Agent Zero v1.13 is live — ODF-First Documents + Desktop Lifecycle 📄

Alessandro Frau

May 5 • 📣 Announcements

v1.13 is now live.

The headline change: Agent Zero now defaults to open standards for every document it produces.

Office & Document Handling

• ODT, ODS, ODP are now the primary formats for Writer, Spreadsheet, and Presentation artifacts

• OOXML (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) remains available as an explicit compatibility option

• Full ODF package generation, validation, and read/edit support

• Unified Office canvas controls — active-file header in canvas and modal views, shared "+ New" menu, inline Save, Rename/Close from a document dropdown

• Live document reload after edits — LibreOffice windows close and reopen instead of relying on canvas repaints

• Reduced automatic document triggering — meta-discussions about files no longer create artifacts; explicit file and canvas requests still work

Linux Desktop

• Persistent Desktop lifecycle — a single Xpra Desktop iframe stays alive across canvas, modal, and keepalive hosts

• Explicit shutdown vs. crash state, with an XFCE panel "Shutdown Desktop" launcher (confirmation required); unsafe logout/lock/switch-user affordances are hidden

• New desktop_state helper, expanded desktopctl observe-act-verify commands, and Xpra bridge diagnostics

• Generalized CLI agent guidance — the Desktop skill now uses a generic nested CLI-agent launch pattern (TARGET_CLI / FALLBACK_CMD) instead of tool-specific instructions

Browser

• Stable modal switching — Desktop → Browser now reuses existing sessions instead of opening a blank tab

• New Focus mode control in the Browser modal header

• New browser:screenshot action that writes JPEG/PNG files for vision_load

• Extended agent-callable input actions and a browser-forms on-demand skill for label-wrapped form controls. This means better automation!

UI & UX

• Unlimited canvas sizing — the fixed right-canvas width cap is removed

• Surface-switch buttons in modals (Browser/Desktop switcher in modal headers)

• Time Travel now uses the standard centered modal shell and shared backdrop

• Bash-style chat input history — Up/Down arrow navigation through previous inputs (community contribution); Down-arrow only triggers at end-of-text

Infrastructure

• Pinned pyreqwest-impersonate at 0.5.3 to avoid Docker build failures from the source-only 0.5.5 release

One more thing 🎉

Agent Zero is fully compliant with The OpenDocument Format, and we've submitted to the LibreOffice Conference 2026 Call for Papers to showcase the project.

Update Agent Zero:

Settings > Update > Open Self Update > Restart and Update

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Agent Zero v1.13 is live — ODF-First Documents + Desktop Lifecycle 📄