gemini-cli/.gemini/skills/docs-changelog/references/highlights_examples.md

Highlights example 1

• Plan Mode Enhancements: Significant updates to Plan Mode, including new commands, support for MCP servers, integration of planning artifacts, and improved iteration guidance.
• Core Agent Improvements: Enhancements to the core agent, including better system prompt rigor, improved subagent definitions, and enhanced tool execution limits.
• CLI UX/UI Updates: Various UI and UX improvements, such as autocomplete in the input prompt, updated approval mode labels, DevTools integration, and improved header spacing.
• Tooling & Extension Updates: Improvements to existing tools like ask_user and grep_search, and new features for extension management.
• Bug Fixes: Numerous bug fixes across the CLI and core, addressing issues with interactive commands, memory leaks, permission checks, and more.
• Context and Tool Output Management: Features for observation masking for tool outputs, session-linked tool output storage, and persistence for masked tool outputs.

Highlights example 2

• Commands & UX Enhancements: Introduced /prompt-suggest command, alongside updated undo/redo keybindings and automatic theme switching.
• Expanded IDE Support: Now offering compatibility with Positron IDE, expanding integration options for developers.
• Enhanced Security & Authentication: Implemented interactive and non-interactive OAuth consent, improving both security and diagnostic capabilities for bug reports.
• Advanced Planning & Agent Tools: Integrated a generic Checklist component for structured task management and evolved subagent capabilities with dynamic policy registration.
• Improved Core Stability & Reliability: Resolved critical environment loading, authentication, and session management issues, ensuring a more robust experience.
• Background Shell Commands: Enabled the execution of shell commands in the background for increased workflow efficiency.

Highlights example 3

• Event-Driven Architecture: The CLI now uses an event-driven scheduler for tool execution, improving performance and responsiveness. This includes migrating non-interactive flows and sub-agents to the new scheduler.
• Enhanced User Experience: This release introduces several UI/UX improvements, including queued tool confirmations and the ability to expand and collapse large pasted text blocks. The Settings dialog has been improved to reduce jitter and preserve focus.
• Agent and Skill Improvements: Agent Skills have been promoted to a stable feature. Sub-agents now use a JSON schema for input and are tracked by an AgentRegistry.
• New /rewind Command: A new /rewind command has been implemented to allow users to go back in their session history.
• Improved Shell and File Handling: The shell tool's output format has been optimized, and the CLI now gracefully handles disk-full errors during chat recording. A bug in detecting already added paths has been fixed.
• Linux Clipboard Support: Image pasting capabilities for Wayland and X11 on Linux have been added.

Highlights example 4

• Improved Hooks Management: Hooks enable/disable functionality now aligns with skills and offers improved completion.
• Custom Themes for Extensions: Extensions can now support custom themes, allowing for greater personalization.
• User Identity Display: User identity information (auth, email, tier) is now displayed on startup and in the stats command.
• Plan Mode Enhancements: Plan mode has been improved with a generic Checklist component and refactored Todo.
• Background Shell Commands: Implementation of background shell commands.