Recent Work

Axon evolves continuously. This page records completed product work that has landed in the editor, including improvements that may arrive between formal release notes.

Editor And Language Tooling

• Quoted Python dictionary keys now use property styling while quoted values remain strings.
• Completion documentation and auto-import edits resolve lazily, hover ceilings are shorter, and the completion popup is narrower and denser.
• Saves preserve the active scroll position and no longer reveal the end of the file as a side effect.
• Change decorations replace their previous state instead of stacking repeated colors on the same line.
• Definition navigation works across exported and imported symbols with command or control click as the explicit gesture.
• TypeScript hover no longer produces competing stacked cards.
• TypeScript and TSX completion includes exports from installed packages.
• HTML supports template completion from !, while embedded HTML in JSX and TSX receives theme-aware tokens.
• Breadcrumb symbol reveal filters snippet noise and focuses on real document structure.
• SingleEditor.tsx was split below the 1,000-line project limit, with find behavior and performance marking moved into focused helpers.

Workbench And Appearance

• Git Graph opens as a searchable editor tab with delayed previews, selectable scrollable details, repository-structured changed files, and historical comparisons.
• The project picker opens local folders or clones repositories with live progress before activating the destination.
• HTML preview uses the full editor height and routes browser console messages to Output.
• Settings opens faster by deferring and coalescing expensive live preview work.
• Shared command modals can use a fast path without blur or delayed closing.
• Modal overlays use opaque theme-backed surfaces across Git, testing, updates, workspace tools, trust prompts, and agent confirmations.
• File names retain their natural width and the file tree can scroll horizontally.
• Context menus and portal-based UI inherit the active theme.
• Zen mode reserves native window control areas so tabs remain usable on macOS and Windows.
• The Welcome experience opens as a real editor tab with project actions and theme selection.
• Markdown previews open as first-class editor tabs.
• The main sidebar can dock on either side while Axon Agent remains on the opposite, resizable edge.

Extensions And Built-In Surfaces

• Search and Settings ship as built-in extension manifests.
• Git, Problems, Testing, and Agent declare command and view activation events.
• Terminal contributes activation events, commands, a panel view, and its default profile.
• Built-in extension preparation validates manifests through one registry step.
• Catppuccin contributes a named, selectable icon theme record.
• The built-in agent declares Axon Agent sidebar and local agent contributions.

Terminal And Agent Reliability

• Terminal sessions survive panel hides and renderer reconnects with scrollback replay.
• Slow renderer clients detach safely and resume from the last painted byte instead of losing long-running output.
• A high-volume regression test verifies 1,500 ordered terminal output markers through the complete streaming path.
• The terminal agent uses a branded Lip Gloss presentation layer and lightweight inline startup animation.
• Interactive sessions preserve conversation history as real user and assistant turns.
• axon resume includes an interactive workspace conversation picker.
• axon fix reads current Problems, validates edit proposals, and restricts writes to the active workspace.
• The CLI composer supports prompt history and multiline cursor movement.

Startup And Performance

• Each packaged launch uses a private authenticated Core port so stale processes cannot intercept folder-opening requests.
• Workspace traversal uses bounded asynchronous filesystem batches, and semantic-token refresh latency is reduced.
• A native Electron boot entry shows the splash before the heavy main-process graph loads.
• The boot window is reused as the real editor window instead of creating an extra visible window.
• The editor shell appears before axon-core, language servers, and local model warmup finish in the background.
• Renderer marks cover boot, extension registry loading, workspace reads, restored sessions, CLI opens, first Monaco mount, and modal lifecycles.
• Language servers start from the active file after the shell becomes usable.
• Project diagnostics run on save or explicit refresh instead of blocking workspace restore.
• Text reads and writes use capability-checked main-process I/O instead of taking a renderer-to-Core-to-filesystem round trip.
• Restored tabs defer inactive Monaco models, language server synchronization, and watchers during first paint.
• Language grammars load lazily through a shared tokenizer engine.
• npm, Go, Cargo, pytest, and language server processes recover the developer shell environment when Axon starts from Finder or the Dock.

Security Foundations

• axon-core listens on loopback and authenticates HTTP and WebSocket traffic with a per-launch secret.
• Renderer windows use allow-listed IPC proxies instead of owning the Core bearer token.
• Terminal sessions require short-lived, single-use tickets bound to approved working directories.
• Workspace capabilities cover filesystem, settings, terminal, and Core operations.
• Path checks resolve symlinks and validate the nearest existing ancestor before reads, writes, or file creation.
• Navigation, local asset types, WebSocket origins, and destructive workspace-root operations are restricted.

Themes

• Ayu Dark, Ayu Light, and Ayu Mirage are built-in themes.
• The SyntaxTheme layer maps semantic captures to Monaco tokens with parent fallback.
• JSON, YAML, TOML, CSS, and object keys use property colors instead of plain text fallback.
• Theme definitions cover editor UI, syntax tokens, Monaco colors, and terminal ANSI palettes.