VT Code Files

What's Changed

0.163.3 - 2026-09-20

Highlights

Bug Fixes

• Auto-continue incomplete task_tracker work across turns and resume (00118e99)
• Use whole-word matching for fix escalation markers (6dd488fd)
• Handle MCP labels, dedupe goal rows, drop muted palette (7ed46f10)
• Keep task panel body on visibility-only requests (7972a9c3)
• Clear panel metadata on content updates without metadata (63c85b92)
• Tail-safe tracker replace and plan-mode blocked-only continue (0fdad640)
• Drop dead planning_task_tracker key, guard example with parse test (4aa01687)
• Show full plan summary text and hug approval modal height (5606960e)
• Accept inspection commands in plan verification (80ecc863)
• Drain FIFO without last-only loss and preserve interrupts (54d53538)
• Open transcript file links immediately during agent turns (d580ea45)
• Reject English-phrase command-head verifies (e1de338e)
• Treat slash-less filenames as ambiguous-head verify evidence (b55d4627)
• Show full URL in web policy approval modal description (99cc2fdf)
• Harden tracker transcript replace and plan-mode continuity (899419fa)
• Residual tracker/plan continuity polish (6e3c60f3)
• Harden tracker auto-continue classifiers and AgentRunner status path (400939ad)
• Apply safety-handoff gate to outer Completed and AgentRunner status paths (b66f828a)
• Honest expand notices and single-pass overlay remaining (87a09288)
• Preserve hunk range counts in diff previews (616289d8)
• Open the plan file in the external editor on Ctrl+G (783d8b19)
• Inject wait flag for waiting editor launches (86953ad2)
• Harden TODO tracker continuation across turns (9313a186)
• Clear tracker incomplete cache on complete probes (fc5e3851)
• Raise runtime guidance token budget for merged tracker line (b998eb6f)
• Close residual tracker-continuation review gaps (e5d26168)
• Merge session identity, timeout floor, memory isolation, blocker forensics (1423f36e)
• Openrouter/xai session affinity, merge planning floor, usage cache mapping (a93f7fa3)
• Fail fast on misconfiguration before backoff (ee57d0ff)
• Open plan file in external editor on Ctrl+G and keep approval overlay (daf964dd)
• Enforce dimmed+italic style on thinking blocks (36c2d8de)
• Audit slash commands, restore missing /vim and correct usage/docs (700997f9)
• Stop full-auto continuation after read-only answers (f9833c6f)

Documentation

• Finalize tracker-continuation feature report (7f2d1579)
• Fix rustdoc refs, document tool loop cap behavior (84bd55f2)
• Finalize tracker-user-facing-ui feature report (592c4f22)
• Finalize plan-mode-tracker-continuity feature report (da45b86f)
• Add turn-diff and hooks rows to Why VT Code table (3db1573e)
• Finalize planning-verify-commands and sync residual recovery prompts (c2872921)
• Finalize todo-continuation-hardening feature report (edb3d328)
• Finalize todo-continuation-hardening after review cycle (d3e5c1fe)
• Finalize harness-stability-cost-p1 after review cycle (3abc6978)
• Finalize provider-cache-affinity-p2 after review cycle (e2fedcb0)
• Clarify command coverage and fix loop-engineering link (ac1c19f5)
• Update CLI reference and correct audit schedule example (12113b37)
• Fix brew one-liner, operator surface, provider row, arch diagram (25291f24)

Features

• Accept natural-language instructions with read-only default (055c40f4)
• Show title+progress only on user-facing tracker surfaces (1c6c2635)
• Dedupe tracker transcript and continue incomplete plan mode (4c16ea08)
• Add Jump to last change navigation (7f14c96a)
• Open checkpoint picker with double-Escape (39ba8fa7)
• Add /feedback and consolidate the command set (2632c5bf)
• Show truncated task tree in expanded tool display (806ad645)
• Auto-manage verification gate with progress-reset recovery (9f863666)
• Style TODO tasks with text effects instead of status glyphs (aa3a5caf)
• Stream live command output to status line in compact mode (5fc7ceeb)
• Suggest build/auto switch on plan-mode blocked turns (d7ed7fe0)
• Surface plan-mode guidance in blocked handoff files (dd7229a2)

Other Changes

Other

• TODO (973309ba) (@vinhnx)
• Fix(planning) accept inspection commands in plan verification (9c2ac1f8)
• Fix(planning) reject English-phrase command-head verifies (80d8fbea)
• Update TODO (e01b174a)

Performance

• Defer subagent discovery and approval-pattern I/O (72b64443)
• Cut approval latency with drafting progress and overlay-first gate (c41d32a4)

Refactors

• Revamp permission popup wording and command highlighting (7089b58d)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode/compare/0.163.2...0.163.3