chore(main): release wizard 1.18.0

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1.18.0 (2026-05-22)

Features

• [BA-200] pair Claude Agent SDK runs with @amplitude/ai telemetry (#858) (b617940)
• agent-mode: model_used event for orchestrator model-awareness (#726) (5867f85)
• agent-mode: parent-agent contract polish — SIGINT + auth_required + run_phase + lock_held + Zod-at-emit (#714) (de497f4)
• agent-mode: tool_response envelope + tool_call.id correlation (#730) (f49da82)
• analytics: capture run duration + version on setup-complete event for speed trending (#774) (6647c08)
• commandments: mandate 1-3 properties per track() + plan reconciliation in Setup Report (#751) (162356b)
• consume terms_acceptance from needs_information with local-constant fallback (#675) (fa7fc30)
• evals: Haiku-vs-Sonnet quality A/B harness for one-shot LLM call sites (#606) (02d101b)
• orchestration: v2 foundation — durable state, lifecycle, status/resume commands (PR 1 of 3) (#689) (5761ef7)
• signup: support arbitrary needs_information.required combinations (BA-149) (#753) (90b77a2)
• telemetry: add wizard launched root event with arg fingerprint (#781) (2624a70)
• tui: /version slash command for wizard + protocol version visibility (#768) (3abc1d7)
• tui: cancel outro reports preserved-file state (#770) (2c0bd94)
• tui: collapse intro picker + add Tab sign-in escape on SignupEmail (#795) (39635a2)
• tui: delight pass — gradient wordmark, picker flash, spinner moods, typewriter, voice (#773) (bc2786f)
• tui: error + recovery polish — hotkey pills, retry backoff, last-activity anchor (#771) (a916110)
• tui: events-per-minute sparkline on DataIngestionCheck (#764) (c19f53d)
• tui: infer Vertical + App-type Discovered facts from project signals (#711) (d653d4a)
• tui: register /help slash command and Tab autocomplete in palette (#769) (78e5954)
• tui: replace /diff command with persistent Diff tab (#804) (9290389)
• tui: RunScreen redesign — RunTimeline (gated WIZARD_NEW_UX=1) (#806) (254e608)
• ui: add diff viewer (live toast, /diff slash command, end-of-run summary) (#599) (927f05c)

Bug Fixes

• auth: add structural fallback gate so Auth.isComplete blocks even when pendingEnvSelection gets clobbered (#775) (f195bbd)
• auth: block flow forward-walk while env selection is pending (race fix) (#760) (fa68152)
• auth: clear credentials on needs_user_choice/environment_selection so env picker renders (#747) (39644a8)
• auth: env picker renders after reset when fresh pendingOrgs has stale selectedOrgId/ProjectId (#797) (37b3cc2)
• auth: env picker renders when fresh fetch returns asymmetric env keys (#797 follow-up) (#805) (389f6bb)
• auth: structural gate falls back to first-org/first-project when no IDs selected (#780) (e26e504)
• bash-policy: allow pwd / ls / ls <path> to cut top-deny pattern (#798) (4e0ae9f)
• bugbot: move resolveCommonOpts into try/catch in all 6 orch handlers (#759) (533155f)
• checkpoint: invalidate stale checkpoint when project metadata is missing (#778) (eb1b237)
• commandments: forbid proposing events covered by autocapture (#744) (cc3256e)
• event-plan: feedback now actually round-trips through the LLM and the revised plan renders verbatim (#701) (8409487)
• frameworks: remove PostHog-era minimum version gates (#860) (0557ad3)
• observability: scrub Windows user paths and Sentry stack frames (#859) (3f5432c)
• observability: truncate raw SSE frames in error logs + better classification of mid-stream 400s (#705) (95be862)
• reliability: bail synchronously on AUTH_RETRY_LIMIT — controller.abort alone doesn't stop SDK retries (#710) (41f7a52)
• reliability: suppress SDK Stream-closed noise during task_notification race (#614) (d300cd1)
• self-heal: follow-up to #703 — clear stale env pre-selection after needs_user_choice (#709) (3e9c1cf)
• self-heal: unstall second run after .amplitude/ wipe — surface env-selection instead of silent defer (#703) (80c4ae2)
• sentry: pass registerEsmLoaderHooks: false to skip Node 23+ DEP0205 (#802) (370905c)
• test: bump agent-interface inter-attempt token refresh timeout to 30s (#777) (ba7fd3e)
• test: stabilize OutroScreen preserveFiles K-test process.exit spy (#776) (19c74d3)
• tui: /diagnostics and /debug print full storage paths inline (#750) (28b784e)
• tui: clear sticky currentFile pill when agent activity is quiet (#765) (4e48bcd)
• tui: clearOverlays on hard resets (setRegionForced / resetForFreshStart / cancelWizard) (#727) (4c1ba8f)
• tui: collapse dead vertical space + visual polish on Progress tab (#688) (9b0e52e)
• tui: drop digit-shortcut UI hints on >10-option PickerMenu lists (#767) (aee4b1f)
• tui: Events tab shows wired-code names as files land (#749) (ad9cabc)
• tui: hold event-plan screen during feedback round-trip + drop stale Events-tab copy (#745) (a8da803)
• tui: Outro reads event list from wired code, splits autocapture from instrumented (#746) (8c7edbf)
• tui: patch nanostores map.setKey to mutate $session in place (#762) (2d9e603)
• tui: progressive coaching + Esc + watchdog on event-plan revision screen (#761) (53cf6a1)
• tui: stop overdraw across Setup Report, /diff overlay, slash palette, outro (#779) (eab7fad)
• tui: suppress duplicate status pill when it would echo the active task label (#695) (01af8e8)
• wizard-tools: respect human-intended event-name casing in confirm_event_plan (#743) (3884f2d)

Performance Improvements

• agent: disallow unused Claude Code built-in tools to reduce cold-start tokens (#628) (0946c42)
• agent: memoize AI-SDK gateway probe per session (#642) (7bebef0)
• agent: parallelize cold-start probe + pm-detect + MCP bootstrap (#644) (ef7b12d)
• agent: tighten commandments + framework prompts for scale and quality (#799) (5dcc524)
• build: bundle wizard via tsup for faster cold-start (#692) (06506f7)
• health: collapse Statuspage pair fetches into summary.json + keep-alive (#647) (a0514c6)

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Low Risk
Low risk release-only change: updates version strings and generated changelog/manifest without modifying runtime behavior beyond reported version/user-agent.

Overview
Release bump to 1.18.0. Updates the release manifest, package.json, and the internal VERSION constant in src/lib/constants.ts.

Adds the 1.18.0 section to CHANGELOG.md summarizing the features, fixes, and performance improvements included in the release.

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