v0.237.0

Changelog

New features

• feat(broker): OpenAI-compatible chat shim so gbrain can reach the agent CLI
• feat(chat): render a bot's blocking ask as an interactive card in the thread
• feat(computer): allocate a loopback viewer port for Apple container
• feat(computer): ascii.dev sign-out, and the plan gate wherever the cloud shows up
• feat(computer): every bot gets its own computer
• feat(computer): say the plan requirement wherever ascii.dev sign-in is offered
• feat(gbrain): embedding fallback chain + name the live retrieval mode
• feat(gbrain): keyless hosts get chat via claude-cli and expansion via the shim
• feat(gbrain): probe local runtimes for embeddings, and correct two stale spec claims
• feat(onboarding): computer step with the ascii.dev Box key and where to get it
• feat(onboarding): sign in to ascii.dev instead of pasting a Box key
• feat(seo): position gawkbot as the open source Grok Bot
• feat(site): five bots under the mark, and a lede that says what we are
• feat(team): app building and wiki maintenance become system skills
• feat(team): harden agent pair DMs — write guard, wake cap, listing seal
• feat(web): Computer tab, live desktop viewer, and screen pills for bot computers
• feat(website): green circle mark as favicon, refreshed social card
• feat(wiki): reimplement on gbrain's recommended one-page-per-entity shape
• feat(wiki): replace the context layer storage with gbrain
• feat: one description everywhere, in the founder's words

Bug fixes

• fix(ci): point release-drift check at the gawkbot npm package
• fix(computer): report a booting driver as starting, poke on tool_use, lint
• fix(computer): show a cloud frame at rest and keep test containers out of the office
• fix(computer): stop the viewer reconnect loop and show cloud boxes live at full size
• fix(computer): tests never touch real Docker, You in chat, honest sign-in waiting, Replace, Docker guidance
• fix(gbrain): gate the compatibility workarounds on the installed version
• fix(gbrain): paginate list_pages with an updated_after cursor
• fix(gbrain): send the real types filter instead of filtering client-side
• fix(gbrain): survive 0.48 advisory blocks, drop a parameter that never existed
• fix(npm): follow the gawkbot rename in wrapper tests
• fix(onboarding): finish the ascii.dev sign-in with box onboard
• fix(site): drop the Y Combinator badge, keep Hacker News
• fix(site): stop claiming a sandboxed machine that does not exist
• fix(site): the founder's description everywhere a human or crawler reads one, and drop the eyebrow
• fix(tasks): open the board when a blocking request is the only thing waiting
• fix(team): drain publish hooks on Stop so no write outlives the broker
• fix(team): keep screenshot payloads out of the activity pill
• fix(team): no path for a third party into a DM
• fix(themes): restore the theme's own ink inside sidebar-anchored dialogs
• fix(web): blocking approvals were unanswerable on the primary chat surface
• fix(web): replace phantom pill CSS tokens with real design tokens
• fix(wiki): materialise link endpoints, and fail loudly on unpaginable scans
• fix(wiki): never default to gbrain under go test
• fix(wiki): retry a git subprocess once when the OS SIGKILLs it
• fix: clear the 9 golangci-lint issues the CSS fix unmasked

Performance

• perf(provider): stream Claude token deltas so replies paint as they generate
• perf: first words in the first message, and fix dev-mvp.sh port handling (#1228) [release]

Refactoring

• refactor: rename the product concept Agent to Bot, wire stable (#1227)

Documentation

• docs(wiki): final gbrain bench numbers — typed walks port, text search does not
• docs(wiki): record the gbrain embedding-enable procedure and its traps
• docs: embed the demo video in both READMEs
• docs: fix the build-from-source block nobody could follow
• docs: plan local-LLM embeddings instead of a dedicated OpenAI key
• docs: reconcile the embeddings plan with what shipped
• docs: track founder backlog dispositions for the 2026-09-03 session
• test+docs: the chat shim works; gbrain cannot yet be pointed at it

Build and CI

• ci(release): publish to npm via OIDC trusted publishing, drop the token
• ci: allowlist container-side /tmp paths in the hardcode check
• ci: cut CI to the jobs that actually gate the product

Maintenance

• chore(ci): fix red main from the home-dir audit and the file-size budget
• style: gofmt wiki_gbrain_page_render.go
• test(web): follow the Chief of Staff rename in app build and onboarding tests
• test(wiki): drain the gbrain test purge in passes, and document the search hydration cost
• test: make skips visible, cover retrieval hermetically, fix a namespace collision
• test: stop asserting on gbrain's own expansion heuristic
• test: stop the office-eval temp dir racing its own background writers
• test: stop timing assertions on an idle machine

Other changes

• Revise README to reflect new project focus
• Update demo video in README.md
• Update project description in README.md
• bench: add the memory backend — the baseline production actually ran