v2.5.0

[2.5.0] - 2026-08-22

Positioning, and the removal of the last thing that made "no API calls"
untrue.

Added

• Cost. The dashboard prices measured usage at Anthropic's published
  rates, per model, split into cache reads, output, cache writes and fresh
  input. On one real 277-call project that is $84, of which 67% is cache
  reads: a number that was previously visible only as "102.3M" with no way to
  size it. Labelled as list price throughout, because a subscription user is
  not billed per token.
• Overhead as a ratio. "1.4K injected" now reads "1.6% of what it kept
  out", which is the claim the footnote on openwolf.com already makes.
• Governor breakdown by command family. The classifier always knew the
  family at the rewrite point, but the rollup threw it away and kept only
  scalars. Sessions now carry bash_governed_by_family, folded into a
  lifetime map that survives session trimming, so the dashboard can answer
  which families are paying off and which are set to suggest.
• A plain-language panel. Not everyone using OpenWolf reads ledgers. One
  paragraph states how many tokens were kept out of context, what that would
  have cost at the ceiling, what OpenWolf spent doing it, and the net.

Changed

• Reads and writes were two numbers glued with a dot; they are now "edits per
  file read", with the raw counts underneath.
• A sub-30% anatomy hit rate is called out in the accent colour instead of
  sitting in a neutral tile: it is the most actionable number on the page.
• The "saved · denied re-reads" tile no longer renders a dead "n/a" in warn
  mode. Warn mode says what it caught and how to switch to deny.

Removed

• AI suggestions and every other model call. The ai_task cron action
  shelled out to claude -p for two weekly tasks (cerebrum reflection and
  project suggestions). It was the only path in OpenWolf that reached a
  model, and it contradicted the one claim the whole project rests on. Gone,
  along with the Insights dashboard panel, suggestions.json, and the
  cron.use_claude_p / cron.api_key_env settings. openwolf update
  deletes the leftover file; a stale manifest entry now fails loudly instead
  of silently reaching the network.

Fixed

• Windows hooks, properly this time. 2.0.4 swapped $CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR
  for %CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR% on Windows, which fixed nothing: PowerShell is
  Claude Code's shell there and has no %VAR% expansion, and the variable is
  not in the hook environment on any platform to begin with (project context
  arrives through the stdin JSON payload). Every hook died with
  MODULE_NOT_FOUND on every tool call. Hook commands now carry the resolved
  absolute path, so no shell expansion is involved at all. Hooks also derive
  the project root from their own location when no environment variable is
  set. Reported in detail by @aevnar.
• A malformed buglog no longer takes anything down. A .wolf/buglog.json
  written as a bare array of entries (the natural shape when an agent writes
  the file by hand) reached bugs.length unguarded. In one real project the
  pre-write hook failed on 465 consecutive invocations with nothing but the
  heartbeat noticing, openwolf bug search threw, the SessionStart file
  index was silently dropped, and the dashboard rendered a blank page. Both
  shapes are now normalised at the boundary, in the hooks, the CLI, and the
  dashboard loader.
• Dashboard panels render inside an error boundary: one malformed state file
  degrades a single panel instead of blanking the page.
• detectAgent() recognises Claude Code by CLAUDECODE, which is actually
  set, instead of CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR, which is not. Sessions were being
  attributed to "default" and losing their per-agent ledger rows.
• openwolf update now also removes hand-patched hook entries written with
  native Windows path separators, which previously survived the filter and
  ran alongside the new ones.

Changed

• New positioning across the README, openwolf.com, the npm package and the
  GitHub description: portable project memory across agents, plus measured
  token accounting. "Second brain" is retired.
• openwolf init prints a banner and a scannable summary instead of a wall
  of checkmarks, names whichever agents it actually wired rather than telling
  every user to run claude, and reports the real hook count.
• Hook count corrected to 12 everywhere. The docs said 10 while documenting
  12.