oh-my-codex v0.18.12

Draft status: release-prep PR body source before tagging. Keep publication proof updates in docs/qa/release-readiness-0.18.12.md after PR CI, tag workflow, GitHub release creation, and npm publication.

0.18.12 is a patch release after 0.18.11 focused on release-workflow reconciliation, safer runtime automation gates, plugin guidance preservation, Windows hook/state robustness, and HUD/session cleanup. It preserves the existing CLI/package contract while tightening release and operator edge cases discovered after 0.18.11.

Highlights

• Release workflow history is reconciled for 0.18.12 — the release prep branch carries the main manual npm publishing workflow and npm auth configuration history forward while keeping the local prep boundary intact: no tag, no main merge, and no local npm publish.
• Automation and planning gates are stricter — Autopilot final gates, best-practice-research read-only enforcement, ralplan consensus guards, deep-interview artifact writes, and Windows-safe omx state input handling reduce unsafe or confusing execution paths.
• Plugin guidance handling is safer — persistent AGENTS guidance, setup plugin agent merge repair, developer-instruction prompt policy, setup mode inference, JSON fallback, and cleanup preservation are all hardened.
• HUD/session behavior is more reliable — stale HUD cleanup, dev version labels, owner matching, terminal skill-active visibility, cancel run-dir visibility, and detached history pruning are tightened.
• Windows hook paths are safer — hook shims preserve Path, emit omx.cmd, use absolute PowerShell hook paths, and include UTF-8 BOM handling for non-ASCII install paths.

Fixes / compatibility

• Existing CLI, plugin, native-agent, HUD, state, hook, and package layout contracts remain compatible with 0.18.11.
• The release keeps npm/package layout compatibility and updates root/plugin/Cargo metadata to 0.18.12.
• Open GitHub PR and issue inventory was empty at release prep time.

Merged PR inventory

#2760, #2762, #2765, #2766, #2768, #2771, #2773, #2774, #2776, #2798, #2800, #2801, #2802, #2805, #2806, #2810, #2812.

Validation

Release readiness evidence is recorded in docs/qa/release-readiness-0.18.12.md.

Local release-prep gates include build, version sync for v0.18.12, lint, no-unused, native-agent verification, plugin mirror/bundle checks, catalog docs check, focused hook/state tests, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check. Branch CI, tag-triggered release workflow, GitHub release proof, and npm publication proof remain post-PR/tag publication gates.

The GitHub release workflow remains the authoritative cross-platform native asset gate after tag push, including the uploaded native-release-manifest.json.

Contributors

Thanks to @Yeachan-Heo for contributing to this release.

Full Changelog: v0.18.11...v0.18.12