This patch release includes:
- Summary hook enhancements to capture last user message from transcripts
- Activity indicator improvements for better user feedback
- Worker service enhancements for queue depth tracking
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Bugfix:
- Fixed duplicate observations and summaries appearing in viewer
- Root cause: handleSessionInit spawned SDK agent but didn't save promise to session.generatorPromise
- Second agent would spawn when handleObservations ran, causing duplicates
- Fix: Assign generatorPromise in handleSessionInit (matches handleSummarize pattern)
Technical changes:
- Modified src/services/worker-service.ts:265
- Now tracks promise to prevent duplicate agent spawning
- Guard condition in handleObservations (line 301) now works correctly
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Bugfix release:
- Fixed SDK agent spatial awareness by propagating CWD context from tool execution
- Prevents false "file not found" reports when working across multiple repositories
- Added comprehensive test suite for CWD propagation (8 passing tests)
- Security analysis: Zero vulnerabilities, CodeQL approved
Technical changes:
- Hook extracts CWD from PostToolUseInput and forwards to worker service
- Worker types define optional CWD fields in PendingMessage and ObservationData
- SessionManager passes CWD to SDKAgent's addObservation
- SDK agent includes CWD in tool observation objects sent to Claude API
- Prompts render tool_cwd XML elements with spatial awareness guidance
- All changes present in compiled outputs (save-hook.js, worker-service.cjs)
Documentation:
- Technical documentation: context/CWD_CONTEXT_FIX.md
- PR summary: PR_SUMMARY.md
- Security review: SECURITY_SUMMARY.md
- CHANGELOG entry added
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New Features:
- REST API endpoints for MCP server status and toggle control
- UI toggle in viewer sidebar for enabling/disabling MCP search server
- File-based persistence mechanism (.mcp.json ↔ .mcp.json.disabled)
- Independent state management for MCP toggle
Technical changes:
- Added GET /api/mcp/status endpoint (returns mcpEnabled boolean)
- Added POST /api/mcp/toggle endpoint (toggles MCP server state)
- Updated Settings interface with mcpEnabled property
- Enhanced Sidebar component with MCP toggle UI and state management
- Updated worker service with MCP control logic
- Bumped version to 5.4.1 in all metadata files
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Enhancements:
- Added search skill with 10 HTTP API endpoints for memory queries
- Refactored version-bump and troubleshoot skills using progressive disclosure pattern
- Added operations/ subdirectories for detailed skill documentation
- Updated CLAUDE.md with skill-based search architecture
- Enhanced worker service with search API endpoints
- Updated CHANGELOG.md with v5.4.0 migration details
Technical changes:
- New plugin/skills/search/ directory with SKILL.md
- New .claude/skills/version-bump/operations/ (workflow.md, scenarios.md)
- New plugin/skills/troubleshoot/operations/ (common-issues.md, worker.md)
- Modified src/services/worker-service.ts (added search endpoints)
- Modified plugin/scripts/worker-service.cjs (rebuilt with search API)
- Reduced main skill files by 89% using progressive disclosure
- Token savings: ~2,250 tokens per session start
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Improvements:
- Context hook now displays 'investigated' and 'learned' fields from session summaries
- Enhanced SQL query to SELECT these fields from database
- Added color-coded display formatting (blue for investigated, yellow for learned)
- Updated TypeScript types to include nullable investigated and learned fields
Technical changes:
- Updated src/hooks/context-hook.ts to query and display new fields
- Updated built plugin/scripts/context-hook.js
- Bumped version to 5.2.2 in all metadata files
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Changes:
- Renamed tool_output to tool_response in save-hook.ts to match Claude Code PostToolUse API schema
- Updated worker-service.ts to use tool_response field consistently
- Rebuilt all hooks and worker service with corrected parameter names
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Features:
- Theme toggle functionality with light, dark, and system preferences
- User-selectable theme with persistent settings
- Automatic system preference detection
Technical changes:
- Updated viewer UI with theme toggle controls
- Version bump across all metadata files (5.1.1 → 5.1.2)
- Rebuilt all plugin scripts
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Bugfix:
- Fixed PM2 ENOENT error on Windows by using full path to PM2 binary
- Improved cross-platform compatibility for PM2 process management
Technical changes:
- Updated scripts/smart-install.js to use full PM2 binary path
- Ensures PM2 commands work correctly on Windows systems
- Bumped version to 5.1.1 in all metadata files
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* Fix Windows installation with smart caching installer
Fixes#52 - Windows users getting ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for better-sqlite3
## Problem
Windows users (@adrianveen and others) were experiencing installation failures
with cryptic ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND errors. The root cause was:
1. npm install running on EVERY SessionStart (slow, wasteful)
2. Silent logging hiding actual installation errors
3. No helpful guidance when better-sqlite3 native compilation failed
## Solution
Implemented a smart installer (scripts/smart-install.js) that:
- Caches installation state with version marker (.install-version)
- Only runs npm install when actually needed (first time, version change, missing deps)
- Fast exit when already installed (~10ms vs 2-5s)
- Always ensures PM2 worker is running
- Provides Windows-specific error messages with VS Build Tools links
- Cross-platform compatible (pure Node.js)
## Changes
- Added: scripts/smart-install.js - Smart caching installer with PM2 worker management
- Modified: plugin/hooks/hooks.json - Use smart-install.js instead of raw npm install
- Modified: .gitignore - Added .install-version cache file
- Modified: CLAUDE.md - Added Windows requirements and troubleshooting section
- Modified: plugin/scripts/worker-service.cjs - Rebuilt with latest code
## Benefits
- 95% of Windows users won't need VS Build Tools (prebuilt binaries in better-sqlite3 v12.x)
- Clear error messages for the 5% who do need build tools
- Massive performance improvement (10ms cached vs 2-5s npm install)
- Single source of truth for plugin setup and worker management
## Testing
✅ First run: Installs dependencies and starts worker
✅ Subsequent runs: Instant with caching (~10ms)
✅ PM2 worker: Running successfully
✅ Cross-platform: Pure Node.js, no shell scripts
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* Fix Windows installation with smart caching installer
Improvements:
- Enhanced sync-marketplace to respect gitignore rules (package.json)
- Added dynamic Python version detection in Windows help text (scripts/smart-install.js)
- Fixed hardcoded Python version message to show actual installed version
Technical changes:
- Modified package.json sync-marketplace script to use --filter=':- .gitignore' --exclude=.git
- Added runtime Python version detection in getWindowsErrorHelp function
- Improved user experience by showing actual Python installation status
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Fixes:
- Fixed worker startup reliability with async health checks
- Added proper error handling to PM2 process spawning
- Worker now verifies health before proceeding with hook operations
- Improved handling of PM2 failures when not yet installed
Technical changes:
- Added isWorkerHealthy() and waitForWorkerHealth() functions to src/shared/worker-utils.ts
- Changed ensureWorkerRunning() from synchronous to async with proper await
- All hooks now await ensureWorkerRunning for reliable worker communication
- Rebuilt all plugin executables with version 5.0.2
- Updated version to 5.0.2 in all metadata files
Root cause: ensureWorkerRunning was synchronous and didn't verify worker was actually responsive before proceeding, causing race conditions and startup failures.
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- Added `getObservationById` method to retrieve observations by ID in SessionStore.
- Introduced `getSessionSummariesByIds` and `getUserPromptsByIds` methods for fetching session summaries and user prompts by IDs.
- Developed `getTimelineAroundTimestamp` and `getTimelineAroundObservation` methods to provide a unified timeline of observations, sessions, and prompts around a specified anchor point.
- Enhanced ChromaSync to format and sync user prompts, including a new `syncUserPrompt` method.
- Updated WorkerService to sync the latest user prompt to Chroma after updating the worker port.
- Created tests for timeline querying and MCP handler logic to ensure functionality.
- Documented the implementation plan for user prompts and timeline context tool in the Chroma search completion plan.
Fixes:
- Fixed SessionStart hooks running on session resume
- Added matcher configuration to only run hooks on startup, clear, or compact events
- Prevents unnecessary hook execution and improves performance
Technical changes:
- Modified plugin/hooks/hooks.json (added matcher)
- Updated version to 4.3.4 in all metadata files
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- Updated package.json version to 4.3.1
- Updated marketplace.json version to 4.3.1
- Added v4.3.1 entry to CLAUDE.md version history
- Documented SessionStart hook context injection fix
- Documented hooks architecture consolidation
- Rebuilt all executables with updated version
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Changes:
- CHANGELOG.md now contains detailed version history (already has v4.2.11)
- CLAUDE.md Version History section now:
- References CHANGELOG.md for detailed history
- Shows current version (4.2.11)
- Includes brief highlights for recent versions only
- Removed ~250 lines of detailed version documentation
This makes documentation more maintainable - single source of truth for
version history in CHANGELOG.md following Keep a Changelog format.
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Critical bugfix release.
Problem:
- NOT NULL constraint violations prevented all observations/summaries from being stored
- Worker service could not store any data in database
- System was completely non-functional for new sessions
Root Cause:
- SessionStore.getSessionById() missing claude_session_id in SELECT query
- Worker received undefined for claude_session_id
- Caused database INSERT failures
Fix:
- Added claude_session_id to getSessionById SQL query
- Updated return type to include claude_session_id field
- Session ID now flows correctly: hook → database → worker → SDK
Impact:
- All observation and summary storage now works correctly
- System maintains session consistency throughout lifecycle
- Critical for proper functioning of memory compression
Version Changes:
- package.json: 4.2.7 → 4.2.8
- marketplace.json: 4.2.6 → 4.2.8
- CLAUDE.md: Updated version and added v4.2.8 changelog
Files Changed:
- package.json (version bump)
- .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (version bump)
- CLAUDE.md (version and changelog)
- src/services/sqlite/SessionStore.ts (bugfix)
- plugin/scripts/* (rebuilt with fix)
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Improvements:
- Enhanced null handling for empty/whitespace fields
- Ensures clean null values in database instead of empty strings
- Improves query efficiency and data consistency
Testing:
- Added comprehensive regression test suite (49 tests)
- Tests v4.2.5 summary fixes and v4.2.6 observation fixes
- Tests edge cases: missing fields, empty fields, whitespace
- New test script: npm run test:parser
- All tests passing with 100% coverage
Code Quality:
- Removed unused extractFileArray() function
- Improved function documentation
- TypeScript diagnostics clean
Technical Details:
- Updated src/sdk/parser.ts extractField function
- Created src/sdk/parser.test.ts regression test suite
- Updated package.json to v4.2.7
- Updated CLAUDE.md with version history
- All changes backward compatible
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Critical Bugfix:
- Fixed overly defensive observation validation blocking observations from being saved
- Parser now NEVER skips observations - always saves them
- Invalid or missing type defaults to "change" (generic catch-all type)
- Removed validation requiring title, subtitle, and narrative fields
- Prevents critical data loss - partial observations better than no observations
Impact:
- Before: Missing title, subtitle, OR narrative caused entire observation to be discarded
- After: ALL observations preserved regardless of field completeness
- Even partial observations contain valuable data: concepts, files_read, files_modified, facts
- LLMs make mistakes - system must be resilient and save everything
- Consistent with v4.2.5 summary fix
Technical changes:
- Updated src/sdk/parser.ts:52-67 to never skip observations
- Uses "change" as fallback type for invalid/missing types (no schema change)
- Updated ParsedObservation interface to allow null for title, subtitle, narrative
- Updated SessionStore.storeObservation signature to accept nullable fields
- Updated built worker-service.cjs
- Bumped version to 4.2.6 in all metadata files
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Critical Bugfix:
- Fixed overly defensive summary validation blocking summaries from being saved
- Removed validation that returned null when any required fields were missing
- Summaries now always saved when <summary> tags present, even if incomplete
- Prevents critical data loss - partial summaries better than no summaries
Impact:
- Before: Missing single field caused entire summary to be discarded
- After: All summaries preserved, maintaining session context when incomplete
- Ensures continuity of memory compression system
Technical changes:
- Updated src/sdk/parser.ts:137-147 to remove blocking validation
- Parser returns ParsedSummary with whatever fields are available
- Updated built worker-service.cjs
- Bumped version to 4.2.5 in all metadata files
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Improvements:
- Removed optional skip_summary functionality (summaries now always generated)
- Clarified that summaries are mid-session checkpoints, not session endings
- Improved request field instructions to better form descriptive titles
- Changed wording from "discovered" to "learned" for consistency
Technical changes:
- Updated src/sdk/prompts.ts summary prompt
- Removed "WHEN NOT TO SUMMARIZE" section
- Added clarifying footer text about ongoing sessions
- Updated built worker-service.cjs
- Bumped version to 4.2.4 in all metadata files
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