- **Help Agent** — A new agent that answers questions about Talemate itself — settings, agents, clients, the world editor — grounded in the bundled documentation, and able to change agent and application settings on request.
- **Timeline Rollback** — Scrub a slider across a scene's automatic version history, preview the message history at any revision, then roll the scene back in place or fork the revision into a new save.
- **Pi Bridge Client** — A new client type that drives generations through the pi coding agent's headless RPC mode, making any model pi can reach usable in Talemate.
- **Application Settings** — Settings move out of their modal into an always-available Settings tab, with a single topic-grouped sidebar, a settings search, all API keys on one page, and unsaved-change tracking.
- **Scene Library** — The home screen is rebuilt as a full-page landing view with a file-tree scene library, cover thumbnails and per-save metadata, scene and save deletion, and a drag-and-drop import dropzone.
- **Fast Character Creation** — Generate a character in a single request instead of one prompt per aspect, with a Consolidate multi-select, a token budget, and a Fill in misses pass. Off by default.
- **Scene Backdrop** — Set any scene illustration as a backdrop filling the scene view behind the messages, saved with the scene, with configurable text legibility and an Immersive quick-toggle.
- **Scene Visual Manager** — World Editor → Scene gains a Visuals tab to browse, upload, generate and delete the scene's backgrounds and illustrations, and set the cover image and backdrop.
- **Visual Prompt Finalization** — Post-processing actions — match and replace, or a free-form AI instruction — rewrite image prompts right before they reach the image backend, with per-scene and per-character overrides and reusable template sets.
- fixes#271
- fixes#275
Plus 25 improvements and 39 bug fixes — see [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/vegu-ai/talemate/blob/prep-0.39.0/CHANGELOG.md#0390) for the full list.
- **Per-Scene Agent Overrides** — Override agent configuration for a single scene without touching your global config.
- **Message Revision History** — Browse and continue from previous regenerations / revisions.
- **Scene Perspective Overrides** — Set distinct narrative perspectives for the player, NPCs, and narrator.
- **Durable World State Snapshot** — The world state snapshot now persists and updates entities across refreshes.
- **World State Highlights** — Characters, objects and places marked by the current world state snapshot are now clickable in the recent message(s) for additional detail.
Plus 30 improvements and 17 bug fixes
0.37.0
- **Director Planning** — Multi-step todo lists in director chat plus a Generate long progress action for multi-beat scene arcs.
- **Auto Narration** — Unified auto-narration replacing the old Narrate after Dialogue toggle, with a chance slider and weighted action mix.
- **LLM Prompt Templates Manager** — Dedicated UI tab for viewing, creating, editing, and deleting prompt templates.
- **Character Folders** — Collapsible folders in the World Editor character list, synced across linked scenes.
- **OpenAI Compatible TTS** — Connect any number of OpenAI-compatible TTS servers in parallel.
- **KoboldCpp TTS Auto-Setup** — KoboldCpp clients with a TTS model loaded register themselves as a TTS backend.
- **Model Testing Harness** — Bundled scene that runs basic capability tests against any connected LLM.
Plus 27 improvements and 28 bug fixes
Major Features
- API key encryption at rest using Fernet (OS keyring with file fallback)
- Prompt Manager: unified UI with template groups, priority ordering, override tracking, response extractors
- Scene context history review panel with token budgets and best-fit mode
- Multiple concurrent director chats with auto-generated titles
- Granular scene state reset dialog
- Time passage insert/edit/delete in scene view
- Image analysis via OpenAI-compatible and Talemate Client backends
- Volatile context placement after scene history for improved prompt caching
Improvements
- Configurable narrator generation length per narration type
- AI Aware conversation mode
- Summarizer: custom instructions, writing style inclusion, short line filtering
- Anthropic: adaptive thinking support, updated model list (opus-4-5/4-6, haiku-4-5)
- Google: gemini-3.1 support
- World editor: generate from topic, quick create state reinforcement, reorganized menus
- Node editor: promote scene modules to global
- Frontend: version mismatch detection, hideable bracket content, required scene name
- TTS: improved pause handling, audio tag support for vocal markers (ElevenLabs v3)
- Writing style template for AI-generated instructions
- Added Kimi.jinja2 LLM prompt template
- Option to disable character names in stopping strings
- Client response length enforcement options
- Graduated token count sliders
- Increased summarizer token threshold max
Bugfixes
- Fix bracket/paren/brace terminators stripped from message ends
- Fix colon in conversation causing content loss
- Fix "Use as reference" navigating to blank page
- Fix avatar regeneration and manual regenerate
- Fix conversation agent ignoring generation length
- Fix duplicate length instructions with reasoning enabled
- Fix trailing newline on message edits
- Fix summarize dialogue sending too much context with layered history
- Fix layered history inspection and construction issues
- Fix empty response handling in summarization
- Fix context ID dot notation with dotted character names
- Fix recursive retry in focal agent
- Fix leading whitespace causing duplicate prepared responses
- Fix summarization not stripping ANALYSIS OF lines
- Fix template group selection/removal in prompt manager
- Fix multiline text in parentheses/brackets parser
- Fix determine_character_name resolution
- Fix character activate/deactivate desyncing creative menu
- Fix character image generation missing context
- Fix LMStudio client not sending token limits
- Fix Recent Scene images on newer Chromium
- Fix sequential reinforcement messages cut off at first linebreak
- Fix reinforcement removal not clearing state
- Fixes#252, #256, #258
Deprecations
- Removed context investigations (replaced by AI-assisted RAG mixin)
- Removed deprecated prompt templates (fix-continuity-errors, fix-exposition, etc.)
- Removed conversation/edit.jinja2, auto break repetition, CLI reset layered history
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