vinta-ai-workflows 0.7.0-alpha6 → 0.7.0-alpha8

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ the project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [0.7.0] — YYYY-MM-DD
 
+<!-- pre-release: 0.7.0-alpha8 on 2026-09-14 -->
+<!-- pre-release: 0.7.0-alpha7 on 2026-09-14 -->
 <!-- pre-release: 0.7.0-alpha6 on 2026-09-13 -->
 <!-- pre-release: 0.7.0-alpha5 on 2026-09-13 -->
 <!-- pre-release: 0.7.0-alpha4 on 2026-09-13 -->
@@ -16,6 +18,77 @@ the project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ### Added
 
+- **A failed phase retries itself, and then asks.** `--on-failure` defaults to
+  `retry`: one cold re-attempt (`--retries <n>`, 0–5), and then the node parks
+  on a question — retry, retry with another member of the crew, or stop. The
+  failures this system produces are overwhelmingly environmental and are gone by
+  the second attempt; the ones that survive it are the ones worth a person.
+  `ask` skips the automatic attempt. `stop` is the old behaviour and remains the
+  right choice for CI, because everything else eventually **waits**.
+
+  A failure that survives its retries says so: the reason carries
+  `(after N attempts)`, which no event otherwise records.
+
+- **A failed phase can be retried by hand.** A **Retry phase** button, and
+  `POST /api/runs/:runId/nodes/:nodeId/retry`. It returns the node to the ready
+  set and unblocks the subtree its failure blocked — a phase that died of
+  something environmental holds up work that was never broken. It needs the run
+  to still be in flight, which with the new default it usually is; a run that
+  has genuinely ended is re-run, not retried, and says so rather than doing
+  nothing.
+
+- **The monitor can go and look.** It was given a digest and nothing else, and
+  read exactly as thin as that sounds — it could say a phase had failed and
+  never say what the phase had written. It is briefed as a technical project
+  manager now, with the map: the plan document, each phase's brief, each lane's
+  worktree path, each branch and its base, and where the journal and transcripts
+  live. It has a shell and its working directory is the repository, so it can
+  read the diff before drawing a conclusion. The digest stays as the index —
+  bounded, cheap, enough to know which phase is worth a closer look.
+
+- **The monitor conversation is kept.** It lived in component state, so a reload
+  threw away every question and every answer — a worse record than the run it
+  describes. It is written to the transcript store under a reserved node id and
+  read back on load, so it outlives the tab, the daemon and the run.
+
+- **Panels expand.** Anything holding content that is only nominally
+  summarisable — an agent's transcript, a gate log, the monitor conversation,
+  the steering box — takes the full container width and about a screen of
+  height on demand. The height travels as a CSS variable, because the element
+  that has to grow is a scroller several components below the panel.
+
+- **A run has a spokesperson you can ask.** `serve` grows a **Monitor** panel on
+  the run view: one agent that reads the journal and answers in prose — what is
+  blocked, why a phase failed, what it would take to move on. It runs on the
+  dearest tier on the crew, because it is read by a person deciding what to do
+  about a failing run, and it is asked a handful of times rather than hundreds.
+
+  Three things it deliberately is not.
+
+  **It is not in the permission path.** The obvious thought, once an agent has
+  been refused something, is to put a smarter agent in front of the refusals —
+  but a phase makes hundreds of tool calls (one node in one real run made 179)
+  and a model turn before each is latency and cost spent on questions like "may
+  I run ruff", which should never have been questions. Permissions are settled
+  structurally, once per spawn, for free.
+
+  **It does not read the transcripts.** Piping every agent's output into a
+  second agent would make the monitor the most expensive thing in the run and
+  tie its cost to the work rather than to the questions. It reads a bounded
+  digest — statuses, failure reasons, pending questions, the last few refusals
+  with their sentences, one trimmed last word per phase — so a one-hour run and
+  a one-day run cost about the same to ask about.
+
+  **It has no authority.** It can explain a §9.1 pause; it cannot answer one.
+  An agent that could quietly approve its colleagues' work would turn a
+  checkpoint into a formality, and the checkpoint is the point.
+
+  It answers about **finished runs too**, which is when "why did this fail" is
+  usually asked, and it needs no lane: it writes nothing.
+
+- **`serve` reads `--permission`.** The flag has been accepted and ignored since
+  it existed. It decides how the monitor is spawned, so it is read now.
+
 - **A plan staffs a team, instead of picking a model per phase.** Choosing a tier
   phase by phase answers "what runs this one" ten times and never adds it up, so the
   two questions that decide what a feature costs go unasked: how many agents does
@@ -221,6 +294,13 @@ the project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **`serve --host 0.0.0.0` prints a URL another machine can open.** Binding
+  every interface made the server report the wildcard back, so the line printed
+  for the operator to open — and share — was `http://0.0.0.0:<port>`, which
+  resolves for nobody. The bind is unchanged; the printed host is now this
+  machine's LAN address. The daemon still warns, because the token in that URL
+  is the only thing between the run and anyone who can reach the port.
+
 - **An agent can run a shell command.** `auto` mapped to the vendor's
   `acceptEdits`, which accepts file *edits* and nothing else — a shell command
   still goes to a permission prompt, and in `-p` there is nobody to answer one.

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "vinta-ai-workflows",
-  "version": "0.7.0-alpha6",
+  "version": "0.7.0-alpha8",
   "description": "Bootstrap AI tooling (AGENTS.md, skills, sub-agents) across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and VS Code + GitHub Copilot.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {