v0.33.0

Highlights

• Mosaic message boards now stay visually stable across hydration, compaction retention, fused-agent backlog arrivals, same-topology resizes, and cross-lane startup activity, with structural replay bounded to the affected compaction epochs.
• Steering and task continuity are more reliable: explicit operator work survives dry allocator guidance, immediate Codex ACKs retire correctly, restart collisions are repaired, and a lane can reclaim its own dirty-tree task without losing work.
• RTK integration now requires 0.45.0 and uses tighter, evidence-backed rewrite routing with reliable rg path labeling, while shell instrumentation runs exactly once at the initial agent-command boundary.
• Repositories can disable individual built-in pre-commit gates while retaining configured replacement gates, with faster provenance checks and stronger Python 3.14 and Rust-analysis compatibility.
• Deployment diagnostics now identify packaged configuration skew directly, and extension/process operations receive a 180-second deadline for long-running tools without premature timeout failures.

Task-level changes

Changes by project

Lifecycle Rtk

• Raise the RTK floor to 0.45.0. (affd145)
• Retire the common-group route for rg flags on the grep frontend. (831f5e2)
• Correct the false claim that a typed grep reaches the rtk grep frontend. (151420e)
• Narrow the rg native route to the one shape that loses paths. (7ec756a)
• Made RTK rg path labeling unconditional and retire filesystem_search. (7380d9a)
• Bound the RTK rewrite selector and teach the wait audit local bindings. (d5a7681)

Lifecycle Shell

• Made shell instrumentation one-shot at the initial agent command boundary. (a840e2c)

Lifecycle Deployment

• Diagnose packaged-layer unknown keys as version skew, not operator typos. (4309636)

Tests Precommit

• Fixed predecessor Rust complexity parsing for apostrophes in comments. (1e839c7)
• Fixed Python 3.14 tree-sitter crash in predecessor complexity gate. (d119050)
• Verify installed and repository Rust magic-number gate convergence. (9d7e256)

Task Allocator

• Prevent dry allocator guidance from overriding explicit operator requests. (058d92a)

General

• Raise extension tool deadline to 180 seconds. (a227dd1)

Serve UI

• Soften dry allocator messaging in drain mode. (03f93d3)
• Replace remaining smile emoji with chili pepper. (d01ce62)
• Preserve mosaic placement across same-topology width changes. (0b7f5cf)
• Use the mosaic content width as the sole ResizeObserver change authority. (e363c33)
• Render mosaic geometry from the ResizeObserver completion frame without delayed debounce. (dd1d1f4)
• Retain deterministic autonomous geometry provenance for mosaic full replays. (4e3cd82)
• Eliminate cross-lane mosaic jitter from global startup and render effects. (66861f7)

Serve Port

• Raise extension and process call timeout from 120 seconds to 180 seconds. (a2ba072)

Hooks Policy

• Allow repositories to disable built-in pre-commit gates while retaining configured replacements. (539492b)

Hooks Performance

• Eliminate repeated Git provenance work in Python doctor. (cad82c4)

Mail Reliability

• Trace and surgically fix repeated ACK collision after restart. (b36dbc9)

Lifecycle Ack

• Process Codex JSON assistant items for immediate ACK retirement. (5551a3b)

Serve Messages

• Align mosaic retention cutoffs to compaction floors. (92fcedb)
• Bound interleaved structural replay to the affected compaction epoch. (449b44b)

Tests Browser

• Added explicit help and argument validation to the release browser smoke runner. (ec41718)
• Align hydration replay floor with bounded mosaic reconciliation. (b3d99b3)

Task Claim

• Allow dirty-tree no-op reclaim of the lane’s current task. (bb61f5e)

CLI Codex

• Audit Codex JSON driver anomalies shown in operator screenshots. (00c7d6c)

Package Notes

• PyPI release: spice-harness==0.33.0
• Release commit: da53fa33
• Commit range: v0.32.0..da53fa33
• Commit source: first-parent history grouped by Task-Project metadata
• Release tag: v0.33.0