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v2.3.0 — cross-platform, helper skills, and the Codex governor

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@alicicek alicicek released this 01 Jul 23:03
v2.3.0
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Tale Mode is a discipline plugin for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex — it makes any Claude work like a careful senior engineer (verify the real code, source every decision, run an independent review before "done"), and ships a self-armed autonomous loop that keeps going until a real check passes.

This is the first tagged release. It captures everything from the v2 line through today: the plugin runs on both Claude Code and Codex, arms itself from committed gates during a kickoff phase, and now has an optional read-only governor on both hosts.

Highlights since the v2 baseline

Cross-platform (Claude Code + Codex). The skill and the autonomous loop run on both runtimes. On Codex the phase workflows surface as skills, and a one-time touch ~/.tale-mode-allow-cwd-root opt-in lets the loop find your project root. Verified against a live Codex session, not just documented.

Helper skills. trust (documents the two user-only opt-in files and the security model), seed-gates (suggests committed gates from your package.json/CI — suggest-only, never auto-writes), and end-phase (the explicit off-switch for phase enforcement). All tuned to load only when you ask.

Autonomous loop, more capable.

  • Committed-gate auto-arm during a /tale-mode:kickoff-phase phase, gated on a content-hash you trust.
  • Optional no-progress stop (TALE_NO_PROGRESS_N): disarm cleanly after N identical failing rounds instead of grinding to max_rounds.
  • Multi-line gates (a gate value may span lines and runs as one script).

Layer-2 governor (optional companion, v1.2.0). Once the loop is stuck, a read-only fresh-context reviewer names the thing the deterministic gate can't see. On Claude Code it's a Sonnet agent hook; on Codex it's a new hook that spawns one OS-sandboxed codex exec --sandbox read-only reviewer per stuck goal, guarded against recursion. Advisory only — it never blocks. Install separately: /plugin install tale-mode-governor@tale-mode.

Install

/plugin marketplace add alicicek/tale-mode
/plugin install tale-mode@tale-mode               # core (free)
/plugin install tale-mode-governor@tale-mode      # optional governor

Requires Claude Code ≥ v2.1.154 (kickoff auto-arm verified on ≥ v2.1.195). See the README for the full tour and SECURITY.md for the threat model.

Verification

Every hook path is covered by a deterministic gate — bash tests/verify-cross-platform.sh runs the four unit suites (164 / 29 / 10 / 65 checks + 26 for the governor), claude plugin validate, and Codex parse/engagement checks. The plugin is dogfooded: changes to it are built with its own method and reviewed by the plan-reviewer agent it ships.

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