Release notes

Local Hoist v0.0.30

April 21, 2026

This release adds built-in help inside Local Hoist, makes Anthropic tool use and streaming more reliable, improves how shell sandbox setting changes take effect, and fixes auth and cost-reporting issues.

New

Added built-in Local Hoist help covering approvals, sandboxing, rollback and recovery, context compression, privacy and provider routing, voice, and BYOK vs managed credits.

Improved

Shell sandbox permission changes now take effect more cleanly by warning before affected changes, closing stale open shell sessions when needed, and making it clearer when updated shell policies are being applied.
Raised the default view_files truncation limits so larger file reads are less aggressively cut off by default.

Fixed

Improved Anthropic tool-call reliability by enabling earlier tool-input streaming, making streamed responses more responsive, and surfacing clearer recovery errors when streamed tool arguments arrive incomplete or malformed instead of falling into confusing retry loops.
Fixed a conversation rename auth regression and related local-auth asset access issues that could interfere with normal in-app workflows.
Fixed image-to-text and summarization cost reporting so usage panels and compression messages aggregate and reconcile costs more accurately.

Reliability

Reworked stale event-stream recovery so terminal and shell updates recover more reliably when SSE connections get out of sync.