What this PR does

Before this PR:
The latest release was v1.7.23

After this PR:
This PR prepares release v1.7.24, which includes:

• New features: Agent workspace auto-creation, thinking/reasoning effort control for agent sessions
• Bug fixes: Prompt caching crash, Gemini 3 reasoning_effort parameter, CodeMirror highlight crash, MCP tool parsing and auto-approval, plugin size display, UI fixes
• Improvements: Infinite scroll for sessions list, plugin detail modal UI, tool streaming performance

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Why we need it and why it was done in this way

This is a regular patch release following the semantic versioning process. The version bump from 1.7.23 to 1.7.24 includes bug fixes and new features based on commits merged since the last release.

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Breaking changes

None

Special notes for your reviewer

This PR triggers the CI/CD pipeline to build release artifacts for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Once merged, a draft GitHub Release will be automatically created.

Release Summary (English):

• Agent creation no longer requires selecting a workspace folder
• Added thinking/reasoning effort control for Claude Code agent sessions
• Fixed prompt caching crash for OpenRouter and non-Anthropic providers
• Fixed Gemini 3 models not sending reasoning_effort parameter
• Fixed CodeMirror highlight crash
• Fixed MCP tool parameter parsing and auto-approval
• Implemented infinite scroll for sessions list
• Improved plugin detail modal UI
• Fixed renderer crash when streaming large file writes

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Release note

Cherry Studio 1.7.24 - Features & Improvements

✨ New Features
- [Agent] Agent creation no longer requires selecting a workspace folder - a default workspace is automatically created
- [Agent] Added thinking/reasoning effort control (low/medium/high/max/adaptive) for Claude Code agent sessions

🐛 Bug Fixes
- [Tools] Fix prompt caching crash when using OpenRouter or other non-Anthropic providers
- [Models] Fix Gemini 3 models not sending reasoning_effort parameter when deep thinking mode is enabled
- [Editor] Fix CodeMirror highlight crash caused by version conflict
- [MCP] Fix MCP tool parameter parsing and nested schema display
- [MCP] Fix MCP tools not being auto-approved when configured through agent allowed_tools
- [UI] Fix duplicate error blocks in aborting
- [Plugins] Fix plugin size displaying as 0 in the plugin detail modal
- [UI] Fix PinnedTodoPanel ignoring narrow mode width setting

💄 Improvements
- [Sessions] Implement infinite scroll for sessions list
- [Plugins] Improve plugin detail modal UI with better layout and styling
- [Performance] Fix renderer crash when agent streams large file writes by optimizing tool input delta handling