v0.3.0 — read-only activity viewer

Pivot to a read-only activity viewer. v0.1/v0.2 were an orchestrator (embedded MCP server that spawned, waited on, verified and cancelled agents). That role is now better served by Claude Code natively, so v0.3 re-focuses on the lasting value — observability. It watches the agents Claude Code already runs, via its activity hooks, and never spawns or drives them.

The orchestrator line is preserved and remains installable at tag v0.2.0.

Highlights

• Hooks-driven ingester (SubagentStart/SubagentStop/Stop/SessionEnd) → live sidebar board grouped by project · session · directory.
• Liveness reconciliation (pulse / idle / honest duration) and orphan recovery.
• Detail panel reads model + tokens + context% from the session transcript on demand.
• Completion toast; session scanner + resume.

Removed

• Embedded MCP server + all orchestration tools, the @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk runner, bearer auth, agent-cancel UI, and verification mechanisms D+A. With the runner gone, the .vsix drops from ~74 MB to ~207 KB.

Install

Download the .vsix below, code --install-extension claude-orchestrator-0.3.0.vsix, reload, then run Claude Orchestrator: Install global activity hooks once.

Full notes in CHANGELOG.