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Ashlr MD now drops deleted notes from activity lists and restores sessions without overwriting tabs. Other merges add contract tests, memory bounds and routing accounting across products.
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Ashlr MD merged a fix that updates activity lists when notes are deleted or renamed, prevents scroll resets during agent writes, refreshes embedded note text after disk changes, and restores saved tabs on launch instead of replacing them.
Ashlr MD added an offline export command that prints the full tool schema as deterministic JSON and bound remaining per request memory in mdopener mcp with file size caps and TOCTOU checks.
Ashlr Stack introduced lazy loading for all CLI command modules and published a public stack manifest contract that describes core CLI MCP and plugin versions without runtime I O.
Phantom added per run routing accounting that records decisions to a local JSONL file and exposes the local frontier split plus tokens saved in the doctor output.
Lexicon added 48 snapshots covering all exporters with full vocabulary category filtering and empty output cases while preserving input data.
ashlr plugin added 25 contract tests for the Claude plugin manifest covering metadata validity missing fields and malformed JSON.
Multiple repositories updated CI rules to skip heavy steps on draft PRs run audits on pull requests and pin GitHub Actions to SHA values.
Builders gain stable transcript keys and an offline schema export command for contract verification.
The stability fixes reduce user reports about lost sessions and stale lists after external edits.
Test the activity list and session restore behavior in Ashlr MD after renaming or deleting notes. Run the new schema export command to verify tool contracts.
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Keep coding agents scoped to the right client, account, and tenant. Manage identity bindings across command-line tools and MCP connections.
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About 140 pull requests merged on October 24. Lexicon and Ashlr MD fixed dozens of confusing messages and Phantom Secrets pinned its approval gates.
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One pull request merged in Ashlr's public repositories on October 22: a small Ashlr Stack change that makes its fetch types portable. Here is what it does.
Provision and connect development services through CLI and MCP tools, with Phantom Secrets handling supported credential paths.
Token-efficient tools and workflows for Codex and Claude Code. Read, search, edit, and inspect repositories with compact outputs and visible context usage.
Late on October 23, Lexicon stopped reading project word lists it was never told to trust, and Ashlr MD agreed on one rule for front matter and code fences.
