Zagens v0.8.5 is out — Context Explorer, Dusk theme, git worktrees & more
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
We just shipped Zagens v0.8.5 — our open-source desktop agent harness for DeepSeek V4. This release is all about seeing what the agent actually knows, running sessions in parallel without stepping on each other, and recovering when things go wrong.
🔍 Context you can actually inspect
Long tasks fail when context silently overflows. v0.8.5 adds a full Context Explorer:
TUI: new Context tab (6) with per-turn drill-down
Desktop: token breakdown with rules, skills, MCP, and compiler spans
Smarter compaction: summaries live in the message layer as [COMPACTED_HISTORY] — no more double-sent system summaries eating your token budget
Model switch fix: seam config now hot-reloads when you change models mid-session
zagens doctor: one command to diagnose instruction paths, skills, hooks, config merge, and memory
🌲 Parallel work, safely
Git worktree sessions — spin up isolated workspaces per thread; CRAFT sub-agents can auto-worktree when a task ID is set
Channels — inject inbound events (steer / queue / start-turn) into a running thread via the runtime API
Checkpoint / Rewind UI — restore files from a turn snapshot without forking the conversation (separate from Branch)
🎨 Polish & developer ergonomics
Dusk — our third desktop theme (cool nordic-slate + cyan-teal accent). Light → Dark → Dusk cycle from the theme rail
Deep links — zagens://open prefills the Composer from URLs or CLI
Integrated terminal — visible cursor, ANSI colors, clickable URLs
Coverage-gate GitHub Action — run zagens coverage-gate in CI
Unified justfile test tiers (L0–L4) for faster local verify
🛠 Fixes worth knowing
DeepSeek / SenseNova / custom provider probing and model picker UX
SenseNova max_tokens now respects catalog limits (no more 400s on flash models)
Capacity VerifyAndReplan gets a smarter fallback chain before hard replan
26 runtime test regressions fixed; Kernel V3 resume anchor warnings are less noisy
Download v0.8.5: https://github.com/didclawapp-ai/zagens/releases/tag/zagens-v0.8.5
Windows installer included (see release notes for SmartScreen / Unblock tips). macOS and Linux desktop packages coming later — cross-platform zagens CLI and zagens-tui binaries are in the same release.
Docs: zagens.com/docs · Full notes: CHANGELOG
We're MIT-licensed and actively building toward trustworthy long-horizon agents — gates, harness fixtures, replayable operator workflows.
Questions? Drop them below — especially around Context Explorer, worktrees, or anything you'd want in v0.8.6. We read every thread. 🙏
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