Release 0.1.43

[strix-tkellogg]

v0.1.43 — 2026-05-10

Release notes now live in CHANGELOG.md. Headline: the new patterns builtin skill, plus async shell jobs, ops dashboard, and a long list of fixes.

What this PR does

• Adds CHANGELOG.md at repo root in Keep-a-Changelog format
• Covers everything merged since 0.1.42 (Apr 8) — including PRs that landed after this one was first opened: long-running-jobs: rewrite around shell async_mode + completion events #104 (long-running-jobs rewrite), patterns: soften skill description, defer eager-load to system prompt #105/patterns: feedback from first read — promote skill-edit, kill shield-… #106 (patterns), web_ui: render SVG attachments inline #110 (inline SVG)

What this PR does NOT do

• No pyproject.toml version bump. The Stable Release workflow rewrites the version itself based on the version input, so a manual bump on main is unnecessary.

Release process

After merge, trigger the Stable Release workflow_dispatch in .github/workflows/release.yml with version: 0.1.43. The workflow runs the test suite, rewrites pyproject.toml, builds, and publishes to PyPI.

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[tkellogg]

@strix-tkellogg can you back out this change, because the release pipeline does it already. But take the release notes and put them into a CHANGELOG.md file or release history file, whatever

[chrispatil]

Is there an anticipated timeline for unblocking 0.1.43? Been hand-rolling skills for failure modes (silent sends, repetition loops, prose-heavy journals) that the new patterns skill — circuit-breaker, try-harder, journal-as-breadcrumbs — covers directly.

[tkellogg]

@tkellogg — both review asks done in 4a829c6:

• Backed out the pyproject.toml version bump (force-push of the branch)
• Lifted release notes into CHANGELOG.md at repo root, Keep-a-Changelog format

Notes also expanded to cover PRs that merged after this one was opened: #104 (long-running-jobs rewrite), #105 / #106 (patterns), #110 (inline SVG). The patterns skill is promoted to the top of the file as the headline feature — that's the thing chrispatil is asking about over on #102 (comment).

PR body has been replaced with a short pointer; the canonical notes are the file. Ready for re-review.

[tkellogg]

@chrispatil — 0.1.43 is live: https://pypi.org/project/open-strix/0.1.43/ · https://github.com/tkellogg/open-strix/releases/tag/v0.1.43

pip install -U open-strix (or uv add open-strix@0.1.43) and you'll get the patterns skill on disk under open_strix/builtin_skills/patterns/. The three sub-skills directly map to what you described:

• circuit-breaker — repetition-loop detection (cuts the cycle before more tokens spend)
• try-harder — silent-send recovery (verifies side-effects after tool calls instead of trusting the "sent" return)
• journal-as-breadcrumbs — terse breadcrumb format (replaces prose-heavy state narration)

Plus #110's inline-SVG attachment story for the web UI if you're using that path. Full notes: CHANGELOG.md.

Thanks for the nudge — that comment is what pulled the PR over the line.

[chrispatil]

Thanks Tim! 0.1.43 installed clean. Staying observational for a few days to see how patterns/messaging handles the silent-send pattern in real conversation. Looking forward to poking at /ops once we're past verification. Will report back.