v8.0a -- the conductor

Full Changelog: v7.0.0...v8.0a

8.0a — 2026-10-17 — the conductor

• Macros. A tab of its own:
  playlists of the rig's own
  moves, built block by block —
  Scratch for the instrument.
  Thirty-two block kinds cover
  every engine the app presents:
  sends, Serve (standing or
  custom doors), the beacon and
  GATT hosting, Helm buttons,
  War Chests, EMCON and stealth,
  the Banshee, costumes and
  mimicry personas, listening,
  sweeps, knocks, the fuzzer,
  Net-Assault, War Room runs,
  SIGINT watches, War Games
  challenges and defenses — and
  the passive blocks: waits,
  waiting for an arrival or a
  sighting, journal notes,
  announcements, and a stop.
• Built like blocks. Each
  block folds open where it
  sits to be configured —
  pickers fed live from the
  book, the chests, the
  personas and the remotes,
  toggles and fields that drop
  down and close back up.
  Blocks drag into order and
  carry a repeat count. A
  macro is dressed by its
  operator: a name, an icon
  and a colour from the
  palette, a note saying what
  it is for. Three templates
  wait in the library; the
  library exports and imports
  as nightjar-macros.json,
  and imports land as copies.
• Runs honestly. A run
  card shows the playlist
  before it fires; validation
  names every unready block
  first. Runs leave a live
  log on screen and their
  story in the night log; a
  block that cannot run stops
  the run and says why.
• Skelli conducts. She
  builds macros from dictated
  steps — "build a macro
  called Night Post, red with
  a moon: go dark; wait 30;
  sweep" — dresses them from
  the words, adds steps to
  them, runs and stops them,
  lists and deletes them,
  through the same store and
  runner the tab drives. Her
  manual carries the room and
  the whole block catalog.
• The whetstone rides
  along. 8.0a also carries
  the entire 7.7.7 quality
  sweep below — folded in
  before it ever wore its
  own tag.