v2.6.0

the worktree lifecycle release. rt worktree replaces the parking lot with a provision/dispose lifecycle backed by an on-deck pool of ready trees, and the daemon moves to realtime event tracking with per-repo grants. also ships the @mattstack/rt-client package, StrongDM agent verbs, and a batch of nav picker quality-of-life work. (an experimental mattcloud sandbox surface was built and retired entirely within this range, so it ships nothing.)

Worktree lifecycle

• new rt worktree verb family: provision, create, dispose, list, freshen, adopt, and each, with a nav picker when invoked bare
• on-deck pool: pre-created worktrees kept ready by the daemon (replenish/shrink), a ready-step engine with changed-glob triggers, and name pools with ticket-derived branch names
• provision claims from the pool or cold-creates, revalidates the claim under lock, and surfaces degraded readiness instead of hiding it
• dispose is guarded (MR-sha anchor, tolerant of generated drift, lease-aware) and renames to trash with async reaping, so verb latency is independent of tree size; if the trash rename fails, the branch and registry record are kept
• merge reactor: merged MRs trigger auto-return of your shell and guarded auto-dispose of the finished tree
• per-repo worktree registry with a reconcile pass (ground-truth branches, unmanaged-tree adoption), epoch-checked saves so stale snapshots cannot clobber concurrent writes, and per-tree operation locks
• the parking lot is deleted; rt park remains as a deprecated stub pointing at rt worktree
• install dedup sees through env-var prefixes, and pnpm implicit installs default to a plain install

Daemon: realtime tracking and freshness

• per-repo tracking levels (live/poll/off) with per-cache opt-in grants, edited interactively via rt daemon track
• realtime events watchers replace the ActionCable MR subscriptions; events fan out to granted stores (project upserts, teammate pushes, notes)
• delta sync: incremental updatedAfter pulls with a daily deep reconcile, demand-scoped to a 30-day window; a failed deep reconcile falls back to delta instead of wedging the repo
• pipeline top-up inside delta sync (4-wide fetches, restores 5-minute pipeline freshness, stuck pipelines age out after 24h)
• freshness on demand: cache:read takes a max-age gate, and rt daemon status gains --fresh/--max-age plus events freshness reporting
• discussions lifted into ~/.rt/discussions.json with grant-aware reads; bot-authored notes are skipped
• MR actions write back: mutations refresh the stores they changed, and a failed read-back can no longer report a succeeded mutation as failed
• notification correctness: mr_ready keys on mergeability, mr_approved requires a new approver, conflict flaps stopped
• mr:by-branch batch read (store-first with forge write-back)
• secrets:forge-token, a grant-gated forge-token verb
• cron trigger layer: broadcast pattern to debounced command
• rt daemon status stops calling a live daemon dead

rt-client

• published as @mattstack/rt-client: typed commands, unix-socket transport, relay, repo-name resolution, and a fake-daemon subpath export for tests
• daemon handlers for the client catalog carry the catalog's own types

StrongDM

• agent JSON envelopes for connect, status, and connections, with a production guard and non-interactive reason/duration defaults
• desktop-app preflight: launches SDM.app when the CLI probe errors
• rt sdm connections listing, and the rt-sdm-connect agent orchestration skill

Navigation

• image previews in the fzf preview pane, with iTerm2 routing and character-art fallback when kitten cannot render
• live listing refresh while the picker is open, via the nav-watch fs-event bridge
• sort menu on ctrl-s, list wraparound at both ends, and cursor retention after opening a file
• fzf --expect keys are honored on exit 1, so ctrl-up no longer acts as a cancel; the run repo picker treats ctrl-up as back

Notifications and tray

• notification sounds coalesce, so a burst plays one tone
• notifier fallback dispatch is an async spawn with kill escalation

Fixes and internals

• dev-mode wrapper replaces --tsconfig-override with a cwd pivot (bun#22023)
• glance renamed to @mattstack/glance and bumped through 0.18, following its rebase contract
• tests isolate HOME via a bunfig preload, and log writers resolve ~/.rt/logs at call time, so test runs stop polluting real logs
• README refreshed for the public profile

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0