v0.32.0

Features

• Grouped board columns — data model (t1243_8): Added a boardgroup task field so cards can be grouped inside a board column, with merge-aware resolution so concurrent edits from two sessions no longer clobber each other.
• Grouped board columns — focus and rendering (t1243_9): The board now draws a header for each group, and arrow-key navigation moves over groups as single units. x collapses or expands the focused group.
• Grouped board columns — collapse and filtering (t1243_10): Collapsed groups stay collapsed across restarts and survive column renames, merges and deletions. While a filter is active, each group header shows how many of its cards match.
• Move a task to a column from minimonitor (t1377_2): The minimonitor task prompt now offers "move to a board column" alongside picking the task, with a column picker showing each column in its own colour.
• Create a new column from minimonitor (t1377_3): You can create a brand-new board column on the spot and move the task straight into it, without leaving minimonitor or opening the board.
• Column merge engine (t1377_4): Merging one or more columns into another moves all their tasks in a single operation, refusing cleanly rather than half-applying when the board has changed underneath you.
• Board column management dialog (t1377_5): e on the board opens a Columns dialog — add, edit, reorder with Shift+Up/Shift+Down, and merge columns, all from one place.
• Workflow phase on agent cards (t1420): The monitors now show which workflow phase a followed agent is in and whether it is waiting on you. The shadow companion uses the same signal to pick its default mode instead of asking.
• Review round headers (t1159_1): Shadow review blocks now carry a Round: N @ <time> header, so repeat review rounds are told apart — notifications name the round, and a clean round clears the previous round's badges instead of leaving them stuck.
• Automatic shadow re-review (t1159_2): The shadow can now re-run its review automatically when the followed agent revises its plan, waiting for real evidence of a change and honouring a cooldown so it never fires on stale or half-drawn output.
• Reject a concern so it stays rejected (t1427_1, t1427_2, t1427_3): The concern picker gained a three-state mark — forward, reject, or neither — with r/R and a viewer for what you have already rejected. Rejected concerns are stored per task and suppressed by every review producer, so the same objection stops coming back round after round.
• Follow-up kind on tasks (t1468_1, t1468_2): New followup_kind field records why an auto-spawned follow-up exists (risk mitigation, QA, review finding, docs gap, …), set automatically at every one of the twelve places the framework creates a task.
• Follow-up kind on the board (t1468_3): Board cards show a coloured glyph for their follow-up kind, and collapsed group headers roll the kinds of their members up into the header.
• Follow-up kind in ait ls and pick (t1468_4): ait ls now always shows a task's type, shows its follow-up kind when it has one, and gained --type, --followup-kind and --no-followup-kind filters. Task picking surfaces the same information.

Bug Fixes

• Board showed no cards when relaunched in the same pane (t1491): Relaunching the board in a pane that had just run it left every column looking empty. Also, a column emptied by a filter now says so instead of claiming it is empty.
• Startup focus audit across all TUIs (t1495): Audited every Textual TUI live for the same startup-focus defect and fixed the one other affected surface (codebrowser on a non-git branch).
• Lock reclaim reported crashes that never happened (t1465): The lock's process anchor recorded the short-lived claim script rather than the session, so re-claiming a task always announced a crash. It now anchors to the real session and reports alive, dead, or unknown honestly.
• Claiming a task held by a live session was silent (t1466): Acquiring a lock held by a still-running session of your own now refuses with a clear message and distinct exit codes, instead of quietly stealing it.
• Gate lock stale reclaim race (t1496): Two sessions reclaiming the same stale lock could both win. Reclaim is now single-winner, scoped per repository and per user, and never displaces a live holder.
• Gate attempt counter advanced by two (t1262): Each gate procedure attempt was counted twice, so retry budgets burned at double speed.
• ait setup --help ran a full install (t1435): --help and -h now print usage and exit, both for ait setup and for the bootstrap shim in a fresh directory.
• Broken-pipe error storms from YAML output (t1444): Readers that exit early — head, a closed pager — no longer make the YAML emitters flood the terminal with write errors, while genuine disk-full failures stay loud.
• Minimonitor quit on a transient tmux hiccup (t1446): Auto-close now requires two consecutive confirmed-empty observations; any tmux failure or partial listing resets the count instead of exiting.
• Shadow staleness read a tmux failure as "all clear" (t1451): A failed pane query is now reported as unknown rather than silently suppressing the staleness warning. Companion-pane cleanup also became marker-driven.
• Stale review concerns after a recheck (t1493): The concern picker kept showing the previous round's items after a recheck, with no indication they were out of date. It now tracks block age and shows a distinct banner when staleness cannot be determined.
• Wrong colour names left TUI styling inert (t1453): Four unresolvable colour names silently rendered as unstyled text across the monitors and TUI switcher; sixteen duplicated literals were collapsed into named constants with a scan guard against regressions.
• Literal brackets rendered as markup (t1486): [size: N], [AUTO] and issue/PR indicators could be swallowed or mis-styled by the markup parser in the board, monitor and log viewer.
• Log viewer header went stale on a quiet log (t1489): Toggling raw mode or reloading a log that was not being appended to left the header showing the old state.
• Parent card disappeared when only its child matched (t1469): Filtering the board now keeps a parent card visible when one of its children matches the filter.
• Stale prompt patterns missed waiting agents (t1474): Agents sitting on a trust-folder prompt were not flagged as awaiting input; hyperlink escape sequences in captured output are now stripped correctly.
• Test scaffolding reported false passes (t1207): Shell test files whose bodies run in subshells reported zero failures and exited clean no matter what failed. Eleven suites now use a fail-closed counter.
• Test-fixture and dead-code cleanups (t1480, t1482, t1485, t1488): Removed dead board-settings persistence code, regenerated four stale skill goldens, deleted an unreachable branch in brainstorm archival, and fixed a test scaffold that copied an incomplete module set.
• Rejected-entry format comment (t1464): Two comments documented the wrong field layout for rejected concern records.

Improvements

• Merged gate and phase into one minimonitor row (t1479): Gate status and workflow phase now share a single row that sheds detail gracefully as the pane narrows, instead of costing two lines.
• Distinguishable session dividers (t1449): Repository session dividers in both monitors are now bold cyan, clearly distinct from the section headers above them.
• Stale gate witnesses shown everywhere (t1416): Gate summaries, dependency status and archive checks all now agree on when a signed gate has gone stale, instead of only the enforcing path knowing.
• Trail gathering uses the shared record protocol (t1436): Replaced a private copy of the delimiter-safety logic with the shared implementation.

Performance

• Batched dependency checks for ait ls (t1472): ait ls now resolves dependency-unblock status for every task in one call instead of one call per task.

Documentation

• Column management docs (t1377_6): Documented the new Columns dialog, column merging and the minimonitor move-to-column flow across the board and minimonitor guides.
• Concern rejection docs (t1427_4): Documented rejecting a concern, removed three passages describing the old picker, and added a rejection-store section to the shadow reference.
• Docs gaps since v0.31.0 (t1504): Documented board groups, the merged gate/phase status row, follow-up kind glyphs and the gate skills across eleven website pages.

Maintenance

• Gate skills ported to the other agents (t635_23): The three gate skills now ship for Codex CLI and OpenCode as well as Claude Code, and the "Claude-only" prose they carried was retired.