v2026.8.9
AIWG 2026.8.9 - Prompt-first docs and verified setup
Release date: 2026-08-15
Channel: stable
AIWG 2026.8.9 updates the public website, documentation, setup flow, and
distribution-trust planning around a simpler operating contract: people install
and repair AIWG directly, while agents and scripts handle deeper capability
routing. It also advances the aiwg use deployment path so the command can
deploy, index, regenerate context, and verify that a project is ready.
What changed
- Public docs keep advanced discovery and orchestration commands in the
dedicateddocs/cli/corpus. User-facing pages keep install and repair
commands visible, and describe deeper workflows as natural-language prompts
plus stable asset IDs. - The website release work exposes generated Pagenary content through the
main site design, including blog and release-history pages that can paginate
larger result sets without URL or filter oddities. aiwg usecomposes deployment, capability indexing, canonical context
generation, and scoped verification into one command. Human output reports a
concise readiness result; JSON output emits theaiwg.use.result.v1envelope.- The Devin Desktop provider selector is available as a tested selector:
devinis preferred,
devin-desktopremains equivalent,windsurfremains a compatibility alias,
and the distinctdevin-clisurface is still rejected explicitly. - Issue authoring assesses final drafts before tracker mutation, preserves
safe drafts, gates flagged drafts, and splits deterministically separable
rejected drafts into linked atomic issues. - AIWG accepted the cross-asset authenticity research contract: DSSE plus
in-toto Statement envelopes, exact-byte digest rules, publisher delegation,
rotation and revocation policy, verifier outcomes, JSON Schemas, conformance
vectors, and a phased implementation roadmap. - Deployment verification distinguishes real failures from advisory-only
limitations and preserves machine-readable JSON on failure paths. - The default
aiwg usereport separates copied provider artifacts from
the authoritative framework inventory indexed for discovery, suppressing
registry scan chatter unless verbose diagnostics are requested. - AIWG's active release configuration and npm release-plan sidecar now match
the current schema and pre-tag CI contract. Schema-validated public examples
keep that dogfood path covered in clean clones as well as maintainer
workspaces with an attached project artifact corpus. - The web build advances to Vite 6.4.3 and refreshes its locked Babel, Nano ID,
and PostCSS dependencies, leaving the web workspace with no reported npm
audit vulnerabilities and an unchanged production bundle. - Provider deployment defaults now enforce the compact kernel-and-quickref
skill profile. Codex repairs stale full-copy deployments without removing
operator-owned skills, and every supported provider exercises the same
default, opt-in full-copy, and repair conformance checks. - Release version checks now include the Cockpit package and both of its
lockfile version fields, keeping all three published npm packages aligned. - Release and documentation-sync workflows now resolve the effective artifact
corpus withaiwg artifacts path, preventing split-root workspaces from
recreating release state or reports in the local control-plane directory. - Canonical component documentation has been reconciled with the collected
public corpus so subsequent documentation builds remain deterministic.
Verification
The release candidate must pass version and marketplace lockstep validation,
TypeScript, production builds, generated public-docs checks, audience and CLI
surface audits, Fortemi discovery gates, automated unit and UAT suites, hosted
CI, signed-tag verification, and post-publication checks for release assets,
checksums, npm packages, and installer surfaces.
Package matrix
aiwg@2026.8.9
@aiwg/cli@2026.8.9
@aiwg/cockpit@2026.8.9
Upgrade
Use npm to install the aiwg package at version 2026.8.9.
For the lightweight signed-web distribution:
Use npm to install the @aiwg/cli package at version 2026.8.9.
After upgrading, ask your coding agent to deploy AIWG for the provider you use
and verify that the project is engaged. Operators who prefer direct CLI checks
can use aiwg doctor --deployment and aiwg status --probe --json.
Rollback
Roll all three npm packages back together to 2026.8.8, then redeploy the
project's provider assets and regenerate its context files.