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assist: User docs site, line comments in high-level review, extension project panes

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Assist finally has user docs: a Starlight site with screenshots captured in a sandbox and a feedback loop from the browser extension straight to the agent writing them. High-level review gained line comments that post with the review.

Added

Internal command badge
Docs feedback from the extension, routed to the doc writer session
User docs site on Astro Starlight with sandboxed screenshots
Issue and PR tokens from the prompt shown on cards
Every command synced as a skill
Deleted files collapsed by default in diffs
Expand toggle on every preview pane
Assist button and outline toggle in GitHub project side panes
assist run add --env, --pre, --filter, --quiet, --param
Gap expanders in high-level review diffs
assist github issue create --milestone, create in /github
Match box filters the structure tree by plain text
Line comments on diffs and test source, posted with the review
Search term highlighted in transcripts
Merge conflicts flagged in high-level review

Changed

summarise command removed
sessions.topBar toggle removed
Draft Auto-start toggle renamed Auto-approve

Fixed

Staged changes lost across a pull
High-level review draft lost on close and reopen
Clones under baseDir not found by origin
assist prs raise running on a merged or closed PR
Sessions not restored mid worktree seeding
Review tests read from the wrong commit
Review not reusing an existing PR checkout

project-switch: Paprika grocery list in the launcher and CLI

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The launcher picked up its first non-project integration this week: the Paprika shopping list. Adding milk is now ALT+SPACE, grocery milk, Enter.

Added

grocery launcher item to add and remove Paprika grocery items
project-switch grocery subcommand for Paprika grocery lists

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

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

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

Fixed

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

project-switch: Per-command browser choice, launcher hotkeys, tab completion

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The launcher got faster to drive this week. Favourite commands can be bound to their own key combo, and Tab completes a key before you type arguments. One link can also open under different browser profiles, with the launcher remembering which one you used last.

Added

Per-command hotkey (e.g. alt+a, ctrl+shift+1) that runs the command with one keystroke in the GUI launcher
A command's browser can be a list of {label, value} entries (e.g. one Firefox profile each), picked from a prompt in terminal list and in the GUI launcher
The last browser picked for each command is remembered in ~/.project-switch-browser-choices.yml and offered first next time
Tab in the GUI launcher completes the input to the highlighted item's key, ready for typed arguments

assist: Shared repo config, review-ci hardening, high-level review sessions

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Repo config moved into the shared database so every node sees the same overrides. The CI reviewer got hardened for real repos, and high-level reviews can now run as their own session.

Added

Grouped --screenshot flags for PRs, seeded into the PR pane
Link to an item's running session
High-level review runs in a session with structure diffs and comments
Fast-forward branches with no upstream
Clone session cards always badged
Assist commands spill out of a clone
Your own open PRs on the Next screen, after peer PRs
Reviewers flag tautological tests; test hierarchy in high-level review
review-ci: per-slot models, Entra, job summary, reopen and ready
Alt+S and Alt+A focus keys on the backlog
Draft chip in the Review dropdown
assist run add --server and --repo
Duplicate config array items
Next issues link to live sessions
Repo config overrides shared via the db, with config import-repos
Restart, pause and check for updates from the Updates page
Node links negotiate protocol ranges

Changed

review-ci skips bot-authored and fork PRs

Fixed

Stale local and fork PR branches on checkout
gh writes in subshells and $( ) not denied
Enter submitting before the repo's mode loads
Git console windows flashing from watch helpers
Codex sandbox failing on CI runners
Ended sessions not taken over
gh close/reopen --comment not denied
Daemon pipe shared across Windows users
Tailscale held by another user not diagnosed

assist: Next view, Tailscale nodes, console clone watcher, keyboard shortcuts

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A new Next view gathers the PRs to review, assigned issues and project pickups in one place. Nodes moved onto Tailscale, the clone watcher became a self-healing console, and nearly everything got a keyboard shortcut.

Added

Updates page from the version badge
Daemon runs the assist auto-update loop
Configurable sessions hotkeys, Alt region keys and a shortcuts sheet
Restart and update linked nodes from the web UI and CLI
GitHub issues marked started on phase-1 runs
Screenshots attached via gh --attach
Console clone watcher that escalates and auto-resolves divergence
Close all sessions in a repo group, asking about nested ones
Nodes linked and served by Tailscale name
assist db drop-retired
Criteria extension self-updates and prints its install link
Tab cycles focused session cards
assist ask reviewable preview and /ask skill
Serving chip and banner ports link to localhost
/review-ci installs a Claude and Codex PR review workflow
Next view: peer PRs, assigned issues and project pickups
assist show opens markdown in the preview pane
worktree.install path list with a web mode picker
/review-high-level command
restructure.maxDepth
Opt-in commands synced as skills
assist sessions output --server and /run-logs
3+ server runs collapse into a dropdown

Changed

/watch retired in favour of the console watcher
SSH node links retired
Voice, journal and handover features removed
PR video upload cap raised to 100MB
prs.required defaults to true

Fixed

Several viewers fighting over a terminal's size
Self-update and web server restart on Windows
Hung node-scoped requests never timing out
Clone closing over unlanded work
Pending question lost after a restart
Tasks killed by a daemon crash never waking
gh api graphql issue mutations not denied
Node links not recovering live after latching

project-switch: Built-in switch item in the launcher

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Switching clients is now built into the launcher instead of needing a config workaround. A switch row is always in the list and shows where you are. macOS also started honouring per-command browser arguments such as profiles.

Added

Built-in switch item in every launcher list, showing the active client and project (e.g. apm / web); in the GUI it opens the client and project picker, in the terminal it runs the switch prompt

Changed

Config commands that re-invoke project-switch switch are no longer intercepted and should be removed in favour of the built-in item

Fixed

Browser arguments (e.g. a profile flag) are now applied on macOS when the browser is already running, by launching a new instance with open -n

assist: Linked nodes, new-session dialog, releases page

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The biggest week in a while. Assist nodes can now link to each other, over SSH too, replacing the old Windows proxy, and a keyboard-first new-session dialog arrived alongside a releases page that tracks live deployments.

Added

Mouse wheel steps through last message history
SSH node links, nodes doctor, peer logs and trace ids
Node-native panels and cloning on a linked node
Linked nodes replace the Windows proxy
Node name and health API
New-session dialog: Ctrl+N, repo picker, modes, harness, ?new
News nav tab via news.showInNav
Configurable default new-session mode
Build a backlog item with Codex or pi
assist refactor restructure --apply and --check from the import graph
Codex usage tracking and per-harness limits
Clone watcher reaped on last dismissal
Codex routed through LiteLLM in the CLI and daemon
assist github issue edit --parent
Releases page with live env state, graph and assist releases configure
High-level review: native diff viewer and /review-config
Config-gated cli-hook block on npm scripts (cliHook.blockNpmRun)
Filter and keyboard nav in the PRs dropdown
Do-not-merge titles flagged in assist prs status

Changed

Releases tab hidden without configured streams
Server run slot keyed on origin and group

Fixed

Comments in Rust files not detected
Resume watch killed by a daemon restart
Watcher left running after worktree close
Silent respawned run sessions never settling
Session cwd not following a PR review
Version mismatch not blamed on a stale WSL daemon
PRs miscounted in assist prs status
Missing PR number link on review cards

project-switch: Multiple tray webservers, webview navigation

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The tray can now run several local web UIs side by side, in WSL or natively, each on its own port. Webview commands can also send an already-open window to a specific page without a reload. Along the way, Windows instance cleanup stopped relying on the retired wmic tool and the launcher got its instant startup back.

Added

navigate: true on a webview command sends its URL to an already-open webview window, routing same-origin URLs client-side so single-page apps update without reloading
webservers list in config: the tray can run several webservers, each with its own submenu, port, log file and a target of wsl or native (the old single webserver key still works)

Changed

The GUI launcher moved to eframe 0.36

Fixed

The launcher opens instantly from the hotkey again
The webview page gets keyboard focus when the window opens or is brought to the front
Closing earlier instances on Windows uses Win32 APIs instead of wmic, which is missing on newer Windows builds

assist: Repo-conditioned advice, PR status overviews, high-level review checklist

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Session advice became composable sections chosen per repo and fed to every harness. PR wrangling got a cross-repo status overview that posts straight to Slack, plus a checklist for high-level reviews.

Added

/prs-status previews and posts a Slack overview with threaded detail
Batch Slack posting with post --parts, threaded in /slack-post
assist github issue started
High-level PR review checklist, stepped in an overlay
assist prs status across repos with unresolved thread counts
Advice injected into Codex and pi sessions
assist chart draws a piped label/value series
assist advise composes repo-conditioned session advice
GitHub refs rendered in --resolves
Comments on rendered files and the markdown preview
Config search matches descriptions
Review output logged to review.log
10MB cap on video uploads

Changed

Advice include/exclude collapsed into one advice.sections map
Watchers ordered above their repo group
Running row sweeps its left edge; static phase dot
Chain toggles named by destination

Fixed

Preview screenshots lost on reject
Chart y axis not fitting the data range
Watchers staying starred on restore
Review findings posting without a preview
Upload size rejection never reaching the user
Codex 0.154 provider overrides

assist: Read-time estimates, usage Items tab, render-rate HUD

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A busy week of web UI polish: a usage Items tab, tidier backlog rows and a render HUD for hunting re-render loops. assist read-time arrived to estimate how long a PR takes to read.

Added

Render-rate HUD in the web UI, toggled from the hamburger menu
cli-hook denies piping or narrowing assist verify output
Resume conversations from Activity
Codex reviewer runs on a LiteLLM model
Usage Items tab with summary band, repo and status filters, sorting
Video attachments in previews
assist read-time with prose-aware, length-decayed estimates
Auto-merge toggle on the PR preview
assist prs writes allowed via cli-writes
assist litellm list-models
assist transcript merge --no-provenance and --widen-audience

Changed

Backlog rows: title on its own line, one phase meter, real buttons

Fixed

Stored plans showing more than one Review phase
Set-active render loop on the backlog page
Markdown re-renders wiping links
Markdown links not opening in a new tab
Repo labels missing for non-default origins
Missing focus ring on backlog row controls
gh missing-PR error not detected
File palette not scoped to the selected card
Profanity filter mangling 'damned if I know'

project-switch: macOS config error dialog

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The macOS launcher now tells you when your config is broken. It shows the error in a dialog you can copy from, as Windows already did.

Fixed

Config errors in the GUI launcher on macOS now appear in a native dialog with Copy Error and Open Config buttons, instead of failing silently

assist: Slack post previews, restricted path denies, transcript merging

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Slack posts and issue comment edits now go through a preview first, and the CLI hook got stricter about restricted paths and truncated output. Meeting transcripts can now be merged across several VTT files.

Added

assist transcript clean --timestamps for markdown output
assist transcript merge with NOTE provenance and --select ranges
cli-hook denies reads of restricted paths
cli-hook denies truncating prs list-comments
Approval gate on assist github issue edit-comment
Screenshots on the issue create preview
Rule titles and collapsible scopes
--ref trailers on assist commit
assist sessions rename and the /rename command
Slack post preview with a default channel and thread replies
assist github issue create --parent

Changed

cli-hook denies head/tail on gated commands

Fixed

Preview pane links not navigating on click
Resume not naming the daemon restart it needs
Quoted pipes in a body tripping the cli-hook deny
Selection popover running off screen
Cards outside the selected repo not selectable
Preview footer text not selectable
File palette not scoped to the selected session
Missing markdown styles in the preview pane

project-switch: Relevance-ranked launcher matches

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The launcher got better at guessing what you meant. Typing part of a key now ranks the obvious match first, and pressing Enter opens what's at the top of the list instead of whatever comes first alphabetically.

Fixed

start-hotkey.sh strips CLAUDE* session variables before starting the tray, so apps launched from it don't inherit a Claude Code session environment
Launcher matches are ranked exact key first, then prefix, then mid-string, and Enter on a partial match opens the top suggestion shown (typing mer now gives mercury before commercials)

assist: Criteria browser extension, repo rules, split launch buttons

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Acceptance-criteria outlining moved into GitHub itself through a browser extension, and repo rules became something assist can list, cite and capture from review comments.

Added

assist github issue create --project and --status
assist sessions close and the /close command
assist github issue create --type
Roam Claude icon lights up on pi agent activity
assist rules index and /fix-rules
Capture a rule from a preview comment
Cite scoped rules from preview comments
assist transcript clean for .vtt files
assist rules list
Split launch buttons for prompt, draft, bug and design
Browser extension for outlining criteria on GitHub issues
/miro slash command

Changed

Criteria extension signed in CI and follows GitHub theme changes live
add-rule fixes what caused the rule to be ignored

Fixed

Issue preview metadata and labels
Closing <v> tags left in cleaned VTT cues
Session transcript lost after /clear
Criteria extension missing GitHub's issue body textarea

assist: Issue edit previews, issue type normalising, Miro box extraction

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

GitHub issues got a proper editing loop, from previewing body edits and reshaping acceptance criteria to bulk-fixing issue types across a subtree. Miro boards can now be mined for their boxes as YAML.

Added

Insert or convert an acceptance criteria section in the issue preview
Drag, indent and edit acceptance criteria in the issue preview
Save and replay named Miro extracts
Acceptance criteria outline in the issue preview
Filter, dedupe and write Miro extracts to a file
Pick Miro anchors in the preview pane
assist miro extract prints the boxes inside a board rectangle
assist github issue fix-structure normalises a subtree's issue types
assist watch runs a sync after a pull that needs one
assist github issue edit previews an existing issue's body
Collapsible sections in the issue preview
assist github issue comment

Changed

Issue ref in the preview header links to the issue

Fixed

assist github issue edit not detecting the web session
Flaky git origin lookups grouping sessions wrongly
Duplicate repos in the repo selector and history

assist: Comment previews, sessions as activity refs, collapsible sidebar

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Agents' comments now need approval before posting, plus a batch of Windows host fixes.

Added

Approval preview before agents post backlog or PR comments
Collapsible left sidebar
assist backlog record-session links a session to a backlog item
Checkout-only PR review
Draft checkbox in the PR preview

Changed

Preview pane says what it's about to write
Web UI config edits target the right host
Windows host heal announces when it finishes
Daemon handshake rejects version skew

Fixed

Project config writes landing in the Windows global config
assist backlog show not printing comments
pr-decision not reaching the Windows daemon
Windows working directories in the web config API
Stale sessions from deleted temp directories

project-switch: Client and project picker in the GUI launcher

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Switching clients now works from the hotkey window. Before, the GUI launcher couldn't run switch because it needs a terminal, so the launcher now has its own client and project picker that offers the same choices.

Fixed

A command that runs project-switch switch now opens a client and project picker inside the GUI launcher instead of trying to start a terminal prompt with no console

assist: Codex status and resume, fix-conflict, threaded PR comments

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Codex sessions became first-class, and PR work picked up fix-conflict and threaded comments.

Added

Codex session history and resume
Last agent prompt shown above the terminal
Revert a whole folder, or everything, from the diff tree
assist config keys lists every config key
Comment gate covers C# and Razor
assist fix-conflict rebases a PR and resolves conflicts in a session
Usage tooltip shows when limits recover
Split review button with chain toggles and force re-run
Codex sessions report status on their cards
docs/codex.md on how Codex resume works

Changed

Session respawn split per harness
PR chain toggles remembered per session
PR draft state defaults from config
Phase prompts commit before the phase ends
Card titles use content fetched from a reference URL
assist prs comments grouped by thread
Finished sessions can be joined, with a reason when refused
Launcher relationship set at spawn
Harness threaded through activity, respawn and the web UI

Fixed

Two clones of one repo sharing a worktree identity
PR replies with backticks or newlines mangled; bodies can come from stdin
Codex status lost when the hook fired before registration
Resume flag dropped on respawn
Diff files out of file-tree order

assist: Diff selection comments, masked secrets, Monaco editor, chained reviews

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The web UI grew into a place to review and edit work, with selection comments on diffs, a Monaco editor and a proper diff panel, alongside masked config secrets and chained reviews.

Added

assist sync prunes commands it no longer ships
Revert a path's changes from the diff tree
Verify ring on the running dot
Artifact step in /design
Watcher session in the clone during worktree runs
Resuming a session whose worktree was reaped
Saving files from the /file editor
Monaco file viewer at /file
Per-session diff panel with a file tree
Diff link in the session top bar
Masked config secrets in CLI and /config
Search and per-key help on the /config page
assist review --address-comments and --announce
Review chain toggles in the review dialog
Configurable live-session ceiling and float threshold
Linked GitHub issue on backlog cards
Comment on a diff selection
Current-branch diff scope

Changed

Session top bar keeps ids visible
Session nesting survives daemon restarts
File palette opens paths in the active worktree
Release runs serialised in CI
Runs nest under the card that launched them
Unanchored review findings folded into the review body
Reviewers told never to ask for added comments
Terser PR body guidance shared by raise and edit
prs edit goes through the preview pane
Titles from what reference-only sessions go on to do
Flat session cards on a grid with a fixed sidebar
Usage tooltip colours limits by threshold
PR preview chain split into Review and Post steps
Worktree sessions nest under their backlog run
Scroll position restored per route
Review findings stack under the card's review button
Backlog runs pick the configured harness
PR comments cached under ~/.assist

Fixed

Retry racing the old worktree's teardown
Config scope toggle not showing its real write target
Shell splitter conflating heredocs and input redirects
Masked secrets written back as the mask
Console windows flashing on Windows git spawns
Codex hook using an unsupported schema
Diff base when origin/HEAD is unset
Activity section truncating commits
Deleted clones in the repo list