Timeline

Timeline#

A brief timeline of the project.

The idea is to later make this into a timeline similar to the one for ActivityWatch, including releases, features, etc.

Stargazers over time

GitHub stargazers over time#

Unreleased#

  • gptme service init scaffold for headless agents (systemd, and launchd on macOS)

  • Cross-harness memory: gptme.memory package and gptme-util memory CLI, compatible with Claude Code and Codex memory

  • Skills invocable as slash commands (/skill:<name>)

  • Auto-discovery of local Ollama and LM Studio providers

  • Offline file format conversion tool

  • Trust-on-first-use gate for project-level shell execution

2026#

August

  • v0.33.0 (2026-08-19)

    • Snapshot-anchored hashline_edit edit format with 3-way merge recovery

    • Sandboxed execution: Docker and Wasmtime WASI backends for the Python tool, sandbox mode for the shell tool

    • Non-interactive mode: fatal error envelope and exit code taxonomy

    • Autocompact keep_head to protect task context from compaction

    • New commands and modes: gptme explain, gptme providers add, read-only audit tool preset, interactive tutorial onboarding

    • Security hardening: bearer auth required on all server bind addresses, per-binary shell allowlist flags (GHSA-mfh4-cxj2-jc9p)

    • Native Kimi K3 support, SuperGrok subscription provider, OpenRouter OAuth in first-run setup

  • gptme-skills-cc created (2026-08-05): gptme agent skills packaged as a Claude Code plugin

July

  • v0.32.1 (2026-07-17)

    • Auto-updater for the desktop app

    • Textual-based terminal UI (gptme-tui)

    • Prompt-injection screening (--injection-hygiene) for file reads, shell, and MCP output

    • Subagent fleet controls: shared token budget, max_concurrent cap, cancel_on_failure, cooperative cancellation

    • Gear autonomy presets and brief response mode

  • v0.32.0 (2026-07-11)

    • Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support with the gptme-acp package; gptme tools exposed as an MCP server (gptme-mcp-server); MCP prompts, resources, roots, and elicitation

    • Desktop app (Tauri) builds for Linux, macOS, and Windows, plus Android builds

    • Computer use: accessibility-tree actions on Linux and macOS, screen recording, audit log with risk labels

    • Subagents: parallel fan-out (subagent_parallel) and git worktree isolation

    • Evals: SWE-bench and Terminal-Bench modules, HTML leaderboard

    • Anthropic native web search, PDF support in browser tool, skills summary in system prompt, lesson keyword wildcards/regex, session cost summary on exit, Master Context Architecture for autocompact

    • New models: GPT-5.5, GPT-5.6 Luna/Terra/Sol, Claude Opus 4.7, DeepSeek V4

  • gptme-cc-plugin created (2026-07-06): Claude Code skills for running gptme

May

February

  • Scheduled dev pre-releases begin (2026-02-27)

January

  • gptme-agent-template v0.4 release (2026-01-23)

    • Autonomous agent run loops

    • Enhanced context generation

    • Bob reaches 1000+ autonomous sessions milestone

2025#

December

  • v0.31.0 (2025-12-15)

    • Background jobs for long-running shell commands

    • Form tool for structured user input

    • Cost tracking and token awareness hooks

    • Content-addressable file storage

    • Lessons caching and plugin auto-discovery

    • Cursor .mdc rules support

November

  • v0.30.0 (2025-11-18)

    • Plugin system (tools, hooks, commands from plugins)

    • Context selector infrastructure

    • Subagent planner mode

    • Improved support for custom OpenAI-compatible providers

October

  • v0.29.0 (2025-10-21)

    • Lessons system for contextual guidance (auto-included based on keywords/tools)

    • MCP discovery and dynamic loading

    • Token and time awareness hooks

    • Shellcheck validation for shell commands

    • Bob begins autonomous runs with GitHub monitoring

August

  • v0.28.0 (2025-08-13)

    • MCP (Model Context Protocol) support

    • Morph tool for fast AI-powered edits

    • Auto-commit feature

    • Redesigned server API (v2)

    • ChatConfig for per-conversation settings

March

  • v0.27.0 (2025-03-11)

    • Pre-commit integration for automatic code quality checks

    • macOS support for computer use tool

    • Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 support

    • Improved TTS with Kokoro 1.0

    • Context tree for including repository structure in prompts

    • Enhanced RAG with LLM post-processing

February

  • Added image support to gptme-webui (2025-02-07)

January

  • Major UI improvements to gptme-webui (2025-01-28)

  • v0.26.0 (2025-01-14)

    • Added support for loading tools from external modules (custom tools)

    • Added experimental local TTS support using Kokoro

  • gptme-contrib repository created (2025-01-10)

    • Initial tools: Twitter and Perplexity CLI integrations

    • Later expanded with Discord bot, Pushover notifications, and enhanced Twitter automation

2024#

December

  • v0.25.0 (2024-12-20)

    • New prompt_toolkit-based interface with better completion and highlighting

    • Support for OpenAI/Anthropic tools APIs

    • Improved cost & performance through better prompt caching

    • Better path handling and workspace context

    • Added heredoc support

  • gptme-agent-template v0.3 release (2024-12-20)

  • gptme-rag v0.5.1 release (2024-12-13)

November

  • gptme.vim initial release (2024-11-29)

  • v0.24.0 (2024-11-22)

  • gptme-rag v0.3.0 release (2024-11-22)

  • gptme-agent-template initial release v0.1 (2024-11-21)

  • Bob created (2024-11-14) - first autonomous agent built on gptme

  • gptme-rag initial release v0.1.0 (2024-11-15)

  • v0.23.0 (2024-11-14)

  • gptme-webui initial release (2024-11-03)

  • v0.22.0 (2024-11-01)

October

  • v0.21.0 (2024-10-25)

  • v0.20.0 (2024-10-10)

    • Updated web UI with sidebar

    • Improved performance with faster imports

    • Enhanced error handling for tools

  • First viral tweet (2024-10-04)

  • v0.19.0 (2024-10-02)

September

  • v0.18.0 (2024-09-26)

  • v0.17.0 (2024-09-19)

  • v0.16.0 (2024-09-16)

  • v0.15.0 (2024-09-06)

    • Added screenshot_url function to browser tool

    • Added GitHub bot features for non-change questions/answers

    • Added special prompting for non-interactive mode

August

  • v0.14.0 (2024-08-21)

  • v0.13.0 (2024-08-09)

    • Added Anthropic Claude support

    • Added tmux terminal tool

    • Improved shell tool with better bash syntax support

    • Major tools refactoring

  • v0.12.0 (2024-08-06)

    • Improved browsing with assistant-driven navigation

    • Added subagent tool (early version)

    • Tools refactoring

  • Show HN

2023#

November

  • v0.11.0 (2023-11-29)

    • Added support for paths/URLs in prompts

    • Mirror working directory in shell and Python tools

    • Started evaluation suite

  • v0.10.0 (2023-11-03)

    • Improved file handling in prompts

    • Added GitHub bot documentation

October

  • v0.9.0 (2023-10-27)

    • Added automatic naming of conversations

    • Added patch tool

    • Initial documentation

  • v0.8.0 (2023-10-16)

    • Added web UI for conversations

    • Added rename and fork commands

    • Improved web UI responsiveness

  • v0.7.0 (2023-10-10)

  • v0.6.0 (2023-10-10)

  • v0.5.0 (2023-10-02)

    • Added browser tool (early version)

September

  • v0.4.0 (2023-09-10)

  • v0.3.0 (2023-09-06)

    • Added configuration system

    • Improved context awareness

    • Made OpenAI model configurable

  • Reddit announcement (2023-09-05)

  • Twitter announcement (2023-09-05)

  • Show HN (2023-09-05)

  • v0.2.1 (2023-09-05)

    • Initial release

August

March

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