Changelog

0.6.4 — 2026-07-21#

Plugin-only maintenance release, tracking engine v0.6.3 with no engine change.

The statusline is auto-configured for every user. statusLine cannot ship in a plugin manifest — Claude Code ignores it — so session-start.sh writes it into ~/.claude/settings.json on first session, pointing at the stable ~/.medley/statusline.sh copy it refreshes each run. It heals an older Medley statusline still pointing into the versioned plugin cache, never touches one you configured yourself, and never re-adds one you removed. A full uninstall strips it back out.
The statusline slow path serves a short-TTL per-repo cache. Claude Code re-invokes the statusline on a roughly 300 ms throttle, and each call previously cold-started the engine binary and opened SQLite. It now serves a cached line within MEDLEY_STATUSLINE_TTL seconds (default 2, 0 disables), cold-starting the engine only on a miss. The cache is keyed and verified per repo.

session-start.sh initialized the --suggest gate so the SessionStart starter menu is emitted as intended.

Tracks engine v0.4.10 — steadier auto-updates, a redesigned settings dashboard, and a contract-anchored mission review loop.

mcp-headers.sh sends an X-Medley-Engine-Pin header — the plugin's pinned engine version — so the daemon can detect it is serving an older engine than the session expects and roll forward. Worker sessions send it too, but a worker never triggers a roll of its own parent daemon.
ensure-engine.sh writes ~/.medley/engine-path atomically (tmp plus rename) so the daemon's stable launcher can never read a torn path.