Week of May 29, 2026

Updates to the Voss harness and CLI. For deeper context, see the Harness overview and Roadmap.

New

Compact renderer for embedded shells. Voss now ships a low-chrome CLI renderer for use inside embedded terminals and pipelines. Output stays readable when the harness runs as a subprocess or inside another tool.
Markdown turns with syntax highlighting. Agent turns render as Markdown with syntax-highlighted code blocks, making plans, diffs, and explanations easier to scan. See Modes.
Streaming model responses. The provider layer now streams tokens as they arrive, so long planning turns no longer wait for a full completion before showing output.

Refined CLI prompt and banner. Updated prompt, banner, and status styling with a Unicode glyph fallback so the harness renders cleanly in terminals without full glyph support.
Smarter project detection. Interactive CLI detection has been tightened, and project cognition no longer indexes non-project directories or transient memory folders. See Project cognition.
Ctrl+C exits the harness. The interactive harness now exits cleanly on Ctrl+C from the input bar. See Commands.
Tighter input bar. The input area uses a more compact layout with dynamic height, and Esc returns focus from the slash command palette.

Telemetry opt-out by default. Analytics now default to opted out for GDPR compliance. Opt in explicitly if you want to share usage data. See Security.
Shell tool hardening. Shell tool execution has been hardened against command injection. See Tools.
Supply-chain hygiene. Release workflows remain SHA-pinned, and routine CI action updates are grouped through Dependabot for review before merge.