Agents Remember releases

Agents Remember 2.9.0

Closeout is now worktree-only, branch-memory carryover covers every artifact kind, and the README's Status section now states where the project is and where it is going — with release history living here, in GitHub Releases.

⚠️ Breaking change — deliberate Stability exception

• The direct_closeout_preview and direct_closeout_apply MCP tools are removed (GitHub #62). Worktree-only closeout was the original design intent of the session lifecycle: every change to a managed repo — chat builds included — runs through a code + memory worktree, keeping external memory consistent and auditable. The direct path was a leftover from an incomplete cleanup. Migration: worktree_start → work → worktree_closeout_preview / worktree_closeout_apply.
• Under the Stability promise, tool removals belong to a major bump. This ships in a minor release as a recorded, deliberate exception: 3.0 is reserved for the dashboard/observability architecture named in the README's new Status section.

Highlights

• Worktree-only closeout doctrine (#62): tools, skills (l-01-session-job-lifecycle, c-12-closeout), docs, and tests aligned; the MCP tool surface goes 37 → 36.
• Carryover artifact coverage: memory_carryover_plan / memory_carryover_apply now also carry the repo entity catalog and memory-only doc updates between memory branches.
• Repository rename sweep: stale agents-remember-md references swept across docs and onboarding after the GitHub rename to agents-remember.

Docs And Public Surface

• The README Status section is rewritten from the per-release narrative chain (a de-facto changelog) into a two-paragraph current state + direction statement; per-release history now lives in GitHub Releases — this page is the canonical changelog.
• system/git-workflow.md / system/tools.md (memory layer): the version-bump location count corrected to three (pyproject, SERVER_VERSION, README Status).

Agents Remember 2.0.0

A major, breaking release: the session job lifecycle (L-01) becomes the primitive the coordinator routes into, the chat and heavy task workflows are retired in favor of light tasks + master/sub-task composition, and the skill tree is flattened. Read this before upgrading — some public contracts changed.

Highlights

• L-01 session job lifecycle — every session runs orient → ground → frame → decide → build → close. The job type (bug / feature / triage / research) is a framing lens, not a gate; the only task-format call is L-01's build-mode step: read-only exit, chat build (worktree, no task file), or a durable W-02 task.
• Retired the chat (W-03) and heavy (W-01) workflows — W-03's doctrine is migrated and modernized into L-01; W-01 is replaced by a W-02 master + light sub-task series (one wrapper folder, flat numbered sub-tasks, one shared worktree, a commit per slice, one release).
• Flat skills — U-01-core-skills is dissolved; every skill sits directly under skills/, and the installer simply copies the flat tree (no tree/namespace layout).
• Post-merge ledger automation — C-11 carryover now maps the PR merge commit, so a worktree based off a freshly-merged gated branch no longer blocks on a manual ledger reconciliation.

Breaking changes

• Removed skill IDs: W-01-heavy-task-workflow, W-03-chat-task-workflow (and the heavy phase skills).
• skills_install no longer accepts a layout input — the installer is a flat copy.
• WorkflowKind drops the heavy / heavy-task values.

Upgrade

Reinstall the MCP (uvx --refresh, or pin agents-remember-mcp==2.0.0) and restart the harness, then re-run skill install (with overwrite) so the flat skill set replaces the old layout. Existing memory and onboarding are unaffected.