Release ChatWalaʻau v0.97.0 · motojinc25/chatwalaau

This release adds two new features to OpenChatCi: a built-in Memory editor and per-message navigation.

Highlights

View and edit the assistant's memory from the app. A new Agent Memory panel (a brain icon in the sidebar footer) lets you open and edit all three built-in memory files -- .agent/IDENTITY.md (the assistant's persona), .agent/USER.md (what it remembers about you), and .agent/MEMORY.md (its own notes about your project) -- in a Markdown editor with syntax highlighting and a live character-count against each file's limit.
Automatic backups. Every save writes a timestamped backup first, so a previous version is always recoverable; closing with unsaved edits asks for confirmation.
Honest timing. Edits take effect from your next chat (the identity applies on the next restart) -- the running conversation keeps its frozen snapshot, so nothing changes mid-session.
Your edits, trusted. The editor saves your content as written (only a size limit is enforced); the secret/PII filter that guards the assistant's own writes is intentionally not applied to your direct edits. Access is protected by the same sign-in as the rest of the app.

Walk a conversation one message at a time. Previous / next buttons beside the scroll-to-bottom control move you through both your messages and the assistant's replies.
Shows up only when it helps. The buttons appear whenever the conversation is long enough to scroll; the arrow that no longer applies is hidden at the very top or bottom, and the whole control disappears when everything fits on one screen.
The scroll-to-bottom button's icon is now a double chevron, to distinguish it from the new "next message" step.

None. This release is fully backward compatible and requires no operator action to upgrade.

The Memory editor and the per-message navigation are additive; no existing API, event, environment variable, or on-disk format is changed or removed.
The only visible change to existing UI is the scroll-to-bottom button's icon (now a double chevron); its behavior is unchanged.
One additive setting is introduced: IDENTITY_CHAR_LIMIT (default 4000), the size cap the Memory editor enforces when saving the identity file (matching the existing USER_CHAR_LIMIT / MEMORY_CHAR_LIMIT).

This release includes implementation work from:

Internal design management content and architecture control artifacts are intentionally omitted from this release note.

See the repository README for setup and usage instructions.