CLI Changelog

Latest version = 0.105.0

0.105.0

New Features

• Live lens board - tessl code review shows a per-lens progress board on stderr while it runs, marking each lens as queued, reviewing, a finding count, failed, or skipped before the reconciling step; --no-progress hides it and --json implies it
• Lift as the eval headline - tessl eval run prints a Lift: line under each completed comparison run, and tessl eval view leads its summary and each scenario with the lift in percentage points, noting how many unscored results were excluded
• Organization-level project discovery - tessl project list, tessl project link, and tessl project create discover projects across your whole organization, with --org (or TESSL_ORG) to pick the organization, --workspace for single-workspace behavior, and tessl project link --path to match a package project by its repository subpath

Improvements

• One Tessl Code Review plugin - the CLI embeds tessl/code-review 0.2.0, which now carries the setup, lens-authoring, and review-response skills alongside the four lenses; the default lenses are repinned to 0.2.0 with unchanged content, and a project that still declares tessl/code-review-setup or tessl/code-review-lens-creator in tessl.json keeps using it until it switches
• Code review at splash - the "Review code changes" onboarding workflow installs tessl/code-review, sets up review on every pull request, and suggests one custom lens the default lenses would miss, without writing it
• Grouped review summary - tessl code review ends with a versioned header, a verdict line with must-fix and suggestion counts, findings grouped into must fix and suggestions sorted by severity, and the exact publish command; under --json the same summary goes to stderr so CI logs carry it
• Eval reuse made visible - tessl eval run and tessl eval view print how many results were reused from previous runs beside the cost line, so a fast, cheap run no longer reads as stale
• tessl project list --json reports the organization - the output carries a top-level org instead of workspace unless --workspace or TESSL_WORKSPACE pins one

Bug Fixes

• tessl code review against a caller-supplied LLM endpoint with a model-scoped key no longer fails during reconciliation, because the pinned supervisor model is sent by its bare name
• tessl eval view floors score percentages instead of rounding them, so the table, averages, and lift agree
• The splash screen's workflow picker moves one step per arrow key press on Kitty-protocol terminals such as Ghostty, Kitty, and WezTerm, where the key release was counted as a second press; a held arrow still scrolls smoothly

0.104.0

New Features

• Eval cost shown before you spend - tessl eval run prints an estimated cost line and your org's daily eval usage before the run starts, including with -y
• Eval cost in machine output - tessl eval run --json gains estimatedCredits and quota, and tessl eval view --json gains meta.credits for the settled run cost

Improvements

• Review action beside severity - every published Code Review finding now shows Requires changes or Advisory next to its severity, along with why an advisory finding is advisory: low confidence, pre-existing, unclear relationship, or the review mode
• Run cost reported in CI - the post-run credit cost line is no longer suppressed on non-interactive streams, so CI and piped runs see the spend

Bug Fixes

• tessl api --input - and -F key=@- now read stdin from a redirected file or heredoc, not just a pipe; both refuse an empty stdin or a bare terminal with an error instead of sending no body

0.103.0

New Features

• Scheduled runs - tessl schedule is now available. You can use it to automatically run skills on a periodic schedule.
• Environment management - tessl environment can be used to manage environments for tessl schedule and tessl launch skill --cloud
• Antigravity support - first-class support for the Antigravity CLI (agy) and the Antigravity IDE, alongside the existing Gemini integration
• tessl eval run --wait - polls the run to completion and exits non-zero when all runs fail; --json always submits without waiting, and a run that outlives the poll window exits 0
• tessl api-key delete --yes - skips the confirmation prompt, with -y as the short form

Improvements

• Agent step lines - each tool call in an interactive tessl agent session renders as one status line naming the step and its result, with ctrl+o to expand the full output
• Expand-all hint - the agent header now advertises the collapse and expand-all shortcut, resolved from the effective keybinding
• Activity footer - the footer names the running step, shows an elapsed timer, and keeps the known-total count, then leaves a one-line result carrying the total duration
• Permission prompts - the command, target, or path appears on its own indented line, long commands are middle-truncated so the tail stays visible, and bash prompts carry a Why line when the agent states its intent
• Code Review finding assessment - the supervisor now assesses likelihood, confidence, and relationship to the change alongside severity, and a deterministic Strict, Standard, or Relaxed policy decides what blocks
• Code Review severity table - rows are ordered Critical, Major, Minor, then Nit rather than by insertion order
• Code Review round notice - rounds after the first carry a collapsed "About this review" block noting the findings are AI-generated, with a link to the guidance
• Code Review thread links - a finding carried forward now links the thread that is carrying it
• Skill review phases - the bundled review-skills-in-repository skill splits into a Discover phase that reports and stops, and a Review phase entered only when you opt in
• Skill review scope - after discovery the skill offers one skill, a prioritized batch, or every discovered skill, each with an expected duration and credit cost, replacing a silent 20-skill cap
• Skill review output - the review leads with a ranked list of every reviewed skill, one line each, with per-skill detail on request and coverage counts below it
• Skill discovery - discovery runs as a deterministic bundled script rather than an agent file-system walk
• Clearer command briefs - tessl project, tessl agent, tessl outdated, and tessl update now describe what they do
• Clearer skill name errors - an invalid skill name names the specific problem and suggests a corrected name
• Eval default model notice - the notice no longer names a model and points at tessl eval run --list-agents, since the default is declared per region
• Project mismatch - tessl install blocks with the relink command when the backend already has a project for this directory, and tessl init warns before creating a second one

Bug Fixes

• tessl eval view exits 1 for a failed run, and tessl eval run aborts with exit 1 when the scenario count exceeds the guard
• npm install tessl@X installs version X instead of whatever the release channel currently advertises
• The agent session no longer clears scrollback and snaps to the top while streaming, so a permission prompt stays reachable
• Code Review keeps successful lens results when a sibling lens fails, and states the reduced coverage instead of discarding the whole review
• Code Review republishes a moved finding at its current anchor and links the earlier occurrence, instead of leaving the only comment on stale code
• Code Review includes verified optional findings in first and explicitly requested full reviews
• tessl workspace delete distinguishes a deleted workspace from one emptied in place, and names the plugins to remove when they block deletion
• tessl scenario generate no longer blames plugin content or the quality verifier for a zero-scenario result, and reports a timeout distinctly from a failure
• tessl scenario download defaults to the plugin root when run inside a plugin
• Fixing path handling bugs in tessl install and tessl init on Windows
• The agent onboarding editor keeps a custom editor factory and honors the Kitty keyboard protocol
• An ambient WORKOS_CLIENT_ID no longer overrides CLI auth

0.102.0

New Features

• tessl eval lint - the scenario lint command now shows in tessl eval --help, and tessl scenario download prints a hint that downloaded scenario files can be edited by hand and validated with it
• Launch activity for pending runs - tessl launch skill --cloud --wait, tessl launch view, and tessl launch list now show a pending run's phase and last progress time; retrying and recovering read distinctly and are never shown as failed

Improvements

• Adaptive review effort - tessl code review now defaults to adaptive effort, picking the right depth for each review; --effort with low, medium, or high stays fixed
• Code Review finding quality - findings are checked more rigorously before they are surfaced, and severity now better reflects the real consequence of each finding
• MCP server status - configured MCP servers now read as ready and connect automatically on first tool use; the footer, status output, and MCP panel share one state model with clearer sign-in guidance
• Plugin terminology - user-facing copy now consistently says plugin and plugins; the migrate commands for legacy tile content are unchanged

Bug Fixes

• Code Review now replies on an existing review thread when a re-review changes its conclusion, instead of leaving its earlier answer as the last word while the check stays red
• tessl login now lets a user who belongs to more than one organization choose which one to sign in to on the approve page, instead of failing for members of an SSO-enforced organization with a second membership
• Spinners are suppressed when stdout is not a TTY, keeping piped output, --json mode, and agent contexts clean
• tessl cli update now shows a clear error pointing at --channel when a release channel name is passed as --target
• Eval runs that outlive the CLI's poll window are now reported as timed out instead of failed, so a run that completes server-side no longer triggers a false "All eval runs failed"
• The workflow hint in tessl agent now steps aside while another UI such as the settings menu owns the prompt row, and no longer appears on --continue or --resume

0.101.0

New Features

• tessl login - loopback is now the default transport. Plain tessl login uses the loopback authorization-code and PKCE flow, and the device grant stays available with --device.
• Local GitHub App minting - when TESSL_GITHUB_APP_ID and TESSL_GITHUB_APP_PRIVATE_KEY are both set, tessl github token, tessl github setup-auth and the auto-refresh sidecar mint installation tokens directly as that App, so its own bot identity lands on commits and pull requests. With either variable absent, behavior is unchanged.
• Guided first run - a new signed-in user is handed off from the web onboarding into tessl agent with the review-skills workflow, with in-editor hints for the next action.
• Context and Findings - the embedded CLI skill now works in terms of Context and Findings instead of a skill inventory, and points at the current per-workspace Context and per-org Findings endpoints.

Improvements

• tessl code review - a finding states what is broken and what a fix has to achieve instead of prescribing a specific fix, and a review no longer blocks on code outside the diff.
• A deliberate, explained reversal of an earlier fix is read as a decline rather than a regression, so the same concern is not raised again.
• A finding is reposted on a silenced thread only when it requests changes, so an optional suggestion is no longer republished every round.
• Local-mint failures show GitHub's own error message without --verbose, and report the measured local-versus-GitHub clock difference when the two disagree.
• The --model and --scorer-model briefs on tessl eval run show current model names.

Bug Fixes

• tessl login reports the reason for a WorkOS authentication challenge, such as organization selection or email verification, instead of a bare status code.
• tessl login --loopback always runs the loopback transport instead of silently rerouting to the device grant on a host that looks remote. An automatic fallback prints why it happened and which flag overrides it.
• Skill symlinks resolve the physical parent directory before computing their target, so links no longer dangle when an intermediate directory is itself a symlink.
• tessl launch skill no longer reports a watch timeout as a launch failure. It stops watching, exits 0, and prints a tessl launch view <id> command.
• tessl eval run refuses a run started from inside a plugin's evals/ directory before any credits are spent, rather than silently running baseline only with no plugin context.
• Onboarding hints release the arrow keys when another component, such as the model picker, takes focus.
• The [PostHog] Timeout while shutting down PostHog warning is no longer printed on exit.

0.100.0

New Features

• tessl project list - lists the projects in a workspace with each one's name, ID and source. The workspace is resolved from --workspace, TESSL_WORKSPACE, the project linked in tessl.json, or a picker. --json emits a structured list and never prompts
• A machine-readable verify report - tessl change verify --report-json <path> writes its JSON report to a file, so CI can consume verifier findings without a second run. Stdout is untouched and --github annotations still work alongside it. The report now also carries each verifier's stable id, in both --json and --report-json
• Cloud launch progress - tessl launch skill --cloud --wait shows live progress on the spinner while the run is in flight, instead of a static message. --json and --no-wait are unaffected

Improvements

• Working with this review - the first Tessl Code Review on a pull request now publishes a collapsed section telling the reader that the findings are AI-generated and not authoritative, which answer to give on each thread (addressed, refuted, or declined), that reviews are incremental and what a later round therefore withholds, and that lenses are configurable and glob-scoped. It is published on the first review only, so a later round does not push the findings further down. tessl code review run -h says the same things
• Settled threads close themselves - a Tessl Code Review round now resolves the threads whose finding the current head fixes, after replying on them, so what stays open on a pull request is what still needs someone. A refuted or declined finding's thread stays open for the author to close
• One closing instruction on every round - every published review round now closes with the same line: mention @tessl-code-review to run another review

Bug Fixes

• Repository flags accept a GitHub URL - tessl github setup-auth --repo and tessl github token --repo accept a full GitHub URL as well as an owner/name slug. HTTPS, scheme-less github.com/owner/name, and SSH forms all resolve to the same repository, and a non-GitHub host is rejected with the value echoed back
• A full review says it was full - a full Tessl Code Review no longer closes by claiming it narrowed itself. A full round now states that the whole change was read and every new finding raised whatever its severity, and keeps the contrast with an ordinary round
• A live finding is not left collapsed - a re-review that concludes an earlier finding still applies now reopens that finding's resolved thread, so the update is not left where tooling and readers skip it. A thread whose finding was answered as addressed, refuted, or declined stays resolved
• A finding reaches its reader when a thread cannot reopen - the finding is published as its own comment instead of being left where no reader reaches it. A GitHub Actions token may reply to a review thread but may not unresolve one, so the review now asks per thread rather than assuming
• Mentions are matched case-insensitively - a mention of @tessl-code-review that differs only in case, such as @Tessl-Code-Review approve, is now read as a mention. An approval request spelled that way was previously answered with an ordinary review
• Verify reaches allowlisted dot-directories - tessl change verify discovers files in repository-root dot-directories that a verifier's include globs name explicitly, so an include such as .github/code-review/*.mjs matches instead of silently matching nothing. Only allowlisted repository-tooling directories are opened, and only at the repository root

0.99.0

New Features

• Named approver logins - tessl code review --approver <login> names comment authors permitted to request an approval, beyond the repository owners, members and collaborators who always may. The flag is repeatable, logins are compared case-insensitively, and a bot login is matched exactly as the event payload spells it, [bot] suffix included. GitHub reports every app comment with association NONE, so before this no bot could pass the guard
• A refused approval request no longer runs a review - asking to approve without permission settles as skipped in under a second, rather than spending a full review to answer the opposite of what was asked. The message leads with what was refused and names the route back: approving is limited to owners, members and collaborators, plus any login passed with --approver
• Full review requests - a commenter who may approve can ask for a full review instead of another round. Its specialists then see the whole change rather than only the commits since the last reviewed head, and a low-severity finding no earlier round raised is raised. Prior findings still reconcile on their existing threads. A request from an author the repository does not trust to approve runs the ordinary round rather than being refused
• A change-requirement threshold in Code Review profiles - a repository YAML profile sets requestChangesAt, the severity at which a finding starts requesting changes, so a team adopting Code Review on a large existing codebase can gate on criticals alone while a repository with a strict main branch holds minors on every round. It is a profile key rather than a flag, so no caller can weaken the gate without changing the profile the repository committed. The default is now major on every round, which means a minor no longer requests changes on a first review
• Machine-readable output on list and view commands - --json on tessl whoami, tessl config get, tessl config list, tessl org list, tessl plugin info, tessl workspace list and tessl workspace list-members prints one JSON document. Every --json command now writes one pretty-printed document to stdout and routes hints, progress, warnings and errors to stderr, so stdout stays parseable
• Sign in with a local browser redirect - tessl login --loopback signs in with a loopback authorization code and PKCE, so the browser hands the session back to the terminal without a code to type. The device code flow stays the default and is unchanged, and --loopback falls back to it when the browser is not on this machine or the loopback port cannot bind
• Find work to automate - a fourth onboarding workflow in tessl agent looks for what you do repeatedly that could run itself. It returns at most five ranked candidates, each with its evidence, its expected value, a suggested trigger and an implementation direction, and expands one on request

Improvements

• Whoami describes the API key - tessl whoami in a session authenticated with an API key now shows the current key in use (masked), its scope, its id, and the organization and workspace it belongs to
• Findings below the threshold on a later round - a re-review no longer raises a fresh finding below the change-requirement threshold, and a finding an earlier round raised stays on its thread. An approving review that carries findings now states how many of them are optional, so open findings under an approved verdict are not read as blockers
• Guidance routing - broad questions about Code Review, Risk and Verify reach the harness design skill, while an explicit request to author a review lens still reaches the lens creator
• Code Review setup knows the new profile keys - the bundled tessl/code-review-setup moves to 0.3.0, so a project that does not declare the plugin itself gets a setup skill that covers the change-requirement threshold and who may ask the reviewer to approve
• A rejected CLI version says how to upgrade - when the backend refuses a CLI as too old, the CLI prints the reason it was given along with how to upgrade, rather than a generic failure. A request that never reaches the backend at all is now reported as a network failure rather than as an API rejection
• Clearer guidance outside a project - a command run where no Tessl project can be found says to run tessl init from the project root, instead of describing what a project is

Bug Fixes

• Spinner frames stay out of JSON output - tessl review fix and tessl review run quality stop the spinner before printing the --json status payload on the timeout, failed and cancelled paths
• Code Review resolves the repository's default branch - the base is read from origin/HEAD, falling back to a probe for origin/main then origin/master, instead of assuming origin/main. A repository whose trunk is named something else is told to pass --base rather than failing on a ref that does not exist, and an explicit --base still wins outright
• An empty change is skipped rather than approved - a local review of a clean, up-to-date checkout returns a skipped result carrying No changes to review. before any model call, instead of running every lens and publishing Changes approved over a change that does not exist
• Eval runs report what happened - tessl eval run retries a run that is momentarily missing from the poll endpoint just after it was created, rather than treating it as terminal, so completed runs no longer report All eval runs failed. When every run really does fail the command exits non-zero, so a pipeline wrapping it sees the failure

0.98.0

New Features

• Publish a Code Review from the CLI - tessl code review --publish <comment|verdict> posts the completed review to the pull request it reviewed as one native GitHub review: a summary body, an inline comment on each finding GitHub can anchor to a changed line, and a reply on each earlier finding's thread the round reconciled. comment states no position on the change, while verdict carries the review's own conclusion, approving when nothing requires changes and requesting changes otherwise. With --json, the result carries a publication receipt naming what was published
• Reasoning effort is supported configuration - --effort low, medium or high sets how hard each review lens thinks. A YAML profile can set effort for every lens, and any single lens can set its own to think harder or less hard than the rest, so depth is spent where it pays. A lens without one uses the profile's, with neither the model applies its own default, and --effort overrides both
• Ignore globs in Code Review profiles - a YAML profile takes a top-level ignore list of repository-relative POSIX globs bounding which paths any lens reviews, so generated code, lockfiles, snapshots and vendored directories are excluded once instead of negated inside every lens
• An inline workflow hint replaces the onboarding splash - tessl agent opens with a few lines above the prompt rather than a full-screen welcome. Either arrow key opens the list, selecting a workflow fills the prompt with it ready to send, and /getting-started reopens the list
• Review my skills - a new onboarding workflow that reviews every skill in the repository. It discovers them, lints them deterministically, reviews each against seven dimensions, and returns a ranked plan tied to evidence. It changes no files, and offers tessl review fix as an opt-in follow-up
• Learn from PR feedback needs no input - the workflow defaults to the last two weeks instead of asking for a pull request number or a time period, states up front that it changes no files, and returns a ranked, capped set of improvements with its coverage limits named
• Workspace and organization environment variables - TESSL_WORKSPACE and TESSL_ORG set the workspace and organization for commands that take --workspace and --org, so a script does not repeat the flag on every call. An explicit flag always wins, and a project .env file cannot set either one
• Global installs follow organization policy - globally installed managed requirements converge on the organization's install policy whenever the CLI contacts the backend, not only on an explicit tessl install -g. Security thresholds, minimum release age and source restrictions all still apply, and only policy-owned content is removed

Improvements

• Clearer failure messages - installing over Git, self-update, sign-in and eval artifact uploads report failures written for the reader, rather than passing transport wording such as HTTP 404 through to the terminal
• Help reads for its audience - tessl --help prints plain text for a person, with usage, grouped commands and flags. The Markdown reference is served only to recognized agent callers, and covers the top level, a group and a leaf alike
• Code Review setup - the bundled tessl/code-review-setup moves to 0.2.0. The setup skill documents the profile ignore list, and the workflows it writes subscribe to pull request review comments, so a mention left on the diff starts a review. Who may request one moves to an allowed-associations input rather than a condition the workflow implements itself, and the uses: line references the Action's major tag instead of a commit resolved at setup time, so a repository picks up fixes without editing its workflow

Bug Fixes

• Conceded findings settle - a finding the author agrees is real but defers to tracked follow-up work now reconciles as declined, instead of resurfacing as remaining on every later round
• Verify separates errors from failures - tessl change verify reports a target it could not judge, such as a base ref it cannot resolve, as a distinct error outcome rather than a verifier failure. Those targets are listed under "Could Not Be Verified", left out of the failure breakdown, annotated as notices, and still exit non-zero
• Launch reports the agent's own outcome - tessl launch skill --cloud --wait exits non-zero when the workflow completes but the agent reported a failure, and tessl launch view renders the agent-reported outcome for completed runs

0.97.0

New Features

• Repository YAML profiles - tessl code review --profile <path> now accepts a repository YAML profile as well as the built-in standard profile. A profile routes lenses with ordered repository-relative globs, and each specialist's prompt and read-only diff tools are scoped to the paths its lens matched. The path must end in .yml or .yaml
• Approval commands - a trusted repository owner, organization member, or collaborator can mention @tessl-code-review with an explicit instruction to approve the pull request. Code Review returns an approved result without running specialist lenses. Ordinary review requests, ambiguous wording, and classification failures continue through a normal review
• Agent-facing help - a bare tessl, or an explicit -h, from a recognized agent now prints a Markdown description of Tessl and how to drive it, generated from the command registry. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini are detected without configuration
• Readiness reporting - tessl doctor --json and the MCP status tool both return a readiness field with a state, machine-readable blockers, and an ordered nextActions list. One shared function computes the field so the two surfaces return consistent guidance. Existing fields and doctor terminal output are unchanged
• API key listings as JSON - tessl api-key list --json prints a machine-readable listing, walks every page so a truncated result cannot appear complete, and includes each key's role
• API key expiry notice - tessl api-key create prints the key's expiry date and days remaining to stderr. A key piped directly into a secret store still reports its 30-day lifetime while stdout stays clean
• rotate-ci-key - a new bundled skill reads your pipeline to find which secret supplies TESSL_TOKEN, selects a rotation tier based on its access, presents a plan naming the source of each fact, and waits for approval before changing a live credential
• Antigravity skills - a global install now also symlinks skills into ~/.gemini/config/skills/, where Antigravity, Antigravity IDE, and Antigravity CLI look. The existing .agents/skills path is unchanged

Improvements

• Lens limit - Code Review accepts up to 8 lenses, up from 5. The lenses active for the current change are resolved before the limit applies, so lenses whose globs match nothing do not count against it
• Error routing - 9 more precondition failures name what was found and return the command that resolves it. This covers linting a directory with a SKILL.md but no manifest, an unlinked tessl.json, an invalid package name, an empty scenario directory, a missing fix-run bundle, and the deprecated skill review path. Raw HTTP statuses no longer reach the user
• Setup handoff - tessl init now wires agent context (RULES.md and AGENTS.md) even when no plugins are installed, so an agent has context before anything is installed. tessl login resumes the interrupted setup step when there is one, and otherwise points to the first unblocked step. Every MCP tool that requires authentication now says so in its description
• Rejected key guidance - a rejected API key now reports where the detected CI provider keeps pipeline secrets and which of its CLIs edits them, across 12 providers with a generic fallback. On GitHub Actions, the failure is attached to the workflow file as an annotation and appended to the run summary. Outside CI, the guidance points to a TESSL_TOKEN that may be shadowing a healthy session and should be unset instead of rotated
• tessl inventory import scan scope - scan scope is read from the integration scan policy configured on the organization integration page and enforced when data is persisted. The command no longer fetches a server-side exclusion list to pre-filter the scan. Only --ignore-repo narrows a run locally
• Lens authoring - the bundled tessl/code-review-lens-creator moves to 0.1.1. The lens-authoring skill now directs its reference reads explicitly, and its evaluation tasks no longer prescribe the answer they score
• Code Review setup - the bundled tessl/code-review-setup moves to 0.1.5. The setup skill now covers YAML profiles for CLI and Action runs, including lens routing, path scoping, the lens limit, local reference safety, and what happens when no lens matches. It also configures the Action with a repository-relative profile path

Bug Fixes

• Login link - the URL printed when the CLI cannot open a browser now always carries its verification URI. Production builds previously omitted it, leaving SSH and development-container logins with a link the capture page could not use
• MCP shutdown - Ctrl-C no longer crashes the MCP server, and its capability warning is gone
• Supervision context - a live review refreshes the pull-request conversation after the specialists finish and immediately before supervision, so a reply posted while the review was running is taken into account. The run fails closed if the refresh fails or the base or head moves during the review
• Reviews with no matching lens - a review whose profile matches none of the changed paths returns an explicit skipped result without running a model, instead of completing in a way that reads as approval
• Truncation reporting - prompt truncation is reported whenever any specialist lens truncates, rather than depending on which parallel lens finished last
• Review cancellation - the every-commit workflow template no longer lets a comment on a pull request under review cancel the review in progress, and a push to a draft can no longer cancel a requested review. Cancellation is limited to a non-draft synchronize event. Workflows generated before this release keep their original template until regenerated

0.96.0

New Features

• Tessl Code Review (Beta) - tessl code review now appears in the CLI help and runs a multi-lens review over a code change. With no flags it auto-selects the current pull request in a supported CI environment, or otherwise the complete local change; --pr <ref> reviews a pull request, and --base / --head review an explicit Git range with no pull request required
• Code Review setup through Tessl Agent - the tessl/code-review-setup plugin now ships embedded in the CLI, so asking Tessl Agent to set up Code Review installs the review workflow directly; the embedded guidance for the older change review flow was removed
• Lens authoring through Tessl Agent - the tessl/code-review-lens-creator plugin also ships embedded, so asking Tessl Agent to create a review lens scaffolds one without an install

Improvements

• Change review hidden from help - tessl change review no longer appears in help output; Tessl Code Review supersedes it. The command keeps working for existing callers
• First run points at setup - the first CLI invocation shows a one-time hint pointing at tessl init, and the install scripts hand off with the same guidance. The hint is skipped in CI and on invocations requesting --json
• Error messages direct the user to the command that resolves them - user-facing errors now route to the command that fixes the reported state, instead of only describing the failure. Additionally, every missing-argument error states which argument was missing
• Credit refusals are legible mid-run - when credits run out in the middle of a run, commands surface a clear credit message across CLI and MCP surfaces instead of a generic failure
• Skill review MCP tools state their scope - the review_run, review_fix, and review_view MCP tool descriptions now say they review skills, and point to tessl code review for reviewing code changes
• MCP tool descriptions name neighboring workflows - the status MCP tool description names the adjacent workflows to run next, so an agent picks the following tool without guessing
• Skill publish validation - publish validation reports every independently detectable problem in one pass, and skill validation messages use Tessl terms instead of raw schema output

Bug Fixes

• Install with a broken project link - tessl install no longer fails when tessl.json links to a project that cannot be resolved, and errors in that state no longer suggest creating a new project
• Organization selection in workspace create - tessl workspace create resolves the owning organization before creating the workspace: the new --org flag takes an organization name or id, and membership in several organizations prompts for a choice
• Scenario generation from the current directory - the source argument to tessl scenario generate is now optional and defaults to the current working directory
• API token identity - tessl doctor, tessl init, and tessl mcp start no longer print a fabricated [e-mail] email when authenticated with a TESSL_TOKEN API key; they identify the session by the masked token instead
• Corrupt tessl.json errors name the file - a JSON parse failure while reading tessl.json now names tessl.json in the error message
• Live documentation links - tessl skill new and tessl plugin new print working docs.tessl.io links in their next-step guidance
• No memory writes on read-only turns - Tessl Agent no longer creates or updates .tessl/memory files during turns that make no changes

0.95.0

New Features

• Delete an API key by name - tessl api-key delete <name-or-id> accepts either the key name or its ID, matching the pattern already used elsewhere. Interactive selection still works when no argument is given
• Skill removal guidance - asking to unpublish, archive or delete a skill now explains that skills are published inside a plugin and lists the three real removal paths, and tessl skill --help carries the same tip
• Uncollected file warnings in review - tessl review run and tessl review fix now name the skill files that were not sent to the reviewer, so content that scored low because it never reached the judge is visible
• Out-of-workspace path warnings - tessl scenario view flags generated scenarios whose task or criteria reference a home-directory or absolute path, which can never score above zero because the grader only sees the workspace

Improvements

• Credit warnings on stderr - credit warnings print to stderr instead of stdout, so they no longer sit inside a command's own output. TESSL_CREDIT_WARNING_STREAM accepts off, stderr or stdout to override the choice
• Upgrade path in the agent credit footer - the out-of-credits and over-limit states now point at /usage, where the balance and the upgrade link live
• Pricing links - credit and upgrade calls to action point at /pricing
• Credit checks on the MCP surface - the MCP server now runs the same credit preflight as the CLI, closing a path where a blocked organization could still spend credits
• Score composition in review output - review results show how a score was composed, per judge, rather than only a final number
• Organization default model for agent sessions - tessl agent picks up an organization's configured session model when no --model flag and no persisted default are set
• Review hands off to fix - after a quality review, tessl review run points at tessl review fix as the next step when the review found something to act on. The MCP review_view tool carries the same signal as a nextStep field
• Fix runs stop at a reachable score - the default fix threshold drops from 100 to 90, so a run can finish early instead of burning every improve iteration on a target a review almost never hits. The MCP surface no longer holds its own defaults and reports the config the server resolved

Bug Fixes

• Review scores render against the rubric's own scale instead of a hardcoded denominator of 3, so a 1 to 5 rubric no longer reports the wrong total
• tessl skill review --json carries the deprecation notice in its payload, and the post-apply hint points at tessl review run instead of the deprecated command
• A logged-out global install of registry content is refused when the global context is managed by an organization policy, closing a path where logging out skipped the organization's managed requirements
• tessl install -g labels the resolved policy scope org: instead of mislabeling it workspace:
• Auto permission mode no longer fails at startup for organizations whose model catalog omits gpt-5.4-mini. The classifier falls back to the resolved session model
• Reasoning models in the gpt-5.6 family route through the OpenAI Responses API, fixing a gateway 400 when a request carried both a function tool and a reasoning effort
• Skill inventory upload accepts internal as a repository visibility, so GitHub Enterprise organization-internal repositories are no longer rejected

0.94.0

New Features

• Credit usage meter - tessl org usage shows your organization's plan, credits used against the allowance, and when the current window started. Pass --org to name an organization, --json for the raw credit account
• /usage and /cost in the agent - /usage shows the same meter without leaving the session, /cost shows what the session has cost in credits with the token counts underneath, and a credits: N left segment on the footer refreshes each turn
• Commands report what a run cost - every command that waits for a run prints the credits it consumed once billing settles, and ... view commands report the cost of the run they inspect. The figure comes from the server, so it matches what you are billed
• Credit guardrails on billable commands - a one-line notice when you are over your allowance but still allowed to proceed, and a hard stop with an upgrade link when you are not. Both are suppressed under --json so structured output stays parseable
• Scoped reviews - new repeatable --path flag on tessl change review restricts the review to files matching a pathspec

Improvements

• Security grades read Tessl's own levels - tessl search, tessl tile info and the security review output now render the Tessl security level and per-finding severity. A clean result reads "Passed", an unscanned one reads "N/A", low-severity findings group into their own section below higher severities, and an unrecognized level renders as-is instead of failing. --json keeps the previous fields alongside the new ones
• Eval fixtures are bounded to the run - tessl eval run and publish-time evals now refuse scenario fixtures and packed symlinks that resolve outside the run's repository or scenarios boundary, so an eval can no longer archive files from elsewhere on the machine. tessl eval lint reports the same. Out-of-boundary directory fixtures and symlinks are opt-in via tessl eval run --allow-unsafe-fixture-paths, or --allow-unsafe-eval-fixture-paths on tessl skill publish and tessl plugin publish. A scenario include must always resolve inside its own scenario, with no override
• A project's .env can no longer redirect the CLI's own state - TESSL_GLOBAL_DIR, TESSL_BINARY_BASE_URL, TESSL_AUTO_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MINUTES and TESSL_DISABLE_UPDATE are ignored when they come from a .env file in the working directory. Values set in your shell are unaffected
• Workspace resolved from a plugin manifest - working inside a plugin directory that has .tessl-plugin/plugin.json but no tessl.json no longer prompts for --workspace; the workspace is read from the plugin name
• Declared skills scanned as real files - tessl inventory import now scans skills declared in tile.json / plugin.json the same way it scans any other SKILL.md in the repository, so they carry their body and frontmatter instead of being recorded as bare references. Their names now come from frontmatter (or the containing directory) rather than being prefixed with the plugin name, and a declared skill whose file is missing from the scanned tree is no longer recorded at all
• workspace_list reports what you can do - the MCP tool now returns allowedActions per workspace, so a caller can filter to the workspaces it has permission to act on before trying

Bug Fixes

• Failing commands print one error line. Previously the same message appeared twice, with two different cross glyphs
• tessl change verify --recursive --github now emits GitHub Actions annotations for every root. Warning-level findings from a recursive run previously only appeared in the raw job log
• Out-of-credits and other expected failures from the review_run, review_fix and uninstall MCP tools are reported as errors rather than crashes
• The MCP workspace_list_members tool explains that your role cannot view members, instead of failing generically
• A cached version entry dated in the future is treated as expired, so it can no longer suppress the update check indefinitely
• The path-containment check no longer misreads directory names that begin with two dots, and anchors relative targets on the boundary root

0.93.0

New Features

• Severity grading on review findings - tessl change review now grades every finding nit / minor / major / critical by default; pass --no-grade to turn it off
• Finding attribution - each tessl change review finding names the reviewer skill that produced it
• Explicit review range - new --head flag on tessl change review to review a specific commit range instead of the inferred one
• Publish-access filter - new --has-publish-access flag on tessl workspace list to show only workspaces you can publish to
• Plugin Creator in Tessl Agent - the agent now ships with the Plugin Creator skills for authoring plugins

Improvements

• Symlink guard for MCP config - the CLI warns and asks for confirmation before writing MCP configuration through a symlink that points outside your project
• Local-execution notice - installing a plugin that ships an MCP command which runs on your machine now tells you at install time
• Global installs respect --agent - the --agent scope is honored when installing context globally
• CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR support - installing global Claude Code context now honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
• Clearer permission prompt - the session-scope option in the agent permission prompt has a clearer label
• Clearer MCP review tools - review_run, review_view, and review_fix describe what they do and what to expect
• Keys revoked on logout - tessl logout revokes the device's LLM keys

Bug Fixes

• Fixed concurrent auto-updates leaving behind a dangling symlink
• Fixed a race when two installs ran at once by staging npm installer downloads
• tessl change verify now fetches the diff base itself in shallow and CI checkouts instead of failing
• Install sync no longer fails when a skill entry is missing from the manifest
• Search results now render when ranking data is unavailable
• Review scores now use the rubric scale reported by the API instead of assuming a fixed scale

Removals

• tessl context library and its query_library_docs MCP tool have been removed. They were deprecated and have no replacement.

0.92.0

New Features

• Hooks in plugins - Plugins can now declare cross-agent hooks via hooks / nativeHooks in plugin.json. See the plugin configuration docs.

Improvements

• Signed release verification - CLI installation and self-update now verify against a cryptographically signed release manifest before extraction.

0.91.0

New Features

• Agent-readiness report - run /agent-ready in the tessl agent to scan your repository and surface what to improve.
• tessl launch resume - resume an interrupted or completed cloud launch run.
• Signed release verification - the installer verifies the release signature before installing.

Improvements

• Agent works without native search tools - uses fd / rg when available and falls back to a basic code implementation when they are not installed.
• Verify cache relocated - now stored at ~/.tessl/verify-cache, so cached results are shared across projects instead of living in each checkout.
• Auto-detect workspace - tessl review run / review fix read the workspace from tessl.json instead of always prompting.
• tessl launch list now shows the workspace and the run's creator.
• tessl eval list consolidates injected context into a single column.
• Credit errors link to top-up - an out-of-credits error now points to the upgrade / top-up flow.
• Explicit, persistent agent setup - tessl init now records selected agents in tessl.json for reproducible installs across machines. Re-run tessl init on an existing project to update the list.
• Clearer permission prompts - prompts are deduped per tool call, bash paths are classified by read/write/delete, external and sensitive-path actions route through the auto classifier, and auto-mode prompt wording is combined.

Changes

• Separate --agent and --model flags - compound --agent <agent>:<model> tuples are now split into --agent <agent> --model <model>. The old form still works but is deprecated and warns.

Bug Fixes

• Installer validates the remote release version before installing.
• Generic hook command/args aligned to the exec / shell forms.

0.90.0

Breaking Changes

• tessl review <target> (without run) no longer runs a review - it now shows the review command group's help instead. Use tessl review run <target> (or tessl review run quality <target>).

New Features

• tessl review run quality / tessl review run security - tessl review run is now a subcommand group: quality (the default, unchanged behavior) scores a skill against a rubric, and security runs a Snyk-powered security scan - replacing the standalone tessl security-review command. tessl review list, view, and retry now work across both kinds from a single unified history, with a --fail-on flag mirroring --threshold for security scans. tessl review run <target> continues to work exactly as before - it's shorthand for tessl review run quality <target>.
• Clone skills from GitLab and Bitbucket sources - Skill installation and inventory scanning now support GitLab and Bitbucket repository sources, not just GitHub.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tessl agent ignoring a saved default model from settings.json on startup.
• tessl agent - Fixed session approval matching for external paths when multiple patterns are involved.

0.89.0

New Features

• tessl agent out in Open Beta - It helps you build and optimize your software factory one workflow at a time.
• tessl change commands to aid with automated code reviews

  • tessl change risk - Assess PR/diff risk and decide whether human review is required.
  • tessl change verify - Verify code against configured verifiers.
  • tessl change review - Review the current diff with reviewer skills and emit structured review data.
  • Use tessl agent to set them up!
• tessl launch skill - Run skills using your preferred agent in order to automate parts of your workflow with skills.
• tessl mcp proxy - Connect to MCP servers through an MCP gateway set-up in a workspace’s settings.

Improvements

• Clearer error when --skill can't apply - tessl install --skill <name> now fails fast with an actionable message when given zero sources or more than one source, instead of silently installing nothing.
• Friendlier model-lock message on eval runs - Selecting a non-default model on a Free plan now produces a single, clear message explaining how to proceed, instead of a raw 403 Forbidden.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed relative file: sources (e.g. tessl install file:../my-source --global) failing to resolve; they now resolve against your current working directory as expected.
• Fixed a single unsupported entry in a plugin's .mcp.json failing the whole file at publish and install time; unsupported entries are now skipped and the rest of the plugin installs.

0.88.2

Bug Fixes

• npm package - fixup README.md file

0.88.1

Bug Fixes

• Global plugin MCP servers - tessl install --global now writes a plugin's MCP server config to each agent's real user-level config.

0.88.0

New Features

• Plugin MCP Servers - Plugins can now declare MCP servers in a bundled .mcp.json at the package root.
• Publish Through Symlinks - tessl skill publish and tessl plugin publish accept an opt-in --resolve-symlinks flag that copies a symlink target's bytes into the published tarball (within a safe boundary), so authors can reuse files from elsewhere in the repo.

Improvements

• Workspace Scoping for Reviews - tessl review view and tessl review retry now accept --workspace / -w, and --last resolves the most recent run within that workspace.
• Publish OIDC Warning - When publishing from GitHub Actions without an OIDC token permission, the CLI now warns instead of failing opaquely.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tessl skill review --threshold 0 incorrectly emitting a "Skill validation failed" error.

0.87.0

Breaking Changes

• Skill review now requires a Tessl account. Both tessl review and the older tessl skill review now require authentication: sign in with tessl login, or set a TESSL_TOKEN API key in the environment for CI. Reviews run on Tessl's servers, so anonymous review runs are no longer supported.

Deprecations

• tessl skill review is deprecated - use tessl review instead. tessl review (alias tessl review run) is the replacement: an async, server-side review with companion view, list, retry, and fix commands. The old command still runs for now but prints a deprecation warning on every run and will be removed in a future release. Replace tessl skill review <path> with tessl review <path>.

New Features

• tessl review is now fully launched as an end-to-end workflow - review runs are first-class in the CLI with run as the default subcommand, and companion commands to view, retry, and fix reviews directly from the terminal.
• Flexible reviewer selection - you can target a specific reviewer with --review-plugin or use your workspace's default reviewer configuration.

Improvements

• Richer review output for debugging and automation - tessl review view now renders dynamic judges per run, and review JSON includes reviewer/plugin identity metadata.
• Clearer tessl eval view output - run labels are shown and scenarios are sorted for easier reading.
• More informative tessl eval run start output - pre-run context details are surfaced before execution.

Bug Fixes

• Review command reliability fixes - tessl review list, view, and retry now resolve workspace names correctly, and --json without --workspace now returns a clear error.
• Fixed completed scenario counts in multi-solution eval runs.
• Fixed evaluator failures caused by repeated plugin installation arguments.

0.86.0

New Features

• Customise the eval-scenarios run when publishing - added --eval-scenarios <scenario-search-path> to tessl plugin publish / tessl skill publish. The default is ./evals in the directory of the plugin being published.

Improvements

• Default eval model is now DeepSeek v4 Flash.
• tessl eval list --context-type - filter eval runs by the type of context injected into scenarios for the "with context" variant.
• Richer tessl eval view - clearer variant labels, an injected-context block, scenario paths, and repo/plugin provenance.
• tessl eval run echoes the scenario search directory and count before starting.
• Commit-fixture uploads are grouped and deduped to remove some cases where redundant context was uploaded.
• Install source policy: git-source allowlist, with denial messages that name the offending source.
• You're prompted to accept pending invites before a personal org is created.

0.85.0

Breaking Changes

• tessl eval run --agent is now single-valued - Previously --agent was repeatable and each value created a separate eval run. It now accepts a single agent; run the command once per agent to compare.
• Removed legacy eval-run context flags - --variant, --context-ref, and --context-pattern have been removed from tessl eval run in favour of the new --context selection (see below).

New Features

• Skill Inventory - Skill Inventory gives you a living map of every skill in your GitHub org - what exists, where it's used, and where you're duplicating effort. Run the initial import with tessl inventory import and it scans your repos, collects your skills and manifests, and gives you a snapshot of your whole inventory. Run it again any time - each scan is diffed, so you get a living view of what's new, unchanged, and removed over time.
• Context Selection for tessl eval run - A single --context <path> front door now picks the context under test, with --context-commit to source it from a commit and --skill (repeatable) to narrow a local plugin to specific skills.
• Control Baseline by Default - tessl eval run now always runs a control variant to compare against, with --skip-baseline to opt out.
• Secrets injection for plugin evals - tessl eval run now accepts --env-file <path>. Variables in the file are encrypted client-side and delivered into the eval sandbox, where they are available to setup.sh scripts and the agent. See Passing secrets to an evaluation.
• --child Flag for Nested Projects - tessl project create now requires --child to create a project nested inside an existing one, and blocks with a clear explanation when a parent project is detected in an ancestor directory.
• tessl version - Bump a plugin's version locally without publishing, like npm version. Pass patch, minor, or major to increment the current version following semver, or an explicit version (e.g. tessl version 2.1.0) to set it directly. Updates the plugin manifest in place; an optional path argument targets a directory other than the current one.

Improvements

• Clearer Install Output - tessl install now shows only the dependencies you explicitly requested on the success line; incidental re-installs are summarised as a dim Synced: N count.
• tessl scenario generate workspace resolution - Workspace is now resolved from your linked Tessl project (tessl.json), the --workspace flag, or an interactive prompt — instead of being derived from the tile manifest name, which caused confusing 403 errors when the manifest used the local/ prefix. The --workspace flag is now accepted for tile-based generation.

0.84.0

New Features

• Bootstrap Project Create - tessl project create now works in directories that don't yet have a tessl.json, bootstrapping it as part of the create flow.
• Personal GitHub Account in Skill Inventory Import - tessl skill inventory import can now authenticate with a personal GitHub account, not just org-level credentials.
• Plugin Marketplace Discovery - Tessl now classifies .claude-plugin/marketplace.json as a first-party manifest, picking up plugins from that location.

Improvements

• Warning for Large-Scale Eval Runs - tessl eval run now prompts a confirmation before launching large eval batches.
• Plan-Entitlement-Gated Model and Agent Selection - model and agent selection respects plan entitlements with clearer messages when a selection isn't available.
• Age-Gated Registry Sources Fallback - registry sources blocked by release-age policy can now resolve to an older fallback source rather than hard-blocking.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tessl install to fast-fail on private or missing git repositories instead of silently succeeding with a hidden failure.
• Fixed the judge-results display to show the correct score denominator in both CLI and frontend.

Windows installer (new distribution channel)

Signed Windows installers are now available for direct download. The Inno installer wraps a signed tessl.exe bundled with TESSL_DISABLE_UPDATE (winget will manage updates):

• https://install.tessl.io/installers-windows/0.84.0/TesslSetup-0.84.0-x64.exe
• https://install.tessl.io/installers-windows/0.84.0/TesslSetup-0.84.0-arm64.exe

The signed package will be installable directly via winget install tessl.tessl as soon as it will be approved by Microsoft

0.83.0

New Features

• **Jujutsu Repo Support - tessl project repair now detects and handles jj-managed repositories alongside Git.
• Finer Eval Run Controls - tessl eval run adds two independent opt-outs: --skip-forced-context-activation and --skip-scoring. Use them on their own or together to control whether the run forces context activation and whether the rubric scorer fires.

Improvements

• Solver and Scorer Flag Deprecation - The --solver and --scorer flags on tessl eval run are now hidden but still functional, with a one-line deprecation warning; prefer the new --skip-* flags.

Bug Fixes

• **Removed a vendor-native plugin-manifest ingestion path that could pick up stale manifests outside the expected resolution flow.

0.82.0

Improvements

• Install Policy Enforcement - tessl install now honors org-configured release-age and commit-age policies. For registry sources, the CLI automatically falls back to an older version that satisfies the policy (with a clear reason in the install output) or hard-blocks if no version qualifies. For git sources, it resolves to the most recent commit old enough to satisfy the minimum commit-age policy instead of installing HEAD.
• Policy-Aware tessl outdated - Versions blocked by a release-age policy are now annotated as [release age policy] in the update table, and git sources show the latest age-compliant commit as the recommended update so you can see what will (and won't) be installed before running tessl update.

0.81.3

Improvements

• Eval Failure Reasons - eval run and eval view now display the reason when a run fails (e.g. quota exceeded), instead of a bare failure marker
• Eval Default Model Notice - A one-time notice informs you that the default eval model is now GLM 5.1, with guidance on selecting a different model
• Resilient Eval Polling - eval run now rides out transient server errors and network blips while polling, instead of reporting a completed run as failed
• Clearer Validation Errors - Manifest schema errors are now rendered in a readable format instead of a raw JSON dump
• MCP Tool Updates - The new_tile MCP tool is renamed to new_plugin, and the outdated tool now accepts a projectDir parameter to check a specific directory

Bug Fixes

• Fixed plugin pack failing with a missing tile.json error for plugins created with plugin new; migrated plugins also no longer pack from the stale legacy manifest
• Fixed eval run evaluating the stale legacy tile.json instead of .tessl-plugin/plugin.json when both manifests are present
• Publishing a migrated plugin now errors if tile.json declares private: true but plugin.json omits it, preventing a private plugin from accidentally going public
• Fixed broken documentation links shown after plugin new and skill new
• Removed misleading advice pointing at tile.json from the "no content" validation error

0.81.2

Bug Fixes

• scenario generate: Clearer Error When No Manifest Found — Running tessl scenario generate in a directory with no manifest previously crashed with a confusing ENOENT: tile.json error. It now shows a clear message pointing you to add a .tessl-plugin/plugin.json.

0.81.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed skill publish incorrectly triggering the import wizard when plugin.json already exists
• Fixed skill publish --bump not writing the bumped version to plugin.json, causing the old version to be published
• Fixed skill publish pre-publish version checks reading from tile.json instead of plugin.json

0.81.0

New Features

• Tiles are now Plugins - This release completes the switch from Tiles to Plugins. The CLI now uses "plugin" across every command, help listing, flag description, and message. For more information on how to migrate from Tiles to Plugins, there is a guide in the documentation.
• Full moderation status in plugin info - plugin info now shows the complete moderation state for a published version (pass, pending, skipped, fail, or error).

Improvements

• ls shortcut - tessl ls now works as a shortcut for tessl list, mirroring the existing i → install shortcut.
• Workspace-scoped uploads - Eval-related uploads (scenario tarballs, plugin archives, repo archives) are now scoped to the active workspace, so teammates in the same workspace can access uploads created by other members.

Bug Fixes

• Eval run links now point directly to workspace-scoped URLs, skipping the redirect members previously hit when clicking through.
• scenario generate now works in plugin-only directories (a .tessl-plugin/plugin.json with no tile.json), which previously failed with a "tile.json not found" error.
• The CLI no longer fails to start when its log file can't be written (e.g. in sandboxed or read-only environments) — file logging is now best-effort.

0.80.0

New Features

• Eval Enablement Checks - tessl scenario generate, tessl tile publish, and tessl skill publish now pre-flight check whether the target workspace has evals enabled. Scenario generation fails fast with a clear message; publish still succeeds but cleanly skips the eval upload with a single info line.

Improvements

• Cleaner Publish Output - tessl tile publish no longer prints validation warnings twice (once from pre-publish validate, once from pack).
• Clearer Forbidden Errors - When creating a project fails because the workspace doesn't exist or you lack permission, the CLI now shows an actionable message instead of a generic 403 Forbidden.
• Skill Install Paths - Skills are no longer written under .gemini/skills; installation routes through .agents/skills, and any legacy tessl:* / tessl__* entries left in .gemini/skills are cleaned up automatically.

Bug Fixes

• tessl tile new now preserves the rule description you provide instead of overwriting it with a TODO placeholder.
• Generated RULES.md now ends with a trailing newline.

0.79.1

Improvements

• Clearer Guidance for Missing Project Links - When a linked Tessl project can't be found or isn't accessible, the CLI now surfaces actionable next steps with specific tessl project create and tessl project repair commands instead of a raw 404. The tessl eval run help text now also explains that eval runs are saved to a Tessl project.

0.79.0

New Features

• OpenHands agent support (alpha) — tessl init, tessl install, and tessl run now recognise OpenHands. Auto-detection follows the standard project → home → PATH ladder; OpenHands is excluded from the interactive picker while in alpha but can be selected explicitly via --agents openhands.
• tessl search --global — install search results into ~/.tessl/ without requiring a project to be initialised. Short form g available.
• tessl eval run --list-agents — print the supported <agent>:<model> catalogue (with the default marked) without running an eval. Supports --json for scripting.
• tessl project - Tessl now supports workspace-backed projects in the CLI, giving your local work a persistent project identity for evals and other project-based workflows. Use tessl project create to create a project, tessl project link to connect an existing one, and tessl project repair to fix broken project links.
• tessl eval run --scorer-agent — override the agent and model used for the score step (as agent:model), while the solver agent stays unchanged. tessl eval view shows the override under a Scored by: line.
• tessl eval run --quality-check — opt-in flag that asks the backend's LLM judge to filter out misleading scenarios (low feasibility, rubric leakage, low value) before solve and score. Excluded scenarios show up under a red ✗ Excluded by quality check line in tessl eval view. tessl tile publish --with-scenario-quality-check enables the same filter for the eval that runs as part of publishing.

Improvements

• Simpler tessl skill import / skill new — no longer prompts for workspace or visibility; defaults to local workspace and private visibility. Pass flags explicitly to override.
• Scenario config (scenario.json) — declarative working-directory setup for evals. Declare fixtures to install (commit or directory), include paths to copy in verbatim, and setup scripts to run after install. Conventional defaults (resources/ auto-included, setup.sh auto-run) mean most scenarios need no scenario.json at all. tessl scenario generate now produces a scenario.json for every generated scenario, plus any supporting input state (e.g. resources/) when the source commit needs it. Setup scripts are off by default per workspace — contact Tessl to enable.
• Cleaner install error messages — local paths missing the file: prefix now surface a clear validation error instead of a generic parse failure.
• Softer security-review copy — surfaces showing a per-skill security status now display "No security review available." instead of "Security review has not been run yet."
• tessl skill review includes referenced skill content — skill reviews now include all referenced content and scripts for logged-in users.

Bug Fixes

• Install exits non-zero on failure — tessl install and tessl install --global now reliably propagate tile install failures as command failures (non-zero exit code).
• tessl scenario generate <relative-path> — relative paths like tiles/foo are now correctly routed to the tile flow when the directory exists locally, instead of misrouting to the repo flow and erroring on missing -commits/-prs.
• tessl tile lint — @decorator tokens in markdown headings and YAML frontmatter are no longer treated as hard-link references and no longer produce false-positive lint warnings.
• MCP install bootstrap message — the "Initialising new tessl project at …" message no longer prints during bulk sync installs that don't actually write tessl.json.
• Experimental agent detection — explicit project-level usage of experimental agents (e.g. OpenClaw workspace markers) is now respected ahead of the experimental gate, and the default install flow no longer force-enables experimental agents.

0.78.0

New Features

• Activation Solver for Evals - tessl eval run --solver=activation measures which skills activate for each scenario, and tessl eval view renders the results in a per-scenario activation table
• Set Project Name on Init - tessl init accepts a new --name flag to set the project name in tessl.json at creation time
• Target Org on Workspace Create - tessl workspace create now accepts a --org-id flag to associate a workspace with a specific organization
• List Organizations - New tessl org list command displays the organizations you belong to
• Scenario Quality Checks for Evals - tessl eval run --quality-check will filter out scenarios that would give misleading results, based on a quality assessment that looks for things like “criteria leaking into the task” or “task duplicating information from the skill it is meant to exercise”

Improvements

• Clearer Eval Run Status - Pending and in-progress eval and generation runs render as yellow "In Progress" with elapsed time, instead of an ambiguous "Pending"
• Better Invalid Manifest Errors - tessl eval run against a directory with a malformed tile.json now reports the manifest error directly with a hint to fix it, instead of falling through to the scenarios flow
• Removed Eval Compare - tessl eval compare has been removed. Use tessl eval view and tessl eval list instead
• Global Install from Search - tessl search now supports --global so selecting a result installs it to ~/.tessl/ instead of the current project

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tile rule creation to safely handle prompts containing / so they no longer create unintended nested paths in the generated rule files

0.77.0

New Features

• Experimental Windows Support - The Tessl CLI is now available on Windows as an experimental release. Install it with PowerShell:
• Eval Setup Scripts - Eval scenarios support a new setup field in scenario.json — an ordered array of script paths that run after fixtures and includes are installed, before the solver agent starts.

Improvements

• Cleaner Top-Level Help - Simplified top-level CLI help.

0.76.0

New Features

• Eval Progress Bars — eval run and eval view now show real-time per-scenario progress bars with colour-coded status (complete, active, queued)
• Directory Fixtures in Evals — Scenarios can now declare include paths for directory-based fixtures, alongside existing commit-based fixtures.
• "latest" Dependency Version — Use "latest" as a dependency version in tessl.json to always resolve the most recent published version
• Uninstall Individual Skills — tessl uninstall --skill <name> removes specific skills from a dependency instead of removing the entire tile
• Verifiers in Tile Packing — The verifiers/ directory is now included when packing tiles (when evals are enabled)
• Failed Security Review Visibility — Security reviews that failed to run are now shown as "failed" instead of appearing as "pending"

Improvements

• Project Name from Directory — tessl init now derives the project name from the directory basename instead of using a generic default
• Archive Without Version — tessl archive now works without a version suffix, allowing you to archive all versions of a tile at once
• Eval Agent/Model Display — eval view now shows the agent and model for all eval run types
• Workspace Commands — -user flag renamed to -username , -user still works with a deprecation warning
• Help Text Corrections — Improved descriptions for install --skip-init, tile pack, skill import, and config set

Bug Fixes

• Fixed eval scenario path resolution when base directory is "."
• Fixed eval git diff ignoring user's custom diff tool configuration
• Fixed object metadata serialization in eval debug output

Breaking Changes

• Removed --project-dependencies — The --project-dependencies flag has been removed from tessl install and tessl init. Dependency scanning and automatic tile matching are no longer part of the install flow. Use tessl search to find relevant tiles instead.

0.75.0

New Features

• API Key Management — New api-key command group with create, list, and delete subcommands for managing workspace-scoped API keys. Supports both interactive and non-interactive (scripting) modes
• Auto-Select Single Workspace — When you're a member of only one workspace, the CLI now skips the workspace selection prompt and selects it automatically

Breaking Changes

• auth token Removed — The auth token command has been removed. Use the new api-key create, api-key list, and api-key delete commands instead for workspace-scoped API key management

0.74.0

New Features

• Machine-Readable Search: tessl search --json flag outputs results in JSON format for scripting and automation
• Skill Review Threshold: tessl skill review now supports a --threshold option: when the score is below this threshold, the command will fail - helpful for CI use cases
• Scores in Search & Info: Search results and tessl tile info now display quality scores and security review details

Improvements

• Piped Token Output: tessl auth token now suppresses the spinner and hints when output is piped, making it easier to use in scripts
• Better Error Display: Failed operations now render a red cross indicator for clearer error visibility
• Search Column Alignment: Interactive search results now have properly aligned columns
• Remove Steering to Use query_library_docs MCP tool: It was getting in the way of skill activation from some users. You can manually opt-in to install the rules yourself with tessl install tessl/cli-setup

Bug Fixes

• Fixed skill review API calls failing due to stale authentication tokens
• Fixed eval commands resolving git repo root incorrectly when run from subdirectories

0.73.0

New Features

• Security Reviews on Install - tessl install and tessl update now show security review results before installation. CRITICAL/RISKY findings require confirmation to proceed, ADVISORY findings show an advisory after install, and unscanned items display a warning. Use -dangerously-ignore-security to bypass prompts in CI/scripted contexts
• Commit-Pinned Installs - tessl install now accepts github:<repo>@<sha> and full GitHub commit URLs, allowing you to install a skill at a specific commit. A post-install hint directs to tessl update for future updates
• Publish --bump Flag - tessl tile publish and tessl skill publish now accept --bump patch|minor|major to auto-increment the version when the current version already exists in the registry
• .agents/skills Directory Support - Install skills in .agents/skills alongside other requested agents since that’s the folder many tools are aligning with

Improvements

• Grouped Search Results - tessl search now groups results by type (Tiles / Skills) with section headers when both types are present

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tessl skill new showing interactive prompts even when all required flags (-name, -description, -workspace) are provided
• Fixed MCP server processes becoming orphaned when the parent process disconnects (stdin closes)

0.72.0

New Features

• Pre-Publish Validation & Dry Run - Tile and skill publish commands now validate permissions, workspace, and version availability before publishing, with clear pass/fail output. Use --dry-run to check without actually publishing.
• Security Scores in Search - Search results now display security assessment levels (Passed, Caution, Risky, Critical) alongside tile scores

Improvements

• Smarter Eval Scenario Generation - Existing scenarios are now considered when generating new ones, avoiding duplicates
• Large File Exclusion in Eval Archives - Files over 10MB are automatically excluded from repo archives during eval runs
• Eval Commit Ref Validation - Commit refs are validated before archive creation, with clear error messages for missing refs

0.71.0

New Features

• Support for Copilot in VSCode — Skills, rules, and our MCP server can be automatically set-up for vscode
• Eval Run Labels — New --label / -l flag on tessl eval run lets you attach a short description to a run. Labels appear in tessl eval list and the Tessl web UI, making it easier to identify what you were testing across multiple runs.
• Eval Variant Selection — New --variant flag on tessl eval run lets you run only a specific variant. Pass --variant without-context to run the baseline only (useful for iterating on scenario quality without affecting the with-context comparison), or --variant with-context to skip the baseline.
• Local Repo Eval Runs — Project evals can now run against local git repos without SCM integration; the CLI archives and uploads the repo automatically
• Smarter Scenario Generation — tessl eval generate now avoids duplicating existing scenarios when generating new ones; --count specifies how many new scenarios to add

Bug Fixes

• Allow installation of skills from unknown dot folders in GitHub repositories (e.g., .agent-skills/)

0.70.1

Improvements

• Non-Interactive Mode for Evals & Scenarios — tessl eval run and tessl scenario generate now print the run/generation ID and URL immediately when running non-interactively, instead of polling for completion
• Clearer Help Text — tessl eval run and tessl scenario generate now show which flags are mode-specific, and invalid flag combinations are rejected with helpful messages

Bug Fixes

• Fixed install --watch-local exiting prematurely — the process now stays alive until Ctrl+C and updated output to show relative paths rather than absolute ones
• Fixed installation from file: source to exclude .git directories - It now installs the same files that would be captured by tessl tile pack or tessl tile publish

0.70.0

New Features

• Local Tile Watching — New --watch-local flag on tessl install watches local file-source tiles for changes and automatically reinstalls tiles, streamlining the tile development workflow
• Search Score Display — tessl search results now show aggregate quality and impact scores with color-coded badges
• Scenario Generation from PRs — New --prs flag on tessl scenario generate accepts PR numbers as an alternative to --commits
• Multiple Scenario Downloads — tessl scenario download now accepts multiple space-separated IDs (e.g., tessl scenario download id1 id2)
• Eval Run Repeats — New --runs / -n flag on tessl eval run to repeat each agent configuration multiple times
• Eval Polling for Tile Evals — Tile evals now poll for completion instead of returning immediately, with Ctrl+C to detach gracefully
• Eval JSON Output for Tile Evals — --json flag on tessl eval run now works for tile evals, outputting run ID, tile name, and scenario count
• Eval Agent Flag — New --agent flag (format: agent:model) replaces --model for tile evals, aligning with project eval conventions
• Eval Cost Metadata — tessl eval view now displays cost, runtime, turns, and token usage below each solution
• Eval Agent/Model Display — tessl eval view stats now show the agent and model used for each solution
• --last for Eval Debug & Retry — tessl eval debug and tessl eval retry now support --last for quick access to the most recent eval run
• Repository Metadata in tile.json — Tiles now support an optional repository URL field in their manifest

Improvements

• Tile Cache Protection — Tile authoring commands now warn when operating on paths inside .tessl/tiles/, preventing accidental edits that would be overwritten on the next install
• Cleaner Help Text — Removed meaningless --no-{flag} negated boolean flags from all commands, improved flag capitalization, and reordered commands for logical grouping
• Consistent Scenario Terminology — "Generation run" renamed to "generation" throughout the CLI for simpler, more natural language
• Scenario Generate Table Output — tessl scenario generate results now render as a formatted table with Scenario ID and Commit ID columns
• Smarter Binary Install — Skips re-downloading binaries that already exist and pass validation; corrupt binaries are automatically cleaned up

Fixes

• Fixed CLI crashes when output streams disconnect unexpectedly (EPIPE handling)
• Fixed unpublish help text to reflect the correct 2-day timeframe (was showing 2 hours)

0.69.0

New Features

• Scenario Generation Commands - New tessl scenario command suite for generating and managing test scenarios. Generate scenarios from tiles or repository commits (tessl scenario generate), download them to disk (tessl scenario download), and track generation runs (tessl scenario list, tessl scenario view)
• Global Tile Installation - Install tiles globally with tessl install --global to make documentation and skills available across all your projects.
• Eval Variant Comparison - tessl eval run now supports running evaluations with multiple agent variants and context patterns, with automatic detection of tile vs. project scenario sources

Improvements

• Project Directory Hints - tessl init and tessl install now display a helpful hint when the target project directory differs from your current working directory

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when piping CLI output to another command (e.g., tessl list | head) by gracefully handling broken pipe signals
• Fixed markdown link validation incorrectly parsing non-markdown files during tile linting

0.68.0

New Features

• GitHub Copilot CLI Support — Tessl now recognizes GitHub Copilot CLI as an agent, with automatic detection, rules wiring via AGENTS.md, skill installation, and MCP configuration
• Search Type Filtering — tessl search now accepts a --type flag to filter results by content type (skills, docs, or rules)
• Skill Review Auto-Accept — tessl skill review --optimize now supports a --yes / -y flag to skip the confirmation prompt and auto-apply improvements

Improvements

• Automatic Binary Cleanup — Old CLI binary versions are now automatically cleaned up after updates, keeping only the current version and one rollback
• Short SHAs for Git Tiles — tessl list and tessl doctor now display short SHAs for git-sourced tiles instead of full commit hashes
• Command Detection Timeout — Command lookups now have a 1-second timeout to prevent indefinite hangs during agent detection

Breaking Changes

• tessl skill search Removed — Use tessl search --type skills instead

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tessl skill review --optimize failing with a raw 401 error when not authenticated — now shows a clear login prompt
• Fixed unpublish help text to reflect the correct 2-day window (was incorrectly showing 2 hours)

0.67.0

New Features

• Skill Optimization - tessl skill review --optimize now applies feedback from the review to generate an updated SKILL.md file
• Evaluation Type Support - tessl eval list now displays all evaluation types (tile, repo, skill) with a new "Type" column and --type flag to filter by evaluation type
• Filter Evaluations by Status - tessl eval list now supports a --status flag to filter runs by status (pending, in_progress, completed, failed)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tessl skill review returning exit code 0 on validation failure — it now correctly returns a non-zero exit code, enabling proper CI/CD integration
• Fixed tessl api --input - sending incorrect Content-Type when piping JSON via stdin

0.66.0

New Features

• outdated command — Check installed tiles for newer versions, showing current, safe update, and latest version info
• update command — Update tiles to newer versions. Use --yes for all, and --force to include breaking updates

0.65.0

Bug Fixes

• Windows Compatibility for Generated Files - Fixes generated file and directory names containing colons (:) which are invalid in Windows file paths. Tile files committed to git repositories can now be cloned on Windows without errors. Existing installations are migrated automatically

0.64.0

New Features

• Local Tile Evaluation - Run evals against your tiles directly from the CLI with tessl eval run and get a fast feedback loop for improving your tiles
• Eval Results in Terminal - View eval results with per-scenario breakdowns, variant comparisons, and scoring summaries using tessl eval view
• Eval Run History - List recent eval runs filtered by workspace, tile, or author with tessl eval list
• Eval Retry - Re-run failed evals with tessl eval retry

0.63.4

Improvements

• Internal - Stability improvements

0.63.3

New Features

• Local Path Support for Tile Info - tessl tile info now accepts a local directory path as an argument and defaults to the current directory when no argument is provided, making it consistent with other tile commands like publish and lint

Improvements

• Better Publish Messages - After publishing tiles or skills, the CLI now displays the published resource URL and a note about moderation timelines

Bug Fixes

• Fixed MCP configuration failures when using npx tessl by ensuring the tessl binary is accessible via the PATH during init

0.63.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed circular reference issues when CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md are symlinked

0.63.0

Improvements

• The CLI is now distributed as a native binary instead of a bundled Node.js package

0.62.2

New Features

• Optional Authentication - You can now use tessl init, tessl install, and tessl search without logging in. Public tiles are accessible to everyone, while private tiles will show helpful hints to log in when needed

Bug Fixes

• Fixed --skill flag not working correctly when installing a single skill from a local tile with multiple skills

0.62.1

Improvements

• Internal - Stability improvements

0.62.0

New Features

• Unified Search — tessl search now returns both tiles and skills in a single view, with visual badges showing content types ([docs], [skills], [rules]) and skill provenance
• Tile Evaluations — New tessl eval command group for evaluating tiles:

  • tessl eval run [path] — Run evaluations on local tiles

    • --force flag to re-run all evaluations including previously solved cases
  • tessl eval list — View recent eval runs with status
  • tessl eval view-results <id> — View detailed results with color-coded scores and assessment tables

    • --last flag to quickly view most recent eval results
  • Git metadata (branch, commit, dirty state) automatically attached to eval runs
• Tile Info — New tessl tile info <name> command to view tile metadata, verification status, and moderation status
• Skills in MCP Context — The query_library_docs MCP tool now includes installed skills when building knowledge context

Improvements

• Redesigned Help for tessl -h — Commands are now grouped by category with improved formatting and readability
• Publish Workspace Context — Publishing now shows the target workspace name before uploading

Bug Fixes

• Fixed --skill flag being ignored when installing skills from registry tiles
• Fixed re-installing tiles not updating the manifest with new skill selections
• Fixed tile lint incorrectly flagging files as orphaned when linked via @path.md includes

0.61.4

Improvements

• Install --yes Flag Behavior - The --yes flag now auto-selects all skills when installing from GitHub, even in interactive mode. Previously it only worked in non-interactive environments.
• Non-Interactive tile new - The tessl tile new command can now run fully non-interactively when all required flags are provided, making it easier for scripts and agents to use.

Fixes

• GitHub Skill Installation Bugfixes - Address various edge cases that prevented some skills being installed from GitHub
• GitHub Skill Installation Respects Pinned Version - Fixed an issue that meant we always installed a skill from a repository's trunk rather than the commit sha in tessl.json when doing tessl install

0.61.3

Improvements

• Faster git installs - Git dependencies are no longer re-downloaded on every install when already at the correct version

0.61.2

Improvements

• Windows Platform Detection - The CLI now detects Windows and provides a clear error message directing users to use WSL instead
• Lenient GitHub Skill Installation - Skills from GitHub with missing referenced files or minor schema issues now install with warnings instead of failing completely
• Better Warning Display - Installation warnings are now grouped by tile name with count summaries (e.g., "3 content warnings in github:user/repo")
• Verbose Install Output - Added --verbose (-v) flag to tessl install and tessl skill search commands to display detailed warning messages during installation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed skill validation warnings showing absolute temp directory paths instead of relative paths
• Fixed installation failures when GitHub skills have invalid optional frontmatter fields (e.g., allowed-tools as array instead of string)

0.61.1

New Features

• Skill Commands - Added a complete set of dedicated skill management commands: tessl skill new, tessl skill import, tessl skill lint, tessl skill publish, tessl skill review, and tessl skill search. Skills are now first-class citizens with their own command group for easier discovery and management.
• GitHub Installation Support - Install tiles and skills directly from GitHub repositories using tessl install github:user/repo or full URLs. Supports branch selection, subdirectories, and interactive skill selection. Git sources are pinned to commit SHAs for version stability.
• Skill Search - Discover available skills across the Tessl ecosystem with the new interactive tessl skill search command. Search returns both external skills from GitHub and tiles containing skills, with interactive selection and installation.
• Skill Review - Evaluate skill quality with tessl skill review, which validates SKILL.md files and provides LLM-based scoring across multiple dimensions with actionable suggestions for improvement. Supports both local paths and GitHub URLs.
• Non-Interactive Mode - Commands now auto-detect TTY availability and work in CI/CD pipelines and with AI agents. When required flags are missing in non-interactive environments, commands provide clear error messages pointing to available options.
• Selective Skill Installation - Choose specific skills when installing tiles using the new include.skills manifest field in tessl.json. Reduces clutter in agent directories by only activating the skills you need.
• Codex Support - Full support for Codex as a core agent alongside Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini. Includes project detection, MCP configuration, steering, and skills synchronization.
• Gemini Production Ready - Gemini agent is no longer experimental and fully supported in production workflows.

Improvements

• Simplified Skill Naming - Skill directories now use cleaner names (tessl:<skill> instead of tessl:<workspace>:<tile>:<skill>) and are symlinked rather than copied for better performance and consistency.
• Automatic Eval Publishing - Evals are now published by default when running tessl tile publish or tessl skill publish. Use -skip-evals to opt out. Published evals automatically trigger evaluation runs.
• Better Skill Discovery - Improved skill detection uses a three-step process (root check, priority directories, full scan) with optimizations that reduce scan time and exclude build/cache directories.
• Streamlined Publishing - The tessl skill publish command no longer asks redundant "will you share this?" prompts since publishing inherently means sharing.
• Improved Help Text - Updated tessl init --agent to list all supported agents (claude-code, codex, cursor, gemini) and clarified that tessl install accepts both registry tiles and GitHub URLs. Added tessl i as a shortcut alias.
• Relative Paths in Manifest - When creating tiles with --install, the CLI now stores relative paths in tessl.json instead of absolute paths, making projects portable across machines and directories.
• Smarter CLI Setup - The tessl/cli-setup tile is now only installed when your tiles have documentation, reducing overhead for steering-only projects.
• Flexible Tile Content - Tiles can now contain any file type, not just markdown files, allowing for configuration files, code examples, and other documentation formats.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed skill review score display showing /4 instead of the correct /3 scale
• Fixed status command handling of non-semver versions for git-based and file-based tiles
• Fixed orphaned file detection for tiles with root-level skills - README.md and other root files are no longer incorrectly flagged as orphaned
• Fixed skill publish command to accept SKILL.md file paths directly instead of only directory paths
• Fixed file source tiles being incorrectly deleted as orphaned on repeated installs when dependency key differed from tile name
• Fixed skill frontmatter validation warnings during installation from external sources like GitHub
• Fixed tessl skill new output messages to reference correct tile directory paths
• Fixed skill selection in GitHub repos to require explicit choices, preventing accidental installation of all skills from large repositories

0.60.0

New Features

• Project Mode (Managed vs Vendored) - Choose how tile content is managed in your project:

  • Managed mode - Tile contents are gitignored like node_modules (default for existing projects)
  • Vendored mode - Tile contents are committed to your repository (default for new projects)
  • Switch modes anytime by setting "mode": "managed" or "mode": "vendored" in tessl.json

Improvements

• Simplified Local Tile Dependencies - Local tiles (using file: or link: sources) no longer require a version field in tessl.json. The CLI automatically reads versions from installed tile.json files. Existing manifests with both version and source are automatically migrated to the new format.

0.59.0

New Features

• .tileignore Support - Exclude files from tile validation and packaging using gitignore-style patterns.

0.58.1

Improvements

• Tile Commands Auto-Detect - tessl tile pack, tessl tile lint, and tessl tile publish can now be run directly from your tile directory without explicitly specifying the path

Bug Fixes

• Squashed some bugs that were hiding in the codebase. They know what they did.

0.58.0

New Features

• Context Cost Analysis (Experimental) - The tessl doctor and tessl tile lint commands now display estimated token costs for tile content loaded into agent context windows. This helps you understand which tiles contribute most to context usage and identify oversized content before publishing.
• HTTP Proxy Support - The CLI now works in proxied network environments by automatically detecting and using HTTP/HTTPS proxy settings from environment variables (http_proxy, https_proxy, HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY). The CLI respects no_proxy/NO_PROXY bypass rules.

Improvements

• Enhanced Python Dependency Scanning - Improved Python dependency detection with support for extras notation (e.g., openai[aiohttp]>=1.52.2) across requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, and uv tree output. The scanner now also automatically falls back to pip3 when pip is not available, improving compatibility with macOS and Linux distributions.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Go package PURL validation to require the v prefix in version strings (e.g., v1.9.3 instead of 1.9.3), ensuring pkg.go.dev documentation links work correctly.
• Fixed false "broken link" warnings during tessl tile lint when markdown files contain URI schemes like mailto:, tel:, ftp:, or data:.

0.57.0

New Features

• Monorepo Subfolder Support - The tessl install --project-dependencies command now scans dependencies from your current working directory, enabling you to run it from monorepo subfolders in an initialized project (e.g., tessl init && cd backend && tessl install --project-dependencies)

Improvements

• Smarter Documentation Tree - The context tool now only includes files that are transitively linked from a tile's documentation entrypoint, filtering out orphaned files and making documentation discovery more focused

Bug Fixes

• Fixed markdown link validation to properly handle anchors (e.g., ./guide.md#section). The validator now validates both file existence and anchor validity, with clearer error messages for broken links

0.56.2

Improvements

• Internal - Stability improvements

0.56.1

Improvements

• Observability Enhancements - Improved telemetry infrastructure for better diagnostics and system monitoring

0.56.0

Breaking Changes

• Node.js 18 No Longer Supported - The CLI now requires Node.js 20 or later. Node.js 18 reached end-of-life in April 2025 and is no longer supported. The CLI will now fail with a clear error message if you attempt to run it on Node.js 18.

Improvements

• Only Auto-Init Outside Existing Projects - The install and search commands no longer automatically initialize a project when run in a subdirectory of a Tessl project directory. This prevents accidentally creating unwanted projects when running commands after changing directories. To initialize a project, explicitly run tessl init first.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the init command's failed to identify and install relevant tiles.

0.55.1

Improvements

• Faster Auto-Updates - The CLI now checks for updates every 3 hours (down from 24 hours), ensuring you get critical fixes and improvements more quickly. You can still adjust the interval with TESSL_AUTO_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MINUTES or disable it by setting it to 0.