changelog.generated.ts

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export interface ChangelogSection {
  heading: string;
  /** Plain-text entries, clipped for the web; `itemCount` is the full count. */
  items: string[];
  itemCount: number;
}

export interface ChangelogRelease {
  /** "Unreleased" or a semantic version such as "0.9.11". */
  version: string;
  /** ISO date from the heading, or null for the unreleased lane. */
  date: string | null;
  unreleased: boolean;
  /** The changelog's own compare link for this version, when it has one. */
  compareUrl: string | null;
  sections: ChangelogSection[];
}

export const CHANGELOG: ChangelogRelease[] = [
  {
    "version": "Unreleased",
    "date": null,
    "unreleased": true,
    "compareUrl": "https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/compare/v0.9.12...HEAD",
    "sections": [
      {
        "heading": "Fixed",
        "items": [
          "Gemini tool-call replays rejected by compatible gateways for a missing thought_signature now explain how to recover: use the built-in google provider or a gateway that preserves signatures, then start a new session. Gateways that manage signatures themselves continue to work. Reported by @Hmbown (#6048)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 1
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "version": "0.9.13",
    "date": "2026-09-10",
    "unreleased": false,
    "compareUrl": "https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/compare/v0.9.12...v0.9.13",
    "sections": [
      {
        "heading": "Fixed",
        "items": [
          "Auto-compact could not fire mid-turn. The gate read max(last billed prompt, /4 estimate of the whole list), so as soon as the estimator undercounted the full list below the last bill, every tool result appended after that prompt was invisible to it, and a long turn could exhaust the context window with nothing compacted. It now reads live tokens — the billed prompt plus the growth since it, watermarked when the parent usage is recorded — and is still evaluated at the…",
          "Esc or Ctrl+C during a compaction that is serving an in-flight turn now stops the turn. It previously cancelled only the compaction pass, so the turn resumed against the context that had just failed to shrink. A manual /compact with no request in flight still cancels only the pass.",
          "The request_user_input dialog is a bottom-anchored sheet instead of a centered 22-row overlay. It leaves the transcript visible above it, grows with its content, and scrolls internally so the highlighted option and the custom response being typed stay on screen at 141x38 and 80x24. Left arrow or h goes back to the previous question; Esc still cancels the whole request. Documented in GUIDE.md and KEYBINDINGS.md (#6045).",
          "/mcp reload no longer freezes the interface. The reload was awaiting the whole reconnect batch on the TUI event loop; it now joins the same supervised background pass the session boot uses, the status chip counts the batch down live, and the finished receipt arrives as an event. With 23 configured servers (11 live, 10 awaiting auth, 2 failing) the first echoed keystroke after a reload lands in ~5 s instead of ~42 s (#5974).",
          "The posture bar no longer states the same duration twice on a first turn (#6041).",
          "Reasoning-capable models whose id carries no version substring (deepseek-flash) keep reasoning_content in the thinking block instead of the answer text. The gate only ever matched the literal deepseek-v4 version string, so it now consults the model catalog as well; the older literal arms remain for the V4 aliases they were written for (#6044).",
          "codewhale model resolve accepts a provider's declared default even when its registry row is missing — deepseek-flash failed resolution against the provider that declares it as default — and a test now resolves every provider's DEFAULT_*_MODEL for its own provider (#6043).",
          "A configured default_text_model is honored when a new thread's route is resolved. That path consulted only the provider's catalog default, so a config naming one model silently created threads on another, and the unset default disagreed with the shipped one; the active provider's configured default now wins, matching provider_default_model, and both unset defaults name deepseek-flash (#6043).",
          "Markdown _italic_ requires both delimiters to be flanking per CommonMark, so math subscripts no longer italicize the prose between them ([t_, b_p]. Actually — hold on, do we even tile all the way from t_? rendered 60 characters italic) (#6042).",
          "An MCP server configured for OAuth that answers 401 before its first login now points at /mcp login <name> in the failure hint instead of a bearer token that does not exist (#6030).",
          "Cancelling a foreground shell wait stops its owned process group even when the tool future is dropped. Explicitly backgrounded jobs retain their ownership. Interrupted tool receipts distinguish work that started from calls skipped before execution, and returned tool failures remain errors in the next model request.",
          "Saved Fleet model identifiers retain exact spelling through selection, role pins, and roster changes, so changing one saved model does not modify another identifier that differs only in letter case."
        ],
        "itemCount": 41
      },
      {
        "heading": "Changed",
        "items": [
          "How long Codewhale waits for a human is configurable. [tools] user_input_timeout_seconds governs the wait for an approval decision or a request_user_input answer; it was a hardcoded 300 seconds, which silently cancelled the work of anyone who stepped away mid-task. An explicit 0 waits indefinitely, the value is clamped to 24 hours, and omitting the key keeps the previous 300-second default. Documented in docs/CONFIGURATION.md (#6003).",
          "docs/PROVIDERS.md lists every beginner setup template, not the four it happened to mention when the page was written. Baseten, Groq, Cerebras and Command Code have shipped as supported OpenAI-compatible hosts for a while and appeared nowhere in the provider documentation, which reads from outside exactly like not supporting them. The page now carries the full table — host, default model and key env for each — and states the rule it follows: a plain Chat Completions backend…",
          "Reasoning capability for the Kimi coding routes and the qwen3.x Model Studio deep-thinking ids is catalog data now rather than hardcoded match arms, and model_reasoning_capability reports a model nothing knows about as unknown instead of silently not reasoning-capable. model_supports_reasoning keeps its bool shape for existing callers, where unknown still reads as false. The ids that have no cited source yet keep their literal arms (#6032).",
          "The website uses Shannon Sans with versioned local font assets and retained serif, monospace, and language fallbacks. Terminal fonts are unchanged.",
          "codewhale metrics reports recorded model requests and stream recovery separately from provider-reported token usage, with coverage for missing and duplicate receipts. Status messages and cumulative snapshots do not add requests or count tokens again.",
          "Runtime turn receipts retain the Engine's terminal model-request, stream-retry, and resume counters separately from displayed status and provider-reported usage. These counters do not count HTTP retries inside a provider client or establish provider billing.",
          "Initial tool definitions no longer repeat shell interpreter guidance and agent lifecycle/scope instructions in multiple description fields. Parameter schemas, approval rules and dispatch behavior are preserved. This reduces prompt schema size; it does not establish a provider billing regression.",
          "The built-in Computer Use plugin bundle is refreshed to the standalone plugin's 0.2.1 runtime (vendored from Hmbown/codewhale-cu-plugin at 724ad258): the native macOS accessibility backend with an a11y-first pointer strategy (covered points are refused, previews are drawn), the permission-owning desktop-app socket transport, remote computers over ssh and HarmonyOS HDC with contained temp handling, truthful win32 PowerShell failure reporting, and the shared allow-listed…",
          "/statusline drives the bottom chrome again. Since the 0.9.12 shell redesign the posture bar and the metrics line were built independently of tui.status_items, so every toggle in the picker except the balance fetch was decoration. Each remaining item now shows or hides exactly one thing: model, context_percent, cost, balance, cache, tokens and session_metrics are metrics-line segments, and mode is the posture bar's plan/act/operate chip. The status, agents, reasoning_replay,…",
          "The context reading is back on screen at every fullness. 0.9.12 painted ctx NN% only from 50% up, which left most of a session with no context signal at all; it now paints from 0% and keeps its warning colour from 80% up (#5950).",
          "A child agent parked because its parent's turn ended is shown as parked in the Agents panel, the sidebar and Agent Details, with resume_from / cancel as the recovery, instead of wearing the same \"waiting for input\" label as a child that asked a question. Parked work sorts below live and answerable work and no longer inflates the blocked chip; the receipts roster and the wire state gain parked (#5906, #5921).",
          "codewhale account keys set|remove|list no longer carry a hardcoded eight-provider list. Provider ids come from the control plane's public catalog (GET /api/model-providers), are validated locally against ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,63}$ before they reach a URL path, and list shows every catalog provider with its label and stored-key state. --from-local maps a catalog row onto the local runtime provider through the catalog's own runtimeProvider field, so a newly supported provider…"
        ],
        "itemCount": 13
      },
      {
        "heading": "Fixed",
        "items": [
          "Five of the load-flaky tests tracked in #5929 no longer depend on shared state or live local daemons. Background-hook capture tests wait for the capture file to hold bytes instead of merely existing (the shell's > redirection creates the file empty before cat writes, which read as valid JSON: EOF under load); the session-picker acceptance test drives the real picker over a private store instead of a process-global CODEWHALE_HOME redirect that concurrent tests could observe…",
          "The posture bar states how long the session has been working and how long the current turn has run, distinguishing actively working from waiting on a tool, a sub-agent or the operator; the 0.9.12 shell had dropped the overall working-time indicator from the place a glancing user checks (#5914).",
          "A background runtime turn whose own store record could not be read, parsed or written (Failed to read turn …, Failed to read item …) was only a log line. The runtime now publishes a runtime.store_failure event naming the file, the root cause and the next action (move the file aside, or check free space and permissions); the TUI shows it as a warning toast and a transcript line, the task timeline records it, and the runtime API streams it. A turn whose own record is…",
          "An MCP token refresh that fails to parse the provider's answer keeps the endpoint's receipt — status line, content type, and a 200-byte excerpt with every credential-shaped value (access_token, refresh_token, client_secret, id_token, bearer schemes) masked before the cut — instead of rmcp's bare Failed to parse server response, so a provider outage answering an HTML 502 reads differently from a parser defect, and the login remedy stays named (#5926; remedy wording landed in…"
        ],
        "itemCount": 4
      },
      {
        "heading": "Added",
        "items": [
          "deepseek-flash (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: text-only, 1M-token context, reasoning and tool calls) joins the catalog as DeepSeek's declared default, and the offline catalog seed matches it; the DeepSeek Pro listing no longer overstates the published price (#6025).",
          "codewhale doctor and the provider capability report now name DeepSeek's V4 Pro retirement while there is still time to act on it: a route on deepseek-v4-pro reports that DeepSeek routes it to deepseek-flash from 2026-09-14 and bills at Flash's price. The id keeps working, so nothing is rewritten for you — the point is that the substitution is the vendor's choice unless you make it yours first. A custom endpoint serving the same model string is untouched: DeepSeek's…",
          "Native plugin authoring guides now cover English and Chinese. The explicit offline converter supports selected portable Skills and static Streamable HTTP MCP declarations from OpenCode and DSH. Unsupported executable hooks, automatic OAuth and policy-bearing configurations are refused; generated bundles still require native installation, review and trust. Legacy SSE fallback is not reproduced (#5827, requested by @giancarlocp).",
          "Signed cloud model facts can refresh provider capabilities and prices while preserving verified cached data when a refresh fails. A dispatched request keeps its selected price snapshot so later catalog updates cannot change its recorded cost (#5752).",
          "Saved sessions preserve exact provider routes. Auxiliary model calls settle their usage once against the route and price snapshot that executed them, including recovery, rather than resolving a new price at completion (#5726, #5848).",
          "[tui].posture_bar and [tui].metrics_line accept full, compact, or hidden, also available through /config. Compact preserves the existing rows' essential fields; hidden returns their space to the transcript (#5973).",
          "Optional model-bound tool-output redaction opt-out, with two explicit startup confirmations and a receipt bound to the readable config contents and modification time. Unconfirmed requests keep masking enabled; routing and stored goal summaries remain redacted (#5982, thanks @SparkofSpike).",
          "The rusty-alloc cargo feature on codewhale-tui and codewhale-cli opts the binaries into the rusty_alloc global allocator (the mimalloc v2.4.5 architecture remade in pure Rust — no C compiler or build script on that path) instead of the default mimalloc. It is off by default and the default build is unchanged; build with cargo build -p codewhale-tui --features rusty-alloc (#5872).",
          "The /theme picker now discovers valid user-authored custom:<name> overlays, previews their colors, highlights the active overlay, and preserves it when the picker is opened and committed without navigation (#5901).",
          "Compaction has two standing knobs next to [context] in config.toml: [compaction] summary_instructions (appended to the summarizer prompt on every manual and automatic pass; /compact <focus> still composes after it) and [compaction] retained_user_message_tokens (default 20 000, clamped 2 000..=200 000) for the verbatim user-message budget. Both are absent by default and absent means the pre-existing behavior. The /compact receipt names the effective budget and whether…",
          "[tools] user_input_max_questions (default 6, 1..=10) and [tools] user_input_max_options (default 4, 2..=10) replace the hard-coded request_user_input limits; the validator, the tool schema and its description read one value, spawned children inherit the parent's ceilings, and a rejected payload names the ceiling it hit and the key to raise (#5949).",
          "The slash menu shows a command's usage line and its subcommands as soon as a space is typed after the verb, filtered by what follows, so Tab completes /workspace wor to /workspace worktrees; /help states the focused command's usage in its detail slot (#5952)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 17
      },
      {
        "heading": "Contributors",
        "items": [
          "@gaord — contributed Fleet schema inspection, role precedence and worker deliverable receipts, and linked the community VS Code frontend (#5944, #5945, #5946, #5992).",
          "@goransh-walia — contributed the propose-only commit-planning rework (#5870).",
          "@7jrxt42BxFZo4iAnN4CX — documented turn budgets and goal configuration, and reported gaps in command discovery, Fleet navigation, human waits, state hooks, history and provider routing (#5996, #5952, #5954, #6003, #6004, #6006, #6007).",
          "@SparkofSpike — contributed two-stage consent for opting out of model-bound credential redaction (#5982).",
          "@aboimpinto — moved session lifecycle and session-control commands onto shared command contracts (#5902, #5951).",
          "@EvanProgramming — reported Windows input and CRLF-write defects, and contributed CRLF preservation and an injectable Windows input runner (#5908, #5909, #5910, #5911, #5912).",
          "@wuisabel-gif — added custom-theme discovery, preview and selection in the theme picker (#5907).",
          "@zhuowp — matched model-visible shell guidance to the interpreter selected for execution (#5900).",
          "@nsfoxer — reported the multiline-paste regression and incomplete provider model lists (#5981, #6009).",
          "@Nefelibata1024 — confirmed the multiline-paste regression's impact (#5981).",
          "@Gabriel-Degret — reported the loss of the allow_insecure_http provider setting (#5991).",
          "@Lujc0523 — reported the ACP initialize schema violation affecting strict IDE clients (#5969)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 15
      },
      {
        "heading": "Notes",
        "items": [
          "DeepSeek retires the V4 Pro route on 2026-09-14. DeepSeek's notice, surfaced in #6025 by @ronohara, states that at 12:00 Beijing time that day every request to the Pro model is routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at Flash's price. That is why deepseek-flash is the shipped default here. An explicitly configured default_text_model is still honored, so a config that names deepseek-v4-pro on purpose keeps naming it and will be routed by DeepSeek rather than by Codewhale — change it…",
          "Upgrading from 0.9.12 with Computer Use trusted and enabled: the bundle's content hash changes with the 0.2.1 refresh, so the plugin deactivates and asks for a fresh review — that is the designed fail-closed path for a desktop-driving plugin. Re-trust it from the Plugins page.",
          "The multiline-paste fix restores v9.11 behavior on terminals that accept EnableBracketedPaste but deliver pastes as keystrokes (reported on Windows 11 / PowerShell). Verified at the input-contract level and in CI; a manual paste check on a real Windows terminal is still welcome — please comment on #5981 with your terminal if anything still misbehaves."
        ],
        "itemCount": 3
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "version": "0.9.12",
    "date": "2026-09-03",
    "unreleased": false,
    "compareUrl": "https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/compare/v0.9.11...v0.9.12",
    "sections": [
      {
        "heading": "Added",
        "items": [
          "Computer use ships with the binary. The computer-use plugin — 38 tools across macOS, Windows, Linux and HarmonyOS, accessibility-first observation with pixel fallback, screenshots, zoom, screen recording, and registered remote computers over ssh and hdc — is embedded in Codewhale and written to $CODEWHALE_HOME/builtin-plugins on first run, so every install channel carries it. It lists as builtin · not-reviewed and stays disabled until you review and enable it: shipping it is…",
          "Alibaba Model Studio joins the data-driven provider table as an openai-compatible descriptor: international compatible-mode endpoint, DASHSCOPE_API_KEY credential, live /v1/models discovery. Qwen 3.8 Flash and Qwen 3.8 Max arrive through the catalog authority — never a hard-coded id.",
          "Concentrate: first-class opt-in BYOK Responses gateway with live models discovery and typed SSE streaming (#5725).",
          "Cloud dispatch: remote runner offloads coding agent tasks to isolated cloud sandboxes with machine token auth and structured job tracking (#5701, #5712).",
          "Per-session control socket: config-gated [control_socket] table binds <sessions-dir>/<session-id>/control.sock per running session, exposing message, interrupt, relaunch, and status JSON-RPC verbs (#5533, #5831)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 5
      },
      {
        "heading": "Changed",
        "items": [
          "Anonymous usage counting is on by default. The 0.9.11 release asked first; 0.9.12 counts the same aggregate version/platform, session, feature and error totals unless you turn it off, and says so once at first launch (policy notice version 5, schema 3, notice_version replacing consent_version). Every recorded opt-out stays off: a durable telemetry = false, a decline recorded under the old opt-in notice, unreadable privacy state, and the CODEWHALE_TELEMETRY=0 / --telemetry…",
          "The launch screen is our own card take: a thin top line ⑂ branch path; a centred bordered card with the whale mark, Codewhale + version, one announcement line only when it is true (the no-model warning, or MCP news), and the menu New worktree / Resume session / Changelog / Quit with their real chords right-aligned. Enter runs the highlighted entry, Up/Down move it, and typing goes straight to the composer. The card dissolves on the first keystroke or command (≤240 ms,…",
          "The work surface sits under the composer by default, keeping history readable and leaving the stage unencumbered (#5809).",
          "Skills command shapes: FEAT-022 command shapes and retained-host validation (#5825, #5829).",
          "After the card dissolves, the working screen shows ⑂ branch path with ⋮ MCP n/m on the right, the transcript starts with the ◆ session_start receipt (naming the configured session-start hooks), and the composer's bottom rule carries model (effort) · permission — the route's one launch reading. The posture bar and metrics line appear only once a session exists.",
          "Vocabulary: fleet is the public term and Pod is retired from copy — roster, setup, detail, worker-runtime and managed-API messages now say Fleet (/fleet canonical, /pod alias). The workflow wire accepts the canonical role spellings (general/explore/planner/reviewer/implement/ test/advisor) with the pre-rename ones kept as load-time aliases, and serializes canonical names.",
          "The Operate mode-picker hint is shortened to fit 80 columns.",
          "The footer always shows the permission posture; when only one chip fits, the permission chip outranks the mode word (#5796).",
          "Local Ollama: the header names a model only when the local catalog can serve it, and says unknown until it knows. The startup mark, web and app icon carry the new side-view prompt-eye whale (#5795).",
          "One focus owner: Tab and Shift+Tab work regardless of what is in the composer; Alt shortcuts survive mid-draft; Ctrl+Tab no longer cycles the mode by accident (#5798).",
          "Tool cells carry their own state: a running, failed or warned tool reads as such in the transcript itself, with per-entry rail dots and family-coloured glyphs (#5799).",
          "Web: docs hub with task search, shared empty/loading/error states, an offline-to-back-online banner, /changelog in every locale, and real 404s with correct metadata (#5743)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 26
      },
      {
        "heading": "Contributors",
        "items": [
          "hexin (@h3c-hexin) — provider-native web search across four routes (#5682, #5683, #5685, #5687), authoritative edit-last-turn boundaries (#5621), Kimi Code k3-256k (#5622), post-compaction input-token reporting (#5623), and preserving the scheduled model selection in automations (#5650).",
          "秋月凉梦 (@qiuYliangM) — co-authored the edit-last-turn boundary fix (#5621), Kimi Code k3-256k support (#5622), and post-compaction input-token reporting (#5623).",
          "Isabel Wu (@wuisabel-gif) — live session token totals (#5624), persisted context-pressure warnings (#5629), discoverable Fleet roster editing (#5604), the capability-gated cursor accent (#5599), and /copy for the latest completed response (#5692).",
          "Paulo Aboim Pinto (@aboimpinto) — Windows verbatim-path operands preserved through POSIX word splitting (#5610), the plugins group moved onto the command shapes (#5657), FEAT-022 skills command shapes with retained-host validation (#5825), and FEAT-020 plugin command shapes re-landed on main (#5865).",
          "Alex Musichen (@musichen) — a stable DeepSeek heading in the configured-view model picker, keeping every official catalog model for the active provider visible (#5689).",
          "@gaord — the GET /v1/fleet/profiles runtime API endpoint, reusing the FleetManager validation path (#5688).",
          "Sh1Zuku (@SparkofSpike) — corrected English documentation inaccuracies and the first zh_hans translations for the Tier-2 docs (#5613).",
          "@M-Maciej — goal continuation cadence (#5591) and the per-session control socket (#5533, #5831).",
          "Serephus (@serephus) — nixpkgs update (#5669).",
          "@whp233 — wire = responses|anthropic for openai-compatible custom routes and opencode-zen muse-spark (#5716, landed as #5719).",
          "Gabriel Degret (@Gabriel-Degret) — found the reasoning-only retry gap and built the first fix; landed as the [reasoning_only] retry ceiling with a request-scoped nudge (#5867).",
          "@huangxianzhan — the x-opencode-session header for OpenCode Go and Zen gateways (#5868)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 22
      },
      {
        "heading": "Added",
        "items": [
          "Native ChatGPT sign-in for the openai-codex route: codewhale auth chatgpt opens a browser PKCE flow and stores refreshable tokens in Codewhale-owned credentials — no Codex CLI install required. /auth chatgpt-revoke clears them off the event loop (#5784, #5778).",
          "MCP servers and plugins can be connected self-serve from the session: a unified auth flow with rotation-safe token handling, a spoken authorization URL, and catalog refresh when stored credentials stop working (#5747).",
          "/operate reads match the landed CWC OperateRecord contract: fetching an absent record returns a truthful not-found view instead of a fabricated operation, and an empty evidence path is rejected rather than resolving to the workspace directory (#5703).",
          "TUI: scheduled automations project into the top strip (⏱ N scheduled · M running, compact ⏱ N·M) with typed HistoryCell::Automation receipts when a run this session watched settle. /automation acknowledges failures. The merged footer does not carry the work fact (#5748).",
          "The app-server can listen on a unix domain socket and advertise a daemon/attach handshake, so a local client can attach to an already-running engine instead of spawning its own. The socket is created with owner-only permissions and stale sockets are reclaimed on start. Non-unix hosts return a typed unsupported-platform refusal; the Windows named-pipe endpoint is named but not yet implemented (#5749).",
          "The engine's internal Op/Event types and the wire protocol's Op/ EventMsg now carry a compile-enforced twin for every variant: adding an engine variant without a protocol counterpart fails the build instead of drifting silently. Internal durability work — no user-visible surface change yet (#5751).",
          "Machine tokens: with CODEWHALE_API_KEY set, the CLI authenticates as the Codewhale account with no local session file and no browser — the CI authentication path, with a typed token shape and redaction (#5721).",
          "Compaction publishes a structured survival contract for session-tree journal entry types (crates/tui/src/compaction/SURVIVAL_CONTRACT.md) and fails closed when the last user round, tool results, /anchor text, or checkpoint receipt would vanish (#4394, #5782).",
          "Internal: codewhale-config gains RouteAuthoritySnapshot, one immutable authority that owns a compiled provider catalog together with the route resolver projected from it, so a picker, a readiness view, and an execution path can no longer resolve against different catalog snapshots without a type-level signal. Resolution still goes through the sole resolver; the returned receipt distinguishes an exact catalog row, a custom-endpoint route whose provider facts are deliberately…",
          "Computer session records now count only time a provider actually accepted the session as active, at per-second granularity. Idle, queued, stopped, and teardown time are excluded, and a session whose allocation does not match a standard profile is refused rather than recorded approximately. Covered by hermetic fixtures; no live provider call and no deploy (#5781).",
          "Website: the public site moves to the Tideline deep-ocean design language (dark by default with an opt-in light documentation sheet, palette grounded in the TUI's WHALE_* tokens) and the new whale brand mark across the favicon, app icons, web manifest, nav wordmark, and social card (#5573).",
          "Add codewhale dispatch / /dispatch so a local session can propose a Codewhale cloud agent against an explicit github, cnb, or gitee remote. Confirmation is required; missing credentials fail closed; cloud jobs share the existing /jobs surface as kind=cloud. See DAYTONA_CLOUD_DISPATCH.md."
        ],
        "itemCount": 38
      },
      {
        "heading": "Changed",
        "items": [
          "Provider-native web search now applies domain constraints before accepting an attempt, discards generated answers when returned citations violate those constraints, and preserves the caller's configured/local timeout as an independent fallback budget (#5681).",
          "Idle session metrics omit zero facts (0 turns, LLM 0s) until the runtime has evidence. Working chrome says in the current instead of a generic working.",
          "Deleted nine uncompiled runtime_contract/ staging files. Live contracts remain model.rs and termination.rs.",
          "The first #5587 dead-code sweep converts audited test-only helpers to #[cfg(test)], keeping production builds free of test-only APIs without changing runtime behavior.",
          "/plugin reload is now discoverable when on-disk plugin bundles change: the next send and /plugin list nudge once with Run /plugin reload to apply instead of silently keeping the stale catalog (#5579). Trust is unchanged; this does not auto-reload.",
          "Context-pressure warnings and critical alerts now remain visible in sticky UI status until compaction or explicit dismissal, instead of disappearing into scrolling turn metadata (#5620).",
          "The Runtime thread store defaults to a per-session root ($CODEWHALE_HOME/sessions/<id>/runtime) so multiple Codewhale processes on one machine no longer share one owner lock (#5630). The exclusive lock is unchanged; CODEWHALE_RUNTIME_DIR still selects a shared root when that is intended.",
          "Session token totals now include display-only per-model-call deltas while a turn is running, including input/output and cache-class counters; the authoritative TurnComplete totals still reconcile exactly once (#5581).",
          "Transcript focus now exposes per-block actions: y copies content, Y copies the rendered metadata view, Enter opens a fullscreen block pager, and r opens raw detail; the existing Tasks rail shortcuts remain unchanged (#5551).",
          "Provider neutrality (#5588): model resolution of omitted/aliased models is now provider-relative, OpenAI-native defaults no longer route through another provider's table, CLI credentials stay provider-scoped, and NVIDIA credentials no longer leak into the DeepSeek keychain. Neutrality test matrices exercise several providers instead of standing in with one.",
          "The workflow engine module was decomposed out of its 3k-line mega-file into journal, usage, and report modules plus a module directory (#5586 slices 1a/B/C/D), a semantic-free move verified by normalized-content hash.",
          "Compaction refusals are now always named (#5577): silent holds under context pressure are gone, the context meter honors the same provider-billed prompt the trigger uses (T1), and prune outcomes are projected without cloning the transcript."
        ],
        "itemCount": 14
      },
      {
        "heading": "Fixed",
        "items": [
          "Read-only Fleet workers no longer send \"action\": {\"enum\": null} in their projected bash schema. The read-only projection probed the action enum with a mutating index, which auto-vivified the key on schemas that have no action property, and strict OpenAI-compatible validators then rejected the whole request (null is not of type \"array\"). The probe is non-mutating now, in both the read-only projection and the Run arm next to it, and a regression test walks the whole projected…",
          "Fast typing no longer corrupts the composer. The paste-burst heuristic ran on every session until a real bracketed paste arrived, holding, buffering, retro-grabbing, and absorbing Enter on timing guesses; it is now fallback-only (gated off when the terminal provides bracketed paste), the retro-grab is deleted, and Enter on held command text flushes and submits.",
          "Ctrl+C works on the pre-session launch menu and speaks everywhere: the first press arms the two-second exit window with a visible localized \"Press Ctrl+C again to quit\" hint (previously silent), the second exits. The worktree name input keeps Ctrl+C as cancel-input.",
          "Fresh interactive sessions no longer leave a phantom one-message duplicate behind. The TUI claimed one session id (Runtime store lock, turn-start crash checkpoint) while the engine minted a second one; the first SessionUpdated re-keyed the App, the completion commit cleared only the engine id's checkpoint, and codewhale --continue later \"recovered\" the orphaned checkpoint as a duplicate session instead of the real one. The engine now adopts the host-owned id at spawn…",
          "Website: /signin, /signup, and /auth/callback are locale-aware public routes instead of localized 404s. Sign-in and create-account send the person to the CWC app; OAuth callbacks hop to app.codewhale.net with the query intact; /login and /register are aliases. Local CLI use is not presented as requiring an account (#5767).",
          "The sandbox read deny-list matches a rule's resolved path as well as its literal spelling. On macOS /etc and /var are symlinks into /private, so a read of /private/etc/sudoers walked around the /etc/sudoers rule, and a rule written against a symlinked directory never fired for the real path that canonicalize and the process cwd hand back.",
          "Background shells are first-class work-strip rows (▾ Shells N) you can open, watch, and cancel by the shell_* id on the row. /jobs cancel all cancels running shells; it no longer looks up a task named all. The composer hourglass crumb no longer stands in for a shell surface.",
          "codewhale logout and /logout now clear the Codewhale account session and the Daytona secret slot, not only provider API keys. The TUI crate's leftover login --api-key path no longer claims to save a key.",
          "Account sessions no longer read the macOS Keychain. Unsigned or rebuilt codewhale binaries were a new Keychain ACL principal every time, so codewhale web and the TUI popped a password dialog on start. Sessions now use ~/.codewhale/secrets/secrets.json (mode 0600), the same store as provider keys. Extracted from the Keychain-retirement half of #5632.",
          "Hardened the dispatcher-side config parse the same way: ConfigStore loads and project-config parsing now deserialize ConfigToml on a dedicated 16 MiB-stack thread (the guided-setup save path could overflow a 2 MiB worker stack the same way the TUI's ConfigFile parse did), and the #5585 setup-confirm toast test runs its runtime on an equally sized thread instead of overflowing the default libtest stack.",
          "Fixed detached interactive agents reporting worker usage after the parent turn ends with the usage missing from the session/live /cost total (#5597): interactive turns acquire an owner-scoped runtime usage lease, late usage enters the session cost pool without reopening the sealed mailbox, and worker/session/reload accounting share one hashed response identity so retried deliveries stay exactly-once.",
          "Fixed the sub-agent fiasco class: in-workspace absolute git -C no longer trips the read-only child shell gate with a coherent bounded gate (#5595), turn end parks turn-owned children resumably instead of silently cancelling them (#5596), stale write-claims are released by liveness with coordinate release (#5562), and the verifier role description matches its real surface (#5562)."
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        "itemCount": 25
      }
    ]
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  {
    "version": "0.9.11",
    "date": "2026-08-22",
    "unreleased": false,
    "compareUrl": "https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/compare/v0.9.10...v0.9.11",
    "sections": [
      {
        "heading": "Added",
        "items": [
          "Added first-party deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp discovery and selection for DeepSeek, including the flash-vision alias, bundled offline metadata, registry and picker entries, and image-input capability on the chat route. Context and output limits inherit from V4 Flash until DeepSeek publishes distinct values; pricing remains unknown rather than guessed.",
          "Added a provider-controlled Codewhale-versus-Pi parity harness with three hermetic coding tasks, route and reasoning-effort receipts, doctor/dry-run modes, and bounded result artifacts. The repository ships the harness, not a benchmark verdict; comparable real runs remain an acceptance gate.",
          "Added portable, secret-free config export/import with a reviewable plan, explicit headless consent, backup and rollback, and idempotent re-import.",
          "Added bounded multi-file diagnostics through the existing model-facing lsp tool without increasing the tool-catalog count. Thanks to Isabel Wu (@wuisabel-gif) for PR #5524.",
          "Added portable presentation, media-attachment, and operation-digest facets to the command contract, then moved all seven utility handlers onto the contract-backed dispatch path. Thanks to Paulo Aboim Pinto (@aboimpinto) for PR #5525."
        ],
        "itemCount": 5
      },
      {
        "heading": "Changed",
        "items": [
          "Sub-agent, Fleet-worker, workflow-task, and thread-runtime model turns no longer inherit a hidden role-based step ceiling. An omitted or zero max_steps is unbounded; a positive user/config value remains an explicit cap and is still clamped to the runtime safety ceiling. Wall-clock, provider, heartbeat, cancellation, and admission safeguards are unchanged.",
          "/rc now mirrors one shared session rather than transferring terminal ownership: local and web prompts remain available while idle, approvals use first-decision-wins semantics, and transport/integrity failures remain fail-closed.",
          "The terminal status rows around the composer are now two stable bands: provider · model · thinking level is the persistent identity row below the composer in every phase, and a separate activity row above the composer carries the live phase, notices, and cost/metrics. Sending a prompt no longer relocates the route identity above the composer, and neither row ever duplicates it.",
          "The embedded local Web client now uses the current CWC Ocean hierarchy and readable control sizing, follows the shared Enter/Shift+Enter composer grammar, and chooses a provider plus model per new thread without mutating Runtime defaults. Exact image-input capability is labelled honestly; a vision-capable route does not imply that browser attachments exist.",
          "The runtime now has one authoritative model-turn loop. The placeholder crates/core engine tree is gone, while the active TUI loop and its extracted tool-call stages retain existing policy, hook, cancellation, and budget behavior. Thanks to Sun Zhenyuan (@bistack) for PR #5523."
        ],
        "itemCount": 5
      },
      {
        "heading": "Fixed",
        "items": [
          "Chat Completions streams now require terminal proof from [DONE] or a non-empty finish_reason. Protocol-only frames no longer count as answer content or time-to-first-token, and a provider continuation that ends after tool results with no answer or tool call fails durably instead of producing a false Completed receipt.",
          "A selected v2 Fleet now drives one bounded, deterministic Agent roster across terminal and runtime surfaces. Fleet operator/member/explicit-route precedence, resolved member identity, and exact vision requirement admission now fail visibly instead of silently falling back, first-matching, or rerouting.",
          "A workflow whose task() dispatch was rejected no longer loses that failure inside a parallel() null slot or presents a successful-looking run. Rejected dispatches now fail the run, persist as typed bounded receipts with an exact count, and appear in transcript, activity detail, and workflow-panel views.",
          "Provider readiness, credential-source explanations, focused-agent scrolling, compact /status and /help rendering, shell/web output bounds, MCP lifecycle reporting, and narrow-terminal onboarding received the detailed fixes recorded below.",
          "Portable config import/export now preserves typed tables, arrays, numbers, booleans, and datetimes without stringifying them, while refusing machine-bound trust overlays, credential readers, automatically executable hooks/LSP definitions, local-path authority, machine-local network proxy routes, cookies, redaction placeholders, and nested or camel/dotted credential keys. Project and global bundle operations now load and validate the document for their actual scope in both…",
          "codewhale login now means Codewhale account sign-in (the same browser device flow as codewhale account login, with --no-open and --timeout-seconds); provider API keys are configured exclusively through codewhale auth set --provider <provider>, and the hidden legacy --api-key/--provider flags redirect loudly instead of silently writing a key.",
          "Account sessions prefer the OS credential manager and now fall back automatically to the private 0600 Codewhale secrets file on headless hosts, SSH boxes, and containers; the CODEWHALE_CLOUD_ALLOW_FILE_SESSION_STORE opt-in is deprecated and ignored.",
          "/update gained a Ctrl+Shift+U install chord (catalogued in docs/KEYBINDINGS.md, localized in all 15 packs) and a startup hint that names the previous and current version on the first launch of a newer build, pointing at /change.",
          "Fleet product-model copy pass: the TUI, docs, and locale packs now use Fleet / Member / Role / Model / Access / Saved consistently so a user can say \"scout\", \"DeepSeek V4 Flash\", or the member name and mean the same thing.",
          "A reasoning model that returns only hidden reasoning and a clean stop (no answer, no tool call) is now re-requested automatically up to twice before the turn fails, instead of dead-ending with \"the provider response was incomplete.\" The retry reuses the cached prefix so it is cheap; an output-length stop (length/max_tokens) is never retried, and a persistently answerless model still fails honestly after the bound.",
          "Model-bound tool results now use a credential-shaped redaction policy: only values that look like secrets (known prefixes, JWTs, bearer tokens, PEM private-key blocks, long opaque strings) are masked before a read or shell result reaches the model, so code such as password: credentials?.password or \"password-validator\": \"^5.3.0\" stays byte-exact for edits and read-back. Exact configured credential values are still always replaced, and logs/previews/exports keep the broad…",
          "Terminal input shutdown no longer waits forever on a wedged TTY read, Windows launch receipts can atomically replace an existing record, and the complete /status report now follows the active locale without rewriting exact custom-provider identities that contain brace-like text."
        ],
        "itemCount": 13
      },
      {
        "heading": "Security",
        "items": [
          "Unified OAuth device-code polling now validates verification URLs before opening them, redacts token-bearing types, honors server slowdown intervals, and keeps credential save/logout mutations serialized.",
          "Project instructions, rules-directory traversal, secret-shaped config data, URL fingerprints, and shell network authority now retain the explicit bounds and fail-closed behavior described in the detailed record."
        ],
        "itemCount": 2
      },
      {
        "heading": "Contributors",
        "items": [
          "Sun Zhenyuan (@bistack) — tool-call stage extraction with the existing execution and policy contracts preserved (#5523).",
          "Isabel Wu (@wuisabel-gif) — bounded multi-file read_lints support (#5524), plus independently reviewed completion-routing overlap in #5530.",
          "Lstarsky0 (@Lstarsky0) — maintainer review hardening for truthful per-file states and truncation metadata in #5524.",
          "Paulo Aboim Pinto (@aboimpinto) — portable presentation/media/digest facets and the seven utility-handler migrations (#5525).",
          "RepentStar (@RepentStar) — reported and reproduced the stale completion-generator path and missing codew registration fixed for #5526."
        ],
        "itemCount": 5
      },
      {
        "heading": "Detailed change record",
        "items": [
          "Provider completion is now evidence-based. A Chat Completions stream reaches MessageStop only after [DONE] or a non-empty finish_reason; raw EOF without either is a typed failure. Message-start, ping, usage/terminal deltas, block-stop, and message-stop frames do not count as productive content or mint time-to-first-token. After tool results, a terminal provider step with no answer or tool call now emits a durable failed turn and never fabricates an empty assistant message.",
          "A selected v2 Fleet is the single effective Agent roster across terminal, Runtime threads, direct Workflow, Fleet execution, doctor, and setup/readiness; legacy profile layers are consulted only when no Fleet is selected, and invalid selections fail visibly with bounded, redacted errors. Member references resolve exact id first and otherwise require a unique display name, role, pinned model, offline model name, or provider/model route; agent action=roster exposes that same…",
          "Breaking (app-server): /prompt, prompt/request and prompt/run now execute a real model turn instead of reporting success for work they never did. Runtime::handle_prompt called no model: it resolved config, ran a local ModelRegistry lookup, emitted three canned hook events (ResponseDelta was literally the string model-selected), and returned HTTP 200 with output set to a stringified JSON echo of the caller's own routing metadata — the prompt included. Worse, when a thread_id…",
          "Breaking (app-server): a failed prompt is now a typed failure rather than a success-shaped body. POST /prompt returns {\"error\":{\"code\":...,\"message\":...}} with 400 (invalid request), 404 (thread not found), 503 (runtime_unavailable) or 500, instead of HTTP 500 carrying a PromptResponse with the error text stuffed into output where model text belongs. The stdio surface gained JSON-RPC -32005 runtime_unavailable for \"the turn engine could not be reached, so nothing ran\" —…",
          "Breaking (app-server): POST /thread with a Message body runs the turn. It previously replied status: \"accepted\" with a ResponseDelta(\"queued\") frame while starting no worker and calling no bridge — the stdio path for the same request has always done real work, so the two transports disagreed about what accepted meant. HTTP now replies status: \"completed\" once the turn reaches a terminal state, with the streamed frames in events and the turn id in data. Runtime::handle_thread…",
          "Breaking (app-server): AppRequest::SubmitUserInput now refuses explicitly (ok: false, error: \"user_input_reply_unsupported\") instead of returning resolved: true and filing the answers in a map that had no reader anywhere in the crate — every answer submitted was silently discarded. It cannot be made to work on this transport: while a turn streams, the stdio loop executes only thread/interrupt and queues everything else, so an answer sent there would wait on the very turn…",
          "Split the coordination ledger out of tools/subagent/coord.rs into tools/subagent/coord/ledger.rs. The file held two unrelated things: the model-facing agents/* tool wrappers, and the durable decision/claim/ contention records those wrappers happen to write — records whose consumers are mostly *not* in the tool layer (tui::coordination_detail, tui::work_surface, tui::ui::tests, core::engine::tests all name these types). At 3.8k lines, reading either one started by scrolling…",
          "agent is now the only sub-agent tool the model can see. AGENTS.md has said \"the model-facing sub-agent surface is agent only\" since the lifecycle tools were removed, but six more were reachable: agents/list, agents/message, agents/followup, agents/interrupt, agents/coordinate, and agents/wait all defaulted to model-visible, so they shipped in the catalog and tool_search could load any of them — and the agent description told the model they existed. They now declare…",
          "One placement table now decides which wire channel a message role belongs in, and unrepresentable role/dialect pairs are refused at the outbound seam (DeepSeekClient::prepare_outbound_request) instead of at the provider. Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses used to drop an unfamiliar role silently, Anthropic Messages forwarded message.role verbatim and took an opaque provider 400 for it, and Google cloud-code was alone in failing closed. Positioned system and developer…",
          "Message roles are a closed Role enum (crates/core/src/role.rs) instead of a free-form String on Message. Four wire adapters each decided independently what an unfamiliar role meant, and a typo in a role string was a silent transcript edit rather than a compile error. Role keeps an Unrecognized(String) variant and serializes via as_str(), so a saved session's bytes are unchanged, a transcript written by a newer build still loads here, and assistant_interrupted stays a…",
          "Portable config bundles: codewhale config export --portable writes a deterministic, secret-free bundle (credential and machine-specific keys dropped), and codewhale config import <FILE|URL|-> applies one with a strict versioned envelope, a printed added/changed/skipped/conflicting/ rejected plan, consent gating (--yes required headless), a timestamped backup with rollback, and idempotent re-import. Credential-shaped entries are rejected by key name and value shape —…",
          "/rc is now a shared-session mirror instead of a terminal takeover. Attaching the web app no longer locks the local composer or hides approvals: both surfaces can prompt while idle (one turn runs at a time), approval cards stay visible in the terminal and are shared with the web with first-decision-wins semantics (the losing side is told, a web decision dismisses the local card), and structured questions are answered locally instead of cancelled. Fail-closed behavior survives…"
        ],
        "itemCount": 60
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "version": "0.9.10",
    "date": "2026-08-19",
    "unreleased": false,
    "compareUrl": "https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/compare/v0.9.9...v0.9.10",
    "sections": [
      {
        "heading": "Fixed",
        "items": [
          "First run starts on the welcome screen again. A missing key no longer skips Welcome and auto-opens the local-provider list: Enter walks to the calm provider explanation, then Enter opens the picker so a first API key can be set. Returning missing-key recovery still opens the picker on launch.",
          "A foreground bash command that named no timeout is bounded again. The model-facing bash tool left an omitted timeout_ms at the internal ceiling (~24.8 days) instead of the 120 s default its own schema advertises, so a CLI that blocked on an interactive prompt or a hung network call held the turn open indefinitely — one report sat on a single unauthenticated CLI call for over two hours with the tool row simply counting seconds. The advertised default now applies, which arms…",
          "The Extensions (/plugin) Marketplace is no longer a read-only list. Every recommendation and stored candidate names its truthful state and primary action — Add, Enable, Configured, or Unavailable — and Enter or a mouse click runs that action through the existing reviewed /mcp add recommended, /mcp enable, and /plugin install/trust controllers, so no second trust path exists. Browser Use and Sandbox Runtime stay honestly Unavailable with their real setup routing instead of…",
          "The Extensions MCP tab now renders one honest inventory: the header count and the visible rows derive from the same configured-server set, so MCP (6) can no longer sit above two rendered rows. Disabled servers stay visible and labeled disabled instead of silently disappearing, and configured servers absent from the live snapshot list as not-yet-inspected with their own explicit reload affordance through the MCP command controller.",
          "Installed plugin rows now act on their real state: Enter opens an active bundle (/plugin show), offers Enable for a trusted-but-disabled bundle, or routes an untrusted bundle to the existing trust review — through the same confirmation and persistence controllers as the slash commands.",
          "Sub-agent handoffs and rosters, background shell jobs, durable tasks, delayed continuations, and workflow controls are now scoped to the session that owns them. Records carry immutable root-session ownership, stale completion-channel payloads are rejected before deduplication, background work drains and reports only to its owning session, and legacy ownerless jobs fail closed (#5518 failure class reported by @hxfhd; the report's exact JavaScript provenance was not claimed as…",
          "The resolved route envelope now reaches every outbound model call: all wire dialects and auxiliary calls clamp at the shared transport seam under one wire/reservation budget, provider input limits are honored, and switching models on the same protocol no longer inherits the previous model's limits (#5516, #5518).",
          "First-run continuity: the chosen onboarding provider persists across restarts, a missing first-run config no longer interrupts the flow, and the automatic working-agreement checkpoint renders as a standalone setup handoff instead of regressing the onboarding rail to the full wizard's 4/10 progress.",
          "Explicitly worded natural-language /goal declarations now create a durable goal in the provider-neutral engine before model dispatch, while ordinary tasks and quoted transcripts stay out of goal mode and prose acknowledgement alone can no longer stand in for goal creation.",
          "/model now keeps the current Z.ai default (GLM-5.3) visible when an older installation has an explicit GLM-5.2 route saved. The saved 5.2 route remains exact; choosing 5.3 sends and remembers the distinct 5.3 ID.",
          "The constitution checkpoint now leads with the bundled balanced agreement; the default path writes no custom constitution. The startup launch surface distinguishes read-only Chat from folder-bound, approval-gated Work.",
          "Tabby and other IME bridges no longer observe a stale visible caret while a frame diff is being painted; Codewhale hides the cursor during the diff, restores the canonical composer cell, and only then reveals it again (BrathonBai, #5023)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 35
      },
      {
        "heading": "Added",
        "items": [
          "/workflows opens a live run dashboard over this workspace's durable workflow journal: every retained run with status, phases, child roster, progress, and host-side cancel — observation only, it never launches a run.",
          "Repository instructions now assemble from the actual containing checkout: applicable AGENTS.md files resolve repository-root to current-directory in order under one aggregate budget, a linked worktree is its own root, and scope is never inferred from path mentions or whichever branch is named main.",
          "/goal is a codex-style control plane: setting an objective dispatches it to the engine, which owns the goal and starts the first goal turn itself — the objective is never echoed back as the user's own message, pause/resume are real control ops, and the hunt-era vocabulary and trophy cards are gone.",
          "/extensions and /plugins open one localized inventory for Hooks, Plugins, local Marketplace catalogs, Skills, and MCP. Reviewed suggestions include Playwright, Chrome DevTools, Cua Computer Use, Browser Use, and the sandbox runtime without granting trust or installing anything on open.",
          "Turn Inspector now opens the newest turn and pages across complete recorded user, reasoning, tool/subagent, and assistant output with page-scoped search, copy, and export (sky-sun-moon, #1682).",
          "Background tasks have bounded incremental persistence, durable terminal reasons, truthful timeout/cancellation receipts, restart recovery, and interruptible continuous-goal delays (#5497, #5508).",
          "/title once again controls the terminal window title independently from /rename, survives session save/load, and sanitizes control, bidi, and zero-width characters (PR #5509 by @SparkofSpike).",
          "MCP snapshots preserve whether capabilities were advertised by the server, discovered through the bounded legacy fallback, or not observed (#4170).",
          "codewhale auth status --diagnostic reports canonical paths, isolation source, backend class, and value-free provider-source presence without opening credential stores or creating/migrating state (#2369).",
          "codewhale doctor --probe-search performs an explicit credential-free, policy-checked transport probe for the selected search provider; ordinary doctor and JSON output remain offline (#5442).",
          "The safe deferred read_media tool is available to supported read-only roles, and history receipts distinguish localized tool execution outcomes without exposing raw payloads (#5102).",
          "npm Linux x64 first-party source selection. The wrapper concurrently fetches the GitHub Releases and CNB checksum manifests for the exact package version, locks the first source whose HTTP response and manifest validate, and downloads binaries only from that source. Explicit CODEWHALE_RELEASE_BASE_URL / CODEWHALE_USE_CNB_MIRROR=1 still skip the race; other targets stay on GitHub."
        ],
        "itemCount": 23
      },
      {
        "heading": "Contributors",
        "items": [
          "Sh1Zuku (@SparkofSpike) — restored /title as an independent, persistent terminal-window title in PR #5509, in addition to the Tier 1 Chinese and Indonesian documentation work below.",
          "Sun Zhenyuan (@bistack) — extracted the turn-loop stream processor in PR #5514 while preserving retry, cancellation, usage, TTFT, steering, and partial-response behavior.",
          "OctoBored (@OctoBored) — supplied the working no-token Star History mirror used across the localized README set after the canonical chart endpoint began returning a restricted placeholder (#5510).",
          "cacdcaecawae (@cacdcaecawae) — added provider-neutral typed MCP image forwarding in PR #5515; the harvested version also makes malformed image fields produce a visible omission receipt.",
          "DingYong4223 (@DingYong4223) — reported the narrow-terminal completion truncation closed by the bounded hover reveal (#998). Thanks also to @AiurArtanis and @formp3 for identifying the affected completion surfaces.",
          "sky-sun-moon (@sky-sun-moon) — reported the missing full per-turn input, reasoning, tool, and assistant pages that shaped Turn Inspector navigation (#1682).",
          "cy2311 (@cy2311) — reported the Windows launch path that now ships and installs a Windows Terminal-aware batch launcher (#1854).",
          "demian-welt (@demian-welt) — provided the reproducible pre-header SSE transport failure behind the bounded HTTP/1.1 retry (#4683).",
          "BrathonBai (@BrathonBai) — reported the Tabby/CJK IME candidate-window jump that led to the hide-diff-position-show cursor transaction (#5023).",
          "M-Maciej (@M-Maciej) — the real-world organization-coordinator use case and 5–30 minute cadence requirement behind cancellable cross-turn goal delays (#5508).",
          "cyq1017 (@cyq1017) — approval outcomes are persisted before execution can proceed: receipts commit to a session-owned log first, unpersistable evidence blocks the tool, stale decisions are rejected, and resume reconstructs closed and interrupted approvals (#5491, closes #5360).",
          "aboimpinto (@aboimpinto) — the TUI-owned dependency-injection and migration infrastructure that makes slash-command extraction safe: seven capability facets, a dual-path dispatch seam, and source-aware CI enforcement so a command slice cannot claim migration while it still accepts concrete App (#5506, EPIC-005/FEAT-015 under #5316, which they also filed)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 19
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "version": "0.9.9",
    "date": "2026-08-18",
    "unreleased": false,
    "compareUrl": "https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale/compare/v0.9.8...v0.9.9",
    "sections": [
      {
        "heading": "Fixed",
        "items": [
          "The lowercase bash tool no longer wedges when its complete-output spill file cannot be created: a full temp volume or exhausted descriptor table used to fail *every* call — echo ok included — with the harness-internal \"Failed to create streaming shell output\" and never recover until the host was cleaned up. The spill is now best-effort (the bounded tail is still returned and the truncation notice says why the full-output path is missing), and any remaining spawn/stream…",
          "A concrete route/offering output limit now outranks the conservative 8,192-token compatibility guess for an uncatalogued model. Routes that publish no output limit remain fail-closed, documented model ceilings stay authoritative, and a route limit can never raise the requested cap (#5460).",
          "Context-window honesty at every surface (#5239, #5441): the model-name hint and fallback rungs of the context-window ladder are guesses, and every surface that renders one now says so — the status line, /status, /config, the context-pressure message, the model picker chips, and the auto-router inventory. Unverified windows still drive real budgets (compaction trigger, context meter, output reservation); they just stop reading as capabilities anyone checked. A window parsed…",
          "Output-ceiling honesty (#5440): an Anthropic-family model the catalog does not describe keeps the 64K Messages floor as its clamp and the ChatGPT/ Codex OAuth route keeps its 4K policy, but OutputCeilingSource gained an unverified rung for both, so exec-stream receipts and the model picker label them unverified/\"assumed floor\" instead of documented. Clamp values are unchanged.",
          "Telemetry default-on is visible (#5441): codewhale doctor's runtime-posture section gained a telemetry=on (default)-style row with the source that decided it (cli | env | config | default), and codewhale config get telemetry reports the resolved consent with its source instead of key not found on a machine whose batches ship. Truth change only; resolution and behavior are untouched.",
          "Fleet: a scout's read-only shell carve-out (#5428) is now honored by both the posture gate and the execution envelope, so git log, find | head, npm view and the other bounded read-only commands run in-place instead of being refused as \"Executes\" (#5426). Delegation still never widens authority: the role-isolation test and docs/SUBAGENTS.md pin that a child cannot exceed its parent's posture (#5426, #5435).",
          "/rename and /title now apply mid-first-turn: the session file does not exist until the first autosave, so the rename fell through with NotFound; the shared path now prefers the per-session checkpoint and rebuilds from App state, with a PTY regression test through the live event loop (#5430).",
          "integrations dsh plan no longer refuses DeepSeek's default Responses-dialect route (deepseek-v4-flash); Responses and Anthropic-Messages routes are carried through pi-ai openai-responses / anthropic-messages instead of being approximated or refused; only credentialed base URLs are still refused, with an error that names provider and model (#5434).",
          "Session cost no longer sits at unverified_live_pricing when live pricing cannot be verified (control-plane 503, Models.dev capabilities-only overlays): provider-docs bundled fallback rates for the DeepSeek V4 family on Fireworks / OpenCode Zen restore a usable figure, live per-provider rows still win, and kimi-k3 stays unpriced until a published rate exists (#5241; harvested from #5402).",
          "Release assets: release.yml asset-freshness checks compare against the release job's own started_at, so job-level reruns of the npm step are no longer poisoned by earlier uploads (#5429).",
          "macOS CI: the agent_focus_pty auto-review receipt test waited on a worker that had already completed and raced the rail's focus; it now holds the child's wrap-up and waits for a settled live row (refs #5056, #5403).",
          "DeepSeek V4 pricing follows the published peak/off-peak tiers (peak 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC; off-peak is half of peak) for deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-pro in USD and CNY, resolved from each turn's recorded time; the stale single-tier rows understated cost up to ~4×. Because every direct DeepSeek first-party rate is now time-windowed, the scorecard fails closed (missing_recorded_time) on an undated DeepSeek turn instead of guessing a tier (#5470; #5241…"
        ],
        "itemCount": 23
      },
      {
        "heading": "Changed",
        "items": [
          "The model-facing agent tool advertises exactly 12 fields — action, prompt, type, profile, name, agent_id, message, until, detached, worktree, write_roots, resume_from — down from 33 (#5324, refs #5123). Budgets (max_steps, wall_time_secs, max_depth), routing overrides (model, model_strength, thinking), worktree-path knobs, the deliberate/spawn-contract fields and the wait/status/interrupt extras moved off the advertised schema. Every removed field stays parse-accepted and…",
          "TUI prose — user messages, assistant answers, and reasoning/thinking — now wraps at the full content width on wide terminals, matching tool/status cells, instead of stopping at a 105-column rail that left a dead right margin on ultrawide displays (#5436).",
          "Configured skill prompts are stable across session roots and operating systems: only custom configured roots hide their physical path, ordinary workspace/global skills keep a discoverable privacy-safe path, warning replacements are boundary-aware (including non-UTF-8 Unix paths), and Windows separators render as /. The skills prompt is also 50 bytes leaner without raising a runtime-contract ceiling (#5492, #5473).",
          "Auto-router classifier requests accept [auto.router] timeout_secs, while preserving the existing default when the key is absent (#5494).",
          "Every ci.yml job now has an explicit 10–90 minute timeout appropriate to its workload, bounding stale assigned runners instead of inheriting GitHub's six-hour default (#5495).",
          "The docs shell and shared web components now route localized copy through the typed dictionary spine; these are two incremental phases of #5337, not completion of the full epic (#5488, #5490).",
          "Dependency: rusqlite 0.40.2 (#5391).",
          "Documentation: stale A/B/C-tier references, provider defaults, module descriptions, and line anchors now match the current code (#5481)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 8
      },
      {
        "heading": "Added",
        "items": [
          "[transcript] prose_measure (positive integer, optional): caps prose wrap at N columns for owners who want a bounded reading measure on ultrawide terminals. 0 or absent keeps the full width; negative or non-integer values are rejected with a clear config error. Tool, diff, and status cells never inherit the cap (#5436).",
          "Localization: README translations for Français, Deutsch, 繁體中文, हिन्दी, Türkçe, Italiano, Polski, العربية and Català join the existing nine (#5451); codewhale.net routes fr, de, ca, hi, tr, it, pl and ar (with dir=\"rtl\" plumbing) as partial locales (#5453).",
          "Docs: README Integrations section (incl. the DeepSeek Harness dsh plugin path, docs/INTEGRATIONS_DSH.md) localized across all READMEs; RFC keeping the deterministic-first auto-review hybrid (#5427); Claude Code parity reference for agents/workflows/plugins/skills (docs/design/CLAUDE_CODE_PARITY.md); config.example.toml / SUBAGENTS.md / TOOL_LIFECYCLE.md brought back in line with the code (#5447).",
          "dsh integration: the Codewhale palette is applied through the bundle profile via dsh's documented overrideTokens (on by default; codewhale integrations dsh update --skin false turns it off), replacing the 0.9.8 exported-CSS skin that dsh's inline body variables overrode (docs/design/DSH_BUNDLE_SKIN.md, docs/INTEGRATIONS_DSH.md) (#5469).",
          "dsh integration: an ambient ocean scene behind the DSH web UI — slow whale silhouettes, a school of ><> glyph fish, bubbles — drawn on a canvas under a translucent veil of the Codewhale palette, plus an explicit responsive WHALE BROTHERS / CODEWHALE × DEEPSEEK HARNESS lockup; light and dark, ~30 fps capped, paused when hidden, a static frame under prefers-reduced-motion; on by default with the skin, codewhale integrations dsh update --ocean false turns it off (#5484).",
          "Fleet: agent shadowing is visible — a roster-row badge, a Layers block in agent detail, and a doctor \"Fleet roster layers\" section (JSON operate_fleet.roster.multi_layer), in all 15 TUI locales. Layer collapse and [fleet.profiles] migration stay for 0.9.10 (#5098).",
          "Sandbox: bwrap containers get the --dev/--proc/--tmpfs essentials plus configurable extra roots (bwrap_ro_roots / bwrap_dev_roots) so toolchains that live outside the workspace stay reachable read-only (#5410).",
          "Tests: crates/tui/tests/README.md states the keyless assembled-journey rule and maps the Auto-Review guardian acceptance items to the engine journeys that exercise them (#5361).",
          "OrcaRouter's default endpoint is classified as an aggregator billing surface, so pricing and session-cost reporting use the correct billing posture instead of treating it as a first-party provider (#5493).",
          "Dependencies: ratatui 0.30.2, thiserror 2.0.20."
        ],
        "itemCount": 10
      },
      {
        "heading": "Removed",
        "items": [
          "dsh integration: the exported-CSS skin file and its \"skin export\" status line (superseded by the bundle-applied overrideTokens skin, #5469)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 1
      },
      {
        "heading": "Contributors",
        "items": [
          "hexin (@h3c-hexin) — a concrete route/offering output limit outranks the 8,192-token compatibility guess for an uncatalogued model (#5461, closes #5460); web tool results use the noisy soft limit (#5474); owned direct model casing resolves safely (#5475); and configured-skill prompts stay stable across ephemeral roots and operating systems (#5492, #5473).",
          "Gabriel-Degret (@Gabriel-Degret) — configurable auto-router classifier timeout (#5494; first contribution).",
          "@asto18089 — diagnosed the Z.ai glm-5.2 casing collision and wrote the first provider-scoped fix in Pinvou/CodeWhale#14 (carried upstream in #5475).",
          "Reports and reproductions that shaped this release: @hardy922 (context- window honesty, #5239), @redstar (bwrap extra roots, #5410), @all-lopezg (SSE UTF-8 garbling on DeepSeek Flash, #5374), @alitvak69 (unverified live pricing, #5241), and @wuisabel-gif (the macOS filtered-suite hang investigation on #5056)."
        ],
        "itemCount": 4
      }
    ]
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