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v0.12.0 — Measurement & Reliability Date: 2026-07-15 Tag: v0.12.0 PRs: #122–#267 (71 PRs since v0.11.0) One sentence: the operational...

PR #118 — BS-22: Vizor Gets Its Eyes Date: 2026-07-05 PR: #118 Branch: feat/bs22-vizor-efficiency → main The Goal at the End of the Previous...

PR #119 — BS-12: The Agent Autonomy Bridge Date: 2026-07-05 PR: #119 Branch: feat/bs12-agent-autonomy-bridge → main The Goal at the End of...

v0.11.0 — The Agent Ecosystem Operational Layer Date: 2026-07-05 Tag: v0.11.0 PRs: #110, #113–#119 One sentence: synlynk v0.11.0 is the...

BS-8: The Business Goal Layer Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: feat/bs8-goal-hierarchy → main The Goal at the End of the Previous PR v0.11.0...

GOVERNS: Rolling Out the Seven-Stage Vocabulary Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: feat/governs-stage-rollout → main The Goal at the End of...

#141 — agent_quotas Base Table + Stage-2 Quota Gate Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: dispatch/grok/job-8876c978 → main Tracks: #141 (part of...

Vizor Gets a Goals Panel Date: 2026-07-11 PR: TBD Branch: feat/vizor-goals-panel → main The Goal at the End of the Previous PR GOVERNS (PR...

PR #156/#157 — Fleet Dispatch Scheduler v1 Ships, v2 Deferred to a Tracked Goal Date: 2026-07-11 PRs: #156 (scheduler), #157 (roadmap +...

Architect Map v2 — From Static Tube Map to Live Workspace Graph Date: 2026-07-12 PR: #167 (merged) Branch:...

Post 28 — PR #70 — v0.9.8: Health Pulse + Lifecycle Commands Date: 2026-06-27 Branch: feat/v0.9.8-health-lifecycle Version: 0.9.7 → 0.9.8...

Blog Post 28 — PR #72: Fix Grok Dispatch Prompt Flag Series: Building synlynk — the OS for multi-agent development PR: #72...

PR #82 — BS-14 Harness Compatibility System The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of the BS-5 website sprint (PRs...

14 · v0.4.2 — Task Status Model Series: Building synlynk — a single-file Python CLI that turns any AI CLI into a context-aware multi-agent...

Blog 15 — v0.7.0: Static Scan Quality PR: feat/v0.7.0-static-scan-quality Date: 2026-06-18 The Previous Goalpost At the end of PR #47...

Blog Post 16 — Capability Dogfood: Seeding the Routing Brain Broader Goal (End of Previous PR) At the end of v0.7.0 (Static Scan Quality),...

Blog Post 17 — Codex Headless Dispatch: codex exec Unlocks the Third Agent Broader Goal (End of Previous PR) PR #50 seeded the capability...

Blog 18 — PR #52: v0.8.0 Support Engineer Agent Series: Building toward full autonomous multi-agent dispatch PR: #52 —...

19 — v0.9.0 Kernel Fixes: Dispatch Quality + Package Structure PR branch: feat/v0.9.0-kernel-fixes Commits: 8 (Tasks 1–7 + plan docs) Tests:...

Post 23 — P0 Fix: Dispatch Context Scoping Branch: fix/dispatch-context-scoping Version target: patch on top of v0.9.3 Where we were At the...

Post 24 — v0.9.4: Context, Dispatch, and Relay Branch: feat/v0.9.4-context-dispatch-relay Version: v0.9.4 Where we were At the end of PR #59...

Post 25 — v0.9.7: Grok as a First-Class Agent Peer PR: #62, #63, #64 Branch: feat/v0.9.7-grok-agent-support Version: v0.9.7 Where we were At...

Blog Post 26 — PR #68: pipx/pip Packaging (v0.9.8 prep) Series: Building synlynk — The Coordination OS for Multi-Agent Development PR: #68 —...

Blog Post 27 — PR #69: synlynk doctor Health Command (v0.9.8) Series: Building synlynk — The Coordination OS for Multi-Agent Development PR:...

PR #252 — Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Claude Structured-Output Adapter

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #244 shipped the first of four planned per-agent structured-output adapters — Codex — and...

Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Agy (Gemini) Structured-Output Adapter

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #252 shipped the second of four planned per-agent structured-output adapters — Claude —...

Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Grok Structured-Output Adapter (and Closing Epic #210)

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #256 shipped the third of four planned per-agent structured-output adapters — Agy (Gemini)...

Closing Epic #210: Flagging Estimated vs. Actual Cost in the Vizor Effort & Cost Tab

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #257 closed epic #210's four-for-four structured-output adapter scope — Codex, Claude,...

Closing v0.12.0: Surfacing rates_updated_at in synlynk status

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #264 closed epic #210 in full — every dollar figure the Vizor Effort & Cost tab...

What's New in v0.12.0 — And How to Get Started

This post is different from the others in this series. Most entries here are engineering diary — the "why" and "how"...

PR #244 — Measurement Ledger Phase 2: The Codex Structured-Output Adapter

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Measurement Ledger Hardening Phase 1 (PR #236/#241/#242) shipped the cost ledger's provenance...

PR #236 — Measurement Ledger Hardening Phase 1: No Number Lies About Where It Came From

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Fable's external review (docs/strategy/2026-07-12-fable-deep-review-and-strategic-roadmap.md)...

PR #238 — A Dispatch Habit, Not a Bad Default: Warning on Redundant --context-mode full

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #236 (Measurement Ledger Hardening Phase 1, still open at the time) closed the loop on...

PR #240 — The Stall-Killer Wasn't Checking Its Own Receipts

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR PR #238 (previous post) closed a small dispatch-hygiene gap. #202 — filed 2026-07-12 and...

PR #204/#205/#207 — Local Agent: oMLX Driver, Capability Seeding, and Real-Hardware Tests

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR BS-8 had already shipped the Business Goal hierarchy, and GOVERNS was in the middle of...

PR #TBD — One Dispatch Path: Queue Launcher Stops Reimplementing Spawn

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Fable's external review (blog-adjacent strategy doc, PR #188) laid out a multi-year arc for...

PRs #114–#116 — The TC-2 Agent Dispatch Fix Arc

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR With the integration of ecosystem status in Vizor (PR #113), synlynk had a functional...

PR #117 — Live Job Observatory

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR While the workspace HUD (PR #106) provided a terminal-native dashboard for monitoring the...

PR #106 — BS-13 Workspace HUD

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR synlynk had live job tracking, dispatch, and daemon health, but no terminal-native workspace...

PR #110 — BS-16 Ecosystem Status

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of PR #106 (Workspace HUD), synlynk had a functional terminal observer via...

PR #113 — BS-22 Vizor Efficiency Tab

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR With PR #110 (BS-16), the harness gained a comprehensive instrument panel inside the SQLite...

PR #TBD — v0.10.1 Release Command Integration

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Before this work, the focus was on establishing clean project packaging (pipx support), the...

PR #TBD — BS-21 Vizor: Local Browser Workspace Dashboard

PR #TBD — BS-21 Vizor: Local Browser Workspace Dashboard The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR By the end of v0.10.0, synlynk had...

v0.10.0 — Developer Preview: The First Daily-Driver Release

v0.10.0 — Developer Preview: The First Daily-Driver Release The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous Milestone At the close of v0.9.9...

PR #89 — v0.10.0: synlynk scan + wizard FTUE

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: synlynk scan + wizard FTUE The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of the T6 / v0.9.2 release (the...

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: synlynk migrate — state.db Source of Truth

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: synlynk migrate — state.db Source of Truth The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the close of BS-17 (which...

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: README Overhaul & Documentation Alignment

PR #TBD — v0.10.0: README Overhaul & Documentation Alignment The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of PR #91...

PR #78 — BS-5 Phase 1: Standalone Website Scaffold

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of v0.9.8 (health pulse + lifecycle commands), the CLI was hardened for clean...

PR — BS-5 Phase 2: Homepage Sections and CSS Design System

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR In Phase 1, the standalone 11ty v3 website scaffold, design tokens, typography, and section...

PR — BS-5 Phase 2: Grok Terminal Carousel + JS Interactions

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of Phase 1 (scaffold + tokens) and Agy's parallel Phase 2 work on Sections 1/3/4/5...

PR — BS-5 Phase 3: Grok Isometric Motherboard Canvas (OS Vision)

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Phase 2 (Agy + Grok) delivered the Tagline Hero, Relief, How-It-Works, Features spotlight,...

PR #78 — BS-5 Phase 3: Sections 7+8, Subpages, and Blog Pipeline

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR At the end of Phase 2, the core homepage narrative structure (tagline, terminal carousel,...

PRs #56/#57/#58 — v0.9.3: synlynk Goes Always-On

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR Post 21 ended with a clear statement of what had to come next: "Team features at v0.9.2...

Post v0.9.0 — The Gap Between Shipping and Working

The Broader Goal at the End of PR #53 PR #53 shipped v0.9.0 — the kernel hardening release. The package split moved ~4700 lines from...

v0.9.2 — Team Onboarding + Consensus

The Broader Goal at the End of Post #20 Post #20 was about closing production gaps revealed by dogfooding — the install binary crash and the...

v0.4.1 — Instruction Reach: Context Injection Across Every IDE

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After v0.4.0 (PR #39) shipped the dispatch plane — agent discovery, synlynk dispatch, job...

The Four Imperatives — Redesigning synlynk's Core Contracts

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After PR #30 (the E2E test suite), synlynk had a hardened v0.3.1 with 140 passing tests, a...

PR #39 — v0.4.0: The Hybrid Workgroup Bootstrap

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After PR #30 landed the E2E safety net, the next milestone was clear: ship v0.4.0 — the...

PR #42 — v0.6.0: Job Control + Model-Aware Capability Engine

The Broader Goal at the End of the Previous PR After v0.4.0 (PR #39) shipped the Hybrid Workgroup Bootstrap — agent discovery, synlynk...

PR #29 — v0.3.1: When the OS Learns to Self-Diagnose

PR #29 — v0.3.1: When the OS Learns to Self-Diagnose PR: feat: synlynk v0.3.1 — sentinel + observability hardening Branch:...

PR #30 — The E2E Safety Net

PR #30 — The E2E Safety Net PR: test: add E2E test suite (17 scenarios, black-box CLI testing) Branch: feat/e2e-test-suite Depends on: PR...

Why We Need a Polyglot Harness

Why We Need a Polyglot Harness The premise of synlynk is simple to state and surprisingly hard to argue against: you will not use one AI...

The Project That Built synlynk: RxCC.me and the Hybrid Workgroup

The Project That Built synlynk synlynk was not designed from first principles. It was extracted from a real workgroup running a real...

PR #27 — v0.4.0: The Autonomy Driver

PR #27 — v0.4.0: The Autonomy Driver PR: feat: synlynk v0.4.0 — autonomy driver + repo migration Status: Open (implementation complete,...

PR #28 — The Architecture Pivot: Designing the Rest of the OS

PR #28 — The Architecture Pivot: Designing the Rest of the OS PR: chore: 2026-06-07 design session docs — state-db, identity, workspace, arc...

PR #26 — v0.3.0: The Multi-Agent Foundation

PR #26 — v0.3.0: The Multi-Agent Foundation PR: feat: synlynk v0.3.0 — multi-agent foundation Merged: 2026-06-03 Tests: 60 passing (plus 3...

PR #23 / #24 — v0.2.2: Attribution in a Polyglot World

PR #23 / #24 — v0.2.2: Attribution in a Polyglot World PRs: fix: resolve GitHub username and upgrade check via gh CLI + chore: bump version...

PR #1 — v0.2.0: Laying the Kernel

PR #1 — v0.2.0: Laying the Kernel PR: feat: synlynk v0.2.0 — watch daemon, checkpoint, status command, context compaction Merged: 2026-05-17...

PR #3 — v0.2.1: The Correctness Tax

PR #3 — v0.2.1: The Correctness Tax PR: fix: synlynk v0.2.1 — correctness patch Merged: 2026-05-17 (same day as v0.2.0) Tests: 47 passing (1...