assist · Oct 12–18, 2026 · v0.804–v0.858 · via commits

Assist browser extension, high-level review approvals, monorepo verify

The criteria extension grew into a full assist extension that can send GitHub comments and drive PR reviews from the PR page. High-level reviews can now post approvals, and verify learned to handle monorepos.

Added 21

  • Mark done or won't do from the backlog list play menu
  • Approve & start on item previews and refine plan updates
  • Sticky diff file headers that toggle on click
  • Search History by transcript text, keeping generated titles
  • daemon.log trimmed in place at 50MB
  • Auto-start toggle for draft sessions
  • High-level review: Approve posts approval, reopen in a session
  • prs.slackChannel with fallback
  • review-ci: no-findings and failed-review comments, token usage
  • High-level review jump strip and full/half pane toggle
  • Rainbow pill when usage windows match
  • Assist browser extension: send GitHub comments, PR-page review menu
  • Parent issue linked in the preview pane
  • Server runs relaunch on restore once the port is free
  • Inline diffs in the high-level file tree, collapsedPaths
  • Queued commits listed by PR, with diff popover and deploy links
  • verify.roots for monorepos; diffs against merge-base
  • assist github issue edit --fetch and create --body
  • Type to filter the repo picker
  • Alt+Q opens Updates; Alt+D focuses the preview action
  • Edit screenshot captions and groups in the pane

Changed 3

  • Criteria extension rebranded as the assist extension
  • Peer PRs approved by anyone hidden from Next
  • Local daemon restart reloads the page

Fixed 6

  • Shell quoting breaking queries on Windows
  • Pending review lost when a thread failed
  • Terminals replayed and spawned at the wrong size
  • Multi-line args mangled on Windows spawn
  • Development-linked issues not counted
  • Pre-boot backlog locks treated as live