Wisp 0.6.3

Wisp 0.6.3

Wisp 0.6.3 gives shell tabs real lifetimes, and makes the usage ring follow
the window that moves turn to turn.

• Closing a shell tab ends its shell. Tabs are kept by the daemon, so
  every window shows the same ones. Each tab has a ⋯ menu and a find bar.
• The usage ring shows the shortest main window and refreshes shortly
  after a turn ends, for that turn's harness.
• Desktop opens a new version zoomed and focused, including after an
  in-app update.

What changed since 0.6.2

• Shell tabs belong to the daemon (#300). Closing a tab now hangs up its
  shell and everything in its process group, the way closing a terminal
  window does. Before, closing a tab only forgot it in that browser, and the
  next new tab could reattach to the old shell.
  • Every window of a task shows the same tabs. Tab numbers never repeat
    within a task, so a new tab is never a closed tab's number.
  • Tabs are named after the user's rename, then the program running in the
    foreground, then the shell's title, then "Shell N".
  • The ⋯ menu has Rename, Find, Clear, Restart shell and Close shell.
    Closing or restarting a tab with a program still running asks first.
  • Find in the terminal: ⌘F on Apple platforms, Ctrl+Alt+F elsewhere, with
    match count, match case, whole word and regex. ⌘K clears on Apple
    platforms; elsewhere Ctrl+K stays readline's kill-line.
  • A shell that exits on its own drops its tab. The last tab stays as an
    exited tab you can restart.
  • The 30-minute idle reaper is gone. A shell lives until its tab closes,
    its task is archived, or the daemon stops.
  • A daemon older than 0.6.3 keeps the old per-browser tabs.
• The usage ring shows the shortest main window (#297): claude's 5h,
  codex's 5h (7d on plans without one), and droid's standard 5h. Per-model
  windows and droid's core pool no longer count toward the ring.
  • The arc is neutral, amber from 80%, and red from 99%. It also turns red
    when any other main window reaches 99%, and its accessible name says
    which one.
  • Wisp pages ask for limits every 2 minutes instead of every minute. About
    5 seconds after a turn ends, the daemon re-reads that turn's harness, at
    most once every 30 seconds per harness.
• Connection tabs stay green while switching (#298). Opening a
  connection's update stream shows a subtle green ring instead of a yellow
  outage. Yellow now means a failed update stream or one that took over
  three seconds, and red means the server check failed.
• Desktop focuses and zooms a new version on its first launch (#299),
  including a relaunch after an in-app update. Later launches keep the
  window where you left it. The zoom fills the usable screen area without
  entering a full-screen Space.
• Release hygiene: the 0.6.2 publication record (#296).

Install or upgrade

Apple Silicon macOS (12.3 configured minimum):

brew install Pepewitch/tap/wisp Pepewitch/tap/wisp-desktop
open -a Wisp

The Cask installs the separate daemon Formula as a dependency. Name both:
Homebrew trusts only the fully qualified names you install from a non-official
tap, so the Cask alone refuses to load that Formula. Existing updater-capable
Desktop builds can use Updates → Check now, then Update Desktop and
relaunch. Update Local daemon separately. The legacy alpha
channel URL remains compatible and advertises the regular 0.6.3 version.
For Homebrew recovery or older builds without an updater:

brew update
brew upgrade Pepewitch/tap/wisp
brew upgrade --cask --greedy Pepewitch/tap/wisp-desktop
brew services restart wisp
open -a Wisp

Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, x86_64, glibc):

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Pepewitch/wisp/v0.6.3/scripts/install.sh | sh

Back up task state and the original Git repositories before upgrading.
Follow backup and restore; copying .wisp
alone does not preserve linked worktrees or unpublished Git objects.
This release adds no database migration.

Scope and known limits

This release is for a trusted single OS user. Worktrees separate checkouts;
they do not sandbox agents or their credentials. There is no multi-user
permission boundary. Closing Desktop leaves daemons and agents running.
Intel macOS and non-Apple-Silicon Desktop builds are unsupported.

Desktop publication requires Developer ID signing, notarization, a stapled
ticket, and a verified updater signature. The public macOS daemon application
also requires Developer ID signing, notarization, and a stapled ticket.
Automated release gates verify immutable downloads and promote the Formula,
Cask, daemon channel, and Desktop channel together. At source
preparation, the 0.6.3 artifact gates are pending; the qualification ledger
records the final outcome separately from these immutable release notes.

Shell tabs:

• The tab list and tab names live in daemon memory. Restarting the daemon
  ends every shell and starts each task's tabs from scratch.
• With the idle reaper gone, an open tab's shell keeps running until you
  close it, archive its task, or stop the daemon.
• Closing a tab ends its whole process group, including programs started
  from it that have not detached.

Plan-limit readings still follow each harness's own CLI, not a documented
API, and cursor and opencode still have no limits read. While a Wisp page is
open, the daemon starts an installed claude and codex about every 2
minutes and shortly after their turns end. With a Factory API key set, it
calls api.factory.ai on the same schedule. It skips turn-end reads when no
page has asked for limits in the last 10 minutes.

The Desktop first-launch zoom has not been observed across a signed
two-version update.

The auto-merge, auto-fix, review judge and draft limits listed for
0.6.2
still apply.

Native dependency advisories still include upstream maintenance notices and a
locked Linux-only glib warning. Full clean-machine provider journeys, a
human-observed Desktop upgrade across this version, broad OS coverage, and
cross-machine restore remain incomplete. Task export excludes repositories and
provider sessions; it is not a complete backup or an import format. Permanent
deletion is logical, not forensic erasure. This release is not a security
certification.

Release assets

The release contains these ten immutable assets:

• wisp-v0.6.3-linux-x86_64
• release-manifest.json
• SHA256SUMS
• wisp-v0.6.3-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
• release-manifest-darwin-arm64.json
• SHA256SUMS-darwin-arm64
• wisp-desktop-v0.6.3-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
• wisp-desktop-v0.6.3-darwin-arm64.tar.gz.sig
• release-manifest-desktop-darwin-arm64.json
• SHA256SUMS-desktop-darwin-arm64