With v1.5, Zerostack has achieved feature parity with Claude Code on the most important agent capabilities, while shipping a new and improved TUI.
Additions:
- Fully re-designed TUI (w/ new input bar, new status bar & new welcome message; scroll down for screenshot)
- Added Multi-modal inputs with support for images, audio and PDF (compile gated)
- Added Advisors, allowing to use cheaper models that can call "expert" LLMs when the task is too difficult
- Added
/review
, which sends a specialized message to the agent based on your current Git context - Added configurable chain-of-prompts, allowing to go from
brainstorm
toplan
tocode
and ending with/review
- Added opt-in pre-configured MCPs for Context7 and Grep.app
- Added
`--load-prompt`
and`--pure-stdout`
, allowing for better scripts and tools built on top of zerostack - Added support for signaling agent's activity via UNIX sockets, allowing for better scripts and tools built on top of zerostack
- Added installations via scripts, Nix and Homebrew
- Added special permissions to allow
plan
prompt to writePLAN*.md
files
Improvements:
-
Added ability to select directories using
@ -
Improved color rendering
-
Better tool use TUI rendering
-
Improved compaction
-
Improved doom loop detection
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Improved caching on list of models
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Added more configuration options
-
Enabled caching on Antrophic models (thanks
[@xavierforge](https://github.com/xavierforge)) - Several optimizations for local LLMs, with more coming during the v1.5.x cycle (thanks
[hal-eisen](https://github.com/hal-eisen)) - Fixed several bugs in git worktree module