v2.4.1 — much faster skill installs, plus list and view that fit your window

This release makes dna check much faster at installing skills and sizes the action list and the F3 view to your terminal window. It also fixes a crash on Windows when an agent or a CI job runs the check. Package: Agentic.Check 2.4.1; InnoWvate.Agentic 2.4.0 and InnoWvate.Dna 1.0.0 are unchanged, and so are the directives and skills.

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What's new

Skills install in parallel. Up to 48 skills are installed at a time instead of one after the other. Installing 84 skills went from 166 seconds to about 6 in our measurement. Results are still reported in list order.

The action list fits your window. The list showed at most 24 items, whatever the height of the window. It now uses the rows the window has: more items in a tall window, and in a short one the list no longer grows past the window.

The F3 view fills the window and leaves the screen as it was. A page is as tall as the window instead of 24 lines. The view opens on the terminal's alternate screen, as a pager does, so Esc brings back the list with the summary above it, exactly where they were. A terminal without an alternate screen shows the view over the list as before.

InnoWvate.Agentic follows the newest version in its major. A repository that has dotnet agentic installed is offered the update whenever nuget.org has a newer version in the same major, also when no selected directive or skill asks for it. A tool that is listed in the repository but not restored yet is updated to that version instead of restored to the old one.

Directives and skills may now ask for different minor versions. The -m in content that calls dotnet agentic is a minimum within one major, so one tool at or above the highest minor serves all of it. Only different majors conflict.

Improvements and fixes

• Windows: the check starts when an agent or CI runs it. Agentic.Check crashed at startup on Windows when none of its input and output streams was a console, which is how agents and CI jobs start it. Versions 2.0.0 through 2.4.0 had this; a normal terminal was not affected.
• An interrupted install leaves no half-written skill. Each skill is downloaded into a staging folder and moved into place only when it is complete. When an install fails or is cancelled, a skill that was already there stays as it was.
• A GitHub slow-down is waited out. When GitHub temporarily limits requests, the check says so, waits 60 seconds and retries the remaining installs one at a time, and once more after 120 seconds. Skills that were installed stay installed. An exhausted hourly limit still ends the run with a message.
• Ctrl+C in the F3 view returns the shell to its normal screen.
• A clearer message when installed content asks for different majors of InnoWvate.Agentic. It names the files and the versions they ask for, and tells you to run dna check and apply the pending updates.
• Tested on Ubuntu and Windows as well as macOS. The published packages are now run on all three before a release, including a first-time setup that installs 84 skills.

Upgrading from 2.4.0

Nothing to apply in your repositories. dna check runs the newest Agentic.Check by itself, and the directives, skills and InnoWvate.Agentic 2.4.0 are unchanged in this release.

Requirements

.NET 10 SDK and the GitHub CLI (gh). A GitHub login is optional.

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.4.1

Commits in this release

• 07913fd apply dna check 2.4.0
• e9d5bfc Add badge for built with: dna in README
• 5f0a2b5 Capture the 2.4.0 baseline collection with the published dna package in the feed
• 5112ce9 Make the 2.4.0 collection the full suite's default baseline
• 98d7a9b Install skills concurrently through a staging folder and retry after a secondary rate limit
• e10160b Set InnoWvate.Agentic to 2.4.1, the next version after its 2.4.0 publication
• 121e80f Follow the newest companion in its major and stop discovery flagging installed skill copies
• 8edba6c Let directives and skills state their own minimum companion minor within one major
• f32114e Keep a package's published version until it changes and test it as the published package
• da6a1a8 Pack candidates once in CI and test them on Ubuntu, Windows and locally
• 38ab5f5 Start on Windows without a console and show product results in the Windows package job
• 94fe593 Size the action list and the F3 view to the terminal window and show the view on the alternate screen
• 73d6e2c Test the largest install and the preview-to-stable switch on Ubuntu and Windows
• 27ea76c Test a first-time stable setup that installs 84 skills in one run