Eight releases in one day, published as one. The reason for all of them: three
versions running crashed on every macOS launch, and there was no way to install a
working version by name.
Install
curl -fsSL https://agentbabysitter.com/install.sh | bash
Already have it? Just run abs — it offers you the update itself.
What changed
-
macOS launches cleanly. bash 3.2 — still
/bin/bashon a Mac — finds the
closing paren of$( … )with a scanner that does not know here-documents
exist, so it lexed the prompt's prose as shell and died at startup. Fixed, and
the test suite now runs bash 3.2 in a container so the whole class of bug
cannot come back unnoticed. -
Voice on by default, using Kokoro: 82M parameters, runs on the CPU, a note
in seconds. The old engine wanted a GPU and on a laptop took minutes — slow
enough that a burst of replies piled up and wedged the machine. -
Choose your voice by ear.
abs voice samplessends one voice note per
voice, so you pick by listening rather than by reading names. -
The daemon needs no git clone.
abs src installunpacks the release into
~/.abs/src, so acurlinstall is a full install — always-on daemon,
sandboxes, and starting a session from your phone. -
Voice notes no longer wedge. The synthesis lock was Linux-only and nothing
was time-bounded, so a Mac ran several speech models at once and none of them
finished. One lock and one ceiling on every OS now. -
The status bar colours your remaining context, and your usage numbers ride
along with reports automatically instead of when the model remembers.
1017 tests pass, including bash 3.2 coverage.
Falling back
Every release stays installable — https://agentbabysitter.com/releases.html
ABS_REF=v2.5.1 curl -fsSL https://agentbabysitter.com/install.sh | bash