v0.3.0

⚠️ Breaking change

claim_files's MCP response field granted has been renamed to accepted, and a new has_conflicts boolean was added alongside the existing conflicts array (#52). This is public MCP wire surface, not just an internal Rust API -- any external tool or agent integration that parses the old granted field needs to update to accepted. The rename exists because granted: true was actively misleading given leases are advisory, not exclusive: a caller reading {granted: true, conflicts: [...]} was very likely to assume it held the file exclusively, when the claim was recorded either way.

Highlights

• pact coord-status — a new subcommand that surfaces the coordination layer's current state (every active lease, per-agent pending message counts) instead of it being a black box.
• spawn-many --agent — a default agent for tasks without an explicit <agent>: prefix, fixing the inconsistency between spawn and spawn-many's CLI surfaces.
• merge-all --union safety check — rejects a union merge that would silently produce broken JS/TS (duplicate module.exports/export default, redeclared bindings) instead of reporting false success.
• PidLock PID-reuse fix — a lock holder's PID being recycled by an unrelated process after it died no longer makes an abandoned lock look permanently held.
• UTF-8 BOM handling — package.json merges and workspace meta files now tolerate (and, for package.json, preserve) a leading BOM, a common default from PowerShell's Out-File/Set-Content -Encoding utf8.
• Streamed output is much quieter by default — Copilot's noisiest event types (tool-call deltas, background task changes, skills-loaded events) are suppressed unless --verbose is passed.
• A rolling edge prerelease (rebuilt on every push to main) is also available for testing unreleased work between tags: https://github.com/zekariasasaminew/pact/releases/tag/edge

What's Changed

• Reduce inline comments, extract design rationale to DESIGN.md by @zekariasasaminew in #22
• Bump workspace version to 0.2.0 by @zekariasasaminew in #23
• Reject --union merges that produce duplicate module.exports/export default or a redeclared binding by @zekariasasaminew in #40
• Exclude the caller's own broadcasts from check_messages by @zekariasasaminew in #41
• Skip generating a lockfile when the source repo has none by @zekariasasaminew in #42
• Distinguish merge-all's partial-success exit code from a hard failure by @zekariasasaminew in #44
• Only warn on coord status once it's settled, not on the transient pending value by @zekariasasaminew in #45
• Preserve package.json key order and indent width across a merge by @zekariasasaminew in #46
• Reject out-of-range TTLs in claim_files instead of silently accepting them by @zekariasasaminew in #47
• Deduplicate lease rows on repeat claim_files calls instead of accumulating by @zekariasasaminew in #48
• Release files by glob overlap, not just exact pattern-string match by @zekariasasaminew in #49
• Set isError: true on all four coord MCP tools' failure paths by @zekariasasaminew in #50
• Document that spawn/spawn-many don't commit and merge-all does by @zekariasasaminew in #51
• Rename claim_files' granted field to accepted, add has_conflicts by @zekariasasaminew in #52
• Add --agent to spawn-many as a default for tasks without a prefix by @zekariasasaminew in #53
• Suppress known-noisy streamed event types by default, add --verbose by @zekariasasaminew in #54
• Merge feat/merge-all: recover DESIGN.md and comment-reduction pass by @zekariasasaminew in #55
• Add a rolling edge release, rebuilt on every push to main by @zekariasasaminew in #56
• Strip a leading UTF-8 BOM before parsing conflicted JSON stages by @zekariasasaminew in #60
• Suppress assistant.tool_call_delta, the dominant remaining stream noise by @zekariasasaminew in #61
• Fix spawn-many overlap warning double-counting shared tasks by @zekariasasaminew in #62
• Add --version/-V to the top-level CLI by @zekariasasaminew in #63
• Add pact coord-status: surface active leases and pending messages by @zekariasasaminew in #68
• Make Windows support a deliberate positioning point in the README by @zekariasasaminew in #69
• Fix PidLock treating a reused PID as still holding the lock by @zekariasasaminew in #74
• Calibrate the tagline: coordination is advisory, not enforced by @zekariasasaminew in #75
• Document expand_glob's per-call tree-walk cost as a known scaling limit by @zekariasasaminew in #76
• Trim tokio's full feature to what's actually used by @zekariasasaminew in #77
• Tolerate a UTF-8 BOM in workspace meta JSON files by @zekariasasaminew in #81
• Preserve a UTF-8 BOM through package.json conflict resolution by @zekariasasaminew in #82
• Suppress session.skills_loaded in default streamed event output by @zekariasasaminew in #83
• Bump workspace version to 0.3.0 by @zekariasasaminew in #88

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0