What Omnicode has that Nanocoder doesn't (yet), and where each change lives.
Incubating on <branch> means the work is in the fork's dogfood build and
proposed (or being prepared) upstream. A row is dropped once its work merges
upstream. Fork-exclusive means it is not intended to go upstream.
This lives outside README.md so routine branch churn doesn't touch the README.
| Feature | Upstream status |
|---|---|
| Omnicode theme + chat layout overhaul (rounded input/message boxes, merged tool-activity lines, truncated output previews) | Fork-exclusive: fork/omnicode-theme |
Responsive terminal width — content grows with the terminal (Codex-style) by default; optional terminalMaxWidth preference caps the layout |
Fork-exclusive: fork/omnicode-theme |
| Markdown tables fit content width instead of stretching to the full terminal width (long cells still wrap on narrow screens) | Fork-exclusive: fork/table-fit-content |
Preview mock harness for nanocoder preview tui (all scenarios, compacted tool groups expand to individual calls, streaming thinking, /mock:confirm tool-confirmation preview) |
Fork-exclusive: fork/preview-mock-polish |
Web Search fallback model — web_search works without a Brave key by delegating to a configured model whose provider runs server-side search (e.g. DeepSeek's Responses API web_search), mirroring the vision fallback |
Fork-exclusive: fork/websearch-fallback-and-chat-polish |
Status-line badge focus — ↓ enters the agents:/bg: badges, Enter opens a live background-task/agents details panel, Esc closes it without touching the chat |
Fork-exclusive: fork/websearch-fallback-and-chat-polish |
Bash tool display — wrapped command headers with syntax highlighting, "Executed Bash" for user-invoked ! commands, muted output tails, monitor output previews, background-completion indicator |
Fork-exclusive: fork/websearch-fallback-and-chat-polish |
Steering aware of running background tasks (backgroundTasksRunning condition) and classifies the user's raw request instead of expanded command boilerplate |
Fork-exclusive: fork/websearch-fallback-and-chat-polish |
Prompt-cache stability for OpenAI-compatible providers — byte-stable tool head across turns, session-id cache affinity shared with subagents and resumed sessions, opt-in prompt_cache_key |
Fork-exclusive: fork/prompt-cache-and-chat-polish |
| Chat performance — token-base context-percentage cache, throttled streaming markdown parses and publishes, snapshot cache for hover hit-testing, memoized transcript/agent rows | Fork-exclusive: fork/prompt-cache-and-chat-polish |
| Background bash completion labels with expandable full-script rows; rate-limit retry with backoff; orphaned/duplicate tool-result repair | Fork-exclusive: fork/prompt-cache-and-chat-polish |
Steering trace compaction — consecutive identical noop evaluations collapse into one ×N line |
Fork-exclusive: fork/prompt-cache-and-chat-polish |
Statusline position control (/statusline position top|bottom) |
Incubating on rc/statusline |
Animated working/thinking indicators (⚙ Working... (12s), ⚙ Thought (5s)) |
Incubating on rc/indicators |
| Compact file diff display with inline word highlighting | Incubating on rc/compact-diff |
| Optimized welcome header + conditional tips display | Incubating on rc/welcome-header |
$ARGUMENTS pass-through for commands without declared parameters |
Incubating on rc/arguments-passthrough |
Atomic paste placeholders — cursor can't land inside [Paste #N], backspace removes it whole, chat history shows the real pasted text |
Incubating on rc/paste-placeholders |
| Command menu descriptions — completion list shows each command's description, grey unselected rows | Incubating on rc/command-menu-descriptions |
| Input command highlighting — valid leading slash commands are highlighted while typing | Incubating on rc/input-command-highlight |
| Anthropic prompt caching — stable/volatile system-prompt split, breakpoint budget on tools + system + messages (≈90% input-token cost cut on cached turns) | Incubating on rc/provider-network-prompt-arch |
| Per-provider tool naming — Claude Code names for Anthropic, Codex names for OpenAI, snake_case for local models; aliases accepted bidirectionally | Incubating on rc/provider-network-prompt-arch |
Per-model identity prompts, MCP server instructions in system prompt, skills-in-prompt listing + skill tool |
Incubating on rc/provider-network-prompt-arch |
| Model fallback retry, session-affinity headers, tool-call self-repair, per-turn tool filtering, image detail/file-part/size-guard hardening | Incubating on rc/provider-network-prompt-arch |
Task list display (from the table above)
The task list now renders in a styled box with the user's preferred title shape, theme colors, and a progress counter:
