v0.11.0 — Projects & Kanban Task Board (Beta)

The biggest release in a while: workspaces gain Projects, and work gets a visual home on a Kanban task board backed by durable Tasks that can fan out into orchestrated multi-session runs.

⭐ Projects

Workspaces now have first-class Projects: named collections of sessions, assets, and context stored at {workspaceRootPath}/projects/{slug}/. Bind a session to a project and it inherits the project's working directory and gets a <project_context> block injected into its system prompt — including the project's asset manifest and a size-capped MEMORY.md — so the agent starts every conversation already knowing what the project is about.

• Projects panel & info page — a ProjectsListPanel in the navigator and a ProjectInfoPage with Sessions / Assets / Settings tabs; assign sessions from the session menu. (f2eb9542, 95bc761e, 423ff362)
• Project-aware session list — group and filter your sessions by project. (0ad7189e)
• Per-project accent color — with an appearance-treatment toggle; workspaces got avatars and a rebuilt color picker along the way. (2b2d64bd, 481851f8)
• Live binding + context injection — binding events update the UI live; asset manifest and project memory flow into every bound session. (7d540944, 742a2761)
• Fully localized in all 7 languages. (ada9ded1)

⭐ Kanban Task Board — Beta

A new board view turns a workspace's sessions and tasks into draggable cards over per-project, fully editable columns. Under it sits a durable Tasks system: tasks live independently of chat, can be edited, re-run, and — for bigger jobs — decomposed into dependency DAGs that a Conductor orchestrator executes over real child sessions.

• The board — add, rename, recolor, and reorder columns per project; columns carry an optional drop status (settable from the board header), so moving a card can transition the underlying session's status. Cards keep stable ordering, auto-move columns as states change, and never auto-close — closing a card stays your decision. (e6f5ea5b, 5ae740b7, 82a661f4, fd9c0f04, 854a9860, aa9d581e)
• Tasks — a dedicated task editor with create/edit modes, a results tab, and live session binding; per-task labels; acceptance criteria; create-only vs. create-then-run flows; filter-aware "New Task"; run-from-tile; inherited project working directories. (9a608cc3, 7c7eb49c, 476a0c21, 36b978f0)
• Subtasks & DAGs (Conductor) — decompose a task into a task.yaml DAG; the Conductor spawns and supervises a child session per node with dependency-ordered execution, durable resume after interruption, and union subtask progress on the tile. Subtask nodes render colored, localized state pills. (ea814eba, 5702ea6b, 36b978f0, b03a9357, 937f0ff3)
• Repair loop — when a task's output doesn't meet its acceptance criteria, a repair pass re-checks and dispatches fixes. (36b978f0)

Beta notice: the Kanban board and Tasks (including Conductor DAG runs) ship as beta. Expect rough edges — board behaviors and the task spec format may still change between releases. Please report issues and ideas on GitHub.

Features

• Background agents stay alive across turns — background subagents are no longer killed when the turn that spawned them ends (previously surfacing as "stopped by user"). A persistent query keeps the session alive; when an agent finishes while the session is idle, the session wakes itself and presents the result. On by default — set CRAFT_KEEP_BG_AGENTS_ALIVE=0 to opt out. Running work shows as chips above the input (including live Workflow fan-out counts) with a floating completion chip when results land. Fixes #953. (32072bca, c0a726a6, c4201dd0, 5e7490ae)

Improvements

• Pi SDK 0.80.3 — removes a hardcoded 20s SSE timeout that cut off long Codex responses on OpenAI-protocol connections. (c9e456bd)
• UI fully localized — every hardcoded English string flagged by the i18n lint is gone (aria-labels, drawer titles, menus, crash screen, code-block chrome); the permission-mode selector and the standalone browser-toolbar window (which previously rendered raw translation keys) are properly localized across all 7 languages. (5fcdda43, 94f531f1)
• Docs — Claude Sonnet 5 documented on the LLM connections page. (a350766f)

Bug Fixes

• macOS Local Network access — the missing NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription is now embedded, so macOS shows Craft Agents under Privacy & Security → Local Network and LAN addresses (local Ollama, LAN MCP servers) work once granted. Fixes #938. (ed1e37aa)
• Automation "Test" timeout — automations:test no longer blocks on full turn completion, so prompt automations don't falsely report "Request timeout (30000ms)". Fixes #943. (c48cc012)
• Sidebar label overflow — very long session-label names now truncate instead of blowing out the session list. (98d29930)

Breaking Changes

• None. Background-agent keep-alive changes default behavior (subagents outlive the turn that spawned them) but is fully opt-out via CRAFT_KEEP_BG_AGENTS_ALIVE=0.