1.81.0

What's new

• Damage control 0.4.0: damage-control-dev explain shows how a command was judged; a differential fuzzer hunts respelled misses; more indirection and path spellings are followed (option grammar, split interpreter names, chained path variables, dot segments after quotes); quoted message text is no longer read as a path operand.
• agentwire fleet: a read-only report-back ledger for child sessions, with a portal panel.
• # ask: <reason> replaces # allow:: a would-be block becomes a human confirmation that bypass and auto modes never demote.
• Permission hook asks the engine before auto-approving, so non-demotable asks stay with the human.
• Opt-in agentwire new --sandbox (default off), with a spike report in the wiki.
• Upgrade safety: a CI job upgrades from the previous PyPI release in a fresh HOME.

Improved

• agentwire doctor no longer scores orphaned chains on dead sessions; teardown states the record it leaves.
• CLAUDE.md is about 60% smaller; the design narratives live in docs/wiki/.
• New sourced comparison of AgentWire with other multi-agent orchestrators.
• The SessionStart hook ignores nested headless runs from another cwd.

Looking ahead

Broader respelling coverage in the engine and more fleet visibility.

Feedback and reports welcome: https://github.com/dotdevdotdev/agentwire-dev/issues