ultracodex 0.5.0

The agent is the unit of programming: agent() is a call with a typed, validated
return, plain JavaScript composes it, and the Executor Contract keeps it portable
across Codex, Claude, and OpenCode. v0.5.0 completes the picture — the same unit
now runs once (Workflow), runs until it's good (Loop), runs on a clock
(Scheduler), and remembers (Org).

Loops

• goal, packaged in the box: builder rounds against explicit criteria, gated
  by a skeptical verifier — and the criteria carry the stop condition, so
  completion goals ("the backlog is empty") work too. Strict-valid portable Agent
  Script; returns { done } so it composes with scheduling.
• run <name> resolves packaged workflows after project-saved ones; nested
  workflow('<name>') too.
• Loop observability — agents tagged with the round grammar
  (<loop>:<role>-r<N>, bare -r<N>, or Round N phases) fold into trajectory
  dashboards: verdict strip, converged-after-N, per-round token cost. New LoopView,
  a Loops home tab, and a LOOPS section in show.

Scheduler

• ultracodex schedule add|ls|pause|resume|rm — recurring runs via one tagged
  crontab line per schedule, fully owned (installed, rewritten, and removed
  without touching the rest of your crontab). There is no daemon.
• --until-done retires a schedule when its run returns { done: true };
  --max-runs caps repetition; --budget caps every scheduled run, and scheduling
  an unbudgeted run warns loudly.
• Missed-run nudges at startup, a doctor section for crontab drift, and a
  Schedules home tab (exec-history strips, next-fire countdowns, exec-now,
  pause/resume/remove, schedule-from-TUI with S). ULTRACODEX_CRONTAB_FILE makes
  every schedule operation testable against a file instead of your real crontab.

Orgs (experimental)

• ultracodex org init|tick|wake|send|ask|tickets|lint|status|audit|replay —
  filesystem-routed agent organizations. Each agent is a directory (role contract,
  memory files, inbox), woken by triggers (time, inbox, severity, dependency) and
  executed from inside its own directory so the sandbox enforces the single-writer
  rule. Superiors read one ≤80-line BRIEF per seat.
• Messages are routed contracts: NOTIFY never travels up your own chain, REQUEST
  opens tickets ancestor-to-descendant, replies ride the ticket. Violations are
  ledgered, the sender gets feedback, and one failed wake never aborts a tick.
• org audit verifies cited claims against their sources and delivers findings as
  inbox notifies (agents self-correct next tick); org replay re-lives ingested
  history with fault injection (--pristine for true counterfactuals).
• The org-creation skill designs an org with you — coverage, role templates,
  fetcher contract, audit cadence — and an Org home tab renders the live tree,
  an ops board, and a briefs reader.
• Ships experimental: the runtime is tested end to end, but the discipline is
  young — supervise early cycles; don't schedule them unattended yet.

Engine & TUI

• GPT-5.6 lineup, pinned against codex-cli 0.144.0: fable/opus →
  gpt-5.6-sol, sonnet → gpt-5.6-terra, haiku → gpt-5.6-luna; reasoning efforts
  max and ultra pass through natively.
• The TUI home is now four tabs — Runs · Loops · Schedules · Org — all pure
  folds over plain files, with a lightweight status line (default backend · model ·
  routed backends), contextual empty-state onboarding, and consistent keyboard nav.
• 603 hermetic tests (all three backends faked; no API keys in CI), plus a live
  pre-release gate that runs a real workflow against Codex and asserts the journal,
  not just the final JSON.

Receipts

Every number in the README traces to a committed artifact — a
four-model controlled comparison
(same script, one [route] line apart, raw journals included) and the
v0.5.0 fleet ledger
(14 runs, 72 agents, 1.26M output tokens, all on Codex). Every feature in this
release was built by ultracodex fleets running on ultracodex.

Compatibility & upgrading

npm install -g ultracodex && ultracodex doctor

• Agent Scripts are unchanged and remain byte-compatible with Claude Code's
  Workflow tool (validate --strict checks the portable subset).
• Shipped defaults moved to gpt-5.6 / codex-cli 0.144.0. On older codex
  binaries, doctor reports the drift; pin models via config if needed.
• A project .ultracodex/workflows/<name>.js now shadows a packaged workflow of
  the same name (goal, org-audit, org-lint-repair).

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0