Calva Backseat Driver

# Change Log

Changes to Calva Backseat Driver

## [Unreleased]

## [v0.0.25] - 2025-12-15

- [Make Backseat driver compatible with multi-repl-sessions Calva](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/47)

## [v0.0.24] - 2025-10-31

- [Restrict the depth and length of evaluation results](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/45)

## [v0.0.23] - 2025-10-25

- [Avoid using potentially incorrectly auto-balanced code in evaluations and edits](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/41)
- Fix: [Insert and replace top level forms doesn't work on one-line forms ending in a line comment](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/43)

## [v0.0.22] - 2025-10-01

- Fix: [Evaluation tool not available in v0.0.21](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/39)

## [v0.0.21] - 2025-09-30

- [Make the structural editing tools return file context when the tool call is invalid](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/37)
  - Add user settings/configurability: `calva-backseat-driver.editor.fuzzyLineTargetingPadding` and `calva-backseat-driver.editor.lineContextResponsePadding`

## [v0.0.20] - 2025-09-11

- [Update tool ids to qualify them as Clojure](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/34)
- [Remove Human Intelligence tool](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/35)

## [v0.0.19] - 2025-09-11

- Fix: [The structural insert/replace top-level forms tools do not prevent editing non-top-level forms](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/32)
- [Add tool for creating files](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/30)
- [Add tool for appending top-level forms to a file](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/31)

## [v0.0.18] - 2025-08-21

- [Remove default copilot instructions settings](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/24)
- [Improve instructions to agents for the structural editing tools](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/27)

## [v0.0.17] - 2025-08-13

- [Balance brackets before evaluating code](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/25)

## [v0.0.16] - 2025-08-12

- [Human Intelligence input box closes when focus is lost (should persist)](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/22)

## [v0.0.15] - 2025-07-01

- [Limit the lines of REPL output to be passed to the AI by the REPL output tool](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/20)

## [v0.0.14] - 2025-06-22

- [Add human intelligence tool, for the agent to ask the human for guidance](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/17)
- [Place MCP stdio wrapper script in user home Calva config directory](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/15)

## [v0.0.13] - 2025-05-28

- [Add replace-top-level-form structural editing tool](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/12)
- [Add insert-top-level-form structural editing tool](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/12)
- [Enable REPL Tool for CoPilot by default (keep disabled default for MCP)](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/14)

## [v0.0.12] - 2025-05-22

- [Add `requests/list` MCP op](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/9)

## [v0.0.11] - 2025-05-12

- Clarify instructions to AI of how to use the Bracket Balancer tool

## [v0.0.10] - 2025-05-10

- Use preconfigured port for the MCP server
- Make the stdio wrapper script accept either a port or a port file

## [v0.0.9] - 2025-05-09

- [The MCP stdio script crashes when Claude Desktop uses it](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/7)
- Remove `parenTrails` from Bracket Balancer result

## [v0.0.8] - 2025-05-08

- Try improve tool usage descriptions for the AI.

## [v0.0.7] - 2025-05-08

- [Add tool for balancing brackets](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/6)

## [v0.0.6] - 2025-05-08

- Fix: [Enable for Cursor install and use](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/5)

## [v0.0.5] - 2025-05-07

- Fix: [The MCP server doesn't work with the released VSIX](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/2)
- [Help the MCP user figure out the stdio server start command](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/3)
- [Add configuration for auto-starting the MCP server](https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva-backseat-driver/issues/4)

## [v0.0.4] - 2025-05-06

- Fix: Missing user title for Output log tool
- Downbump VS Code version dependency to `1.98.0`, because Windsurf uses that

## [v0.0.3] - 2025-05-04

- Fix misconfiguration of get_symbol_info replSessionKey (for realz)
- Auto-activate in Clojure projects

## [v0.0.2] - 2025-05-03

- Fix misconfiguration of get_symbol_info replSessionKey

## [v0.0.1] - 2025-05-03

- **Initial Release**, WIP af
- **Tool**: Clojure Code Evaluation
- **Tool**: Symbol info lookup
- **Tool**: Clojuredocs lookup
- **Tool**: REPL Output log
- **Resource** (experimental): Symbol info lookup
- **Resource** (experimental): Clojuredocs lookup