chore(master): release 0.12.0

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0.12.0 (2026-07-24)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• identity: Agent launches and new commit provenance now require id.username and id.machine_name in the selected overlay. Run sase config init to migrate legacy configuration.
• bead: --yes now skips only launch confirmation; use --yes-to-all to authorize destructive cleanup non-interactively.
• config: The public SASE configuration schema now requires a machine_name matching ^[a-z_]+$.
• cli: sase plan validate no longer accepts -t or --tier; set tier: tale or tier: epic in plan frontmatter instead.
• ace: Tribe panel isolation and restore now use the zoom_panel action, bound to Z by default, instead of hooks_or_collapse_all on H. Custom keymaps should bind zoom_panel to choose the isolation key.
• ace: Agents-tab lowercase h now navigates to a parent container or tribe instead of collapsing structural folds; use uppercase H to collapse.
• @phase_worker is no longer a built-in alias. Configure phase sizes through @small_phase_worker, @medium_phase_worker, and @large_phase_worker, or define a custom phase_worker alias for legacy explicit references.
• Overriding phase_worker now affects medium and explicit phase-worker launches only; configure the small_phase_worker and large_phase_worker aliases to restore the previous shared routing.
• Large phases without an explicit model now route through @large_phase_worker, which falls back to @phase_worker, instead of @smartest. Configure large_phase_worker as @smartest to preserve the previous routing.
• Rename ace.prompt_completion.history_word_min_length to word_min_length.
• agents: current agent APIs, wires, metadata, queries, and display terminology use tribe instead of tag; legacy persisted tag data remains readable.
• %tribe and %t directives are no longer accepted; use %id(..., tribe=...) or #tribe instead.
• ace: ACE agent queries and keymap action names now use tribe terminology.
• %id(parent, suffix) is no longer accepted; use %id(suffix, family=parent) instead.
• agents: Agent tribe APIs, directive result fields, CLI module names, and newly persisted output now use tribe terminology instead of tag.
• agent-tribes: Current Python wire payloads emit tribe fields, and the canonical standalone assignment store is agent_tribes.json.
• %clan now fails when the clan already exists or is declared more than once in a launch. Use %id(<id>, clan=<clan>) for additional or existing clan members.
• Prompt launches must use %id or %i instead of %name or %n.
• ace: Edit query and help now use ,/ and ,? instead of bare / and ?. Retired app-level keymap overrides are ignored during loading; custom bindings should move to the corresponding leader-mode keys.
• #+query no longer opens project completion; use +query at prompt offset zero or immediately after an ASCII space.
• ace: The Agents visible-fold selector now uses L; the leader ,H shortcut is no longer available.
• ace: Agent panel key behavior changes: h selects a panel after folding, H collapses grouping banners, and l enters a selected panel.
• telemetry: sase telemetry dashboard and sase telemetry graph are removed.
• ace: The Admin Center Telemetry tab and telemetry-specific keymap actions are replaced by the Statistics tab and statistics actions.
• axe: Remove the bundled fix_just, refresh_docs, audit_recent_bugs, and audit_recent_improvements standalone workflows; configure scheduled automation as Axe script chops instead.

Features

• ace: add configurable tribe panel colors (2c8e4f2)
• ace: add default effort controls to Models panel (a2c33ea)
• ace: add direct numeric fold levels (9f6c8f1)
• ace: add fold-aware tribe summary documents (sase-6z.2) (cc45fdf)
• ace: add group-aware prompt target completion (sase-7h.2) (4d7c9aa)
• ace: add inline agent metadata search (sase-76.3) (0fe38d6)
• ace: add lazy Admin Center landing page (605fbeb)
• ace: add numbered gate branch shortcuts (ec03529)
• ace: add prompt stash delete-all action (be0c9b5)
• ace: add selected-panel collapse ladder (d3da2f1)
• ace: add shared config editor components (sase-8m.2) (331932b)
• ace: add snapshot-gated comprehensive updates (sase-83.2) (c82006b)
• ace: add whole-panel selection (sase-6z.3) (80bd97a)
• ace: clarify Help Guide tab content (06338fc)
• ace: clarify statistics scope controls (sase-8a.1) (26ebac8)
• ace: collapse clans from selected agent panel (d32b2d4)
• ace: configure tribe panel displays (aefb7a7)
• ace: confirm launches containing TODO markers (dc6ef5f)
• ace: continue prompt bullets on Ctrl+J (2695bf7)
• ace: continue prompt bullets with normal-mode o (f7e974d)
• ace: continue prompt bullets with open-above (30503fc)
• ace: default Artifacts to Commits (1026740)
• ace: distinguish pending plan review tiers (5299760)
• ace: fork agent clans and tribes (674dd7c)
• ace: highlight leading bullet dashes in prompt input (0e26ea1)
• ace: highlight TODO annotations in prompts (5839250)
• ace: isolate selected tribe panel with capital H (04a7254)
• ace: jump from collapsed panels to expanded panel (678414a)
• ace: jump to parent agent containers (7900eeb)
• ace: move fold selector to direct L shortcut (415704d)
• ace: move query and help to leader chords (sase-76.2) (286b992)
• ace: move tribe panel isolation to zoom action (d8e30b5)
• ace: navigate prompt searches across panes (99e062e)
• ace: persist the commits default filter (4f86191)
• ace: polish Admin Center landing (46c3a9f)
• ace: polish statistics help and visual coverage (sase-8a.4) (5b56b56)
• ace: redesign AXE entry editor (104a31c)
• ace: rename agent tags to tribes (8a6fe16)
• ace: reorder Artifacts subtabs (0e38edf)
• ace: replace telemetry tab with statistics (sase-6y.4) (b85ca32)
• ace: report agent holes in tribe panels (bdde10d)
• ace: reserve the default agent tribe panel (6de6ee3)
• ace: restore panel layout after isolation (c8d39dc)
• ace: resume last Admin Center section (145f287)
• ace: separate left navigation from collapsing (fbcfb1e)
• ace: show applied commits in post-update toast (7c71edf)
• ace: show commit timeline position badge (1fe0afe)
• ace: show model pool effort details (d57e220)
• ace: show normalized epic phase sizes (sase-8b.1) (00dd055)
• ace: show phase bead and authored plan context (286a809)
• ace: show phase sizes in artifact plans (sase-8b.4) (56264fa)
• ace: show runner capacity in agents header (1fdde5f)
• ace: support two-character jump hints (e62eefb)
• ace: surface agents repository sync status (sase-8k.7) (a075c01)
• ace: surface bead-gated waits (sase-87.5) (b040020)
• ace: toggle metadata folds at scale extremes (ee3242b)
• ace: uncap default commit queries (4d98fe0)
• ace: unify fold hints across Agents views (sase-6z.5) (29fdfed)
• ace: warn on custom builtin alias shadows (ff8af79)
• add agent CLI update service layer (sase-7s.1) (fec5fa6)
• add clickable SDD frontmatter links (8e7851e)
• add generic clan plan summaries (sase-8d.2) (cc8f7a5)
• add hidden agents sidecar foundation (sase-8k.4) (ba0a3cd)
• add load-balanced model alias pools (5a23c29)
• add machine-qualified agent hoods (sase-8k.3) (e828aa9)
• add runner limit controls (1aa37dc)
• agent-cleanup: add clan cleanup chooser (sase-74.2) (b14df54)
• agent-cleanup: mirror clan planning scope (sase-74.1) (dc0fa09)
• agent-tribes: add canonical tribe persistence contracts (sase-7j.1) (9e786c9)
• agent: claim beads at launch execution (sase-8f.2) (b935b74)
• agent: persist local names relative to owner (sase-8v.3) (5bf430b)
• agents: add completed agent sync engine (sase-8k.6) (58d1ca2)
• agents: complete tribe terminology cutover (sase-7j.4) (0138849)
• agents: cut runtime over to tribe terminology (sase-7j.2) (16309d5)
• agents: publish owner-sharded v2 hood snapshots (sase-8v.4) (2464be5)
• axe: add bounded log rotation headroom (sase-7p.1) (a30e9e3)
• axe: add clan-scoped chop launches (sase-7q.2) (24ff23f)
• axe: add config management workflows (sase-8m.3) (058cd64)
• axe: add self-healing ensure command (sase-7p.4) (3197b91)
• axe: add side-effect-free status snapshots (sase-8t.2) (0689333)
• axe: add whole-system status command (sase-8t.3) (d0cf97a)
• axe: apply exact conflict-safe config edits (sase-8m.1) (5a9cef8)
• axe: carry clan summaries through chop launches (sase-8l.1) (eaef2d7)
• axe: persist released chop once-per keys (sase-7i.1) (05c9c1c)
• axe: replace chop workflows with builtin proposals (d383322)
• bead: add epic clan summary script (sase-7r.5) (8cfb17b)
• bead: associate proposed epics with parent beads (sase-7z.5) (814026c)
• bead: emit bead-gated waits for epic work (sase-87.4) (0ee641f)
• bead: route phase work by size (sase-7z.4) (12da108)
• beads: claim epic work just in time (sase-8f.3) (9d8b7e2)
• beads: expose atomic agent launch claims (sase-8f.1) (0ed5505)
• beads: show phase sizes and nested lineage (sase-7z.6) (6f9213b)
• bead: support extended phase sizes (sase-8w.3) (a5c5d03)
• cli: add agent CLI management commands (sase-7s.2) (a3ae3df)
• cli: infer plan validation tier (6b3457b)
• config: add machine identity initialization (sase-8k.1) (770ad01)
• config: offer commit and push after config edits (58d6222)
• editor: add kind-aware agent catalog entries (sase-7h.1) (390a7f1)
• enforce single-declaration clan lifecycle (sase-7g.3) (dea2369)
• enrich epic clan summaries (sase-85.2) (01c5b80)
• expand phase-worker model alias ladder (sase-8w.2) (18ca7cb)
• fold tribe assignment into id kwargs (sase-7o.2) (3f41c7c)
• git: add shared index lock retry policy (sase-77.1) (7257829)
• identity: expose owner-aware agent facade (sase-8v.1) (de816e0)
• identity: require nested owner configuration (sase-8v.2) (97230f1)
• Improve /sase_plan skill using the new --explain plan validation option (e0aa232)
• integrate core capitalized snippet aliases (sase-8u.2) (6e6b8d8)
• llm: add ordered model alias fallbacks (31e9697)
• pdf: render plan frontmatter as properties cards (215721f)
• persist launch-time clan summaries (sase-7r.3) (734f67a)
• plan: document five phase sizes in --explain text (sase-8w.5) (39f90d3)
• plans: stamp bead associations during proposal (sase-88.2) (87e7a3a)
• preview commits for comprehensive updates (26c9b5b)
• prioritize runner-slot wait admission (sase-8c.2) (46c2f06)
• project runner wait priorities across ACE queues (2f0b68b)
• projects: add immutable display snapshots (sase-89.1) (2efe42a)
• rename the agent directive to %id (sase-7g.1) (f628154)
• repo-init: initialize agents sidecars with explicit consent (sase-8k.5) (44ccbe8)
• require family keyword for name directives (sase-7o.1) (c8f80b2)
• resolve waits gated by closed beads (sase-87.3) (a874efc)
• route large epic landers through smartest alias (96fe7e7)
• route phase workers through size aliases (eb93169)
• sdd: mirror phase size validation metadata (sase-7z.3) (65bcc93)
• sdd: render artifact links as Markdown bullets (f9837f7)
• share word completion minimum length (99fcb50)
• simplify phase model aliases (58bacaf)
• statistics: add configurable half-page scrolling (2b875db)
• statistics: add contextual project keymaps (12166f1)
• statistics: add metric legends and recovery states (sase-8a.2) (75e2c64)
• statistics: add reverse time range cycling (fdbdf2d)
• stats: add project and ChangeSpec views (sase-70.4) (74b3fc7)
• stats: add Python runner-occupancy view model contract (sase-8j.2) (624adb3)
• stats: expose project and changespec work data (sase-70.3) (fcdf263)
• stats: render configured project labels (sase-89.2) (e584c89)
• stats: show concise range summary (4b083e8)
• support agent families as fork sources (sase-7i.5) (d8b67d6)
• support clan-scoped agent IDs (sase-7g.2) (985b1c0)
• telemetry: isolate test state and add cleanup command (sase-8g.11) (866aea6)
• telemetry: slim diagnostics infrastructure (sase-6y.5) (81b946f)
• test: add host-global pytest worker budget (sase-86.1) (8599baa)
• test: gate parallel suites by host capacity (88c1a7b)
• tui: add agent CLI update browser (sase-7s.3) (1afba63)
• tui: add deep tribe detail enrichment (sase-6z.4) (3ae2008)
• tui: add kind-scaled fold levels (sase-6z.1) (766469d)
• tui: add numbered member jump navigation (sase-6w.3) (3877dce)
• tui: add runner statistics experience (sase-8j.3) (6c052e8)
• tui: expand agent neighbor hood closure (a705f79)
• tui: highlight selected tribe panel title (efed1d5)
• tui: highlight YAML frontmatter in Markdown previews (9a06f75)
• tui: navigate to neighbors in folded clans (b938e94)
• tui: present all five phase sizes (sase-8w.4) (f19e031)
• tui: redesign plugin action confirmation previews (a5f4dd2)
• tui: refine clan and family summaries (sase-73.2) (c85cdd7)
• tui: render rich clan summaries (sase-7r.4) (c283d63)
• tui: rework tribe summary fold documents (sase-73.1) (c433dc7)
• tui: show clan member status in wait metadata (918e3b9)
• tui: show linked plans in commit view (e4cdefd)
• tui: support group targets for wait prompts (e9228cd)
• updates: distinguish agent CLI update status (sase-83.3) (bf84d7b)
• updates: track provider CLI update candidates (sase-83.1) (c0d68a4)
• use space-plus project completion triggers (sase-75.2) (e3b36d6)
• vcs: hide sidecar commits by default (c7d1e39)
• vim: support visual surround selections (99d29be)
• xprompt: support bead waits (sase-87.2) (e6c865e)
• xprompt: support clan summary directives (sase-7r.2) (e37315a)

Bug Fixes

• ace: align status summaries with agent holes (85aa33e)
• ace: collapse group clans before grouping banners (010c061)
• ace: collapse houses before agent groups (1da3817)
• ace: count agent holes in headline (1232a8c)
• ace: deduplicate selected wait clauses (9292056)
• ace: descend from tribe focus on agent jumps (5868154)
• ace: enable view hints for agent families (6cbb38f)
• ace: honor bead gates when resolving waiters on kill/dismiss (sase-87) (ad39415)
• ace: keep ungrouped agent houses first (cba6525)
• ace: navigate to all agent house parents (fe8c2e0)
• ace: polish clan cleanup guidance (sase-74.3) (d4087b0)
• ace: preserve clan member name during kill and edit (c05db01)
• ace: preserve runner roots sharing child pid (4a6776f)
• ace: project concrete family member state (28321d8)
• ace: project concrete tribe agent counts (03f68ff)
• ace: reconcile cross-surface plan approval status (9f11060)
• ace: report capped commit results truthfully (sase-8h.3) (54e8736)
• ace: respect Markdown structure in TODO highlighting (da207ba)
• ace: restore arrival bell for plan reviews (679a41b)
• ace: restore contextual query shortcuts (24a5fb6)
• ace: restore forward jump across tabs (92bdd6f)
• ace: show bare container names for family roots (4d09e81)
• ace: suppress alerts for handled plans (e8134fd)
• ace: use deep navy for TODO markers (6d6cf8e)
• agent-clis: ignore orphaned npm package listings (dda37da)
• agent-names: preserve containers during forced reuse (e26ed99)
• agent: derive template clan declarations from members (982e51e)
• agent: prevent ambient identity leaking across processes (292e9db)
• agent: recover dismissed groups from sharded artifacts (#256) (18cb876)
• agent: retry family phases from base names (sase-8g.2) (48abe26)
• agents: normalize machine-hood presentation (sase-8k) (61395b8)
• agents: preserve clan tribe across filtered snapshots (8256e25)
• agent: tolerate un-globalizable legacy names in registry rebuild (1a6d7b0)
• axe: constrain refresh docs agents to documentation (5b49b20)
• axe: damp restart storms (sase-8g.6) (4103e91)
• axe: guard daemon lifecycle under pytest (sase-80.2) (969970b)
• axe: harden lumberjack crash recovery (sase-7p.2) (cd1fe6e)
• axe: harden orchestrator PID lifecycle (sase-7t.5) (60cec72)
• axe: honor clan guards before action dedupe (sase-7q.4) (5360b08)
• axe: match chop results to launched agents (sase-7t.2) (d55ecbb)
• axe: preserve explicit stops during recovery (d0ddb97)
• axe: prevent recurring chop collision storms (e2a294d)
• axe: re-resolve stranded wait dependencies (sase-80.4) (70ed5fa)
• axe: recover dismissed chop completions (sase-7i.4) (807ece1)
• axe: recover wedged lifecycle locks (sase-80.3) (c58324d)
• axe: release once-per keys for failed chop launches (sase-7i.3) (fc6ef85)
• axe: relink waits across deduped chop proposals (sase-7i.2) (7ef3482)
• axe: resolve state paths at call time (sase-80.1) (cc99b7a)
• axe: skip explicit chop name collisions (sase-7t.3) (e39816a)
• axe: verify and journal daemon restarts (sase-7p.3) (10eeaf7)
• bead: confirm destructive forced-reuse cleanup (485e562)
• bead: limit epic phase planning to large work (50e5693)
• bead: relax legacy phase size constraints (sase-8w.7.1) (b638df3)
• beads: publish epic graph before worker launch (fd9db05)
• beads: repair concurrent sync integrations (sase-8g.7) (24d42d3)
• beads: show child epics owned by phases (sase-7z) (6cc67b9)
• clear empty Statistics project filters (sase-8a) (c7a4ef4)
• config: make machine identity optional per document (cf8832b)
• config: wrap j and k tree navigation (ea575c7)
• correct lifecycle handling in audited agent paths (#251) (759158b)
• Enable --agents sidecar repo on this repo (2272e9f)
• git: apply lock recovery to remaining mutation runners (sase-77.3) (09fa3fe)
• git: recover high-traffic runners from index locks (sase-77.2) (4060ac6)
• harden fork parent resolution (sase-8g.8) (0b9ef92)
• harden suite verification under load (sase-86.6) (9f4b529)
• honor display names and statistics help binding (sase-8g.9) (e898a65)
• keep queued clan members in wait barriers (6e6aa3b)
• logs: bound and harden persistent sinks (sase-8g.10) (350af96)
• make suffix transforms merge current ChangeSpec state (sase-8g.1) (84da472)
• persist clan summary stderr diagnostics (sase-8i.1) (a75a477)
• plugins: detect receipt-owned installations (ef2cc16)
• plugins: preflight stale local install sources (185469e)
• preserve commit ChangeSpec attribution (sase-70.1) (8f6d3a2)
• preserve concrete family names on retry (sase-7o.5) (05cacb0)
• preserve launch xprompt metadata during deferred expansion (4df8b4e)
• preserve proposal associations from agent metadata (3e06256)
• prevent canonical project keys leaking into displays (sase-89.4) (e917679)
• projects: humanize remaining display surfaces (sase-89.3) (148bbb1)
• recognize adjacent inline code in xprompt overlays (34d533f)
• recover interrupted agent families during forced reuse (5fb55a5)
• refresh clan summaries after workspace preparation (sase-8i.3) (865d5c1)
• refresh missing epic summaries before fallback (sase-85.1) (0a1fd5f)
• render epic clan summaries from authored plans (sase-8d.3) (7ab260d)
• resolve family forks from member transcripts (1c2e197)
• resolve waits for dismissed clan members (b4d689f)
• restart exact agent family members (330c258)
• restore epic clan summaries (a20e82d)
• restore epic tribe when resuming bead work (59678a2)
• reveal collapsed containers during agent jumps (2267919)
• runner-slots: preserve waiter state across admission (sase-8g.3) (9aed7d7)
• scope chop linkage to explicit launches (sase-7t.1) (1790e44)
• sdd: expose the shared lock retry schedule (sase-77) (bd7f969)
• sdd: preserve plan path basenames when wrapping (sase-8d) (fc1c918)
• sdd: recover remaining Git index lock contention (sase-77) (50f0718)
• sdd: self-heal wedged sidecar clones (sase-8g.5) (e7c7680)
• serialize approved epic plan launches (0bbf415)
• show source plan basename in approval toasts (7ba379f)
• silence terminal bells for plan reviews (8add798)
• snapshot epic plans before clan launch (sase-8i.2) (b825a0d)
• stats: retain project display projection helper (sase-89.3) (e3af45c)
• stats: scope plan and question counters by project (sase-72.2) (81dcef9)
• suppress completion bell during handoffs (6307a3f)
• tui: align TODO annotations with running gold (3543cd2)
• tui: degrade invalid axe status gracefully (sase-8g.4) (47f6df2)
• tui: flag missing agent wait targets (d27422f)
• tui: highlight selected collapsed tribe titles (7630f7f)
• tui: include collapsed clan lanes in completions (467fc76)
• tui: keep artifact selection in viewport (01b06e3)
• tui: keep TODO markers legible (627b0b3)
• tui: normalize clan references across machine hoods (0d3955e)
• tui: preserve clan membership on retry (sase-7g.4) (09f9151)
• tui: preserve selected tribe header marker (5a5d07d)
• tui: preserve tribe fold intent across updates (ce12818)
• tui: preserve Updates sub-tab key dispatch (6e0ad18)
• tui: restore admin center digit keymaps (a1b6b0a)
• tui: restore Agents parent navigation (dd16a88)
• tui: show clan members before summary (7917c0f)
• tui: simplify runner capacity header (0b44bc6)
• tui: soften TODO annotation styling (ac9fb40)
• vcs: make commit collection truncation-aware (sase-8h.2) (f9345e7)
• vcs: re-anchor date filter bounds (sase-8h.1) (08f91b4)
• xprompt: preserve clan summaries during directive edits (sase-7r) (974c014)

Performance Improvements

• reuse fresh roots for update previews (e2ba793)
• reuse machine identity during registry rebuild (9e35517)
• test: cache setup environment validation (sase-86.5) (4c46711)
• test: reduce ACE pilot harness startup cost (sase-86.2) (6903e78)
• test: reduce top-offender suite runtime (sase-86.3) (a0a09b2)
• tests: distribute parallel tests with work stealing (sase-86.4) (8e544a3)
• tui: streamline selected tribe navigation (sase-6z.6) (d3cf623)

Reverts

• undo stale memory initialization output (8970fba)

Documentation

• align operational guidance with current behavior (717abb8)
• align smart summary folding guidance (sase-7f.1) (b1d192e)
• axe: document chop launch linkage and finalization semantics (sase-7t) (b8b0a92)
• clarify agent workflows and editor helpers (0f096fa)
• clarify clan navigation and fork behavior (sase-6v.9) (fe9e8f3)
• clarify verified ACE workflows (5e9170f)
• correct ACE folding and statistics guidance (19db28c)
• correct agent grouping and launch lifecycle guidance (999df80)
• document capitalized snippet alias parity across surfaces (sase-8u.3) (ec229ad)
• document clan summaries and axe recovery (2a616e7)
• document clan-scoped agent cleanup (sase-74) (a9065c2)
• document phase sizing and child epics (sase-7z.7) (11f6529)
• fix stale chop reference in AXE daemon post (sase-6v) (de315ca)
• reconcile manuals with five-size phase routing (sase-8w.7.2) (39c9fe7)
• reconcile phase-size guidance (sase-8w.7.4.1) (4c3fde9)
• refresh ACE and statistics guidance (e20bd6d)
• refresh agent grouping and ACE guides (sase-6v.9) (da61f9a)
• refresh agent workflow documentation (fa54cf3)
• refresh guides for current behavior (d369a98)
• refresh guides for current behavior (4833fba)
• refresh guides for current behavior (dd54d69)
• refresh guides for current SASE behavior (b987b8b)

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