GitHub Release: Hmbown/Codewhale v0.9.7 (13.08.2026)

$ 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:v0.9.7

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 v0.9.7

Codewhale v0.9.7 keeps the catalog ordinary. Grok 4.6 lands as a normal catalog

row instead of a provider-shaped pile of special cases, OrcaRouter joins as a

named provider, and a panic-safety advisory in lru is cleared by lifting the

pin that caused it rather than living around it.

Added

• Grok 4.6 is the direct xAI default, with the grok alias moving onto it and
  
  grok-4.5 still explicitly selectable. Its 500K context, text/image input,
  
  tool and structured-output support, low/medium/high/xhigh reasoning
  
  efforts (default high), and server-side web search all come from the
  
  Models.dev-shaped catalog rather than model-specific code. reasoning_effort
  
  reaches the wire only on the exact first-party https://api.x.ai/v1 route,
  
  and the usage-aware 200K-token pricing boundary is scoped to direct xAI so
  
  aggregator routes reusing the model slug cannot inherit xAI billing.


• OrcaRouter is a first-class named provider: ORCAROUTER_API_KEY, default base
  
  URL https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1, deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro default,
  
  orcarouter/auto routing, CLI --provider selector, and TUI picker entries
  
  ().


• load_session no longer runs crash recovery on every read. Snapshot reads go
  
  through a side-effect-free load_session_snapshot and recovery is explicit
  
  via recover_session_for_resume, so an embedding host inspecting a durable
  
  session while a tool is still running no longer gets a spurious crash repair
  
  (, ) — canonical message copy () — session snapshot and crash-recovery split () — OrcaRouter provider registration ( for full notes and docs/CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md for older releases.
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