CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

Changes to Calva Backseat Driver

[Unreleased]

[v0.0.34] - 2026-05-17

• One (multi-)edit tool to rule them all
  • Adds clojure_edit_files tool, replacing: replace_top_level_form, insert_top_level_form, clojure_create_file, clojure_append_code
  • Supports multiple edits over multiple files in one batch
  • Built-in bottom-up sort order for insert and replace

[v0.0.33] - 2026-05-15

• Make editing tools headless

[v0.0.32] - 2026-05-10

• MCP server: Fix input param schema for log tool

[v0.0.31] - 2026-04-30

• Workaround: VS Code is not exposing bundled skills in a way that the agent can consume, duplicating them as instructions for now
  • microsoft/vscode#313263
• Fix: Structural editor leaving extra blank lines behind

[v0.0.30] - 2026-04-26

• Add clojure_load_file tool — loads and evaluates entire Clojure files through Calva's connected REPL (requires Calva >= 2.0.576)
• Fix: The output log tool can return to many images, stopping the agent in its tracks

[v0.0.29] - 2026-04-22

• Return image data as images to the agent, both from the evaluation and output log tool

[v0.0.28] - 2026-04-04

• Use Datascript, including datalog for the REPL Output Log tool
• Persist evaluations from the REPL Output Log across Extension Host restarts

[v0.0.27] - 2026-03-30

• Provide Backseat Driver instructions for the AI
• Update provided skills
• Add information about Awesome Backseat Driver
• Fix: Version >= 0.0.26 is not compatible with Cursor, Windsurf, possibly other forks
• Add Antigravity configuration

[v0.0.26] - 2026-03-23

• Leverage Calva's Who's evaluating API, in both the evaluation and REPL output tools
• Provide Backseat Driver Skill to Copilot and MCP (opt-out)
• Provide Clojure Editing Skill to Copilot and MCP (opt-out)

[v0.0.25] - 2025-12-15

• Make Backseat driver compatible with multi-repl-sessions Calva

[v0.0.24] - 2025-10-31

• Restrict the depth and length of evaluation results

[v0.0.23] - 2025-10-25

• Avoid using potentially incorrectly auto-balanced code in evaluations and edits
• Fix: Insert and replace top level forms doesn't work on one-line forms ending in a line comment

[v0.0.22] - 2025-10-01

• Fix: Evaluation tool not available in v0.0.21

[v0.0.21] - 2025-09-30

• Make the structural editing tools return file context when the tool call is invalid
  • Add user settings/configurability: calva-backseat-driver.editor.fuzzyLineTargetingPadding and calva-backseat-driver.editor.lineContextResponsePadding

[v0.0.20] - 2025-09-11

• Update tool ids to qualify them as Clojure
• Remove Human Intelligence tool

[v0.0.19] - 2025-09-11

• Fix: The structural insert/replace top-level forms tools do not prevent editing non-top-level forms
• Add tool for creating files
• Add tool for appending top-level forms to a file

[v0.0.18] - 2025-08-21

• Remove default copilot instructions settings
• Improve instructions to agents for the structural editing tools

[v0.0.17] - 2025-08-13

• Balance brackets before evaluating code

[v0.0.16] - 2025-08-12

• Human Intelligence input box closes when focus is lost (should persist)

[v0.0.15] - 2025-07-01

• Limit the lines of REPL output to be passed to the AI by the REPL output tool

[v0.0.14] - 2025-06-22

• Add human intelligence tool, for the agent to ask the human for guidance
• Place MCP stdio wrapper script in user home Calva config directory

[v0.0.13] - 2025-05-28

• Add replace-top-level-form structural editing tool
• Add insert-top-level-form structural editing tool
• Enable REPL Tool for CoPilot by default (keep disabled default for MCP)

[v0.0.12] - 2025-05-22

• Add requests/list MCP op

[v0.0.11] - 2025-05-12

• Clarify instructions to AI of how to use the Bracket Balancer tool

[v0.0.10] - 2025-05-10

• Use preconfigured port for the MCP server
• Make the stdio wrapper script accept either a port or a port file

[v0.0.9] - 2025-05-09

• The MCP stdio script crashes when Claude Desktop uses it
• Remove parenTrails from Bracket Balancer result

[v0.0.8] - 2025-05-08

• Try improve tool usage descriptions for the AI.

[v0.0.7] - 2025-05-08

• Add tool for balancing brackets

[v0.0.6] - 2025-05-08

• Fix: Enable for Cursor install and use

[v0.0.5] - 2025-05-07

• Fix: The MCP server doesn't work with the released VSIX
• Help the MCP user figure out the stdio server start command
• Add configuration for auto-starting the MCP server

[v0.0.4] - 2025-05-06

• Fix: Missing user title for Output log tool
• Downbump VS Code version dependency to 1.98.0, because Windsurf uses that

[v0.0.3] - 2025-05-04

• Fix misconfiguration of get_symbol_info replSessionKey (for realz)
• Auto-activate in Clojure projects

[v0.0.2] - 2025-05-03

• Fix misconfiguration of get_symbol_info replSessionKey

[v0.0.1] - 2025-05-03

• Initial Release, WIP af
• Tool: Clojure Code Evaluation
• Tool: Symbol info lookup
• Tool: Clojuredocs lookup
• Tool: REPL Output log
• Resource (experimental): Symbol info lookup
• Resource (experimental): Clojuredocs lookup