Release v1.8.0 · BourbonDog/amicus

What's Changed

amicus_wait MCP tool: A new blocking wait mechanism replaces the sleep+polling pattern. Call it once and it blocks inside a single tool invocation until your session or wave reaches a terminal state or the wait window closes, returning the same JSON as amicus_status plus timing and timeout information. Works across processes, not just the caller.
amicus status CLI command: Query session or wave status one-shot from the command line with human or JSON output. Delegates directly to the MCP handler for zero logic duplication, same crash detection and wave rollup as the API surface.
Agent-visible progress enrichment: amicus_status and amicus_list now surface mode, phase, messageCount, lastActivityAt, and latestPreview fields so Claude can track what stage a run is in. Interactive (GUI) sessions now emit the same lifecycle progress stages as headless runs, and long-thinking turns emit periodic thinking-delta ticks instead of one-shot completion markers.
amicus doctor duplicate-registration check: New mcp-legacy check detects plugin-channel installs that never ran postinstall and still carry a duplicate legacy sidecar MCP entry. doctor --fix cleans it up automatically.

amicus abort now actually stops interactive and wave-leg runs: Marker-first coordination with honest output reporting what really happened, including the unkillable-pid case. Gracefully no-ops when the target isn't running.
Legacy-MCP remediation preserves custom env: The CLI path (claude mcp add-json) on re-registration now merges the previous entry's env instead of dropping it, matching the file-fallback behavior.

Legacy sidecar_* MCP tool aliases are now opt-in: The default client-visible surface is the amicus_* toolset (14 tools as of this release). Activate legacy aliases with AMICUS_LEGACY_ALIASES=1 in the MCP server's env. Saved allowlists referencing mcp__amicus__sidecar_* will stop resolving unless you opt back in. These aliases will be removed entirely in the next major version.
Postinstall no longer registers a separate sidecar MCP server: Auto-removes a verified-identical duplicate left over from pre-1.8 installs. Customized sidecar entries or sole sidecar registrations (no amicus twin) are left untouched.

Added future goal: Council Review GitHub Action v2 with adjudicated CI verdicts (Phase 10 of the review-execution plan), gated on headless Stage-2 orchestration or claude-code-action driving the second-opinion skill.

Full Changelog: v1.7.7...v1.8.0