v0.9.8 release notes

v0.9.8 is an interface release. The phosphor theme shipped in v0.9.3 — pure black, thin frames, amber/green/cyan — but the layouts never did; the screens were the old composition wearing the new colours. This release implements the full layout overhaul across every screen, rebuilds the CONSOLE into a two-column command floor, and replaces the attach buttons with paste-to-attach. No engine changes — this is the interface catching up to the design.

The Feng-Tui layout overhaul

The purpose: the theme and the layout should agree. After v0.9.3 the colours were new but the arrangement was still the old cyan-dashboard composition.

What changed: every screen is ported to its intended layout. The list tabs — TICKETS, LOGS, JT LIBRARY, SKILLS, ARTIFACTS — share a controls row with live / search, counts, and a per-pane affordance hint. CONFIG·MODELS, CONFIG·AGENTS, and PROJECTS are configurators: a persistent registry on the left, with the add/edit steps swapping into a companion pane beside it. MEMORY is one unified layered list (episodic / semantic / team) with add, edit, delete, and Markdown export. Two net-new screens arrive: JOBS (a run-folder browser) and DOCS (an offline documentation reader).

The CONSOLE — a two-column command floor

The purpose: the place you talk to the Leader and watch the team work should read like a control surface, not a chat log.

What changed: the CONSOLE flips (F4) between two views. MOD SQUAD puts a live run-telemetry rail — the producer roster — beside the workers’ stream. LEADER is a full-width conversation with the Leader. Above both sits a single app-level status-lamp row carrying the run’s state (leader · mods · qc · running · tickets), and the leader/tickets lamps blink for attention while you’re watching the floor. The composer is focused and ready to type the moment it opens — no click first — inside a single clean frame.

Jobs launch from the chat

The purpose: starting a job should be deliberate, never a fat-finger.

What changed: a job starts only from the LEADER chat by bracketing it — /kickoff <objective> /end — instead of a separate kickoff box. The launch is transactional: it commits only when accepted, and if it’s refused (for example, a job is already running) it keeps your brief and tells you why, so nothing is lost.

Paste-to-attach

The purpose: attaching a screenshot or a file should be keyboard-native, not a button hunt.

What changed: in the CONSOLE composer, Ctrl+V a clipboard image (a screenshot) or a copied file path and it rides with your next message. Pasted text still pastes as text. The old attach buttons are gone.

Runs over SSH; switching projects refreshes the roster

The purpose: reach the interface from anywhere, and keep the per-project view honest.

What changed: modulatio-tui is a standard terminal app with no local-display dependency, so it runs over an SSH login (OS-clipboard and external openers degrade gracefully when there’s no local display). And because agents are per-project, switching projects now refreshes the AGENTS roster to the new project’s team instead of showing the previous one’s.

Reviewed, end to end

The overhaul and the console rebuild each cleared a multi-lens cadre review before shipping — a security pass (which found and remediated symlink-escape paths by running the attacks, not just reading them), a hull pass for terminal-state correctness, a contract pass, and a coherence pass against the signed mockups. The full test suite — 4837 tests — passes.