fronalabs/frona v2026.5.5

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This release is a big push on identity unification and task scheduling robustness. Every user-owned entity (User, Agent, App, McpServer, Channel) now carries a Handle newtype, Policy principals are reshaped as {user_handle}/{entity_handle} under a User parent, and all storage and routing paths are keyed by handle. Tasks gain a required result_schema that drives how cron and one-shot results render back into source chats, with a fix for a long-standing CronRun crash-recovery race. The chat UI now paginates history on scroll-up and shows day separators with per-message hover times. Under the hood, Policy decisions and per-agent permitted tool sets are now cached, sandbox limits accept partial saves, and a Handle migration carries existing installs forward.

Supported channels: Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, SMS, WhatsApp Cloud, WhatsApp Personal.

Identity / Handles

• Add a Handle newtype with sanitization rules and a build-script-generated reserved-name list; rename User.username to handle and require Agent.user_id + Agent.handle.
• Add App.handle, Channel.handle, and rename McpServer.slug to handle; switch all four to handle-keyed paths.
• Unify on-disk storage under data/users/{handle}/{subsystem} with per-channel storage paths.
• Switch Cedar entity UIDs to Kind::"{user_handle}/{entity_handle}" with User parent; refactor SandboxPrincipalRef into a struct + Kind enum and rewire policy::service accordingly.
• Update the Cedar schema, db init indexes, and add a handle_unification migration (cutover at 2026-05-24T00:00:00Z); drop seed_config_agents.
• Reshape CandidateEvent to carry typed User / Channel / Chat / Message / Contact references.
• Carry user handle through the auth middleware and all API routes: admin/auth, agents, app proxy, files, MCP, browser, skills, tools, messages.
• Scope agent skills by user_handle/agent_handle; update content + sandbox tools, the tool manager, and agent-affecting tools to use Handle paths.
• Thread Handle through chat, channel, credential, notification, memory, and inference services.
• Refresh built-in agent prompts and the manage_service prompt + manifest schema for handle-keyed URLs.

Tasks / Cron

• Add a result_schema classifier and renderer for task result delivery; require result_schema on create_task / create_recurring_task and schema-drive source-chat delivery.
• Plumb result_schema through create_cron_template + spawn_cron_run; accept complete_task.result as any JSON value and validate against the schema.
• Restrict send_message to the agent's heartbeat chat so tasks deliver through complete_task.result.
• Fix CronRun crash-recovery race by narrowing the orphan query and reordering resume_all.
• Thread space_id through cron templates so CronRuns deliver into the right space.
• Wrap the initial task instruction in <task> regardless of authoring agent.
• Hide task-execution chats from the navigation space view; demote empty task-completion history rows from warn to debug.
• Remove the unused SCHEDULED_TASK.md prompt; advertise recurring digests and briefs as researcher responsibilities.

Chat / Frontend

• Load older chat messages on scroll-to-top and merge historical messages with SSE-buffered ones when loading a chat.
• Show day separators, conversation gaps, and per-message time on hover.
• Split auth, navigation, and session contexts; replace AuthGuard with AppGate + RequireAuth and rewire auth/setup/main layout for the new gating model.
• Route apps, notifications, and settings by handle; switch main pages and the conversation panel to the new context APIs; update types and the api-client for handle-based responses.

Channels

• Skip setWebhook when the URL is already ours and drop the queue when replacing a stale URL.
• Warn when an inbound webhook arrives for an unknown channel.
• Store Channel.id as a bare UUID instead of a SurrealDB record literal.
• Cover channel-delete with a test that asserts the spawned task is cancelled and on_disconnect runs.

Policy / Performance

• Add a policy decision cache with prefix-scoped invalidation.
• Cache per-agent permitted tool sets to cut /api/agents from O(N·M²) to O(N·M).

Sandbox

• Smooth tracked CPU via EWMA to absorb transient bursts.
• Fill missing sandbox limits with server defaults on partial save.
• Fix sandbox_cache invalidation by aligning cache_key to user_id.

Build / Infra

• Add a docker task for publishing prod images to a personal preview registry; share constants/helpers via common.sh and annotate the image index for GHCR.
• Persist cargo registry and git caches across dev container restarts.
• Send a User-Agent header on crates.io requests in update-versions; bump smbclient and uv package pins.