mixdog 0.9.160 → 0.9.162

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 # NOTICE
 
-Mixdog itself is MIT-licensed (see `LICENSE`). The sections below cover the
+Mixdog
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+Mixdog itself is licensed under Apache-2.0 (see `LICENSE`). The sections below cover the
 third-party code and data that Mixdog actually carries, kept here in one place
 so the individual source files stay free of scattered attribution comments.
 
@@ -115,5 +118,5 @@ the derived files. Full license text: `LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt`
 
 The Windows password importer is a separate process built from the
 pinned source and Mixdog wrapper recorded in
-`LICENSES/browser-import-NOTICE.txt`. It is not linked into the MIT desktop
+`LICENSES/browser-import-NOTICE.txt`. It is not linked into the Apache-2.0 desktop
 application. Its complete GPL text ships beside the two native executables.

package/README.md

@@ -2,19 +2,33 @@
 
 [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/mixdog)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/mixdog)
 ![node](https://img.shields.io/badge/node-%3E%3D22-brightgreen)
-![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue)
-
-## Better results. Less cost. More work.
-
-Mixdog is an efficiency-first AI coding harness designed to deliver equal or
-better performance with less context, time, and cost—so you can complete more
-work within the same API budget or subscription quota.
-
-With simple setup and an intuitive UX, Mixdog makes powerful orchestration,
-parallel tasks, and seamless work across terminal, desktop, and web accessible
-to everyone—from beginners to experts.
-
-**The easiest way to get more out of every coding model.**
+![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)
+
+## The most efficient harness. The easiest way to use it.
+
+Mixdog's goal is simple: make the most efficient AI coding harness the
+easiest to use. Get more work done with the same model and budget, without
+needing to become an expert in agent infrastructure.
+
+That means more than an easy first run. Advanced capabilities should be easy
+to access, configure, and manage as your work grows—from choosing a model
+to coordinating agents and shaping your own workflows.
+
+- **Efficiency that turns into more work.** Cache-aware context, focused
+  tools, and compaction reduce overhead so more of your budget goes toward
+  the task. The same-model Terminal-Bench comparisons below show comparable
+  or better results with less context and lower priced cost.
+- **Advanced capabilities, within easy reach.** Guided setup and visual
+  controls help you assign models by role, configure workflows, and work
+  with parallel agent sessions without building your own agent stack.
+- **Simple to manage. Flexible when you need it.** Manage providers, agents,
+  workflows, and extensions in one app. Customize agent definitions and
+  operating rules, or add skills, MCP servers, hooks, and plugins as needed.
+
+Use supported subscription accounts, API keys, or Mixdog's built-in Local Provider.
+Take the same agent beyond code into browsers, Windows apps, documents,
+images, and video—and continue live sessions across terminal, Desktop,
+and a paired browser on your computer or phone.
 
 ## Get started
 
@@ -31,7 +45,11 @@ security warning.
 
 ### CLI
 
-Requires Node.js >= 22.
+Requires Node.js 22.19+ (22.x) or 24+.
+
+CLI native assets support Windows x64, macOS x64/ARM64, and Linux x64/ARM64.
+Windows ARM64 Node.js is not supported. On ARM Windows, use x64 Node.js under
+Windows x64 emulation; native ARM64 installation is not available.
 
 ```bash
 npm install -g mixdog
@@ -67,13 +85,14 @@ for far less cost.
 - **79/89** vs Claude Code's **77/89**
 - **1.16×** faster — 610s vs 708s wall time per trial
 
-Every run uses the official Harbor verifier, fast mode off, and a 272k context
-window; task failures and agent timeouts are never retried. The Sol comparison
+These published runs use the official Harbor verifier with fast mode off;
+task failures and agent timeouts are never retried. The Sol comparison
 follows the protocol the official Terminal-Bench leaderboard requires on both
 sides — all 89 tasks repeated five times (`k=5`, 445 trials each); the
 Opus-side runs are single passes (`k=1`, 89 trials each). Speed is the full
 trial wall clock, and cost values both sides at the same current API list
-rates.
+rates, not actual subscription charges or invoices. These are measurements of
+the pinned source revision, not a new benchmark of every subsequent release.
 
 The leaderboard is not accepting community submissions, so every run here ships
 its raw artifacts instead — Harbor verdicts, official verifier output, pinned
@@ -81,28 +100,60 @@ task checksums, and the usage snapshots behind every cost figure — alongside
 the harness, presets, and metric scripts that recompute each number above:
 [`benchmarks/terminal-bench-2.1/`](benchmarks/terminal-bench-2.1/).
 
-## Highlights
-
-- **Multi-provider routing** — assign different providers and models by role.
-- **Shared live sessions** — move between the TUI, desktop windows, and paired
-  browsers without starting a second copy of the session.
-- **Efficient context** — cache-aware prompts, compaction, resumable sessions,
-  and focused repo-native tools.
-- **Complete coding surface** — read, search, edit, test, review, web search,
-  MCP, skills, hooks, and plugins.
-- **Local memory** — semantic and lexical recall with project-scoped context
-  and multilingual retrieval.
-- **Browser Use** — a logged-in Chromium pane the agent can drive: tabs,
-  forms, downloads, and snapshots, with one-time Chrome profile import
-  including cookies and passwords.
-- **Computer Use** — agent control of the Windows desktop through screen
-  capture, accessibility, OCR, and a strict guarded input contract.
-- **Office documents** — author and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files
-  with model-authored design plans, charts, and assurance-checked output.
-- **Encrypted remote access** — pair the installable web app with Desktop and
-  use Mixdog from a browser or phone over authenticated E2EE.
-- **Desktop coding app** — agent panes, Monaco editor, Git, terminals, file
-  explorer, Studio, automation, voice input, and settings in one app.
+## What you can do
+
+### Build, test, and review
+
+Search repositories with text and symbol-aware tools, edit files, run tests
+and background commands, and review changes. Desktop brings the agent together
+with a Monaco editor, Git, terminals, and a file explorer. Use workflows and
+role-specific models to organize work, and extend the toolset with MCP
+servers, skills, hooks, and plugins.
+
+The GitHub integration manages repositories, issues, pull requests and reviews,
+Actions, releases, and notifications. Source Control commits use a manually
+entered summary and optional description; there is no built-in AI commit-message
+generator. See [Git & GitHub](docs/git-github-integration.md) for supported
+operations and permission requirements.
+
+### Keep longer work moving
+
+Resume saved chats, recall prior work through local semantic and lexical
+search, and retain project-scoped preferences across sessions. Compaction
+keeps long conversations manageable. For an explicitly requested longer-running
+objective, **Goals** track completion conditions and tasks, support time limits
+and automatic continuation, and let you pause or resume the work.
+
+### Work beyond the repository
+
+- **Browser Use** — operate signed-in Chromium pages, forms, tabs, and
+  downloads. On Windows, import a Chrome profile, including cookies and
+  passwords; cookie and password import require administrator approval and
+  a build with the native importer. Session cookies are encrypted with the
+  OS keychain and restored on launch when encryption is available.
+  Developer controls share the same pages and sign-in through
+  `browser_devtools`.
+- **Computer Use on Windows** — operate native apps through accessibility,
+  screenshots, OCR, keyboard, and pointer input with guarded execution.
+- **Documents** — create and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, work
+  with PDFs, and inspect rendered previews and document quality checks.
+- **Image and video Studio** — generate and edit images, generate short video
+  clips, and keep the results in a persistent local gallery. Continue a clip
+  by using its last frame as the reference for a new generation; this carries
+  over the pose, not the original motion or camera trajectory. Available
+  models and controls depend on your signed-in provider routes.
+
+Browser Use and Computer Use are opt-in capabilities. In interactive sessions,
+each asks for approval before its first live call by default; approval covers
+the rest of that session, and a restart asks again. Headless and agent-owned
+sessions without an approval UI are not gated by this first-use prompt.
+
+### Continue from another screen
+
+Desktop, TUI, and paired browsers share live sessions rather than starting
+independent copies. The installable remote web app connects to Desktop over
+authenticated end-to-end encryption, so you can follow and continue work from
+a computer or phone.
 
 ## Providers
 
@@ -110,17 +161,30 @@ Mixdog supports subscription OAuth and API-key routes, including:
 
 - Anthropic API keys and Claude account OAuth
 - OpenAI API keys and ChatGPT/Codex account OAuth
-- Google Gemini and Antigravity OAuth
+- Google Gemini API keys and Antigravity OAuth
 - xAI API keys and Grok account OAuth
 - OpenRouter API keys and its unified model catalog
 - Experimental Cursor account OAuth
 - DeepSeek and OpenCode Go
-- OpenAI-compatible APIs
-- Ollama and LM Studio
+- Mixdog's built-in Local Provider
 
 The model picker combines live provider catalogs with model metadata for
 context limits, pricing, tool support, reasoning, and recency.
 
+The supported provider list above is not an arbitrary OpenAI-compatible
+endpoint registry. The former Ollama and LM Studio routes have been retired.
+
+### Local Provider
+
+Download and run models directly in Mixdog, without managing a separate model
+server. The managed runtime currently requires **Windows x64 and an NVIDIA
+GPU**, with enough VRAM for the selected model.
+
+Ask in chat to add a local model; Mixdog checks your hardware and guides
+installation. **Extensions → Plugin → Local Provider** manages installed
+models, download progress and resumption, and automatic unloading when idle.
+Installed models are available through the `mixdog-local` provider.
+
 ## Run
 
 ```bash
@@ -136,7 +200,7 @@ mixdog --workflow solo
 # Use read-only tools
 mixdog --readonly
 
-# Enable remote and channel features
+# Enable remote mode
 mixdog --remote
 
 # Run onboarding again
@@ -148,7 +212,9 @@ Run `mixdog --help` for the complete option reference.
 ## Headless exec
 
 `mixdog exec` runs one non-interactive, single-model session with ephemeral
-configuration. It requires an explicit provider and model:
+configuration and no agent delegation. It requires an explicit provider and
+model. It does not load the host's behavioral configuration, personal memory,
+prior sessions, user profile, skills, MCP servers, or plugins:
 
 ```bash
 mixdog exec --provider anthropic-oauth --model claude-opus-5 "fix the failing test"
@@ -156,17 +222,21 @@ mixdog exec --provider openai-oauth --model gpt-5.6-sol --effort xhigh --fast "r
 mixdog exec --provider openai-oauth --model gpt-5.6-sol --json "fix the failing test"
 ```
 
-Web search and memory are disabled by default in headless runs. Enable them
-per run when needed:
+Web search and page retrieval are disabled by default. Enable them per run
+when needed:
 
 ```bash
 mixdog exec --provider openai-oauth --model gpt-5.6-sol --web-search "research this issue"
-mixdog exec --provider openai-oauth --model gpt-5.6-sol --memory "continue the previous work"
 ```
 
-Without `--web-search`, shell child processes use an offline network policy
-while loopback remains available. `--json` emits timestamped JSONL events to
-stdout; diagnostics remain on stderr.
+Disabling web search does **not** block ordinary shell networking: package
+managers, Git clients, and other commands can still access the network.
+Headless exec is not an offline sandbox.
+
+`--memory`, `--workflow`, `--readonly`, `--remote`, and `--onboarding` are not
+supported by `mixdog exec`. Use an interactive session for personal memory and
+saved-work continuation. `--json` emits timestamped JSONL events to stdout;
+diagnostics remain on stderr.
 
 ## TUI commands
 
@@ -174,11 +244,13 @@ stdout; diagnostics remain on stderr.
 /clear        start a fresh chat
 /project      switch the current project
 /resume       resume a saved chat
+/inherit      carry this conversation into a new session on the current model
 /compact      compact older conversation context
+/goal         start, inspect, pause, or resume a durable session Goal
 /autoclear    manage idle-time context clearing
 /context      inspect the current context surface
 /usage        show provider quota and balance
-/providers    configure authentication and local endpoints
+/providers    configure provider authentication
 /model        choose the main provider and model
 /websearch    choose the web search route
 /workflow     choose the active workflow
@@ -192,7 +264,7 @@ stdout; diagnostics remain on stderr.
 /skills       choose a skill for the next request
 /plugins      manage local plugin integrations
 /setting      open runtime settings
-/profile      set your title and response language
+/profile      set your title, development experience, and response language
 /update       check for updates
 /doctor       diagnose installation health
 /quit         quit the TUI
@@ -202,38 +274,59 @@ Workflows and agents are Markdown definition packs (`WORKFLOW.md`, `AGENT.md`).
 Built-in packs ship with Mixdog; custom packs live under the Mixdog data
 directory.
 
+**Solo** is the default workflow: the Lead does the work without delegating.
+Choose **Cowork** (`mixdog --workflow default`) for parallel agent delegation.
+Running multiple independent Desktop sessions is separate from delegating
+work to agents within one session.
+
+To start a time-bounded Goal, for example:
+
+```text
+/goal Fix the failing tests --time 1h
+/goal status
+/goal pause
+/goal resume
+```
+
 ## Desktop app
 
-Mixdog Desktop runs the same agent runtime as the CLI:
+Mixdog Desktop runs the same agent runtime as the CLI. In the **Sessions**
+panel, choose **New task** for agent work or **New Studio** for image and video
+work. The **Projects** panel has **Project** and **Workflow** tabs for managing
+repositories, workflow packs, and agent definitions.
+
+The workspace includes:
 
 - Split panes for parallel, independently routed agent sessions
 - Live session handoff between the TUI, desktop windows, and paired browsers
 - Monaco editor, LSP integration, diffs, and turn-by-turn edit review
-- Git staging, commits, branches, and generated commit messages
+- Git staging, commits with manually entered messages, and branches
+- GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, reviews, Actions, releases,
+  and notifications
 - File explorer with previews, thumbnails, search, and drag-and-drop
 - Integrated terminal tabs using the local system shell
-- Browser Use pane with agent control and Chromium profile import
+- Browser Use pane with agent control and Chrome profile import on Windows
 - Computer Use on Windows with guarded native input
-- Office document authoring with rendered previews
+- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF tools with rendered previews
 - Image and video generation Studio with a persistent local gallery
-- Visual workflow, agent, schedule, and webhook editors
+- Visual workflow, agent, schedule, and webhook editors, plus session Goal
+  progress and controls
 - Voice dictation with an optional local transcription runtime
-- Extensions hub with guided setup for Git, Memory, Browser Use, Computer
-  Use, Office, and voice
+- Extensions hub with guided setup for Git & GitHub, Memory, Browser Use,
+  Computer Use, Office, Local Provider, and voice
 - Provider setup, usage, git identity, and remote pairing settings
 
+In **Extensions**, the **Plugin** tab manages integrations and built-in
+capabilities; the **Skill** tab lets you add and manage skills and MCP servers.
+Language servers start on demand when installed locally or on your system;
+Mixdog does not download them automatically. See
+[language server setup](docs/language-servers.md).
+
 The paired remote web app is installable on desktop and mobile browsers. It
 uses an authenticated end-to-end encrypted connection before session state,
 terminal data, files, or operation requests cross the relay, and adds mobile
 share-target intake, push notifications, and remote Browser Use.
 
-For desktop development:
-
-```bash
-cd apps/desktop
-npm run dev
-```
-
 ## Data and configuration
 
 Mixdog uses `~/.mixdog` as its home root and `~/.mixdog/data` for runtime data
@@ -259,11 +352,27 @@ npm start
 
 npm run smoke
 npm run smoke:all
-npm run test:tool-contracts
+npm test                       # discovered fast-lane tests
+npm test -- src/runtime/memory  # narrow to one path
+npm run test:slow              # *.slow.test.mjs
+npm run test:live              # built-artifact or live-system checks
 npm run build:tui
 npm run audit:models
 ```
 
+For desktop development, install the root dependencies above, then:
+
+```bash
+cd apps/desktop
+npm install
+npm run dev
+```
+
+Both packages discover `*.test.mjs` and `*-test.mjs` under their `src/` and
+`scripts/` directories. Fast, slow, and live tests run in separate lanes;
+live checks need their corresponding built artifacts or services. See
+[testing practices](docs/testing.md) for details.
+
 Main directories:
 
 ```text
@@ -273,9 +382,10 @@ apps/relay/     remote web app and relay
 native/         native process, search, patch, and support binaries
 scripts/        tests, diagnostics, benchmarks, and build scripts
 benchmarks/     reproducible benchmark harnesses, results, and raw artifacts
-vendor/         vendored runtime components
+src/vendor/     vendored runtime components
 ```
 
 ## License
 
-MIT
+Mixdog is licensed under [Apache-2.0](LICENSE).
+Third-party components retain their respective licenses; see [NOTICE.md](NOTICE.md).