Changelog

Track all releases and changes for the ClaudeKit Engineer Kit.

v2.14.0 (Upcoming)

Highlights

• 3-Tier Eval Infrastructure — Static validation ($0, <5s), E2E via AI CLI ($3.85/run), LLM judge scoring ($0.15/run). Run with bun scripts/eval/run.ts [1|2|3|all]. Configurable via CK_EVAL_CMD env var.
• Cognitive Framing — All 9 agents enhanced with expert personas (QA Lead, Staff Engineer, Senior SRE, Tech Lead, etc.) for measurably better output.
• Diff-Aware Testing — Tester agent analyzes git diff, runs only affected tests via 5 mapping strategies.
• /ck:retro Skill — Data-driven sprint retrospectives with git metrics, health indicators, and comparison mode.
• Agent Teams v3.0 — Updated to current Claude Code Agent API.

New Skills

Improvements

• Adversarial code review: scope gate (skip if ≤2 files / ≤30 lines), context anchoring, expanded attack categories
• Preview HTML mode: theme toggle, typography floor, improved palette
• Frontend-design: taste-skill design intelligence integration
• AI Artist: upgraded to Nano Banana 2 as default image generation model
• Fix skill: updated references and parallel exploration patterns
• Statusline colors: configurable ANSI color control via .ck.json
• Hook diagnostics: structured logging for hook execution
• Manifest: Windsurf global path migration, skills consolidation paths
• JSON schema reference in settings.json
• Attribution API migrated from deprecated includeCoAuthoredBy
• ck-debug / ck-plan skill directory renames to avoid built-in /debug and /plan collisions

Removals

• ck-help skill removed (replaced by ClaudeKit Assistant Discord bot)

Bug Fixes

• Eval: type safety fix in testSkill() return type, reference validation logic fix
• Retro: sentinel file creation, Python test file pattern, gh issue list flag
• Docs-manager: heading consistency normalization
• Project-manager: duplicate role framing removed

CLI v3.36.0 (Upcoming)

• Hook Diagnostics Dashboard — ck config shows hook execution logs, timing, and errors
• Quality Gate Hooks — Git pre-commit/pre-push hooks enforce lint + test locally
• ck migrate UX Overhaul — Source transparency, unified discovery, path previews
• StatuslineColors Config — Toggle ANSI color rendering in status line
• Migration hardening: TOCTOU race fix, file locks, stale codex config cleanup, Windows compat

v2.13.0 (2026-02-25)

Highlights

• ck: namespace prefix — All skill names prefixed with ck: to avoid collisions with Claude Code built-ins
• argument-hint field — Added to all skills for improved discoverability
• Various namespace cleanup and cross-reference fixes
• chrome-devtools evaluate fix

v2.12.0 (2026-02-05)

Highlights

• Agent Teams v2.1.0 — Complete rewrite as CK-native imperative execution engine. Templates auto-execute. Event-driven hooks (TaskCompleted, TeammateIdle) for monitoring. Agent memory persistence.
• Portable manifest — Codex AGENTS.md to .codex/agents/ path migration support
• /ck:plan red-team — Adversarial plan review command with hostile reviewer lenses
• Command-to-Skill migrations — bootstrap, plan modes consolidated into skills

New Skills

New Commands

• /ck:plan red-team — Adversarial plan review with 4 hostile lenses

New Agents

• Code Simplifier — Autonomous code refinement agent

Improvements

• Enhanced skill-creator with Skillmark benchmark support
• Native Task orchestration for /ck:fix, /ck:code-review, /ck:scout, /ck:debug skills
• /ck:preview contextual path resolution and responsive Mermaid scaling
• Chrome DevTools OS-based headless detection and interactive OAuth login
• Team coordination rules decoupled from default orchestration

v2.11.0 — v2.11.3 (2026-02-20 — 2026-02-21)

v2.11.3 (Hotfixes)

• Discord 25-field embed limit guard
• Double-emoji fix in release notification headers
• Empty-changelog guard for Discord notifications
• Double error log timeout prevention

v2.11.2 (Hotfixes)

• Scout-block: broad glob pattern detection (**/*.ext)
• Scout-block: context-aware path extraction with heredoc detection
• Scout-block: compound command and allowlist edge cases
• Scout-block: absolute/relative path normalization
• Hooks: absolute paths in buildRulesSection (prevents wrong plans/ directory)
• Windows: reduced terminal freeze from excessive process spawning
• Session-init: reduced command failures

v2.11.1

• Added hotfix: commit type for distinct release note visibility in CHANGELOG and GitHub releases

v2.11.0

• Always-on diagnostics logging — Crash wrappers on all hooks for automatic error capture

v2.10.0 (2026-02-05)

Features

• Focused Reader 2.0 — Redesigned markdown-novel-viewer
• Plan validation propagation — Auto-propagate validation decisions to phase files
• Visual generation modes — /ck:preview --explain, --slides, --diagram, --ascii

Improvements

• cook-after-plan-reminder hook for plan-to-implementation flow
• code-review skill with edge case scouting and token efficiency
• skill-creator skill with rules and subagent awareness
• Language-aware file naming guidance hook
• Monorepo-aware worktree paths (internal worktrees/)

Bug Fixes

• /ck:docs init stall after Phase 1
• Empty local hooks config inheritance
• Preview ASCII diagram alignment and unicode handling

Earlier Releases

For release notes prior to v2.10.0, see the GitHub Releases page.

Release Channels

# Stable (default)
ck update

# Beta
ck update --beta

Versioning

ClaudeKit Engineer follows Semantic Versioning:

• Major (X.0.0): Breaking changes requiring migration
• Minor (0.X.0): New features, backward-compatible
• Patch (0.0.X): Bug fixes and hotfixes

Releases are automated via semantic-release on merge to main.