v1.16.25
web-infra-dev/midscenev1.16.25Oct 4, 2026by github-actions[bot]
Upgrading?
AI Summary
Focuses on communication management and remote update automation. New commands for notifications and outbox management are added, while remotes now manage their own update timers and background tasks display correctly.
Key Highlights
- Added `agent-deck conductor notify` for urgent/info message batching.
- Added `agent-deck conductor outbox` to list pending messages.
- Replies now return to the sender via tagging.
- Remotes now manage their own update timers automatically.
- Fixed background workflows to show as running instead of idle.
New Features
- Notification tiers (urgent vs info digest)
- Outbox listing and acknowledgment
- Reply tagging for sessions
- Remote drain command with talkback interval
- Comms Ledger (opt-in, off by default)
Full Release Notes
Agent Deck 1.16.25 is about who hears what, and when: agents talk to each other and to you with less noise, and remotes now look after their own updates. - **Upgrading:** re-run `agent-deck conductor setup <name>` once per conductor to install the updated Telegram/Slack/Discord bridge. Remotes install or migrate their own update timer on their next update; nothing to do by hand. ### Added - A conductor can message you from any turn with `agent-deck conductor notify --tier urgent|info`: urgent goes out at once, info is batched into a digest (every 30 min by default), and nothing is lost when the bridge or the chat platform is down (#2474). - `agent-deck conductor outbox` lists and acknowledges what is waiting to reach you (#2474). - Replies go back to whoever asked: a `session send` from one agent to another is tagged with the sender, and the answer lands in the sender's inbox and wakes it. Turn off with `[send] tag_sends = false` or `--no-tag` (#2475). - `agent-deck remote drain` only ships what is new since the last drain and wakes the conductor for urgent items; `[remotes.<name>] talkback_interval_secs` runs it on a schedule, and a dead link raises one urgent alert instead of going silent (#2477). - `agent-deck inbox cursor` shows where each remote drain left off (#2477). - Comms Ledger (opt-in, off by default): a durable record of every finished agent turn behind `[comms] ledger`; see docs/comms.md (#2476). - `remote list --check` and the TUI remote preview show each remote's update timer (installed, kind, active, last and next run); `remote update --install-timer` installs or migrates it over SSH (#2483). - `update --check --json` reports the outcome of the controller's last update nudge to each remote (`remote_nudges`) (#2483). ### Changed - Only a finished task, an error or a question to the parent counts as urgent; a plain reply or progress note is info and no longer wakes the parent (#2478). - A child started with the identity block no longer gets the completion instruction twice in its launch message (#2474). ### Fixed - Remotes keep their own daily update timer: it is installed or healed on its own, an old hand-made `agentdeck-autoupdate.timer` is migrated with backups instead of being reported as missing, and `[updates] manage_timer = false` turns this off (#2483, fixes #2472). - A Claude session running a background Workflow, background agents, background shells or a Monitor now shows as running (with the task and progress in the TUI preview and in `--json` as `background_work`) instead of idle, and the sender of a send that started it gets the real result when it finishes (#2479, fixes #2473). - Closing an event bus now stops and waits for its subscriptions first, fixing a data race that could hit a closed lock file and made CI flaky (#2485, fixes #2484). Contributors: @asheshgoplani (all changes in this release).
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