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Cline SDK 0.0.68: real provider error messages, getShellArgs deprecated

Provider errors forwarded through the Vercel AI Gateway now surface the actual upstream message instead of a Zod dump, and Windows PowerShell commands travel over UTF-8 stdin. SDK consumers should note getShellArgs() is deprecated in favour of getShellInvocation().

PUBLISHED2026-08-01
OBSERVED2026-08-11
AGE10d
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  • Gateway-forwarded provider errors show the real upstream message (e.g. "This model's maximum context length is 40960 tokens..."); opaque object errors no longer render as [object Object]
  • fetchClineRecommendedModels returns display-ready names resolved through the model catalog (including Vercel and OpenRouter id aliases) under one shared timeout budget, so hosts no longer map ids to names
  • Cline free models resolve their OpenRouter display names; live catalog no longer drops the video input capability
  • Windows: PowerShell commands sent over UTF-8 stdin instead of the command line, so non-ASCII survives the active code page and long commands escape the command-line length cap. getShellInvocation() replaces the now-deprecated getShellArgs(); stdin write failure surfaces as a command error instead of hanging
  • Sessions rooted at / failed every command because basename("/") produced an empty workspace hint that schema validation rejected — fixed
  • Exported the finish-reason and auth-error helpers used to describe agent errors

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