v2.9
pathwaycom/pathwayv2.9Aug 12, 2026by github-actions[bot]
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AI Summary
This release introduces the Agent Editor, a new interface for creating and managing agent profiles directly in the WebUI, alongside scoped tool and skill policies. It also features significant hardening of profile and chat lifecycle operations, a Time Travel Retention cleanup plugin, and numerous fixes addressing security vulnerabilities and usability issues.
Key Highlights
- New Agent Editor UI with Easy and Advanced modes for direct profile management.
- Scoped tool and skill policies for granular access control across prompts and execution.
- Project-scoped profiles allowing better isolation between different projects.
- Time Travel Retention plugin for automatic cleanup of orphaned shadow repositories.
- Security fixes including remediation for SSRF regression in document queries.
Breaking Changes
- Hidden utility profile omitted from profile selectors and new chats.
- Legacy global settings are normalized to Agent 0.
- Slash commands separated from skills, changing the internal execution model.
New Features
- Agent Editor with Easy/Advanced modes, `/permissions` slash command, and profile duplication.
- Project-scoped profiles with lifecycle management, inheritance, and synchronized switching.
- Scoped tool access policies and skill visibility policies with layered enforcement.
- Time Travel Retention plugin for configurable background cleanup of shadow repos.
- Migrate Agents plugin with preview safeguards and upload modal fixes.
- Enhanced native Kokoro voice blending with speed controls and singleton pipeline reuse.
- Capability discovery alignment and MCP catalog humanization.
- Security fix for SSRF regression (CVE-2026-4308) in document queries.
- Improved file download path resolution and project change persistence.
- Assistant-first provider history and Responses API fallback mechanisms.
Full Release Notes
# Agent Editor, Scoped Profiles & Tool Policies This release introduces the **Agent Editor** — a full-featured interface for creating, customizing, and managing agent profiles directly from the WebUI. It also brings scoped tool and skill policies, significant hardening across profile and chat lifecycle operations, and a collection of important fixes. --- ## Agent Editor - **New Agent Editor UI** with Easy and Advanced modes for editing agent identity, prompts, model presets, tool policies, skill visibility, and avatars — all without destructive overwrites or model calls. - **Project-scoped profiles**: switch between Global and project scope when managing agents; sparse reads, writes, resets, and policy configs stay bound to the selected layer. - **Profile lifecycle management**: per-scope availability, duplication, active-profile status, inline project selection, scoped restore for inherited profiles, and synchronized profile switching across the sidebar and runtime. - **Reusable profile commands**: create profiles quickly via `/profile` in chat or through the Connector API, then open a fresh chat with the new profile in the selected scope. - **`/permissions` slash command**: opens the current profile's Agent Editor directly from chat. - **Tools, MCPs, and Skills** get explicit default switches with segmented per-item policy controls, preserving sparse overrides. - **Polished layouts and interactions**: responsive Easy and Advanced surfaces, direct prompt editing, compact transfer lists, per-row profile actions, full-height ACE editor, themed segmented controls using the standard blue accent, and streamlined Manage Agents with separator rows. - **Comprehensive documentation** replacing legacy guided-profile instructions with screenshot-led workflows covering sparse YAML, Markdown, and JSON overrides. ## Scoped Tool & Skill Policies - **Scoped tool access policies**: a unified project/profile-aware resolver for local, plugin, and MCP tool identities, enforced across prompts, schemas, connectors, execution, and delegated agents. - **Hardened layered policy enforcement**: empty upper configs no longer shadow inherited restrictions; canonical tool identities carry through local and MCP execution; blocked tools are removed from rendered prompts. - **Profile skill visibility policies**: sparse allow/block rules with an explicit default for future skills, enforced across discovery, loading, and chat activation while preserving history and legacy behavior. ## Agent Profile Infrastructure - **Presence-aware profile overrides**: layered profile metadata merges by field presence — missing keys inherit, explicit empty values clear inherited values. - **Hardened profile mutations**: validated destructive requests and project-derived scopes at the API boundary; atomic project availability; collision, confirmation, and running-profile guards. - **Hidden utility profile**: the internal default profile is omitted from profile selectors, new chats, and legacy global settings are normalized to Agent 0. - **Lightweight profile catalog reads**: sparse editor overrides are detected without building full removal plans for every agent. ## Built-in Plugins - **Migrate Agents plugin**: bundled five-harness migration workflow with preview/import safeguards, documentation, WebUI assets, and corrected upload modal. - **Enhanced native Kokoro voice blending**: updated American voice catalog, speed controls, in-memory weighted blending, singleton pipeline reuse, and blend input validation. - **Capability discovery alignment**: MCP catalog labels are humanized with server names; skill discovery prompts are suppressed when `skills_tool` is unavailable; `behaviour_adjustment` prompt moves under the Memory plugin. - **Slash commands separated from skills**: skill results come only from `skills_tool`; command discovery and invocation stay with the Commands plugin. - **Scoped plugin configuration indexes**: project- or agent-scoped plugins can open the shared settings surface even without a custom form. - **Thumbnails for core utilities**: Tool Access, Pin to Top, Chat Naming, and Agent Editor get distinct artwork optimized for fast rendering. ## Time Travel Retention - **Shadow-repo cleanup**: automatic retention sweeps remove orphaned shadow repositories from deleted chats, optionally age-out stale history, repair stranded `index.lock` files, and set aside corrupt repos — all configurable from plugin settings. - Sweeps run in a background thread (default every 6 hours) with durable logging and running totals. ## Fixes - **SSRF regression in document queries** (CVE-2026-4308): remote document downloads now route through the public-only HTTP fetcher, rejecting private targets including through redirects. - **File download path resolution**: individual and bulk downloads resolve from the filesystem root, matching what the File Browser and editor expose. - **Chat deletion guard**: empty or whitespace-only context IDs are rejected before any cleanup begins, preventing malformed requests from resolving to the shared chat directory. - **Project change persistence**: project updates and deletion no longer rewrite every loaded chat — only affected chats are saved. - **Assistant-first provider history**: orphaned leading assistant messages are omitted so Claude-compatible providers receive a user-first conversation. - **Plugin Hub dirty-edit preservation**: tracked plugin edits are stashed during updates and restored if the update conflicts, with the conflict surfaced in the UI. - **Responses API fallback**: opaque 400 errors from OpenAI-compatible Responses endpoints trigger a retry through Chat Completions. - **OAuth Codex version header**: upstream model gates are satisfied by attaching the resolved Codex client version header. - **Desktop canvas resize**: the live desktop iframe no longer captures pointer events during left-edge resize drags. - **Idle goal polling removed**: goal revisions push through the shared state monitor instead of recurring API requests. - **Hour-aware duration formatting** for the goal elapsed counter and other long-running displays. - **Open file button in canvas tab bar**: existing files can now be opened at any time without closing all editor tabs.
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