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CharacterVault 1.4.1 ​

A patch on 1.4.0: smoother Agent chat, a first-run tutorial that matches the current product, and a staging preview banner on the production vault.

Try it: https://vault.charactervault.app
Staging: https://staging.charactervault.app
Docs: https://vault.charactervault.app/docs/

Highlights ​

Agent chat ​

  • Composer stays focused while a run is in progress. The textarea is no longer disabled, so the browser does not steal focus. Focus returns after Send and Stop.
  • Agent writing moved from an editor banner into a pulsing label in the workspace header (character and lorebook).
  • Live speech streams into the Agent thread after thinking, throttled the same way as thinking. Tool XML is stripped from the live draft, and the in-stream buffer is capped.
  • Error bubbles on a user message clear when you Send or regenerate. They no longer stick around after a retry.
  • Native tools vs XML is one control plane per prompt. If the provider returns 400 on tools, CharacterVault remembers that model, rebuilds an XML-only system prompt, and retries the turn. Later runs for that model start in XML and skip native tools.

AI Agent →

First-run tutorial ​

The welcome overlay is a 7-step orientation instead of the old 6-slide list:

  • Vault (Characters and Lorebooks, Import, New, AI Create, Backup)
  • Tabbed editor
  • Toolbar, Orion, and Agent
  • Lorebook vault and linking
  • Snapshots, export, and backup

People who already finished the old tutorial are not prompted again. Replay from the help icon (?) in the vault header.

Staging preview ​

On the production vault, a dismissible header strip points at staging.charactervault.app so you can try upcoming features before they ship. It is hidden on the staging host itself. The SillyTavern extension card sits a bit lower so it clears the bar.

Upgrade ​

Client-only app. Open the hosted site or rebuild locally; no server migration.

bash
git clone https://github.com/spaceman2408/CharacterVault
cd CharacterVault
npm install
npm run dev

Local data from 1.4.0 keeps working. Hard refresh if the UI looks stale after deploy.

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