release aidev BREAKING SIG 4/5

Pi 0.84.0: Fullscreen TUI, Mermaid/LaTeX rendering, per-directory context overrides, extensive API breaks

Major release introducing fullscreen TUI mode with independently scrollable transcript and draggable scrollbars, Mermaid diagram and LaTeX math rendering in interactive transcripts, per-directory context overrides via AGENTS.override.md, advanced custom model sampling parameters, and a built-in Baseten provider. Includes extensive breaking changes to the provider API (ModelsStreamTransforms→ModelsRequestTransforms, message_update event deltas, ModelRegistry/provider refresh APIs, v4 lane-based session model replacing the legacy harness).

PUBLISHED2026-08-06
OBSERVED2026-08-21
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New Features

  • Fullscreen TUI mode: runtime switching between regular/fullscreen, sticky editor and footer, independently scrollable transcript, draggable scrollbars
  • Mermaid diagram rendering in interactive transcripts
  • LaTeX Unicode math rendering in interactive transcripts
  • Per-directory context overrides via AGENTS.override.md
  • Advanced custom model sampling: arbitrary OpenAI-compatible samplingParams, opt-in vLLM thinking_token_budget
  • Built-in Baseten provider with authentication and model support

Breaking Changes

  • ModelsStreamTransforms renamed to ModelsRequestTransforms (header transformation now applies to all authenticated provider requests)
  • JSON/RPC message_update events now emit only assistantMessageEvent deltas; callers must assemble partial messages between message_start and message_end
  • ModelRegistry.getApiKeyAndHeaders() returns ProviderHeaders with string | null values preserving null header-deletion markers
  • ModelRegistry.refresh() accepts ModelsRefreshOptions and returns ModelsRefreshResult
  • ModelRuntime.setRuntimeApiKey() accepts auth cancellation options instead of catalog refresh options
  • Provider refresh context: replaced dynamic store access with read-only context.stored snapshot and generation-checked context.publish() transaction
  • v4 lane-based Session, SessionStorage, and SessionRepo APIs replacing the legacy harness session model
  • v2 session/AgentHarness API promoted from experimental to default export; experimental subpaths removed
  • Legacy JSONL and in-memory repository APIs removed

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