GitHub Release: Hmbown/Codewhale v0.9.8 (20.08.2026)

$ git clone https://github.com/Hmbown/Codewhale.git Clone

Codewhale is the public product from Shannon Labs. The codewhale

command, npm package, and release-asset names remain lowercase technical

identifiers. The legacy npm package deepseek-tui is deprecated and

receives no further releases. Users coming from v0.8.x legacy deepseek /

deepseek-tui names should migrate with docs/REBRAND.md.

Install

Recommended — npm (one command, both entrypoints)

npm install -g codewhale

The wrapper downloads the matched codewhale and codew command assets

from this Release. Both contain the same compiled runtime.

Docker / GHCR

docker run --rm -it \

  -e DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="$DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" \

  -v codewhale-home:/home/codewhale/.codewhale \

  ghcr.io/hmbown/codewhale:v0.9.8

The image exposes the same runtime as both codewhale and codew. The

latest tag is also updated on release.

Cargo (Linux / macOS)

cargo install codewhale-cli --locked

The Cargo package installs codewhale. Cargo cannot create a second command

alias from one binary target; users who want the shorter spelling can add a

codew symlink to that installed executable. The npm, Homebrew, archive,

shell-installer, and container channels install both command names directly.

Manual download — platform archives (recommended)

Each archive below contains the same runtime under the codewhale and

codew command names, plus an install script:

Unix (Linux / macOS):

tar xzf codewhale-<platform>.tar.gz

cd codewhale-<platform>

./install.sh

Windows:

• For the installer path, run CodeWhaleSetup.exe; it installs
  
  codewhale.exe and codew.exe under
  
  %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\CodeWhale\bin and adds that directory to the
  
  current-user PATH.


• Extract the archive for your machine: codewhale-windows-x64.zip or
  
  codewhale-windows-arm64.zip


• Run install.bat (copies to %USERPROFILE%\bin)


• Add %USERPROFILE%\bin to your PATH

The portable Windows archive skips the install script — extract and run from any directory. The NSIS installer is currently unsigned and may trigger Windows SmartScreen until a signing certificate is wired into the release pipeline.

Each platform also has bare, unarchived codewhale-<platform> and

codew-<platform> assets. The seven codewhale-tui-<platform> filenames

attached to v0.9.5 are byte-identical compatibility copies used only to let

already-installed v0.9.4 clients discover and cross this single-binary

transition; current installers do not expose a third runtime. The legacy npm

package deepseek-tui is deprecated and is not republished. For migration

from v0.8.x legacy binary names, see docs/REBRAND.md.

Verify (recommended)

Download the checksum manifests from this Release and verify:

# Linux — archive bundles

sha256sum -c codewhale-bundles-sha256.txt --ignore-missing



# Linux — individual binaries

sha256sum -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt --ignore-missing



# macOS

shasum -a 256 -c codewhale-bundles-sha256.txt --ignore-missing

shasum -a 256 -c codewhale-artifacts-sha256.txt --ignore-missing

What's in v0.9.8

Codewhale v0.9.8 ships the remaining assigned finish. Remaining web

settings polish moves to v0.9.9. Prefab third-party templates that have

a published OpenAI-compatible host ship here (). The flag stays on

by default; the no-ptrace and no-core-dump measures are never skipped.

Added

• 
  

  Composer multiline mode is available in /settings. When enabled, Enter inserts a new line and Shift+Enter sends the message ().

  
  


• 
  

  /plugin marketplace add|list|show|remove|install completes the
  
  federated marketplace journey ( land to backfill existing empty rows.

  
  


• 
  

  The local Runtime web client keeps the thread rail clipped so New
  
  thread cannot paint over the session fact chips. Chips wrap instead
  
  of sliding under the rail.

  
  


• 
  

  Z.ai GLM-5.3 is live on the Coding Plan and is now the default direct
  
  Z.ai model: DEFAULT_ZAI_MODEL resolves to GLM-5.3 in both
  
  codewhale-tui and codewhale-config, and it is the first /model row
  
  after /provider zai. Explicit GLM-5.2 selections (model = "GLM-5.2"
  
  and its glm-5.2 aliases) keep their own id — only the default moved.
  
  Limits and reasoning options still inherit from GLM-5.2 until Z.ai
  
  publishes distinct 5.3 numbers. No USD price is claimed. A live call
  
  can still 429 with entitlement code 1311 on accounts that are not
  
  provisioned for 5.3.

  
  


• 
  

  The TUI transcript renders Markdown blockquotes (> lines) with a quote
  
  rail — nested quotes, inline bold/code/links, wrapped continuation rows, and
  
  selection copy that keeps the quote text and skips the rail chrome.

  
  


• 
  

  Sub-agent details show the resolved model, fleet role, and type. Labels
  
  use the session/role name instead of a generic Agent N ().

  
  


• 
  

  Documented catalogue output ceilings (DeepSeek V4 384K) are honored on
  
  the request. A clean output-limit stop continues the turn instead of
  
  killing it (, Sh1Zuku).

  
  


• 
  

  Eden AI is a named OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions provider (edenai,
  
  aliases eden-ai / eden_ai) with EDENAI_API_KEY, global and EU base-URL
  
  overrides, a live provider-scoped model catalog, and
  
  deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro as the verified default. Generic reasoning fields
  
  stay omitted because Eden AI routes multiple upstream model families
  
  (, EvanProgramming).

  
  


• 
  

  Session-index JSONL writes are serialized behind a process-wide mutex
  
  so concurrent state stores cannot drop an append during compaction
  
  (). Invalid UTF-8
  
  fails the line instead of using lossy decode.

  
  


• 
  

  [workshop] read_result_max_bytes and tool_result_max_bytes raise
  
  the model-visible read/tool-result floor; they never lower the
  
  compile-time defaults and cap at 2MiB (). kimi-k3 stays
  
  unpriced until a published rate exists.

  
  


• 
  

  Provider setup ships a SenseNova OpenAI-compatible preset (S) on
  
  the published https://token.sensenova.cn/v1 host (–).

  
  


• 
  

  Cancelling a turn now cancels its foreground child agents with it.

  
  


• 
  

  Empty compaction no longer wipes conversation history.

  
  


• 
  

  Wide terminals and tmux panes fill the full available width again for the
  
  transcript and composer (,
  
  Lstarsky0).

  
  


• 
  

  Public website provider facts include Google Gemini and Ollama Cloud
  
  (44 runnable routes). Antigravity stays credential-plane-only.
  
  Harvested from , , ).

  
  


• 
  

  Wide terminals and tmux panes fill the full available width again for the
  
  transcript and composer (, ).



• Child spawn-route receipts stay live and usage is deduped by response
  
  ().


• Approval default selection is applied and explained; agents are told
  
  when approvals are disabled () — webhook client panic fallback
  
  ().


• Lstarsky0 (); thinking-ladder test re-pin (/); zh-Hans 宪章
  
  terminology (.


• Matt Van Horn (, fixes ) — canonical ultra reasoning effort mapped across
  
  provider effort tables ().


• Sh1Zuku ().


• Kai Nacke ().


• Isabel Wu (, slice of for full notes and docs/CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md for older releases.
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