v6.0.0

Breaking

• dreamcatcher moves to state format 6. It keeps its local state in
  .dreamcatcher/v6/ and starts with none, so the assignments and conversations
  that v5 saved are not carried on. Stop a v5 daemon before you start v6.
  Compatibility and upgrades says
  what to settle first.
  (#561)

Added

• Once an assignment's pull request is ready for review, dreamcatcher wakes
  the agent without a post from you when the base branch leaves the pull request
  behind it or in conflict with it, and when a check fails. Each is relayed once
  for each commit at the head of the pull request, and a draft gets neither.
  After two rounds in a row woken by failing checks, a failing check does not
  wake the agent again until a round has something else to relay, such as a post
  from you. (#571)
• The views show an assignment's merge state and check result beside draft or
  ready, and an idle assignment says when its checks are running or still
  failing after two attempts.
  (#571)
• A Claude assignment round may run gh pr checks and gh run view without
  being asked, so that it can read why a check failed.
  (#571)
• An assignment round's input file gains two keys: pull_request_head, the pull
  request's head commit when the round started, and signals, which lists
  out_of_date or check_failure when either woke the round. The agent
  contract stays at version 1, and an assignment skill may ignore both, since
  the prompt carries the instructions.
  (#571)
• A conversation ends when its issue is closed, and the web home page lists it
  with your other ended work.
  (#568)

Changed

• Assignments and conversations share one set of states: working, waiting, idle,
  fault, unknown and ended. The states needs user feedback, complete and
  cancelled are gone. An assignment that needs your feedback reads as idle, and
  one that completed or that you cancelled reads as ended with that detail.
  (#565)
• dreamcatcher status and the web home page list each labelled issue that has
  no work yet beside the work of its kind, and say why no work has started:
  available, blocked by an issue, claimed by a pull request, waiting for a
  comment, carrying conflicting labels, or unknown because a read failed. The
  sections of available, blocked and routing-conflict issues are gone.
  (#565)
• A round that fails before its agent starts, such as an assignment's first
  round when it cannot push the branch, is an errored round. It counts towards a
  fault like any other, and the failed setups section is gone from the views.
  (#562)
• After a round errors or is interrupted, the next round is given the same input
  again, with a line saying that the previous round did not finish. The feed and
  the rounds table say what woke each round.
  (#562)
• A conversation belongs to the conversation label that started it. Removing
  that label, unassigning the issue or adding a second conversation label pauses
  it, and undoing the change resumes it in the same harness session. Another
  conversation label starts a conversation of its own once it is the issue's
  only conversation label.
  (#568)
• Every assignment and conversation has an identifier that ends in its kind,
  such as GH12-20261017-093000-assignment, and an assignment's branch is named
  after it, such as dreamcatcher-GH12-20261017-093000-assignment. The
  conversation command, and feed and stop with --conversation, select
  the newest conversation at the issue, and retry clears the faults of the
  newest assignment and the newest conversation.
  (#561)
• The web page of an assignment or a conversation is at /work/<identifier>.
  The /assignments/<identifier> and /conversations/<issue> addresses are
  gone. (#561)
• An issue with an open assignment no longer has its blockers and linked pull
  requests read at every update, so the daemon makes fewer GitHub reads.
  (#568)
• The web interface's matrix theme drops its boxes, as the nature theme did.
  Panels become headings over a rule, assignments, issues and conversations are
  rows divided by rules, and the feed and rounds line up with their headings.
  The filled chip alone marks an assignment that needs your feedback, and the
  current round's number shows in inverse video.
  (#543)

Fixed

• dreamcatcher status and the web interface read the dispatch labels that the
  running daemon loaded, where they read dreamcatcher.toml before. They no
  longer disagree with the daemon after you edit the file, and they still work
  when it is missing or broken.
  (#561)
• Removing conversation label A from an issue and adding label B no longer
  resumes A's conversation with A's settings. B starts a conversation of its
  own, and A's stays paused.
  (#568)
• An assignment interrupted while it set up its branch, worktree or pull request
  no longer leaves them behind with no record that names them. The assignment is
  recorded first, and its next round finishes the setup.
  (#562)
• An assignment relays a post by the signed-in account however GitHub writes the
  login's capitals, and no longer relays a post whose body is only whitespace,
  as conversations already did.
  (#573)

What's Changed

• Limit the CI token to reading the repository by @alimanfoo in #541
• Web status CSS classes depend on display wording by @alimanfoo in #544
• Streamline matrix theme by @alimanfoo in #543
• Specifications for the state format 6 phase by @alimanfoo in #552
• Stage 1: one kind of agent work on disk by @alimanfoo in #561
• Stage 2: everything is a round by @alimanfoo in #562
• Stage 3: rows as data by @alimanfoo in #565
• Stage 4: one tick by @alimanfoo in #568
• Stage 5: signals by @alimanfoo in #571
• Stage 6: consistency review and release by @alimanfoo in #573

Full Changelog: v5.6.2...v6.0.0