Changelog
New models, features and SparrowCodes CLI releases, newest first. For tested write-ups of new models, see the blog.
Every model on every plan, CLI 0.2.0-beta.4 and SparrowCodes on GitHub
- Every coding plan now includes every model, Developer included: Claude Fable, Opus and Sonnet, GPT, Gemini and the fast open models. More
- On Developer and Team plans, Sparrow Auto gives larger tasks a planning step on a top model before building them.
- New models: Claude Fable 5.2, Gemini 4 Carbon and GLM 5.3. More
- Requests your plan pays for no longer show a price. The CLI shows how much of your plan you have used, and the dashboard marks those requests as Plan.
- The CLI now keeps the prompt pinned to the bottom of the screen while your work scrolls above it, with mouse-wheel scrolling and drag to copy. More
- New CLI commands: /sessions to continue a past session, /usage, /rewind (or Esc twice) to go back to an earlier message, /context, /export, /permissions and /mcp.
- The CLI notifies you when a long task finishes or needs your approval while you are in another window.
- Mention @sparrowcodes in a GitHub issue or pull request to have it do the work: run sparrowcodes github install in your repository. More
- A session interrupted by a restart now waits for you instead of continuing in the background, and the CLI warns when two sessions work in the same folder.
- Better results for websites and app interfaces: the agent designs for your brand and checks its work in screenshots.
CLI 0.2.0-beta.1: a rebuilt terminal agent
- The CLI now runs inline in your terminal, with the prompt pinned to the bottom and your work scrolling above it. Run sparrowcodes --full for the full-screen view. More
- For new projects and larger changes, the agent asks a few questions and shows a plan for your approval before it writes code, then checks its work before it reports back.
- Questions show up as a short form with options, and you can type your own answer.
- Commands: /model, /agent, /connect, /undo, /redo and /help, plus a ctrl+p menu with model and agent switching.
- Clearer tool output: what each step read, changed or ran, a diff summary for edits, and the time and cost when a task finishes.
- The agent now stops on its own when it repeats the same step or hits a per-task spending limit, instead of looping.
- sparrowcodes uninstall removes the CLI and its PATH entry on macOS, Linux and Windows.
- The Windows installer now shows download progress.
- Install or upgrade with npm i -g sparrowcodes, or with the install script. More
The SparrowCodes CLI, app directory, programs and GLM 5.3 Flash
- The terminal tool is now the SparrowCodes CLI, and its command is sparrowcodes. Run sc upgrade once to switch; on macOS and Linux sc keeps working as a shortcut. More
- Built with SparrowCodes: name your app in two request headers and get listed with a link to your site. More
- Monthly recap: a shareable card of your month, including CLI tasks and what Auto saved. More
- Free monthly credits for open-source maintainers and students. More
- Starter kits: a chatbot with fallback, a voice reader, an image comparison and a pull request reviewer. More
- GLM 5.3 Flash, Z.ai's fast multimodal coding model with a 1M-token context window. More
- New pages for the API, speech, images, teams, integrations, security and common questions.
- Sparrow Auto now uses the free plan when your balance is too low for a request, instead of returning an error. More
- Refer a developer: get 10% of their first paid top-up as credits, up to $10. More
- A new home page with speech, images and the CLI, and this changelog.
Speech, a free plan, team plans and low-cost models
- Text to speech with Supertonic 3 (31 languages) and Pocket TTS (7 languages, voice cloning). 10,000 characters free every day. More
- Free plan: 50 requests a day with sparrow/free, no card needed. More
- Sparrow Auto picks a model once per task, moves to a stronger one when a task keeps failing, and stays within your plan. More
- Six low-cost coding models, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen3 Coder and GLM 4.7 Flash. More
- Six image models from $0.011 an image, including FLUX 3, Seedream 5.0 Flash and Qwen Image 3. More
- Team and Team Pro plans, priced per seat, with usage shared across the team and limits per member. More
- Plan prices in rupees or dollars on the pricing page.
- CLI 0.1.0-beta.5: plan usage and Auto's model choice in the sidebar.
- The blog: new models, tested. More
SparrowCodes is live
- One API key for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral and more, in OpenAI and Anthropic formats. More
- The SparrowCodes CLI, a coding agent for your terminal, on macOS, Linux and Windows. More
- Developer and Pro coding plans, and pay-as-you-go credits by PayPal, card or UPI. More
- Automatic fallback, routing preferences, response cache, zero retention, spend limits and teams.