Ryvos v0.5.0: Browser Automation, WhatsApp, Budget, and Embeddings

Today we're shipping Ryvos v0.5.0 — the most feature-packed release since v0.2.0. Here's what's new.

Browser Automation (5 New Tools)

Ryvos can now control a browser. Five new T3 tools powered by Chromium give your agent the ability to navigate websites, take screenshots, click elements, type into forms, and extract content:

Tool	Description
`browser_navigate`	Navigate to a URL
`browser_screenshot`	Screenshot the current page
`browser_click`	Click an element by CSS selector
`browser_type`	Type text into an input field
`browser_extract`	Extract text content from the page

All browser tools are classified at T3 and the agent applies constitutional reasoning before acting. See the Built-in Tools docs.

WhatsApp Cloud API

Ryvos now supports WhatsApp as a channel. Connect your Meta Business app, configure your webhook, and chat with your agent from WhatsApp — including interactive approval buttons for tool calls.

[channels.whatsapp]
access_token = "${WHATSAPP_ACCESS_TOKEN}"
phone_number_id = "${WHATSAPP_PHONE_NUMBER_ID}"
verify_token = "${WHATSAPP_VERIFY_TOKEN}"
allowed_users = ["+1234567890"]
dm_policy = "allowlist"

See the Slack & WhatsApp docs.

18+ LLM Providers

Three new providers bring the total to 18+:

AWS Bedrock — full SigV4 authentication support for Claude, Llama, and other models on AWS
Claude Code — delegate to the Claude Code CLI, using your Anthropic subscription billing
GitHub Copilot — delegate to the Copilot CLI, requires a GitHub Copilot license

See the Providers guide.

Budget System

Track and limit your LLM spending with monthly budgets:

[budget]
monthly_budget_cents = 2000       # $20.00/month
warn_pct = 80
hard_stop_pct = 100

The Guardian monitors usage after each LLM call and publishes BudgetWarning / BudgetExceeded events. Notifications route to your configured channels. See the Configuration docs.

Semantic Memory (Embeddings)

Configure an embedding provider to upgrade memory_search from BM25 (keyword) to hybrid vector similarity:

[embedding]
provider = "openai"
model = "text-embedding-3-small"
dimensions = 1536
api_key = "${OPENAI_API_KEY}"

Supports OpenAI, Ollama (local), and any OpenAI-compatible API. See the Memory docs.

10-Phase Onboarding

ryvos init now walks through a comprehensive 10-phase setup:

Provider selection
Model configuration
Security tier
Channel setup
Sandbox configuration
Guardian watchdog
Heartbeat
Budget limits
Embedding provider
Summary and confirmation

Each phase has sensible defaults — press Enter to skip anything you don't need.

6 Bundled Skills

v0.5.0 ships with 6 built-in skills ready to use out of the box:

web-scraper — extract structured data from websites
code-review — automated code review with security checks
git-summary — generate changelogs from git history
docker-deploy — build and deploy Docker containers
db-migrate — run database migrations safely
api-test — test REST API endpoints

Install community skills with ryvos skill install <name> or list bundled ones with ryvos skill list.

Upgrading

cargo install --path . --force
# or
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ryvos/ryvos/main/install.sh | sh

Your existing config is fully backward-compatible. All new config sections ([budget], [embedding], [channels.whatsapp]) are optional.

Full changelog on GitHub.