v2026.7.20

AIWG 2026.7.20 - Portable project resources and measured discovery

Released: 2026-07-26
Channel: stable

AIWG 2026.7.20 makes project-local operation more portable and makes discovery
quality measurable. Artifact-root handling now reaches the remaining context,
storage, configuration, Smith, update, and extension lifecycle paths, while a
checked-in relevance benchmark records why lexical discovery remains the
production default.

Highlights

• Portable artifact roots - context generation, storage, configuration,
  MCPsmith, Toolsmith, update services, and project-local bundles consistently
  honor the shared project artifact resolver and AIWG_ARTIFACTS_PATH.
• Discovery evaluation - aiwg index eval-discovery runs an 80-query,
  eight-capability benchmark and reports ranking, hard-negative, latency,
  index-size, and memory evidence for the production paths and experimental
  candidates.
• Provider-aware orchestration guidance - generated bootstrap context
  chooses bounded worker roles and explains each provider's actual execution
  model without transferring integration responsibility away from the primary
  agent.
• Kernel surface conformance - provider deployment now has integration
  coverage that proves each supported platform receives the same 24-skill
  kernel inventory and no standard skills, with unit coverage for project
  quickref destinations.
• Project-local lifecycle hardening - packaging, promotion, removal,
  discovery, and updates now agree on validated standalone plugin contracts and
  artifact locations.
• Local media adapters - media-curator transcription and diarization skills
  include local adapter scripts and synchronized framework/plugin guidance.
• Code-to-docs reconciliation - managed addon and framework documentation
  was regenerated from authoritative component sources before release.

Package matrix

All three packages publish in CalVer lockstep:

aiwg@2026.7.20
@aiwg/cli@2026.7.20
@aiwg/cockpit@2026.7.20

The signed release tag publishes the npm packages with provenance, creates the
Gitea release assets and checksums, and mirrors the stable release to GitHub.

Upgrade

Full local-corpus distribution:

npm install --global aiwg@latest
aiwg discover "project-local plugin lifecycle"

Lightweight signed-web distribution:

npm install --global @aiwg/cli@latest
aiwg discover "project-local plugin lifecycle"

Existing installations and explicit resource-source selections remain
compatible.