v0.61.1

charmbracelet/crushv0.61.1Apr 21, 2026by github-actions[bot]

AI Summary

Small release with quality of life improvements including skills reliability, light theme fixes, and iTerm2 progress bar support.

Key Highlights

  • More reliable skill loading
  • Fixed light theme markdown visibility (dark text on dark background)
  • iTerm2 progress bar support
  • Clipboard fix for Apple Terminal OAuth

New Features

  • iTerm2 progress bar support
  • OAuth clipboard fix for terminals without osc52 support

Full Release Notes

# Some small, nice enhancements

This is a small release, but with some small fixed and QoL enhancements.

## More reliable skills

We made changes, inclusing in the system prompt, to ensure the model will load a skill when it should.

## Fixes for light theme

If you use your terminal emulator with a light theme, it was possible that some markdown content appeared to be invisible. This happened due to a dark text on dark background issue, but it's now fixed!

<details><summary>Screenshot: Before</summary>

<img width="500" height="536" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-20 at 14 16 01" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5a0a0360-96b3-48b6-a3bc-8e59c01c76db" />

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<details><summary>Screenshot: After</summary>

<img width="1136" height="580" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-20 at 14 17 37" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bbe1ea97-e6f6-43dc-a99e-9f8d3a2ee882" />

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## iTerm2 progress bar: it’s back

iTerm2 users will now see a progress bar when the agent is working, just like it already worked for Ghostty and Rio.

Remember that you want you can disable this with this setting on your `crush.json`

```json
{
  "options": {
    "progress": false
  }
}
```

## Clipboard fix for Apple Terminal

Copying a code when authenticating with an OAuth provider is now fixed for some terminals, like the Apple Terminal on macOS.

## Changelog

* feat: enable progress bar on iterm2 by @andreynering in https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/2641
* fix(oauth): fix copy to clipboard on terminals that don't support osc52 by @andreynering in https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/2642
* fix: use same chroma formatter as diffview for markdown by @andreynering in https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/2656
* fix(skills): increase skill load reliability by @meowgorithm in https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/2654

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<details>
<summary>Verifying the artifacts</summary>

First, download the [`checksums.txt` file](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.61.1/checksums.txt) and the [`checksums.txt.sigstore.json` file](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.61.1/checksums.txt.sigstore.json) files, for example, with `wget`:

```bash
wget 'https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.61.1/checksums.txt'
wget 'https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.61.1/checksums.txt.sigstore.json'
```

Then, verify it using [`cosign`](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign):

```bash
cosign verify-blob \
  --certificate-identity 'https://github.com/charmbracelet/meta/.github/workflows/goreleaser.yml@refs/heads/main' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com' \
  --bundle 'checksums.txt.sigstore.json' \
  ./checksums.txt
```

If the output is `Verified OK`, you can safely use it to verify the checksums of other artifacts you downloaded from the release using `sha256sum`:

```bash
sha256sum --ignore-missing -c checksums.txt
```

Done! You artifacts are now verified!

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