Observer v0.9.21

Observer v0.9.21 reduces the roster to six default employees and two optional specialists, with familiar Israeli names and stable role IDs.

• Frontend Engineer Noam Cohen, Backend Engineer David Levi, Product Designer Yael Mizrahi, Quality Engineer Daniel Peretz, Platform Engineer Itai Friedman, and Research & Data Analyst Maya Shapiro are available by default.
• Security Specialist Tamar Katz and Hardware Specialist Eitan Dahan can be enabled in employee settings.
• Employee contracts define selection criteria, work stages, ownership, handoffs, deliverables, and verification. The root agent handles planning and integration.
• The employee_brief tool exposes current roles and stage-specific instructions through MCP and OpenCode. Optional Playwright browser configuration is included.
• Legacy employee settings remain supported. Installation reconciles Observer-owned definitions across OpenCode, Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot CLI.
• The interface shows roles before names, supports optional specialists, and fixes authentication initialization when opening settings directly. Communication arcs show sibling conversations.

Validation: all 1,460 tests passed, the production build passed, and the packaged MCP smoke passed.

Install the attached tarball with npm install -g ./observer-ai-0.9.21.tgz, then rerun your existing Observer installation commands. For Codex and Copilot plugin installations, use observer install all --plugin and codex plugin add observer@observer-local. Restart existing host sessions to load the new employee definitions.