release: Code UX 0.9.6

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Summary

Promotes the validated dev integration state to main as Code UX 0.9.6.

This patch release advances the published 0.9.5 baseline with durable persistent-skill context and management, normalized live invocation parsing across all supported local CLI providers, complete imported issue descriptions, and targeted sprint/CI recovery hardening. It also refreshes the bundled model catalog and keeps canonical and published documentation aligned.

Release Snapshot

Item	Details
Version	0.9.6
Base	origin/main at 6ef8c97f79bc30abc0d09d2b640a43f2bb2bf1b8 (v0.9.5)
Content head	origin/dev at 3cac0644b932bee183a1901e74ed44fb87923551
Release branch head	d952e3eb36cf52a3b5977d60af55f7fd2fa487e2
Scope	218 files changed; 22,154 additions and 5,598 deletions
Release branch	release/v0.9.6

Patch Notes

Persistent Skills and Agent Settings

• Agents with persistent storage now receive an authenticated, scoped inventory of the available skills and concise descriptions in their runtime context.
• The Agents settings experience is reorganized into focused panels, with a dedicated persistent-storage manager rather than an oversized combined form.
• Agent detail views disclose the persistent skills attached to a storage on hover, and storage-management controls preserve non-destructive interactions.
• Deleted storage attachments are reconciled safely, so settings do not retain stale associations.

Invocation Visibility and Usage Telemetry

• Live invocation parsing now covers Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Qwen, OpenCode, and Antigravity rather than only coding-task flows.
• Normalized transcript turns persist user, assistant, reasoning, tool-call, and tool-result activity for richer invocation inspection.
• Provider-specific parser hardening improves token accounting, transcript resilience, and live execution visibility across all supported local CLI providers.

Imported Work Context

• Imported issue records retain their full source description through search, persistence, MCP imports, planning context, and dashboard updates.
• Empty refresh payloads no longer overwrite an already captured issue description, preserving useful planning context.

Sprint and CI Reliability

• The orchestrator recovers completed provider work after a restart and resumes task execution without creating unnecessary duplicate work.
• CI repair guardrails now surface exhausted states clearly, avoid restart races, and prevent stalled repair loops from masking actionable attention.
• Main-merge gating and git-status handling receive additional coverage and recovery protections for healthy sprint completion.

Catalog and Documentation

• The bundled models.dev catalog is refreshed for current provider/model metadata.
• Canonical documentation and the published docs-web mirror document persistent skills, invocation tracking, sprint behavior, configuration, MCP tooling, and testing updates.

Fixes

• Fixed persistent-skill context being unavailable to invoked agents despite storage being configured.
• Fixed agent-settings cleanup and attachment reconciliation gaps that could leave stale storage UI state.
• Fixed incomplete invocation transcript and usage parsing for non-coding and provider-specific execution paths.
• Fixed imported issue descriptions being absent from downstream planning and susceptible to destructive empty updates.
• Fixed restart recovery and CI-repair timing races that could leave otherwise recoverable work paused or hidden.

Validation

Local validation on release/v0.9.6 passed:

pnpm run ci
pnpm run check:docs-web
CODE_UX_SKIP_RELEASE_INSTALL_BUILD=1 node scripts/verify-release-install.mjs
git diff --check

Results:

• pnpm run ci: quality guardrails, high-severity audit, strict typecheck, backend coverage, dashboard tests, and production build passed.
• Backend coverage: 397 test files passed; 5,068 tests passed and 7 skipped; all configured coverage thresholds passed.
• Dashboard suite: passed as part of the local CI equivalent.
• Docs synchronization and packed npm-install smoke both passed.
• git diff --check passed.

GitHub must additionally pass the full main-promotion matrix, including release policy, CodeQL, package install smoke, cross-platform orchestration/E2E, and Linux/macOS/Windows release-candidate packaging before merge.

Risk and Rollback

• Primary risk is concentrated in provider transcript parsing, persistent-skill storage context, and restart/CI-repair state recovery.
• Rollback before publication: revert this release PR from main and keep the existing v0.9.5 release active.
• Rollback after publication: npm versions are immutable; publish a corrective patch release rather than attempting to republish 0.9.6.

Included Integration PRs

• #2819 — extended invocation parsing across providers
• #2822 — preserve imported issue descriptions
• #2835 — complete invocation-type parsing coverage
• #2845 — CI repair and restart recovery hardening
• #2848 — persistent skills and Agents UX cleanup