Nexus Harness v0.2.28

Nexus Harness 0.2.28

Facilitator conversations coordinate project changes at the operation level,
allowing discussion and inspection without reserving the project for an entire
conversation. Overlapping writes retain project coordination and recovery.

Team conversations include improved follow-up attachment context, peer delivery,
provider activity visibility, and recovery around provider waits and response
transport. Browser relay handling improves page identity and response delivery.

Background assistance adds optional watched-input scheduling and local hybrid
memory retrieval. Goal status distinguishes recorded responses from verified
project results. See the background assistance and facilitator documentation for
configuration and limitations.

Tests were explicitly skipped for this release at the user's request. This is a
locally packaged release; it does not claim a passing CI or installed-app test
run. Packaging performs its built-in runtime and source-containment checks.

The Windows installer is unsigned and includes a SHA-256 checksum and an offline
installation bundle.

Nexus Harness v0.2.27

Windows installer: exact bytes are protected by the accompanying SHA-256. This release is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The product-bound offline ZIP carries a CMD-pinned bootstrap, installer, checksum, and v2 identity manifest together for computers without GitHub access. The unsigned outer ZIP/CMD still requires trusted transport. Measured download size: 359.5 MiB; unpacked application: 1092.8 MiB. Allow at least 2 GiB free while installing.

Full Changelog: v0.2.26...v0.2.27

Nexus Harness v0.2.26

Full project access now covers Nexus's missing-reviewer fallback. Authorized teams continue with deterministic checks without another permission question, and saved redundant questions recover when their proposal and access settings still match.

Nexus gains 24 tool entries for search, Git inspection, web search, notebooks, file edits, code navigation/LSP, configured MCP resources and tool calls, skill reading, and command/file execution in private agent copies. Agents retain their native tools.

The tool adoption inventory accounts for all 55 built-ins in the inspected Claw Code registry, including existing Nexus equivalents and documented dependencies and exclusions. See detailed release notes.

Windows installer: exact bytes are protected by the accompanying SHA-256. This release is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The product-bound offline ZIP carries a CMD-pinned bootstrap, installer, checksum, and v2 identity manifest together for computers without GitHub access. The unsigned outer ZIP/CMD still requires trusted transport. Measured download size: 225.7 MiB; unpacked application: 805.2 MiB. Allow at least 2 GiB free while installing.

Full Changelog: v0.2.25...v0.2.26

Nexus Harness v0.2.25

Windows installer: exact bytes are protected by the accompanying SHA-256. This release is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The product-bound offline ZIP carries a CMD-pinned bootstrap, installer, checksum, and v2 identity manifest together for computers without GitHub access. The unsigned outer ZIP/CMD still requires trusted transport. Measured download size: 225.7 MiB; unpacked application: 805.1 MiB. Allow at least 2 GiB free while installing.

Full Changelog: v0.2.24...v0.2.25

Nexus Harness v0.2.24

Windows installer: exact bytes are protected by the accompanying SHA-256. This release is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The product-bound offline ZIP carries a CMD-pinned bootstrap, installer, checksum, and v2 identity manifest together for computers without GitHub access. The unsigned outer ZIP/CMD still requires trusted transport. Measured download size: 225.7 MiB; unpacked application: 805.1 MiB. Allow at least 2 GiB free while installing.

Full Changelog: v0.2.23...v0.2.24

Nexus Harness v0.2.23

Nexus now lets agents use their native tools with normal provider permissions and gives each agent a persistent project copy.

• Read DOCX prompts, inspect and extract ZIP archives, and discover and install skills from GitHub.
• Choose flexible collaboration or fixed writer/reviewer roles. Allow direct edits to the real project separately, with that option off by default.
• Inspect the real project and both agent copies in the UI. Agents can inspect peer work, edit permitted drafts and test exact snapshots.
• Review the actual submitted version and invalidate approval when the work or requirements change.
• Require an independent whole-goal judge, with the original prompt, later clarifications, acceptance criteria and test evidence. Send unfinished work back for repair with bounded retries.
• Fix fresh Windows installer crashes by updating the pinned installer builder, and recognize its exact application metadata in online and offline setup.
• Preserve recovery across application restarts and tolerate transient Windows file locks without discarding saved workspace state.

Start a new project goal to use the new workspace contracts. Existing goals retain their saved permissions and execution contracts. Fixed roles enforce Nexus actions and acceptance checks; native execution still uses provider permissions, and project copies are not an OS security sandbox.

Windows installer: exact bytes are protected by the accompanying SHA-256. This release is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The product-bound offline ZIP carries a CMD-pinned bootstrap, installer, checksum, and v2 identity manifest together for computers without GitHub access. The unsigned outer ZIP/CMD still requires trusted transport. Measured download size: 225.7 MiB; unpacked application: 805.1 MiB. Allow at least 2 GiB free while installing.

Full Changelog: v0.2.20...v0.2.23

Nexus Harness v0.2.22

Superseded by v0.2.23, which fixes the setup helper reporting a product-metadata mismatch after the app installs. Use v0.2.23 for online and offline setup.

Nexus now lets agents use their native tools with normal provider permissions and gives each agent a persistent project copy.

• Read DOCX prompts, inspect and extract ZIP archives, and discover and install skills from GitHub.

• Choose flexible collaboration or fixed writer/reviewer roles. Allow direct edits to the real project separately, with that option off by default.

• Inspect the real project and both agent copies in the UI. Agents can inspect peer work, edit permitted drafts and test exact snapshots.

• Review the actual submitted version and invalidate approval when the work or requirements change.

• Require an independent whole-goal judge, with the original prompt, later clarifications, acceptance criteria and test evidence. Send unfinished work back for repair with bounded retries.

• Fix fresh Windows installer crashes by updating the pinned installer builder.

• Preserve recovery across application restarts and tolerate transient Windows file locks without discarding saved workspace state.

Start a new project goal to use the new workspace contracts. Existing goals retain their saved permissions and execution contracts. Fixed roles enforce Nexus actions and acceptance checks; native execution still uses provider permissions, and project copies are not an OS security sandbox.

Windows installer: exact bytes are protected by the accompanying SHA-256. This release is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The product-bound offline ZIP carries a CMD-pinned bootstrap, installer, checksum, and v2 identity manifest together for computers without GitHub access. The unsigned outer ZIP/CMD still requires trusted transport. Measured download size: 225.7 MiB; unpacked application: 805.1 MiB. Allow at least 2 GiB free while installing.

Full Changelog: v0.2.20...v0.2.22

Nexus Harness v0.2.20

Nexus Harness 0.2.20

This release combines the BLOX-REMOVER branch with the latest goal-completion,
Windows verification, delivery, and chat improvements.

• Agents retain their conversation and recovery context through provider
  interruptions, with clearer progress and reconnection controls.
• Windows browser verification handles long launch commands, reuses the shared
  AppContainer identity across peer processes, and reports native failures
  without losing the underlying diagnostic to serialization errors.
• Completion requires delivery evidence from the user's selected project.
  Working-copy reports are labelled separately from confirmed delivered files.
• OPEN buttons beside delivery destinations and receipt paths open the folder
  or reveal the file in Explorer.
• Right-click chats to archive, delete/purge, rename, pin/unpin, or cancel.
  Custom names preserve engine identity; purge keeps delivered project files.
• Team controls collapse, remember their state, and call attention to required
  user input. A Permissions control beside the chat buttons offers Read only,
  Ask before commands, and Full project access for that chat.

The Windows installer is explicitly unsigned. Its SHA-256 file verifies the
download bytes, and the offline ZIP includes the versioned installer.

Windows installer: exact bytes are protected by the accompanying SHA-256. This release is not Authenticode-signed, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning. The product-bound offline ZIP carries a CMD-pinned bootstrap, installer, checksum, and v2 identity manifest together for computers without GitHub access. The unsigned outer ZIP/CMD still requires trusted transport. Measured download size: 230.6 MiB; unpacked application: 805.0 MiB. Allow at least 2 GiB free while installing.

Full Changelog: v0.2.19...v0.2.20

Nexus Harness v0.2.19

Nexus Harness 0.2.19

A failure to launch the protected Playwright browser or exact-origin proxy
could leave a Python exception object inside a verification result. Saving
that result then failed with "Object of type OSError is not JSON serializable",
hiding the original cause and interrupting the team's verification turn.

• Browser, proxy, runner and cleanup launch failures now produce JSON-safe
  process results retaining the original diagnostic, exception type and native
  error codes. Failure reports can be saved and read after restart.
• Both static browser probes and unmodified Playwright suites report protected
  runtime failures as verification unavailable. A suite that never launched is
  no longer described as executed. Actual project assertion failures remain
  failed checks, and all existing containment requirements remain enforced.
• A failed run does not poison subsequent attempts. Restart Nexus Harness and
  use Resume team to retry a paused goal with the updated runtime.

Verified locally with 55 passing focused tests and one optional live-suite
skip, plus a real protected-browser check. The original serialization failure
was reproduced with injected native launch errors. The historical launch
condition itself did not recur during the real-browser check.

Published from isolated source with unrelated local work excluded, without
waiting for GitHub CI. The Windows installer is unsigned; its accompanying
SHA-256 file verifies the download bytes.

Nexus Harness v0.2.18

Nexus Harness 0.2.18

Chats waiting for an agent question or user decision now pulse amber in the
conversation sidebar, including while another chat is open. A "Needs your
input" label explains the cue without relying on color alone.

• Pending goal questions and approvals, saved work paused for user input, and
  structured questions arriving in background chat replies trigger the cue.
• Ordinary replies, progress messages, and question marks in prose do not.
• Opening a chat keeps its cue visible until the input request is resolved.
  Answering, completing or cancelling the corresponding goal clears its cue.
• Saved goal and work-recovery state restores the cue after restart. Changed
  project identities and archived chats cannot inherit another chat's cue.
• Reduced-motion preferences replace the pulse with a steady amber highlight.

Verified locally with 83 focused chat, navigation, decision and browser tests,
including actual animated sidebar rendering. Published from an isolated source
snapshot; unrelated local work is excluded. GitHub CI was not a release gate.

The Windows installer is unsigned. Its accompanying SHA-256 file verifies the
download bytes; Windows may show an unknown-publisher prompt.