v0.9.8.2
agent0ai/agent-zerov0.9.8.2Feb 24, 2026by frdel
AI Summary
Bugfix release addressing skills loading issues, building upon v0.9.8.1 improvements including caching enhancements for Anthropic models, context window optimization, and default model update to Sonnet 4.6.
Key Highlights
- Bugfix for skills loading
- Improved caching for Anthropic models
- Context window optimization
- Fixed retry on critical error counter
- Default chat model updated to Sonnet 4.6
New Features
- Load up to 5 skills at a time
- Skills loading bug fixes
Full Release Notes
### v0.9.8.2 - Bugfix - skills loading
### v0.9.8.1 - Caching, context optimization, error handling...
- improved caching for anthropic models
- improved context window optimimization
- fixed retry on critical error counter
- load up to 5 skills at a time
- default chat model is now Sonnet 4.6
### v0.9.8 - Skills, UI Redesign & Git projects
[Release video](https://youtu.be/NV7s78yn6DY)
- Skills
- 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 UI state synchronization
- UI Redesign
- Process groups to visually group agent actions with expand/collapse support
- Timestamps, steps count 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
- 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
- Scheduler redesign with standalone modal, separate task list, detail and editor components, and project support
- 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
- Git projects
- Git-based projects with clone authentication for public and private repositories
- 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
- 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 legacy 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
- Many bug fixes and stability improvements across the UI, MCP tools, scheduler, uploads, and WebSocket handling