AiderDesk 0.89.0

What's new in 0.89.0

Highlights
🔄 Automatic Task and Subagent Recovery After Restarts
Agent runs frequently perform multi-step workflows across tools and subagents. In the event of an unexpected application restart or crash, you should never lose completed progress or risk re-executing unsafe actions. AiderDesk now features automatic task and subagent recovery, durably checkpointing streamed assistant responses, tool calls, and finalized outputs as they happen directly into the local application database.
When your project reopens, interrupted runs resume right where they left off. Completed tool calls retain their results instead of repeating, subagents recover under their original identity to avoid duplicate tasks, and unfinished operations are handled according to configurable per-tool recovery modes (Replay safely, Notify interrupted, and Forget unfinished). Non-idempotent actions like shell commands or file edits notify the model to inspect current workspace state before retrying, preventing duplicate side effects. You can fine-tune recovery modes per tool in Settings → Agents → Tools or toggle startup resume in Settings → General → Start Up → Recovery.
📸 Pre-Compaction Context Snapshots Kept for Agents
Context compaction keeps long-running tasks responsive and within model token budgets, but earlier conversation details were previously summarized and replaced. With pre-compaction context snapshots, AiderDesk now saves the entire uncompacted context into sequentially numbered files (context.pre-compaction.001.json) within the task directory before every manual or automatic compaction.
These snapshots are permanently retained and never pruned. Agents running with the built-in system prompt are automatically informed of existing snapshot paths, giving them the ability to inspect earlier messages whenever historical implementation details, past reasoning, or discarded code snippets are needed later in the workflow.
📊 Theme-Aware Mermaid Diagrams with Pele
Visual architecture diagrams and sequence charts are now rendered using the pele library, bringing a substantial visual and usability upgrade to Mermaid rendering in chat. Diagrams adapt to your active theme with coordinated colors, typography, and crisp styling in both light and dark modes.
Diagrams also support smooth streaming updates as your agent writes Mermaid code, keeping the previous valid diagram intact during syntax generation instead of flickering or breaking. …

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