Last tagged release: v5.3.2 (2026-03-15)
Current package version on main: v5.3.3
Playback truth: main
Runtimes: Node.js 22.x, Bun, Deno
Current strategic focus: agent-first for the next few cycles
Fresh planning workflow: WORKFLOW.md
STATUS.md remains a compact snapshot, but new planning now starts from
WORKFLOW.md, legends, backlog items, invariants, and cycle docs.
- The human CLI/TUI is already real and ahead of the old planning docs.
- M17 closeout work is materially on
main, even though the release/docs bookkeeping drifted. - Early repo-explorer and TUI refresh work also landed on
mainahead of the old sequence. - The biggest product gap is now the missing first-class agent CLI.
- Human CLI/TUI: stable operator surface, boring by default,
--jsonkept as convenience structured output for humans and simple scripts. - Agent CLI: next priority surface, JSONL-first, non-interactive, and
separate from the human
--jsonpath.
A human operator can store, inspect, verify, restore, and manage artifacts with confidence and without memorizing Git plumbing.
A coding agent, CI job, or release bot can execute core git-cas workflows
through a stable machine contract without scraping prose or depending on TTY
behavior.
Sponsor user
- Maintainer or release engineer building automation around
git-cas
Sponsor agent
- Coding agent, CI job, release bot, or backup workflow
Hill
- Read-heavy
git-casoperations become available through a first-class JSONL-first machine protocol with explicit exit-code semantics.
Immediate work order
- protocol design doc
- contract tests
- dedicated machine runner
- read-heavy command parity
- Stay agent-first until state-changing flows are also credible for automation.
- Resume major human-surface work only after the agent surface has forced cleaner app-layer boundaries.
| Order | Focus |
|---|---|
| Now | Relay foundation |
| Next | Relay follow-through |
| Then | Nouveau |
| Later | Sentinel, Atelier, Cartographer, Courier, Spectrum, Bastion |
Future detail: ROADMAP.md | Cycle history: docs/design/README.md | Release history: CHANGELOG.md