v1.8.0 — Operator Legibility & Observability

1.8.0 — 2026-07-23

Operator legibility and observability: make DevFlow's operator surface legible
and its self-reported state trustworthy. Every unit is single-writer,
operator-facing, and reversible or detection-only. Phase 21.

Fixed

• DevFlow's dogfood build-staleness guard no longer hard-blocks a self-run when the only commits ahead of the running binary's embedded commit changed nothing the compiler sees. embedded_commit_is_stale's strict-ancestor arm now filters git diff --name-only <embedded> HEAD through the same affects_compiled_binary predicate the dirty-tree arm already used — a docs-only (.planning/) range reads Fresh, any build-input change reads Stale, and a git error fails toward Stale. The block message no longer claims "is not an ancestor of HEAD" for the common case where the embedded commit is an ancestor, just behind

Added

• devflow gate show <phase> [--stage] prints a gate's full context untruncated (the gate list view caps at 100 chars), routed through the same control-character sanitizer so it stays terminal-safe
• devflow status now surfaces the rate-limit reset time in its cron hints, an in-stage progress line sourced from the latest stage_launched event (not the phase's own started_at), and resume/advance recovery-verb hints when a phase is stuck
• devflow doctor gains a detection-only planning-doc staleness check that reconciles ROADMAP.md/STATE.md version and outcome claims against the repo's git tags and flags drift, in both human and --json output — it never rewrites prose
• sequentagent's second agent now writes a tracked, path-free slot record so devflow status observes it while it runs, with RAII cleanup on every exit path and no routing through the phase state machine