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v0.6.0 — Talk to your serial port & PDU: a built-in AI Assistant
✨ New features
Built-in AI Assistant — drive serial & PDU in plain language
- New ✨ AI Chat button in the workspace toolbar opens an AI pane. Ask things like "list the open serial sessions", "attach to COM3, send
helpand show me the reply", or "connect to the PDU and power-cycle outlet 3" — the assistant calls the right tools for you. - Whatever the AI sends to a serial port shows up in that terminal tagged
[AI], so you always see exactly what it did — no hidden actions. - Runs entirely against your own machines: it talks to the serial session ETTerms already has open, and to the PDU over SNMP.
Sits right next to your terminal — like Claude Code / Kiro
- The AI Chat is a normal workspace pane, so you can use Layout (1×2, 2×2…) to put it side-by-side with a live Serial session — chat on one side, watch the device output on the other.
- Clean transcript layout that matches the terminal: your messages align right, the AI's replies read left, and tool activity stays as quiet gray notes. "Thinking" is folded into the Send button instead of spamming the log.
Bring your own AI endpoint (nothing baked in)
- Point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — a local Ollama, a LiteLLM gateway, your company's gateway, or OpenAI. Set the Base URL and API key once in Settings → AI Assistant; leave it blank and the assistant simply stays off.
- Pick the model from a dropdown in the bottom-right of the chat pane — it lists whatever your endpoint offers and switches on the fly, no trip back to Settings. Your choice is remembered.
- Your API key is stored in Windows Credential Manager, never in a settings file — and no endpoint ships inside the app, so a copy you hand to a colleague has the assistant disabled by default.
Safe by design
- Turning a PDU outlet off or power-cycling always asks you to confirm first — the AI can't cut power on its own. Every tool call is written to the app log.
- This is separate from the existing Serial/PDU MCP servers (Settings → AI MCP), which keep working for external AI CLIs like Claude Code / Kiro.
📦 Downloads
| Build | Needs .NET Runtime? | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ETTerms_v0.6.0 (Standard) | ✅ Requires .NET 8 Desktop Runtime | Smaller download |
| ETTerms_v0.6.0_portable (Portable) | ❌ Runtime included | Unzip and run anywhere, no admin |
Run ETTerms v0.6.0.exe.
🔗 Links
- Architecture — see "Built-in AI Assistant (Phase 10)"
- Serial MCP guide
Full changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0