turnstone/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to turnstone are documented here.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to PEP 440 for version numbers (X.Y.Z, with X.Y.ZaN / bN / rcN for pre-releases).

Three release tracks are maintained:

• stable/1.4 — patch-only (v1.4.x)
• stable/1.5 — patch-only (v1.5.x)
• main — experimental (next major)

[Unreleased]

Added

• Self-hosted SearxNG web search — the web_search tool's backend for local/vLLM models is now a bundled SearxNG service (searxng in both compose stacks; internal docker network only, JSON API enabled, rate limiter off). Two new settings configure it: tools.searxng_url (default http://searxng:8080, env TURNSTONE_SEARXNG_URL) and tools.searxng_engines (env TURNSTONE_SEARXNG_ENGINES). Commercial providers (Anthropic, OpenAI) continue to use their own native server-side search and never touch SearxNG; the mcp:server:tool backend is unchanged. A persistent searxng-cache volume keeps its favicon/internal cache across restarts, and Caddy can serve SearxNG's own web UI on a dedicated port (dev stack: https://localhost:8444, localhost-only; production: opt-in). See docs/docker.md for the AGPL-3.0 §13 note that applies to operators who expose the bundled SearxNG publicly.

• turnstone-admin reads config.toml — the admin CLI now honors the same [database] section that turnstone-server does, with the same precedence (CLI / config.toml > TURNSTONE_DB_* env > defaults). Operators with DB credentials in config.toml no longer need to re-export TURNSTONE_DB_URL before every admin invocation. Newly plumbed through to init_storage: pool_size, sslmode, sslrootcert, sslcert, sslkey — previously the admin CLI silently dropped these. A new --config PATH flag mirrors the one already on turnstone-server.

Changed

• tools.web_search_backend accepted values (BREAKING) — now "" (auto), "searxng", or "mcp:server:tool". The old "tavily" and "ddg" values are gone; a config still set to either disables web search and logs a warning. Auto-detect resolves to SearxNG when searxng_url is set, otherwise no client (the web_search tool is dropped for models without native search).
• web_search tool: topic → category (BREAKING) — the LLM-facing parameter is renamed and its values are now general (default), news, it (code/tech), or science, mapped to SearxNG categories so the model can target the right corpus. The Tavily-era finance topic (no SearxNG equivalent) is gone.

Removed

• Tavily and DuckDuckGo web_search backends (BREAKING) — replaced by the bundled self-hosted SearxNG service (see Added). Removed: the tools.tavily_api_key setting, the $TAVILY_API_KEY env var, the [api].tavily_key config key, and the ddg install extra (the ddgs dependency). Migration: use the bundled SearxNG (it ships in the compose stacks by default) or point TURNSTONE_SEARXNG_URL at an existing instance. No database migration required.
• man, math, and plan_agent built-in tools removed — man and math duplicated capabilities already available through bash; plan_agent is better expressed as a task_agent running a planning skill. Removing them simplifies the tool surface and cuts per-call token cost. This release also removes: the math sandbox executor (turnstone.core.sandbox) and the [sandbox] extra's role for it; the read-only AGENT_TOOLS sub-agent tool set and the agent tool-metadata key; the plan-review protocol (/v1/api/plan endpoint, plan_review/plan_resolved SSE events, the on_plan_review SDK/UI hook); and the model.plan_alias / model.plan_effort ConfigStore settings (and the corresponding [model].plan_model / [model].plan_effort config.toml knobs). Breaking change on the experimental 1.6 line. Interactive built-in tool count moves from 19 → 16; TASK_AGENT_TOOLS from 13 → 11.

Security

• Permissive config.toml now warns — turnstone.core.config.load_config logs a single warning when the resolved config file is group- or world-readable (any bit in 0o077). DB password and TLS key paths live in [database]; operators usually want the file at 0600.

[1.5.17]

Backports a clutch of coordinator-tool clarity fixes plus a watch-delivery correctness fix from main to the stable/1.5 track, plus a previously- latent intent-verdicts persistence bug exposed by the new heuristic-verdict INSERT paths. No schema changes.

Fixed

• intent_verdicts PK collisions on every llm_fallback delivery — async LLM-tier "llm_fallback" verdicts (turnstone/core/judge.py — _deliver_fallbacks and the in-loop fallback path) deliberately reuse the heuristic verdict's verdict_id so the row gets "upgraded in place" from tier="heuristic" → tier="llm_fallback" when the LLM judge times out, is cancelled, or returns no content. The consumer _persist_intent_verdict was doing a plain INSERT, hitting the intent_verdicts_pkey constraint on every fallback delivery; Postgres logged the duplicate-key error, the application try/except swallowed it at log.debug, and the row never actually got upgraded — the LLM judge's annotation ("(LLM judge did not return a verdict)") was lost. The collision rate exploded on this release because the new heuristic-INSERT paths in the auto-approve early-return branches of approve_tools (introduced below) leave no gap for the fallback to land cleanly into. Fix: new upsert_intent_verdict storage method using ON CONFLICT (verdict_id) DO UPDATE that updates only tier, reasoning, judge_model — the three fields that genuinely change between heuristic and llm_fallback. Every other column (identity, carried-verbatim, and user_decision) is excluded; user_decision in particular would otherwise be clobbered back to "pending" when a fallback arrives after the operator has already resolved the approval. The bulk-INSERT path stays as plain INSERT — fresh UUIDs in judge.evaluate make in-turn dups impossible; the inverse race (fallback wins before bulk lands) is reachable but unchanged in observable behavior by this fix, documented at the bulk site for a future hardening pass.
• Coordinator LLM re-spawn loops on large fan-outs — the spawn-tool return JSON used ws_id as its key, which primed the model's recency bias to feed the spawn result straight back into another spawn_workstream(ws_id=...) call instead of progressing to wait_for_workstream(ws_ids=[...]). On 10+ child fan-outs this cascaded into self-inflicted re-spawn loops. The LLM-facing tool result now emits child_ws_id (the storage column / HTTP API contract is unchanged); the field name is already an existing project term so the rename aligns rather than introduces new vocabulary. Also handles the silent upstream-omits-ws_id success-shape edge that previously emitted {"child_ws_id": null} to the LLM — now surfaces a tool error so the model retries rather than chasing a null id.
• inspect_workstream blowing the coordinator context budget — a coord doing a fan-out wave against tool-heavy children could land

  100 KB of raw output per inspect call, and the previous safety net (_truncate_output's head+tail strategy) silently dropped middle messages — exactly the wrong shape for understanding a child's trajectory (the FIRST sets the brief, the LAST shows the conclusion, the middle is the connective tissue). Output now goes through a three-tier degradation ladder mirroring the search tool's _format_search_results: _tier="full" (every message verbatim) → _tier="compact" (per-message head/tail-snipped content + snipped tool_calls.arguments, falling through a (20,30) / (10,20) / (5,10) message-list trim ladder) → _tier="skeleton" (counts, role distribution, last-assistant preview). Budget 32 KiB matches the search tool's; the chosen tier is annotated on the response so the model can recall with a tighter message_limit if signal was lost.

• Auto-approved verdicts indistinguishable from pending review — intent_verdict rows for auto-approved tool calls landed with user_decision="", which read identically to "still waiting for the operator" in the audit trail and led to a real misdiagnosis incident. The column now carries an explicit vocabulary at insert: pending / approved / denied / timeout / policy / blanket / skill / always / auto_approve_tools. The auto-approve early-return branches in approve_tools now persist heuristic verdicts stamped with their reason (previously dropped on the floor), and late LLM-tier verdicts that arrive for an already-auto-approved call_id are stamped via a TTL-pruned lookup map — so the audit row carries the auto-approve reason even when the LLM judge daemon completes after the synchronous approval cycle finished. resolve_approval gains a timeout kwarg writing "timeout" (the previous shape collapsed passive timeouts and active denials into the same column).
• list_skills empty allowed_tools misread as "no tool access" — the response previously emitted "allowed_tools": [] for every skill that hadn't declared an auto-approve allowlist, which a coordinator model read as "this skill can't use any tools" (real misdiagnosis: a code-review child appeared to have been spawned with zero tool access). The field is now omitted entirely when empty — absence carries the unambiguous meaning "no tool is pre-approved for this skill", presence (non-empty list) keeps the standard Claude Code skill-spec shape. The tool description rewrite makes the auto-approve-allowlist semantics explicit so a future reader doesn't re-derive the gating misread.
• Watch terminal-fires silently dropped on backpressure — delivery now routes terminal events through the same path as normal fires instead of being filtered out when the consumer was saturated.

Documentation

• Storage LIKE_ESCAPE contract — clarify that callers passing .like(escape=...) must use the same escape character that the storage helper assumes; previous wording let a reader pass a different escape and silently produce no matches.

[1.5.15]

Fixed

• Admin console blank-page on MCP server rows with consented users — a Phase 9 (1.5.14) regression in admin.js used double-quote string delimiters on the bulk-revoke button HTML literal, but the literal embeds a " mid-attribute. JS closed the string early, turned bulk-revoke ( into bare tokens, and the resulting SyntaxError wiped out every global in admin.js — showAdmin and all other admin entry points became undefined, so the console UI was non-functional whenever the rendered MCP server list contained at least one row with consented_users_count > 0. Switch the literal to single-quote delimiters to match the surrounding block.

[1.5.14]

Backports OAuth-MCP Phase 9 from main to the stable/1.5 track.

Added

• OAuth-MCP Phase 9 — admin status, deferred-consent persistence, operator docs — completes the per-(user, server) OAuth-MCP build-out. The sync pool dispatchers now upsert into a new mcp_pending_consent table on mcp_consent_required / mcp_insufficient_scope, so a non-interactive run (scheduled / channel) that hits an unconsented server surfaces the deferred prompt to the user on their next dashboard load via the gear-icon badge — rows are cleared automatically by the OAuth callback handler on consent completion, or via new DELETE endpoints for manual dismiss. The MCP Servers admin row gains a consented_users_count pill and a two-step-confirm bulk-revoke button for auth_type=oauth_user servers (upstream RFC 7009 revoke is intentionally not attempted in bulk to avoid N synchronous round-trips against the provider). Operator-facing docs land at docs/mcp-oauth.md and docs/operations/mcp-oauth-headless.md.

  Introduces forward-only migrations 054_mcp_pending_consent and 055_mcp_user_tokens_server_index.

[1.5.13]

This release introduces one forward-only schema migration: 053_services_notify_trigger — installs the services_notify PostgreSQL trigger that backs the new LISTEN/NOTIFY dispatcher (no-op on SQLite, where the dispatcher uses in-process fan-out).

Added

• Reactive node discovery via PG LISTEN/NOTIFY — the console gains a NotifyDispatcher that holds a dedicated session-mode PostgreSQL LISTEN connection (bypasses pgbouncer transaction pooling) and fans wake-ups out to per-channel handlers on a separate dispatch thread. The cluster collector subscribes to a new services channel and reacts to node register / deregister within ~500 ms instead of waiting up to 60 s for the next discovery loop; the 60 s loop is retained as the backstop for crash-shaped loss (NOTIFY only fires on real writes). The storage layer also gains a uniform notify / listen API with an SQLite synthetic-sweep fallback so consumer code is identical across backends. TURNSTONE_DB_LISTEN_URL (or [database] listen_url in config.toml) points the dispatcher at a direct-to-Postgres URL; defaults to the main DB URL when unset.
• Event-driven wait_for_workstream — coord's block-wait tool no longer polls storage every 500 ms. A new in-process ChildEventBus notifies waiters whenever a child state change is dispatched to the UI, and the wait loop blocks on threading.Event.wait with a 2 s heartbeat cap (matching the existing wait_progress SSE cadence). A 600 s wait that previously hit storage ~2400 times now wakes only on real state transitions, with ~4× lower SSE traffic in the quiescent case.
• Memory tool audit trail — the memory tool now emits memory.save, memory.update, and memory.delete audit events (the admin-console DELETE route previously emitted only memory.delete, so tool-initiated mutations had no audit footprint). All emissions are best-effort and never break the tool call itself.
• task_agent per-call personas via skill= — task_agent now accepts an optional skill=<name> argument that loads the named skill's content as the sub-agent's persona in place of the hardcoded identity statement. The fixed operating-guidance block (one-shot, tool-use over narration, no follow-up questions) is still layered on top of every persona. High- and critical-risk skills surface their risk tier in the approval header and emit a task_agent.high_risk_skill warning, matching the existing session-load gate.

Fixed

• Per-role plan / task model overrides could be bypassed by the LLM — the back-compat default alias auto-synthesised by load_model_registry remained visible to the model even when an operator had configured model.task_alias / model.plan_alias, so task_agent(model="default") routed to whichever backend the synthesised alias was attached to at boot instead of the configured per-role default. The synthesised alias is now only added when neither the DB nor [models.*] populates the registry, filtered out of the LLM-visible alias list, and explicitly rejected at the validator chokepoint as defense-in-depth.
• Mermaid streaming parse errors + progressive hljs — live-streamed mermaid blocks with bare (, [, { inside unquoted edge or rectangle node labels were re-entering the shape parser and producing Parse error, got 'PS' messages. The renderer now autoquotes the two affected label forms (|content| and ID[content]) before the SVG cache lookup; shapes whose syntax already nests delimiters (cylinders, subroutines, trapezoids, etc.) are intentionally left alone. The companion hljs change highlights code blocks progressively as they stream rather than only after completion.
• Re-auth from inside the proxy-prefixed UI — on a proxied node page (/node/{id}/...), an expiring JWT triggered an in-page login modal whose POST went to /v1/api/auth/login and was rewritten to /node/{id}/v1/api/auth/login. Two latent bugs both blocked re-auth: the console's AuthMiddleware didn't recognise the /node/{id}/ prefix over a public path, and proxy_api would have forwarded the login request to the upstream node (which mints JWT_AUD_SERVER tokens the console then rejects). Both fixed: proxied public paths stay public, and proxy_api now dispatches every entry in _PROXY_AUTH_LOCAL_HANDLERS (login, logout, setup, refresh, status, whoami, oidc/authorize, oidc/callback) to the console's own auth handlers. The dispatch table is a single (method, path) → handler mapping so the test parametrize list can't drift from the implementation.
• Appbar visibility + gear-icon dropdown on the dashboard — the dashboard overlay was covering the entire appbar, hiding the proxy-injected node picker. The overlay now starts at top: 48px and the dashboard's role downgrades from dialog+aria-modal to region so the appbar above it remains reachable. The gear icon converts from a direct settings-panel click into a dropdown with "MCP connections" and "Logout" (the latter with .destructive styling). The settings-menu keydown handler is now attached synchronously so Escape can't fall through the brief window between the menu opening and its listeners being installed.
• PostgreSQL test backend on the notify dispatcher suite — migration 053's services_notify trigger lives only in the alembic chain, but the test fixture creates tables via metadata.create_all. The trigger function + trigger are now declared in _schema.py and attached via sa.event.listen(services, "after_create", ...) DDL events gated on the PostgreSQL dialect, with the same SQL constants imported by migration 053 so there's a single source of truth.

[1.5.12]

Added

• Enriched backend error messages — provider name and attempted URL are now included in session error responses, so operators can triage connectivity failures without enabling debug logging.

Fixed

• /rewind always emits a history SSE event — pre-fix, if the session had no messages remaining after a rewind the history event was skipped, leaving connected UIs with stale content and blocking edit-and-resend flows.

[1.5.11]

This release introduces one forward-only schema migration: 052_model_reasoning_persistence — surface_persisted_reasoning and replay_reasoning_to_model flag columns on model_definitions.

Added

• SSE refresh-resume — clients that reload mid-stream (browser refresh, tab restore) now receive an in_progress_snapshot event carrying the buffered partial response, so the UI can resume rendering the in-flight turn without losing content. The snapshot is keyed by a monotonic _ws_inflight_seq counter so a reconnecting client can skip events it already saw.
• Reasoning persistence (Phases 1–4) — model reasoning text can now be persisted to conversation history and optionally replayed to the model on subsequent turns. Phase 1 persists reasoning text on the history payload. Phase 2 wires a build-time shape filter and a per-model replay_reasoning_to_model flag. Phases 3+4 add full OpenAI Responses API (include=["reasoning.encrypted_content"]) and Chat Completions support; an ANTHROPIC_VALID_BLOCK_TYPES shape filter guards the Anthropic path. Two new per-model capability flags (surface_persisted_reasoning, replay_reasoning_to_model) both default False on unknown and local-server models.
• Console home composer: placeholders + toggle — the console landing-page composer now shows context-aware placeholder text and a toggle component for advanced options; an admin polish pass tightened spacing and focus behaviour across the form.

Changed

• judge.model now requires a named alias — raw provider model IDs on judge.model in config are no longer accepted; the judge must reference an alias registered in the model registry. The session-provider raw-model fallback is removed. Existing configs using an unregistered model ID need a corresponding alias entry.

Fixed

• replay_reasoning_to_model AND-gated with model capability — setting the flag for a model that does not declare reasoning-replay support now silently no-ops instead of forwarding reasoning blocks and triggering a provider error.
• Coordinator alias resolution unified across placeholder + factory — a placeholder coordinator and the real coordinator factory could previously resolve to different model aliases, producing a visible mismatch in the model display. Both paths now share the same resolution logic.
• Console cs=None fallback in /v1/api/models placeholder — an under-initialised coordinator state no longer 500s when the models endpoint is hit before the coordinator subsystem is fully bootstrapped.
• SSE _ws_inflight_seq always advances — sequence numbers were previously skipped when an emit was past the buffer cap, leaving gaps in the monotonic counter that broke state_change / in_progress_snapshot ordering on reconnect.
• Reasoning persistence shape + replay fixes — per-block ANTHROPIC_VALID_BLOCK_TYPES filter applied; reasoning_text is now synthesised alongside non-reasoning provider_blocks so both appear together in the history payload.

[1.5.10]

This release introduces one forward-only schema migration: 051_skill_notify_on_complete_array_default — backfills prompt_templates.notify_on_complete from '{}' to '[]'.

Added

• Skills unlock action — operators can unlock an installed skill to allow local customisation. Once unlocked, the skill's resource content, system prompt additions, and notify configuration are editable through the admin UI. Skills shipped as part of a bundle remain locked (read-only) until explicitly unlocked; the unlock is logged to the audit trail. A lock icon in the top-right of the Skills detail pane doubles as the unlock trigger.

Fixed

• skills.sh install endpoint — the install script was targeting an endpoint removed in an earlier refactor; switched to /api/download.
• Skills notify_on_complete default — the field defaulted to {} (object) instead of [] (array), causing notify configurations to be rejected at schema validation.
• Skills admin UI modal errors — .is-visible class used consistently instead of inline style.display; stale error text is cleared on submit; designer-review lock-icon UX applied.

[1.5.9]

Fixed

• repair=False on all display-read load_messages call sites — passing repair=True on display paths was silently mutating the stored message list, causing divergence between what the UI showed and what the model received on the next turn.

[1.5.8]

This release introduces two forward-only schema migrations: 049_mcp_oauth_schema — OAuth token + consent tables for MCP servers; 050_conversations_source_and_reminders — _source and _reminders columns on conversations.

Added

• MCP OAuth 2.1 + PKCE — MCP servers that require OAuth can now be configured with a client ID and secret through the admin UI. The full token lifecycle (acquire → refresh → rotate) is managed automatically; tokens are stored encrypted at rest using a key derived from the JWT secret. The consent flow runs in-browser via a provider redirect. Rolled out in phases:

  • Minimum admin form and OAuth schema (21663d15).
  • Token-at-rest AES-GCM encryption layer (a4c335d7).
  • Per-(user, server) OAuth 2.1 + PKCE flow (b0f7029f).
  • Per-(user, server) ClientSession pool with OAuth dispatch (1a1043c4).
  • SDK 401/403 introspection via httpx response hook (bde09134).
  • Phase 7 — per-user tool catalog scoping: each user sees only the tools their OAuth token is permitted to call (cfc8a6c8).
  • Phase 7b — per-user resource + prompt pool dispatch (b368bdee).
  • Phase 8 — per-user MCP consent UX: users see a consent dialog on first use of an OAuth-gated server and can revoke consent from their profile; admins see per-server consent counts in the MCP Servers tab (61051339).

• Metacognition NudgeQueue — all advisory channels (repeat-tool nudges, watch reminders, wake triggers) are unified into a pull-model NudgeQueue that delivers at most one nudge per turn, preventing multi-channel pile-ups that inflate context. Observable changes:

  • Watch results carry metadata (watch ID, valid_until, trigger type) through to the system message so the model can reason about recency.
  • Coordinator idle-children observer: a coordinator with no in-flight children for longer than the configured idle threshold receives a nudge.
  • Wake trigger (IdleNudgeWatcher): sessions waiting on an external event can be unblocked via ChatSession.deliver_wake_nudge_from_queue.
  • Watch switchover: watch results are now enqueued on the NudgeQueue rather than the previous _watch_pending list, giving them the same delivery guarantees and priority handling as other advisories.

• Structured watch-result card — the UI renders watch results as a styled card with a system-nudge marker, distinct from the assistant message body. On history replay, system-nudge turns are visually distinguished from normal assistant turns.

• Side-channel persistence — _source and _reminders side-channel fields are persisted to the conversations storage table and restored on session resume, so metacognitive context survives process restarts. A REMINDER_TEXT_STORAGE_CAP byte clamp prevents unbounded growth.

Fixed

• Replay consistency — queued user messages captured mid-loop are now persisted and replayed in the correct order on a subsequent events subscription. Coordinator history replay fixed: blank assistant cards and out-of-order tool results on the coordinator tree no longer occur when the coordinator has mixed queued + delivered messages.
• Session reminder preservation on fork + resume — _source and _reminders are carried through workstream fork and restored from storage on resume.
• NUL-byte sanitization in storage — PostgreSQL rejects \x00 in text columns; _source and _reminders now strip NUL bytes on write.
• Console coordinator subsystem bootstrap — the coordinator subsystem is now committed atomically on first model add; startup teardown is offloaded to avoid blocking the event loop.
• MCP asyncio.timeout over asyncio.wait_for — Python 3.11's wait_for wraps the coroutine in a fresh task, breaking anyio's aclose scope exit. Replaced with async with asyncio.timeout(N) for safe cleanup.
• MCP pool-reuse 401 recovery — a reused ClientSession returning 401 now replaces the pool entry with a fresh session; the carrier token is owned by the pool entry to prevent a race between the 401 handler and a concurrent request.
• OIDC hardening — multiple security and correctness fixes: SSRF + plaintext credential exfil via discovery document (sec-1, sec-3); TURNSTONE_OIDC_REDIRECT_BASE now required, Host-header fallback removed (sec-2); atomic user + identity provisioning prevents orphan rows (bug-1); callback robustness — typed exceptions, shape checks, log sanitization, JS race (bug-4–6, sec-4); role-mapping concurrency serialized (bug-2, perf-1); stranded-user self-heal on role-mapping failure (cumulative bug-1).

[1.5.7]

Added

• Inline node picker — a compact node-switcher dropdown in the console header replaces the "← Back to console" banner, so operators can switch between nodes without a full navigation.

Fixed

• Queued user messages injected mid-loop — messages queued while a generation was in progress were not being delivered at the correct seam and could be dropped or reordered when the worker consumed the queue.
• Search tool output bounded — pathological inputs (very long lines with no whitespace) could produce search results exceeding the context budget. Output is now clamped before reaching the message.

[1.5.6]

Added

• api_surface toggle — model definitions gain an api_surface field ("chat" | "responses") that selects which OpenAI-compatible API surface the provider client uses. Enables Mistral Medium reasoning via the Responses surface; Chat Completions remains the default for all other models.
• Healthy model aliases per node — GET /v1/api/cluster/nodes now includes a healthy_aliases list per node, so the coordinator and operators can see which model aliases are currently reachable without a separate per-model health probe.
• Plan/task agent settings in Models → Roles — the Models admin tab's Roles sub-tab gains plan_agent and task_agent rows so operators can configure per-kind reasoning effort and alias overrides from the UI rather than editing config.toml. Live-refresh dropdowns update in place when model definitions change.

Fixed

• Memory candidate selection — recall now uses OR-of-terms BM25 with query-aware candidate-set selection, dramatically improving recall for queries whose terms span multiple stored entries.
• Workstream model + config preserved on rehydrate — reopening a closed workstream no longer overwrites the model alias and per-workstream config with session defaults.
• Console home composer: attachments + user-message pills — multipart attachments in the home composer were not forwarded correctly; user-message pills in the coordinator chat pane were missing.

[1.5.5]

Fixed

• Saved-workstream tool result rendering — tool results in closed workstreams were not rendering on history replay. Audit-trail decoration for tool calls is now applied on the replay path.

[1.5.4]

Added

• Stage 3 SessionManager Children primitive lift — child workstreams are first-class citizens in the cluster event bus. child_ws_state events are pushed through the cluster SSE stream so the console tree view updates in real time without polling. list_children and get_child primitives on SessionManager provide a consistent cross-node view of the coordinator's spawn tree.
• Multi-select delete for Saved Coordinators — the Saved Coordinators grid in the console admin panel now supports checkbox multi-select with a bulk-delete action.

[1.5.3]

This release introduces one forward-only schema migration: 048_workstream_reaper_index — partial composite index on workstreams for the orphan-reaper query.

Fixed

• Coordinator orphan reaping scoped by heartbeat — the session manager's close_idle pass now scopes the DB-orphan reaper by services.last_heartbeat so workstreams belonging to a live node are not incorrectly reaped. bulk_close_stale_orphans and touch_workstream storage primitives added; a partial composite index keeps the reaper scan cheap.
• Coordinator pool idle cleanup — a periodic task on the console now closes coordinator pool entries whose session has gone idle past the configurable threshold, preventing pool exhaustion on long-running consoles.

[1.5.2]

Added

• Metacognition themed reminder bubble — repeat-tool and user-reminder nudges are rendered as a distinct styled bubble rather than being injected inline into the assistant message, making it easier to distinguish model output from metacognitive annotations. The CLI REPL gains matching on_user_reminder / on_tool_reminder callbacks.

Fixed

• Metacog streak detector — the N≥3 sequential-same-call streak detector now fires correctly on the third repetition; a write-success-clear that reset the counter after a successful tool call (preventing streaks across mixed-outcome sequences) was removed.
• Metacog reminders isolated to side-channel — reminder text no longer appears in the user content turn; it flows through a dedicated side-channel the session injects into the system context, preventing the model from attributing it to the user.

[1.5.1]

Added

• pending_approval_detail on child ws_state SSE events — coordinators now receive the child's pending approval detail in child_ws_state events, enabling the coordinator to surface approval prompts without a separate poll.

Fixed

• Coordinator registry auto-refresh — the console coordinator registry now refreshes when model definitions change, so a newly added alias is visible to coordinators without restarting.
• Coordinator fan-out default — coordinators now fan out to independent child workstreams by default instead of serialising them, matching the documented contract for parallel-work patterns.
• wait_for_workstream message cap raised to 10 KiB — large plan summaries and tool results from child workstreams were silently truncated at the previous 4 KiB cap.
• Coordinator SSE isolated on dedicated thread pool — coordinator SSE polling now runs on a dedicated 200-thread executor, matching interactive's sse_executor, so coordinator long-poll blocking no longer contends with storage and routing workers on the default pool.

[1.5.0]

User-visible additions: a unified workstream HTTP surface (interactive and coordinator under one URL family), inline child approvals, coordinator composer parity, progressive rendering, OIDC authentication, MCP OAuth foundations, and a redesigned UI built on the Design System v1 token layer.

This release removes the pre-1.5 body-keyed and query-keyed URL family. See Removed (BREAKING) below before upgrading from a 1.x stable line.

This release introduces the following forward-only schema migrations that the server applies automatically on first startup. All are additive; no data loss.

• 039_workstream_kind — kind + parent_ws_id columns on workstreams.
• 040_coord_cluster_admin_perms — grants admin.coordinator + admin.cluster.inspect to the builtin-admin role.
• 041_workstream_index_tuning — refined indexes for the workstream query mix introduced by 039.
• 042_coord_trust_send_perm — adds coordinator.trust.send permission to builtin-admin.
• 043_skill_description_required — backfills empty description rows in prompt_templates.
• 044_skill_kind — adds kind classifier column to prompt_templates (interactive / coordinator / any).
• 045_skill_risk_level_rename — renames prompt_templates.scan_status → risk_level.
• 046_drop_hash_ring_tables — drops the hash-ring bucket tables superseded by rendezvous routing in 1.4.
• 047_drop_coord_spawn_quota_settings — removes the spawn-quota settings rows removed from the coordinator in 1.5.0a4.

Added

• Inline child approvals — pending tool approvals on coordinator child workstreams surface directly in the coordinator tree view. A risk pill shows the judge verdict (or "pending" while the judge evaluates); Approve/Deny buttons appear inline so operators do not need to navigate to the child's workstream. pending_approval_detail is exposed on GET /v1/api/dashboard and passed through the cluster live-bulk SSE payload so all connected clients render approval prompts simultaneously. LLM judge verdicts are cached client-side and replayed on SSE reconnect.
• Coordinator composer parity — the coordinator composer now supports Stop, Send-to-queue, and Attach (file upload), matching the interactive workstream composer feature set.
• Per-call model and judge override on coordinator composer — operators can override the model alias and judge model for a single coordinator send from the composer, without changing the node-wide or role-wide defaults. Bad aliases return a corrective error listing available choices.
• Coordinator status bar + richer history replay — each coordinator workstream gains a per-coordinator status bar showing active children, token spend, and generation state. History replay in the coordinator panel is extended to include tool results and thinking blocks.
• Coordinator child error surfacing + memory tool — child workstream errors are surfaced as distinct error rows in the coordinator tree view rather than disappearing silently. The coordinator gains access to a memory tool (same interface as interactive) for retrieving stored facts.
• Coordinator inline tool-batch construct — the coordinator tool approval UI replaces the separate approval dock with an inline batch construct that groups all pending tool calls for a given turn into a single review card.
• Node capability auto-detection — nodes report kernel-level capabilities (available memory, CPU count, accelerator presence) via /v1/api/node/capabilities at startup, enabling the console to filter model aliases offered to coordinators routing to that node.
• Skills: paste SKILL.md to auto-fill the Create Skill modal — pasting a SKILL.md file's content into the modal auto-populates the name, description, and configuration fields.
• Progressive mermaid rendering — Mermaid diagrams begin rendering as soon as a complete diagram block is detected in the stream rather than waiting for the full response; the diagram re-renders in place as the model extends it.
• LaTeX and MathML delimiter support — \(…\) inline and \[…\] block math delimiters are now recognised alongside the existing $$ fences.

Removed (BREAKING — 1.5.0)

• Legacy body-keyed and query-keyed URL family for the workstream interaction verbs. Pre-1.5 interactive shipped both a path-keyed and a body-keyed surface for the same five verbs; this release drops the body-keyed and query-keyed mounts (and the make_legacy_body_keyed_adapter / make_legacy_query_keyed_adapter shims that backed them). External SDK consumers on stable 1.0/1.3/1.4 must move to the path-keyed shape:

  Removed (1.0/1.3/1.4)	Use instead
  GET /v1/api/events?ws_id=X	GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/events
  POST /v1/api/send (body ws_id)	POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/send
  DELETE /v1/api/send (body ws_id)	DELETE /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/send
  POST /v1/api/approve (body ws_id)	POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/approve
  POST /v1/api/cancel (body ws_id)	POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/cancel
  POST /v1/api/workstreams/close (body)	POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/close

  Calls to the old URLs return 404 on 1.5.0+. Bodies on the new URLs no longer carry ws_id (the path provides it); the SendRequest / ApproveRequest / CancelRequest Pydantic schemas drop the field, and CloseWorkstreamRequest slims to a single optional reason field (the body is still required to be valid JSON — send {} when omitting all fields).

  /v1/api/plan and /v1/api/command are unaffected and remain body-keyed in this release. The bundled web UI, channel adapters, Python SDK, TypeScript SDK, and console routing-proxy SDK ship the new URLs automatically; pinning to ≥ 1.5.0 is enough.

  The console routing proxy's /v1/api/route/... family is updated alongside: /v1/api/route/workstreams/{ws_id}/<verb> replaces the pre-1.5 /v1/api/route/{send,approve,cancel,workstreams/close} mounts. DELETE is now passed through (client.request(method, ...) instead of client.post(...)) so the new dequeue route works through the proxy. Audit attribution for DELETE on /send is logged as route.workstream.dequeue rather than route.workstream.send.

  Auth scope wiring (WRITE_PATHS / APPROVE_PATHS literals plus the path-keyed verb match in required_scope) updated to grant write for path-keyed send/cancel/close, approve for path-keyed approve, and write for DELETE on path-keyed /send. The /node/* proxy branch mirrors all four.

Changed

• Dashboard row shape: id → ws_id. The GET /v1/api/dashboard row dict now keys the workstream identifier as ws_id (matching the rest of the v1 workstream surface — active list, saved list, history, detail). The Stage 2 list-verb lift converged /v1/api/workstreams and /v1/api/workstreams/saved on ws_id but left dashboard alone to keep that PR's diff focused; this lands the same rename on the remaining endpoint so the v1 row shape is consistent across the family. Pydantic DashboardWorkstream and the TypeScript SDK DashboardWorkstream interface both rename the field accordingly. The bundled web UI is the only consumer that reads dashboard.workstreams[].id and is updated atomically; no external SDK on a stable line reads the field, so the swap is bounded by normal static-asset reload. Console _fetch_live_block (cluster-inspect's projection over a remote node's dashboard payload) is updated to match.

• Coordinator gains rich ws_state payload + live activity broadcast ([§ Post-P3 reckoning item #2 follow-up]). Pre-lift coord's cluster broadcast was state-only — the dashboard's coord rows showed the state column flipping but the tokens, context_ratio, activity, and per-turn content fields were all hardcoded to zero / empty. The lift turns on_status / on_content_token / on_thinking_start / on_thinking_stop / on_stream_end / on_tool_result into shared bodies on :class:SessionUIBase so coord populates the same per-ws metric fields interactive does (the fields were already declared on the base; only the writes were WebUI-specific). coord_adapter.emit_state now reads the UI's snapshot under _ws_lock via the new :meth:SessionUIBase.snapshot_and_consume_state_payload helper and passes the rich kwargs through to collector.emit_console_ws_state; the cluster dashboard's coord rows now render with the same tokens / activity / content / context_ratio fields interactive rows do.

  Three observable behaviour changes (all CHANGELOG-callout-worthy):

  • Coord persists usage_event storage rows. Pre-lift only WebUI did. The lifted on_status body unifies usage tracking so governance dashboards / token-spend queries see coordinator consumption alongside interactive. Operators querying usage_event by ws_id will see coord rows for the first time.
  • Coord broadcasts live activity transitions. New ClusterCollector.update_console_ws_activity(ws_id, *, activity, activity_state) method (named update_* rather than emit_* to flag the no-fan-out asymmetry vs. the rest of the emit_console_ws_* family — it updates the in-memory pseudo-node row but intentionally does NOT fan out a separate SSE event). The cluster dashboard's per-ws polling reads the in-memory pseudo-node row, so activity ticks land on the next snapshot fetch (matches WebUI's behaviour where activity events are observational; not fanned out through the cluster SSE stream).
  • Cluster cluster_state events for coord rows now carry non-zero tokens / content fields. Frontend rendering that conditionally hid these on coord rows can drop the branch.

  Architecture changes:

  • _MAX_TURN_CONTENT_CHARS moved from turnstone.server to turnstone.core.session_ui_base so coord enforces the same per-turn content cap interactive does.
  • WebUI keeps on_status / on_tool_result / on_error overrides that layer Prometheus _metrics.record_* calls (node-only) on top of the shared body via super() — the Prometheus surface stays node-scoped (the console isn't a node and has no /metrics endpoint).
  • ConsoleCoordinatorUI adds a _broadcast_activity override that fans out via the cluster collector instead of the global SSE queue (which is node-only on interactive).
  • coord_endpoint_config wires a new _coord_spawn_metrics hook (mirrors interactive's) so the per-spawn _ws_messages increment + _ws_turn_tool_calls reset happen on coord too.

  Test additions: 23 new tests in tests/test_coord_rich_ws_state_payload.py pin the per-ws metric writes (status, content accumulation, activity tracking, tool-result counters, stream-end activity clear), the snapshot helper's IDLE/ERROR drain semantics + single-lock-acquisition guarantee, the adapter's rich-payload pass-through + defensive None-UI handling, the activity broadcast (collector wire + failure swallow + no-op-when- collector-unset + dedup against last-emitted state), the spawn_metrics hook, and a concurrent-writes-during-snapshot stress case (cycles through running / idle / error so the drain branches actually run against a concurrent writer). Plus WebUI-override regression tests confirming _metrics.record_* still fires on top of the lifted bodies. Existing tests/test_webui_content.py updated to import _MAX_TURN_CONTENT_CHARS from its new home in turnstone.core.session_ui_base; tests/test_coordinator_adapter.py updated to expect the rich-payload kwargs (tokens=0 defaults) on emit_console_ws_state.

  Two deferred follow-ups (out-of-scope for this lift, flagged for tracking):

  • Synchronous record_usage_event INSERT on coord worker thread. The lifted on_status body persists usage rows on every provider response — same shape WebUI uses, but coord workers can fire multi-step plan/task agent loops where each response blocks the worker for a write transaction. Parity with WebUI is the explicit goal here; if coord throughput becomes a concern, batch usage_event writes onto a background flusher thread (one batch INSERT per N events / per K ms) on both kinds.
  • Coord assistant turn content now flows on the cluster SSE stream (/v1/api/cluster/events). Pre-lift the broadcast was content=""; post-lift it carries the joined assistant output. The cluster SSE stream has no per-user filter today — extends an existing cross-tenant exposure (interactive cluster_state events already carry content) to a previously-empty channel (coord rows). Proper fix needs the SSE endpoint gated on admin.cluster.inspect (matching /v1/api/cluster/ws/{ws_id}/detail) or per-listener user_id filtering. Tracked as a separate security-tightening project; not gating this lift since it inherits an existing exposure rather than introducing a new mechanism.

• history / detail verb bodies lifted across both kinds ([Stage 2 Verb Lift — history / detail]). The coord GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/history and GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id} handlers now share two factory bodies via make_history_handler(cfg) and make_detail_handler(cfg). The lift adds both endpoints to the interactive surface as a feature gain (pre-lift only coord exposed them; interactive consumers had to subscribe to /events SSE just to read history rows or display fields). No new SessionEndpointConfig fields — the factories reuse permission_gate, manager_lookup, not_found_label, audit_action_prefix, and (for history's storage-fallback kind check) list_kind — all already wired by both production lifespans.

  Three observable behaviour changes (all documented per kind):

  • Interactive gains GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}. Pre-lift interactive had no detail endpoint — SDK consumers had to read display fields from the SSE replay on /events or scrape the active list. The lifted body lazy-rehydrates a closed/evicted workstream via mgr.open() so the response shape is stable across loaded / persisted-only states. Same {ws_id, name, state, user_id, kind} shape coord exposed pre-lift, now available on both surfaces.
  • Interactive gains GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/history. Same ?limit= query param contract as coord (default 100, max 500, malformed values fall back to 100, out-of-range clamps to [1, 500]). Persisted-but-not-loaded interactives serve history without rehydrating — the lifted body falls back to a storage-row
    • kind check (via cfg.list_kind) when mgr.get returns None, mirroring coord's pre-lift _resolve_coordinator_or_404 ladder.
  • Storage / manager-lock work moved off the event loop on coord. The lifted history body always runs storage.get_workstream (storage-fallback path) and storage.load_messages through asyncio.to_thread; pre-lift coord ran them inline on the event loop. Long-tail message reads on a saturated console no longer stall every other async handler for the duration of the SQL.

  Pydantic schemas: CoordinatorDetailResponse and CoordinatorHistoryResponse removed; both folded into WorkstreamDetailResponse / WorkstreamHistoryResponse on the shared server_schemas.py (mirrors the list lift's pattern for WorkstreamInfo). Both server and console OpenAPI specs reference the unified schemas; server_spec.py gains EndpointSpec entries for the new interactive endpoints. TS SDK gains WorkstreamDetailResponse / WorkstreamHistoryResponse interfaces in sdk/typescript/src/types.ts; openapi-{server,console}.json regenerated. GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/history is the only verb whose lifted body keeps a kind-aware storage fallback (via cfg.list_kind); detail defers cross-kind isolation to mgr.open() itself.

• list / saved verb bodies lifted across both kinds ([Stage 2 Verb Lift — list / saved]). The interactive GET /v1/api/workstreams + GET /v1/api/workstreams/saved and coord GET /v1/api/workstreams + GET /v1/api/workstreams/saved handlers now share two factory bodies via make_list_handler(cfg) and make_saved_handler(cfg). Four new SessionEndpointConfig fields capture the per-kind divergence:

  • list_resolve_titles: ListResolveTitles | None — interactive wires :func:turnstone.core.memory.get_workstream_display_names (new bulk helper added on the storage layer + memory.py) so the active-list endpoint resolves every user-set alias in ONE SELECT ... WHERE ws_id IN (...) instead of the pre-lift per-row N+1. Coord wires None (no alias surface today).
  • list_kind: WorkstreamKind | None — required storage-side kind classifier passed to list_workstreams_with_history. Interactive wires WorkstreamKind.INTERACTIVE; coord wires WorkstreamKind.COORDINATOR. Distinct from audit_action_prefix (audit-action namespacing) so adding a third kind doesn't have to overload the audit prefix as a classifier; missing value surfaces as 500 with a clear log line rather than silently filtering for the wrong kind.
  • saved_state_filter: str | None — coord wires "closed" so only explicitly-closed coordinators surface in the saved-card grid. Interactive wires None (the storage layer already excludes state='deleted' tombstones).
  • saved_loaded_lookup: SavedLoadedLookup | None — coord-only defence-in-depth filter that excludes ws_ids currently in the in-memory pool (a row can be state='closed' for a few seconds while the close-emit sequence races the in-memory pop). Interactive wires None.

  Five observable behaviour changes (all documented per kind):

  • Active-list top-level key converges on "workstreams". Pre-lift coord returned {"coordinators": [...]}; the lifted body returns {"workstreams": [...]} for response-shape parity with interactive. Coord is a 1.5.0aN-only surface — never shipped stable — so SDK / frontend consumers swap once and there's no compat shim or fallback (the convergence MUST land before v1.5.0 stable per project_unification_before_stable.md).
  • Saved-list top-level key converges on "workstreams". Same shape change as the active list, applied to GET /v1/api/workstreams/saved on coord. Coord-only surface; no compat shim.
  • Active-list row key renames "id" → "ws_id" on interactive. Pre-lift interactive used the bare id field while every other shared verb on this surface (cancel, open, events, create, saved-list) uses ws_id. Convergence eliminates the internal inconsistency. Frontend consumers reading ws.id from the active-list response swap to ws.ws_id. Interactive HAS shipped stable across 1.0 / 1.3 / 1.4, but the active-list endpoint is consumed by the bundled JS only — there's no external SDK on those stable lines reading the field. Browser-cache staleness is bounded by normal static-asset reload on next page load.
  • Active-list row gains always-include fields. user_id was coord-only; kind + parent_ws_id were interactive-only. Both kinds now populate all three. parent_ws_id defaults to None for coord (coordinators have no parent).
  • Storage / manager-lock work moved off the event loop on interactive. The lifted saved body always uses asyncio.to_thread for list_workstreams_with_history; pre-lift interactive ran it inline (correlated COUNT subquery can stall every other async handler on a cluster with thousands of saved rows). Coord already used to_thread (perf-2 from the saved-coordinators review); convergence lifts interactive up. The active-list body also moves mgr.list_all + per-row title resolution off the event loop on both kinds.

  Pydantic schemas: WorkstreamInfo.id renamed → ws_id, WorkstreamInfo.user_id field added. CoordinatorInfo and CoordinatorListResponse removed (folded into the unified WorkstreamInfo / ListWorkstreamsResponse); console_spec active-list endpoint now points at ListWorkstreamsResponse. OpenAPI spec snapshots regenerated.

  GET /v1/api/dashboard is not in the lift's scope and still returns rows keyed on id. A separate cleanup PR will converge the dashboard row shape with the rest of the v1 surface.

• SessionManager.create gains a deferred-emit option; lifted create HTTP handler eliminates the phantom create→close pair on coord rollback. SessionManager.create now accepts defer_emit_created: bool = False (default preserves the legacy "advertise immediately" contract for direct callers); two new methods complete the deferred-create bracket:

  • SessionManager.commit_create(ws) fires the deferred emit_created event after the caller's post-create work confirms the workstream should be advertised.
  • SessionManager.discard(ws_id) releases the in-memory slot
    • cleans up the UI WITHOUT firing emit_closed — the workstream's existence was never advertised, so there's nothing to advertise on rollback. Storage-row deletion stays a separate concern (caller invokes delete_workstream for a complete rollback), mirroring mgr.create's split between slot reservation and register_workstream. Logs a warning (session_mgr.discard.after_emit_created) when invoked on a workstream that's already been advertised (non-deferred create or post-commit_create); the slot is still released so capacity isn't stranded, but the warning surfaces the caller-bug case where close would have been the right call.

  The lifted make_create_handler now uses this bracket: pass defer_emit_created=True, validate uploaded attachments, then mgr.commit_create(ws) on success / mgr.discard(ws.id) on failure. Pre-fix, coord's mgr.create fired emit_created synchronously — a rollback then called mgr.close which fired emit_closed, surfacing a quick create→close pair on the cluster events stream that the collector's diff-reconcile had to handle. Post-fix, a rejected upload produces zero events. Interactive's emit_created is a documented no-op stub so the deferral is observably a no-op there; the ws_created broadcast on the global SSE queue continues to fire from the kind's post_install callback after attachment validation passes (unchanged).

  Direct callers of mgr.create (test fixtures, the CLI REPL, channel adapters) keep the default defer_emit_created=False and see no behaviour change.

• Coordinator HTTP surface unified under /v1/api/workstreams/ ([Stage 2 Priority 0]). The experimental /v1/api/coordinator/* URL tree from 1.5.0aN is removed; coord verbs now mount at the same shape as interactive workstreams via a shared route registrar (turnstone.core.session_routes). Path mapping:

  Was (1.5.0aN)	Now
  POST /v1/api/coordinator/new	POST /v1/api/workstreams/new
  GET /v1/api/coordinator	GET /v1/api/workstreams
  GET /v1/api/coordinator/saved	GET /v1/api/workstreams/saved
  GET /v1/api/coordinator/{ws_id}	GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}
  POST /v1/api/coordinator/{ws_id}/{verb}	POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/{verb}

  Permission scopes, request / response bodies, and SSE event shapes are unchanged. Callers on the experimental 1.5.0aN coord SDK must swap their URL prefix; the legacy paths are gone with no compat shim. Stable releases (1.0 / 1.3 / 1.4) never exposed /v1/api/coordinator/, so this change is a no-op for anyone upgrading from a stable line.

  Two handler bodies (approve, close) lifted into the shared registrar with kind branching behind SessionEndpointConfig — both kinds share one implementation per verb. Two related behavior changes on the interactive close path:

  • mgr.close() race-loss returns 404 (was 500 on coord; "popped between .get() and .close()" is a not-found semantic, not a server error).
  • Audit-write failures (record_audit raising on the storage write) are now caught and logged at warning level; the close still returns 200. Previously the interactive path let the exception propagate as HTTP 500. Coord previously already swallowed; convergence is intentional — operators monitor the ws.close.audit_failed log line in both kinds the same way.

  Other shared verbs (send, cancel, open, events, create, list, saved, history, detail) keep their per-kind handlers — body convergence for those requires SessionManager- side refactors (e.g. Priority 1's worker-dispatch unification for send) or coordinated frontend changes (response-shape unification for list / saved) that fall outside Priority 0 scope.

• TypeScript SDK bumped to 0.4.0 to flag the URL change for any 1.5.0aN-era consumer of the experimental coord client. The openapi-{server,console}.json reference specs ship with the unified path tree.

• Worker dispatch unified across interactive + coordinator ([Stage 2 Priority 1]). The atomic check-and-(spawn-or-queue) decision for ChatSession.send now lives in turnstone.core.session_worker.send and is shared by both paths. Interactive /v1/api/send, the coordinator adapter, the watch-result dispatch, the rewind/retry path, and the initial-message-on-create path all gate on Workstream._worker_running (set/cleared atomically under ws._lock) instead of Thread.is_alive() — closes a race where two senders could spawn parallel workers on the same ChatSession.

  The /send HTTP body itself stays per-kind in this PR. Verb-shape convergence (one shared factory body with capability flags for attachments / queue priorities / metric increments) is tracked as P1.5 and MUST land before 1.5.0 stable — letting the fork ship into the stable line bakes the duplication in for the lifetime of the 1.5 track.

• /send body lift + coordinator attachments + queue surface parity ([Stage 2 Priority 1.5]). The /send HTTP handler is now ONE factory body (make_send_handler(cfg)) wired with capability flags on both kinds; the four attachment endpoints (upload / list / get_content / delete) are also unified via make_attachment_handlers(cfg). Coord workstreams light up:

  • POST/GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/attachments, GET .../attachments/{aid}/content, DELETE .../attachments/{aid} — same shape, same caps, same reservation flow as interactive.
  • POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/send accepts attachment_ids (or auto-consumes pending) and returns attached_ids / dropped_attachment_ids for surfacing partial reservations. Live-worker reuse path also returns priority / msg_id (parity with the interactive status: queued shape).

  Backend parity is end-to-end: storage layer was already kind-agnostic; the route registrar's AttachmentHandlers slot has been there since Stage 2 P0; the multi-node attachment routing-proxy on the console (route_attachment_proxy) was already shipping. P1.5 is the wiring + verb-shape lift that lets these primitives surface on the coord side.

  Coord dashboard rendering surfaces an attachment-count badge on past messages with attachments; full chip rendering with click-to-view is deferred (the coord dashboard is diagnostic-leaning and chip parity isn't on the critical path for the unification thesis). Python SDK adds coordinator_send / coordinator_upload_attachment / coordinator_list_attachments / coordinator_get_attachment_content / coordinator_delete_attachment on AsyncTurnstoneConsole + TurnstoneConsole. TS SDK regenerated; bumped to 0.5.0.

  Three lifted helpers (sniff_image_mime, classify_text_attachment, upload_lock) moved from turnstone/server.py to turnstone/core/attachments.py so both processes use the canonical implementation. The interactive surface keeps the same behaviour; the helpers are simply imported from their new home.

  coordinator_send no longer returns 429 on a full worker queue — the unified body returns 200 {"status": "queue_full"} for parity with interactive. Existing callers checking for 429 should switch to the status-code shape.

  Coord GenerationCancelled now emits state=idle + stream_end (parity with interactive); pre-P1.5 a cancel-killed coord worker would have terminated silently with no state event. Cluster fanout / alerting keyed on state=error for cancelled coord workers should switch to monitoring stream_end / state=idle together.

• SessionKindAdapter Protocol split into construction + emission ([Stage 2 Priority 3]). The adapter Protocol now covers only what every kind must implement (kind / build_ui / build_session / cleanup_ui); the four lifecycle emit methods (emit_created / emit_state / emit_rehydrated / emit_closed) move to a separate SessionEventEmitter Protocol wired through a new optional event_emitter: SessionEventEmitter | None kwarg on SessionManager. Both production adapters (interactive on server.py, coordinator on console/server.py) implement both Protocols and are passed as both adapter and event_emitter at lifespan-construction time, so production behavior is unchanged. The interactive adapter's three emit_created / emit_state / emit_rehydrated methods remain documented no-op stubs (those events fire from out-of-band paths — the create handler enqueues ws_created after attachment validation, WebUI._broadcast_state emits ws_state); emit_closed stays load-bearing as the sole transport path for ws_closed onto the global SSE queue.

• cancel verb body lifted across both kinds ([Stage 2 Verb Lift — cancel]). The interactive /v1/api/cancel and coord /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/cancel handlers now share one body via make_cancel_handler(cfg, *, audit_emit=None); per-kind divergence captured by a new cancel_forensics: CancelForensics | None field on SessionEndpointConfig (interactive wires _capture_cancel_forensics; coord wires None). Three observable behaviour changes for coord callers:

  • Coord cancel now accepts a force flag. Same shape as interactive: posting {"force": true} abandons the worker thread and emits stream_end so a stuck coord generation can be recovered without waiting for the daemon thread to exit. Pre-lift coord ignored force.
  • Coord cancel response always includes "dropped". Pre-lift coord returned bare {"status": "ok"}; the lifted body returns {"status": "ok", "dropped": {}} (always-include parity with interactive). SDK consumers don't need to branch on kind to read dropped.
  • Coord cancel returns 400 when the workstream's session is None. Pre-lift coord called coord_mgr.cancel which silently no-op'd on a placeholder/build-failed workstream; the lifted body 400s with {"error": "No session"} for parity with interactive's pre-existing branch.

  Two observable changes for interactive (asymmetric — coord pre-lift already had this behaviour):

  • resolve_plan now runs on every cancel (previously gated on was_running). resolve_plan has an internal _pending_plan_review is None guard, so the call is no-op when no plan review is pending. Lift gives interactive coord's pre-lift recovery path: a stuck plan-pending state from a crashed worker can be cleared via cancel instead of requiring a workstream close + rehydrate.
  • resolve_approval runs on every cancel only when ui._pending_approval is not None (the lifted body gates the call). resolve_approval is not idempotent — it always broadcasts approval_resolved and overwrites _approval_result — so the gate prevents a stale resolution event from leaking on idle cancels while preserving the recovery path when an approval really is pending.

  Coord coordinator.cancel audit detail now includes force so operator-driven recovery is distinguishable from a routine cancel in the audit log.

  Three /review fixes folded into the same commit:

  • No more stale approval_resolved SSE event on idle cancel. The lifted body's resolve_approval call is now gated on ui._pending_approval is not None. Pre-fix, the unconditional call would broadcast a phantom approval_resolved to every SSE listener even when no prompt was pending — listener UIs that key on the event would dismiss prompts they didn't have.
  • Force-cancel now clears _worker_running alongside worker_thread. Previously the force path left the half- state (_worker_running=True, worker_thread=None), which routed any follow-up send through the queue-enqueue path onto the abandoned worker (where the cancel flag short-circuits the queue-drain seam, leaving the message orphaned until the next spawn). Restores the (worker_thread, _worker_running) invariant session_worker.send documents.
  • coordinator_stop_cascade now treats child cancel 400 + "No session" as skipped (was previously failed). Lifted coord cancel returns 400 on placeholder / build-failed children — matching the pre-lift outcome where those children were silently no-op'd, so the cascade response's failed bucket no longer fires spurious operator alerts.

• open verb body lifted across both kinds ([Stage 2 Verb Lift — open]). The interactive POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/open and coord POST /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/open handlers now share one body via make_open_handler(cfg, *, audit_emit=None). Per-kind divergence captured by two new SessionEndpointConfig fields:

  • open_resolve_alias: AliasResolver | None — interactive wires :func:turnstone.core.memory.resolve_workstream so callers can pass user-friendly aliases ("my-debug-ws") in the path param. Coord wires None (hex ids only).
  • open_post_load: OpenPostLoad | None — interactive wires the UI-replay (clear_ui + history) + handler-side ws_created enqueue onto the global SSE queue. Coord wires None and relies on the cluster collector fan-out from CoordinatorAdapter.emit_rehydrated.

  Load-bearing fix (§ Post-P3 reckoning item #3): interactive open_workstream previously called mgr.create(ws_id=resolved_id) + ws.session.resume(...) to rehydrate, bypassing mgr.open() entirely. After the lift both kinds route through mgr.open() — which makes InteractiveAdapter.emit_rehydrated reachable on interactive (it had been dead-by-routing) and gives the manager a single rehydrate code path to maintain. emit_rehydrated stays a documented no-op stub on the interactive adapter (the handler-side ws_created enqueue from open_post_load is the load-bearing emission).

  Two observable behaviour changes for interactive callers:

  • Cross-kind open returns 404 (was 400). Pre-lift had a pre-mgr storage probe that returned 400 with "Workstream is not an interactive kind" for coord rows; the lift consolidates on mgr.open()'s single None- return contract for missing / wrong-kind / tombstoned rows. Security boundary unchanged.
  • Already-loaded response uses ws.name directly (was get_workstream_display_name(resolved_id) or resolved_id). A workstream renamed via set_workstream_alias after being loaded into memory will surface the storage-row name in the open response's name field instead of the latest alias. The dashboard listing endpoint still resolves aliases on its own pass, so the user-visible workstream name in the tab strip isn't affected.

  Coord behaviour unchanged.

  Two /review fixes folded into the same commit:

  • Resume failures now return 5xx instead of broken-200. SessionManager.open() previously caught and log.debug- swallowed exceptions from ChatSession.resume (which assigns self.messages before the config-restore block, so a partial-failure resume — corrupted workstream_config row, model-registry mismatch on a saved alias, malformed temperature / max_tokens — would leave the session with history but with default config). Pre-lift, the interactive open handler called ws.session.resume(...) directly and let exceptions propagate as 500. The lift accidentally inherited the swallow because it routed through mgr.open(). Restored pre-lift behaviour: mgr.open() now re-raises resume exceptions after rolling back the slot (cleanup_ui + _remove_locked), so the lifted handler returns 500 with a correlation id and the storage row stays available for a retry instead of silently 200'ing with broken state.
  • except Exception in the lifted body documents intent. The bare exception catch around mgr.open(ws_id) is intentional — the kind's session factory has no documented exception spec, and resume can propagate from ChatSession.resume. A one-line rationale comment in the handler body keeps a future contributor from narrowing it incorrectly.

• events verb body lifted across both kinds ([Stage 2 Verb Lift — events]). The interactive GET /v1/api/events?ws_id=... and coord GET /v1/api/workstreams/{ws_id}/events SSE handlers now share one body via make_events_handler(cfg). Per-kind divergence captured by a new events_replay: EventsReplay | None cfg field — a Protocol- typed callback yielding the kind-specific initial replay payload that the lifted body iterates and sends as data: lines before starting the live event loop. Interactive's _interactive_events_replay yields the pre-lift sequence (connected + status + history + pending_approval

  • cached intent verdicts + pending_plan_review); coord's _coord_events_replay yields just pending_approval + pending_plan_review (matches pre-lift coord behaviour).

  The legacy interactive query-keyed URL is preserved via a new make_legacy_query_keyed_adapter helper (sister to make_legacy_body_keyed_adapter from earlier lifts) — it reads ws_id from the query string and splices into request.path_params before delegating to the lifted body. GET /v1/api/events?ws_id=... continues to work for any 1.x SDK consumer.

  Two convergence wins:

  • Coord gains SSE connect/disconnect metrics. Pre-lift coord didn't record per-stream metrics; the lifted body always calls metrics.record_sse_connect() / ...disconnect(), giving the cluster dashboard the same per-stream observability interactive's had since 1.0.
  • Both kinds now check request.is_disconnected() AND the ws_closed event to terminate. Pre-lift interactive relied solely on ws_closed (which never fires if the client just goes away without closing the workstream); pre-lift coord relied solely on is_disconnected. The lifted body uses both — whichever fires first wins.

  One observable shape change for coord callers: the lifted body returns 409 "session has no UI" when ws.ui is missing (placeholder / build-failed UI), matching pre-lift coord. Pre-lift interactive returned 404 in this case; the lift converges on 409 across kinds because the workstream EXISTS (404 would imply it doesn't).

  Item #2 from § Post-P3 reckoning split out of this lift during scoping (rich ws_state payload parity for coord — lifting coord's ConsoleCoordinatorUI to broadcast tokens + context_ratio + activity + content like WebUI._broadcast_state does). The body lift touches session_routes.py + server.py + console/server.py; the rich-payload work touches coordinator_ui.py + collector.py + session_ui_base.py (different files, different reviewer concern). Tracked as standalone follow-up feat/coord-rich-ws-state-payload.

  Two /review fixes folded into the same commit:

  • Restored interactive's dedicated SSE thread pool. The initial draft of make_events_handler used asyncio.to_thread (default executor, capped at min(32, cpu_count + 4)) for the per-connection client_queue.get blocking wait. Pre-lift interactive used a dedicated 200-thread sse_executor (created in the lifespan with thread_name_prefix="sse") precisely to avoid this — under high concurrent SSE counts the default pool starves and SSE polling contends with every other asyncio.to_thread caller in the process (storage, router, audit). Restored isolation via a new sse_executor_lookup: SseExecutorLookup | None cfg field; interactive returns request.app.state.sse_executor, coord wires None and falls through to the default executor.
  • Restored 5s queue.get poll (was shortened to 1s in the initial draft). The 5x wakeup-rate bump compounded the thread- pool starvation; the request.is_disconnected() probe between polls already covers cancel-detection latency the timeout would otherwise gate.
  • Replay phase streams events directly from the generator instead of pre-building into a list. The initial draft materialised the entire kind-specific replay payload (connected + status + history + pending prompts) into a list before constructing the EventSourceResponse, delaying time-to-first-byte until the heaviest replay event (_build_history for long-running interactive workstreams) finished serialising AND letting the per-UI listener queue accumulate over its 500-slot cap on a chatty mid-generation workstream. The lifted body now iterates cfg.events_replay inside the async generator so each event ships as soon as the callback yields it; the existing observational-failure swallow semantics are preserved by wrapping the iteration in the same try/except.

• create verb body lifted across both kinds ([Stage 2 Verb Lift — create]). The interactive POST /v1/api/workstreams/new and coord POST /v1/api/workstreams/new handlers now share one body via make_create_handler(cfg, *, audit_emit=None). Per-kind divergence captured by five new SessionEndpointConfig fields:

  • create_supports_attachments: bool — multipart body parsing
    • attachment validation+save+rollback. Both kinds wire True.
  • create_supports_user_id_override: bool — trusted-source body user_id override (interactive True for console- proxied creates; coord False).
  • create_validate_request: CreateRequestValidator | None — per-kind pre-create gates (interactive: ws_id format, kind, parent ownership, attachments+resume_ws combo; coord: 401-on- empty-uid).
  • create_build_kwargs: CreateKwargsBuilder | None — per-kind kwargs dict for mgr.create.
  • create_post_install: CreatePostInstall | None — per-kind tail end (interactive: WebUI auto_approve + watch_runner + ws_created global broadcast + atomic resume + skill session config + notify_targets + routing override + initial-message worker thread; coord: coord_adapter.send for the optional initial_message).

  The pure helper _validate_and_save_uploaded_files lifted from turnstone.server to turnstone.core.attachments as validate_and_save_uploaded_files so both processes can call the same kind-agnostic implementation.

  § Post-P3 reckoning item #1 done — coord gains create-time attachments. Pre-lift coordinator_create accepted JSON only and ignored uploads; the lifted body parses multipart/form-data on coord and saves attachments through the kind-agnostic storage layer. CoordinatorAdapter.send gained optional attachments + send_id kwargs so when a create request carries both initial_message and uploads, the attachments are reserved onto the dispatched first turn — the worker's ChatSession.send(..., send_id=...) consumes them on dequeue exactly the way interactive's create-with-attachments worker thread does. The send_id reservation token soft-locks the rows, and the adapter's failure path unreserves so a worker crash returns them to pending. The pure helper _reserve_and_resolve_attachments lifted from server.py to turnstone.core.attachments as reserve_and_resolve_attachments so both kinds call one kind-agnostic implementation.

  Note on broadcast timing: coord's mgr.create fires emit_created (cluster collector fan-out) BEFORE the lifted body runs attachment validation. If validation fails on coord and the rollback (mgr.close → emit_closed) fires, the cluster events stream sees a phantom create→close pair. Cluster consumers handle this gracefully (same shape as any quick-create-close); decoupling emit_created from mgr.create would be a bigger refactor that doesn't belong in the verb lift. Interactive's broadcast (gq.put_nowait("ws_created")) is held until after attachment validation by the post-install callback, so interactive never sees the phantom pair.

  Five observable behaviour changes on the create response:

  • Both kinds converge on 200 OK. Pre-lift interactive returned 200 (default JSONResponse status); pre-lift coord returned 201. Picked 200 over 201 for response-shape parity with every other shared verb at the cost of REST-strict correctness — a one-time release note rather than ongoing client churn (the rest of the v1 SDK already uses response.ok per feedback_test_frontend_locally.md). SDK consumers that branched on status == 201 for coord must switch to response.ok.
  • Always-include response shape. Pre-lift interactive returned {ws_id, name, resumed, message_count, attachment_ids} (5 fields); pre-lift coord returned {ws_id, name} (2). The lifted body always returns the full shape, with resumed=False / message_count=0 / attachment_ids=[] on kinds whose post-install doesn't populate them. Coord callers will see the parity fields appear with default values.
  • Both kinds converge on the manager-at-capacity 429 semantic. Pre-lift interactive translated mgr.create's RuntimeError to 400; coord already translated to 429. The documented contract on SessionManager.create is "raises RuntimeError when the manager is at capacity" — 429 (rate- limit / try-later) is the correct shape.
  • Both kinds converge on the factory-misconfig 503 semantic. Pre-lift interactive let ValueError propagate as 500 with a stack trace; coord already translated to 503 with the factory's remediation text. Operators get the actionable message instead of the trace.
  • Both kinds get a correlation_id'd 500 on unexpected mgr.create failure. Pre-lift interactive let unexpected exceptions propagate as 500 with a stack trace (potential information leak via frame names / file paths); coord already returned a correlation_id'd 500 with the message redacted. The lifted body adopts coord's safer pattern on both kinds.

  Two coord-specific parity gains:

  • Coord rejects disabled skills. Pre-lift coordinator_create silently allowed disabled skills to flow through to mgr.create — the row would create with a skill the operator had marked inert, surprising both the operator and the next user. The lifted body returns 400 "Skill not found or disabled" matching interactive's behaviour.
  • Coord audit-emit failures no longer 500. Pre-lift coordinator_create already swallowed; pre-lift interactive let the failure propagate as 500. The lifted body wraps audit_emit in try/except + warning log, returning the successful 200 to the caller. Mirrors the close / cancel / open / events lift contracts.

  No legacy adapter is needed for create — both kinds already mounted POST {prefix}/new pre-lift; the lifted handler slots in at the same path on each kind.

  Three /review fixes folded into the same commit:

  • Pre-lift's 400 on malformed notify_targets preserved. The initial draft surfaced notify_targets validation errors from inside the interactive post_install callback, which the factory had no return-the-400 channel for — the only signal was to raise, which the factory's generic exception handler turned into a redacted 500. Worse, by the time post_install ran the workstream was fully built (audit row written, ws_created broadcast emitted), so a malformed-input request surfaced as "create failed" with the workstream actually live. Fixed by moving the notify_targets validation into :func:_interactive_create_validate_request (the pre-create gate), which returns the 400 before mgr.create runs and keeps storage clean. New regression test: test_create_lift_400s_on_malformed_notify_targets.
  • Skill-lookup storage failure now correlation_id'd. The initial draft swallowed get_skill_by_name exceptions into skill_data = None and returned a 400 "Skill not found or disabled" — masking storage outages as user-input misses and making operator triage of skill-related reports impossible. The lifted body now lets the storage exception propagate to the same correlation_id'd 500 path that mgr.create failures use; the skill-lookup + version count + mgr.create all live inside one try / except so storage outages anywhere in the create-prelude get the redacted-message-with-correlation-id treatment instead of a stack-traced 500 leak.
  • Whitespace-only skill field treated as empty. The initial draft took body.get("skill") or "" literally — a payload with "skill": " " would have hit get_skill_by_name(" ") and 400'd as "Skill not found". Pre-lift coord stripped via (body.get("skill") or "").strip() or None; the lifted body now strips for both kinds (interactive never received whitespace-only skills from the web UI but the convergence is the safer default).
  • Canonical skill name persisted to mgr.create. The initial draft's _interactive_create_build_kwargs / _coord_create_build_kwargs passed the raw body["skill"] through, so a whitespace-padded request would have persisted " my-skill " even though the lookup was done on the stripped name. The build_kwargs callbacks now thread skill_data["name"] (the resolved row's canonical name) so the persisted Workstream.skill matches the row that was actually applied — keeps later session-side skill lookups working regardless of how dirty the inbound payload was.

• Coordinator scratchpad tool renamed: task_list → tasks. The tool name on the LLM-facing schema, the audit event name (task_list.update → tasks.update), the SSE tool_result event name (the coord-tree UI keys ev.name === "tasks" for /tasks-refetch debounce), and the log tag (task_list.corrupt_envelope → tasks.corrupt_envelope) all switch together. Operators with audit dashboards / SIEM filters / log greps that pinned the old prefix should update; the rename is observable on the wire, not just internal. Internal Python surface follows: CoordinatorClient.task_list_* → tasks_*, ChatSession._prepare_task_list / _exec_task_list → _prepare_tasks / _exec_tasks, _TASK_LIST_MAX → _TASKS_MAX. The previous name compounded the bare word task (which collides with chat-template channels on local models — the same reason task_agent carries the suffix); the plural form sidesteps the collision and is more accurate, since the tool acts on the whole list rather than a single task.

Security

• Coord attachment endpoints are now kind-strict ([Stage 2 P1.5]). The coord attachment_owner_resolver resolves through the in-memory coord_mgr only — it does NOT fall back to storage. Without this, an admin.coordinator-scoped caller could pass an interactive workstream ws_id to the new coord attachment endpoints; the generic get_workstream_owner storage call (kind-agnostic) would resolve cleanly and grant cross-kind read / write access to interactive attachments. The kind-strict resolver returns 404 for any ws_id not currently held by the coord manager, closing the cross-kind path. Persisted-but-not-loaded coordinators must be opened before their attachment endpoints respond. Caught by /review pre-merge; no exploit observed.

• Workstream state writes are now buffered through StateWriter. SessionManager.set_state no longer holds ws._lock across a synchronous Postgres UPDATE for non-terminal transitions; instead a StateWriter (constructed at app startup, started / shutdown by the lifespan) coalesces transient transitions per ws_id and flushes every ~1s. Observable behavior change: transient state (thinking / running / idle / attention) shows up in storage up to ~1s late; SSE consumers see it immediately via the adapter's emit_state. Terminal ERROR transitions and close() write synchronously and remain durable on return. The bug-3 invariant — a closed row can't be resurrected by a buffered transient — is preserved by close() calling state_writer.discard(ws_id) (drops pending + waits for any in-flight flush) before its sync state='closed' write.

[1.4.0]

User-visible additions: a full attachment system (images + text documents, including pre-creation uploads), a unified dashboard composer, a Slack channel adapter, per-call plan/task model selection with an admin UI, and provider capability passthrough.

This release introduces two forward-only schema migrations (037_workstream_attachments, 038_workstream_attachments_reserved_at) that the server applies automatically on first startup against an existing 1.3.x database. Both are additive; no data loss. See Database migrations below for details.

Added

• Workstream attachments — images (png/jpeg/gif/webp, 4 MiB cap) and text documents (any text/* MIME, allowlisted application MIMEs, or known text extensions; 512 KiB cap; UTF-8 enforced). Magic-byte image sniffing on upload; per-(ws, user) pending cap of 10. Three-state lifecycle (pending → reserved → consumed) with reservation tokens threaded through /v1/api/send so queued multimodal turns can't lose files to overlapping sends. Provider-side translation: Anthropic emits native document blocks; OpenAI Chat Completions inlines them as escaped <document> text blocks; Responses API emits input_text with the same wrapper. (#356)
• Attachments at workstream-creation time — POST /v1/api/workstreams/new accepts multipart/form-data (one meta JSON field plus 0..N file parts). Files are validated and reserved onto the first turn before the dispatch worker fires; failure rolls back the fresh workstream so no orphan rows leak. Web UI (new-workstream modal + dashboard composer), Python SDK, and TypeScript SDK all gained attachment support. Cluster routing (/v1/api/route/workstreams/{ws_id}/attachments) extended to forward multipart bodies + preserve upstream headers (CSP, Content-Disposition). SDKs auto-generate ws_id client-side so cluster-routed callers can bind the body to the owning node before it lands. (#362)
• Slack channel adapter (Socket Mode) — mirrors the Discord adapter: per-user channel sessions via configurable slash command, DM routing without slash command, SSE event consumption, tool approval buttons with per-user owner enforcement, plan-review approve / request-changes modal, notification reply routing back into the workstream, and session recovery after restart via persisted recoverable route keys (the bot re-subscribes to existing Slack-routed workstreams when it comes back). Install with pip install 'turnstone[slack]'. (#355)
• Console admin UX support for Slack — channel-link modal offers Slack alongside Discord; skill notify-on-complete forms expose a per-row channel-type dropdown (and no longer hardcode discord); per-platform .scope-discord / .scope-slack badge classes with theme-aware tokens (--discord / --slack) so light theme passes WCAG AA. (#365)
• Per-call plan/task model selection — plan_model and task_model are now distinct from the conversation model and from each other, with configurable reasoning effort per agent. Three layers:
  • Backend split (#54dd557) — ModelRegistry gains plan_model, task_model, plan_effort, task_effort; per-kind overrides win over the legacy agent_model, which still works as the single-knob fallback. resolve_agent_alias(kind) and resolve_agent_effort(kind) centralise resolution. Loader validates effort against {none, minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, max} with warn+drop on typos.
  • Runtime configurability (#360) — ConfigStore admin tab in the console UI lets operators switch alias and reasoning effort per agent without restarting. INHERIT_EMPTY_LABEL_KEYS shows (inherit) for empty effort selections — distinct from the literal none choice which actually disables reasoning. Routing overrides apply on /v1/api/_internal/config-reload (admin saves), and model-reload short-circuits when nothing changed so no in-flight clients churn.
  • Per-call override (#361) — the calling LLM can pass model="<alias>" to plan_agent or task_agent to override the operator-configured per-kind model for that one invocation. Tool descriptions list the live registered aliases (refreshed when the operator hits "sync to nodes"), so the LLM always sees current options. Bad aliases return a corrective error dict listing the available choices. No whitelist — cost control is intentionally ceded to the model. Plan-retry path reuses the alias so coaching reflects real model behaviour. (#360, #361)
• Provider capability passthrough — resolved per-model capabilities (vision, reasoning, native web search, thinking_mode, token_param, etc.) flow through to provider clients via a new capabilities parameter on create_streaming / create_completion, so feature gating no longer relies on string matching and admin-UI / config.toml overrides actually reach the provider. Defensive shallow-copy in _finalize_extra_body so callers reusing the same dict across models are safe; deep-merge of chat_template_kwargs so operators can extend instead of silently overwriting. (#352)
• Server compatibility layer for local model servers — vLLM and llama.cpp profiles suggest the right thinking mode and per-server workarounds (skip_special_tokens for vLLM, reasoning_format for llama.cpp) during model detection. Admin UI gains structured fields for server type, thinking mode, and extra body params, hidden for non-local providers (openai/anthropic/google). New thinking_param text field surfaces the alias name (default enable_thinking; Granite/DeepSeek use thinking). Verified end-to-end against real vLLM (Gemma 4 31B) and llama.cpp (Gemma 4 E4B) servers. (#352)
• Claude Opus 4.7 support — claude-opus-4-7 capability entry (1M ctx, 128K output, adaptive thinking, supports_temperature=False, thinking_display=summarized). New ModelCapabilities.thinking_display field — Opus 4.7 omits thinking by default but always sends summarized blocks back through the provider boundary. Adds xhigh effort level to the global mapping and to Opus 4.7's effort_levels; admin-console skill-template dropdowns gained xhigh and max options. Reasoning effort label capitalization aligned across all console dropdowns. (#357 — also in 1.3.1)
• Dashboard composer refactor — unified single-flow create from the per-node dashboard. Multi-line textarea + collapsible Options panel (model / judge / skill) + paperclip + drag-drop / paste-image + chip strip. Submit-button label dynamically toggles between Create (empty) and Send (text or attachments staged); Enter and click both go through the same dashboardSubmit(). Replaces the inconsistent prior split where Enter created+sent raw and the button opened a separate modal. Options panel state persists in localStorage; active non-default selections render as an inline summary chip beside the Options button; drag-over shows an explicit "Drop to attach" overlay. The tab-bar + new-workstream modal also gained a paperclip
  • chip strip + first-message field so the same flow is reachable from both entry points. (#362, #366)
• Workstream attachments — orphan reservation sweep — periodic background sweep clears reserved_for_msg_id on rows whose reserved_at exceeds a 1-hour threshold, self-healing reservations leaked by process crashes between reserve and consume. Backed by a partial index on (reserved_at) WHERE reserved_at IS NOT NULL so the scan stays cheap as the consumed-history grows. Threshold tracks reservation age, not upload age, so a long-pending fresh send can't be racially unreserved. (#363)
• SendResponse extended — attached_ids, dropped_attachment_ids, priority, msg_id fields exposed in Pydantic + TypeScript SDKs so attachment-aware clients can detect partial reservations and dequeue queued messages. (#365)

Changed

• plan_model and task_model now split from the conversation model and from each other — operators who rely on a single model for all three should set both plan_model and task_model explicitly in their config; otherwise both default to the conversation model so behaviour is unchanged. (#54dd557)
• Channel notify-on-complete channel_type is no longer hardcoded in the admin UI — operators creating notify targets through the skill admin form previously got channel_type: "discord" regardless of what they wanted. Existing skill JSON values are unaffected; only newly created targets through the form differ. (#365)
• Slack adapter approval previews — capped at 600 chars per item with a 2700-char total budget so multi-tool approval batches never exceed Slack's 3000-char section.text limit. Truncated batches show a …and N more (preview truncated) suffix. (#365)
• PostgreSQL deployment image swapped from bitnami/pgbouncer to edoburu/pgbouncer to track upstream releases and reduce image size. Environment variables remapped to the edoburu naming, ports updated to match documented expectations, and the Kubernetes Helm Chart link in the deployment docs now points at the same container. Review your helm values if you depend on bitnami-specific environment variable conventions. (#353)

Fixed

• plan_resolved SSE broadcast — when one client resolved a plan approval, other clients viewing the same workstream now have the approval card dismissed in sync. (#87a9af1)
• Slack notification reply routing — one notification reply previously pinned every later assistant response for that workstream to the notification thread until the bot restarted. Reply-route override now clears on StreamEndEvent. (#365)
• Slack plan-review mrkdwn fence — plan content containing triple backticks (very common — plans often quote code) no longer breaks the surrounding fence and lets later content render as live markup. The shared _sanitize_slack_preview helper splices a zero-width space inside any `` sequence while keeping single backticks readable. (#365)
• Slack-routed workstreams now load the chat-specific system prompt via client_type="chat", matching Discord. (#365)
• /v1/api/workstreams/new no longer emits a phantom ws_created/ws_closed SSE pair when attachment validation rejects a multipart create. Validation runs before the broadcast so failed creates are silent on dashboards. (#362)
• Multipart Content-Type boundary preservation in console routing proxy — boundary= parameter is case-sensitive and was being lowercased before forwarding to the upstream node, breaking parsing for clients that used mixed-case boundaries (most browsers). (#362)
• Local-theme contrast for new badge colors — .scope-discord and .scope-slack first shipped with raw hex that failed WCAG AA on light theme (1.8:1 / 2.4:1). Theme-aware --discord / --slack tokens with proper light variants now pass. (#365)
• Cross-user attachment fetch hardening — get_attachment_content now scopes the row by user_id in addition to ws_id, so an unowned workstream can't be a vector for cross-user blob fetches via attachment-id guessing. (#356)
• Attachment-list DoS guard — /v1/api/send rejects attachment_ids lists longer than the per-(ws, user) pending cap with a 400, preventing hostile clients from blowing up the storage IN (...) clause. (#356)
• Bounded LRU for upload locks — the per-(ws, user) attachment upload-lock map now evicts the oldest unlocked entries past a soft cap, so the in-process map can't grow unbounded on long-running nodes. (#356)
• 3.12 CI deadlock on attachment uploads — the upload-lock was initially an asyncio.Lock, but Starlette's TestClient runs each request on a fresh anyio task / event loop, so the cached lock's _waiters bound to the first loop and a later request would block on a Future from a closed loop (silent deadlock). Switched to threading.Lock — loop-agnostic, and the critical section is one COUNT + one INSERT. Same root cause is reproducible against any Starlette TestClient harness on Python ≥ 3.10; 3.12 surfaces it more often. Production users on a single event loop weren't affected, but the test environment was. (#356)

Security

• Slack approval per-user authentication — only the session owner can click Approve/Deny on a Slack tool-approval card. Without this, any channel member with view access could approve dangerous tool calls initiated by someone else. (#355)
• Attachment ownership masking — cross-user/cross-workstream attachment ID lookups return 404 (not 403) so non-owners can't enumerate workstream existence by response code. (#356)
• Bumped Debian base image; remaining unfixable jq CVEs are documented and exception-listed. (#aaea4d3)

Database migrations

• 037_workstream_attachments — new workstream_attachments table with the lifecycle columns described above. Indexes for ws_id, pending lookups, message linkage, and reservation scoping.
• 038_workstream_attachments_reserved_at — adds reserved_at column for the orphan-sweep staleness signal, plus a partial index on reserved_at IS NOT NULL so the periodic scan is cheap.

Both migrations are additive and idempotent, and the server applies them automatically on first startup against an existing 1.3.x database. No manual alembic upgrade step is required — though running it manually beforehand (e.g. as part of a phased deploy) remains safe.

SDK

Python + TypeScript clients gained:

• AttachmentUpload type
• upload_attachment(ws_id, filename, data, mime_type=None)
• list_attachments(ws_id)
• get_attachment_content(ws_id, attachment_id) → bytes / Blob
• delete_attachment(ws_id, attachment_id)
• send(message, ws_id, attachment_ids=...) (extended)
• create_workstream(..., attachments=[...]) — multipart variant with client-side ws_id generation for cluster-routed callers
• Console SDK: route_create_workstream(attachments=...), route_upload_attachment, route_list_attachments, route_get_attachment_content, route_delete_attachment
• Refusal of attachments + target_node combination at the SDK boundary (the multipart routing layer doesn't honor target_node, so silently picking the wrong node is now an explicit error)
• PlanResolvedEvent SSE event with type guard, dispatched when one client (e.g. mobile) resolves a plan so other connected clients can dismiss their plan-approval modal in sync. Available in both the Python and TypeScript SDKs. (#87a9af1)

Operational

• CI vendor-asset auto-download covers hls.js — the vendor-js.yml workflow previously only iterated katex/hljs/mermaid, so Renovate bumps for hls.js failed the wheel-completeness check and required manual file downloads. Detection loop now includes hls, so future Renovate bumps are merge-ready without intervention. (#354)

Contributors

Thanks to the people who made this release happen — especially the external contributors who picked up substantial pieces of work:

• @daoxley — designed and shipped the Slack channel adapter (Socket Mode bot, per-user sessions, approvals, plan-review, notification routing). Major new feature surface in #355.
• @pizzaandcheese — replaced the deprecated bitnami pgbouncer image with the edoburu image, remapped environment variables, ports, and helm chart references. Operationally important for anyone running our reference Postgres deployment (#353).
• Renovate kept dependencies and the JS vendor tree current via several automated bumps.

If you're interested in contributing, channel-attachment ingest from Discord + Slack is the headline 1.4.1 feature and a solid place to start — see the open issues on GitHub or open one to scope a piece.

[1.3.1]

Added

• Backport: Claude Opus 4.7 support (provider capabilities, tokenizer, adaptive thinking). (#357)