@yemi33/minions 0.1.421 → 0.1.422

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## 0.1.421 (2026-04-06)
+## 0.1.422 (2026-04-06)
 
 ### Features
+-  configurable version check interval, default 1 hour
 - Dashboard robustness — raw string fixes, plan steering clarity, safeWrite race fix
 - Low-priority cleanup: dedupe regex, consolidate streaming parse, add path validation alignment
 - Fix 6 medium bugs: dispatch pruning, null guards, skill regex, meeting advancement, CLI PID check, pipeline retry

package/dashboard.js

@@ -169,15 +169,17 @@ function getVerifyGuides() {
 function getArchivedPrds() { return []; }
 function getEngineState() { return queries.getControl(); }
 
-// ── npm update check (cached for 4 hours) ──────────────────────────────────
+// ── npm update check ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 let _npmVersionCache = null;
 let _npmVersionCacheTs = 0;
-const NPM_CHECK_INTERVAL = 4 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // 4 hours
+function _getVersionCheckInterval() {
+  try { return queries.getConfig()?.engine?.versionCheckInterval || shared.ENGINE_DEFAULTS.versionCheckInterval; } catch { return shared.ENGINE_DEFAULTS.versionCheckInterval; }
+}
 const PKG_NAME = '@yemi33/minions';
 
 async function checkNpmVersion() {
   const now = Date.now();
-  if (_npmVersionCache && (now - _npmVersionCacheTs) < NPM_CHECK_INTERVAL) return _npmVersionCache;
+  if (_npmVersionCache && (now - _npmVersionCacheTs) < _getVersionCheckInterval()) return _npmVersionCache;
   try {
     // Use npm view — respects user's .npmrc proxy/registry config
     // Must use shell:true on Windows because npm is a .cmd batch script
@@ -210,7 +212,7 @@ function _compareVersions(a, b) {
 
 // Kick off first npm check on startup, then re-check every 4 hours
 checkNpmVersion().catch(() => {});
-setInterval(() => checkNpmVersion().catch(() => {}), NPM_CHECK_INTERVAL);
+setInterval(() => checkNpmVersion().catch(() => {}), _getVersionCheckInterval());
 
 // Cache disk version + git commit (only changes on deploy/pull, not per-request)
 let _diskVersionCache = null;

package/engine/shared.js

@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ const ENGINE_DEFAULTS = {
   maxRetries: 3, // max dispatch retries before marking work item as failed
   pipelineApiRetries: 2, // max attempts for pipeline API calls
   pipelineApiRetryDelay: 2000, // ms delay between pipeline API retries
+  versionCheckInterval: 3600000, // 1 hour — how often to check npm for updates (ms)
 };
 
 // ─── Status & Type Constants ─────────────────────────────────────────────────

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@yemi33/minions",
-  "version": "0.1.421",
+  "version": "0.1.422",
   "description": "Multi-agent AI dev team that runs from ~/.minions/ — five autonomous agents share a single engine, dashboard, and knowledge base",
   "bin": {
     "minions": "bin/minions.js"