fetch now self-heals by auto-rebuilding.
• Clearing a PR's execution history now also clears the list review-advice ★, and the ★ updates immediately after auto-review completes.
• The PR "commits" count badge excludes commits brought in by merging the target branch into the source branch and merge commits.
• Added the Chinese / Japanese / German translations for the walkthrough file-category headings (Miscellaneous / Formatting / Dependencies).
• Eliminated render jitter triggered by comment-page poll / refresh.

0.4.0 - 2026-06-14

Highlights of this release:

• GitLab integration (gitlab.com + Self-Managed, CE / EE)
• Review-interaction and rendering polish (decline collapse, draft-anchor alignment, in-comment attachment images, GitHub / GitLab comment edit & delete)
• Relaxed connection Base URL
• Windows upgrade-install robustness (per-machine elevation + bypassing the old uninstaller)

⚠️ Windows install note: this release is a per-machine install (all users / Program Files); the installer pops UAC elevation on double-click, and the installed app launches with normal privileges. Upgrading from an old version auto-cleans the old install, no manual uninstall needed.

✨ Added

• GitLab integration (gitlab.com + Self-Managed, CE / EE, REST API v4): MR discovery, diff-comment read / post / edit / delete / reply, merge, clone (PAT / SSH), avatar / attachment proxy; the Settings page and first-launch wizard can add a GitLab connection (Base URL can be left empty to default to gitlab.com).
  • CE / EE approval degradation: detects the edition via /metadata — EE supports approve / revoke, CE has no API approval and grays it out in the UI (GitLab approval is binary, no "needs work").

♻️ Changed

• Relaxed connection Base URL: GitHub Enterprise / GitLab Self-Managed can fill the instance address directly (e.g. https://ghe.example.com), with /api/v3, /api/v4 auto-completed; github.com / gitlab.com use the default when left empty.
• After declining a code feedback / improvement suggestion, the card auto-collapses to gray, keeping only the header and anchor row (with an undo entry), reducing the visual footprint of decided items.
• Local CLI-type LLM providers are marked "experimental": noting their dependence on an upstream CLI (claude / codex, etc.) with no stability guarantee.
• The Settings-page connection / LLM preset cards show the corresponding brand-type icon to avoid misconfiguration; danger buttons change to solid saturated red for a stronger warning; the Windows install page no longer expands the blank file-log list, leaving only the progress bar.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed being unable to edit / delete your own comments on GitHub / GitLab.
• Fixed Bitbucket in-comment attachment images not rendering.
• Fixed the anchored line in the code-suggestion draft area not matching the final published location.
• In-comment image proxy failure now degrades to an "open in browser" link instead of showing a broken icon.
• Fixed Windows upgrade-install hanging / "cannot close".

0.3.1 - 2026-06-11

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed the macOS distribution's "local CLI" providers (claude / codex) failing due to an incomplete PATH when launched via Finder / Dock. (#21)

0.3.0 - 2026-06-11

Highlights of this release:

• UI internationalization (four languages + instant switching)
• Mermaid architecture-diagram rendering
• Version-update detection
• pr-agent capability extensions such as /improve and the /describe approach-suggestion section
• Fixes for first-launch sync, child-process-tree cleanup, and install / upgrade robustness

⚠️ Windows upgrade note: if an earlier version is installed (including 0.3.0-alpha.1 and earlier), manually uninstall the old version first before upgrading to this one (Settings → Apps → Code Meeseeks → Uninstall, or Uninstall Code Meeseeks.exe in the install directory), then run the new installer; otherwise the overwrite install may hang for a long time or pop "Code Meeseeks cannot be closed". Reason: at runtime, earlier versions wrote tens of thousands of Python bytecode (.pyc) cache files into the install directory, making the "uninstall old version" step of an overwrite upgrade delete a huge number of small files one by one — extremely slow, even hanging. From this release runtime no longer writes these caches, so subsequent upgrades overwrite normally with no manual uninstall needed.

✨ Added

• Multilingual UI (i18n): integrates react-i18next, covering all GUI text and main-process user-facing text in Simplified Chinese / English / 日本語 / Deutsch; pr-agent output-template rendering is language-aware at render time.
  • Language selection: dropdown selection in the Settings page and first-launch wizard, effective immediately, with the AI reply language following (from the next run).
  • Language resolution: when config.language is empty, matches the OS preferred language, defaulting / falling back to en-US.
  • On-demand lazy loading: the default language enters statically, others are fetched only on switch (ja-JP / de-DE are machine first drafts).
• Mermaid architecture-diagram rendering: mermaid code blocks in markdown render to diagrams, covering PR descriptions / comments / chat review output, clickable into a modal preview (zoom / pan / fit to window), falling back to the raw code block on render failure.
• Version-update detection: at startup and on the Settings page, queries the latest stable release on GitHub Releases for comparison, prompting in the status bar with a click to go download when there's a new version (detection only, no auto-install), going through the configured outbound proxy, and can be turned off.
• Enable the /improve command: line-by-line code-improvement suggestions (with a 1–10 importance score), output landing in a separate improve.md split from /review.
• /describe architecture diagram and approach-suggestion section: uniformly enables GFM so the community-edition /describe selectively outputs a mermaid architecture diagram; and injects an "approach suggestions" section — 2–4 alternative implementation approaches (each collapsed) + a leaning recommendation.
• describe layout optimization: the architecture diagram and file changes each become a separate section with a colored-block heading, and file changes collapse by category.
• Clear execution history: a trash button added to the chat-panel title bar clears the current PR's execution history.

🔧 Fixed

• Install / upgrade robustness: reduces the number of small files in the install directory, alleviating slow / hanging uninstall on upgrade (an installed earlier version still needs a manual uninstall first).
• Fixed litellm and other grandchild processes being orphaned on cancel / timeout / exit.
• Fixed first launch "appearing not to trigger a remote sync" when the active connection has no cached identity.

0.2.0 - 2026-06-09

Highlights of this release:

• GitHub integration (github.com + GitHub Enterprise Server) and a multi-platform adaptation abstraction
• Concurrent review-task execution
• Significantly faster startup
• Removed the Docker run strategy, converging to the embedded runtime

✨ Added

• GitHub adaptation (github.com + GitHub Enterprise Server, REST API v3): PR discovery, diff-comment read/write, inline comments, approval (approve / needs-work / revoke), merge; approval degrades per platform capability, and the approve button is grayed out for your own authored PRs.
• Multi-platform adaptation baseline: PlatformAdapter capability descriptors + comment-thread fields, with the UI showing / hiding / graying per capability bits, no platform checks written at call sites.
• PR discovery categories: GitHub aligns with the dashboard's four categories (To review / Created by me / Assigned to me / Mentioning me), Bitbucket adds two; results are cached locally and filtered locally by label.
• Concurrent review-task execution: the queue becomes configurable-concurrency (each run an independent worktree + child process), so multiple PR reviews run in parallel, with concurrency controlled by pr_agent.max_concurrency (1–8, default 2).
• Local CLI model provider (cli): hands review requests to a locally installed and authorized command-line tool (Claude Code / Codex CLI), with credentials and billing handled by that CLI.
• Single-active-connection model: the PR list and status bar reflect only the current active connection, archiving the old connection's PRs on switch.
• Added user-facing user-guide docs (docs/guide/): install and first use, platform / LLM / proxy config, config-file reference, custom review rules.
• Merge-button waiting state, preventing repeat clicks.

♻️ Changed

• Faster startup: adds a launch splash presenting the logo + spinner instantly; Monaco changes to lazy loading, shrinking the render entry bundle ~10MB → ~2.6MB; pr-agent detection moved off the window-creation critical path.
• Unified internal naming to Bitbucket repo-wide, removing ambiguous abbreviations like BBS / BB (pure rename).
• The architecture-design docs directory docs/modules/ → docs/arch/.
• Logging enhancements: the dev console changes to single-line logfmt (colored by level, files still JSON); uncaught render-layer errors are relayed to main via IPC and logged together.

🗑️ Removed

• Removed the Docker run strategy: the embedded runtime + system local-cli already cover all scenarios, pr_agent.strategy no longer accepts docker.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed multi-line free-text values returned by the model breaking pr-agent YAML parsing and crashing /review.
• Fixed a render crash on deleted-file line-number fragments.
• Fixed the first-launch wizard platform-card visual misalignment.

🔒 Security

• The GitHub image proxy attaches the PAT only for trusted GitHub / GHE asset domains, avoiding credentials being carried to third-party domains.
• Upgraded nx to 22.7.5 and fixed the minimatch ReDoS (high) dependency warning.

0.1.0 - 2026-06-08

A localized, semi-automatic AI code-review desktop client for individual Reviewers, built on the community edition of pr-agent: pull PRs awaiting review, run AI locally to generate review opinions, confirm / edit each one, then publish to the code platform. Decisions rest with the human, rules stay local, data stays local.

✨ Added

• Platform integration and PR discovery
  • Bitbucket Server / Data Center integration (REST API v1, >= 7.0).
  • Polling auto-discovers Open PRs awaiting review where you are a Reviewer; grouped by repo, status-filtered, searchable.
  • First-launch config wizard: guides configuring the code-platform connection + (optionally) the LLM; returns to the wizard on next launch when a valid connection is missing.
  • Single-instance lock: a second launch focuses the existing window instead of opening another.
• Local diff reading
  • Bare mirror (on-demand clone / fetch) + Monaco side-by-side / inline diff.
  • File tree, inline comments, git blame, cross-file code search.
  • GitHub-style unchanged-section collapsing.
• AI review (pr-agent)
  • Conversationally drives /describe, /review, /ask, outputting structured, actionable findings.
  • Review-task queue: serial execution, queued tasks visible in chat, cancelable anytime, retry on failure.
  • Finding line-anchor clicks jump to the corresponding line in the Diff.
  • Real token-usage collection (input / output separately).
  • When the LLM is unconfigured, the chat panel gives a clear prompt and disables input.
• Review → publish loop
  • findings → draft pool → inline editing (Monaco view zone) → publish single / batch to remote.
  • Remote comments auto-refresh after publish; repeat publish is idempotent (local draft deleted once published).
  • Your own remote comments support reply / edit / delete.
  • One-click merge when the remote is mergeable; a toast prompts on approval / merge remote failure instead of failing silently.
• Personalized rules
  • Each Reviewer maintains their own rules directory (markdown + frontmatter), injected into the review after matching by project / repo / target branch.
• Multiple LLM providers
  • Adapted and tested: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Alibaba Bailian (Tongyi Qianwen), Volcano Ark (Doubao).
  • Vendors' first-party models take just the model name (litellm prefix auto-added per provider).
  • ollama / openai-compatible are theoretically workable (pending verification).
  • The Settings page offers visual CRUD for connection / LLM / proxy (draft state "write without enabling", applied only on save or explicit enable).
  • Outbound HTTP proxy: LLM calls / code platform / git HTTPS uniformly go through the proxy, with local addresses auto-direct.
• Runtime and packaging
  • Embedded relocatable Python + pinned pr-agent, works out of the box, no self-installed Python / Docker needed (Docker mode optional).
  • Desktop installers: Windows x64 (NSIS), macOS arm64 (dmg, ad-hoc signed, un-notarized).
  • A non-invasive patch system for pr-agent: binary-safe diff, new-model compatibility, YAML fault tolerance, token-usage collection, etc.
• Privacy and data
  • Local-first: reports no data to third parties beyond calling the configured LLM API and code platform.
  • Config / state / logs fixed under ~/.code-meeseeks/; the repo mirror directory is configurable.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed the pr-agent startup warning under a read-only install directory (e.g. C:\Program Files).

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