September 5, 2025
Auggie CLI 0.5.2 Release Notes
The following changelog covers changes from v0.5.0 to v0.5.2.
New Features
- Added
/editorcommand to compose prompts in your preferred external editor (VS Code, vim, nano, etc.), useCtrl+ofor quick access - Custom commands can now specify which AI model to use in their frontmatter configuration
- Slash commands can be run directly from the command line (e.g.,
auggie /help) - Added ability to edit existing tool permission rules without recreating them (press
eto edit)
Improvements
- Press
?to display more commands and shortcuts - Improved paste functionality on Windows
- Improved support for IME input for Chinese and other languages
- Added slash commands to the history manager for easier command recall
- Added
j/kkeyboard navigation support for all menus (Task List, Model Picker, GitHub workflow) - Display model names in footer when you select a non-default model
Changes
- Quiet mode (
--quiet) now automatically defaults to text output mode - Added workspace size limits to prevent indexing excessively large directories
- Prevented indexing when running CLI from home directory
- Automatically enter INSERT mode when typing `/vim` command
- Transcript defaults to compact output, use
/verboseto toggle modes
Bugs
- CLI continues gracefully when settings fail to load instead of crashing
- Invalid MCP configuration no longer causes crashes
- Limited @ file cache size to prevent performance degradation when opened in large directories
- Fixed git worktree detection
- Fixed command exit behavior for command line –
model list,tokens print, andsession deletenow properly exit after completion - Fixed
Ctrl+cand double escape shortcuts to work properly in vim mode