Meldwork/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

0.1.2 - 2026-08-17 (Meldwork-V1.0.2 prerelease candidate)

Collaboration Harness V4

• Replaced the legacy group reply label with Concurrent Responses while preserving the existing manual persistence and IPC value.
• Freezes one shared task snapshot before Scheduler leases, keeps every selected Agent in the batch, isolates same-batch replies, and commits completed replies in stable member order.
• Starts Auto Discussion with independent parallel proposals instead of assigning the first Agent as the primary author and every later Agent as a review-only participant.
• Lets the selected Agents challenge proposals and negotiate one responsibility graph. Harness validates unanimous agreement on the normalized plan, dependencies, permissions, and participant coverage instead of privately assigning the work.
• Runs distinct agreed work packages, selects one synthesis writer, and binds independent verification to the current candidate Artifact. Contradictions remain tracked issues until resolved.
• Adds strict structured collaboration receipts, bounded Artifact/Evidence references, compact delivery watermarks, phase-and-slot operation IDs, serialized Human Gates, and idempotent crash recovery.
• Preserves V1 manual, V2 Auto Discussion, and V3 Task Graph records on their legacy parsers and executors.

Agent Runtime

• Normalizes supported CLI output into streaming answer deltas, plans, status, tool lifecycle events, warnings, and terminal results without exposing raw commands, local paths, secrets, or chain-of-thought.
• Improves Hermes streaming and tool-event capture while preserving its read-only SQLite final-result watermark and sanitized stdout fallback.
• Improves OpenClaw stream and tool-event normalization in the Connector protocol and keeps its managed runtime state, Provider secret handling, and permission policy isolated.
• Strips collaboration control blocks from user-visible messages, live deltas, durable traces, and later Agent context; invalid or missing required receipts fail the current phase.

Interface

• Shows real collaboration phases for parallel divergence, cross-Agent challenge and negotiation, responsibility-based work, convergence, and independent verification.
• Adds group-scoped unlimited-mode confirmation and state-driven motion with keyboard, Escape, aria-live, narrow-layout, and reduced-motion support.
• Adds an animated return-to-bottom control to group and direct conversation timelines.
• Keeps Agent message copy actions in the metadata row, aligns version switching, regenerate, and delete controls in the compact footer row, and hardens long-name, timestamp, and narrow-screen layout behavior.
• Keeps legacy round-zero trace labels neutral instead of relabeling historical responses as concurrent work.

Durability And Safety

• Records V4 phases, batches, slots, attempts, frozen snapshots, dynamic roles, result references, delivery watermarks, commit state, and typed Gate state in the Run Ledger.
• Allows safe read-only recovery, requires a Human Gate before retrying an ambiguous writable slot, rejects late results after stop, and resumes batch commits idempotently.
• Keeps workspace writes opt-in. Concurrent replies, proposals, challenges, negotiated work, and verification remain read-only; only the synthesis writer receives write authority when enabled.
• Restricts renderer snapshots to validated phase, participant, role, progress, and Gate fields. Prompts, executable paths, native Session references, internal snapshot IDs, and unrestricted tool payloads remain main-process only.

Packaging And Distribution

• Sets the desktop package version to 0.1.2 with permanent Bundle ID com.rydersun.meldwork.
• Produces Apple silicon DMG and ZIP prerelease candidates using ad-hoc signing. This is not Apple Developer ID signing or notarization and may require Open Anyway on first launch.
• Keeps dist:public as the fail-closed future formal-distribution path requiring a Developer ID identity, Hardened Runtime, complete Apple notarization credentials, and post-sign validation.
• Uses the Meldwork Non-Commercial Source License; commercial use requires prior written permission.

Verification

• Latest release-candidate frontend tests: 300/300 passed; the exact release commit must be rerun before publication.
• Latest release-candidate desktop tests: 1307/1307 passed; the exact final commit must be rerun before publication.
• Release-candidate deterministic Eval Harness: 6 cases and 18 results passed; the exact final commit must be rerun before publication.
• Web and Electron renderer builds, Electron pack, and git diff --check passed on the release-candidate tree; they must be rerun from the exact final commit before publication. dist remains pending for that commit.
• Hermes and OpenClaw live streaming/tool-lifecycle checks, Manual V4, Auto Discussion V4, stopped-run behavior, and the 360 x 800 return-to-latest control all require acceptance on the exact final packaged app; none is a current release claim.
• Final DMG and ZIP SHA-256 values and remote Release asset verification remain pending until the final publication artifacts are generated.
• The candidate remains ad-hoc signed, without Apple Developer ID signing or notarization; spctl rejection remains expected.

0.1.0 Private Preview 1 - 2026-08-03

This private preview packages the initial Meldwork MVP for internal evaluation on Apple silicon Macs.

Highlights

• Local-first direct conversations and persistent multi-Agent working groups.
• Automatic multi-round discussions with explicit Agent targeting and bounded execution.
• Durable, sanitized run traces for reviewing Agent activity without exposing credentials, executable paths, or private reasoning.
• Independent Provider profiles, native Agent session continuity, Skills, knowledge-source references, images, and controlled workspace access.
• Support for Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, WorkBuddy, Kimi Code, MiMo Code, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Qwen Code, OpenCodeReview, and Custom Agents.
• Major frontend and Electron modularization while preserving the existing UI and public desktop bridge contracts.

Distribution

• macOS Apple silicon: DMG and ZIP artifacts.
• Private preview only. The application was ad-hoc signed and not notarized with an Apple Developer ID.
• Windows and Intel Mac release artifacts were not included.

License

Meldwork was source-available under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 for this historical preview. Commercial use required a separate written agreement.

Verification

• Frontend tests: 217 passed.
• Desktop tests: 470 passed.
• Web and Electron frontend builds passed.
• Electron packaging, ASAR inspection, and deep signature verification passed.