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usestrix/strixv1.7.0Oct 5, 2026by github-actions[bot]

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AI Summary

This release introduces significant improvements to the AI agent framework, including a new budget management policy, enhanced TUI interactivity, and better LLM integration with OpenRouter and the Responses API. It also adds new CLI flags for headless execution control and fixes several runtime and reporting issues.

Key Highlights

  • New budget_policy=pause feature to park agents at cost limits until resumed.
  • Enhanced TUI with collapsible sidebar panels, markdown rendering, and interactive resume picker.
  • Improved LLM integration with OpenRouter pinning and Responses API support.
  • New CLI flag --fail-on to gate headless exit codes on severity.
  • Lazy initialization for MCP connections and read-only local source bind mounts.

Breaking Changes

  • Configuration change: STRIX_API_TYPE now forces Responses vs Chat Completions based on configuration settings.
  • Runtime change: Read-only local sources are now mounted as :ro bind mounts.
  • API change: The `respond_to_user` method has been replaced with `wait_for_user`.

New Features

  • Link HTTP exchange evidence in reporting.
  • Require http_exchange_ids for proxy-validated findings.
  • Structured per-attempt provider request logging with provider request IDs.
  • Animate the wait_for_agents indicator in the TUI.
  • Interactive prior run selection when --resume has no name.

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed
* fix(models): frontier model check matches the model name only, never the provider route by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1280
* feat(reporting): link HTTP exchange evidence by @bearsyankees in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1281
* feat(prompts): require http_exchange_ids for proxy-validated findings by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1292
* docs: add Vercel AI Gateway provider guide by @erulkey in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1254
* fix(web_search): send only the agent's query to Exa search by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1306
* chore(deps): require litellm>=1.101.0 so gpt-6-astra accepts max_tokens by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1318
* feat(config): STRIX_API_TYPE forces responses vs chat completions by @bearsyankees in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1324
* fix(build): keep the TUI sidecar hook importable on hatchling 1.32.1 by @bearsyankees in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1325
* fix(runtime): place extra files as agent-writable sandbox files on every backend by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1330
* Prompt agents to include local Git blame in technical details by @bearsyankees in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1329
* fix(reporting): reduce git blame guidance to a trailing hint on the reporting tool by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1336
* runtime: read_only local sources become :ro bind mounts by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1342
* feat(mcp): initialize connections lazily by @yoni-at-strix in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1347
* feat(llm): structured per-attempt provider request log with provider request ids by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1353
* Let agents delete a vulnerability report they filed by @bearsyankees in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1354
* Fill in blank tool-call ids so strict providers accept the history by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1355
* fix(dev): make check-all non-mutating by @Czech-Knight in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1360
* fix(tui): suspend on ctrl+z by @ian-at-strix in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1371
* docs(skills): refresh framework behavior and security testing guidance by @bearsyankees in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1372
* perf(prompt): put per-run scope at the end of the system prompt by @ian-at-strix in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1375
* perf(llm): give Claude a cache point before the per-run scope by @ian-at-strix in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1376
* perf(prompt): load requested skills after a cache point by @ian-at-strix in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1382
* feat(tui): animate the wait_for_agents indicator by @ian-at-strix in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1383
* feat(budget): budget_policy=pause — park every agent at the cost limit until the operator resumes by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1387
* perf(llm): pin OpenRouter agents to one provider with session IDs by @ian-at-strix in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1386
* chore(models): remove the model quality warning and its allowlists by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1388
* fix(reporting): restore create_vulnerability_report parameter descrip… by @bearsyankees in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1391
* fix(config): choose Responses vs chat completions from the model, not the base URL by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1407
* fix(config): use the Responses API whenever the model supports it by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1408
* fix(finish_scan): stop asking for a section heading in every report field by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1411
* fix(tui): link every wrapped line of the viewer URL to the full URL by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1412
* feat(cli): Add --fail-on to gate headless exit code on severity by @siundu254 in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1399
* fix(cli): force UTF-8 stdout/stderr on Windows so Rich output never raises by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1414
* fix(preflight): name a non-ASCII character in the API key instead of raising UnicodeEncodeError by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1415
* fix(tui): render report section bodies as markdown by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1416
* fix(tui): collapsible, zoomable sidebar panels and a sidebar toggle by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1417
* fix(cli): verify the model before the TUI opens on a direct launch by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1418
* fix(telemetry): keep "Exception ignored" finalizer tracebacks off the terminal by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1419
* feat(cli): pick a prior run interactively when --resume has no name by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1421
* test(pricing): accept any identically priced provider for bare grok-4.5 by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1423
* fix(resume-picker): treat ctrl+c as cancel instead of leaking a KeyboardInterrupt traceback by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1424
* ci: run ruff, mypy, bandit, pytest, Go TUI and viewer checks on every pull request by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1422
* fix(deps): ship google-auth with every install so Vertex AI works in release binaries by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1437
* fix(preflight): give the startup model check its own 30s timeout instead of LLM_TIMEOUT by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1438
* fix(cli): run headless when no terminal is attached instead of crashing the TUI by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1440
* fix(docker): connect like the docker CLI and explain why the daemon is unreachable by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1441
* refactor(agents): replace respond_to_user with a text-free wait_for_user by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1442
* prompts: let the verified user define and change scope in chat by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1443
* readme: remove the Ask DeepWiki badge by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1444
* chore: release v1.7.0 by @0xallam in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1445

## New Contributors
* @erulkey made their first contribution in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1254
* @Czech-Knight made their first contribution in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1360
* @ian-at-strix made their first contribution in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1371
* @siundu254 made their first contribution in https://github.com/usestrix/strix/pull/1399

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/usestrix/strix/compare/v1.6.2...v1.7.0

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