v0.17.0

What's new

• A branch goes all the way in from the git column — commit, push, pull request, merge, with a row of steps saying which one it is on, and a conflict handed to an AI tab.
• CI is counted in the column, and a failure is handed to an AI — the failed checks and the end of each log go to an AI tab in the branch's folder, told to fix only what the branch broke.
• A working folder names and describes itself from what its AIs are asked — read from the record each CLI already keeps, so nothing is installed anywhere. Shown on a hover, on a phone's card, and in the folder's settings.
• Files that are not UTF-8 read as their own words — a Shift_JIS diff, a comparison with a server's copy, and the editor, with an Encoding menu for when the guess is wrong. A file is saved in the encoding it was read in, and a character it cannot hold stops the save with a choice.
• This app's own commands as MCP tools — SHIKISHA-TERM.exe --mcp hands an AI client every command the automation API has. Started by a CLI in a tab, its calls arrive as that tab, under that tab's permissions and chain limit.
• A project on another machine's share is worked in like any other — a branch can be cut from it, a refusal by git is said in one line with the press that settles it, and a folder every branch shares arrives by the one kind of link that can point off this machine, or asks whether to copy it in.
• Production is told from staging — a server is given a name and a colour, and every tab that reaches it wears them.
• What a new worktree brings along is chosen a .gitignore line at a time; a tab that came up on nobody's conversation offers the way back; the bar across the top of a phone no longer runs out of room. See the changelog for the rest.

Which copy do you want?

Most people want the Microsoft Store version:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PB8XQVM87Z0

Microsoft signs the Store copy, so Windows raises no warning when it starts,
and it updates itself. It can trail a release here by a few days while it is
reviewed.

The download below is the portable copy. Same source, same build — but it
is not code-signed, so the first run shows
"Windows protected your PC" (SmartScreen). Click More info → Run anyway
to get past it.

Take this one if you want nothing installed: unzip it anywhere, and delete the
folder to remove it.

Install (portable)

1. Download SHIKISHA-TERM.zip below and unzip it anywhere
2. Run SHIKISHA-TERM.exe

No installer, no admin rights, no API keys. Windows 10/11.

Verify the download with SHIKISHA-TERM.zip.sha256 if you like.

Linux

One static binary, no window, serving the board over the network — for a VPS
or a cloud VM you reach from a browser or a phone.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/styleio/ShikishaTerm/main/packaging/linux/install.sh | sh

It checks the checksum and the Ed25519 signature before it installs
anything, and refuses the download if either does not match. x86_64 and
aarch64; systemd service file included.

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0