Coding agent for DeepSeek models that runs in your terminal
Terminal coding agent for DeepSeek V4. It runs from the deepseek command, streams reasoning blocks, edits local workspaces with approval gates, and includes an auto mode that chooses both model and thinking level per turn.
Turns now survive system sleep. When the host suspends mid-stream, the connection used to die on wake with Stream read error: error decoding response body and the turn was lost (#2990). The engine now stamps stream progress with both monotonic and wall-clock time; a large divergence on a stream error identifies a sleep/wake cycle, and the request is silently re-issued (up to the existing 3-retry budget) instead of failing the turn.
One-command release prep. ./scripts/release/prepare-release.sh X.Y.Z bumps the workspace version, every internal crate dependency pin, the npm wrapper, and the README install-tag examples, refreshes Cargo.lock, regenerates the embedded TUI changelog slice and web facts, and runs check-versions.sh — the v0.8.56 release needed nine follow-up commits for exactly these sync points.
.github/CODEOWNERS and .github/dependabot.yml (weekly cargo + github-actions updates, monthly npm for web/).
Changed
The changelog went on a diet. Root CHANGELOG.md now carries recent releases (v0.8.40+); older entries moved to docs/CHANGELOG_ARCHIVE.md. crates/tui/CHANGELOG.md — embedded into every binary for /change — is a generated 15-release slice (scripts/sync-changelog.sh), no longer a 357 KB manual byte-for-byte copy (~300 KB smaller binaries).
GitHub Release bodies are generated from the tagged version's changelog section (scripts/release/generate-release-body.sh) instead of a hardcoded workflow blob with a hand-pasted contributor list.
check-versions.sh now also gates web/lib/facts.generated.ts and the README install-tag examples; the CNB mirror pipeline validates the pushed tag against Cargo.toml before generating release notes.
Docs reorganized: internal design notes moved under docs/rfcs/; stale internal docs (old audits, handoffs, region-specific VM notes) removed.
Agent-facing polish: the system prompt environment block reports codewhale_version (was deepseek_version), the legacy .deepseek/instructions.md path is no longer advertised in the prompt (still honored for back-compat), and oversized instruction files are truncated with an explicit […truncated: N bytes omitted] marker instead of a bare ellipsis.
Fixed
Docker images build again. The release docker job failed for v0.8.56 because the Dockerfile still copied the pre-rebrand deepseek / deepseek-tui binaries; they are now symlinks to the codewhale binaries inside the image, so legacy container entrypoints keep working.
.devcontainer/devcontainer.json used the pre-rebrand container name, mount path, and deepseek remote user.
Stale --bin deepseek examples, DeepSeek-TUI strings in /change output, and pre-rebrand doc comments.
Removed
Unused dependencies: tracing-appender and zeroize (TUI crate), rustls (release crate); the orphaned vendor/schemaui-0.12.0 lockfile leftover and a machine-specific one-off scripts/verify_task.sh.
