v0.26.0

Features

• Gate orchestrator engine (t635_11): Added a gate orchestrator that runs a task's declared verification gates — handling retries, parallelism, and stuck-detection — plus ait gates run and gate-authoring scaffolding.
• Resume in-flight tasks (t635_6): Added an aitask-resume command that re-enters an interrupted task at its last checkpoint, driven by the recorded gate ledger.
• Gate-aware task picking (t635_7): aitask-pick now surfaces in-flight tasks as resume candidates and routes a picked task straight back to where it left off.
• Shared gate-ledger parser (t635_8): Added a shared parser for gate-run state so TUIs and tools read task progress from one consistent source.
• Board In-Flight view (t635_9): The board gained an In-Flight view listing actively implementing tasks with their gate state and a one-key resume launch.
• Monitor gate status (t635_10): The monitor now shows a compact gate summary (passed/pending/failed) for each running agent.
• Mobile live terminal streaming (t822_8): Applink can stream live terminal snapshots to the mobile companion as compact binary keyframes.
• Mobile delta streaming (t822_9): Terminal updates stream as row-level deltas, sending only changed lines to the mobile app.
• Mobile append fast path (t822_10): Scrolling output uses an append fast path that sends just the new bottom rows, cutting bandwidth for log-like panes.
• Mobile task-action handshakes (t822_11): Added confirm/suggest handshakes for restarting a task or picking the next sibling from the mobile app.
• Headless applink bridge (t822_13): ait monitor --headless-for-applink runs the mobile bridge without the terminal UI, printing an ASCII-QR pairing block — ideal for servers.
• Device name in pairing QR (t822_5): The mobile pairing QR now carries the host's name so the companion app can label the connection.
• Applink firewall doctor (t1043): Applink diagnoses LAN firewall issues at launch and offers a guided, consent-based fix so pairing isn't silently blocked.
• Project groups (t1025_1): Projects can be organized into named groups via ait projects group, with an explicit ungrouped bucket and slug validation.
• Two-axis project navigation (t1025_2): The TUI switcher and stats view added group-aware navigation, letting you cycle by project group as well as by session.
• Project Groups settings tab (t1025_3): The settings TUI gained a Project Groups tab to assign, clear, rename, and sync groups, with create-on-type support.
• Topic anchor field (t1016_1): Tasks can carry an anchor field grouping them under a root topic, with --anchor/--followup-of flags on create and update.
• Board By-Topic view (t1016_4): The board gained a By-Topic view (y) that groups tasks into topic lanes by their anchor, with an editable anchor field in task detail.
• Shadow concern format (t1037_1): Defined a structured concern-block format and parser so a shadow agent's plan critiques can be machine-read.
• Shadow emits concerns (t1037_2): The shadow agent now emits its plan challenges and assumption checks as a structured, prioritized concern block.
• Concern picker (t1037_3): Added a picker modal to select among a shadow agent's surfaced concerns and copy them for the followed agent.
• Forward shadow concerns (t1037_4): minimonitor can capture a shadow agent's concerns (c), offer them automatically, and copy the selected ones to the clipboard.

Enhancements

• Restart operations from Running tab (t1018_2): The brainstorm Running tab can re-run a whole operation group fresh (n) or retry-apply it (i), with one-call group cleanup.
• Double-click to open group detail (t1018_3): Double-clicking a group row in the brainstorm Running tab opens its detail, and a focused+hovered row keeps the accent color.
• Cross-group project browsing (t1036): Session cycling in the switcher and stats walks a cross-group ring, re-pointing the group axis as you move.
• Auto-refresh In-Flight board (t1024): Switching to the board's In-Flight view reloads task and gate state automatically.
• DAG node marks (t1004): Marked nodes in the brainstorm graph show a ☑/☐ checkbox glyph, matching the list view.
• Follow-up anchor provenance (t1016_3): Auto-created follow-up tasks inherit their origin via --followup-of, keeping them grouped with the originating topic.
• Richer concern framing (t1037_6): Shadow concern bodies carry full framing (problem, why it bites, how to confirm) rather than a bare one-liner.

Improvements

• Unified Browse tab (t983_3): Merged the brainstorm list and graph tabs into a single Browse tab with a toggle and one shared node-detail panel.
• Operations dialog (t983_4): The node-action dialog became a unified Operations dialog with selection-aware ops, a target summary, and in-modal help.
• Node Hub overlay (t983_5): Pressing Enter on a node opens a Node Hub overlay combining detail view with an Operations entry point.
• Pre-seeded operation wizard (t983_6): Launching an operation from a node or marked set pre-seeds the wizard, skipping the redundant node-selection step.
• Compare overlay (t983_7): The brainstorm Compare tab became an on-demand overlay reachable from the Node Hub and Browse.
• Session tab (t983_8): Split session-lifecycle actions into their own Session tab, keeping the operations picker focused on design ops.
• Running tab + status strip (t983_9): Renamed the Status tab to Running, added an always-on runtime strip, and added agent cleanup/retry actions.
• Operation wizard as overlay (t983_11): Moved the multi-step operation wizard out of a tab into a dedicated modal screen.
• Footer keybinding hygiene (t1018_1): Scoped brainstorm retry actions to their owning tab and replaced undeliverable chord shortcuts with working ones.
• Single Browse cursor state (t1003): Consolidated the brainstorm Browse cursor onto a single selection model.
• Modularized brainstorm code (t1048): Split the large brainstorm TUI module into focused submodules, shrinking the main file by ~39% with no behavior change.
• Named project registry records (t1029): Project registry rows are parsed into named records for clearer, safer field access.
• Shared group-cycle logic (t1033): Centralized the project-group cycling logic shared by the switcher and stats views.

Bug Fixes

• Cross-repo & archived board relations (t1021): The board resolves archived tasks in cross-repo, child, and folded relations.
• Board detail actions from dependencies (t1062): Fixed board detail actions being dropped when a task was opened from a dependency.
• Parent/child task resolution (t1026): A parent id no longer wrongly matches an active child.
• Primary-branch detection in sync (t1027): Sync/desync detects the repo's primary branch instead of assuming main.
• Primary-branch in contribute/externalize (t1031): Fixed hardcoded main assumptions in the contribute and plan-externalize flows.
• Brainstorm comparator lifecycle (t1020): Gave the comparator a proper completion lifecycle so results apply reliably.
• Brainstorm crew status (t1041): Fixed stale crew status by deriving the rollup on read.
• Brainstorm tab-switch keys (t1060): Tab-switch keys fire from any tab, not just Browse.
• Brainstorm wizard/preview UX (t1047): Fixed several node-operation wizard and preview-checkbox UX bugs.
• Brainstorm config mount timing (t1050): Hardened config mounting so the proposal preview populates reliably.
• Root node delete guard (t1010): Guarded against deleting the root node in a brainstorm graph.
• Brainstorm footer scoping (t1039): The footer no longer shows actions that don't apply to the current tab.
• Brainstorm cycle-field contrast (t1019): Fixed low-contrast text on a focused cycle field.
• Focused-row hover color (t1038): Fixed focused brainstorm rows losing their accent color on hover.
• Applink empty subscribe (t1044): An empty applink subscribe expands to all panes instead of subscribing to none.
• Monitor pane resize (t981): Fixed monitor pane resize to use the subprocess path, restoring correct geometry.
• Narrow agent-command dialog (t1012): Fixed the minimonitor agent-command dialog to render correctly in narrow panes.
• Codex plan helper readiness (t1006): The Codex plan helper waits for the composer to be ready before sending the prompt.
• Codex/OpenCode mirror markers (t1028): Fixed duplicated instruction markers in the Codex and OpenCode mirrors.
• Helper-script permission drift (t1001): Restored a missing helper-script permission entry that caused approval drift.
• Pre-existing test failures (t1014): Fixed pre-existing board and workflow test failures.
• Multi-session monitor test (t987): Fixed a multi-session monitor test by isolating its tmux environment.

Documentation

• Brainstorm TUI docs (t929_3): Added a code-verified brainstorm TUI documentation set (overview, how-to, reference).
• Brainstorm agent defaults (t968): Documented brainstorm per-agent model defaults and stopped the settings UI from rendering orphaned agent rows.
• Project group docs (t1025_4): Added code-verified documentation for project groups and the new navigation behaviors.
• Anchor docs (t1016_2): Documented the new task anchor field across all schema, skill, and website surfaces.
• Shadow agent docs (t986_6): Documented the shadow companion agent across the framework docs and website.
• Shadow concern picker docs (t1049): Documented the shadow concern-forwarding flow and the minimonitor c picker.
• Applink permissions docs (t822_12): Synced the applink permission/verb gating table with the canonical command inventory.
• Monitor design doc refresh (t1013): Refreshed the applink monitor-port design doc to drift-proof symbol references.

Maintenance

• Applink security hardening (t985): Hardened applink security — TLS 1.2+ floor, connection/rate caps, input validation on all verbs, secure file permissions, and audit logging.
• Applink push scheduler resilience (t822_14): Hardened the push scheduler against send failures and added resilience tests.
• Brainstorm stale-ref cleanup (t1008): Removed stale references to retired brainstorm detail/patch operations.