v12.0.0-beta.24

New

• Every task shows one live status at the top: what the agent is doing, whether something waits for you, and whether the agent is still alive. Click it for the details. It comes from the agent's own activity, never from the agent remembering to report.
• The header shrinks to one line as you scroll, and the step line under the tabs is gone; its buttons sit in a plain row.
• When the build needs something only you can give, like a key or a login, it keeps building everything else and shows a card under the slice that waits. You set the secret in your own environment and press "Done, it's set"; the App never takes the key itself.
• You get a notification when a question, a need or a permission prompt waits for you, or when an agent stops. The dock badge and the window title count what waits for you.
• In Claude Code, the band shows where the build is (slice and task) and roughly how long is left.
• qualitylayer plan renumber --insert N makes room for a new slice in the middle of a build. Later slices are renumbered everywhere, and your decisions stay as you approved them.

Fixed

• Committing a slice marks its agent finished, so a build never waits on an agent that ended without saying so. An agent that stopped without reporting can be restarted with qualitylayer next "rerun slice N".
• Committing a slice now names every changed file no task lists, instead of quietly leaving it out: add it to a task, or leave it out on purpose.
• A slice's checks no longer fail at commit because a local tool, such as a Python environment, is missing from the fresh copy. They run again in your checkout, and the commit says where each one ran.
• A pre-commit hook that only reformats the slice's files no longer fails its first commit. The reformatted files go in, and the commit says so.
• A Plan change that covers several tasks is one line in the build log and shows on each of their cards. A line that is too long is refused right away with the length allowed.
• A scenario step that is meant to fail reads "exit 1 · as expected", and one that went wrong reads "exit 0, expected 1", so nobody runs it again to be sure.
• A task is done when what it describes works, not when the thing it names was renamed. The Plan warns about done lines that can be met that way.
• The Plan check no longer takes branch names such as origin/main for missing files, and a bare file name counts when its task lists it.
• When the build starts with many files staged and not committed, the agent is first told to commit them on their own, with the command to do it.