- Add taskStuckTimeoutMs setting to detect tasks with no activity
- Create StuckTaskDetector to poll in-progress tasks every 30s
- Integrate heartbeat tracking into executor via step callbacks
- Implement recovery flow: abort stuck sessions, retry with preserved progress
- Export detector and wire into dashboard for real-time monitoring
- Add comprehensive tests and documentation to AGENTS.md
- Add AutomationStore and core automation types for cron-based scheduling
- Implement CronRunner engine for executing scheduled automations
- Add REST API routes for CRUD operations on automations
- Create UI components: ScheduleCard, ScheduleForm, and ScheduledTasksModal
- Integrate scheduled tasks into dashboard App.tsx and CLI dashboard command
- Add comprehensive tests for store, runner, API, and UI components
- Include changeset for the new scheduled tasks feature
- Update default VITEST_MAX_WORKERS from 8 to 16 in all packages
- Affects CLI, Core, Dashboard, and Engine vitest configs
- Improves test execution parallelism on multi-core machines
- Environment variable override still supported via VITEST_MAX_WORKERS
- Add mergeRetries counter to track per-task retry attempts
- Auto-resolve lock files and generated files during retry attempts
- Clean up worktree when all 3 merge retry attempts are exhausted
- Add comprehensive tests for retry cleanup logic in executor
- Add changeset for the worktree retry cleanup fix
- Remove dist-dependent workspace type resolution from all tsconfig files
- Add clean-checkout typecheck regression test to CI suite
- Update package.json type definitions for core, engine, dashboard, and cli packages
- Update README with typecheck testing documentation
- Clean up unused test files and component dependencies
- Remove PlanningModeModal checkbox functionality and related tests
- Delete NewTaskModal.test.tsx and PlanningModeModal.test.tsx
- Repair strict typecheck gate in typecheck.test.ts
- Update engine dependencies (add execa)
- Add development note about strict typecheck to dashboard README
- Clean up App.tsx and NewTaskModal.tsx planning mode code
- Detect and handle invalid column transitions during task step updates
- Reorder error checks to catch invalid transitions before paused status
- Improve log messages with actual column names for better debugging
- Add comprehensive tests for invalid transition error scenarios
- Include changeset for the invalid transition fix
- Add per-event-type deduplication using Set to track recent notification hashes
- Remove auto browser-open behavior from dashboard command
- Add recentWindowMs configuration option for deduplication window timing
- Update notifier tests for new deduplication logic and error handling
- Add changeset for ntfy duplicate notifications fix
- Remove stale changeset for auto browser-open feature
- Add breakIntoSubtasks flag to core Task model and persist to store
- Plumb subtask flag through dashboard API routes with validation
- Add subtask toggle UI to inline task creation card
- Update triage agent to handle automatic subtask breakdown when enabled
- Add comprehensive tests for store, API routes, and UI components
- Include changeset for patch release documenting the new feature
- Tighten executor failure assertions to expect exact error messages for rate-limit and other exceptions
- Verify non-usage-limit failures also preserve their original error text
- Align backward-compatibility coverage for execution failures without usage limit pauser
- Fix moveTask to clear status/error/worktree/blockedBy when moving from in-progress to todo/triage
- Add error message display in TaskCard for failed tasks with truncation
- Add prominent error alert in TaskDetailModal for failed tasks
- Refactor usage tracking: move from app/components to dashboard/src/
- Add usage.ts and usage.test.ts for centralized usage tracking
- Remove UsageIndicator and useUsageData from app/ directory
- Update styles.css for error display components
- Update executor tests for error handling
- Add changeset for patch release
- Remove createdAt and updatedAt columns from ListView component
- Update TaskCard to remove date display and related styles
- Update TaskDetailModal to remove date fields
- Update ListView tests to reflect new column layout
- Fix column index in dependencies test after column removal
- Remove unused usage tracking module (usage.ts and usage.test.ts)
- Clean up related CSS styles for date columns
- Create gh-cli utility module with auth detection and command execution
- Refactor GitHubClient to use gh CLI commands with REST API fallback
- Refactor PR Monitor to use gh CLI for PR operations
- Add listIssues() and getIssue() methods to GitHubClient
- Remove in-app GitHubRateLimiter (gh CLI handles rate limiting)
- Update all tests for gh CLI implementation
- Update AGENTS.md and extension docs for gh CLI auth preference
- Add worktreeNaming setting type with 'random' | 'task-id' | 'task-title' options
- Update executor to generate worktree names based on setting value
- Create worktree-names.ts utility module with generateWorktreeName function
- Add comprehensive executor tests for all naming strategies
- Update AGENTS.md documentation with setting description and usage
- Include changeset for patch release
- Add ntfy settings (ntfyEnabled, ntfyTopic) to core types and config storage
- Create NtfyNotifier service with event-based notifications for task completion/failure
- Add Notifications section to SettingsModal for configuring ntfy topic
- Wire up NtfyNotifier in engine to send notifications on task state changes
- Include ntfy topic in task templates for per-task notification override
- Add comprehensive tests for NtfyNotifier service
- Add @vitest/coverage-v8 to all workspace packages
- Configure vitest coverage settings in all vitest.config.ts files
- Align vitest versions across packages for consistency
- Add 'test:coverage' script to root package.json
- Verify all tests pass with coverage reporting enabled
- Add model override fields to Task type and TaskStore (modelProvider, modelId, validatorModelProvider, validatorModelId)
- Extend PATCH /api/tasks/:id endpoint with validation for model fields
- Create ModelSelectorTab component with provider/model dropdowns and tests
- Integrate Model tab into TaskDetailModal for per-task model configuration
- Update executor to use per-task model overrides when both provider and modelId are set
- Update reviewer to use per-task validator model overrides in reviewStep
- Document per-task model selection feature in AGENTS.md settings section
- Add requirePlanApproval setting to core types and dashboard config
- Add approve-plan and reject-plan API endpoints with handlers
- Add approve/reject UI buttons to TaskDetailModal for awaiting-approval tasks
- Update triage processor to check requirePlanApproval and set awaiting-approval status
- Add comprehensive tests for API endpoints, UI components, and triage logic
- Update AGENTS.md with documentation for the new setting
- Add SpecEditor component with view/edit modes and AI revision UI
- Add spec revision API endpoint with column transition validation
- Enhance TriageProcessor for re-specification with feedback support
- Integrate Spec tab in TaskDetailModal with full edit capabilities
- Add comprehensive tests for SpecEditor and revision workflows
- Add PR fields (prInfo, prNumber, prUrl) to Task type and TaskStore with updatePrInfo method
- Add PR Management API endpoints: create, status, refresh with per-repo rate limiting
- Add GitHubClient for PR creation and status fetching with comment support
- Add PrSection component for PR status display and actions in dashboard
- Add PR comment monitoring engine with PrMonitor and PrCommentHandler
- Integrate PR monitoring into scheduler for automatic PR tracking
- Add comprehensive tests for PR features in all packages
- Add SteeringComment type to core types for user steering input
- Add addSteeringComment method to TaskStore with persistence
- Add POST /api/tasks/:id/steer endpoint for adding steering comments
- Add frontend API client and SteeringTab UI component
- Inject steering comments into execution prompt for agent guidance
- Add comprehensive tests for store, API, UI, and executor components
- Include changeset for patch release
- Change post-session gate from only blocking REVISE to requiring explicit APPROVE verdict
- Block tasks from reaching executor when review_spec was never called (null verdict)
- Block tasks on RETHINK, UNAVAILABLE, and reviewer-error paths
- Add tests for all non-APPROVE verdict paths: null, RETHINK, UNAVAILABLE, reviewer throw
- Update existing tests to invoke review_spec with APPROVE so they pass the stricter gate
- Remove agent termination listeners for enginePaused in executor and triage
- Update Settings.enginePaused JSDoc to document soft-pause semantics
- Update executor/triage/integration tests to assert sessions are NOT disposed on enginePaused
- Remove pause-abort tracking for enginePaused (only globalPause hard-stops agents)
- Add changeset for the behavioral change
- Extend reviewer with 'spec' review type and spec review format template
- Add review_spec tool to triage agent for independent spec quality evaluation
- Implement APPROVE/REVISE/RETHINK loop with conversation rewind on RETHINK
- Add post-session gate to block tasks with unresolved REVISE verdicts from moving to todo
- Add tests for reviewer spec support and triage review loop (APPROVE, REVISE, RETHINK paths)
- Add enginePaused agent termination to executor (kills sessions, moves tasks back to todo)
- Add enginePaused agent termination to triage processor (kills sessions, clears specifying status)
- Update enginePaused JSDoc to reflect new termination behavior vs old graceful drain
- Add unit tests for executor/triage pause termination and integration tests for restart flow
- Include changeset for engine pause behavior change
- Add enginePaused field to Settings type with soft-pause semantics (drain queue, don't kill agents)
- Gate scheduler, triage, auto-merge, and periodic merge retry on enginePaused
- Add Pause and Stop buttons to dashboard Header replacing single toggle
- Wire enginePaused state through App with optimistic toggle and unpause resume logic
- Add tests for scheduler, triage, dashboard CLI, Header, and App covering pause behavior
- Add checkSessionError helper that re-raises errors stored on session.state.error after prompt() resolves silently when retries are exhausted
- Integrate checkSessionError in executor, triage, merger, and reviewer agents so existing catch blocks with isUsageLimitError can trigger UsageLimitPauser
- Add tests for checkSessionError and for each agent's error propagation path
- Add audit report documenting the error propagation gap
- Add changeset for the fix
- Add rehydrate() method and scanIdleWorktrees() to restore idle worktrees from disk on startup
- Add cleanupOrphanedWorktrees() to remove stale worktrees when recycling is disabled
- Wire startup rehydrate/cleanup into dashboard command based on recycleWorktrees setting
- Export new functions from @kb/engine and update dashboard imports
- Add unit tests for rehydrate/scan/cleanup and integration tests for restart resilience
- Change poll() to fire specifyTask() with `void` instead of `await`, enabling concurrent task specification bounded by AgentSemaphore
- Add JSDoc to poll() documenting concurrent dispatch and re-entrance guard behavior
- Add tests for concurrent dispatch, semaphore limiting, polling flag reset, and overlapping poll discovery
- Update existing re-entrance guard test to block on listTasks (discovery) rather than specifyTask
- Fix existing paused-tasks and globalPause tests for non-blocking dispatch timing
- Add settings:updated listener in Scheduler to trigger schedule() on globalPause true→false transition
- Add settings:updated listener in TriageProcessor to trigger poll() on globalPause true→false transition
- Add unpause handler in dashboard to resume orphaned executor tasks and sweep merge queue
- Guard all resume paths against no-op transitions (false→false, true→true) and stopped state
- Add tests for all three resume paths covering transition edge cases
- Add settings:updated event to TaskStore with previous/new settings payload
- Kill all active executor agent sessions when globalPause transitions false→true
- Kill all active triage specification sessions on global pause with clean status reset
- Track and dispose active merger session on global pause via onSession callback
- Add JSDoc documenting global pause behavior on executor and triage constructors
- Add re-entrance guard to triage poll() to prevent overlapping poll cycles
- Move status update to 'specifying' inside semaphore callback so queued tasks don't appear active
- Fix scheduler double-counting specifying tasks when semaphore is present
- Add tests for poll re-entrance guard, semaphore-aware status transitions, and scheduler slot counting
- Add changeset for patch release
- Add UsageLimitPauser class and isUsageLimitError detector for rate limits, overloaded, and quota errors
- Integrate usage limit detection into executor, triage, and merger error handlers
- Wire shared UsageLimitPauser instance in dashboard startup across all agents
- Export UsageLimitPauser and isUsageLimitError from @kb/engine public API
- Add comprehensive tests for detector patterns and agent integration
- Add globalPause setting to core Settings type with default false
- Guard scheduler, triage, and auto-merge queue to skip work when globalPause is active
- Add pause/play toggle button in dashboard Header with optimistic UI and rollback on failure
- Add tests for scheduler, triage, Header, and App global pause behavior
- Include minor changeset for the new feature
