Search tool now supports 4 backends with unified output (bocha,
qianfan, zhipu, linkai) and a routing layer:
- strategy 'auto' (default): pick first configured in canonical order
bocha > qianfan > zhipu > linkai
- strategy 'fixed': pin a specific provider
- agent may pass `provider` to override per-call (only exposed when
≥2 providers configured + auto strategy)
Add embedding_provider config knob with native support for
openai / dashscope / doubao / zhipu / linkai, plus an in-chat
/memory status and /memory rebuild-index workflow for switching
vendors safely.
Browser sessions now reuse a Chromium user profile across runs by default
(`~/.cow/browser_profile`), so users only log in to a site once.
Three launch modes are selectable via `tools.browser` in config.json:
- persistent (default): Playwright Chromium with a persistent user_data_dir
- cdp: attach to an externally launched real Chrome via `cdp_endpoint`
(full fingerprints, ideal for sites with strict bot detection)
- fresh: clean context every run, set `persistent: false`
Also:
- Self-heal when the user closes the browser window mid-session: detect
closed page/context/browser via close listeners and exception scanning,
then transparently relaunch on the next request.
- Graceful CDP shutdown: disconnect only, never kill the user's Chrome.
- Friendly errors when the CDP endpoint is unreachable or the persistent
profile is locked, so the LLM can guide the user instead of looping.
- Fix tool config being silently overwritten by workspace config in
AgentInitializer; per-tool user settings (e.g. browser.cdp_endpoint)
are now merged instead of replaced.
- Update zh / en / ja docs with the new login-persistence section,
including the Chrome 137+ requirement to pair --remote-debugging-port
with a dedicated --user-data-dir.
Boot MCP servers (npx/uvx) on a background thread instead of blocking
agent init. Built-in tools serve traffic immediately while MCP comes
online; each new agent reads whatever is ready at creation time.
Idempotent via _mcp_loaded flag — concurrent sessions never re-fork
subprocesses. Per-server failures are isolated and warmup is triggered
in app.py so loading overlaps with channel startup.
Two bugs found during end-to-end validation with Amap and Chrome DevTools
MCP servers:
1. MCP tools were loaded into ToolManager._mcp_tool_instances but never
added to the agent's tool list. AgentInitializer._load_tools() only
iterated tool_classes (built-in tools). Added a second pass to append
all MCP tool instances.
2. When a MCP server config contains an "env" dict, it was passed directly
to subprocess.Popen, replacing the entire process environment. This
caused npx to fail because PATH and other inherited vars were missing.
Fixed by merging config env on top of os.environ.
Validated with:
- @amap/amap-maps-mcp-server (12 tools, stdio + API key env var)
- chrome-devtools-mcp (29 tools, stdio + remote debugging port)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add call_vision method to all bot implementations (DashScope, Claude,
Gemini, ZhipuAI, MiniMax, Doubao, Moonshot, OpenAICompatibleBot)
using each vendor's native multimodal API format
- Remove call_with_tools/call_vision from Bot base class to fix MRO
shadowing issue with OpenAICompatibleBot mixin
- Refactor vision tool provider resolution: MainModel → other configured
models (auto-discovered) → OpenAI → LinkAI, with automatic fallback
- Return actual model name used in call_vision responses
- Sync config.json API keys to .env bidirectionally on startup
- Fix bot instance cache to detect bot_type/use_linkai config changes
- Add SSE reconnection support for web console
- Preserve image path hints in Gemini text for correct vision tool calls
- Update docs/tools/vision.mdx
Browser tool enhancements:
- Navigate action now auto-includes snapshot result, saving one LLM round-trip
- Wait for networkidle + 800ms after navigation for SPA/JS-rendered pages
- Prompt guides agent to screenshot key results and ask user for login/CAPTCHA help
- Fixed playwright version pinned to 1.52.0; mirror fallback to official CDN on failure
Web console file/image support:
- SSE real-time push for images and files via on_event (file_to_send)
- Added /api/file endpoint to serve local files for web preview
- Frontend renders images in media-content container (survives delta/done overwrites)
- File attachment cards with download links; RFC 5987 encoding for non-ASCII filenames
Tool workspace fix:
- Inject workspace_dir as cwd into send and browser tools (previously only file tools)
- Screenshots now save to ~/cow/tmp/ instead of project directory
- Use LLM to summarize discarded context into concise daily memory entries
- Batch trim to half when exceeding max_turns/max_tokens, reducing flush frequency
- Run summarization asynchronously in background thread, no blocking on replies
- Add daily scheduled flush (23:55) as fallback for low-activity days
- Sync trimmed messages back to agent to keep context state consistent
- Web console Channels page: display active channels as config cards, support
save/connect/disconnect with real-time start/stop of channel processes
- Custom dropdown for channel selection (consistent with model selector style),
custom confirmation dialog for disconnect
- Fix channel stop: use sys.modules['__main__'] to access live ChannelManager
- Fix web request pending: move stop logic outside lock, set daemon_threads=True
- Fix reconnect: new asyncio event loop per startup, ctypes thread interrupt,
5s grace period before re-establishing remote connection
- Filter stale offline messages (>60s) pushed after reconnect
- Fix dark mode FOUC: apply theme in <head> before first paint, defer
transition-colors to post-init to avoid animated flash on load
- Fix Safari IME Enter bug: defer compositionend reset via setTimeout(0)
- Fix history scroll: use requestAnimationFrame before scrollChatToBottom
- Limit restore turns to min(6, max_turns//3) on restart
- Fix load_messages cutoff to start at turn boundary, preventing orphaned
tool_use/tool_result pairs from being sent to the LLM
- Merge all assistant messages within one user turn into a single bubble;
render tool_calls in history using same CSS as live SSE view
- Handle empty choices list in stream chunks
