# Changelog v0.1.89 - 2026-03-09

### Added

- 🎨 Dynamic color coding for active Tier and Provider filter badges — each tier/provider now displays with its signature color directly in the header and footer pills for better visual feedback.
- 📖 Comprehensive documentation refresh across JSDoc headers in `bin/free-coding-models.js` to clarify the new default startup behavior, ping cadence states, and removal of the startup menu.

### Changed

- 🛡️ **Hardened public launcher set** — Narrowed the Z-cycle to only the stable, tested integrations: `OpenCode CLI` → `OpenCode Desktop` → `OpenClaw` → `Crush` → `Goose`. Aider, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, OpenHands, Amp, and Pi are now temporarily disabled pending flow hardening.
- 🎯 **Improved Crush configuration** — Now writes proper `config.models.large` default selection (instead of relying on CLI args), respects proxy enablement state, and uses `disable_default_providers` to rely on FCM's provider configuration.
- 🔧 **Crush launcher robustness** — Spawn call simplified to not pass `--model` argument; model selection now driven entirely through `crush.json` to avoid CLI parsing conflicts.
- 📚 **Synchronized in-app help** — Removed references to temporarily disabled launchers from the Z-cycle hint and CLI flag examples to reduce user confusion and match the hardened set.
- ✅ **Refined filter UI responsiveness** — Active Tier and Provider filter values now visually highlight in the main table footer hotkeys with tier-matched or provider-matched colors for instant recognition.

### Fixed

- 🪪 **Crush proxy support** — Crush now correctly detects when proxy mode is enabled and routes through the local FCM proxy (`http://127.0.0.1:<port>/v1`) with appropriate token/URL substitution instead of attempting direct provider connection.
- 📖 **Shell compatibility** — Fixed spawning command for external tools to use `shell: true` only on Windows; Linux/macOS now spawn without shell wrapper for cleaner process trees.
- 🎛 **Filter state persistence** — Tier and Provider filter badges in the footer now correctly calculate and display their active state across all state transitions.

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