v0.9.8 - Skills, UI Redesign & Git projects

v0.9.8 - Skills, UI Redesign & Git projects

Release video

• Skills
  • Skills System replacing the legacy Instruments with a new SKILL.md standard for structured, portable agent capabilities.
  • Built-in skills, and UI support for importing and listing skills
• 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 /usr directory 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