asheshgoplani/agent-deck v1.16.25

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Agent Deck 1.16.25 is about who hears what, and when: agents talk to each other and to you with less noise, and remotes now look after their own updates.

• Upgrading: re-run agent-deck conductor setup <name> once per conductor to install the updated Telegram/Slack/Discord bridge. Remotes install or migrate their own update timer on their next update; nothing to do by hand.

Added

• A conductor can message you from any turn with agent-deck conductor notify --tier urgent|info: urgent goes out at once, info is batched into a digest (every 30 min by default), and nothing is lost when the bridge or the chat platform is down (#2474).
• agent-deck conductor outbox lists and acknowledges what is waiting to reach you (#2474).
• Replies go back to whoever asked: a session send from one agent to another is tagged with the sender, and the answer lands in the sender's inbox and wakes it. Turn off with [send] tag_sends = false or --no-tag (#2475).
• agent-deck remote drain only ships what is new since the last drain and wakes the conductor for urgent items; [remotes.<name>] talkback_interval_secs runs it on a schedule, and a dead link raises one urgent alert instead of going silent (#2477).
• agent-deck inbox cursor shows where each remote drain left off (#2477).
• Comms Ledger (opt-in, off by default): a durable record of every finished agent turn behind [comms] ledger; see docs/comms.md (#2476).
• remote list --check and the TUI remote preview show each remote's update timer (installed, kind, active, last and next run); remote update --install-timer installs or migrates it over SSH (#2483).
• update --check --json reports the outcome of the controller's last update nudge to each remote (remote_nudges) (#2483).

Changed

• Only a finished task, an error or a question to the parent counts as urgent; a plain reply or progress note is info and no longer wakes the parent (#2478).
• A child started with the identity block no longer gets the completion instruction twice in its launch message (#2474).

Fixed

• Remotes keep their own daily update timer: it is installed or healed on its own, an old hand-made agentdeck-autoupdate.timer is migrated with backups instead of being reported as missing, and [updates] manage_timer = false turns this off (#2483, fixes #2472).
• A Claude session running a background Workflow, background agents, background shells or a Monitor now shows as running (with the task and progress in the TUI preview and in --json as background_work) instead of idle, and the sender of a send that started it gets the real result when it finishes (#2479, fixes #2473).
• Closing an event bus now stops and waits for its subscriptions first, fixing a data race that could hit a closed lock file and made CI flaky (#2485, fixes #2484).

Contributors: @asheshgoplani (all changes in this release).