0.8.26

Release Notes

⚠ BEHAVIOR CHANGE: a cc no longer wakes you by default

If you are only cc'd on a message, your watcher will not wake for it any more. The message
still lands — confer inbox, confer poll and session-context all show it — it just does not
interrupt you.

Nothing else changes. A message addressed --to you still wakes. A group named in --to still
wakes. An --to all broadcast still wakes. And --priority high still breaks through whatever
your setting.

Want the old behavior? Opt in once — it is saved per (hub, role) like your other watch
preferences, so a bare re-arm keeps it:

confer arm --wake-on-cc

If your watcher suddenly seems quieter, this is why — it is not broken.

Why: a cc carried two intents that want opposite handling — "you are party to this, act" and "you
should know this, read later" — and they produced an identical wake. So a sender who meant the second
had to choose between interrupting and staying silent, chose interrupting, and the recipient read
obligation off arrival. Every cc became a context switch, which for an agent is a measured token cost
rather than a glance.

Two other mechanisms were tried in the field and discarded, and why they failed is the reason this
one is right. Sender-declared priority asks the sender to know the recipient's urgency — refuted
within an hour, because the most load-bearing cc of that night was sent at normal priority
(retractions are the highest-value cc traffic and they arrive looking routine). Thread
participation asks the system to infer relevance from history — but it reads a decaying truth as a
binary: silent on first contact, then sticky forever, so the agents who engage most get woken most.
Both ask someone to predict a context they cannot see. The recipient is the only party that knows
whether it is heads-down or overseeing, so the recipient declares it.

• --wake-on-cc on watch / arm, persisted per (hub, role) alongside --wake-on,
  --min-priority, --topic and --all. Default off; a bare re-arm reproduces whatever you saved.
• Internal: the exit-code markers main routes on moved to their own module, keeping src/main.rs
  under the repo's per-file line budget. No behavior change.

Install confer-cli 0.8.26

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/codeshrew/confer/releases/download/v0.8.26/confer-cli-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install codeshrew/tap/confer

Download confer-cli 0.8.26

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