BOSS — what's new

v0.327.0

2026-09-23T00:00:00Z

Run boss sync — BOSS's hooks had been failing silently in any project whose package.json says "type": "commonjs", and sync brings the fix. /measure is now /health's first run; /ai-first-init is gone, and /spec asks per feature which steps need the model. /ship checks the live thing answers and asks who hears if it breaks at 3am; your agents now say what they didn't check. After an MVP unlock, delete "This project is in Quickstart mode" from your CLAUDE.md.

v0.326.0

2026-09-14T00:00:00Z

the ten opt-in hooks no longer land in your .claude/hooks/ at scaffold, switched off, with a JSON block to copy by hand. boss hooks lists them; boss hooks enable <name> copies the file and registers it in one move; boss hooks disable <name> reverses both. A project that already has the files keeps them, and boss sync keeps enabled ones current.

the conscience says a thing once per session now. A moment whose predicate still holds used to re-fire on every prompt; every frame promised "at most once this session" and nothing kept it. It is kept in code — a small ledger in your person-state (off the repo), keyed by the host's session id. A new session hears it again; a host that sends no session id gets the old behaviour.

v0.325.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

if you installed BOSS as a plugin, /boss:welcome inside a BOSS project now does what the project's own /boss does: say what you're trying to do (or nothing) and it reads where you are and names the smallest next step. In a folder without BOSS it is unchanged.

v0.324.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

boss unlock mvp lays down 16 skills, not 28 — the seven for after launch arrive when your first FEAT ships and the five for an AI product when your app first calls a model; boss status says when, boss sync lays them down. /boss now works on any day, not only day 0: say what you are trying to do (or nothing) and it reads where you are and names the smallest next step, naming the verb after the act. /evidence is the one capture verb — a thing that happened, your notes, or a whole transcript — and /research retires into it; /interview is the prep, only. boss status runs in a sixth of the time. Your docs/loops/ moves to .boss/loops/ on the next sync (docs/ is yours again; the old copies are reported, never deleted without --remove). Nothing you wrote moves.

v0.323.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

four examples in /cost-review, its review template, the cost-budget loop and /practice said a vendor's model names where they meant the cheap tier and the capable tier. They say the tier now. Nothing else in your project changes.

v0.322.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

if you are at MVP or above, /extract is the verb, unchanged in shape — same three signals, same EXTR-NNN record — and it now says plainly when UP is not possible from your machine instead of pointing you at a skill that could not do it either. At Quickstart nothing replaces /boss-learn: keep a reusable pattern as a dated line in your idea doc until you unlock MVP. boss sync will remove the old skill and tell you why (registry/supersedes.json).

v0.320.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

nothing in your project changes. If you build on BOSS's plugin, npm run eval:plugin now runs the door case against a no-plugin baseline and prints the delta — needs a host with claude plugin eval out of early access (tested on 2.1.269).

v0.319.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

/extract's description reads whole again — it said PRINCIPLE #1, YAML treats # as a comment, and your host had been showing it as "Pause and sort patterns — PRINCIPLE" for as long as the line existed. npm run check now refuses # in any shipped description. Nothing else about your surface changed.

v0.318.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

if docs/RESUME.md grows past 200 lines, boss status says so in one line and tells you what to do — move what has shipped to the devlog; don't trim. /close now writes that rule into the RESUME header it creates. And ## 2026-09-12 (what today was about) is a devlog heading boss status can read; before, only a bare date was, so a titled entry made the re-entry line quote an older session.

v0.317.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

/pretotype opens "Test demand BEFORE you build (not /prototype, which builds)"; /prototype opens "Get the idea onto the screen, fast (not /pretotype, which tests demand)". Same skills, same usage; the mis-type now corrects itself at the door.

v0.316.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

the 48 skill descriptions your host reads on every turn went from ~3,650 words to ~2,270 (roughly 4.8k → 3.0k tokens per session). Same skills, same triggers, same Usage - lines; shorter sentences. boss map, boss help and the docs regenerate from the same source.

v0.315.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

the task hygiene moment (v0.293.0) works again on every current model. It used to read your session's TodoWrite list; Claude Code 2.1.268 stopped offering that tool on Opus 4.8+, Sonnet 4.7+ and the Claude 5 family, so the moment had been silent for two weeks and could not say so. It now fires on time alone — the session has run 45+ minutes and nothing in .claude/rules/feature-context.md or docs/devlog.md has moved for that stretch — and hands the judgment ("is anything only in this chat?") to the model, which can see the chat. Writing something down still silences it.

v0.314.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

boss board --html renders with no tracked ALL-CAPS labels, nothing under 12px, no coloured tab down the side of every card, and dimming by colour rather than opacity. If you installed BOSS as a Claude Code plugin, the manifest version finally moves again (see below).

v0.313.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

boss help --html renders on the same concrete-and-graphite palette as everything else BOSS makes, with no tracked ALL-CAPS labels, every text pair over 4.5:1 (the project-name tag was white on hi-vis at 3.6:1), prose bounded at 80 characters at every size, and table cells that wrap. boss board gets the same contrast fix. Four practice titles lost a WORD — fragment.

v0.312.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

/smoke now plants the strict typecheck + formatter at its first run and offers smoke-guard — a Stop hook that runs your smoke when Claude finishes a turn that touched source and hands red back once. /spec asks for a program: slug on the second FEAT of the same thing. boss help hooks describes the guard. All advisory, all fail-open, all silent until earned.

v0.311.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

DESIGN_TOKENS.md gains a ## Deprecated table (old → use instead → why), and design-tokens-guard reads it — type a retired token name and you're told its successor, so a rename never has to be a deletion. /ux-check, /design-library and /design-tokens-init now name the class of tool where they used to name a product; boss craft design-system carries the current names, dated.

v0.309.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

three sentences v0.308.0 wrote into your project now have a check behind them. boss help hooks describes the new one; /design-tokens-init offers it the day a features/ directory appears beside ui/. All advisory, all fail-open, all silent until earned.

v0.308.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

docs/design/COMPONENTS.md gains a Status column (draft · stable · deprecated → X) the agent reads before copying an import; the CLAUDE.md block /design-tokens-init writes now carries the one-way import rule (ui/ → features/ → app/); the style guide gains the four component-API floors and behaviour from a primitive, style from tokens; /design-library prints how much of your UI is on the system at all.

v0.307.0

2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

if you installed impeccable, ui-ux-pro-max or wrote a Google-style DESIGN.md before running /design-tokens-init, it now finds that file and builds from it instead of generating a second system beside it. And /ux-check names what would actually run the accessibility checks it cannot run from source.

v0.305.0

2026-09-11T00:00:00Z

If you installed BOSS as a plugin, the door now asks what you're building and says it back — before it offers to set anything up. Four lines, in your words: what it is, who it's for, the smallest version that proves it, and which way it read any word that could go two ways. Then one question: want me to set this up here as a project? Nothing is written until you say yes. This is step 0 of the ladder — the rung below Quickstart, where nothing exists yet but the conversation.