repo-mailbox/CHANGELOG.md
Kjell Tore Guttormsen 459c9feec0 feat(sweep): close the aged FYI backlog without a human in the loop
A notice needs no answer, but it is still re-injected at every session
start until someone closes it by hand. Across enough repositories that
hand-closing IS the manual work the mailbox was meant to remove, and the
pending count -- the operator's only signal -- drowns in messages that
were never going to be acted on: 9 of 22 pending messages across 12
mailboxes were pure notices when this was written.

coord-sweep.sh closes exactly one mechanically decidable class:
reply-expected: no, older than a grace window (default 14 days). A
message that owes a reply is never touched, at any age, with any flag --
answering it would mean deciding something on the receiving repo's
behalf, which is the one thing this system exists to prevent.

Four properties are load-bearing, not incidental:

- Dry-run is the default, inverted from the rest of the engine. The
  others print or deliver; this one destroys pending state, so the safe
  direction has to be what you get by forgetting a flag.
- Closing goes through coord-done.sh --repo, never mv, so the archive
  layout and the _broadcast refusal stay in one place.
- Age is read from the filename prefix, never the file. An unreadable
  age is never treated as old: fail-safe, not fail-open.
- Every closure is logged with sender and subject. Directed messages
  have no seen-tracking, so the sweep cannot tell "seen and ignored"
  from "never delivered" -- a notice can be closed unread, and the log
  is the only thing standing between that and silent data loss.

The reply-expected read is bounded to the frontmatter block, matching
coord-count.sh: a body line claiming it at column 0 is untrusted
cross-repo input and must not close its own message.

No scheduler, no launchd unit, no skill front door -- the script does
nothing until invoked.

Selftest 159 -> 182. The log check caught a real defect during
development: the first implementation read from/subject AFTER
coord-done.sh had moved the file, logging empty values and quietly
defeating the only safeguard the design has.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uwcak9j4m9JijDKeFmptww
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# Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
## [0.14.0] - 2026-08-01
### Added
- **`scripts/coord-sweep.sh` — the FYI backlog closes itself, deterministically
and without a model.** A notice needs no answer, but it is still re-injected at
every session start until someone closes it by hand. Across enough
repositories that hand-closing *is* the manual work the mailbox was supposed to
remove, and the pending count — the operator's only signal — drowns in messages
that were never going to be acted on. At the time of writing, 9 of 22 pending
messages across 12 mailboxes were pure notices.
The sweep closes exactly one mechanically decidable class: a directed message
whose sender declared `reply-expected: no`, older than a grace window (default
14 days, `--days`). **A message that owes a reply is never touched, at any age,
with any flag** — answering it would mean deciding something on the receiving
repo's behalf, which is the one thing this system exists to prevent a session
from doing.
Four properties are load-bearing rather than incidental:
- **Dry-run is the default**, inverted from every other script here. The others
print or deliver; this one destroys pending state, so the safe direction has
to be the one you get by forgetting a flag.
- **Closing goes through `coord-done.sh --repo`, never `mv`.** The engine owns
the filename grammar and the archive layout, and it already refuses
`_broadcast` on its own — archiving out of there would retire an announcement
for every repo that has not read it yet, an unauthenticated retract.
- **Age is read from the filename prefix, never from the file.** A name the
grammar does not produce has no readable age, and an unreadable age is never
treated as old: fail-safe, not fail-open.
- **Every closure is logged** (`$CLAUDE_COORD_DIR/_sweep.log` by default) with
sender and subject. This is not bookkeeping. A directed message has no
seen-tracking — only broadcasts do — so the sweep cannot distinguish "seen and
ignored" from "never delivered", and a notice to a repo left unopened for the
whole window is closed **unread**. That is an accepted tradeoff; the log is
the only thing standing between it and a silent disappearance.
The `reply-expected` read is bounded to the frontmatter block, matching
`coord-count.sh`: a body line claiming `reply-expected: no` at column 0 is
untrusted cross-repo input and must not be able to close its own message. That
is the one place where getting it wrong would let another repo delete its way
out of your inbox.
Scoped deliberately: no scheduler, no launchd unit, no skill front door. The
script does nothing until invoked.
- Selftest 159 → 182 checks (new section 29). The log check caught a real defect
during development — the first implementation read `from`/`subject` *after*
`coord-done.sh` had already moved the file, logging empty values and quietly
defeating the only safeguard the design has.
## [0.13.0] - 2026-07-31
### Added
- **`route.sh` now emits `--advisor opus` into the startup command, per row and
on a need.** The advisor is a second, stronger model consulted at key moments
during a session; Claude Code exposes it both as a launch flag and as the
global `advisorModel` setting that `/advisor` writes. The setting was tried
and abandoned here because it applies to every session in every repo and
burned quota accordingly — but nothing replaced it, so the flag went
effectively unused and `route.sh` never mentioned it. Two independent
triggers now decide it:
- **rows 1-2, always.** The main model is Sonnet, so `opus` is a capability
*lift* rather than a peer — Opus judgement at Sonnet cost. This half is
load-bearing: every `fallback-command` is one row cheaper and the cheapest
rows are the Sonnet ones, so this is what makes the quota fallback safe to
take.
- **rows 3-4, only at `reversibility=costly|one-way`.** The main model is
already Opus, so the advisor buys peer review — worth paying for when a
mistake is not cheap to undo.
- **rows 5-6, never.** Not a judgement call: the CLI rejects every advisor
for a Fable main model, and refuses `opus` as under-capable for one.
The two triggers are almost disjoint by construction, since `costly` forces
row 3 and `one-way` forces row 4 — so a Sonnet row always has
`reversibility=cheap`, and neither rule can reach the other's rows.
`verification=none` is deliberately **not** a third trigger: beyond the stakes
rule the only cases it would add are mistakes that are cheap to reverse, docs
sessions (`known/none/cheap/local`) among them. The decision is applied per
ROW rather than once, so `fallback-command` carries its own correct answer.
`route-selftest.sh` grows 17 checks (56 -> 73). Section 14 pins the rule and
gates the three CLI facts it rests on against the installed `claude` without
spending a token: advisor validation runs before the empty-prompt check, so
`-p ""` reaches the validator and stops there. `--help` cannot serve as that
gate — it short-circuits before option validation, so even an unknown flag
exits 0 and the gate would pass without testing anything.
`skills/route/SKILL.md` gains the two failure modes worth naming: paste
`command` verbatim rather than dropping the advisor as noise, never add one to
a command that came back without it, and remember that `--advisor` is a launch
flag — `/clear` reuses the process and keeps whatever advisor the session
started with, so it is not enough when the advisor changes.
## [0.12.1] - 2026-07-31
### Fixed
- **`coord-send`'s own script-path expression fell back to a stale deployed
copy.** A Bash tool call never has `CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT` set as a real shell
variable — only the skill's own markdown rendering resolves that bare
token — so the `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.claude}` fallback silently won
every time the engine line was actually executed, routing through whatever
the operator's personal `~/.claude/scripts/coord-send.sh` happened to be
instead of the plugin's own bundled script. Same defect class `board.sh`
was already fixed for. Reported live by org-ops: a `--fyi` send hit an old
deployed copy lacking the flag. `coord-selftest.sh` grows three checks
(156 -> 159) pinning the fix.
## [0.12.0] - 2026-07-31
### Fixed
- **The last-session record asked the operator for the one field it could
measure.** `route-last` (0.10.0) exists to make the routing policy
falsifiable — a policy that always answers "Opus" is not a policy — and it
only is if `--last-effort` reports what the session actually ran with.
`route.sh` documented the opposite as settled fact: that a session cannot
observe its own effort from the inside. That was true when written and is not
now. Claude Code exports `CLAUDE_EFFORT` into every tool-use context as the
session's current effort, so a single Bash call reads it.
**The premise had a cost, and it was the record's weakest field.** With effort
unobservable, the record could only be completed by asking the operator at
session end, which made all four fields block on their presence. It was also
the weaker measurement, in exactly the way the previous board line is: the
operator reads the effort off the startup command they typed, so both sources
report what was *prescribed* rather than what was *run*. Those come apart
precisely when the record would be worth having — as a session that silently
ran `xhigh` under a board line saying `high` already showed. Reading the
variable makes all four fields knowable from inside the ending session, so the
record no longer waits on anyone.
**`route.sh` still does not read the variable, deliberately.** The skill
measures and passes `--last-effort`; the calculator only computes. A
calculator that consults its environment is no longer deterministic from its
arguments, and the route → board round trip in selftest section 6 rests on
that determinism.
- **The reading had a trap that would have hidden itself.** Skill frontmatter
overrides the session effort while that skill is active, so an `effort:` field
in `skills/route/SKILL.md` would make the reading report the skill instead of
the session — a measurement quietly measuring itself, with nothing in the
output to show it happened. Section 13 pins the absence of that field.
- **The neighbouring claim about the model was also wrong, in the other
direction.** There is no `CLAUDE_MODEL` to read: `model` is a SessionStart
field and documented as not guaranteed. The session takes the model from what
it knows itself to be running as, and only the effort is measured.
`route-selftest.sh`: 50 → 56 checks.
## [0.11.0] - 2026-07-31
### Added
- **`reply-expected` — the format can finally say "this one needs no answer".**
Rule 7 (0.5.0) shipped an obligation on a format with four fields, none of
which could tell a question from a notice. Two consequences fell out of that
gap and both are now closed: the injection had to name both terminal states
and prefer neither, and `coord-count.sh` had to treat every unarchived file as
a reply owed. `coord-send.sh --fyi` writes `reply-expected: no`; omitting it
writes `yes`.
**Absent means expected.** Every message already on disk lacks the field, and
so does every caller not yet updated, so absence keeps meaning what it always
meant. The failure mode of a forgotten flag is then over-counting debt —
visible and harmless — rather than debt that never surfaces. A reply is not a
special case: it expects one back unless it says otherwise, because a hidden
exception is the kind of implicit rule this engine refuses.
**A broadcast is always `reply-expected: no`**, with or without `--fyi`. Not a
defaulted value: `--reply-to` resolves inside the recipient's own mailbox and
a broadcast never lands there, so there is no reply path to promise.
**The field is frontmatter, and only frontmatter.** Bodies are untrusted
cross-repo input, so the read is bounded to the block between the two `---`
terminators — a body line reading `reply-expected: no` at column 0 cannot
silence a real debt, and a file without valid frontmatter counts as owing a
reply. That is stricter than the `grep -m1` the older fields use, where
frontmatter-comes-first happens to save them.
### Changed
- **`coord-done.sh --all` says how many replies it closed without sending.** It
is the third script that acts on pending messages, and the field makes a
silent bulk close possible: one command archives every pending message,
including the ones whose sender expects an answer. The behavior is unchanged
and deliberately so - the receiver keeps both terminal states, and a bulk
close is legitimate. The silence is what changed: Rule 7 requires an
unanswered message to be *stated*, and a path reporting only a total hid
exactly the thing that has to be stated. A named close stays quiet, because
naming a message is already deliberate, one message at a time.
- **`coord-count.sh` prints two integers per mailbox**, not one:
`<mailbox>\t<pending>\t<debt>`. Replacing pending *with* debt was the obvious
reading of "count debt rather than unarchived messages" and it is wrong here.
`board.sh` counts the same inbox files itself, so a debt-only count would put
two different numbers under one name with nothing to reconcile them; and a
mailbox holding only notices would read as empty while its messages keep being
re-injected until someone closes them. The cross-repo line follows:
*"N unhandled messages (M awaiting a reply) across K other mailboxes"*.
- **Rule 7's wording, because its stated reason expired.** The injection said
"Neither is the default" *because* the format could not distinguish the two
kinds. It now can, so each message is marked with the terminal state its
sender expects — and the text states, load-bearingly, that the marking is a
**declaration, not an instruction**: the receiver keeps both terminal states
and may close a reply-expected message with `coord-done`, stating the reason.
Without that clause the new field would be a lever any sender could pull to
mint obligations in another repo, which is precisely the procedural/substantive
split Rule 6 exists to hold. Selftest section 20 pins both halves together, as
it has since 0.5.0.
## [0.10.0] - 2026-07-31
### Added
- **`route.sh` + the `route` skill - the writer for the board's cost field.**
`next-cost` had a reader and no writer, so it was retyped by hand every
session; measured across the operator's tree, the existing board lines carried
eight distinct spellings of a field with one documented form. `route.sh` is a
pure calculator: four scored traits of the next task (`path`, `verification`,
`reversibility`, `scope`) plus a required rationale, and it prints the rubric
row, the `next-cost` value, a pasteable startup command and the one-row-cheaper
fallback. Escalation is asymmetric - any single trait escalates, the cheapest
row needs all four at the cheap end. The row table is a closed set of six, so a
seventh spelling cannot enter circulation, and selftest section 6 runs the
round trip (route emits, board parses) inside one repo instead of across two.
The table is the operator's global model rubric, moved here as the single
copy: two copies of one policy drift, and a table in a prose file cannot be
tested. Scoring is judgement and stays in the skill; turning scores into a row
is a lookup and costs no model calls.
### Fixed
- **The board line's `next-cost` field had two specs, and one of them was
ours.** `board.sh --help` prescribed a versionless `sonnet/xhigh` while the
global model rubric it points at spells the model `Sonnet 5 / xhigh`. Neither
a session following the help nor one following the rubric was doing anything
wrong, so the field drifted: measured across a real 44-repo tree, the 14
existing board lines carried **eight** distinct strings — and not one used the
form documented here. The help now prescribes the rubric's spelling
(`Sonnet 5/xhigh`), which is also the one most lines already use.
**The parser is unchanged and stays lenient.** It still reads to `;` or
`-->` rather than stopping at the first non-lowercase character, precisely so
the rubric's spacing survives; the selftest fixtures still vary the spelling
on purpose to pin that. Leniency on the read side was never the defect — it
is what makes a documentation-only fix sufficient.
**No normalization was added, deliberately.** Board lines are rewritten every
session by convention, so an unambiguous spec self-heals the existing lines
within about one session per active repo. Mapping variants at read time would
be permanent code migrating data that migrates itself, and nothing compares
the field mechanically today: `KOST` is a display column, and the board sorts
on a numeric bucket key. Two new `board-selftest.sh` checks (30 total) pin the
documented form, because a spec that contradicts the rubric regenerates the
divergence no matter how often the data is cleaned up.
## [0.9.0] - 2026-07-28
### Added
- **`board.sh` + the `board` skill — the cross-repo attention board.** The
mailbox answers "who wrote to me"; it never answered "which repo deserves the
next session". `board.sh` scans every discovered repo and reads three sources
per repo: the STATE.md next-step block with its optional board line, `git
status`, and that repo's pending mailbox count. Read-only by construction — it
writes to no repo, no STATE.md and no mailbox — and pinned by
`board-selftest.sh` (28 checks against a throwaway repo tree and a throwaway
mailbox).
**Why it ships here rather than as a personal script.** The mailbox is one of
its three inputs, and the two carry the same axis distinction: a repo's pending
count means *others are waiting on it* (an obligation owed outward), while who
a repo waits *on* is only derivable from its own board line, because the
message format has no reply-to or thread field. Splitting the board from the
mailbox would put that distinction in two places, and a rule enforced in one of
two places is not a rule. It also means the engine resolves through
`CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT` like every other script here, instead of existing only on
the author's machine.
The skill is a ranking, not a report: it re-runs the board on every invocation
(counts drift between turns), ranks by what unblocks the most and what is
cheapest to move, then names one repo, the rule that fired, and the real next
action read from that repo's STATE.md — never the table. Deliberately not wired
into session start: injecting the whole board into every session spends context
on repos the session is not in.
## [0.8.0] - 2026-07-27
### Added
- **`coord-count.sh` — counting without delivering.** Reading *is* delivery in
this engine: `coord-inbox.sh` prints a broadcast and then records it as seen,
so there was no way to ask "what is pending" without answering it. Asking per
repo would have consumed every repo's broadcast backlog as a side effect —
once, silently, and unrecoverably, since the seen set is delivery history that
retraction deliberately leaves alone. `coord-count.sh` counts files instead
and writes nothing: no seen set, no `.origin`.
It keys on **mailboxes**, not repos. It enumerates `$COORD/*` and never scans
a filesystem for checkouts, so a repo without a mailbox is not missing from
the count — it is absent from the domain. Drained mailboxes are omitted rather
than reported as zero, the reserved `_` namespace is skipped, and `--exclude`
drops one mailbox (the caller's own).
- **A cross-repo line in the SessionStart injection.** A session whose own inbox
was empty saw silence and concluded "all clear" while mail sat unanswered in
every other mailbox. The read path now appends one aggregate line:
Elsewhere in the mailbox: 3 unhandled messages across 2 other mailboxes.
Counted, not delivered -- none of it is yours to handle here. Run
coord-count for the per-mailbox breakdown.
Deliberately an **aggregate of two integers, not a roster**. A list of names
would reproduce every other repo's situation inside this repo's injection —
the state boundary the mailbox exists to respect — and mailbox names are
cross-repo input. Two integers cannot carry anything that escapes framing.
The disclaimer is engine behavior, not politeness (Rule 7): the line lands
directly beneath *"handle this inbox FIRST"*, and without it the numbers read
as an extension of that obligation. Pinned in selftest section 26, exactly as
section 20 pins the priority text.
### Changed
- **BREAKING (injection contract): the read path is no longer silent whenever
*this* repo has nothing pending.** It is now a silent no-op only when the
whole mailbox is empty. The empty-inbox session is precisely the one that
needed the cross-repo line, so coupling the line to having your own mail would
have hidden it from its only real audience. Three selftest assertions that
used "no output at all" as a proxy for "nothing was delivered" now assert the
absence of the content itself, which is what they always meant.
## [0.7.0] - 2026-07-27
### Added
- **`CLAUDE_COORD_REPO` — declaring an identity for a non-git surface.** 0.6.0
removed the working-directory fallback, which was right, but it left every
non-git working surface (`~/repos`, `$HOME`) with nothing to derive from: the
read path declines silently, so such a surface simply stops seeing its inbox,
with no error and no exit code. That is the same loss-looks-like-normal shape
0.6.0 set out to remove. The hook now reads `CLAUDE_COORD_REPO` and forwards
it verbatim as `--repo`, so a directory can *declare* which mailbox it owns:
{ "env": { "CLAUDE_COORD_REPO": "repos" } }
This is not the fallback returning. The fallback guessed a name from wherever
the session happened to stand; a declaration is written down, readable back,
and deletable. Because it forwards as `--repo` it inherits every engine rule,
including that an explicit override never claims `<repo>/.origin` — otherwise
a surface borrowing a name could steal the claim from the checkout that owns
it. Both halves are pinned by tests.
## [0.6.0] - 2026-07-26
### Fixed
- **`_broadcast` is a reserved namespace, not a repo.** `coord-send` guarded
retraction with a sender check, but that guard only covered the door it was
nailed to: `coord-done --repo _broadcast <file>` archived a broadcast out of
the queue — a full unauthenticated retract of an announcement for every repo
that had not read it yet. The whole `_` prefix is now reserved, in every CLI,
so a later `_seen` or `_config` cannot reopen the hole.
- **Repo identity is derived, never invented.** The fallback to
`basename(pwd)` is gone. It existed so the CLI would work anywhere, but
"anywhere" includes every global surface: a session in `~/repos` is not a
repo, and the fallback silently handed it the identity `repos` — under which
real mail was delivered. git toplevel or an explicit `--from`/`--repo` are
now the only sources. Write paths exit 2 and name the fix; the read path
declines silently, because the hook runs at every session start and must
never fail a session.
- **Broadcast delivery is recorded only after the injection is written.**
Marking inside the read loop left a window where the seen set said
"delivered" while the operator saw nothing — and the hook runs under
`timeout: 10`, so the window was reachable. A lost broadcast is
unrecoverable by design (the seen set is delivery history, and retraction
deliberately leaves it alone), so the failure mode is now redelivery.
- **The hook no longer resolves identity at all.** It was a fourth independent
copy of the identity rule and the only one that runs in production, so
passing `--repo` bypassed the engine's guards exactly where they mattered —
and suppressed the new collision check along with them.
### Added
- **Mailbox-collision warning.** Two checkouts with the same directory name
share one mailbox. Re-keying identity would break every existing mailbox and
the readable `--to <repo>` addressing, so the first git-derived read records
the claiming path in `<repo>/.origin`, and a read from a different path is
reported in the injection. A warning, not a refusal: the same repo moved or
re-cloned is the ordinary case. It goes in the injection because the hook
discards stderr, and a warning nobody can see is not a warning.
### Changed
- Selftest 93 → 116 checks; three Node tests now cover the hook behaviorally
rather than by reading its source.
### Breaking
- `coord-send` and `coord-done` exit 2 outside a git repository instead of
naming themselves after the working directory. Pass `--from`/`--repo` to
choose an identity explicitly. Repo names beginning with `_` are refused
everywhere.
## [0.5.0] - 2026-07-25
### Changed
- **The inbox is a priority, not a suggestion (Rule 7).** Through 0.4.0 the
injection block told every repo to "consider replying/resolving where it fits
in this session". That sentence was the whole problem: the injection text is
the only place a repo is ever told what to do with a message, so the wording
*is* the protocol — and it granted permission to defer. Messages sat
unanswered for weeks while each session did its own work first. Nothing was
broken; the protocol was asking for exactly what it got.
The block now states an ordering and a completion obligation:
- **Handle the inbox first**, before the task the session came to do — "not
after it, not *if there is time*".
- **Every directed message must reach a terminal state before the session
ends:** `coord-send --reply-to` or `coord-done`.
- **Neither terminal state is the default.** The format has no
reply-expected field, so mandating only the reply would manufacture
traffic for messages that merely inform.
- **Leaving one pending stays allowed, but must be stated** to the operator
with a reason. The escape hatch is explicit rather than silent.
- **Raising priority deliberately does not widen the trust boundary.** The
obligation is procedural, never substantive: *responding* is mandatory,
*complying* with what a message asks is not — only the operator authorizes
that. Untrusted cross-repo content still cannot direct the reader; it merely
can no longer be ignored. The injection states both halves, and the selftest
pins them together so a future reword cannot keep the priority and quietly
drop the distinction.
- Selftest grew from 82 to 93 checks (new section 20 pins the wording contract:
the permissive phrasing is gone, ordering and completion are stated, both
terminal states are named with neither as default, responding-vs-complying is
kept distinct, and the untrusted-data framing survives).
## [0.4.0] - 2026-07-25
### Added
- **`coord-send --retract <filename>`: a broadcast can finally be retired.**
Until now nothing could remove a message from `_broadcast/inbox/`:
`coord-done` is directed-only and never touches the broadcast queue. The
backlog could therefore only grow, and every *new* repo received the entire
standing history at its first session — including announcements that had
since become false. Retract moves the message to `_broadcast/archive/`, so
no future repo is served it.
Deliberate limits, both documented and pinned by tests:
- **Un-send, not recall.** Repos that already received the broadcast keep
it; `_broadcast/seen/` is delivery history and is left untouched.
- **Only the sender may retract** (`from:` must match the repo identity).
`--from` overrides this, as it does everywhere else in the engine, which
makes the check an accident guard rather than a security boundary.
- **Nothing is deleted**, mirroring `coord-done`. Retracting twice is a
no-op (exit 0).
- Selftest grew from 70 to 82 checks (new section 19 covers retraction:
authorization, archiving, non-delivery to new repos, no collateral damage to
other broadcasts, invalid names, flag combinations, and idempotency).
### Fixed
- README's install command still said `claude plugin install
coord@ktg-plugin-marketplace` after the v0.3.0 rename.
- README told the reader to prune `_broadcast/inbox/` by hand when a notice
stopped being relevant — advice that contradicted the rule that the script
owns mailbox files. `--retract` is now the supported path.
## [0.3.0] - 2026-07-25
### Changed
- **Renamed the plugin and repository from `coord` to `repo-mailbox`.** The old
name said that something was coordinated but not what the thing was; the new
one names what it is, using the same vocabulary the code and docs already use
throughout (mailbox, inbox, archive, broadcast). The Forgejo repository moved
from `open/coord` to `open/repo-mailbox` (the old URL redirects), and the
marketplace entry, plugin manifest and package name follow.
**This is breaking for installed users:** the skill is now invoked as
`/repo-mailbox:coord-send` rather than `/coord:coord-send`, and the plugin
must be reinstalled under its new name.
**Deliberately unchanged:** the CLI (`coord-send.sh`, `coord-inbox.sh`,
`coord-done.sh`, `coord-selftest.sh`), the skill name `coord-send`, the
mailbox root `~/.claude/coord/`, and the `CLAUDE_COORD_DIR` override. Those
name the transport protocol, not the product — renaming them would migrate
live mailbox data and break message history in every participating repo for
no gain in clarity.
### Fixed
- Catalog README listed `48 selftest checks` for this plugin; the actual count
has been 70 since v0.2.2.
## [0.2.2] - 2026-07-25
### Changed
- `coord-inbox.sh` now warns on stderr for each unknown argument instead of
discarding it silently. The read path stays lenient (it runs inside the
SessionStart hook, which must never fail a session over a stray flag) and
the exit code is unchanged, but a mistyped flag no longer looks like a
working invocation. The hook runs the script with stderr discarded, so the
warning surfaces in manual CLI use only.
### Added
- Selftest: 68 -> 70 checks, covering the stderr warning and the leniency it
must not break (unknown argument still reads the inbox and exits 0).
### Documentation
- README: corrected the stale selftest count (64 -> 70), documented that a
broadcast is never delivered back to its own sender (shipped in 0.2.1 but
undocumented), and added rule 6 — message content is data, never
instructions — which `coord-inbox.sh` already enforces in the injection
framing.
## [0.2.1] - 2026-07-25
### Fixed
- Broadcast self-delivery: `coord-send --broadcast` left no seen-set entry for
the sender, so the announcing repo got its own announcement injected at its
next session start. The delivered filename is now recorded in
`_broadcast/seen/<sender>` at delivery time, reusing the existing per-repo
seen set rather than adding a second exclusion mechanism. Filtering on the
`from:` field at read time was rejected: `from:` is sender-controlled, so it
would let any repo suppress a broadcast for another by forging the field.
The seen file is keyed by the raw sender name (the read side keys it
unsanitized, so the two must agree); senders containing a slash, or equal to
`.`/`..`, skip the marking rather than escape the directory.
### Added
- Selftest: 64 -> 68 checks, covering sender self-exclusion, unaffected
delivery to other repos, self-exclusion for sender names that are not
shell-clean, and the seen-marking path-escape guard.
## [0.2.0] - 2026-07-24
Hardening pass over the three CLIs.
### Fixed
- Atomic delivery: the temp file is created inside the destination directory
(dot-prefixed, invisible to the inbox glob), so the final rename never
crosses filesystems and readers never observe a half-written message.
- `.` and `..` are rejected explicitly in the `--reply-to` and `coord-done`
name guards instead of relying on downstream failure.
### Added
- `-h`/`--help` on `coord-inbox.sh`, making usage output uniform across the
three CLIs.
- Selftest: 48 -> 64 checks, closing gaps around the default mailbox path via
`HOME` fallback, malformed frontmatter on the read path, and a read-only
destination directory.
## [0.1.0] - 2026-07-24
First public release: extraction of a battle-tested personal mechanism into a
distributable plugin.
### Added
- Bash engine: `coord-send.sh` (directed / broadcast / reply delivery),
`coord-inbox.sh` (pending inbox + unseen broadcasts, formatted for context
injection), `coord-done.sh` (archive without reply), all bash-3.2-safe,
ASCII-only, zero dependencies.
- `coord-selftest.sh`: 48 checks against a throwaway mailbox, including
regression cover for filename sanitization, no-hang argument parsing,
prompt-injection resistance, frontmatter hygiene, and broadcast ordering.
- SessionStart hook (`hooks/scripts/session-start.mjs`): thin zero-dependency
Node wrapper that injects the repo's pending mailbox as
`additionalContext`. Always exits 0 — a broken mailbox never blocks a session.
- `coord-send` skill: natural-language front door (English + Norwegian
triggers) mapping intent to engine invocations, including bounded
multi-target loops, deferred sends, and replies.
### Fixed
- Frontmatter injection: CR/LF and control characters in `--subject`/`--from`
are collapsed before writing, so fields can no longer inject frontmatter
lines or a premature `---` terminator.
- Broadcast loss: a per-repo seen set (`_broadcast/seen/<repo>`, one delivered
filename per line) replaces the single high-water mark, which silently
dropped a same-second broadcast whose filename sorted below one already
seen. Upgrade note: a legacy watermark file is read as a one-entry seen
set, so old broadcasts may be re-delivered once.
### Changed
- Read-side protocol strings are English (`--- message:`, `-> reply:`,
UNTRUSTED DATA framing); the forgery-resistance selftest checks pin the
English tokens.