Control Tower v1.1.0

An air traffic controller for your coding sessions.

What’s new in v1.1.0

Control Tower’s read-only Git helper can now spot more unfinished work across your project:

• Merges, rebases, cherry-picks, and reverts that stopped partway, including merges whose conflicts have been resolved but not committed.
• Stashed changes that would otherwise be missing from the inventory.
• Commits on a detached HEAD that are on no local branch or cached remote.
• The working directory where a branch is being rebased, so active work is less likely to look orphaned.

Thanks to Matt Van Horn (@mvanhorn) for our first community contribution, PR #1. Matt identified these gaps and supplied the implementation and reproducible checks.

The helper remains read-only. Independent checks passed on Python 3.9.6 and 3.14.8, including verification that repository files and Git metadata stayed unchanged. Remote information still comes from cached local refs; it does not establish ownership or prove work is safe to delete. The core coordination instructions are unchanged.

Get started

Read the quick start or setup guide. Download control-tower-release.zip below; SHA256SUMS contains its checksum. The skill version is 1.1.0.

Feedback is welcome—especially what worked, what got in the way, and what would make Control Tower more useful. Open an issue to share your experience or suggest a change.

License

MIT · Copyright © 2026 Mike Maser.

Control Tower v1.0.1

An air traffic controller for your coding sessions.

Your agents are making progress. But are they working together?

One session is fixing a bug. Another is building a feature. A third is ready to release—and may not know about either of the others. Meanwhile, you’re carrying updates between sessions, tracking unfinished branches, and trying to keep changes from landing in the wrong order.

Control Tower gives your project an air traffic controller: one session that connects the work across your agents, keeps track of ownership and dependencies, and coordinates what ships next. You keep building; it helps keep everyone working from the same picture.

Included

• Core coordination instructions and a read-only Git inventory helper.
• A quick start plus setup routes for Codex desktop/CLI and Claude Desktop/Claude Code CLI.
• Guidance for introducing the coordinator to new and existing projects.
• Web, mobile, and backend release considerations, with Codex illustrations.

Start with the quick start and one project. Download control-tower-release.zip below; SHA256SUMS contains its checksum.

Experience and feedback

Developed through hands-on use in Codex across active projects. Includes setup guidance for Claude and coordination guidance for web, iOS, Android, and backend work. Experience across those environments will inform future updates.

Feedback is welcome—especially what worked, what got in the way, and what would make Control Tower more useful. Open an issue to share your experience or suggest a change.

What’s new in v1.0.1

This documentation update brings the download up to date with the current README, including the agent-focused introduction and the per-project DevOps setup explanation.

• Simplified the examples caption and setup wording.
• Updated contribution guidance to ask for anonymized examples.
• Updated the source-reference wording.
• Rebuilt the package so its documentation matches this release.

The coordination rules and Git helper behave as before. The skill version is now 1.0.1.

License

MIT · Copyright © 2026 Mike Maser.

Control Tower v1.0

An air traffic controller for your coding sessions.

Your agents are making progress. But are they working together?

One session is fixing a bug. Another is building a feature. A third is ready to release—and may not know about either of the others. Meanwhile, you’re carrying updates between sessions, tracking unfinished branches, and trying to keep changes from landing in the wrong order.

Control Tower gives your project an air traffic controller: one session that connects the work across your agents, keeps track of ownership and dependencies, and coordinates what ships next. You keep building; it helps keep everyone working from the same picture.

Included

• Core coordination instructions and a read-only Git inventory helper.
• A quick start plus setup routes for Codex desktop/CLI and Claude Desktop/Claude Code CLI.
• Guidance for introducing the coordinator to new and existing projects.
• Web, mobile, and backend release considerations, with Codex illustrations.

Start with the quick start and one project. Download control-tower-release.zip below; SHA256SUMS contains its checksum.

Experience and feedback

Developed through hands-on use in Codex across active projects. Includes setup guidance for Claude and coordination guidance for web, iOS, Android, and backend work. Experience across those environments will inform future updates.

Feedback is welcome—especially what worked, what got in the way, and what would make Control Tower more useful. Open an issue to share your experience or suggest a change.

What’s new in v1.0

This release updates the version and presentation, makes v1.0 the main download, and clarifies the feedback invitation. The operating instructions and Git helper are unchanged apart from the version number.

License

MIT · Copyright © 2026 Mike Maser.

Control Tower — early preview

Control Tower — early preview

An air traffic controller for your AI coding sessions. Coordinate work across chats, keep changes recoverable, and release in the right order.

This preview brings one project coordinator into the chats where work is already happening. It helps establish ownership, preserve unfinished changes, sequence dependent releases, and keep handoffs clear.

Included

• Core coordination instructions and a read-only Git inventory helper.
• A quick start plus setup routes for Codex desktop/CLI and Claude Desktop/Claude Code CLI.
• Guidance for introducing the coordinator to new and existing projects.
• Web, mobile, and backend release considerations, with Codex illustrations.

Start with the README and one project. Use control-tower-release.zip for the packaged skill; SHA256SUMS contains its checksum.

Preview status

The workflow grew out of day-to-day Codex use. Full installation, session-adoption, and cross-platform validation of this package remain open. This is an early preview, not a stable release. The screenshots illustrate the originating workflow rather than tests of this version.

Feedback about setup, unnecessary ceremony, and handoffs is especially welcome through GitHub Issues.

License

MIT · Copyright © 2026 Mike Maser.