@detergent-software/conductor 1.0.0-dev.28 → 1.0.0-dev.29

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 Releases are tagged `conductor-v<version>` and staged on npm by `atk-conductor-release` (`pipelines/release-conductor.yml`), which writes each section below. `scripts/check-changelog.mjs` fails when a tag has no section here.
 
+## [1.0.0-dev.29](https://emergentcode.visualstudio.com/Emergent%20Software/_git/Emergent.AgenticToolkit/branchCompare?baseVersion=GTconductor-v1.0.0-dev.28&targetVersion=GTconductor-v1.0.0-dev.29) (2026-10-12)
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **conductor:** drop the mod's status line from every session (ATK-388) ([b87cba2](https://emergentcode.visualstudio.com/Emergent%20Software/_git/Emergent.AgenticToolkit/commit/b87cba2bd91e3bf9029513300b8b9260423e211b))
+
 ## [1.0.0-dev.28](https://emergentcode.visualstudio.com/Emergent%20Software/_git/Emergent.AgenticToolkit/branchCompare?baseVersion=GTconductor-v1.0.0-dev.27&targetVersion=GTconductor-v1.0.0-dev.28) (2026-10-12)
 
 ### Bug Fixes

package/README.md

@@ -454,8 +454,8 @@ It runs `claude -n conductor --permission-mode auto -- /conductor-console` with
 
 `mod/` is the conductor mod: a Claude Code plugin (a hooks module, code that costs no tokens) that does the console's plumbing. `conduct install-mod` installs it for this user from the package's own `mod/` folder, as a folder marketplace (`claude plugin install conductor --marketplace <package>/mod --scope user`). Claude Code reads a folder marketplace's plugin in place, so `conduct upgrade` replaces the mod along with the daemon; open sessions load the new version with `/reload-plugins`. `--remove` uninstalls it.
 
-- **Every session** shows a status line, `conductor 3▶ 2⏸ ✉2` (running, parked, inbox), from `GET /fleet` and `GET /inbox` every 30 s. It clears while no daemon answers.
-- **The console**, the session started with `CONDUCTOR_CONSOLE=1` (`conduct console` starts it; see Console), also gets:
+- **Other sessions** get nothing from it: no status line, and no calls to the daemon.
+- **The console**, the session started with `CONDUCTOR_CONSOLE=1` (`conduct console` starts it; see Console), reads `GET /fleet`, `GET /inbox` and `GET /notify` every 30 s and gets:
   - **the band** above the prompt while the inbox has items: one hotkey per item (a plan approves after a second press, `y`, since a digit typed into an empty prompt presses a band button; an npm OTP copies its `npm stage approve` line; the rest open the pane), and `o` for the pane;
   - **the pane** (`/conductor`, `o`, or opened at the start, docked as a sidebar on a fullscreen terminal of 144 columns or more): the notification profile (a picker; buttons on mobile) and Remote Control's state, the inbox with each item's actions (approve, revise, copy a command, open a link, done), the workers by project (each project's rule has [pause] and [focus]; a row expands to attach and why), and today's spend;
   - **commands answered in code**, never by the model: `/conductor`, `/inbox`, `/approve <item | #id>`, `/revise <item | #id> <text>`, `/attach <item | worker>`, `/notify [<profile> [--until <when>]]`, `/pause [<project>] [--until <when>]`, `/unpause [<project>]`, `/focus-project <project> [--until <when>]` (puts its items first, until midnight without `--until`; not `/focus`, which is Claude Code's own);

package/build/cli.js

@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ const USAGE = `Usage: conduct <command>
   install-startup           start the daemon at logon (Windows Task Scheduler)
   install-startup --remove  remove that logon task
   install-mod               install the conductor mod in Claude Code (user scope) from this package:
-                            the status line in every session, the inbox band, pane and commands in
-                            the console (a session started with CONDUCTOR_CONSOLE=1)
+                            the inbox band, pane and commands in the console (a session started
+                            with CONDUCTOR_CONSOLE=1)
   install-mod --remove      uninstall it
   upgrade [--tag dev|latest] stop the daemon, npm install the newest version on the tag (default:
                             the tag the installed version came from), start the daemon again

package/mod/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "conductor",
   "version": "1.0.0",
-  "description": "The conductor console's plumbing: a status line in every session, and in the console the inbox band, the fleet pane, zero-token commands, Remote Control pushes and escalation wake-ups.",
+  "description": "The conductor console's plumbing: the inbox band, the fleet pane, zero-token commands, Remote Control pushes and escalation wake-ups.",
   "author": { "name": "Emergent Software" },
   "types": "./types/index.d.ts"
 }

package/mod/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Conductor mod
 
-A Claude Code plugin (a hooks module) that does the conductor console's plumbing in code, so it costs no tokens: a status line in every session and, in the console (`CONDUCTOR_CONSOLE=1`), the inbox band, the fleet pane, `/conductor` `/inbox` `/approve` `/revise` `/attach` `/notify` `/pause` `/unpause` `/focus-project`, toasts, Remote Control pushes (and the one warning when Remote Control is off), and the one model wake-up for an escalation. What it shows and does is in the conductor README's *Mod* section (`apps/conductor/README.md`).
+A Claude Code plugin (a hooks module) that does the conductor console's plumbing in code, so it costs no tokens. Only the console (`CONDUCTOR_CONSOLE=1`) gets anything from it: the inbox band, the fleet pane, `/conductor` `/inbox` `/approve` `/revise` `/attach` `/notify` `/pause` `/unpause` `/focus-project`, toasts, Remote Control pushes (and the one warning when Remote Control is off), and the one model wake-up for an escalation. What it shows and does is in the conductor README's *Mod* section (`apps/conductor/README.md`).
 
 Install it with the daemon's CLI, which ships this folder:
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ conduct install-mod
 | File | Holds |
 |---|---|
 | `hooks/register.tsx` | the hooks: session start, commands, the band, the pane, the event stream; only its top-level functions take `$` |
-| `hooks/model.ts` | the logic without the engine: parsing the daemon's answers, what the status line, band and pane show, what each event asks for |
+| `hooks/model.ts` | the logic without the engine: parsing the daemon's answers, what the band and pane show, what each event asks for |
 | `types/index.d.ts` | the `$.state` contract (`conductor.snapshot`, `confirming`, `expanded`) |
 | `tests/conductor.test.tsx` | `claude plugin test`: the hooks against the engine, the daemon faked beneath them |
 | `tests/model.spec.ts` | vitest (`pnpm -C apps/conductor test`, in CI): `model.ts` |

package/mod/hooks/model.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // The conductor mod's logic, with nothing of the engine in it: what the daemon's answers mean, what
-// the status line, band and pane show, and what each event asks the mod to do. register.tsx does
+// the band and pane show, and what each event asks the mod to do. register.tsx does
 // the engine's part (only its top-level functions may take `$`); vitest tests this file in CI
 // (apps/conductor/mod/tests/model.spec.ts).
 import type { ConductorInboxItem, ConductorNotify, ConductorSnapshot, ConductorWorker } from '../types';
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export type Found<T> = { error: string; found?: undefined } | { error?: undefine
 
 const BAND_LIMIT = 5;
 
-// `conductor 3▶ 2⏸ ✉2`, or undefined (the line cleared) when no daemon answers.
+// `conductor 3▶ 2⏸ ✉2` for the pane's title, or undefined when no daemon answers.
 export function statusText(snapshot: ConductorSnapshot | null): string | undefined {
   if (snapshot === null || snapshot.error !== null) return undefined;
   const running = snapshot.workers.filter((w) => w.status === 'running').length;

package/mod/hooks/register.tsx

@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ import {
 
 const PANE = 'conductor';
 const TITLE = 'Conductor';
-// Every session reads /fleet and /inbox this often for the status line; the console also follows
-// the event stream, so this is its safety net and what re-ages its rows.
+// The console reads /fleet and /inbox this often. It also follows the event stream, so this is its
+// safety net and what re-ages its rows.
 const POLL_MS = 30_000;
 const DEBOUNCE_MS = 300;
 const RESTART_MS = 5_000;
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ async function callApi($: EngineInterface, method: 'GET' | 'POST', path: string,
   return { body: parsed, status: answer.status };
 }
 
-// Reads /fleet, /inbox and /notify into the state the drawings read, and the status line.
+// Reads /fleet, /inbox and /notify into the state the drawings read.
 async function refresh($: EngineInterface): Promise<ConductorSnapshot> {
   const readAt = await $.clock.now();
   let next: ConductorSnapshot;
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ async function refresh($: EngineInterface): Promise<ConductorSnapshot> {
     next = { error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error), inbox: [], notify: null, readAt, workers: [] };
   }
   await update($, snapshot, () => next);
-  $.ui.status(statusText(next));
   return next;
 }
 
@@ -138,7 +137,6 @@ async function onLine($: EngineInterface, text: string): Promise<void> {
       case 'disconnected': {
         const readAt = await $.clock.now();
         await update($, snapshot, () => ({ error: NOT_RUNNING, inbox: [], notify: null, readAt, workers: [] }));
-        $.ui.status(undefined);
         return;
       }
       case 'escalate':
@@ -307,9 +305,9 @@ export const register: Register = (on) => {
     const started = await next(e);
     if (!e.isInteractive) return started;
     isConsole = (await $.env.get('CONDUCTOR_CONSOLE')) === '1';
+    if (!isConsole) return started;
     $.clock.every(POLL_MS, () => void refresh($));
     await refresh($);
-    if (!isConsole) return started;
     await registerCommands($);
     void follow($);
     // Docked as a sidebar on a wide fullscreen terminal; below that it waits until opened.

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@detergent-software/conductor",
-	"version": "1.0.0-dev.28",
+	"version": "1.0.0-dev.29",
 	"description": "Conductor: the local daemon that runs conducted projects' work loops (conduct serve) and its conduct CLI.",
 	"type": "module",
 	"bin": {