v0.3.51

whyline 0.3.51

Inspect the files that matter during a Relay run without leaving the Whyline
console.

What's changed

• Three Relay file views. The Files pane now offers Working file, Plan,
  and All files so you can move between the agent's current output, the active
  plan, and the repository without opening another application.
• Live, read-only plan view. Whyline follows the active Relay plan, reloads
  it when it changes, preserves your scroll position during updates, and keeps
  working-file updates from replacing what you are reading.
• Repository browser. All files presents an expandable tree, hides .git
  and paths that escape the repository, opens text files in the console, and
  reports binary or deleted files safely.
• Persistent navigation. Returning to All files restores the same expanded
  tree, while returning to Working file shows the newest agent output.
• Safer error display. File and permission errors are rendered as literal
  text, so strings such as [Errno 13] cannot be interpreted as console markup.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@0.3.51 --force

Open whyline console, choose Relay, and press Files to use the new views.

v0.3.50

whyline 0.3.50

Keep Grok relay runs moving when a headless permission denial returns a
pretty-printed cancellation record.

What's changed

• Requires whyline-relay 0.2.39 or later. That release recognises Grok's
  real permission required: log shape when the following JSON spans several
  lines, recovers the resumable session ID, and uses the relay's existing
  cancelled-turn retry path.
• Prevents uv sync from restoring the affected relay. Both Whyline's
  runtime and development dependency floors now require `whyline-relay

  =0.2.39,<0.3`, and the lockfile resolves to 0.2.39.

• No Whyline application behavior changed. The parser fix lives in
  whyline-relay; this patch aligns Whyline's packaging with that fixed release.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@0.3.50 --force

Restart any open Whyline console after upgrading so it imports the new relay
package, then resume the paused run from Relay mode.

v0.3.49

whyline 0.3.49

Send an idea to whyline by email and carry it through the same confirmed
workflow as Telegram.

What's changed

• Capture ideas by email. Send a message with the subject idea (or no
  subject) from an allowed address. The message body becomes the idea, and
  optional key: value lines apply brainstorm settings.
• Authenticate every sender. Whyline accepts mail only from configured
  addresses whose authentication results show a DKIM or SPF pass. Duplicate
  messages are ignored using their Message-ID.
• Confirm actions by reply. Reply with the six-character code whyline
  sends to confirm each step. Codes are tied to the current idea revision, so
  stale or incorrect codes cannot start work.
• Receive finished documents as attachments. Word and PDF outputs are
  attached to the reply, and ideas captured by email also appear in Telegram
  when an allowed chat is configured.
• Manage email access from the CLI or console. Use whyline idea email allow|deny|list, or the Email section of the console's Inbox screen, to
  maintain the same allowed-sender list.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.38.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@0.3.49

v0.3.48

whyline 0.3.48

Take an idea from your phone to a reviewed plan and a running relay.

What's changed

• Create a spec and plan from Telegram. After a brainstorm, choose the
  repository and its saved Set up (preselected by default). Auto drafts the
  spec and implementation plan, asks planner questions in Telegram, and sends
  both documents back as Word and PDF.
• Start only after a final confirmation. Start shows the repository,
  agents, and timeout one last time. After you confirm, whyline reruns its
  preflight and launches the relay only when those checks pass. Release tasks
  remain yours.
• Control a run from its card. Status reports the current task, stage,
  round, agent, elapsed time, and redacted recent log lines. A pause presents
  Resolve's relevant choices as buttons; Stop is one confirmed tap. Every tap
  is acknowledged immediately and followed by its result.
• One-command Telegram setup. whyline idea telegram setup configures the
  bot, chats, agents, assistant, document formats, repositories, and service.
  The same settings are available in the console's new Inbox screen under
  Agents mode.
• Manage ideas in the console. The new Ideas screen lists ideas and
  scores and can brainstorm, refine, drop, reopen, and export them. The console
  also detects a newer whyline release and can update itself with one click.
• Honest diagnostics. whyline idea doctor checks the Telegram token,
  allowed chats, service, webhooks, and macOS PDF conversion. Telegram errors
  appear in whyline idea service status instead of looking like silence, and
  docs/idea-inbox.md covers both new and existing bot owners.
• Responsive, resilient background work. Cards expose only actions that
  make sense for their state, name the agent that started, and give an expected
  duration. Whyline keeps the Mac awake during scoring and brainstorming,
  restarts jobs interrupted by sleep or shutdown, reports how long it was
  offline, and makes clear in the bot profile that replies require the Mac to
  be on.
• Real PDF reports on macOS. Brainstorms and plans use the native document
  conversion path, with a sample conversion included in idea doctor.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.38.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@0.3.48

v0.3.47

whyline 0.3.47

Send an idea to your Telegram bot and get a brainstorm back.

What's changed

• Ideas from Telegram. Send an idea to your bot and it replies with a
  card: Brainstorm, Quick score, or Cancel. Only private chats you
  allow are read (whyline idea telegram allow <chat-id>); messages from any
  other chat are recorded and ignored.
• Brainstorm from your phone. By default every available agent researches
  the idea in one pass. You can choose the models, passes, final writer,
  backup and timeout in the same message (models: claude, codex /
  passes: 2 / timeout: 30). It runs in the inbox's own workspace, never in
  your repositories, and the synthesis comes back as Word and, where the Mac
  can make one, PDF.
• A quick score is one tap away, with the full report, Refine, Drop and the
  Excel workbook as buttons on the result.
• Plain-language replies are read by an assistant (whyline idea assistant <agent> --backup <agent>) that proposes a card. Nothing changes
  until you tap Confirm.
• Runs without a terminal. whyline idea service on runs the inbox from
  the existing scheduler while you are logged in. Replies retry until they are
  delivered, and a Mac that was off catches up on messages from up to about a
  day.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.38.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@latest

v0.3.46

whyline 0.3.46

An inbox for ideas, and a Resolve that gets you unstuck instead of in a loop.

What's changed

• whyline idea keeps every idea. Ideas live in a local database under
  ~/.whyline/ideas/ and in ~/.whyline/ideas/ideas.xlsx, which is rebuilt
  from that database after every change. add, list, show, refine,
  drop, reopen and export manage them; doctor checks the folder, the
  database, the workbook and which agents can run unattended.
• A quick score. whyline idea score runs one read-only agent turn that
  lists the sources it actually checked, rates usefulness and complexity 1-9,
  and gives a YES / NO / NOT YET verdict. whyline idea agents sets the
  fallback order.
• Reports as Word and PDF. Reports come as Word and, where the Mac can make
  one, PDF. whyline idea documents picks Word, PDF or both.
• Resolve offers another agent. When an agent times out, Resolve offers
  "Use instead" beside a longer timeout. When an agent's quota runs out
  and the relay could not switch by itself, Resolve offers the other logged-in
  agents, backup chain first.
• Ask agent shows that it is working and reads the agent's answer
  correctly; it no longer reports an empty recommendation.
• Files opens the newest changed file when you turn it on mid-run, instead
  of waiting for the agent's next write.
• Set up's Check no longer loops on its own file. Saving the Resolve choice
  no longer leaves the working tree dirty.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.38.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@latest

v0.3.45

whyline 0.3.45

Test plans that stay paired with the work, and safer recovery when a run stops.

What's changed

• Plan, Brainstorm, and Auto can add a Test planner. The optional planner
  writes a test plan beside the implementation plan, and the Reviewer reviews
  both together.
• Every phase ends with a Verify task. Its scenarios automate the checks
  for that phase, so the evidence travels with the plan instead of living in a
  separate checklist.
• Manual checks gate a release. The relay waits for each required manual
  check, and you pass or fail it from the console with a note recording what
  happened.
• Failed Resume launches Resolve automatically. Recognised recovery
  failures open the guided recovery flow without an extra click.
• Resolve points to the agent's own login. When Claude, Codex, or Grok has
  logged out, Resolve offers that agent's login action. A login always waits
  for your click and is never started automatically.
• Sticky failover is quota-aware. Resolve no longer recommends resetting a
  role to an agent that may still be out of quota.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.38.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@latest

v0.3.44

whyline 0.3.44

Per-attempt timeouts you choose, and a Stop that really stops.

What's changed

• Chat has a timeout on the bar. Pick 5, 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes, or
  none. The value is captured when you press Send, so changing it mid-turn
  does not touch the running attempt, and choosing it does not need Save.
• /timeout reads and sets it. /timeout shows the current limit,
  /timeout 30 or /timeout none changes it, in any mode.
• Stop cancels the attempt in flight. In Chat and in Brainstorm, Stop
  ends the running agent instead of waiting for it, and a late result from
  the cancelled attempt is discarded instead of being shown.
• Brainstorm and plan synthesis accept none. A long brainstorm can run
  without a per-attempt limit.
• Relay Set up writes timeout_minutes, including none, and leaves it
  alone when you did not change it.
• Scheduled Agents keep 1 to 240 minutes. None is not offered for
  unattended runs.
• /help explains the per-attempt limit, including provider limits
  that apply regardless of this setting.
• Set up no longer crashes on check text with square brackets. A relay
  hint such as [agents.antigravity] was read as styling and closed the
  console; check results and form errors now show as plain text.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.36.

Upgrading

uv tool install whyline@latest

v0.3.43

whyline 0.3.43

See the file an agent is writing, live, next to the console.

What's changed

• Files splits the console and follows the file being written. A Files
  button in Chat, Relay, and Agents opens a read-only pane beside the
  console. While a turn or a relay run is busy, the pane shows the file the
  agent wrote most recently and jumps to the first line that differs from
  the last commit. The pane starts hidden; turning it off keeps what it
  showed.
• Only real writes count. Files that were already dirty when the run
  started stay off the pane until they change, and a file the agent only
  read never appears. Binary, very large, and non-UTF-8 files show a short
  notice instead of their bytes.
• Earlier and Later step through this run's files. Holding an earlier
  file keeps it on screen; newer writes only update the path line until you
  step forward. Saving the same file again keeps your scroll position and
  says it was updated.
• A relay task in another repository is followed there too. Its files
  are shown as repo-name:path.
• Narrow windows stack the split. Below 120 columns the file pane sits
  above the console, so the prompt and every button stay reachable at 80×24.
• Set up and Plan explain a missing agent instead of crashing. With no
  agent CLI installed, they say which agents to install and show the
  doctor's agent lines, instead of raising an error.
• Windows fixes. Closing the console during an Auto run no longer fails
  when the console and the run release the same file at once.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.36.

Upgrading

uv tool upgrade whyline

v0.3.42

whyline 0.3.42

Recovery and Resolve: a relay that stops for a known reason can now be
fixed with one click, or with no click at all in Auto.

What's changed

• Auto commits the relay's own decision log and resumes. When the only
  uncommitted file is .whyline/decisions.md, Auto commits it and continues
  instead of stopping on the clean-tree check.
• A missing handoff gets one constrained recovery turn. The selected
  agent, then the backup chain, may only record the handoff. If it changes
  anything else, moves HEAD, or leaves no new handoff, the result is reported
  to you and nothing resumes.
• Recovery never edits task code and never skips the clean-tree check.
  It resumes only after the repository preflight passes. Login, blocked,
  round-cap, and release pauses still stop for you.
• Resolve in Set up and next to Resume. A failed Check or Resume
  explains each problem with its evidence and offers fixes, the recommended
  one first: commit the decision log, resume and keep paused work, stash,
  reset after a stray commit, reset a sticky backup switch, raise the
  timeout, or switch to an agent that still has usage. Fixes that can lose
  work ask you to confirm first.
• Problems Resolve does not know go to the selected agent, read-only.
  The agent, then the backup chain, explains the problem and recommends one
  of the listed fixes. It cannot change anything; your click applies it.
• Set up's Resolve select: Review or Auto. Review waits for your click.
  Auto applies the recommended fix and continues, once per task and round,
  except stash, reset, moving commits aside, and stopping a relay, which
  always wait for you.
• Commits from another whyline run are not blamed on the agent. Commits
  that a Brainstorm or plan run makes during a stage are diagnosed as such,
  and Resolve moves them to their own branch instead of folding them into
  the task.
• Sandbox refusals are explained, and a capped stage can be retried. The
  pause card shows the refused command, and a stage that hit its visit cap
  offers Retry stage once.

Needs whyline-relay 0.2.36.

Upgrading

uv tool upgrade whyline