8.5.0

Added

• New ColdBox ASCII art banner when creating apps and using the app-wizard
• Improved readme and help commands
• Name question in app-wizard if not provided
• Install bx-compat-cfml when doing --rest due to needing some CFML compatibility

AI Integration - Complete System

Complete AI-powered development assistant for ColdBox with 41 guidelines, 62 skills, 30+ MCP documentation servers, and support for 6 AI agents (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode).

Core Commands

• coldbox ai install - Set up AI integration with agent selection and language detection
• coldbox ai refresh - Sync guidelines, skills, and MCP servers with installed modules
• coldbox ai info - Display current AI configuration
• coldbox ai doctor - Diagnose AI integration health with detailed reporting

Guidelines System (41 Total)

• Core Guidelines (10): boxlang, cfml, coldbox, coldbox-cli, cachebox, wirebox, logbox, testbox, testbox-cli, docbox
• Security & Auth (6): cbsecurity, cbauth, cbsecurity-passkeys, cbsso, cbcsrf, cbantisamy
• Validation & Data (6): cbvalidation, cbi18n, cbmailservices, cbmessagebox, cbpaginator, cbfeeds
• ORM & Database (4): cborm, qb, quick, cfmigrations
• API & Integration (5): hyper, cbproxies, cbswagger, cbelasticsearch, s3sdk
• Utility & Development (8): cbdebugger, cbfs, cbstorages, stachebox, cbjavaloader, cbmarkdown, cbmockdata, docbox
• Modern Development (6): cbwire, cbq, socketbox, mementifier, unleashsdk, cbplaywright
• Additional (7): bcrypt, cors, rulebox, commandbox-migrations, commandbox-boxlang, route-visualizer, relax
• Guidelines commands: list, add, remove, create, override, refresh, help

Skills System (62 Total)

• BoxLang Development (21): syntax, classes, functions, lambdas, modules, streams, types, interop, scheduled-tasks, futures, http-client, soap-client, executors, jdbc, templating, caching, file-handling, properties, zip, interceptors, sse, components, application
• ColdBox Development (12): handler-development, rest-api-development, module-development, interceptor-development, layout-development, routing-development, event-model, view-rendering, cache-integration, coldbox-configuration, coldbox-request-context, coldbox-flash-messaging
• Testing (8): testing-bdd, testing-unit, testing-integration, testing-handler, testing-mocking, testing-fixtures, testing-coverage, testing-ci
• Internal Libraries (3): cachebox-caching-patterns, logbox-logging-patterns, wirebox-di-patterns
• Security (9): security-implementation, authentication, authorization, sso-integration, jwt-development, passkeys-integration, csrf-protection, api-authentication, rbac-patterns
• ORM & Database (5): cborm, qb (query-builder), orm-quick, boxlang-queries, database-migrations
• Modern Development (1): cbwire-development
• Skills commands: list, create, override, refresh, remove, help

MCP Server Integration (30+ Servers)

• Core Servers (7): boxlang, coldbox, commandbox, testbox, wirebox, cachebox, logbox - always included
• Module Servers (23): bxorm, cborm, qb, quick, cfmigrations, cbsecurity, cbauth, cbsso, cbvalidation, cbi18n, cbmailservices, cbdebugger, cbelasticsearch, cbfs, cfconfig, cbwire, cbq, megaphone, contentbox, docbox, relax (cbswagger), modern-cfml, boxlang-ide
• Auto-detection from box.json dependencies with zero configuration
• Custom MCP server support for company/internal documentation
• MCP commands: list, add, remove, help

Multi-Agent Support (6 Agents)

• Supported Agents: Claude (CLAUDE.md), GitHub Copilot (.github/copilot-instructions.md), Cursor (.cursorrules), Codex (AGENTS.md), Gemini (GEMINI.md), OpenCode (AGENTS.md)
• Layout-specific templates (modern, flat)
• Project context detection (Vite, Docker, ORM, Migrations)
• Agents commands: list, add, remove, active, open

Override System

• Guidelines Override: coldbox ai guidelines override <name> - Customize any guideline with project-specific conventions
• Skills Override: coldbox ai skills override <name> - Override core/module skills with project-specific patterns
• Override files stored in .ai/guidelines/overrides/ and .ai/skills/overrides/
• List commands show overrides separately with 🎯 icon
• Remove commands support --override flag for targeted removal
• Template-based override creation (copies original + adds override header)
• Priority system: override > core/module

Module Integration

• Zero-config auto-discovery from box.json dependencies
• Module creation with --ai flag creates .ai/guidelines and .ai/skills directories
• Three-tier guideline fallback: module-shipped → bundled templates → auto-generated
• Auto-registers MCP servers for installed modules
• Path consistency: always uses .ai/ convention (not resources/)

Language Support

• BoxLang and CFML project detection
• Hybrid project support
• Language-specific skill variants
• Code generation respects project language choice

8.4.0

What's Changed

• WIP - API Install tweaks by @gpickin in #27

New Contributors

• @gpickin made their first contribution in #27

Full Changelog: v8.3.0...v8.4.0

8.3.0

What's Changed

• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #23
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #24
• Bump stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #22
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #25

Full Changelog: v8.2.0...v8.3.0

8.2.0

Full Changelog: v8.1.0...v8.2.0

v8.1.0

Full Changelog: v8.0.0...v8.1.0

8.0.0

What's Changed

• V8 by @lmajano in #21

Full Changelog: v7.10.0...v8.0.0

7.10.0

Added

• Modules Inherit Entry Point defaults to true now
• Brand new app-wizard for creating apps interactively
• fix colors for ps screens
• BoxLang is now the default engine for new apps
• Updated all new templates from repos
• New create app argument for modern or boxlang skeletons: vite to create a Vite enabled app: coldbox create app name="myApp" --vite
• New create app argument for modern or boxlang skeletons: rest to create a REST enabled app: coldbox create app name="myApp" --rest
• • New create app argument for modern or boxlang skeletons: docker to create a Docker enabled app: coldbox create app name="myApp" --docker
• New create app argument for modern or boxlang skeletons: migrations to create a Migrations enabled app: coldbox create app name="myApp" --migrations
• New --cfml argument to create a CFML app: coldbox create app name="myApp" --cfml instead of BoxLang (app is default)
• BoxLang template skeleton rename
• Updated docs for BoxLang detection

7.8.0

Added

• Copilot instructions for AI coding assistance
• If the skeleton is default and this is a BoxLang project, it will switch the skeleton to BoxLang.
• added dependabot
• Moved testbox-cli and commandbox-migrations to dependencies so we can use them in the CLI commands

7.7.0

Fixed

• More fixes for boxlang arguments

7.6.0

Added

• New modern template for creating modern apps with the latest features
• New boxlang template for creating apps with the latest boxlang features
• Modernization of all templates to use the latest features of ColdBox
• New --boxlang argument to create content for BoxLang
• New language argument detection for BoxLang

Changed

• Updated to the latest Ubuntu images for the GitHub actions

Fixed

• Fixed resource handler creation.