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On October 16 and 17, Phantom merged first-run fixes, renamed Verse to Phantom in user-facing text, sped up the app, and added a one-gateway guide.
Phantom merged more than thirty pull requests on October 16 and 17, 2026. These are Ashlr's own descriptions of its own work.
First-run hints now lead somewhere. A pull request describes a fresh-install walkthrough on Linux. It found that "phm doctor" told people to run a command that did not do the thing, that every install warned about a path that was already fine, and that one message gave Windows quoting on Linux. The fixes make the hints name commands that work.
The product name is now Phantom. A pull request says docs, server messages, tool text and desktop messages still said Verse or Ashlr Verse, and it changes ninety-one files of text so people and agents read Phantom. It says internal names stay the same for compatibility.
The app got lighter. The description says a running chat's pulsing dot made the browser engine repaint the whole page on every frame, about 17 percent of a processor core at idle, and that streaming tokens repainted the whole window. After the change only the row that changed redraws. These numbers come from the pull request's own measurements.
Agents can reach more tools through one connection. The gateway command now also registers Ashlr MD when its native server is installed, and a new guide explains connecting Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. A read-only "phm wire status" reports whether each client is wired, and Gemini CLI was added to it as status only. The plugin can now read the project it is launched in.
Phantom also removed a feature from its updater library to clear three security advisories about a zip library. The description says no version upgrade cleared them and that the removed feature served update formats Phantom does not ship.
Walk through your own install on a clean machine and read every hint. A hint that names a command that does nothing is worse than no hint.
A rename is not cosmetic when people and agents both read the text. The Phantom change keeps internal names stable so nothing breaks while the visible name changes.
Install your own product on a spare machine and follow only its printed hints. Fix the first one that fails.
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