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AI Shell Release Notes

This document outlines the changes and improvements made in each release of AI Shell. For a more complete list of changes, refer to the Releases page on GitHub.

1.0.0-preview.7 - 2025-09-05

This release includes the following changes:

  • Move to Azure.Identity v1.14.2 and refactor the telemetry library (#404)
  • Use login shell on macOS to start aish in sidecar pane to inherit proper PATH (#403)
  • Properly escape tool description to avoid malformed Markup object (#408)
  • Add gpt-5 models to the supported model list (#409)
  • Update the history file name and exclude the environment and managed-identity credentials from Azure authentication flow (#412)
  • Keep the original casing of model name for custom endpoint to enable Foundry Local (#413)

1.0.0-preview.6 - 2025-07-24

This release includes the following changes:

  • Update AppInsights connection string to use the new prod environment (#390)
  • Make AIShell an MCP client to expose MCP tools to its agents (#392)
  • Add built-in tools to AIShell (#394)
  • Fix a null-reference exception bug when built-in tools are not available (#396)
  • Improve Resolve-Error command and allow default system prompt for the openai-gpt agent (#397)
  • Add the built-in tool run_command_in_terminal for AI to execute commands in the connected PowerShell session (#398) - This tool is currently only enabled on Windows.

1.0.0-preview.5 - 2025-06-13

This release is a security patch only, including the following changes:

  • Upgrade to .NET SDK 8.0.411 to address the .NET security issue CVE-2025-30399: .NET Remote Code Vulnerability
  • OpenAI agent: update DefaultAzureCredential to allow InteractiveBrowserCredential (#383)

1.0.0-preview.4 - 2025-05-15

This release includes the following changes:

  • Support posting code from the sidecar AIShell to PowerShell with Invoke-AIShell -PostCode (#361)
  • Improve the reliability of Start-AIShell on macOS (#362)
  • Publish NuGet package and PowerShell module in deploy box release (#365)
  • Fix code posting on macOS: support posting code by both running /code post from the sidecar AIShell and running Invoke-AIShell -PostCode from PowerShell (#366)
  • Update model information to support the new OpenAI models (#368)
  • Add /clear as an alias to the command /cls to clear console in AIShell (#370)
  • Ignore the current active agent from the agent completion results for the @ operator (#372)
  • Update installation script to install the AIShell module on macOS too (#374)
  • Enhanced model management and system prompt integration in OllamaAgent (#351)
  • Adding the Phi Silica agent for "Copilot+PC" devices (#373)
  • Use deploy box and GitHubRelease task to create the GitHub draft release (#379)
  • Make sure the Runspace is available when importing the AIShell module and throw otherwise (#379)

1.0.0-preview.3 - 2025-03-12

This release includes the following changes:

  • Update flight flags and make corresponding changes to the azure agent (#349, #355)
  • Update the regex for matching single-quote and double-quote strings for PowerShell and Bash syntax (#357)
  • Add support for Entra ID authentication when using the interpreter or openai-gpt agents (#356)
  • Update install-aishell.ps1 to allow a user to specify the version to install (#345)

1.0.0-preview.2 - 2025-02-26

This release includes the following changes:

  • Check and remove execute permission from the config file (#317)
  • Use nano or $EDITOR (if defined) to open the config file on Linux (#318)
  • Refactor the openai-gpt agent to move to Azure.AI.OpenAI v2.1.0 (#328)
  • Add support to Azure PowerShell login credential (#329)
  • Allow using 3rd party AI services that are compatible with OpenAI API format in the openai-gpt agent (#331)
  • Check for update before return the description for openai-gpt agent (#332)
  • Use #7a7a7a as the grey color in AIShell to meet the contrast requirement (#333)
  • Remove the fallback logic for authorization check and stick to the production URL (#334)
  • Capture native command output using screen scraping API on Windows (#335)
  • Add shell as an alias to the Bash parser (#336)
  • Enable pluginstore and update the topic name for CLI handler (#337)
  • Log the response text if exception is thrown while processing a user query (#338)
  • Enable parameter injection for Azure PowerShell response (#339)
  • Fix build to preserve file permission for Linux and macOS packages (#344)
  • Fix AzCLI command parsing to handle long/short flags and when no parameter is present (#344)
  • Implement conversation context and streaming for the Ollama agent with OllamaSharp (#310)
  • Adding docs and files for deploying an Azure OpenAI instance via Bicep file (#324)
  • Modify readme and agent to point to docs (#326)

1.0.0-preview.1 - 2024-11-15

AI Shell is a new CLI tool that creates an interactive shell to connect you with different artificial intelligence assistants. We refer to these different AI assistants as AI agents; AI Shell includes two agents by default:

  • Copilot in Azure
  • Azure OpenAI

Key features

  • Interactive chat to talk to AI agents
  • Rendering of markdown responses
  • Chat / commands to interact with the code responses from the AI agent of choice