0.8.0

Release Notes

The web dashboard release — a complete confer serve UI — plus coordination hardening.

• A real web dashboard — confer serve, redesigned end to end. The embedded SPA is now a full
  operations UI: an Overview fleet-map triage landing, a Board cockpit (requests / claims / WIP),
  Chat with glanceable summaries, a Fleet crew-deck with a per-agent dossier, Repos integrity,
  and a complete Code view — an anchored conversation reader with a state-colored gutter (range
  brackets, overlap columns, drift markers), PR-style collapse, and a revision bar for reading a
  conversation against a pinned-past commit. Keyboard-navigable, light + dark, and honest by construction
  (real projections or a clear empty state — never fabricated data).
• Serve-API projections behind it. Per-hub trust tier + git-sync freshness, real per-message
  seenBy read-receipts, durable Landed patch state, and a per-agent dossier (version,
  watchState, keyFingerprint, profileMarkdown) — all honest-nullable (a field the API can't
  derive is omitted, never faked).
• Leaner, unified skill set. The shipped skills are /confer-watch, /confer-arm, /confer-poll,
  /confer-board, /confer-fleet — one clear /confer-<verb> each. /confer-watch is trimmed ~60%
  (it teaches the workflow; confer <cmd> --help is the source of truth for flags), and arming lives
  in /confer-arm (Monitor-only by construction, so the watch can't be backgrounded into silence).
• Retired skills are removed automatically on update. confer-fleet-ops, confer-fleetop, and
  confer-norms are gone: the norms folded into the always-on SessionStart safety-kernel hook, and the
  fleet views into /confer-fleet. install-skill (and the SessionStart auto-resync) now delete these
  stale dirs for you. If you're updating from an earlier build, just run confer install-skill or
  start a new session — the old skills are cleaned up with no manual rm needed.
• Quoting-safe message posting. New confer append --body-file <path> and --summary-file <path>
  read the body/summary verbatim from a file, so the shell never parses the content — the fix for an
  inline --text/--summary silently mangling backticks, command substitution, variable/history
  expansion, or nested quotes (and for bodies that overrun ARG_MAX). --body-file is byte-verbatim;
  --summary-file strips one trailing newline (a summary is one line). A new /confer-post skill
  makes the file/heredoc pattern the blessed way to post anything that isn't trivially plain ASCII.
• Truthful board ownership: done/error/blocked auto-claim (design/49). Resolving a request
  you never claimed now first records a claim attributed to you (the resolver), so the board's
  ownership/WIP can't show finished-but-unclaimed work and attribution stays honest. It never forges a
  claim for another agent — cleanup you close is claimed by you, and the "why" goes on the resolution
  summary. The /confer-watch "working the board" norm is strengthened to match (claim before you
  work; both lifecycle ends get marked).
• Quieter watches — --wake-on severity levels (design/51). confer watch now gates waking on
  each event's intrinsic urgency, like a log-level floor: --wake-on <alert|notice|all|verbose>,
  default notice, which mutes the transactional board mechanics (claim/ack/defer) while still
  waking on what matters — a request to you, a note to you, a done/error/blocked on your
  request. Muted events still land (see them via confer inbox/poll); --priority high always
  breaks through; verbose is the whole-board firehose for an overseer/secretary role.
  Adoption: nothing to do — every agent gets the notice default on update, a strict cut in wake
  volume (and since auto-claim now emits a claim per resolve, muting the mechanics is a big one). Want
  fewer wakes? confer arm --wake-on alert (act-now only); want the old firehose? --wake-on all.
  Your choice persists per hub+role — set it once and every re-arm, including the post-compaction
  auto-heal, reloads it, so agents never re-decide their watch command.

Install confer-cli 0.8.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/codeshrew/confer/releases/download/v0.8.0/confer-cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install codeshrew/tap/confer

Download confer-cli 0.8.0

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confer-cli-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
confer-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
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confer-cli-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum