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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to CogniSphere are recorded here, one section per version.
+
+This file is the single source the **upgrade skill** reads to migrate a harness
+from its current version to a target version. Each release that requires changes
+to a harness's on-disk artifacts MUST include a `### Breaking changes` block
+whose entries follow the form:
+
+```
+- <what changed>   [affects: <path glob in the harness dir>]
+```
+
+The skill collects every section in `(current, target]`, proposes a diff against
+the harness directory, and applies it after user approval. See
+[`docs/distribution-and-deployment.md`](docs/distribution-and-deployment.md) §9.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/) and this
+project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
+
+## [0.12.0]
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- **App→harness auth is now a bearer secret, not the operator login.**
+  `scripts/server.sh secrets` no longer writes `HARNESS_USER`/`HARNESS_PASS`
+  into `app/.env.local`; it writes the same pair as `APP_USER`/`APP_PASS`
+  (the app's *own* default sign-in), an `APP_SESSION_SECRET` for the app's
+  own cookie (generated once, reused from the previous `.env.local`), and
+  mints `harness/.secrets/app-secret` (hex, 0600, reused across restarts —
+  the harness also generates it on first boot if absent) written as
+  `HARNESS_APP_SECRET`. The app and the harness console mint independent
+  session tokens. New reference tree `app/auth-routes/` (refreshed on
+  upgrade like `artifacts-routes/`): config-credential login + `app_sid`
+  cookie, `lib/harness.ts` bearer client, and `getUser()` as the single
+  seam to swap in Clerk/Supabase/NextAuth. `/api/*`, `/admin/*` and
+  `GET /api/auth/me` accept `Authorization: Bearer <secret>` alongside the
+  `pi_sid` cookie; `X-App-User: <id>` (trusted only with a valid bearer)
+  sets the harness-side `user`, else `"app"`. Apps that logged in with
+  `HARNESS_USER`/`HARNESS_PASS` or forwarded the browser's `pi_sid`
+  cookie to the harness should switch to the bearer + own their user auth;
+  webhook plugins that verified a cookie via `/api/auth/me` verify the
+  bearer the same way by forwarding `authorization`/`x-app-user` instead.
+  Recipe in `app/auth-routes/README.md`.
+  [affects: scripts/server.sh, config.example, app/README.md, app/auth-routes/**, docs/base-harness/README.md, .claude/skills/cognisphere-upgrade/SKILL.md]
+
+### Changed
+
+- `docs/api.md` §1/§3, `docs/server.md` §3 and
+  `docs/distribution-and-deployment.md` document the app bearer,
+  `.secrets/app-secret`, and the new `app/.env.local` keys. The upgrade
+  skill now refreshes `app/auth-routes/` and drift-checks the home's copies.
+
+## [0.11.1]
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- **`bootstrap.sh` pins the global `pi`.** It previously installed
+  `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent` unpinned and only when `pi` was
+  missing, so deployed hosts ran whatever npm resolved at first boot.
+  It now compares `pi --version` to `PI_VERSION` (0.84.4) and installs
+  that exact version on mismatch, every agent start. Reseed from the
+  base agent; no operator action beyond that.
+  [affects: agents/*/bootstrap/bootstrap.sh]
+
+### Changed
+
+- `home-template/docs/base-harness/README.md`: documents the pinned-`pi`
+  behaviour of `bootstrap.sh` (refreshed wholesale on upgrade).
+- **pi upgraded to 0.84.4** (`@earendil-works/pi-ai` +
+  `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`, from 0.84.1). No harness code
+  changes were required: the `pi --mode rpc` flag set, the RPC events the
+  harness consumes, the session JSONL format (`CURRENT_SESSION_VERSION`
+  still 3), pi-ai's `KnownProvider` union (mirrored in
+  `core/models-catalog.ts`, verified identical) and the `ExtensionAPI` /
+  `ModelRuntime` / `readStoredCredential` / `getAgentDir` surfaces are all
+  unchanged. Verified `pi --mode rpc` on the bundled 0.84.3+ runtime still
+  loads the base agent's `.ts` extensions via `-e` (jiti is now
+  lazy-loaded). Relevant upstream behaviour changes, all favourable:
+  0.84.2/0.84.4 fixed `pi.sendMessage(..., { triggerTurn: false })`
+  placement so `context-meta`'s mid-run checkpoints and
+  `skill-update-notice`'s notices land after the turn's tool results
+  instead of between a tool call and its result; 0.84.4 also runs
+  threshold auto-compaction between tool execution and the next LLM call
+  (so `compaction_start`/`compaction_end` can now arrive mid-run, not only
+  in prompt preflight — handled by the RPC client change below); 0.84.3
+  fixed threshold compaction being skipped when a provider omits usage.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **RPC prompt ack no longer times out during auto-compaction.** pi runs
+  threshold compaction in the prompt's preflight, before acking the prompt
+  frame, and summarizing a large session can take minutes — the harness's
+  60 s ack timeout then failed the batch repeatedly. `PiRpcClient` now
+  suspends pending frame timeouts on `compaction_start` and re-arms them on
+  `compaction_end`, and logs both at info with `reason` and
+  `tokensBefore` / `estimatedTokensAfter` (`docs/server.md` §4.7).
+
+## [0.11.0]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **gws sign-in moved to the agent's Settings tab.** Per-agent Google
+  sign-in/sign-out and the scope picker now live on the gws plugin card
+  in each agent's Settings tab (`GwsSignInBlock`); the console's
+  app-level Settings page keeps only the shared OAuth client id/secret.
+  The OAuth callback redirects back to `/agents/<agentId>/settings`.
+- **Frontend apps can host the sign-in button.** The OAuth callback
+  (`GET /api/gws/oauth/callback`) is now mounted outside the auth wall —
+  the single-use `state` nonce issued by the authenticated start route is
+  the auth — and `POST /api/gws/oauth/:agentId/start` accepts an optional
+  `returnTo` for where the browser lands afterwards. Recipe (Next.js
+  route handler using `HARNESS_USER`/`HARNESS_PASS` + the `/api/*`
+  proxy) added to `home-template/app/README.md`; register the app
+  origin's `/api/gws/oauth/callback` as an extra redirect URI on the
+  Google client.
+- **Gmail scope rationalized.** `gmail.modify` is always requested — it
+  is Google's read/write Gmail tier (read, drafts, send, labels,
+  mark-read; everything except permanent deletion) and the poll loop's
+  mark-read needs it; the narrower Gmail scopes (`readonly`, `compose`,
+  `send`, `labels`) are strict subsets of it, so no granular Gmail
+  choice is offered. Optional per-service scopes (Calendar, Drive, …)
+  unchanged, still stored in the gws config key `oauthScopes`.
+- `home-template/app/README.md` and `docs/base-harness/README.md`
+  updated accordingly (both refreshed wholesale by the upgrade skill).
+
+### Removed
+
+- **Legacy gws authentication.** The manual `gws auth login` +
+  `gws auth export` path is no longer supported or surfaced: the
+  `managed` field is gone from `GET /api/gws/oauth` (`signedIn` now
+  means "signed in via the web flow"), the "operator-managed
+  credentials file" labeling is gone from the console, and the plugin's
+  not-signed-in error points only at the web console. A hand-set
+  `GOOGLE_WORKSPACE_CLI_CREDENTIALS_FILE` secret still functions at the
+  plugin level but shows as not signed in.
+
+## [0.10.2]
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Base prompt: main (non-task) threads are now coordinators, not workers —
+  they delegate skill-driven procedures, file reads, and sizable work to
+  task threads instead of doing it (or reading `SKILL.md`s) themselves;
+  the **Task threads** section carries the rule. Refreshed wholesale on
+  upgrade   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+- Nova's persona prompt: the "delegate large code reads" working-style
+  bullet now defers to the base prompt's coordinator-not-worker rule
+  (code reads, searches, and implementation go to task threads). This
+  file is deployment-owned — apply the same edit to existing novas   [affects: agents/nova/system_prompts/1-agent.md]
+
+## [0.10.1]
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Skill description spec tightened (`create-skill` v1.3.0): "what's
+  included" is a brief sketch of the main procedures, not an exhaustive
+  contents list; partial applicability moves under "use when"; the whole
+  description stays under 1000 characters. During upgrade, audit every
+  skill and rephrase any description that doesn't conform, with a
+  patch bump and changelog entry per rephrased skill   [affects: agents/*/skills/*/*/SKILL.md]
+
+### Changed
+
+- `docs/base-harness/skills.md` and the `create-skill` skill restate the
+  new description spec (both refreshed wholesale by the upgrade skill).
+
+## [0.10.0]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Web-based Google sign-in/sign-out for gws agents.** New Google
+  Workspace card on the console's Settings page and `/api/gws/oauth/*`
+  routes (`api/gws-oauth.ts`): the operator saves a "Web application"
+  OAuth client from their own GCP project once per harness
+  (`.secrets/gws/oauth-client.json`, redirect URI
+  `<console origin>/api/gws/oauth/callback`), then signs each
+  gws-enabled agent in with a browser consent flow. The callback writes
+  the standard `authorized_user` JSON (the shape
+  `gws auth export --unmasked` produces) to
+  `.secrets/gws/<agentId>/credentials.json`, points the agent's
+  `gws.GOOGLE_WORKSPACE_CLI_CREDENTIALS_FILE` secret at it, and
+  soft-reloads the agent — replacing the manual `gws auth login` +
+  `gws auth export` dance. Sign-out revokes the refresh token, deletes
+  the managed files, clears the secret, and reloads. Hand-set
+  credentials paths keep working and are labeled "operator-managed" in
+  the card.
+- **Per-agent OAuth scope selection.** New optional gws plugin config
+  key `oauthScopes` (comma-separated scope URLs; read by the sign-in
+  flow, ignored by the plugin at runtime). The Settings card edits it
+  per agent as checkboxes grouped by service (Calendar, Drive, Docs,
+  Sheets, Slides, Contacts, Tasks — full and read-only variants);
+  `gmail.modify` + `openid email` are always requested. Granted scopes
+  are recorded at sign-in and shown per agent; changing the config
+  requires signing in again to take effect.
+
+## [0.9.2]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Batch teardown now reaps the pi child's entire process tree.** Pi is
+  spawned in its own process group (`detached: true`) and, once it exits,
+  the group is SIGKILL-swept — so headless browsers, dev servers, and
+  anything else the agent's bash tool left running die with the batch
+  instead of accumulating on the server. The 5s no-exit escalation also
+  kills the group, not just pi.
+- **/tmp no longer fills up.** A janitor sweeps known agent debris from the
+  OS temp dir at boot and every 6h (age > 24h): pi's `pi-bash-*.log`
+  output-spill files (pi writes them for any oversized command output and
+  never deletes them) and browser profile dirs
+  (`.org.chromium.*`, `puppeteer_dev_chrome_profile-*`, `playwright*`).
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Agent-spawned processes are now strictly batch-scoped.** A background
+  process started during one turn no longer survives to the next — the
+  group sweep at batch end kills it. No shipped plugin or seed relied on
+  cross-batch daemons; if a future workload needs one, run it outside the
+  agent (e.g. a plugin) or ask for a skip-sweep flag.
+
+## [0.9.1]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Memory leaks in the harness execution path.** Three long-running-process
+  leaks closed:
+  - The per-file session-cost cache (`api/agents.ts`) never evicted — entries
+    for deleted threads lived for the life of the process. A failed stat now
+    evicts, and past 4096 entries a sweep drops entries whose file is gone.
+  - The shared Ajv singleton pinned a compiled validator per agent restart
+    (its cache is keyed by schema object identity and `agent.json` is
+    re-parsed on every start). Validation now uses a throwaway Ajv per call.
+  - A wedged `pi` child that never acked its prompt frame held its worker
+    slot, batch state, and OS process forever. `sendPrompt` now times out
+    after 60 s; the batch fails and the child is torn down.
+- **Async EPIPE on the pi child's stdin no longer crashes the server.** The
+  stdin stream had no `error` listener, so a child dying mid-write raised an
+  unhandled `'error'` event; it now logs at debug.
+
+## [0.9.0]
+
+### Added
+
+- **The agent owns her gws notification settings.** New agent-writable overlay
+  `plugins/gws/state/settings.json`, managed by the seeded
+  `scripts/gws/settings` CLI (`show|set|reset`) and re-read by the plugin on
+  every poll tick — the same live-reload pattern as `routes.json`, so a change
+  applies within one poll. Per-key precedence: `settings.json` →
+  operator `config.json` → defaults. Overridable keys: `pollIntervalSec`,
+  `gmailQuery`, `allowedSenders`, `requireAgentInTo` (`firstOfThreadOnly`
+  stays operator-only).
+- **Passive mailbox.** `pollIntervalSec: -1` disables polling entirely: no
+  notifications, nothing marked read — the agent reads mail only when she
+  chooses to search. While passive the loop still re-reads settings every
+  60s, so setting a real interval again resumes within a minute (pending
+  unread arrives on the next poll).
+- **Settings announced on start.** Each plugin start posts one `gws_settings`
+  message on the plugin's `main` channel — mailbox address, effective
+  settings, routing-rule count, and how to change them — so the agent can
+  re-assert her preferences after every harness restart.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **gws defaults: notify on all unread inbox, poll every 15 minutes.**
+  `pollIntervalSec` 60 → 900 and `requireAgentInTo` true → false — by default
+  the latest message of *every* unread inbox thread now wakes the agent,
+  routed to its per-thread id as before; Cc/Bcc-only mail is skipped only
+  when `requireAgentInTo` is switched back on. Operators who want the old
+  behavior set both keys explicitly in `plugins/gws/config.json`.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- New seeded `scripts/gws/settings` — the settings overlay's CLI. Plugin seeds
+  re-copy on the next agent start, so restarting each agent installs it
+  [affects: agents/*/scripts/gws/]
+- `system_prompts/plugin-gws.md` rewritten (still 50 lines): new inbound
+  default, the Settings section, and the "ask to be kept in `To:`" outbound
+  rule dropped (it existed only for the old `requireAgentInTo: true` default);
+  it re-seeds on the next agent start
+  [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/plugin-gws.md]
+- gws skills `read-email` (1.1.1), `search-email` (1.0.1), `route-email`
+  (1.0.1): wording that hardcoded the old you-in-`To` delivery rule now points
+  at the agent-owned settings; they re-seed on the next agent start
+  [affects: agents/*/skills/gws/]
+- The default flip means an existing `plugins/gws/config.json` that never set
+  `pollIntervalSec` / `requireAgentInTo` changes behavior on upgrade — set
+  them explicitly to keep the old 60s / To-only behavior
+  [affects: agents/*/plugins/gws/config.json]
+
+## [0.8.25]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **The web UI's thread list renders task threads as a tree.** A thread spawned
+  as a task (`<parent>-§-[TASK]-§-<slug>`) now nests under its parent to any
+  depth, so a task thread that itself spawns tasks shows up where it belongs
+  instead of as a top-level row. Each child is labeled by its task slug, rows
+  indent per level with a collapse chevron, and search keeps the matching
+  subtree. Replaces the flat two-level "tasks (n)" dropdown. Web-only — no
+  harness artifacts change.
+
+## [0.8.24]
+
+### Added
+
+- **`scheduler-cli list` takes filters.** `--thread-id ID` narrows to the
+  schedules bound to one thread, `--active`/`--paused` split by state, and
+  `--from WHEN [--to WHEN]` keeps only the schedules that *fire* inside a
+  window, adding a `fires` array of the occurrences to each. `WHEN` is ISO
+  (`2026-08-17T09:00:00Z`) or bare (`2026-08-17`, `2026-08-17 09:00`); bare
+  means wall clock in the harness timezone, read from `harness.json`. Defaults
+  are `--from` now and `--to` +7 days, the window is capped at 366 days, and
+  `--max N` (default 50) caps the fires listed per schedule. Bare `list` is
+  unchanged. Until now an agent asking "what have I got scheduled this week?"
+  had to read every schedule and evaluate the crons in its head.
+- **`scripts/scheduler/cron-fires`** — the fire-time evaluator behind
+  `--from`/`--to`, seeded alongside `scheduler-cli`. jq cannot evaluate cron and
+  `croner` is not resolvable from an agent dir (no `node_modules` of its own),
+  so it is a dependency-free minute scan: timezone-aware via
+  `Intl.formatToParts`, 5- and 6-field expressions, names/ranges/steps/lists,
+  and the cron dom+dow OR convention. Unparseable crons come back with an
+  `error` field and over-long fire lists with `"truncated": true`, so nothing
+  is dropped silently. `node scripts/scheduler/cron-fires --self-check` runs
+  its assertions.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- New `scripts/scheduler/cron-fires` — `scheduler-cli list --from/--to` needs
+  it and exits non-zero without it. Plugin seeds re-copy on the next agent
+  start, so restarting each agent installs it
+  [affects: agents/*/scripts/scheduler/]
+- `scripts/scheduler/scheduler-cli` gained the `list` flags; it re-seeds on the
+  next agent start   [affects: agents/*/scripts/scheduler/scheduler-cli]
+- `system_prompts/plugin-scheduler.md` documents the new `list` flags (34 → 41
+  lines, still inside the 50-line budget); it re-seeds on the next agent start
+  [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/plugin-scheduler.md]
+
+## [0.8.23]
+
+### Changed
+
+- gws prompt fragment: the inbound section no longer explains *why* outbound
+  mail must ask to be kept in `To:` — the rule itself is unchanged under
+  **Rules**, and saying it twice spent two lines of a 50-line budget on one
+  instruction.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `system_prompts/plugin-gws.md` reworded; it re-seeds on the next agent start,
+  so restarting the gws agents is all that is required
+  [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/plugin-gws.md]
+
+## [0.8.22]
+
+### Added
+
+- **`scripts/gws/email`** — the agent-facing Gmail CLI, seeded with the `gws`
+  plugin. `email read <messageId>` (full body, `--strip-quotes`,
+  `--attachments` → `plugins/gws/inbox/<messageId>/`), `email thread <threadId>`
+  (skim id/from/date/snippet, or `--full` for every body), `email search
+  '<gmail query>' [--max N]` (hits listed with subject/from/date/snippet — the
+  raw API returns bare ids), `email labels`, and `email label <id> --add NAME
+  --remove NAME --archive --read|--unread [--create] [--thread]`, which
+  resolves label names to Gmail's opaque label ids and refuses an unknown name
+  unless `--create`. It replaces the stdin-only `scripts/gws/format-email`.
+- **Plugin-shipped skills for `gws` and `telegram`**, seeded under
+  `skills/<plugin-id>/<slug>/` like the `artifacts` plugin's: `read-email`
+  (full bodies, quoted history, thread skimming, attachments), `search-email`
+  (Gmail query syntax, filing with labels/archive/read, and the standing
+  `settings.filters` rules), `route-email` (thread-routing rules) and
+  `route-chats` (Telegram chat routing).
+
+### Changed
+
+- **gws notifications are a preview, not the mail.** An `email_received` body
+  is now the `Subject/From/To/TimeStamp` header, the **first two lines** of the
+  sender's own text (quoted reply history stripped first), and the *names* of
+  any attachments. Attachments are no longer downloaded at poll time — the
+  agent fetches what it needs with `scripts/gws/email`, so a mailbox of long
+  quoted-history threads stops spending context on mail nobody reads.
+- **Plugin prompt fragments are capped at 50 lines**, with every step-by-step
+  procedure moved into a plugin-owned skill: `plugin-gws.md` 204 → 50 lines,
+  `plugin-telegram.md` 75 → 48. A fragment costs every turn of every thread; a
+  skill costs one description line until an agent needs it.
+- `docs/server.md`, `docs/base-harness/skills.md` and the `create-plugin` skill
+  (v1.3.0) document the 50-line budget and what belongs in a fragment
+  (identity, event shape, always-on rules) versus a skill. Both scaffold trees
+  are refreshed wholesale by the upgrade skill.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `scripts/gws/format-email` is replaced by `scripts/gws/email`. Plugin seeds
+  are overwritten on every agent start but never pruned, so the stale script
+  has to be deleted by hand   [affects: agents/*/scripts/gws/format-email]
+- Email notifications no longer carry the full body: any agent instruction or
+  knowledge note that assumes one — or that pipes `gws gmail users messages get
+  … | format-email` — must be reworded to call `scripts/gws/email read
+  <MessageId>`   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/1-*.md]
+- The gws/telegram prompt fragments, the new `email` CLI and the four new
+  skills re-seed themselves on the next agent start; restarting the affected
+  agents is all that is required   [affects: agents/*/skills/gws/]
+
+## [0.8.21]
+
+### Added
+
+- **`artifacts` plugin** — agents publish self-contained static HTML (reports,
+  summaries, dashboards) and share a link on the app's own domain. Each
+  artifact carries a **public/private flag** that decides which of its two URLs
+  works: `<app>/public/artifacts/<slug>` for anyone, or
+  `<app>/private/artifacts/<slug>` behind the app's own login. **No URL carries
+  a token.** The plugin serves `public/<slug>` openly and `private/<slug>`,
+  `private/<slug>/meta`, `private/<slug>/share` only to callers presenting the
+  `ARTIFACTS_APP_SECRET` — which is what keeps private artifacts unreachable
+  from the open `/webhook/*` surface. Config: `appBaseUrl` (required). Catalog
+  scope, so it runs only on agents that opt in.
+- **Artifact HTML is sandboxed and responsive by construction.** Every response
+  carries `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox` without `allow-same-origin` (agent
+  HTML on the app's origin can never touch its cookies or storage), plus
+  `Referrer-Policy: no-referrer`, `nosniff`, and an injected
+  `<meta name="viewport">` when the author omitted one.
+- **`app/artifacts-routes/`** in the home template — drop-in Next.js routes for
+  the two paths above: a pass-through public route, and a protected page that
+  renders the artifact in a sandboxed iframe under the app's own public/private
+  toggle (the toggle is app chrome because a sandboxed page has an opaque
+  origin and could never authenticate). Includes `lib/artifacts.ts` with a
+  fail-closed `signedIn()` for the home to replace.
+- **The `artifacts` seed ships a skill** — `publish-artifact` (authoring rules
+  for one self-contained, mobile-and-desktop-readable file; the starter
+  template; publishing, sharing, updating, taking down). First use of
+  `seed/skills/<plugin-id>/<slug>/`, now documented in `create-plugin`.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Deploy-time wiring for `artifacts`.** New `config` keys `ARTIFACTS_AGENT`
+  and `ARTIFACTS_SESSION_COOKIE` (both blank = feature off). When the agent is
+  set, `scripts/server.sh secrets` generates `ARTIFACTS_APP_SECRET` once and
+  writes it to **both** `harness/.secrets/secrets.json` and `app/.env.local`,
+  creates `agents/<agent>/plugins/artifacts/config.json` with
+  `appBaseUrl: https://$DOMAIN`, and thereby enables the plugin on that agent.
+  Existing homes get the refreshed `server.sh` + `config.example` from the
+  upgrade, but must add the keys to their own `config` for anything to happen.
+- **`cognisphere-upgrade` 1.3.0** — `app/artifacts-routes/` joins the
+  harness-owned scaffold refresh (the one exception to "never refresh under
+  `app/`"), plus a new step 4b-i that diffs the home's *copies* of those routes
+  and reports drift instead of overwriting them.
+- **`create-plugin` 1.2.0** — documents shipping a skill inside a plugin seed
+  (`seed/skills/<id>/<slug>/`), and its description now says when a plugin is
+  the right answer.
+- **`create-skill` 1.2.0**, **`publish-harness` 1.1.0** — descriptions gained
+  situational triggers; `publish-harness` also covers the new-plugin case of
+  the shipped-artifact rule and deploy-time wiring notes.
+- Docs: `docs/api.md` §10 (artifact routes + header contract),
+  `docs/server.md` (plugin list, plugin-shipped skills),
+  `docs/distribution-and-deployment.md` §5 (deploy-time wiring),
+  `docs/base-harness/README.md`, `app/README.md`.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- New `artifacts` plugin — opt in per agent by creating the dir; it needs
+  `config.json` with `appBaseUrl` and the `ARTIFACTS_APP_SECRET` secret, or set
+  `ARTIFACTS_AGENT` in `config` and let `scripts/server.sh secrets` write all
+  three   [affects: agents/*/plugins/artifacts/]
+- Agents with the plugin enabled gain the seeded `scripts/artifacts/artifact`
+  CLI, the `plugin-artifacts.md` prompt fragment and the `publish-artifact`
+  skill on next start; all three are plugin-owned and must not be hand-edited
+  in the agent dir   [affects: agents/*/scripts/artifacts/, agents/*/system_prompts/plugin-artifacts.md, agents/*/skills/artifacts/]
+
+## [0.8.20]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Memory is episodic; procedural guidance lives elsewhere.** The base
+  prompt's **Memory** section now states that `knowledge/memory.md` holds
+  events and facts only — a rule about *how to behave* belongs in
+  `system_prompts/1-agent.md` when it holds globally, or in the skill for the
+  procedure it governs when it only applies there. The seeded
+  `knowledge/memory.md` header carries the same rule.
+- **`1-*` prompt files are the agent's to edit, with admin approval.**
+  Previously the base prompt routed every prompt change through the developer
+  agent (`nova`). Now only `0-*` and `plugin-<id>.md` files do; `1-*` files
+  the agent edits itself once the relevant admin has approved the change.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Memory section rewritten (episodic-only) and prompt-ownership rules changed
+  (`1-*` = self-edit with admin approval, not a `nova` request)   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+- `knowledge/memory.md` header gained a "what belongs here" block — episodic
+  events and facts only, procedural rules go to `1-agent.md` or a skill   [affects: agents/*/knowledge/memory.md]
+
+## [0.8.19]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Chat pagination.** `GET /api/agents/:id/sessions/:threadId/:sessionId`
+  takes an optional `?limit=N` that returns only the newest N jsonl entries.
+  The file is tail-seeked — read backwards in 256 KiB chunks until N lines
+  are in hand — so opening a long-running thread costs the same as a short
+  one. The response gains `hasMore` (older rows exist above the window);
+  without `limit` the whole file is read and `hasMore` is `false`.
+- **"Load 100 more" in the web chat.** Threads open at the newest 100
+  entries and page backwards on demand, preserving scroll position. The
+  window resets on thread/session switch, and a deep link
+  (`?thread=&session=&entry=`) drops the limit so the targeted entry is
+  always in range. The Raw JSONL tab shares the query and therefore shows
+  the same window.
+
+## [0.8.18]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Base prompt: reorganised, and workspace/memory layout reworked.**
+  `0-base_prompt.md` is reordered to follow the agent's actual reading path
+  (Cwd → System prompts → Plugins → Skills → Threads → Message metadata →
+  Communication model → Task threads → Workspace → Sessions → …), and the
+  `# Guidelines` grab-bag is gone — its content folded into **Workspace**
+  (persist immediately, daily notes) and **Communication model** (be
+  proactive).
+- **New on-disk layout for notes, knowledge and memory:**
+
+  ```
+  workspace/
+    index.md
+    threads/<ThreadId>/{notes.md, files/, tasks/<task-slug>/notes.md}
+    daily_notes/YYYY-MM-DD.md
+  knowledge/
+    index.md, memory.md, files/
+  ```
+
+  - Task-thread notes moved from `workspace/taskThreads/<ThreadId>/tasks.md`
+    to `workspace/threads/<ThreadId>/tasks/<task-slug>/notes.md`; the parent
+    tracks its task threads in its own `notes.md → ## Tasks` section.
+  - Each thread dir gains a `files/` dir for files belonging to that thread.
+  - `workspace/memory/` is **removed**. Memory now lives in the cross-thread
+    `knowledge/` dir as a single `knowledge/memory.md`, with `knowledge/index.md`
+    indexing `knowledge/files/` (reference docs and long-term documents).
+- **Memory is one grep-able file.** `knowledge/memory.md` holds sections
+  separated by `-----$-----$-----$-----`, each with `name`, `lastUpdated`
+  (`YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS`) and a `description` covering what to remember, why,
+  where it came from, the reasoning, and how long it stays relevant. The agent
+  greps for the sections it needs and edits them in place instead of reading
+  the whole file.
+- **Notes have a fixed shape.** Every `notes.md` (thread or task) is current
+  state, not a log: `## Context`, `## Tasks`, `## Decisions`, `## ToDos`,
+  `## Notes`, `## References` — every entry timestamped `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS`,
+  updated in place, with stale entries deleted.
+- **Daily notes** now explicitly capture observations and learnings alongside
+  the situation/task/result summary.
+- Base-agent seeds updated to match: new `knowledge/index.md` and
+  `knowledge/memory.md`, refreshed `workspace/index.md`.
+- Docs updated: `docs/server.md` §3 on-disk tree and the shipped
+  `docs/base-harness/README.md` agent-anatomy list.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+Existing harnesses must migrate their agents' on-disk files to the new layout —
+the prompt no longer describes the old paths, so anything left behind is
+invisible to the agent. Per agent dir:
+
+- `0-base_prompt.md` reordered; `# Guidelines` removed; Workspace/Task-threads
+  sections rewritten for the new layout. Replace each fork's copy with the new
+  seed (harness-owned).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+- Move `workspace/memory/**` into a single `knowledge/memory.md`, one section
+  per memory in the new `name` / `lastUpdated` / `description` format,
+  separated by `-----$-----$-----$-----`; delete `workspace/memory/`.   [affects: agents/*/workspace/memory/**]
+- Move `workspace/taskThreads/<ThreadId>/tasks.md` content into the parent
+  thread's `workspace/threads/<ThreadId>/notes.md` under `## Tasks`, and any
+  per-task notes to `workspace/threads/<ThreadId>/tasks/<task-slug>/notes.md`;
+  delete `workspace/taskThreads/`.   [affects: agents/*/workspace/taskThreads/**]
+- Rewrite each `workspace/threads/<ThreadId>/notes.md` into the fixed sections
+  (`## Context`, `## Tasks`, `## Decisions`, `## ToDos`, `## Notes`,
+  `## References`) with timestamped entries; drop `summary.md` by folding it
+  into `## Context`.   [affects: agents/*/workspace/threads/**]
+- Seed `knowledge/index.md` and `knowledge/memory.md` if absent, and move
+  existing cross-thread reference docs under `knowledge/files/`.   [affects: agents/*/knowledge/**]
+- Refresh `workspace/index.md` from the new seed (its `## Memory` section is
+  gone; knowledge is indexed in `knowledge/index.md`).   [affects: agents/*/workspace/index.md]
+
+## [0.8.17]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Base prompt: aggressive task-thread delegation is now a rule.** The
+  Task threads section opens with "You must delegate aggressively" and a
+  "should a task thread do this?" default-yes framing, and the Guidelines
+  checklist gained a matching bullet (bulk reads, broad searches, research,
+  and self-contained multi-step work belong in task threads).
+- **Web UI fixes.** Tool-call card arguments no longer overflow the card
+  (long unbroken tokens now wrap), and empty thinking segments are no
+  longer rendered as collapsible blocks.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `0-base_prompt.md`'s Task threads and Guidelines sections now mandate
+  aggressive delegation to task threads. Replace each fork's copy with the
+  new seed (harness-owned).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.8.16]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Skill-update notices now fire on every unseen version change, reverts
+  included.** 0.8.15's dedupe was keyed per (skill, new version), so a
+  revert back to the version the agent had originally read stayed silent
+  (1.2 → 1.3 → 1.2 sent only the 1.3 notice), leaving the agent believing
+  the withdrawn version was current. `skill-update-notice.ts` now tracks a
+  single "aware" version per skill — the later of the agent's own
+  read/edit/write and the last notice sent — and fires whenever the file's
+  current version differs from it, upgrades and reverts alike. Sending a
+  notice marks that version as seen, so nothing re-fires while the file
+  stays put. 0.8.15 sessions replay into the new model unchanged (read +
+  sent entries replay chronologically, latest wins). The notice text now
+  reads "changed after you last read it or were notified".
+- The base prompt's `SystemMessage` bullet and the shipped
+  `docs/base-harness/skills.md` describe the new upgrade-and-revert
+  semantics (upgrade refreshes the doc wholesale).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `skill-update-notice.ts` notification semantics changed (fires on any
+  unseen version change, reverts included) — replace each fork's copy with
+  the shipped version.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/skill-update-notice.ts]
+- `0-base_prompt.md`'s `SystemMessage` bullet was reworded for the new
+  semantics. Replace each fork's copy with the new seed
+  (harness-owned).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.8.15]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Skill-update notices close the prompt-vs-read recency gap.**
+  `<available_skills>` is rebuilt at every spawn, so it always advertises
+  the current skill version — but it sits at position 0 of the context,
+  before any `SKILL.md` read in history; agents reasoned by context order,
+  trusted the (later) read, and concluded the prompt was stale instead of
+  re-reading the updated skill. Two-part fix: the base prompt's Skills
+  section now explains the recency inversion (the prompt is regenerated
+  per spawn, so on a mismatch the *file* changed after the read) and what
+  to do (act per the skill's `CHANGELOG.md`, or re-read `SKILL.md`); and a
+  new seeded pi extension `skill-update-notice.ts` records the frontmatter
+  version of every `SKILL.md` the agent reads (or edits/writes) as custom
+  session entries, and when the file's current version no longer matches,
+  injects a one-time-per-(skill, version) standalone `<harness-metadata>`
+  notice — `SystemMessage: Skill "<name>" changed after you last read it
+  (vX -> vY)` plus the newest changelog entry — checked at
+  `before_agent_start` (spawn-gap bumps, lands before the batch's first
+  LLM call) and each `turn_start` (mid-run bumps, next steer seam). State
+  replays from session entries, so the once-per-version dedupe survives
+  the fresh-pi-per-batch process model. The base prompt's Message metadata
+  section documents the new `SystemMessage` field: a notice from the
+  harness itself, to be acted on as platform instructions.
+- **context-meta checkpoints are now indexed and pre-call.** One
+  standalone checkpoint message before *every* LLM call, after all of that
+  call's inputs are in place: `Checkpoint: <n>` (monotonic per-call
+  counter, seeded across process respawns from session replay) +
+  `CheckpointTokens: +<delta>` (context growth since the previous
+  checkpoint: the previous response, provider-reported and exact, plus the
+  new input after it — tool results / incoming message — estimated at
+  chars/4 and ~1200 tokens per image). Every checkpoint re-anchors on
+  provider-reported usage, so estimation error is bounded to one step and
+  spans sum accurately. Checkpoints are emitted only when the next call is
+  provably imminent (`before_agent_start` return for a run's first call;
+  the last expected toolResult's `message_end` as a steer mid-run), which
+  deletes the old deferred/`agent_settled` flush machinery and its
+  empty-LLM-loop hazard. `CheckpointTokens: reset` now marks any
+  unknowable delta (compaction, unknown fill). The ephemeral per-call
+  `Model`/`ContextUsage` injection is unchanged.
+- **Daily notes: one entry per thread per day.** The base prompt's
+  end-of-task daily-note rule now says to extend the day's existing entry
+  for the ThreadId instead of appending a second one.
+- Shipped `docs/base-harness/skills.md` documents the recency rule and the
+  skill-update notice mechanism (upgrade refreshes it wholesale).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- New seeded agent extension `skill-update-notice.ts` — copy the shipped
+  file into each existing agent's `extensions/` dir.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/skill-update-notice.ts]
+- `context-meta.ts` was rewritten (per-call indexed checkpoints) — replace
+  each fork's copy with the shipped version.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/context-meta.ts]
+- `0-base_prompt.md` gained the skills recency guidance, the
+  `SystemMessage` metadata field, the rewritten Checkpoint-messages
+  bullet, and the one-entry-per-thread daily-notes rule. Replace each
+  fork's copy with the new seed (harness-owned).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.8.14]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **End-of-task daily-note summaries** — the base prompt's Guidelines now
+  require agents to append a brief summary to
+  `workspace/daily_notes/YYYY-MM-DD.md` at the end of each task, tagged with
+  the ThreadId: a few sentences covering the situation, the task, what was
+  done, the result, and any learnings — brief prose, no headed sections.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `0-base_prompt.md` Guidelines gained the end-of-task daily-notes summary
+  rule   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.8.13]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`create-skill` installed in every agent** — `agent new` now installs the
+  shipped `create-skill` skill into every agent's own `skills/agent/` dir
+  (previously dev-agent only; the dev agent still gets the full set). The
+  base prompt's "Maintaining skills" section now states the rule explicitly:
+  every piece of procedural memory must land as a skill — create a new one
+  or update an existing one — following the installed `create-skill` skill.
+- **Skill description spec** — a skill's description must carry four parts:
+  summary, what's included (the procedures/topics/scripts/artifacts covered,
+  so an agent can spot a partially relevant skill), when to use it, and the
+  version; `metadata` carries `author` + `version`. Taught in the base
+  prompt, the shipped `docs/base-harness/skills.md`, and `create-skill`
+  (bumped to v1.1.0).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `0-base_prompt.md`'s "Maintaining skills" section was rewritten: procedural
+  memory must always land as a new or updated skill (via the installed
+  `create-skill` skill), and skill descriptions must carry summary +
+  what's-included + when-to-use + version. Replace each fork's copy with the
+  new base file (harness-owned).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+- Every agent now carries the `create-skill` skill. Copy the shipped
+  `create-skill` skill directory into each existing agent's
+  `skills/agent/create-skill/`.   [affects: agents/*/skills/agent/create-skill/**]
+
+## [0.8.12]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Deployment-owned deploy hooks (`scripts/app/`)** — the scaffolded deploy
+  scripts are harness-owned and refreshed on upgrade, so app-specific deploy
+  logic no longer gets edited into them. Each script now sources an optional
+  deployment-owned hook: `server.sh` `gen_secrets` → `scripts/app/secrets.sh`
+  (after the stock secrets), `server.sh` → `scripts/app/server.sh` (after every
+  stock action except `harness`/`dev`/`logs`, same positional args — app
+  lifecycle work), `setup-server.sh` → `scripts/app/setup-server.sh`
+  (end, as root), `aws/setup.sh` → `scripts/app/aws-setup.sh` and
+  `contabo/setup.sh` → `scripts/app/contabo-setup.sh` (end of provisioning).
+  Hooks are sourced with the deploy `config` + the caller's resolved vars in
+  scope. Extra deploy params go in the deployment-owned root `config`,
+  documented in a deployment-owned `scripts/app/config.example` (the root
+  `config.example` stays harness-owned). Only `scripts/app/README.md` (the
+  contract) ships with the template. `cognisphere-upgrade` bumped to v1.2.0
+  to teach the scaffold refresh this ownership split.
+
+- **pi upgraded to 0.84.1** (`@earendil-works/pi-ai` +
+  `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`, from 0.81.1). No harness code
+  changes were required: the RPC event contract the harness consumes
+  (`agent_start`, `agent_end`, `message_start`, extension `setStatus`
+  reports), the session JSONL format (`CURRENT_SESSION_VERSION` still
+  3), the `pi --mode rpc` flag set, and the `ExtensionAPI` /
+  `ModelRuntime` surfaces the harness uses are all unchanged or
+  additive. pi 0.84.0's `message_update` breaking change (deltas only,
+  no cumulative `message`) does not affect us — the harness never reads
+  `message_update`. `ModelRuntime.reloadConfig()` was removed upstream;
+  the harness never called it.
+- `core/models-catalog.ts`: refreshed the mirrored `KnownProvider` union
+  to pi-ai 0.84.1 (adds `baseten`, `qwen-token-plan-individual`, and the
+  `ant-ling` / `radius` / `nvidia` / `zai-coding-cn` / `qwen-token-plan`
+  / `qwen-token-plan-cn` ids that had drifted in since 0.81.1). Catalog
+  entries themselves are unchanged — new providers stay unlisted in the
+  Models page until an entry is added.
+- **System-prompt file ownership is now an explicit contract**, taught in
+  the base prompt (new "System prompts" section) and documented in
+  `docs/server.md` §3 and the shipped `docs/base-harness/README.md`:
+  `0-*` files are harness-owned (replaced by the seed on upgrade;
+  `0.1-agent-directory.md` excepted), `plugin-<id>.md` is plugin-owned
+  (reseeded on every agent start — edits are clobbered), and `1-agent.md`
+  is deployment-owned: identity/persona/behaviour only. Any deliberate
+  override of a harness- or plugin-owned prompt file must be documented in
+  the home's `docs/harness/`; undocumented divergence is drift.
+- **Skills are the agent's procedural memory, and are versioned.** The base
+  prompt's new "Skills" section tells agents to keep every step-by-step
+  procedure (SOP, runbook) as a skill — never inlined in prompt files,
+  `knowledge/`, or workspace notes — with the version stated in the skill's
+  description (the only metadata pi injects into the prompt) and in
+  `SKILL.md`'s `metadata.version`, plus a per-skill `CHANGELOG.md`. Skills
+  are self-contained — helper scripts in the skill's `scripts/`, supporting
+  files in `artifacts/`, referenced by skill-relative paths. Agents
+  re-read a skill whose advertised version differs from the copy they last
+  read, so version bumps propagate procedure changes to long-running
+  agents, and task-thread briefs name the skill (and version) to follow
+  instead of restating its steps. Shipped skills (`cognisphere-upgrade` v1.1.0, `create-plugin`
+  v1.1.0) follow the convention; the `cognisphere-upgrade` skill now also
+  migrates procedural content out of prompts/SOPs into versioned skills
+  when an upgrade window touches an agent's prompts.
+- **New shipped skill `create-skill` (v1.0.0)** — the authoring/updating
+  procedure for versioned agent skills: scaffold `SKILL.md` + per-skill
+  `CHANGELOG.md` + `scripts/`/`artifacts/`, semver bump rules, SOP
+  migration, and pi's frontmatter constraints. Installed like the other
+  cognisphere skills — into the home's `.claude/skills/` + `.agents/skills/`
+  by `init`, and into the developer agent's own `skills/agent/` — so the
+  dev agent carries the skill-authoring procedure as a skill itself.
+  Existing homes pick it up via the upgrade's scaffold refresh; existing
+  dev agents by copying it into `agents/nova/skills/agent/create-skill/`.
+- `cognisphere agent new` seeds a starter `system_prompts/1-agent.md`
+  (persona skeleton) so every agent dir carries the same prompt layout.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- The developer-agent persona file was renamed for layout consistency:
+  `system_prompts/1-dev-agent.md` → `system_prompts/1-agent.md`. Rename the
+  fork's file (contents unchanged).   [affects: agents/nova/system_prompts/*]
+- `0-base_prompt.md` gained the "Skills" and "System prompts" sections and
+  moved procedures out of `knowledge/SOPs/`. Replace each fork's copy with
+  the new seed (local edits in a `0-*` file move to `1-agent.md`).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+- Procedural memory must live in versioned skills: for every agent, re-read
+  its `system_prompts/*.md` and `knowledge/` (incl. `knowledge/SOPs/`) and
+  migrate each step-by-step procedure into
+  `skills/agent/<slug>/SKILL.md` (version in description +
+  `metadata.version`, per-skill `CHANGELOG.md`, helper scripts in the
+  skill's `scripts/`, supporting files in `artifacts/`), updating
+  `1-agent.md` to reference the skill instead of restating it.   [affects: agents/*]
+
+## [0.8.11]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Model overrides in `.secrets/models.json` now configure pi itself.**
+  New `core/pi-models-sync.ts` mirrors the store's `modelOverrides` into
+  pi's own models.json (`~/.pi/agent/models.json`, or
+  `$PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/models.json`) at server boot, on every agent
+  start, and after `PUT /api/models` — so spawned pi children resolve the
+  overridden `contextWindow`/`maxTokens` natively (model registry,
+  in-context ContextUsage telemetry, and pi's compaction thresholds).
+  Ownership: for providers present in the harness store, the
+  `modelOverrides` key of pi's models.json is harness-owned (replaced
+  wholesale, removed when the store has none); all other fields and
+  providers in that file are preserved, and a corrupt file is skipped,
+  never clobbered.
+- **Pi-as-configured is now the single source of truth for context
+  windows.** The API's reporting (`lastContext` in `/api/agents/usage`
+  and the threads list) resolves context windows via pi models.json
+  (`modelOverrides`, then custom model entries) with pi-ai's built-in
+  catalog as fallback, instead of consulting `.secrets/models.json`
+  directly — the dashboard and the agent's in-context telemetry can no
+  longer disagree, and hand-written custom providers in pi's models.json
+  now report correct context windows too.
+
+## [0.8.10]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`extensions/context-meta.ts`: turn-ending checkpoints now land right
+  after the final response.** Instead of deferring to the next inbound
+  message (which placed the checkpoint after the next user message), the
+  deferred emit fires on `agent_settled` — the agent is idle there, so
+  `sendMessage` appends the checkpoint directly to the session without
+  triggering a turn or an LLM call. Tool-use responses keep the immediate
+  steer emit (checkpoint after that response's tool results). Inbound-flush
+  and seed-time catch-up remain as fallbacks.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded file `extensions/context-meta.ts` changed (turn-ending checkpoint
+  placement via agent_settled). Copy it from the new seed into existing
+  agents.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/*]
+
+## [0.8.9]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **`extensions/context-meta.ts`: infinite invocation loop after
+  turn-ending responses (0.8.8 regression — upgrade off 0.8.8
+  immediately).** A checkpoint message queued via `sendMessage` lands in
+  pi's pending-message queue, and the agent loop keeps running while any
+  pending message exists — so a checkpoint emitted right after a response
+  with no tool calls kept provoking empty LLM calls forever, one paid call
+  per cycle. Checkpoints are now sent immediately only when the response
+  has tool calls (the loop continues anyway); for a turn-ending response
+  the emit is deferred to the next inbound message, with the existing
+  seed-time catch-up covering process exit. Per-step granularity and the
+  gapless trail are unchanged.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded file `extensions/context-meta.ts` changed (checkpoint emission no
+  longer extends the agent loop). Copy it from the new seed into existing
+  agents.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/*]
+
+## [0.8.8]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`extensions/context-meta.ts`: checkpoints are now standalone messages
+  instead of stamps on neighboring messages.** After each assistant
+  response the extension injects a custom message
+  (`customType: "context-meta.checkpoint"`) carrying
+  `CheckpointTokens: +<n>` and a self-describing `Covers:` line, delivered
+  at the first provider-legal seam (after the response's tool calls,
+  before the next LLM call). Standalone messages are prune-safe: a future
+  context cleaner can remove a span and its checkpoint by identity,
+  instead of stranding a stamp fused into a kept message that describes
+  deleted content. A checkpoint covers everything up through the nearest
+  assistant response above it; seeding emits a catch-up checkpoint on
+  spawn if the previous batch exited with one still queued, keeping the
+  trail gapless across batches. User messages and tool results are no
+  longer stamped.
+- Base system prompt: `CheckpointTokens` moved out of the incoming-message
+  metadata fields into the telemetry section — documents the standalone
+  checkpoint messages, their coverage rule, and that they are informational
+  only (never act on or reply to them).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded file `extensions/context-meta.ts` changed (standalone checkpoint
+  messages replace per-message stamps). Copy it from the new seed into
+  existing agents.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/*]
+- Message-metadata section of the seeded base system prompt changed
+  (checkpoint messages documented as standalone telemetry, FYI-only; field
+  removed from the block example). Graft into existing agents'
+  prompts.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.8.7]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`extensions/context-meta.ts`: checkpoint stamps now span batch
+  boundaries.** On spawn the extension replays the stamping state machine
+  over the persisted session instead of only seeding a baseline, so a
+  batch that ended on an assistant response leaves its pending checkpoint
+  recoverable — the next batch's first message carries it (the previous
+  batch's final step). Only a thread's very first message has no
+  `CheckpointTokens` stamp.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded file `extensions/context-meta.ts` changed (cross-batch checkpoint
+  seeding). Copy it from the new seed into existing agents.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/*]
+
+## [0.8.6]
+
+### Added
+
+- **New seeded pi extension `extensions/context-meta.ts`: context-window
+  telemetry for the agent.** Two signals:
+  - `CheckpointTokens: +<n>` — persistent per-step stamps. After each
+    assistant response, the first following user message / tool result is
+    stamped with the exact context growth of the completed step, computed
+    from consecutive provider-reported usage totals (no estimation).
+    Deltas are per-step, never cumulative, so the trail stays truthful
+    across compaction; a compaction stamps `CheckpointTokens: reset`.
+    Summing a span of stamps tells the agent what pruning that span would
+    free. Seeded from the session JSONL on spawn, so deltas stay exact
+    across batch boundaries.
+  - `Model:` + `ContextUsage: <tokens>/<context window>` — ephemeral,
+    injected into each LLM call's last outgoing message via the `context`
+    hook; never persisted, so exactly one fresh copy exists per call.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Base system prompt: `<harness-metadata>` docs gain the `CheckpointTokens`
+  field and a note on the latest-message `Model`/`ContextUsage` telemetry,
+  with guidance to delegate/wrap up under context pressure.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- New seeded file `extensions/context-meta.ts`. Copy it from the new seed
+  into existing agents.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/*]
+- Message-metadata section of the seeded base system prompt changed
+  (`CheckpointTokens` field, `Model`/`ContextUsage` telemetry note). Graft
+  into existing agents' prompts.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.8.5]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Task-thread ids are now `<ThreadId>-§-[TASK]-§-<task-slug>`** (parent
+  thread id, literal `[TASK]` marker, kebab-case task slug, joined by
+  `-§-`) instead of the ambiguous `<ThreadId>-<task-slug>`. Prompts and
+  the session-reader help teach the new form; thread ids remain opaque to
+  the queue/runner, so no data migration — existing old-format task
+  threads keep working, they just render as ordinary threads in the UI.
+- **The admin web UI groups task threads under their parent thread.** The
+  thread list no longer shows task threads as top-level rows; each parent
+  gets a `tasks (N)` dropdown listing them by task slug (select/delete),
+  the mobile picker indents them under the parent, and search matches a
+  parent by its task threads. Task threads with a missing parent fall
+  back to the top-level list.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Task-thread delegation section rewritten for the new
+  `<ThreadId>-§-[TASK]-§-<task-slug>` id format.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+- Task-thread spawn note updated to the new id format.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/plugin-agent-messaging.md]
+- `--help` text: task-thread session dir example updated to the new id
+  format.   [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/session-reader]
+
+## [0.8.4]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **The upgrade skill's scaffold refresh now audits local edits first and
+  guarantees they survive.** Step 4 is audit → copy → re-apply: diff every
+  scaffold area against the installed package before copying, use the home's
+  git history to separate local edits from upstream changes, list every
+  local edit in the summary, then re-apply them on top of the fresh copies —
+  so the approval diff shows upstream changes plus intact local edits. A
+  local edit is dropped only with explicit operator approval; when a
+  difference can't be classified, the skill stops and asks.
+
+## [0.8.3]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **The upgrade skill now refreshes every harness-owned scaffold file on
+  upgrade** — `scripts/`, `config.example`, `docs/base-harness/`, and
+  `.claude/skills/` are re-copied wholesale from the installed package as
+  part of the reviewed migration diff, so scaffold fixes reach existing
+  homes even when a release didn't list them as breaking changes. User-owned
+  files (`app/`, `docs/harness/`, `docs/app/`, `CLAUDE.md`, `config`, and
+  the harness data dir) are never touched by the refresh.
+- **The publish preflight gates shipped-artifact changes.** Changes since the
+  last release to files forked into agent dirs (`src/agents/**`,
+  `src/plugins/*/seed/**`) fail preflight unless the version's CHANGELOG
+  section carries a `### Breaking changes` block; changed scaffold/skill
+  files are listed as a reminder to note them under `### Changed`.
+- Shipped docs updated to match (`docs/base-harness/skills.md`).
+
+## [0.8.2]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **The runner now exports `HARNESS_BASE_URL` (= `serverBaseUrl`) to every
+  agent process.** The seeded `agent-msg/send` reads
+  `${HARNESS_BASE_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:3142}`, but nothing ever set the
+  variable — the runner didn't export it and the deploy scripts only define
+  `HARNESS_PORT`, which the script never reads. So on any non-default port
+  (`PORT` / `cognisphere serve --port`), agent-messaging silently posted to
+  the wrong origin. The fallback in the seed is unchanged and now only
+  covers running the script outside a runner-spawned process.
+
+## [0.8.1]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Base prompt no longer tells agents to pass `-o json` to ddgs.** That flag
+  doesn't print to stdout — it writes the results to a file in the cwd (e.g.
+  `text_<query>_<timestamp>.json`), so piping to `jq` got empty input and
+  agent dirs silently accumulated result files. The prompt now says to read
+  the default stdout table directly and warns against `-o json`/`-o csv`.
+- **Plugin requests route to `nova`, not the operator.** The communication
+  model section still said to ask the operator (via the admin plugin) to
+  install or write missing plugins, contradicting 0.8.0's ownership model
+  (§Platform code changes). It now forwards those requests to the developer
+  agent via agent-messaging, keeping the operator for what genuinely needs
+  them (secrets, harness restarts).
+- **`session-reader --help` documented a session layout 0.8.0 deleted.** The
+  `sessions/<ThreadId>/subagents/<subAgentId>/` path example is now
+  `sessions/<ThreadId>-<task-slug>/` — task-thread sessions are ordinary
+  threads.
+- **Wrapper headers (`agent-browser`, `ddgs`, `markitdown`) no longer cite the
+  removed `pi -p` sub-agent CLI** as their reason to exist. The wrappers stay
+  (the PATH/venv rationale holds); the header comments and `--help` text now
+  state it without referencing sub-agents.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Base prompt corrections (ddgs output flags, plugin-request routing) —
+  replace the fork's copy with the new seed, re-applying any local
+  edits.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+- session-reader help updated for the task-thread session layout —
+  re-seed.   [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/session-reader]
+- Wrapper rationale comments dropped the `pi -p` reference — re-seed (no
+  behavior change).   [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/agent-browser, agents/*/scripts/agent/ddgs, agents/*/scripts/agent/markitdown]
+
+## [0.8.0]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Sub-agents are now task threads.** The `pi -p` sub-agent CLI is gone;
+  delegation runs through the core agent-messaging plugin instead. An agent
+  spawns a task by messaging **itself** on a new thread id
+  `<parentThreadId>-<task-slug>`; the task thread runs with the full agent
+  prompt in its own context window and **must report back** to the parent
+  thread (named explicitly in the brief) via `scripts/agent-msg/send` when
+  done. Delegation is asynchronous — the parent ends its turn and is woken by
+  the report; follow-ups and status checks are messages to the same task
+  thread. Task-thread status is declared **in the brief**, never inferred from
+  the sender (self-messages also arrive for other reasons).
+- **One agent prompt.** `0-base_prompt.md` and `0.1-main-agent.md` merged into
+  a single `0-base_prompt.md` covering identity, tools, workspace, threads,
+  plugins, communication, task threads, app home, and the dev-agent hand-off.
+  Ownership is now explicit: each agent owns its own agent dir (scripts,
+  skills, workspace, knowledge); platform code **and software installs** go to
+  the developer agent.
+- **agent-messaging is a core plugin** (`CORE_PLUGIN_IDS`) — auto-installed
+  and seeded on every agent alongside admin and scheduler; `cognisphere
+  plugin add agent-messaging` is refused. Messaging a thread id that doesn't
+  exist yet starts a fresh thread (that's how task threads spawn).
+- **The developer agent is always `nova`.** `cognisphere init` creates it
+  under that fixed id (`--dev-agent` flag removed), `agent new` refuses the
+  name for any other agent, and the prompt templates reference `nova`
+  literally — the `{{DevAgentId}}`/`{{DevAgentName}}` baking (and the
+  `bakeDevAgentName`/`findDevAgentId` CLI machinery) is gone. Telegram is no
+  longer auto-enabled on it; human channels are opt-in (other agents reach it
+  via agent-messaging).
+- **Web console:** agent messages are hyperlinked — an incoming
+  `agent_message` links to the sender's thread (`From`/`FromThread`), and an
+  `agent-msg/send` tool call links to the destination agent thread
+  (`$PI_AGENT_ID` resolves to the current agent). Thread-only deep links
+  (`?thread=`) now work without a session id.
+- Base template and dev overlay moved to `src/agents/base-agent/` and
+  `src/agents/nova/` inside the package (was `src/base-agent/`,
+  `src/dev-agent/`). No harness-side effect; `files` already ships `src/`.
+
+### Removed
+
+- `subagentModel` from `agent.json` and the `PI_SUBAGENT_PROVIDER` /
+  `PI_SUBAGENT_MODEL` / `PI_SUBAGENT_THINKING` env vars — task threads run on
+  the agent's own model (per-thread overrides still apply).
+- The `subagents` array from `GET /api/agents/:id/sessions/:threadId/usage`
+  (and the legacy `sessions/<threadId>/subagents/*/` scanning behind it). The
+  response is now `{ threadId, main }`; task-thread usage shows up as
+  ordinary threads.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Sub-agent CLI removed — delete the seeded wrapper and role prompt from every
+  agent fork.   [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/subagent]
+- Sub-agent role prompt removed with it.   [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/sub-agent-prompt.md]
+- `0.1-main-agent.md` merged into `0-base_prompt.md` — replace the fork's
+  `0-base_prompt.md` with the new seed (re-apply any local edits) and delete
+  `0.1-main-agent.md`.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/]
+- Agent-directory roster renamed — rename the file to
+  `0.1-agent-directory.md` (contents unchanged; the manager only regenerates
+  the new name when absent, so an un-renamed copy would duplicate the
+  roster).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0.3-agent-directory.md]
+- `subagentModel` no longer read — remove the key where present.   [affects: agents/*/agent.json]
+- agent-messaging became a core plugin — the per-agent enable dir is
+  redundant (remove), and a forked copy now shadows the bundled core plugin
+  (remove unless the fork is intentional).   [affects: agents/*/plugins/agent-messaging, plugins/agent-messaging]
+- Developer agent id frozen to `nova` — rename the existing dev agent's dir
+  (the one whose `agent.json` has `devAgent: true`, e.g. `dory`) to `nova`,
+  and update any references to the old id (other agents' roster fragments,
+  `allowMessageFrom` lists, workspace notes). New prompt seeds address the
+  dev agent as `nova` literally.   [affects: agents/*]
+
+## [0.7.2]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **`spawn E2BIG` on every batch once `system_prompts/` crossed 128 KiB.** The
+  runner passed the whole assembled system prompt as a single `--system-prompt`
+  argv value. Linux caps **one** argv/env string at `MAX_ARG_STRLEN` = 131 072
+  bytes — a per-string limit, independent of the ~2 MB `ARG_MAX` total — so a
+  prompt tree that grew past 128 KiB killed `spawn("pi", …)` outright. Because
+  `assembleSystemPrompt` hands every thread the same files, this took *all* of
+  an agent's threads down at once, with `E2BIG` and no partial failure to
+  narrow it down.
+
+  The runner now writes the assembled prompt to
+  `sessions/<threadId>/.system-prompt.md` (rewritten on every spawn) and passes
+  **that path** to `--system-prompt`. pi's `resolvePromptInput` already reads a
+  flag value as a file when it names an existing path, so this needs no pi-side
+  change, and files have no length ceiling. An env var would not have worked —
+  same per-string cap.
+
+  `scripts/agent/subagent` had the identical exposure (it concatenated
+  `0-base_prompt.md` + `sub-agent-prompt.md` into one `--system-prompt` string,
+  so sub-agents were on course to fail the same way at the same threshold). It
+  now passes the two files as paths — `--system-prompt <base>
+  --append-system-prompt <role>` — which pi composes as
+  `<system-prompt>\n\n<append>`, byte-identical to the concatenation it
+  replaces.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **The developer agent now gets the `agent-messaging` plugin by default**, on
+  top of telegram. It owns the home's platform code and every other agent's
+  prompt tells it to route code and doc changes there — but until now nothing
+  gave those agents a way to actually send it one; the request had to go
+  through a human on Telegram. `cognisphere init` and
+  `cognisphere agent new <name> --dev` both enable it. The inbox default is
+  unchanged (`allowMessageFrom: ["*"]`, i.e. any in-harness agent).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Existing developer agents don't have the `agent-messaging` plugin enabled;
+  create the (empty) plugin dir to install the bundled copy with its default
+  config.   [affects: agents/*/plugins/agent-messaging/]
+- `scripts/agent/subagent` passes the sub-agent system prompt as two file
+  paths instead of one concatenated string (operator edits survive — merge
+  rather than overwrite).   [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/subagent]
+
+## [0.7.1]
+
+### Added
+
+- **gws routing on the Gmail thread id** — `scripts/gws/routes add` takes a
+  new `--gmail-thread-id RE` (rule field `gmailThreadId`), matched as an
+  **anchored**, case-insensitive regex against the raw Gmail thread id — a
+  plain id is an exact match, `a|b` a set. This is the precise way to park
+  replies: a reply always stays in the Gmail thread of the message it
+  answers, so routing on that id captures the follow-ups to one mail and
+  nothing else, where `--from`/`--subject` also catch unrelated mail. A rule
+  still needs at least one of `--from` / `--subject` / `--gmail-thread-id`,
+  and when several are given all must match; first matching rule wins.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+*(Nothing breaks — rules without `gmailThreadId` behave exactly as before.)*
+
+- `scripts/gws/routes` gained the `--gmail-thread-id` flag, and
+  `system_prompts/plugin-gws.md`'s "Routing rules" section documents it
+  (operator edits survive — merge rather than overwrite).   [affects: agents/*/scripts/gws/routes, agents/*/system_prompts/plugin-gws.md]
+
+## [0.7.0]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Telegram thread-routing rules** — `plugins/telegram/state/routes.json`,
+  managed by the seeded `scripts/telegram/routes` CLI (`add | list |
+  remove`), mirrors the gws routing added in 0.6.0. A rule maps a chat id to
+  a thread id of the agent's choosing, overriding the agent's
+  `threadIdStrategy`: `routes add --name ops --thread-id ops-room --chat
+  '-100.*'`. `--chat` is an **anchored**, case-insensitive regex matched
+  against the chat id — a plain id is an exact match, `.*` is a wildcard,
+  `123|456` a set. First matching rule wins; the plugin re-reads the file on
+  every batch of updates, so a new rule takes effect immediately. `/reset`
+  in a routed chat resets the routed thread.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`PluginInstanceContext.resetThread` takes an optional second argument**
+  — `resetThread(channelId, threadIdOverride?)`. Plugins that route a
+  channel to a custom thread pass the same override they gave `notify`, so
+  the reset hits the thread the messages actually landed in. Omitted → the
+  previous `threadIdStrategy` mapping, unchanged.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+*(Nothing breaks — the routing CLI is a new on-disk artifact an existing
+home syncs to adopt; agents without `routes.json` behave exactly as before.)*
+
+- New seeded script `scripts/telegram/routes` and a "Routing rules" section
+  in `system_prompts/plugin-telegram.md` (operator edits survive — merge
+  rather than overwrite).   [affects: agents/*/scripts/telegram/routes, agents/*/system_prompts/plugin-telegram.md]
+
+## [0.6.2]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Base agent knows about the app home.** `0.1-main-agent.md` gained a
+  `# The app home` section pointing every agent at the repo above its agent
+  dir: `../../../app/` (the user-facing frontend users see in a browser),
+  `../../../docs/` (`base-harness/` platform reference, `harness/` this
+  deployment's agents/plugins, `app/` the frontend), plus `harness/` and
+  `scripts/`. The `# Platform code changes` hand-off now covers the app and
+  the docs explicitly — read freely, route every change to the developer
+  agent, report stale docs there.
+- **Developer agent's `agent.json.description`** (what the agent-directory
+  roster shows other agents) now names the frontend app and the docs duty:
+  "…owns and modifies this deployment's platform code — agent
+  prompts/scripts, forked plugins, the user-facing frontend app, deploy
+  scripts — and keeps docs/harness + docs/app current."
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+*(Nothing breaks — both are on-disk artifacts an existing home must sync to
+adopt; old copies keep working untouched.)*
+
+- `system_prompts/0.1-main-agent.md` gained the app-home + docs sections
+  (operator edits survive — merge rather than overwrite; `{{DevAgentId}}` /
+  `{{DevAgentName}}` are baked at fork time, so substitute the dev agent's
+  actual id when hand-merging).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0.1-main-agent.md]
+- The developer agent's `agent.json.description` is only written at
+  `agent new --dev` time; existing homes keep the old one-liner until
+  edited.   [affects: agents/*/agent.json]
+
+## [0.6.1]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Default HTTP port is now `3142`** (was `7331`) — `PORT` / `cognisphere
+  serve --port` still override it. Updated everywhere the old default was
+  baked in: `config.ts`, the CLI's `DEFAULT_PORT`, the web dev-server proxy
+  target, the scaffold's `HARNESS_PORT` default, the seeded `agent-msg/send`
+  fallback base URL, and the docs.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Existing homes pin `HARNESS_PORT=7331` in their `config`, so they keep
+  serving on 7331 — but the re-seeded `scripts/agent-msg/send` now falls back
+  to `127.0.0.1:3142`, which breaks agent-to-agent messaging. Either set
+  `HARNESS_PORT=3142` in `config` (then re-run `scripts/setup-server.sh` to
+  regenerate the systemd unit + nginx vhost, and restart), or keep 7331 and
+  export `HARNESS_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:7331` into the harness
+  environment.   [affects: config, scripts/setup-server.sh]
+
+## [0.6.0]
+
+### Added
+
+- **gws thread routing.** The `gws` plugin now reads routing rules from
+  `plugins/gws/state/routes.json` on every poll; the first rule whose
+  `from` / `subject` patterns match an inbound thread replaces the default
+  harness thread id (`<Subject>[<gmailThreadId>]`) with the rule's own
+  `threadId`. Patterns are case-insensitive, unanchored regexes, so a plain
+  string is a substring match. Lets an agent mail someone from a thread and
+  have the reply land back in that same thread instead of opening a new one.
+- **`scripts/gws/routes` CLI** (seeded with the plugin): `add|list|remove`,
+  atomic writes, rules take effect within one poll interval. A rule with
+  neither `--from` nor `--subject` is rejected — it would capture every
+  inbound email. Documented in the plugin's system prompt; existing homes
+  pick both up automatically (the gws seed is re-copied on plugin start).
+
+## [0.5.1]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Per-unit restart.** `scripts/server.sh` `start`/`stop`/`restart` now take an
+  optional `app`|`harness` target to bounce a single systemd unit; omit it for
+  both (the deploy loop is unchanged). `restart app` builds and restarts only
+  the app unit — applying an app-only change without touching the harness.
+- **Developer agent ships app changes itself.** The dev-agent prompt now tells
+  it to apply `app/` changes live via `sudo ./scripts/server.sh restart app`
+  (its own session survives, since the app is a separate unit), and to leave
+  harness restarts to the operator — restarting the harness would kill its own
+  turn mid-run; the interrupted turn is requeued and swept back in on boot.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+*(No behavior breaks — both entries are on-disk artifacts an existing home must
+sync to adopt the feature; old copies keep working untouched.)*
+
+- `scripts/server.sh` gained the optional `app`|`harness` restart target.   [affects: scripts/server.sh]
+- The developer agent's `1-dev-agent.md` prompt gained the app-restart
+  instructions (operator edits survive — re-seed or merge if customised).   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/1-dev-agent.md]
+
+## [0.5.0]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Agent directory**: each agent now carries an `agent.json.description`
+  (one-line role blurb). On start the harness seeds
+  `system_prompts/0.3-agent-directory.md` — a roster of the *other* agents
+  (id + description, how to message them) — if the file is absent, so operator
+  edits survive. Single-agent harnesses skip it until a second agent exists.
+- **`PI_THREAD_ID`** is exported to the pi child's env (alongside
+  `PI_AGENT_ID`), so seeded scripts know the current thread without being told.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **agent-messaging identity is env-sourced, not caller-supplied.** The seeded
+  `agent-msg/send` CLI now fills `from_agent`/`from_thread_id` from
+  `$PI_AGENT_ID`/`$PI_THREAD_ID` — the `--from-agent`/`--from-thread-id` flags
+  are gone. Agents can no longer typo or spoof their own reply address.
+- **agent-messaging inbox now authenticates.** `POST /webhook/<agent>/agent-messaging/api/send`
+  requires the shared `COGNISPHERE_WEBHOOK_SECRET` (generated at boot unless
+  pinned via env; inherited by every agent's env) as an `X-Webhook-Secret`
+  header (`401` otherwise). Sender authorisation moved to a per-inbox
+  `allowMessageFrom` plugin config (default `["*"]`; a sender not listed gets
+  `403`), replacing the `PluginInstanceContext.allowsMessageFrom` method.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `agent.json.devAgentAccess` removed. It is now ignored; the `0.2-dev-agent.md`
+  hand-off fragment is included for **every** agent, and messaging permission
+  to the developer agent is governed solely by the dev agent's
+  `allowMessageFrom`. Agents previously set to `devAgentAccess: false` will now
+  see the dev-agent fragment and (unless restricted via `allowMessageFrom`) be
+  able to message the developer agent. Remove the dead field; to restrict the
+  dev inbox, set `allowMessageFrom` on its `agent-messaging` config.   [affects: agents/*/agent.json, agents/*/plugins/agent-messaging/config.json]
+- Add a `description` to each `agent.json` so the agent-directory roster reads
+  well (optional but recommended; absent ⇒ the agent is listed id-only).   [affects: agents/*/agent.json]
+
+## [0.4.4]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Developer agent**: `packages/harness/src/dev-agent/` is a persona
+  overlay on the base template. `cognisphere agent new <name> --dev` forks the
+  base + overlay, installs the cognisphere skills (`cognisphere-upgrade`,
+  `create-plugin`) into the agent's own `skills/agent/`, and enables the
+  telegram plugin (the dev agent's only channel); `cognisphere init`
+  pre-creates the developer agent in every home (`--dev-agent <name>`,
+  default `dory`). The chosen name is baked at create time into the
+  `{{DevAgentId}}`/`{{DevAgentName}}` placeholders of `0.2-dev-agent.md`
+  (every fork) and `1-dev-agent.md` (the dev fork). The developer agent
+  owns and modifies the home's code (agents, user plugins, the app — never
+  the installed harness library) and keeps `docs/harness/` + `docs/app/`
+  current.
+- **Plugin-driven thread reset**: `PluginInstanceContext.resetThread(channelId)`
+  deletes the thread's queue rows, session binding, and session files (refusing
+  while a batch is in-flight), so the next message starts a fresh pi session.
+  The telegram plugin intercepts a `/reset` message (never delivered to the
+  agent) and calls it, replying with a confirmation.
+- **App-home docs + guidelines**: `home-template/` now ships `CLAUDE.md`
+  (init copies it to `AGENT.md` too) and a `docs/` tree —
+  `docs/base-harness/` (shipped user reference for the harness library +
+  `skills.md`; init copies the package `CHANGELOG.md` in; refreshed by the
+  upgrade skill), `docs/harness/` and `docs/app/` (deployment-owned, updated
+  by the developer agent after every code change).
+- Base template: new `system_prompts/0.2-dev-agent.md` fragment — a
+  **Platform code changes** section telling every non-developer agent to pass
+  code-change requests to `dory`.
+- **Per-agent developer-agent access**: `agent.json.devAgentAccess` (default
+  true). When false, the `0.2-dev-agent.md` fragment is omitted from the
+  agent's system prompt and the developer agent's agent-messaging inbox
+  rejects that agent's messages (403). `agent new --dev` stamps
+  `devAgent: true` so the agent-messaging plugin knows which inbox to guard.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Web build fix: dropped stale `manualChunks` entries (`framer-motion`,
+  `remark-breaks`) left behind after those deps were removed — they broke
+  `vite build` (and therefore `prepack`) under current Rollup.
+- Internal refactors, no intended behavior change: provider-credential
+  handling extracted to `src/api/credentials.ts`; the AWS/Contabo setup
+  scripts now share `scripts/lib/remote-bootstrap.sh`; assorted CLI, logger,
+  and web-console cleanups.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- base template: new system_prompts/0.2-dev-agent.md fragment (route code-change requests to the developer agent; omitted when agent.json devAgentAccess=false) — copy it into each agent and replace the `{{DevAgentId}}`/`{{DevAgentName}}` placeholders with the dev agent's id/name [affects: agents/*]
+- app home: new CLAUDE.md + AGENT.md + docs/{base-harness,harness,app}/ — copy from the package's home-template/, then copy the package CHANGELOG.md to docs/base-harness/CHANGELOG.md [affects: <home root>]
+- app home: create the developer agent with `cognisphere agent new <name> --dev` (conventional name: dory), then set secrets.json → <name>.telegram.TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN and a model provider [affects: agents/]
+
+## [0.4.3]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **pi upgraded to 0.81.1** (`@earendil-works/pi-ai` +
+  `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`, from 0.80.6). pi 0.80.8 removed the
+  `AuthStorage` export the harness used for OAuth subscription login; the
+  harness now drives login/logout through pi-coding-agent's `ModelRuntime`
+  (one shared lazy instance) and reads stored credentials via
+  `readStoredCredential`. Behavior parity: same routes, same polled
+  status shapes, tokens still in pi's own `<piAgentDir>/auth.json`.
+  Internally the login interaction moved to pi-ai's `AuthInteraction`
+  (`prompt`/`notify`): select cancellation now rejects the prompt, and
+  per-prompt abort signals (manual-code paste raced against the callback
+  server) clear the pending waiter state.
+
+## [0.4.2]
+
+### Added
+
+- **Contabo deploy target**: `scripts/contabo/setup.sh` + `config.example`
+  (`cntb`-driven provision: object storage + backup bucket, SSH-key secret,
+  Cloud VPS, `~/.ssh/config` entry, `ufw` in the remote bootstrap since
+  Contabo has no security groups). Re-runnable; the first run places a paid
+  monthly order. Prints the four `BACKUP_*` values for the root `config`.
+- `scripts/aws/backup.sh` now works against any S3-compatible store: new
+  `BACKUP_S3_ENDPOINT` / `BACKUP_S3_ACCESS_KEY` / `BACKUP_S3_SECRET_KEY` keys
+  in the root `config.example` (blank = AWS CLI chain / IAM role, as before).
+
+### Changed
+
+- `scripts/server.sh start` is now the same as `restart` (secrets + build +
+  `systemctl restart`, which also starts stopped units) — previously `start`
+  on a running server was a silent no-op.
+- `scripts/setup-server.sh` retires units/nginx site/backup cron left behind
+  by a previous `APP_NAME` (matched by `WorkingDirectory`) before writing the
+  new ones, so renaming the app can't leave two instances fighting over the
+  ports.
+- The `[0.4.0]` section below gained a breaking-change entry documenting the
+  session-cwd migration gap (pi session JSONLs store the absolute harness
+  path) and its rewrite recipe.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- The scaffolded lifecycle scripts changed (`server.sh`, `setup-server.sh`,
+  `aws/backup.sh`, root `config.example`). Existing app homes keep their
+  copies; re-copy `scripts/` and graft the new `BACKUP_S3_*` keys into
+  `config` to pick up the fixes.   [affects: the app home's scripts/ + config.example (not the harness data dir)]
+
+## [0.4.1]
+
+### Changed
+
+- The `Timestamp` field in every `<harness-metadata>` block now includes the
+  day of week (e.g. `Fri 2026-04-17 14:30:05 IST`), for both incoming
+  messages and continuation nudges. Base main-agent prompt example updated.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded base main-agent prompt changed (`Timestamp` example now shows the
+  weekday). Existing agents keep their provisioned copies; re-copy or graft
+  from the new seed.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0.1-main-agent.md]
+
+## [0.4.0]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`cognisphere init <name>` now scaffolds an app home**, not a bare harness
+  data dir: a pnpm workspace with the harness data dir at `harness/`, a
+  user-facing app placeholder at `app/`, lifecycle scripts under `scripts/`
+  (`setup-server.sh`, `server.sh`, `build.sh`), per-platform provisioning +
+  backup under `scripts/<platform>/` (`scripts/aws/setup.sh`,
+  `scripts/aws/backup.sh`, `scripts/aws/config.example`), and
+  `config.example` at the root. AWS is
+  the only supported deploy target for now (GWS and similar later). The agent
+  skills are copied into the home root's `.claude/skills/` + `.agents/skills/`
+  (not into `harness/`).
+- The CLI accepts either the harness data dir or the app home as cwd
+  (`./harness` is resolved automatically).
+- The scaffolded `.npmrc` no longer embeds the `_authToken` line — pnpm
+  refuses env-var credentials from a committed project `.npmrc`; the token
+  belongs in the user's `~/.npmrc` (`scripts/setup-server.sh` writes it on a
+  deployed box).
+
+### Removed
+
+- **`cognisphere up` / `logs` / `status`** (the `cognisphere@<id>` systemd
+  user service). Deployment is the scaffolded `scripts/` now:
+  `sudo ./scripts/setup-server.sh` once, then
+  `git pull && sudo ./scripts/server.sh restart`.
+- The `cognisphere-deploy` agent skill (superseded by the scaffolded deploy
+  scripts).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Existing harness data dirs keep working as-is (the runtime layout is
+  unchanged), but deployments that used `cognisphere up` must move to the
+  scripted model: create a new app home with `cognisphere init`, move the old
+  harness dir's contents into its `harness/`, then `cp config.example config`,
+  edit, and run `sudo ./scripts/setup-server.sh`. Remove the old
+  `cognisphere@<id>` systemd user unit.   [affects: the whole harness dir]
+- **Moving/renaming the harness dir breaks resumption of existing pi
+  sessions.** Every pi session JSONL records the absolute working directory
+  it was created in (`"cwd": …` in its header line); on resume pi validates
+  that path and exits 1 if it no longer exists (`Stored session working
+  directory does not exist`), so every pre-migration thread fails on its next
+  message while new threads work fine. After moving the old harness contents
+  to the new path, rewrite the stored cwd in place (stop the harness first):
+
+  ```
+  grep -rl '"cwd":"<OLD_HARNESS_PATH>' harness/agents/*/sessions/ \
+    | xargs sed -i 's#<OLD_HARNESS_PATH>#<NEW_HARNESS_PATH>#g'
+  ```
+
+  where the paths are the absolute old/new locations of the harness data dir
+  (e.g. `/home/ubuntu/myapp/lps-harness` → `/home/ubuntu/myapp/harness`).   [affects: agents/*/sessions/**/*.jsonl]
+
+## [0.3.16]
+
+### Added
+
+- Every `<harness-metadata>` block now carries a `ThreadId` common field
+  (after `Channel`), so agents can pass the routing id to plugin CLIs
+  (`--thread-id`) without guessing it. `ThreadId` joined the reserved
+  metadata keys — plugin-contributed values under that key are dropped.
+- Base main-agent prompt documents `ThreadId`: what it is, that it equals
+  `{{ThreadId}}`, and that it is distinct from plugin-side ids (Telegram
+  chat id, Gmail thread id).
+
+### Changed
+
+- **agent-messaging: `POST …/api/send` now rejects requests missing
+  `from_agent` or `from_thread_id` (400).** The seeded `agent-msg/send` CLI
+  already required both, so only direct HTTP callers are affected.
+- agent-messaging: the `[AGENT MESSAGE] from …` header prepended to the
+  delivered text is gone — the text is now the sender's message verbatim.
+  Sender identity travels only in metadata (`From`, `FromThread`, optional
+  `Subject`); the redundant `EventType`, `to`, and `thread` metadata keys
+  were dropped. The seed prompt documents the metadata fields and the
+  reply recipe.
+- telegram: dropped the redundant `ChatId` metadata key (always identical
+  to the common `Channel` field). Seed prompt now points at `Channel`.
+- gws: dropped the redundant `GmailThreadId` (identical to `Channel`) and
+  `ReceivedAtUtc` (same instant as `ReceivedAt`) metadata keys. Seed
+  prompt updated accordingly, including its stale `ThreadId` bullet.
+- `create-plugin` agent skill: new "Event & metadata conventions" section
+  (reserved/common fields, PascalCase rendering, when to emit `EventType`,
+  identity-in-metadata vs content-in-text, seed-prompt sync rule) and a
+  pnpm ≥ 10 `allowBuilds`/`better-sqlite3` gotcha.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded base main-agent prompt changed (`ThreadId` documented in the
+  message-metadata section). Existing agents keep their provisioned
+  copies; re-copy or graft from the new seed.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0.1-main-agent.md]
+
+## [0.3.15]
+
+### Added
+
+- New `create-plugin` agent skill: guides authoring a user-scope plugin in a
+  harness's `plugins/<id>/` (contract, seed layout, per-agent enable/config,
+  secrets, verification), with a tested hello-plugin template.
+- The package now bundles the harness-facing agent skills
+  (`cognisphere-deploy`, `cognisphere-upgrade`, `create-plugin`) under
+  `skills/` (prepack), and `cognisphere init` copies them into the new
+  harness dir's `.claude/skills/` and `.agents/skills/` so agents working
+  inside the harness discover them.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Existing harness dirs predate the bundled agent skills; copy them in: `cp -R node_modules/@cognisphere-sh/cognisphere-harness/skills/. .claude/skills/ && cp -R node_modules/@cognisphere-sh/cognisphere-harness/skills/. .agents/skills/`   [affects: .claude/skills/]
+
+## [0.3.14]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- gws and telegram seed prompts moved from `seed/system_prompt.md` (copied
+  to the agent dir root, where `assembleSystemPrompt` never reads) to
+  `seed/system_prompts/plugin-<id>.md` — the layout every other plugin uses.
+  Until now, neither plugin's system-prompt fragment was ever included in
+  the agent's assembled prompt. The fragments load automatically on next
+  agent start (seeds are re-copied every start).
+- gws helper files (`format-email.ts`, `format-email-lib.mjs`,
+  `format-email-lib.d.mts`) moved from loose `seed/scripts/` into the
+  namespaced `seed/scripts/gws/`; the seeded `scripts/gws/format-email` CLI
+  now imports the lib from its own directory.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- gws/telegram seed prompt renamed `system_prompt.md` → `system_prompts/plugin-<id>.md`; delete the stale, never-read `system_prompt.md` at the agent dir root   [affects: agents/*/system_prompt.md]
+- gws helper lib namespaced under `scripts/gws/`; delete the stale loose copies `format-email.ts`, `format-email-lib.mjs`, `format-email-lib.d.mts` directly under `scripts/`   [affects: agents/*/scripts/format-email*]
+
+## [0.3.13]
+
+### Added
+
+- New seeded pi extension `extensions/bash-guard.ts`: every agent `bash`
+  command now runs under `set -u`, so a `$...` inside double quotes (e.g.
+  `--text "costs $100"`, where bash silently expanded `$1` to nothing and
+  sent "costs 00") fails loudly with an `unbound variable` error instead of
+  silently corrupting CLI arguments. On that error, a quoting hint is
+  appended to the tool result so the agent self-corrects. Agents can opt
+  out per-command with `set +u`.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Base system prompt: bash tool guidelines now tell agents to single-quote
+  literal text arguments (or use a file / quoted heredoc `<<'EOF'`), and
+  document that commands run under `set -u`.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- New seeded file `extensions/bash-guard.ts`. Copy it from the new seed
+  into existing agents.   [affects: agents/*/extensions/*]
+- Bash tool guidelines section of the seeded base system prompt changed
+  (single-quoting rule, `set -u` note). Graft into existing agents'
+  `system_prompt.md`.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.3.12]
+
+### Changed
+
+- `telegram/telegram-cli`: `send-message`, `edit-message`, and `send-file`
+  captions now auto-convert standard markdown (`**bold**`, `*italic*`,
+  `` `code` ``, ``` blocks, links, headers, bullets) to Telegram HTML when
+  no `--parse-mode` is passed; markdown tables render as column-aligned
+  monospace `<pre>` blocks (Telegram has no table markup). If Telegram
+  rejects the generated HTML, the message is automatically resent as plain
+  text, so formatting can never drop a message. Explicit `--parse-mode`
+  keeps the previous raw behavior.
+- Telegram seed prompt: agents are told to write plain markdown and not
+  pass `--parse-mode`; removed the stale `--parse-mode Markdown` example.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded `scripts/telegram/telegram-cli` changed (markdown→HTML
+  auto-formatting). Existing agents keep their provisioned copies; re-copy
+  from the new seed to pick it up.   [affects: agents/*/scripts/telegram/*]
+- Telegram section of seeded system prompts changed (markdown guidance,
+  removed `--parse-mode Markdown` example). Graft into existing agents'
+  `system_prompt.md`.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.3.11]
+
+### Changed
+
+- Every seeded script now answers `-h`/`--help`: base-agent
+  `scripts/agent/{subagent,agent-browser,ddgs,markitdown}` and plugin seeds
+  `scheduler/scheduler-cli` (also bare `help`), `telegram/telegram-cli`
+  (also bare `help`), and `agent-msg/send`. The three thin wrappers print a
+  wrapper note (what they resolve, env knobs) and then forward to the
+  underlying CLI's own help; `--help` exits 0 even when the underlying
+  binary isn't installed yet. `session-reader` and `gws/format-email`
+  already had `--help` and are unchanged.
+- Fixed: `scheduler-cli --help` (or any invocation from outside the agent
+  dir) no longer aborts before printing — the state-file init ran before
+  command parsing and `set -e` killed the script when
+  `plugins/scheduler/state/` didn't exist.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Seeded scripts under `scripts/` changed (`--help` support). Existing
+  agents keep their provisioned copies; graft the edits or re-copy from the
+  new seeds to pick them up.   [affects: agents/*/scripts/*]
+
+## [0.3.10]
+
+### Added
+
+- Optional per-provider `modelOverrides` in `.secrets/models.json`
+  (`{ "<modelId>": { "contextWindow"?, "maxTokens"? } }`), layered over
+  pi-ai's built-in catalog and used for context-window reporting
+  (`lastContext.contextWindow` in the threads-list and usage endpoints —
+  an override wins over the registry). Accepted and returned by
+  `PUT/GET /api/models` (`null` per model deletes the entry). Existing
+  configs without the field are unchanged.
+
+## [0.3.9]
+
+### Changed
+
+- Base-agent template prompts: per-thread notes move to
+  `workspace/threads/<ThreadId>/` (bare ThreadId as dir name), new
+  `workspace/daily_notes/YYYY-MM-DD.md` convention, cross-thread knowledge
+  relocated from `workspace/knowledge/` to agent-root `knowledge/`, and
+  `session-reader` documented as directly executable (invoking it via `bash`
+  fails — it's a Node script).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Base template `system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md` and `0.1-main-agent.md`
+  changed (workspace layout + knowledge dir + session-reader invocation).
+  Existing agents keep their forked copies; graft the edits if you want the
+  new conventions.   [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/*]
+
+## [0.3.8]
+
+### Added
+
+- New built-in `agent-messaging` plugin (opt-in): inter-/intra-agent messaging.
+  Each enabled agent gets an HTTP inbox at
+  `/webhook/<agent>/agent-messaging/api/send` and a seeded
+  `scripts/agent-msg/send` CLI; a received note wakes the target agent on the
+  target thread (`silent` delivers for awareness only).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Upgraded `@earendil-works/pi-ai` and `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent` from
+  `^0.78.0` to `^0.80.6` (switched the static catalog read to
+  `getBuiltinModel` from `@earendil-works/pi-ai/providers/all`).
+- Plugin seed provisioning now re-asserts `chmod 755` on every file under the
+  agent's `scripts/` after copying a plugin's `seed/` tree. Seeds land after
+  `bootstrap.sh`'s exec-bit repair pass, so a seeded script that lost its exec
+  bit would otherwise stay broken until the next restart.
+
+## [0.3.6]
+
+### Changed
+
+- gws plugin: `requireAgentInTo: false` now delivers messages the agent isn't
+  addressed to (Cc/Bcc/none) **in full and wakes the agent**, instead of the
+  previous header-only silent delivery. Backlog mode is unaffected.
+
+## [0.3.5]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Agents were missing tools at runtime because the per-agent bootstrap silently
+  failed to install its dependencies. `bootstrap.sh` now:
+  - re-asserts `+x` on every shebang script under `scripts/` (a dropped exec bit
+    otherwise surfaces as a bare "Permission denied" mid-task);
+  - prechecks `ensurepip` and recreates an incomplete `.venv` (Ubuntu 26.04 /
+    Python 3.14 ships without `python3-venv`, so `python -m venv` left a
+    pip-less venv and `markitdown`/`ddgs` never installed);
+  - points the npm global prefix at `~/.npm-global` so `npm install -g` of `pi`
+    and `agent-browser` doesn't `EACCES` when bootstrap runs as the non-root app
+    user, and downloads the Chrome build `agent-browser` drives.
+- `bootstrap/requirements.txt`: pin `markitdown` to the document/audio backends
+  (`[pdf,docx,pptx,xlsx,xls,outlook,audio-transcription]`) instead of `[all]`,
+  which is uninstallable on Python 3.14 (it hard-pins `youtube-transcript-api`).
+- `scripts/agent/agent-browser`: default `AGENT_BROWSER_ARGS=--no-sandbox`
+  (overridable) so Chrome starts on hosts where unprivileged user namespaces are
+  restricted (Ubuntu 23.10+ AppArmor default, containers, VMs).
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Bootstrap rewritten for reliable dependency install (exec-bit repair, venv
+  ensurepip precheck + recreate, user-writable npm prefix, agent-browser Chrome
+  download). [affects: agents/*/bootstrap/bootstrap.sh]
+- `markitdown` extras pinned instead of `[all]` for Python 3.14 compatibility.
+  [affects: agents/*/bootstrap/requirements.txt]
+- `agent-browser` wrapper defaults to `--no-sandbox`.
+  [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/agent-browser]
+
+## [0.3.4]
+
+### Added
+
+- gws plugin: new `requireAgentInTo` config flag (default `true`, the previous
+  behavior). When `false`, the latest message of a matching thread is delivered
+  even when the agent's address is not in its `To` header — silently (no wake)
+  unless the agent is in `To`. Ignored in backlog mode.
+- gws seeded CLI `scripts/gws/format-email`: new `--strip-quotes` flag drops
+  quoted reply history from a body (most clients quote the whole conversation
+  below each reply), printing only the message's own text.
+- gws seeded CLI: new `--list` mode accepts a Gmail *Thread* JSON (from
+  `gws gmail users threads get`, `format: "metadata"` suffices) and prints
+  per-message metadata (id, from, date, snippet) so agents can skim a thread
+  cheaply and then fetch only the messages they need. The seeded
+  `system_prompt.md` documents the explore-then-fetch workflow.
+
+### Changed
+
+- gws plugin: the ingestion filter no longer re-checks the `UNREAD` label on a
+  thread's latest message — unread filtering is delegated entirely to the
+  configured `gmailQuery` (default `is:unread in:inbox`).
+- gws plugin: Gmail message decoding (body extraction, quote stripping,
+  attachment fetch, timestamp formatting) is deduplicated into a single shared
+  module, `seed/scripts/format-email-lib.mjs`, imported by both the plugin
+  runtime and the seeded `scripts/gws/format-email` CLI (which previously
+  carried its own copy of the logic).
+
+### Fixed
+
+- gws seeded CLI: the documented `--timezone` flag was parsed but never used —
+  the header block now includes the `TimeStamp:` line, matching the shape of
+  `email_received` notifications as documented.
+
+## [0.3.3]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Sub-agents could receive a single task brief as dozens of phantom one-word
+  messages. The `subagent` wrapper passed the brief as a positional argv entry,
+  and `pi -p` treats every positional as a separate user turn. A literal
+  unescaped quote inside the brief (e.g. a pasted email body like
+  `Message: "Hi Chris, ..."`) let the shell word-split the single intended arg
+  into many argv entries, each replayed as its own message. The wrapper now
+  routes the brief to `pi` on **stdin** (`pi -p` reads its prompt from stdin
+  when no positional message is given), so quoting inside the brief can no
+  longer fan out into phantom turns. Flags still pass through argv verbatim and
+  the caller interface is unchanged (`subagent "<brief>" --flags`).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Base prompt now tells agents to keep `workspace/` for what must persist:
+  write intermediate/throwaway files under `/tmp` (or delete them), and don't
+  copy plugin inbox input files into `workspace/` unless they genuinely need to
+  outlive the inbox.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `subagent` wrapper now passes the task brief to `pi` on stdin instead of as a
+  positional argument. [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/subagent]
+- Base prompt adds workspace-hygiene guidance (intermediate files to `/tmp`;
+  don't copy inbox inputs into `workspace/` unless persisting).
+  [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md]
+
+## [0.3.2]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Sub-agents lost their system prompt on resume (`-c`/`--continue`). The
+  `subagent` wrapper skipped re-injecting the base + sub-agent-role prompt on
+  continue, assuming pi had persisted it — but pi never writes the system
+  prompt to the session JSONL, so resumed sub-agents fell back to pi's default
+  identity. The wrapper now concatenates `0-base_prompt.md` +
+  `sub-agent-prompt.md` into a single `--system-prompt` value (replace, not
+  `--append-system-prompt`, so pi's default doesn't leak in) and sets it on
+  every call including `-c`. The task-specific brief now goes in the **message**
+  (positional arg) instead of `--system-prompt`, so it lives in session history
+  and survives re-invocation. The main-agent prompt was updated to match.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- `subagent` wrapper rewrites system-prompt handling: concatenates base +
+  sub-agent role into one `--system-prompt`, set on every call (incl. `-c`).
+  [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/subagent]
+- Main-agent prompt now instructs putting the sub-agent task brief in the
+  message, never passing `--system-prompt`.
+  [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0.1-main-agent.md]
+
+## [0.3.1]
+
+### Added
+
+- On first start the server prompts for an admin username/password when
+  `.secrets/users.json` is missing or still holds the `admin/changeme`
+  placeholder and stdin is a TTY, writing the file `0600`. Under systemd (no
+  TTY) it logs a warning and falls back to the placeholder so boot still
+  succeeds. (`ensureCredentials` in `api/auth.ts`, wired in `core/main.ts`.)
+
+## [0.3.0]
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Base-agent system prompt split into three role-scoped parts** to remove the
+  duplication that arose when sub-agents were handed a hand-copied harness
+  prompt:
+  - `0-base_prompt.md` is now the **shared base** — the operating manual (tools,
+    files, workspace, sessions, web, browser) common to every agent. It no
+    longer carries agent identity or main-agent-only framing.
+  - `0.1-main-agent.md` (new) holds the **main-agent-only** role: threads,
+    plugins, message metadata, the communication model, and the guide on how to
+    spawn sub-agents (merged in from the old `0.1-subagents.md`).
+  - `scripts/agent/sub-agent-prompt.md` (new) holds the **sub-agent-only** role
+    ("stdout is your return value", include all relevant info, ask when the
+    brief is ambiguous, stay scoped). It lives outside `system_prompts/` so it
+    never leaks into the main agent's concatenated prompt.
+- The `scripts/agent/subagent` wrapper now appends the base prompt + sub-agent
+  prompt to every fresh sub-agent via `--append-system-prompt` (skipped on
+  `-c`/`--continue`). Sub-agents get the same harness context as the main agent
+  on top of the parent's task brief, so the parent's `--system-prompt` only
+  needs to carry the task-specific brief.
+- Agent identity (`AgentId`, `AgentName`) moved out of the base prompt into the
+  hand-written `1-agent.md` persona. The only remaining sed-baked `{{var}}`
+  (`Timezone`) is now baked into `0.1-main-agent.md`.
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+- Base prompt repurposed and identity removed: `0-base_prompt.md` is now the
+  shared base context only; agent identity moves to the `1-agent.md` persona.
+  [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0-base_prompt.md, agents/*/system_prompts/1-agent.md]
+- New main-agent-only prompt; `0.1-subagents.md` removed (its content merged in).
+  [affects: agents/*/system_prompts/0.1-main-agent.md, agents/*/system_prompts/0.1-subagents.md]
+- New sub-agent-only role prompt, appended to sub-agents by the wrapper.
+  [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/sub-agent-prompt.md]
+- `subagent` wrapper updated to append the base + sub-agent prompts on fresh spawns.
+  [affects: agents/*/scripts/agent/subagent]
+
+## [0.2.1]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Core plugins (`admin`, `scheduler`) are now always started on every agent,
+  unioned with any user-installed plugins — previously a freshly scaffolded
+  agent loaded no plugins at all (the operator-chat `admin` channel included),
+  since the base-agent template ships no `plugins/` dir. Single source of truth
+  is `CORE_PLUGIN_IDS` in `core/plugin-registry.ts`.
+- `bootstrap.sh` now runs automatically on every agent start (`runBootstrap`
+  in `startAgent`, before the runner spawns) — provisions system deps + the
+  per-agent `.venv` so the runner can activate it. Idempotent, awaited, and
+  failure-tolerant (logged, never sinks the agent); no-op when the agent ships
+  no `bootstrap/bootstrap.sh`. Cost: first boot blocks on `pip install`.
+- Plugin `seed/` provisioning: on plugin start, a plugin's `seed/` tree is
+  recursively copied into the agent dir (mirrors the agent layout —
+  `system_prompts/plugin-<id>.md`, `scripts/<id>/…`), so the agent actually
+  receives each plugin's system-prompt fragment and helper CLIs (e.g. the
+  scheduler's `scheduler-cli`). Previously the seed content was never copied,
+  so those prompts/scripts never reached the agent.
+- `cognisphere init` now pre-approves `better-sqlite3` in the scaffolded
+  `package.json` (`pnpm.onlyBuiltDependencies`), so `pnpm install` builds its
+  native addon instead of silently skipping it (which crashed agent boot with
+  "Could not locate the bindings file").
+
+## [0.2.0]
+
+### Added
+
+- **`cognisphere` CLI** (`packages/harness/src/cli/`, bin shim `bin/cognisphere.mjs`):
+  `init`, `agent new`, `plugin add`, `dev`, `serve`, `up`/`logs`/`status`
+  (systemd user services), and `upgrade`. `dev` runs the backend (watch) and,
+  in the monorepo, the Vite dev server (HMR) together (`--port`/`--web-port`/
+  `--no-web`); `serve` takes `--port` and `--headless` (mount no web UI —
+  backend-only deploy, via `COGNISPHERE_HEADLESS`). See
+  [`docs/distribution-and-deployment.md`](docs/distribution-and-deployment.md) §10.
+- **Publishable package.** `@cognisphere-sh/cognisphere-harness` ships a `bin`, a
+  `files` allowlist, `publishConfig` (GitHub Packages), and a `prepack` step that
+  bundles the built web UI (`dist-web/`) and the root `CHANGELOG.md` into the
+  package. `tsx` is now a runtime dependency.
+- **`harness.json.version`** — the data/migration version stamp, written by
+  `cognisphere init` and surfaced over `GET /api/harness`. Additive and optional;
+  existing harnesses read it as `""`.
+- **Upgrade & deploy skills** (`.claude/skills/cognisphere-{upgrade,deploy}/`).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Repository restructured into a pnpm workspace with two packages:
+  `packages/harness` (`@cognisphere-sh/cognisphere-harness` — backend; all
+  TypeScript source under `src/` (`core/`, `api/`, `cli/`, `plugins/`,
+  `base-agent/`), with `bin/` + `scripts/` at the package root) and
+  `packages/web` (the React UI). Tooling moved to pnpm; `pnpm check` runs
+  typecheck + lint across both packages. No on-disk harness artifacts are
+  affected — this is a source-layout change only.
+
+## [0.1.0]
+
+- Initial version.