Release Notes — Week of October 26 to November 2, 2026

Eight releases shipped this week, v2.7.0 through v2.7.7, on 179 commits. Of the 150 commits inside this week's audit window, 36 are features and 52 are fixes. The through-line: the first hour of a new swarm got short, then the thousandth task got easier to find, run and review.

Heads up: no API removals this week, but five defaults moved. Tasks have a new terminal status, skipped, so a client that switches on task status should treat it as terminal (#2571). pi now defers tools by default, including installed MCP servers, so tools load on demand (#2453). The Files page turns on by default when the browser can reach agent-fs (#2544). New installs seed fewer default schedules, and the update check runs as a script now; existing schedules are untouched (#2612). An empty outputSchema object now means "no schema" instead of a validation error (#2633).

Highlights

Deploy with one click

#2528 gives you three deploy paths that need no terminal: cloud-init user data on any VM, a DigitalOcean image, and a Railway template. Setup shows the deploy buttons, and the instance lands with the stack already configured.

One short command, an automatic tunnel

#2498 shortens the install to a single curl to a short URL, then opens a tunnel automatically. Webhooks and the UI work from a laptop, so a first swarm no longer needs a public host before you can test a Slack integration. Walkthrough: Getting started.

Onboarding that ships with the batteries

#2442 is the largest change of the week at 323 files. New swarms come up with agent-fs provisioned and local embeddings running, so shared files and memory search work before you configure anything, and setup can invite teammates through a join link. Six follow-ups closed the rough edges: the first task step finishes when its task tree settles (#2497), the default lead profile saves on first boot (#2537), the first session is prepared before you leave setup (#2542), saved model configs are awaited (#2559), every agent switches to the first credential's harness (#2460), and members/invite returns pending invite state with an accept link (#2478). Docs: agent-fs co-deployment, team collaboration.

Sessions and tasks, rebuilt for review

A session and a task no longer tell you different stories: the transcript, the review round and the created task all resolve to the same place.

• Sessions and task details share one transcript, so a thread reads the same in both places (#2587).
• Review rounds arrive on the sessions and task pages, with dev review notes attached (#2595).
• Task creation gets simpler, and a session draft keeps the half-written task you navigated away from (#2609).
• Groups sit under the Inbox, no longer duplicate, and close themselves with auto-Done (#2566).
• Cmd+K is rebuilt from the route table and a search provider registry, so every page is reachable without a second list to maintain (#2514).
• Admins get an opt-in All users read scope (#2630).

Docs: Sessions.

Tasks that are easier to find and close

Every new task gets a generated display title, so a list of prompts becomes a list of names (#2604). Task search runs on an FTS5 token index instead of a substring scan (#2553). A task can end as skipped, with a configurable Slack reaction for the message that triggered it (#2571). Docs: task lifecycle.

Improvements

• Runtimes, harnesses and models — fx is a native harness provider (#2576); boxd joins as a runtime-pool provider (#2354, fix in #2594); runtime pools take optional persistent caches (#2577); pi runs ChatGPT models on the codex_oauth subscription pool (#2574); credential availability matches by key suffix instead of the global pool index, so removing one key stops shifting every slot after it (#2436). Docs: harness providers.
• Slack and agents — an agent leaves a thread until the next @mention, and a person can say !leave (#2570, #2585); SLACK_THREAD_WAKE_ON_ANY_MESSAGE opts into waking on any thread reply (#2567); each agent can carry its own Slack icon (#2551). Docs: Slack.
• Workflows, scripts and memory — workflow script nodes read environment variables (#2560); the follow-up re-delegation guard now covers ctx.step.agentTask (#2596); extension hooks can block and rewrite task steering (#2575); stored memory vectors re-embed when the embedding space changes, so a model swap does not silently break search (#2487); store-progress takes an optional learning that writes a swarm memory, and skips it when it near-duplicates one you already have (#2472, #2485); the dreaming loop ships seeded with a daily schedule and a guide (#2443, #2572, #2552). Docs: memory, dreaming, task steering.
• Pages, Files and UI — Pages get a token-based design system (#2607); Files is on by default (#2544), a file's contents copy from the header button (#2555), and sends from the Files page are attributed to the comment author and shown in sessions (#2545). Docs: comb.
• Performance — synchronous SQLite work and queued writers no longer starve the API event loop (#2588, #2614); the slow queries from a query audit are indexed and rewritten (#2531, #2489, #2615); session lists, counts and trees read from trigger-kept summary tables (#2534, #2569, #2535); the native script executor starts faster (#2484).
• Benchmarks — the benchmark publishes dated snapshots rather than overwriting one page, and 1.0 is out (#2491, #2621).
• Docs and playbooks — two new playbooks, Linear Delivery Loop and Slack Reply Gate (#2463, #2492); host requirements and Docker disk cleanup (#2475); model tier selection in the task lifecycle (#2629).

Bug Fixes

• Usage and cost are recorded correctly for pi and Codex, including a long lead session that settles or aborts (#2618, #2480).
• Codex sub-agent spawns fork context by persisting app-server threads, the app-server launches on the gateway provider, and a duplicate login or an OAuth pool failure now names the slot in the error (#2506, #2606, #2508, #2482).
• A model output limit is classified as a model output limit, not as a credential failure (#2592).
• Profile sync never overwrites a DB edit with a profile file nobody touched (#2600).
• Follow-up sessions dispatch their own distinct next steps, a deferred completion creates no worker follow-up, and the promoted task's status is read before claiming a follow-up started (#2589, #2558, #2590).
• Slack keeps table blocks and shared-message files on inbound messages, and processes an event whose socket ack failed because the client was not ready (#2561, #2490).
• Steering receipts appear in session timelines (#2613).
• Pages fail closed on cookies and frame-ancestors when NODE_ENV is unset (#2610, #2608).
• Test and demo swarms stay out of production telemetry (#2499).
• The task search backfill keeps converging when it meets a locked database (#2556).

About 52 fixes merged this week. The rest are smaller correctness and rendering repairs across the harness adapters, the scheduler and the dashboard.