5.4.0 (2026-01-18)

Bug Fixes

• add spawn timeout to prevent infinite hang when provider CLI hangs (57f145f)
• adversarial-tester: close CANNOT_VALIDATE abuse loopholes (e3bdf31)
• conductor: add negative examples to prevent false CRITICAL classifications (#85) (6101fa4)
• hooks: escape template patterns in substituted values (8cf4938), closes #60
• metrics: poll for real PID from task store (#92) (6afda6d)
• orchestrator cluster_id and Codex git repo check (#88) (05f224c)
• orchestrator cluster_id and Codex git repo check (#90) (bace190)
• output-parser: handle text blocks in assistant messages for Haiku (#65) (3b54e67), closes #52
• pid: fetch real Claude process PID from tasks.json after spawn (c829bb8)
• prevent infinite hang when provider CLI hangs (opencode 429 bug) (3305da8)
• prompts: add generalization check, use generic context files (#94) (2469f92)
• spawn: disconnect IPC channel to allow parent process exit (e89241d)
• validators: enforce actual execution with testResults schema (3431dff)
• validators: skip CANNOT_VALIDATE criteria on retry iterations (a3c5de3)

Features

• Add Claude API key management and authentication (#62) (cf142c8)
• adversarial-tester: add DI/architectural testing guidance (#86) (7bf8f02)
• adversarial-tester: add verification fallback strategy (#87) (861b052)
• ci: enforce merge queue workflow for dev branch (#67) (d353466)
• commands: add /analyze command for cluster debugging (fc3b01e)
• hooks: add conditional topic publishing via hook logic scripts (c052b52), closes #60 #60
• List episodes chronologically (#78) (8b64f55), closes #2
• List episodes chronologically (#81) (618e21c), closes #2
• prompts: compress validator prompts 3x smaller, OUTPUT FORMAT at end (#91) (b6a13ae)
• providers: add multi-provider issue support with git auto-detection (#82) (a99b209), closes #61
• validation: add CANNOT_VALIDATE status for impossible verification steps (2151e7f)