Releases
Generated from the release tags and their commits: features, fixes, performance changes and breaking changes. Each release is on npm and GitHub.
What's new in 2.6.0
2026-10-12
Split compound open questions, and spot them
Features
- split_question, and a warning for questions that pose several decisions (d035aa5)
Earlier releases
2.5.0 — 2026-10-09
Report figures on hover, and counted, folding lists
Features
- report figures on hover, and counted, folding lists (fe54808)
2.4.0 — 2026-10-09
A one-page progress report from git history
Features
- one-page progress report from git history (2527f42)
2.3.0 — 2026-10-08
Agents can look up what every field accepts with the new fields tool; get shows each scoring dimension's options, and list no longer shows unset ones.
Features
- a fields tool, and dimensions agents can discover (694203d)
2.2.0 — 2026-10-07
Collection READMEs list their themes, each linked to its overview doc with its description and open and closed counts.
Features
- a Themes section in the collection README (8d01abb)
2.1.0 — 2026-10-07
Brindley knows where work is being built: starting work records its branch, and work already in progress in another worktree or branch can't be started twice; agents are nudged to use_worktree. Graph nodes link to their initiatives.
Features
- graph nodes link to their initiatives (6e3f73c)
- show where in-progress work is being built, and don't start it twice (512490b)
Fixes
2.0.1 — 2026-10-07
Collection tools can set every README setting (dimensions, graph, columns, folders); moves report where files end up.
Fixes
- collection tools set every README setting; moves report final paths (7a55af5)
2.0.0 — 2026-10-07
Graphs read do-first left to right, with settings for direction, themes and more; status folders, worktree switching, renumber/repad/rename, fix mode and batch updates.
Breaking changes
- graph settings in the collection README; edges point at what work needs (1914350)
Features
- opt-in status folders that Brindley keeps in step (ed615f0)
- use_worktree switches the server to the worktree an agent builds in (dc3913f)
- configurable columns in the generated README tables (7a51772)
- batch_update applies update-style changes to many initiatives (e056fd4)
- say why work was abandoned, superseded or deferred (8c28664)
- fix mode repairs findings that have one obvious fix (f2f2b74)
- rename_collection moves a collection and rewrites its links and references (8dfb8c7)
- renumber tool for post-merge number collisions (ec77d51)
- consistent zero-padded numbering per collection, and a repad tool (6abe78b)
- status-inferable finding for a status stated only in the text (3a354ac)
- update records a status where front-matter has none (77042ec)
- draw ## Related links in the graph only when a collection opts in (3446e99)
Fixes
- number-width says when numbers have outgrown their width, and suggests enough room (f5e58a6)
- path errors and findings say where they looked, and which worktree has the file (baf1d98)
- duplicate-number recognises companion notes and says where they belong (85c359d)
- set_dependencies says where a paragraph link is instead of "not linked" (aff4ae4)
- cycle errors advise where a back-reference belongs (19557a8)
1.2.0 — 2026-10-07
Rank your work with scoring dimensions — priority, impact, complexity or your own — and filter and sort list by them. Plus a release history on the docs site, and ! exclusions in docs globs.
Features
- release history on the docs site and in GitHub Release notes (51bd45e)
- ! exclusions in docs globs (713b0fb)
- scoring dimensions on initiatives, filterable and sortable in list (bfa566c)
Fixes
1.1.1 — 2026-10-07
1.1.0 — 2026-10-07
Features
- show initiative status in the graph with emoji, not colours (0e3bc52)
- accept won't do, wont-do and wontfix as aliases for abandoned (7f62482)
Fixes
- src: add new sections from update before Open questions (323d5be)
1.0.4 — 2026-10-07
1.0.3 — 2026-10-07
Fixes
1.0.2 — 2026-10-06
1.0.1 — 2026-10-06
v1.0.1
Fixes
- scripts: don't mark a release build -SNAPSHOT because publishing edited package.json (7b7e689)
1.0.0 — 2026-10-06
v1.0.0
Breaking changes
- dependencies are the links in an initiative's ## Dependencies section (b247200)
Features
0.1.0 — 2026-10-06
v0.1.0
Breaking changes
- mark any folder as a collection; drop the single initiatives root (0cd2d6e)
Features
- compute the version from git tags and Conventional Commits (3aacb83)
- add gitignore-style
ignore:to collection READMEs (329085e) - map "design" to draft and "design complete/settled" to designed (39e0de4)
- accept "future" as an alias for deferred (3e9449f)
- flag status and structure inconsistencies in validate (4f4fd06)
- read status folders, add deferred status and status aliases (1da8035)
- implement Brindley MCP server and CLI (v0.1) (84da189)