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AI Shell Release Notes

Important

As of January 2026, the AI Shell project is no longer being actively maintained. This project should be considered archived from an engineering standpoint.

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:

  • Azure Copilot
  • 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
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