@awebai/oats 0.38.1 → 0.38.2

package/docs/desktop-instance-start.md

@@ -17,14 +17,20 @@ Enter a model or leave the field blank to use the selected launch's default.
 An old harness's model is not carried to a different harness. Available local model
 suggestions are advisory; a model ID can also be typed. Start uses the saved
 briefing and state in a new harness conversation; it does not resume an old
-harness conversation ID. After the launch appears in the roster, Desktop
-opens the instance's terminal.
+harness conversation ID. Once the kernel accepts the start or restart, the
+dialog closes and Desktop opens the instance's terminal as soon as its row is
+running with a terminal session, so whatever the harness shows first (a
+confirmation such as Claude Code's development-channels prompt, an error, the
+session) is visible there. If the terminal is not ready within the wait, a
+notice says so and the instance's row opens it later. A refused launch keeps
+the dialog open with the kernel's error.
 
 If an ordinary Start dialog finds the instance already running, its action becomes
 **Open terminal**. A failed or timed-out start requires **Refresh status** before
 another attempt, because the launch may have succeeded before the reply was
 lost. Changing workspaces dismisses the dialog and prevents a delayed launch
-reply from opening a terminal in the wrong workspace.
+reply, or a terminal that becomes ready later, from opening in the wrong
+workspace.
 
 **Restart with…** is explicit: after validating the new configuration, the
 kernel stops the current harness and starts the selected one. It does not

package/docs/release-notes/v0.38.2.md

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# OATS 0.38.2
+
+## Fixed
+
+- **The Desktop's Start and Restart dialog no longer stays open after the
+  launch** (awebai/oats#525). Since 0.36.0 the dialog's wait for the
+  terminal never recognised the started instance's row, so every Start or
+  Restart ended on "no running harness was observed" with the dialog left
+  open, while the harness (for Claude Code under channel delivery, its
+  development-channels confirmation) waited unseen. The dialog now closes
+  as soon as the launch is accepted, and the instance's terminal opens once
+  its row is ready, showing whatever the harness shows first. A refused
+  launch keeps the dialog with its error.

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@awebai/oats",
-  "version": "0.38.1",
+  "version": "0.38.2",
   "description": "OATS (Open Agent Team Specification) — durable souls, disposable instances, targetable capability packages, and the runtime-neutral oats CLI/kernel.",
   "keywords": [
     "agents",