Skills, UI Redesign & Git projects

✨ New Features

• 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 instant UI state synchronization
• Complete UI redesign with process groups to visually group agent actions with expand/collapse support
• Timestamps 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
• Git-based projects with clone authentication for public and private repositories
• 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
• Modular settings architecture - the entire settings UI restructured into dedicated Alpine.js components
• Scheduler redesign with standalone modal, separate task list, detail and editor components, and project support
• 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

⚡ Improvements

• 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
• 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 instruments 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

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix file name download issue
• Parse LLM chunk fix, Alpine store state save/load
• Fix CSRF fstring breaking with double to single quotes
• Fix prompt fence stripping policy
• Fix GitHub Copilot Vision Requests
• Document query QA fix
• Fix TTS cleanText function for HTML extraction
• Fix TTS streaming race conditions and audio cancellation
• Fix API keys saved with correct API_KEY_ prefix
• Skip empty AI messages in output
• Better filename check
• Remove hard-coded timeout caps on MCP tool execution
• Fix code break in tables
• Remove folder restriction in image_get
• Fix autoscroll for chat switching
• Fix subordinate grouping, layout alignments
• Fix path links in step content
• Agent retry on critical error
• Fix expanded messages on chat switch
• Fix browser screenshot flashing
• Fix terminal autoscroll
• Skip root password change in non-docker env
• Fix allowed hosts, image_get folders, extensions after termination
• Fix upload path from tmp/uploads to usr/uploads
• Fix MCP/A2A project activation
• Fix scheduler flickering
• Proper task cancellation in scheduler, leakage in defer.py
• Fix for scheduler and memory dashboard style
• Fix editor disappearing in MCP/A2A examples
• Fix dropdown behind sidebar-bottom
• Fix backend not setting agent number
• Fix user-message position
• Memory area enum serialization fix
• Fix response rendering IDs
• Fix backup and file limit
• Fix compatibility warning
• Remove dummy output message

These release notes have been generated by Agent Zero.