Holocron v1.4.0
Polish release. Three independent fixes that surfaced during real-world use of v1.3.0.
1. Namespace shims for /holocron:adopt, /holocron:illustrate, /holocron:voice-act. These three skills shipped without a matching commands/X.md shim, so the slash-command picker showed them as bare /adopt, /illustrate, /voice-act instead of the namespaced /holocron: form every other command uses. The skills still worked, but the picker mismatch read as "this one is broken or different" — exactly the confusion the namespace exists to prevent. Adding a 6-line shim per command (mirroring commands/new.md) restores parity. commands/ and skills/ directory counts now match (26 ↔ 26).
2. Task tool added to wizard specialist agents. architect, character-developer, and world-builder all reference dispatching other agents in their bodies — architect consults lucas / karpyshyn / stover; character-developer consults traviss / karpyshyn / mandoa-linguistics-consultant / huttese-lexicon-specialist / sith-linguist-scholar; world-builder defers to lore-researcher. None of them had Task in their tools list, which meant those references were aspirational, not executable. Added Task to all three. outliner was audited and left alone (only reads files, doesn't dispatch).
3. Project-level notes infrastructure. /holocron:notes previously only handled the inline %%NOTE: …%% markers inside chapter prose. Writers had no first-class place for project-wide ideas, todos, world questions, or "remember to fix X" reminders that don't belong in a specific chapter. v1.4.0 adds a second tier: notes.md at the project root with four sections (Ideas / Todos / World Questions / Remember), four new flags on the existing skill (--add, --add-todo, --add-question, --add-remember) that each append a dated bullet under the right section, a --list flag that renders both tiers in one view, and a new Project Notes card on the dashboard's Workshop tab that mirrors the inline-notes card pattern.
The two tiers stay distinct: inline markers are about prose-level edits ("damp wool repeated in chapter 7"); project notes are about everything else ("Bao-Dur POV chapter midway through Act II"). The dashboard surfaces both side by side. The existing --process and --clear flows for inline markers are untouched; --clear does not touch notes.md (project notes are durable).
Added
commands/adopt.md— slash-command shim. 6 lines mirroringcommands/new.md. Restores/holocron:adoptnamespacing in the picker.commands/illustrate.md— same pattern for/holocron:illustrate.commands/voice-act.md— same pattern for/holocron:voice-act.templates/standalone-story/notes.md— new project-level scratchpad scaffold. Four sections (Ideas / Todos / World Questions / Remember), each with an HTML comment explaining what belongs there. Top of file documents the four/holocron:notes --add*flags so the writer can discover them inline.projectNotesfield intemplates/dashboard/data.schema.json— sibling toinlineNotes. Object with four string-array properties (ideas,todos,questions,remember).- Project Notes card in
templates/dashboard/index.html— full-width card on the Workshop tab, rendered above the existing 2-column row that holds Inline Notes and Subagent Runs. Two-column inner grid for the four sections. Empty state ("No project notes yet. Use/holocron:notes --add "…"to add one.") when all sections are empty. Total-item count +notes.mdsource label in the card's action slot.
Changed
agents/architect.md— addedTaskto the tools list. Body already referenced consultinglucasfor the mythic register check,karpyshynfor psychology, andstoverfor prose-level intensity; the dispatch was unrunnable until now.agents/character-developer.md— addedTaskto the tools list. Body references consultingtraviss,karpyshyn,mandoa-linguistics-consultant,huttese-lexicon-specialist, andsith-linguist-scholarfor character-specific deep-dive work.agents/world-builder.md— addedTaskto the tools list. Body says "defer to thelore-researcheragent" for canonical-fact resolution.skills/notes/skill.md— extended for the two-tier system. Description rewritten to call out both inline markers and project notes. Argument hint expanded to cover the new flags. New "Tier 2 — Project Notes (notes.md)" section. Usage block lists every flag. Output format expanded with--listand--add*confirmation samples. Implementation section split into Inline-marker scan and Project-notes append/list. Workflow split between the two tiers. Existing--processand--clearsemantics preserved verbatim — they still operate only on inline markers;--clearexplicitly does not touchnotes.md.skills/dashboard/skill.md— files-read list now includesnotes.md(parsed into the newprojectNotesfield). Workshop-tab description updated to call out the project-notes parsing and the inline-vs-project distinction.agents/new-project.md— Phase 7data.jsonsynthesis bullet list addsprojectNotes(parsed fromnotes.mdinto the four-section object). On first install, all four sections are empty; subsequent runs re-parse from the file..claude-plugin/plugin.json,.claude-plugin/marketplace.json— version bumped to1.4.0.
Notes
- Why three skills shipped without shims. Plugin auto-discovery scans
skills/and registers each one regardless of whether a matchingcommands/X.mdexists; the shim is what controls the picker's display. The three affected skills were each added in different releases (adoptin v1.1.0,illustratein v1.3.x,voice-actin v1.3.0) and none of those releases included the shim creation step in the release checklist. The fix is one-time; future skill additions should bundle the shim with the skill. - Why the Task gap matters. Without
Task, an agent that references "consultlucas" in its body has no way to actually invokelucas— the reference becomes aspirational documentation. The audit was scoped tight: only agents whose body explicitly references dispatching other agents gotTaskadded;outlinerwas reviewed and intentionally left without it (its body only references files, not other agents). - Why project notes belong in their own file, not in a chapter. Inline
%%markers%%are scoped to a specific line in a specific chapter — they're for prose-level edits. Project notes are scoped to the whole project — they're for ideas that aren't tied to a specific scene. Forcing project ideas into chapter files would require the writer to pick an arbitrary host chapter; keeping them innotes.mdkeeps the chapter files clean and gives the dashboard a clean parse surface. - Backwards compatibility. Existing v1.3.0 projects work without modification.
notes.mdis absent until either the writer runs/holocron:notes --add*(the skill creates the file from the template if missing) or runs/holocron:reconcile(which detects and offers to install missing scaffold files). Dashboard renders an empty Project Notes card in either case — no breakage.