Changelog

Track all releases and changes for the ClaudeKit Engineer Kit.

v2.12.0 (Upcoming)

Highlights

  • Agent Teams v2.1.0 — Complete rewrite as CK-native imperative execution engine. Templates auto-execute. Event-driven hooks (TaskCompleted, TeammateIdle) for monitoring. Agent memory persistence.
  • Portable manifest — Codex AGENTS.md to .codex/agents/ path migration support
  • /ck:plan red-team — Adversarial plan review command with hostile reviewer lenses
  • Command-to-Skill migrations — bootstrap, plan modes consolidated into skills

New Skills

SkillDescription
teamAgent Teams orchestration (v2.1.0)
planConsolidated planning skill (replaces /ck:plan --fast, /ck:plan --hard, /ck:plan --parallel, /ck:plan --two)
bootstrapProject scaffolding skill (was command)
testComprehensive testing skill
project-managementTask tracking and session bridging
mintlifyMintlify docs site builder (v2.0.0)

New Commands

  • /ck:plan red-team — Adversarial plan review with 4 hostile lenses

New Agents

  • Code Simplifier — Autonomous code refinement agent

Improvements

  • Enhanced skill-creator with Skillmark benchmark support
  • Native Task orchestration for /ck:fix, /ck:code-review, /ck:scout, /ck:debug skills
  • /ck:preview contextual path resolution and responsive Mermaid scaling
  • Chrome DevTools OS-based headless detection and interactive OAuth login
  • Team coordination rules decoupled from default orchestration

v2.11.0 — v2.11.3 (2026-02-20 — 2026-02-21)

v2.11.3 (Hotfixes)

  • Discord 25-field embed limit guard
  • Double-emoji fix in release notification headers
  • Empty-changelog guard for Discord notifications
  • Double error log timeout prevention

v2.11.2 (Hotfixes)

  • Scout-block: broad glob pattern detection (**/*.ext)
  • Scout-block: context-aware path extraction with heredoc detection
  • Scout-block: compound command and allowlist edge cases
  • Scout-block: absolute/relative path normalization
  • Hooks: absolute paths in buildRulesSection (prevents wrong plans/ directory)
  • Windows: reduced terminal freeze from excessive process spawning
  • Session-init: reduced command failures

v2.11.1

  • Added hotfix: commit type for distinct release note visibility in CHANGELOG and GitHub releases

v2.11.0

  • Always-on diagnostics logging — Crash wrappers on all hooks for automatic error capture

v2.10.0 (2026-02-05)

Features

  • Focused Reader 2.0 — Redesigned markdown-novel-viewer
  • Plan validation propagation — Auto-propagate validation decisions to phase files
  • Visual generation modes — /ck:preview --explain, --slides, --diagram, --ascii

Improvements

  • cook-after-plan-reminder hook for plan-to-implementation flow
  • code-review skill with edge case scouting and token efficiency
  • skill-creator skill with rules and subagent awareness
  • Language-aware file naming guidance hook
  • Monorepo-aware worktree paths (internal worktrees/)

Bug Fixes

  • /ck:docs init stall after Phase 1
  • Empty local hooks config inheritance
  • Preview ASCII diagram alignment and unicode handling

Earlier Releases

For release notes prior to v2.10.0, see the GitHub Releases page.

Release Channels

ChannelBranchnpm TagDescription
StablemainlatestProduction-ready, fully tested
BetadevbetaPre-release features, may have rough edges
# Stable (default)
ck update

# Beta
ck update --beta

Versioning

ClaudeKit Engineer follows Semantic Versioning:

  • Major (X.0.0): Breaking changes requiring migration
  • Minor (0.X.0): New features, backward-compatible
  • Patch (0.0.X): Bug fixes and hotfixes

Releases are automated via semantic-release on merge to main.