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Learn about vigilant mode.

AgentJoJoy can now govern unattended agent runs: a SmartWorker running on a
schedule (or kicked off and left alone) operates under an owner-approved Loop
Contract — with every rule in this release validated live on a real project
before shipping.

Added

  • Loop Contracts (AgentJoJoy/agent-smartworkers/loop-contract.template.md) —
    run a SmartWorker unattended under a contract: machine-checkable definition of
    done, work tiers (Run-to-Done / Deliver-to-Gate / never-autonomous), strict
    write scope, budget & pacing caps, cross-run no-progress rule, and escalation.
    The owner approves the envelope once; no human sits in the loop. Activation
    requires mechanically enforced gates proven by a live blocking pre-flight.
    AgentJoJoy ships no scheduler — your runtime's native cron executes; the
    contract governs.
  • Hermes Agent runtime binding (AgentJoJoy/agent-hooks/runtime-bindings/hermes.md) —
    how to enforce gates on Hermes: plugin vs shell-hook vs gateway-hook surfaces,
    the activation chains that fail open and silently, decision mapping, and
    live-observed caveats.

Changed

  • Sharper positioning — AgentJoJoy is the context and governance layer
    between the language model and the execution runtime; it does not reason and
    does not execute.
  • "A task instruction is not approval" — closed a live-observed gap where an
    agent treated task wording ("fix it, then commit") as the approval itself; the
    show-the-exact-command-and-wait step always applies.
  • Root namespace handoff now covers CHANGELOG.md/LICENSE — after
    onboarding they move under AgentJoJoy/, leaving the workspace root to your
    project.

Fixed

  • Packaged files no longer carry a UTF-8 BOM — some runtimes block context
    files containing invisible unicode (observed live: AGENTS.md silently not
    loading on Hermes). A new packaging check fails any release that ships a BOM.
  • Rule-consistency fixes: CLAUDE.md Critical Rules reference, SPEC-4.5 vs
    milestone-commit carve-out, engagement-mode checkbox citation.

Validated before adoption

Every behavior in this release was proven on a live downstream workspace first:
two full autonomous runs (a research worker and a test worker driving a real
headless backtest), an owner curation gate between them, and a mechanical git
gate verified by a live blocking pre-flight — including an honestly-reported
losing run ("Rejected for promotion").

Upgrading

Use the AI-driven upgrade flow in the README (point your agent at the canonical
upgrade prompt); your trackers, decisions, and custom skills are preserved.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md ·
Compare: v2.7.0...v2.8.0

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