The panel stored notes, todos and plans inside one shared JSON file that
six unrelated domains also wrote to, synchronised itself through window
CustomEvents, and could only read plans. It is now Project knowledge:
server-owned storage with explicit routes, a store with rollback, a
section sidebar, plans that open and edit in place, and search across
all of it.
Notes and plans the user pins travel with every message sent in that
project. Pinning is project state, not an attachment to one message, so
it holds until unpinned and the work status panel names what is riding
along and can detach it.
Agent memory is added alongside, in two scopes: what is true about the
user, and what is true about this codebase. The split is not cosmetic —
a wrong project fact costs one project and is noticed, while a wrong
global fact quietly shapes every session everywhere and the user has no
code to check it against. It stays separate from notes so an agent
mistake cannot land in what the user wrote. Sessions receive an index of
titles only; bodies are read on demand, because an index carrying full
text grows until it crowds out the conversation.
Deciding what a session must be told, and whether it has been told, now
lives on the server. The client owned it before, which meant sessions
started without a UI — scheduled tasks, sessions the agent dispatches —
received nothing at all, and a tab's record of what it had sent outlived
the conversation: after compaction the agent no longer held the block
while the tab went on believing it did. What was delivered is recorded
in the session's own metadata, and compaction restores it through the
runtime that already restores pinned messages, in the same turn.
Agent memory ships dark behind OPENCHAMBER_MEMORY_ENABLE: unset, there
is no tool, no routes, no session index, no settings row and no panel
tab. Absent rather than switched off, so nothing invites turning on a
feature that has not been announced. Pinned notes and plans are
unaffected and ship as normal.
Adds a work-status panel beside the transcript. Context fill, model and
cost, todos, running subagents and the permission requests blocking
them, branch and working-tree state, MCP servers, pinned messages and
context sources were scattered across the header, the composer and the
context panel — a blocked subagent was reported nowhere at all. The
panel reads them from live channels rather than persisted history, and
becomes an overlay where the chat is too narrow to seat a column.
It is on by default, including for existing installs. Because it now
carries these readouts, the desktop header and composer drop the ones it
duplicates: todo and changed-files chips, usage and MCP tabs. VS Code
and mobile keep theirs — neither hosts the panel.
Fixes MCP authorization, which was broken from the panel, invalidated by
a directory switch through a redirect URI that encoded the working
directory, and left the desktop app in the background because browsers
will not follow a custom-protocol link without a user gesture. The
settings page no longer asks the user to understand the MCP spec before
adding a server: one field takes the command or the link, with the kind
inferred and a visible override, and client-registration fields appear
only when a server actually asks for its own credentials.
Also: skills load from the panel instead of only when the composer's
slash autocomplete opens; the header button names the current instance
rather than falling through to the word "Instance" for relay hosts.
Three new optional UI settings keys, all migrated. No change to stored
MCP server configuration.
Bohdan Triapitsyn