Tempest v0.1.2: Token Intelligence
Agents now get a pre-built semantic code graph injected automatically. No setup. Plus a fully rewritten work-done detector and a smarter recent projects list.
v0.1.2 is the Token Intelligence release. Here is everything that shipped.
Token Intelligence
Run five agents in parallel and each one reads your entire codebase from scratch — the same files, the same context, five times over. You pay for every token, every time.
Token Intelligence ends that.
Tempest now ships a built-in code knowledge graph powered by Atlas, a local, offline semantic index of your project. When Token Intelligence is enabled, Tempest indexes your codebase and injects a live MCP server into every agent session. Agents query the graph to find callers, callees, symbol definitions, and cross-file relationships — without reading entire files from scratch on every turn.
The work is done once. Every session benefits.
Early results: up to 64% less context token consumption. Up to 58% fewer tool calls. No other parallel-agent tool does this.
How to enable it
Turn on Token Intelligence in Settings → Token Intelligence. On first open of each project, Tempest asks whether to index it. Indexing runs entirely in the background — a toast in the bottom-right corner tracks progress and disappears when the index is ready.
Once indexed, every agent session in that project gets the Atlas MCP server injected automatically. No configuration needed.
MCP config files are written automatically
Tempest writes the MCP config for every tool it supports:
- Claude Code, Cline, Roo, Zed, Windsurf (
.mcp.json) - Cursor (
.cursor/mcp.json) - Gemini CLI (
.gemini/settings.json) - Kiro / AWS Q (
.kiro/settings/mcp.json) - opencode (
opencode.jsonc)
All generated files are gitignored automatically. Re-index any project at any time via right-click on the project header in the sidebar.
Auto-index mode: turn on "Auto-index new projects" to skip the prompt entirely. Every new project is indexed silently on first open.
Atlas indicators appear in the sidebar next to indexed projects and their agent sessions so you can see at a glance which sessions have Token Intelligence active.
The index lives at <project>/.tempest/atlas/, excluded from git automatically.
Work-Done Detection: Full Rewrite
The agent work-done detector has been rebuilt from scratch.
The old implementation had a latent false-positive bug: \x1b]9;4;3 — ConEmu indeterminate-progress, meaning busy — matched the OSC 9 prefix and incorrectly called done mid-run. Any agent or subprocess emitting a progress update could cause Tempest to signal completion prematurely. A second false-positive: the 5s byte-quiet timer armed immediately on Enter, so Claude Code's silent pre-output thinking window (which can exceed 5s on complex prompts) would fire a spurious done signal before any output appeared.
The new detector is a 9-layer state machine based on publicly documented terminal standards, with a title-based authoritative signal layer for agents that emit terminal titles. Cross-chunk sequence reassembly is also new: OSC and CSI sequences that split across PTY chunk boundaries are now correctly matched via a per-session tail buffer.
| Layer | Signal | Effect |
|-------|--------|--------|
| OSC 0/2 title | Claude Code spinner → ✳ transition | Authoritative done |
| OSC 0/2 title | Gemini ✦/✋ → ◇ transition | Authoritative done |
| OSC 9 | Shell notification (Claude Code turn end) | Immediate done |
| OSC 9;4;0 | ConEmu progress cleared | Done |
| OSC 9;4;1-4 | ConEmu progress busy/error/indeterminate/paused | Busy |
| OSC 133;B/D | FinalTerm prompt ready / command finished | Done |
| OSC 133;C | FinalTerm command executing | Busy |
| OSC 777;notify | urxvt/VTE notification dialect | Done |
| ?2004h | Bracketed paste enabled | Done |
| ?2004l | Bracketed paste disabled | Busy |
| ?1049l | Alt-screen leave | Done |
| Byte-quiet | 5s of no PTY output (≥200 bytes received) | Done |
| Hard ceiling | 12s maximum working state | Done (safety net) |
In practice: agents that previously triggered false completions mid-run no longer do. Claude Code's thinking window is handled correctly.
Overview: Pagination and Remove
The recent projects list in the Overview splash screen has two new controls.
Pagination: navigate across all recent projects with ← / → controls, 5 per page. If you work across many repositories, you no longer need to scroll through a flat list to find an older project.
Remove: an × button on each row removes that project from the recents list without opening it. Clean up stale or moved projects without ceremony.
Get it
Tempest v0.1.2 is free and open source under Apache 2.0.