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📰 ARIS-Code v0.4.28 (2026-09) — latest: ARIS_REASONING_EFFORT works on the Anthropic channel (#446), tool calls through relays that send a {} placeholder no longer fail (#444), and the OS proxy on Windows / macOS is used without exporting HTTPS_PROXY (#401). v0.4.27: launching and quitting the REPL no longer leaves an empty session file, and /resume lists only sessions with messages (#439 follow-up). v0.4.26 made Fable 5.1 the fable alias and the first /model entry (the default executor stays Opus 5). v0.4.25 is the reviewer-bridge release: codex-cli 0.154 removed codex mcp-server, so every Codex review from ARIS-Code died on an updated codex. The reviewer now runs over a built-in codex exec bridge — no mcpServers.codex entry, old entries migrate in memory, thread records interoperate with ARIS's Python bridge. Also: /since replays everything after your last input (folded like the live display, /since full for complete output), /resume lists sessions with indices and shows where you stopped (#439), Windows multi-line paste no longer submits line by line (#430, pending confirmation), the Windows shim message carries the native installer (#428), and the bundle moves to 83 skills on GPT-6-Astra. Recent headliners: v0.4.24 — Claude 5 model refresh (Opus 5 default, Fable 5 tier, availability chain) and v0.4.23 — output folding. Caps a 24-release run (v0.4.5 → v0.4.28); per-release detail below. Credits: @GetIT-Sunday, @Anduin9527, @GO-player-hhy, @Jxy-yxJ, @screw-44, @StevenUST, @opposj, @ShijunLei-cn, @algojogacor, @YukinoshitaLove, @jinliye-2026, @SajimJC, @JasmineLCY.

Per-release details (v0.4.5 → v0.4.28)

v0.4.28 (2026-09-28) — ARIS_REASONING_EFFORT now works on the Anthropic channel (#446): low / medium / high / xhigh / max for the main session and subagents; unset, requests are unchanged. ARIS_MAX_TOKENS raises the output cap when a high effort runs into it. autoCompactEnabled: false in settings turns automatic compaction off. 🐛 #444 tool calls through relays that send a {} placeholder no longer fail with invalid tool input JSON. 🌐 System proxy on Windows / macOS is used without exporting HTTPS_PROXY (#401, by @JasmineLCY); NO_PROXY=* connects directly as before. Upgrading: if you already export ARIS_REASONING_EFFORT, have an OS proxy, or have autoCompactEnabled: false in settings, read the upgrade notes.

v0.4.27 (2026-09-19) — launching and quitting the REPL no longer leaves an empty session file; /resume lists only sessions with messages (#439 follow-up).

v0.4.26 (2026-09-16) — Fable 5.1: the fable alias now resolves to claude-fable-5-1, /model lists Fable 5.1 first (Fable 5 stays selectable) and the system-prompt identity names it; the default executor remains claude-opus-5 (the Mythos tier is $10/$50 vs Opus 5's $5/$25, so the default does not move). Saved executor_model values are ids, not aliases, and are untouched. Pricing already matched on fable; a test pins 5.1. Tests unchanged (aris-cli 225 + 4 e2e / runtime 252 / tools 71 / commands 6). Codex MCP (gpt-6-astra xhigh) gate: GO.

v0.4.25 (2026-09-16) — the reviewer-bridge release. codex-cli 0.154 removed codex mcp-server, the entry point ARIS-Code's aris setup had written into settings.json for every Codex review; on an updated codex every review call died. Built-in codex exec bridge: mcp__codex__codex / codex-reply run as codex exec --json with nothing to register — no settings entry, a legacy codex mcp-server entry is migrated in memory (env, -c defaults, requestTimeoutSecs, trust kept), an explicit Python-bridge entry is used as configured, thread records share ~/.codex/state/codex-exec/threads/ with the Python bridge, 1800 s budget for ultra audits, ARIS_CODEX_BRIDGE=0 restores the old path; aris doctor prints the effective backend. Found on the way: the model never received a Codex result's threadId (it lives only in structuredContent), so codex-reply could not continue a thread — results now start with a threadId: line. /since [full] replays the user's last input and everything after it with the live formatters (display only; after /resume and in --resume batch mode too); a dim hint after turns with ≥ 8 tool calls (ARIS_TURN_SUMMARY=0). #430 Windows consoles deliver no paste event, so each pasted line became its own Enter — lines are now merged into the input and never auto-submitted, Ctrl+C discards the rest (ARIS_PASTE_BURST=0; inferred from crossterm's source, pending confirmation on a Windows machine). #439 /resume lists sessions with [n] indices and ages and accepts an index, a unique id prefix or a path; the last turn is replayed after loading. #428 the .cmd-shim message carries the official native installer one-liner. Bundle 81→83 (pin 3e49e63 → 4734364): /proof-orchestrator, /research-implement-feature, 32 helpers (+review_gate.py, copilot_native_evidence.py, idea_discovery_gate.py), repo-root templates/ bundled; reviewer doctrine and system prompt on gpt-6-astra (fallback gpt-5.6-sol → gpt-5.5), explicit — reviewer: directives win, LlmReview results carry reviewer_model: so HTTP rounds report to review_gate.py truthfully; gpt-6-astra pricing tier $10/$50 (cache write $12.50, read $1). Tests: api 35+6 / aris-cli 225 + 4 e2e / runtime 252 / tools 71 / commands 6, all green; live codex exec fresh + resume roundtrip on codex-cli 0.154.0. Codex MCP (gpt-6-astra): ultra design gate (2 rounds), xhigh implementation gate per step (5/2/2/2 rounds), final whole-diff gate (2 rounds) → GO.

v0.4.24 (2026-08-09) — the Claude 5 model refresh (#392, requested by @YukinoshitaLove). Explicit --model claude-opus-5 / claude-fable-5 already passed through on every platform — this release makes them first-class. Default → claude-opus-5 (main session, subagents, aris setup; same $5/$25 tier as Opus 4.8); the v0.4.18 availability fallback becomes an ordered chain walk (Opus 5 → Opus 4.8 → Opus 4.7, one step per precise 404 not_found_error, explicit choices never silently change) — the naive constant swap would have stranded 4.7-only accounts and configs saved by v0.4.23's setup, a regression the cross-model review caught and an end-to-end mock-404 chain test now locks. /model picker adds Fable 5 / Opus 5 / Sonnet 5; new fable alias. New Mythos-class pricing tier (fable/mythos = $10/$50, cache write $12.50 / read $1, verified 2026-08 — previously fell to the conservative $15/$75 unknown-model tier, a 1.5× over-estimate); Opus 5 / Sonnet 5 pinned on their existing branches. Tests: api 41 / aris-cli 213 + 4 e2e / runtime 226 / tools 70 / commands 5, all green; live smoke on claude-opus-5, claude-fable-5 and the fable alias. Codex MCP (gpt-6-astra xhigh) implementation gate: NO-GO → NO-GO → GO.

v0.4.23 (2026-08-02) — the output-folding release (top real-user complaint: "aris dumps thinking and the full content of documents it reads onto the screen"). 🧹 Tool-output folding, display layer ONLY: the disk-verified culprits were format_read_result appending the ENTIRE read payload, bash pushing full stdout/stderr, grep dumping its full content blob, and the edit preview capping line counts but not line LENGTH. Now Read/Grep show the first 6 lines, Bash shows first 4 + last 4 per stream (stderr keeps its red), each kept line capped at 240 chars (the minified-single-line case), then one dim "… (+N more lines — set ARIS_TOOL_OUTPUT_LINES=0 for full output)" hint. ONE env knob: unset = defaults, a positive integer overrides every tool, 0 = the exact old display; the session, model context, --output-format json and /export are untouched and always complete. Thinking was verified to never print (Anthropic deltas only accumulate; Kimi reasoning_content only feeds the replay cache — the "thinking dump" perception came from the document dumps); two end-to-end sentinel tests (real binary vs mock SSE server) lock that thinking/reasoning never reaches the terminal. Interactive expand/collapse was deliberately rejected as over-engineering. 🐛 Bash timeout now kills the command: a timed-out call reported interrupted: true while the dropped tokio future left the child RUNNING — side effects landed after the report; now kill_on_drop (escape hatch ARIS_BASH_KILL_ON_TIMEOUT=0; background tasks untouched; locked by a real behavioral test — a timed-out "sleep 1 && touch marker" must not create the marker). 📦 Bundle 79→81 (pin 7182624 → 3e49e63): /integrity-forensics — the Anti-Autoresearch SHA-pinned thin launcher (span-anchored evidence ledger → GPT auditors propose → deterministic rules-only adjudicator decides → typed BLOCK/WARN gate + obligations ledger) — and /web-debug-search, +tools/forensics_gate.py (29 helpers, 104 embedded resources). 🎁 Also: grep's content mode no longer shows a false "0 matches" above real results (the gate caught that "numMatches": null serializes with the key present, defeating a naive presence check); all four crates' local-mock-server tests are now proxy-immune (a shell with http(s)_proxy set used to turn 15 tests red on a released tag — 127.0.0.1 was routed through the proxy). The rest of the runtime-state package (compaction re-arm, failed-turn cleanup, /cost dollars, SSE tail) ships as v0.4.24 — the cached-token cost fix is deliberately held back because it changes what the compaction trigger measures. Tests: api 41 / aris-cli 212 + 3 e2e / runtime 225 / tools 69 / commands 5 (+13), all green under a live proxy; new-code clippy delta zero. Codex MCP (gpt-6-astra): ultra scope+design adjudication, then a 3-round implementation gate (round 1 caught the null-serialization defeat and a non-hermetic behavioral test; round 3 GO).

v0.4.22 (2026-07-12) — the skills-resync + GPT-6-Astra release. 📦 Bundle resync (pin 7e3ab67 → 7182624, 93 commits): 79 bundled skills (+meta-apply, +paper-poster-html; paper-poster retired to a redirect stub), 28 tools helpers (8 new: capture_filter, evidence_check, iteration_log, provenance, run_state, threat_scan, meta_opt/trigger_eval + sample evals), 11 new shared-references docs (fan-out-pattern, acceptance-gate, external-cadence, skill-governance, compute-env-contract, resumable-runs, evidence-precheck, injection-hygiene, capture-antipatterns, output-composition, taste-calibration); sync hardening — ARIS_SYNC_EXPECT_SHA guard (aborts before touching assets if main moved; it caught a real move on first use) + exact-inventory drift tests + the vendored posterly MIT license text now ships. 🎛 GPT-6-Astra two-tier reviewer alignment: the CLI's system-prompt nudge now passes the skills' explicit model: gpt-6-astra + per-call effort pins through (the v0.4.17 blanket "never pass a model" rule would have silently stripped deep audits from ultra to xhigh), carries the canonical capability-only fallback chain (effort-unsupported → same model xhigh, deep tier only; model-unknown → explicit gpt-5.5+xhigh; never degrade on transport-class errors; an explicit call-level override disables the chain), pins approval-policy: "never" + explicit sandbox on every fresh codex call, and makes the HTTP fallback pre-dispatch-only with parameter stripping; the HTTP LlmReview default deliberately stays gpt-5.5 pending a real smoke; gpt-5.6 family pricing (sol $5/$30, terra $2.50/$15, luna $1/$6) verified against the official page; banner/Reviewer display//reviewer are honest about primary-vs-fallback (pure-Codex setups get status + guidance instead of a fake picker). 🐛 8 verified fixes: explicit --model was silently overridden by the saved executor model (model provenance now tracked end-to-end; the 4.8→4.7 availability fallback respects explicit choices; /model and /setup re-arm it); saved models no longer leak across provider transports (blank saved models count as absent; OpenAI transport with no model source fails fast; the first-run wizard's config now actually feeds startup model resolution); --output-format json never prompts (locked by a real end-to-end binary test against a mock SSE server); Windows aris login fixed (PKCE randomness read /dev/urandom → getrandom); Windows command probing fixed (the PowerShell tool probed itself through sh; now where.exe); codex .cmd shims classified honestly (three-state probe; setup requires explicit confirmation before writing a config the MCP client can't spawn); nested config.json warns instead of silently parsing to all-defaults; NotebookEdit mints collision-free cell ids. 🖥 New windows-latest CI job (workspace compile gate + three targeted test groups, each guarded against silent 0-test green). Tests: api 41 / aris-cli 204 + 1 e2e / runtime 223 / tools 69 / commands 5 (+54), all green; new-code clippy delta zero. Codex MCP (gpt-6-astra): ultra design gate — 5 rounds, NO-GO ×4 → GO — then a 3-round implementation gate whose round 2 caught a first-run config-wiring blocker before it shipped; 4 implementation subagents, every report disk-verified.

v0.4.21 (2026-06-28) — bug-fix patch: 5 new user-facing bugs from a Codex adversarial hunt (all disk-verified, distinct from v0.4.20), each cross-model reviewed at a design gate and an implementation gate (gpt-5.5 xhigh; both started NO-GO — the reviewer caught an off-by-one in the grep line-mapping and a missing stream-level test before GO). 🐛 Headline: OpenAI-compatible streaming corrupted multi-byte UTF-8 (CJK / emoji) split across network chunks into � — each HTTP body chunk was from_utf8_lossy'd independently, so a 3-byte Chinese character or 4-byte emoji straddling a chunk boundary broke on both sides (a frequent hit for Chinese users on domestic OpenAI-compatible providers — Kimi/GLM/MiniMax/DeepSeek/Qwen/Doubao — streaming Chinese text); the stream buffer is now raw bytes, decoding only complete SSE lines. A saved OpenAI/custom executor config no longer overrides a shell-set EXECUTOR_PROVIDER — the startup "shell-provided vars win" path had one ungated write that re-pointed EXECUTOR_PROVIDER=anthropic … aris … to OpenAI (wrong executor / model-not-found). An Anthropic stream truncated after content but before a terminal signal now hard-errors (premature_eof) instead of saving a half-finished answer to history as a complete turn (symmetric to the OpenAI #249 guard; the stop_reason-only compat path is preserved, and ARIS_ALLOW_EOF_WITHOUT_STOP=1 opts a terminal-signal-less proxy back into the old behavior). grep_search with multiline: true now matches across lines in content mode (was silently empty — count mode already worked). MCP tool results carried only in structuredContent (empty content) are no longer dropped — the model gets the JSON structured payload. Tests (CI mode): api 32→35 / runtime 205→212 / tools 67 / aris-cli 172→181 / commands 5 (+21, incl. 2 stream-level integration tests), all green. Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh): design gate (NO-GO → GO after fixing the off-by-one) → implementation gate (NO-GO → GO after adding the stream-level integration tests); the Anthropic streaming spec (every stream ends with message_stop) was WebFetch-verified. Two latent-only candidates (Anthropic block-index routing, OpenAI multi-line SSE) remain deferred.

v0.4.20 (2026-06-19) — bug-fix patch: 7 user-facing bugs surfaced by a Codex adversarial hunt, each reviewed across 3 rounds (the reviewer caught a redraw gap, a trailing-blank, a spinner tail, and a blank-line edge before GO). 🐛 Headline (#299): short REPL replies showed only "✔ Done" — the spinner draws "⠋ Thinking…" with Save/RestorePosition so streamed output overwrites it on the same line, but finish then cleared that whole line, erasing a short single-line reply. The REPL now finishes without clearing when the turn printed visible text (Clear(UntilNewLine) wipes only the spinner tail after the reply). Streamed multi-paragraph replies rendered glued ("para1para2") — each chunk's paragraph separator was trimmed at the stream boundary; the markdown streamer now preserves separators via a held-separator so streamed output equals a single full render (no dangling blank line). Markdown tables with CJK/fullwidth content misaligned — width now counts display cells (CJK = 2), not chars. aris "prompt" / --print ignored the executor model saved by aris setup (REPL-only before) — a configured OpenAI/custom executor got the Anthropic default sent to its endpoint; the one-shot and REPL paths now share one resolver. Esc now actually closes the completion dropdown (it was recomputed right back). glob_search reports the total matched count when truncated (not the capped 100, which made the model think a 1000-match glob had 100 files). /model's custom menu reads the effective env the executor uses, not stale on-disk config. Tests (CI mode): api 32 / runtime 205 / tools 67 / aris-cli 172 / commands 5, all green; +7 new; real-machine verified (short reply renders + "✔ Done"; paragraphs keep their blank lines). Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh): hunt → 3 review rounds (NO-GO → NO-GO → GO). Two latent-only candidates (Anthropic block-index routing, OpenAI multi-line SSE) deferred to a hardening pass.

v0.4.19 (2026-06-14) — honesty / guardrails patch (theme from a Codex fresh-eyes audit; no behavior change for healthy setups). 🔴 MCP protocol-version negotiation guard — the stdio handshake requested 2025-03-26 but never read the version the server negotiated back (a parsed-but-dead field), so a server agreeing on a version ARIS can't speak was silently accepted and later tools/list / tools/call ran on an incompatible protocol with opaque failures. ARIS now validates the negotiated version against a supported set (2025-11-25 / 2025-06-18 / 2025-03-26 / 2024-11-05 — stdio framing is identical across these) and, on an unsupported one, terminates the child + clears the slot + surfaces a clear per-server error (aris doctor shows it) — the "terminate when versions can't be agreed" behavior the MCP lifecycle spec requires. The request stays 2025-03-26 (proven against codex mcp-server), so healthy servers are unaffected — verified end-to-end: the real Codex MCP server still spawns + initializes + advertises its tools under the guard. 🧹 Papercuts: the OpenAI-family subagent fail-loud message dropped its stale "lands in v0.4.18" marker (now version-agnostic + actionable, still credential-free); OpenAI upstream error bodies are now truncated (500 chars) + credential-redacted (sk-… keys and Bearer … tokens, via a substring scanner that catches the compact-JSON shape {"api_key":"sk-…"} a misconfigured proxy can reflect back) instead of splatted verbatim; the system-prompt hook-events summary now counts only the hooks the runtime actually executes (a command hook with a command string), matching the parser. Tests (CI mode): api 32 / runtime 204 / tools 67 / aris-cli 167 / commands 5, all green; live smoke confirms the real Codex MCP server still initializes under the guard. Reviewed by Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh): design GO → impl NO-GO (compact-secret miss + command-string strictness) → GO after fixes.

v0.4.18 (2026-06-14) — default model → Claude Opus 4.8, with corrected pricing and a safety net. The bump moves DEFAULT_MODEL, the opus alias, the model picker, aris setup, and the subagent default to claude-opus-4-8 — with an availability fallback: if the account lacks 4.8 (the API returns 404 not_found_error), ARIS auto-falls-back to claude-opus-4-7 for the session, rebuilds the system-prompt model identity so it stays coherent (the model is never told it's 4.8 while served 4.7), warns once, and retries — for the main session (text + JSON) and subagents. It fires only on that precise 404 (never 400/rate-limit/auth), latches against loops, and the text path rebuilds from a pre-turn snapshot so a retry never double-appends the user message; accounts with 4.8 are byte-identical to a plain bump. 💰 Pricing corrected (verified against Anthropic's published schedule; had been a 3–5× over-estimate): current Opus 4.5–4.8 = $5/$25 (deprecated Opus 4/4.1 keep $15/$75, split by word-boundary so a future opus-4-10 isn't mis-tiered); Sonnet 4.x = $3/$15 (decoupled from the generic unknown-model fallback, which stays $15/$75); Haiku was already correct. 🧹 Backlog: aris setup option 10 pins the Codex MCP reviewer to model_reasoning_effort="xhigh" (deterministic for new setups, independent of ~/.codex/config.toml; idempotent merge never clobbers an existing entry); a startup + aris doctor misconfig hint (#259) for a silently-ignored/misplaced config (malformed JSON, or a stray ~/.aris/config.yaml — stderr-only so --print/JSON stdout stays clean); the system-prompt hook summary now marks parsed-but-never-fired events "PARSED ONLY … will NOT run" instead of implying dead hooks run (full event expansion — actually firing SessionStart/SessionEnd/… — deferred to a separate issue). Tests (CI mode): api 32 / runtime 202 / tools 67 / aris-cli 166 / commands 5, all green; a live one-shot smoke returns model=claude-opus-4-8 end-to-end. Reviewed by Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh) across the design + both implementation batches (design REWORK→GO, impl NO-GO→GO, batch-2 GO).

v0.4.17 (2026-06-13) — the MCP release. Before v0.4.17, mcpServers in settings.json parsed, showed in aris doctor, and did nothing; now ARIS spawns each configured stdio server, runs the MCP handshake, discovers tools, and advertises them as mcp__<server>__<tool> on both provider paths (Anthropic + OpenAI-family), with end-to-end dispatch, soft per-server degradation, and an approval gate for untrusted MCP tools (external processes the sandbox can't cover; --allowedTools now accepts mcp__ names). 🆕 zero-API-key cross-model reviewer: aris setup → option 10 (Codex MCP, ChatGPT subscription, no API key) writes an idempotent mcpServers.codex entry into the settings file the runtime actually reads (atomic write + backup, explicit consent before trust: true), with an optional API reviewer as fallback (ARIS_REVIEWER_PROVIDER=codex-mcp + ARIS_REVIEWER_FALLBACK_PROVIDER); /setup in-REPL rebuilds the system prompt + runtime so reviewer changes take effect without quitting. 🔴 Protocol fix the fakes couldn't catch: real-machine e2e against codex mcp-server exposed that our stdio transport spoke LSP-style Content-Length: framing while the MCP spec (and codex) use newline-delimited JSON-RPC — every fake-server test passed because the fakes spoke the same wrong dialect; writes are now NDJSON, reads auto-detect both, and the spec-mandated notifications/initialized is sent after initialize (a select-based round-trip also closes the #286 large-request deadlock). Hooks: object-style Claude Code hooks preserve matcher / timeout / async (anchored-regex matcher filtering; per-hook timeout, default 30 s kill = warning not deny). Long tail: ARIS_DISABLE_KEYCHAIN gate, Anthropic stop_reason clean-EOF symmetry (CL2), OpenAI tool-call index-missing merge-by-id (OE6), slash commands enter history. Real-machine push-gate hardening (the zero-key reviewer's first run): codex codex/event notification spam silenced by default (gated behind ARIS_MCP_STDERR=inherit), the system prompt now tells the model not to pass a model parameter to Codex (account default = gpt-5.5 + xhigh; arbitrary names are rejected by a ChatGPT account), and a Codex-MCP-primary-with-no-fallback LlmReview call returns a clear "use mcp__codex__codex" message instead of a misleading OPENAI_API_KEY/gpt-5.5 error. Built with the v0.4.16 zero-regression methodology (24 new characterization tests; every deliberate flip annotated in-place). Tests (CI mode): runtime 199 / aris-cli 165 / tools 67 / api 30 / commands 5, all green. Reviewed phase-by-phase by Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh) across 17 rounds (7 NO-GOs all resolved). Subagent MCP routing (P8) + MCP protocolVersion bump + hook async execution deferred to v0.4.18.

v0.4.16 (2026-05-30) — REPL UX + provider hardening, shipped under a zero-regression discipline: 64 characterization ("golden") tests locked the current provider-routing / pricing / reviewer / subagent / REPL behavior first, then stayed green through every change. Closes #274: command history now persists to ~/.config/aris/history (0600) and reloads on startup, with an ARIS_NO_HISTORY kill-switch and a disk-only secret-skip (credential-looking lines stay in in-session history but never touch disk); bash-style Ctrl+R reverse incremental search (CJK display-width-aware single-line render; no existing key binding changed; no new dependency). Security: an OpenAI-family main session (Kimi / GLM / MiniMax / …) spawning a subagent previously silently billed the user's Anthropic OAuth/Keychain credential — it now fails loud with a clear, credential-free error; full OpenAI-family subagent routing is a cross-crate change deferred to v0.4.17. Groundwork (no behavior change): the 3 byte-identical word-boundary matchers consolidate into one canonical runtime::word_match; new pure ProviderFamily classifier (unwired). Tests (CI mode): runtime 164 / aris-cli 128 / tools 49 / commands 5, all green. Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh) reviewed each phase + a final integration pass.

v0.4.15 (2026-05-29) — OpenAI-compatible streaming robustness hotfix. Closes #249: MiniMax (and other OpenAI-compatible providers / proxies) were effectively unusable because the clean-EOF completion check treated the data: [DONE] SSE sentinel as the only authoritative signal. A non-empty choices[].finish_reason is the Chat Completions spec's terminal-chunk marker; [DONE] is a transport convention some compatible providers never emit (MiniMax sends finish_reason: "stop" then closes without [DONE]). The clean-EOF decision is now a pure, unit-tested stream_eof_action(...) that completes on EITHER [DONE] OR a non-empty finish_reason; reads are NOT stopped early at finish_reason (a trailing include_usage usage-only chunk is still consumed), genuine truncation still hard-errors, and a pre-output proxy abort still restarts. Coupled fixes: OE7 reads finish_reason before the delta guard (delta-less terminal choice); OE2 flushes pending tool calls on any non-empty finish_reason; OE4 surfaces a mid-stream error envelope as a hard error instead of silently dropping it; OE3 tolerates data:{...} without the space after the colon. +5 unit tests (77→82) extract the previously-untested SSE completion logic into pure helpers. Anthropic SSE path untouched. Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh) 3 rounds (GO-WITH-NITS → GO-WITH-NITS → GO).

v0.4.14 (2026-05-25) — Security-hygiene release closing the top items from the v0.4.13 codex audit (gpt-5.5 xhigh, 6/10 NEEDS-REWORK verdict). 🔴 S9 (P0) system-prompt config redaction — before v0.4.14, render_config_section() dumped the merged settings.json verbatim into the system prompt sent to the LLM provider, leaking env, mcpServers.<name>.headers.Authorization Bearer tokens, hook command env, signed-URL query params, and apiKey fields. New renderer whitelists top-level fields (model/permissionMode/theme/outputStyle/permissions/sandbox with recursive redaction inside), redacts sensitive keys (apikey/token/secret/password/authorization/headers/env/_KEY/_SECRET/_TOKEN), replaces MCP command with <configured> placeholder, reduces MCP url to strict <scheme://host[:port]> origin (scheme allow-list http/https/ws/wss, ASCII host, digit-only port, IPv6 brackets), and drops hook command strings entirely. Regression test exercises 9 distinct leak surfaces; URL parser has its own targeted test for 7 smuggling attempts including port-position secret injection (codex round-3 catch). 🟡 P9 (P1): DeepSeek aris --help now points at aris setup option 7 instead of an env-var path the resolver never honored. 🟡 M1/M2 (P1) doc: aris doctor + README/README_CN gain experimental warning whenever mcpServers.len() > 0 (full MCP tool dispatch lands v0.4.16). 🟢 C11 (P2) stream idle timeout — both Anthropic MessageStream and the OpenAI SSE loop wrap response.chunk().await in tokio::time::timeout (env ARIS_STREAM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECS, default 120, clamp [10, 1800], 0/negative disables); closes the "aris hangs forever with no output" symptom when an upstream HTTPS proxy holds a connection without keepalives. Bundle: 77 skills (+1 /wiki-enrich via late same-day sync to main 7e3ab67 which also picks up upstream check_ready.sh awk + grep-c null-match fix), 54 helpers. Codex MCP 6 rounds (NO-GO + 4 → GO-WITH-NITS + 3 → NO-GO + port smuggling → GO → release metadata GO → sync GO).

v0.4.13 (2026-05-25) — Residue-cleanup release closing every codex audit P1 carried since v0.4.10–v0.4.12, plus the long-tail regression tests. 🟡 v0.4.10 P1.D per-server MCP timeout — mcpServers.<name>.requestTimeoutSecs override > MCP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_SECS env > 300s default (clamped 1..=1800), so one Codex MCP agent can run 5 min while filesystem MCP errors in 5 s. 🟡 v0.4.10 known limitation closed — McpStdioProcess::request() skips JSON-RPC notifications (id absent/null) and keeps reading until the correlated response. 🟢 meta_opt hook deploy via aris init — tools/meta_opt/{log_event,check_ready}.sh bundle into the binary; aris init writes ARIS-namespaced aris-meta-opt-log-event.sh / aris-meta-opt-check-ready.sh to ~/.claude/hooks/ (codex round-1 #1: never clobbers user hooks); settings.json merge idempotent, backups hard-fail, final rewrite atomic via tempfile + rename. 🧪 9 v0.4.12 targeted regression tests for sandbox.strictMode (3) + parse strictMode + provider_match pricing + has_word o-series + stream_options 400 + meaningful-content classification + premature-EOF retry truth table (codex round-1 #3 — should_retry_on_premature_eof() extracted to pure fn, 7-row test). Bundle: 76 skills, 54 helpers (+2 meta_opt scripts vs v0.4.12). Codex 3 rounds (NO-GO + 3 → NO-GO + metadata → GO).

v0.4.12 (2026-05-22) — Bug-fix + small-feature release. #238 sandbox.strictMode opt-in config key; when set, SandboxConfig::resolve_request() ignores all five LLM-supplied overrides (dangerouslyDisableSandbox, namespaceRestrictions, isolateNetwork, filesystemMode, allowedMounts) — closes the gap where a tool call could silently bypass user sandbox policy. aris doctor adds a "Sandbox:" row; bash tool schema documents the strictMode semantics. #232 auto-review-loop-llm updated from legacy deepseek-chat / deepseek-reasoner (deprecate 2026-07-24; reasoner rejects tool_choice) to deepseek-v4-flash / deepseek-v4-pro. v0.4.10 audit P1 follow-ups: P1.A Anthropic stream retry gates on has_emitted_meaningful_content (a stream that only sent MessageStart before EOF is retry-eligible); P1.B supports_reasoning_effort + reviewer mirror use word-boundary match so openai/o3-mini / proxy:o4 route correctly; P1.C stream_options.include_usage:true proxy fallback retries once without on real 400 unknown-field errors; P2 pricing match precision via provider_match() so qwen3.6-plus / kimi-k2.5 route correctly while my-kimi-clone does not. Skills sync (76 skills, 52 helpers): /interview-cheatsheet + /render-html newly bundled; build.rs ALLOWED_EXTS gains html for render-html templates; EXCLUDED_SKILL_PREFIXES → starts_with("skills-codex"). CI fetch-depth: 0 + origin/main fetch so drift-test ancestor check runs. Cross-reviewed by Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh) over 4 rounds.

v0.4.11 (2026-05-18) — Skills bundle refresh + sync infrastructure. The embedded skills set in the v0.4.10 binary had fallen behind main (~6 of 56 main skills/ commits had been cherry-picked); v0.4.11 syncs the full set and ships sync infrastructure so the gap can't silently reopen. Bundle: 65→74 user-facing skills, 34→49 helper resources. 10 new skills bundled: /citation-audit (fourth-layer bibliography audit), /experiment-queue (SSH multi-seed job queue with OOM retry), /kill-argument (two-thread adversarial review for theory papers), /resubmit-pipeline (W5: text-only port to a new venue), /paper-talk (end-to-end conference talk pipeline), /slides-polish (per-page Codex layout review), /overleaf-sync (two-way Overleaf Git-bridge), /gemini-search + /openalex (broader literature sources), /qzcli (Qizhi GPU jobs). 46 existing SKILL.md refreshed — most critically the canonical resolver chain rollout (closes real user incident where /research-wiki was empty for a week from hardcoded tools/research_wiki.py), submission assurance gate + external verifier (/paper-writing Phase 6 now functions). tools/ goes 9→18: 9 baseline helpers refreshed (research_wiki.py 315→767 lines with canonical ingest_paper API), 9 new helpers (extract_paper_style.py, figure_renderer.py, paper_illustration_image2.py, overleaf_{setup,audit}.sh, verify_wiki_coverage.sh, watchdog.py, experiment_queue/{build_manifest,queue_manager}.py). New tools/sync_main_skills.sh automates main → bundle rsync with symlink pre-flight + codex-mirror prune + SKILLS_SOURCE_COMMIT pinning. 3 new CI drift tests in crates/runtime/src/cache.rs cover all 4 resolver layer patterns. Gemini MCP calls in /research-lit and /gemini-search now pass model: 'auto-gemini-3' (avoids silent downgrade to 2.5-pro on OAuth-personal capacity exhaustion). CLI runtime unchanged — codex-audit P1 follow-ups remain on v0.4.12 backlog. Cross-reviewed by Codex MCP (gpt-5.5 xhigh) across 5 rounds (REQUEST CHANGES → APPROVE WITH NITS → NO-GO → GO → final GO).

v0.4.10 (2026-05-17) — Stream + MCP reliability + multi-provider pricing. C6 whole-stream restart in Anthropic MessageStream + OpenAI SSE loop on chunk decode failure / premature EOF (ARIS_STREAM_RETRY, default 2, clamp 0..=5, fires only when nothing emitted yet — closes #228-style "error decoding response body" loop). M3 MCP stdio gains 300s default tokio::time::timeout over send+read (override MCP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_SECS, clamp 1..=1800); response.id ↔ request.id correlation; ensure_server_ready() try_wait() dead-process respawn; kill().await on all failure paths so the next call starts clean (closes #151 / #172 "Calling codex..." stalls). C8/P4 OpenAI streaming requests now send stream_options.include_usage:true + parse cached_tokens; Anthropic streaming merges MessageStart.usage (input/cache) with MessageDelta.usage (output). C9 multi-provider pricing registry (15+ models, OpenAI cache_read = input × 0.1 corrects 5× generic overstatement, DeepSeek cache_hit/cache_miss tiers, has_word() boundary matcher for provider/<model> slugs). 9 dead-code warnings cleared; aris setup help text synced with actual behaviour.

v0.4.9 (2026-05-17) — Closes Codex v0.4.7 audit residuals (L1 TLS double-stack, L3 reasoning_cache compaction misalign, L4 reasoning replay unbounded). 2 new skills bundled (/figure-spec + /paper-illustration-image2 with scripts/ subdirs, new Layer 0b = $ARIS_CACHE_DIR/skills/<name>/scripts/); research_wiki.py promoted to shared tools/ (9+ callers); 5 more SKILL.md migrated to fallback chain.

v0.4.8 (2026-05-17) — Skill helper subsystem rewrite. Bundled helpers extract to ~/.config/aris/cache/<version>/ at startup; every Skill invocation surfaces helperReport JSON + 4-layer resolver preamble; /skills export copies helpers; new integration-contract.md with 6 failure policies; 8 shared helpers (arxiv/deepxiv/exa/S2/openalex/save_trace/verify_papers/verify_paper_audits) bundled; /research-lit + /deepxiv migrated. Plus 4 bug fixes: gpt-5.5+tools 400 on OpenAI; Custom reviewer reset; missing signature field (#228); --version Build date hardcoded.

v0.4.7 (2026-05-16) — DashScope Coding Plan 405 fixed (#159) via native-tls switch (#225); reasoning_content replay for all reasoning models (OpenAI o1/o3/o4 / DeepSeek-R1 etc.), not just Kimi (#226); 600+ lines dead code cleanup + rustyline dep removed + "Claw Code" → "ARIS-Code" rebrand.

v0.4.6 (2026-05-14) — 🚨 Two long-standing silent bugs fixed: PermissionMode::Prompt silently allowed every tool (derived-Ord bug); system prompt hardcoded current_date = "2026-03-31" made models reject post-cutoff data as future/prompt-injection. Plus Custom OpenAI-compatible provider (/setup option 11) with dynamic /models discovery (@Anduin9527 #221 + #222).

v0.4.5 (2026-05-13) — First-class reasoning-model support: thinking content blocks end-to-end (fixes #161) + reasoning_effort='xhigh' for GPT-5.5 / o1 / o3 / o4 / DeepSeek-thinking. DeepSeek V4 Pro + Xiaomi MiMo + Qwen 3.6 + Doubao in /setup (options 7-10). Object-style hooks parser. Default model bumped to Claude Opus 4.7 + GPT-5.5. REPL input hardening (multi-line wrap / Cmd+V paste / CJK boundary). GitHub Actions CI. Credits: @GO-player-hhy (#186), @Jxy-yxJ (#171), @GetIT-Sunday (#216 partial).

Older versions

v0.4.4 (2026-04-20) — Setup UX + reviewer routing fixes (resolves #158, #162) | /setup no longer forces Bearer for Anthropic + custom URL | Provider-aware proxy URL hints | Stale state no longer leaks across provider switches | LlmReview smart fallback

v0.4.3 (2026-04-17) — Third-party Anthropic-compat proxy support (Bedrock etc.) | Skip beta flags that proxies reject | Propagate custom base URL for anthropic provider | Credit @screw-44

v0.4.2 (2026-04-17) — Auto-compaction corruption fix | Compaction summary preserved on OpenAI-compat executors | Shell-provided API keys no longer erased on launch

v0.4.1 (2026-04-15) — Plan mode (/plan) | Cooperative Ctrl+C interrupt | Auto-retry (429/5xx/network) | Research Wiki 📚 (persistent knowledge base) | Self-Evolution 🧬 (/meta-optimize) | Local models (LM Studio/Ollama) | 62 skills synced

v0.3.11 (2026-04-13) — Reviewer Anthropic-compatible mode (Claude via proxy)

v0.3.9 (2026-04-11) — Proxy/custom base URL (CCSwitch) | Local models (LM Studio/Ollama) | Windows (experimental)

v0.3.5 (2026-04-08) — Research Wiki (persistent papers/ideas/experiments/claims + relationship graph) | Meta-Optimize self-evolution (analyze logs → propose SKILL.md patches)

v0.3.0 (2026-04-03) — Multi-file memory index | Rich task system (TodoWrite) | /plan | Security hardening

v0.2.2 (2026-04-03) — /plan step-by-step planning | /tasks persistent tracking

v0.2.1 (2026-04-03) — Persistent Memory | Kimi K2.5 multi-turn fix | CJK cursor fix

v0.2.0 (2026-04-02) — Open source | Kimi + MiniMax + GLM support | Smart LlmReview routing | CI/CD

v0.1.0 (2026-04-02) — Initial release | Multi-executor & reviewer | 42 bundled skills

• 2026-09-28 — 📚 Real papers stop being reported as hallucinated citations (#445, #447, #450; thanks @ilya-pershin and @AfonsoZhang). arXiv sometimes refuses Python's HTTP client with a 406 for minutes while curl gets through; verify_papers.py read that refusal as "paper not found" and one user saw a 47% hallucination rate on 38 real papers. A 406 now goes through curl, and a refusal (406 / 401 / 403) is verify_pending, never unverified. Set SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY and title checks use it. Seen a suspicious hallucination rate recently? Re-run with --no-cache once. Also in this round: five skills can now actually invoke the sub-skills their text tells them to (#440, @Jeremy-xuan); concurrent watchdog registrations no longer overwrite each other (#443, @hiro-nikaitou); xhigh is described as the regular reviewer tier it is (#442, @dreamworld2023).

• 2026-09-16 — 🧩 ARIS is a Claude Code plugin now (#437, thanks @white-drizzle). claude plugin marketplace add wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep → claude plugin install aris@aris → /aris:setup once → restart. Setup registers the Codex reviewer bridge that ships inside the plugin, so the reviewer works on codex-cli 0.154+ out of the box. Plugin skills are typed with the prefix (/aris:idea-discovery); they call each other by short name internally. Codex CLI reads the same repo as a plugin too (codex plugin marketplace add … → codex plugin add aris@aris) and gets the Codex-native mirror. Cursor, Trae and DeepSeek Harness keep their own routes.

• 2026-09-10 — 🔌 codex-cli 0.154 removed codex mcp-server — re-register the codex MCP server. Every ARIS reviewer call went through that entry point; on 0.154+ it now opens the interactive TUI and the MCP handshake fails. ARIS ships its own stand-in, mcp-servers/codex-exec/server.py, same tool names and result shape, driving codex exec underneath — skills unchanged. Run once: git pull in your ARIS clone (older clones do not have the file), then claude mcp remove codex -s user && claude mcp add codex -s user -- python3 "$HOME/aris_repo/mcp-servers/codex-exec/server.py" (absolute path of your clone), then restart Claude Code. Step-by-step for new and existing installs in Quick Start. Works on 0.153 too, so do it before you update. OpenAI's own replacement, the Claude Code plugin, has no ultra effort and no per-thread resume, which the deep-audit skills need. Cursor / Trae / Antigravity / Copilot CLI configs: same key, python3 + that path — see the adaptation docs.

• 2026-09-07 — 🧠 Default reviewer is now gpt-6-astra. Every reviewer call that pinned gpt-5.6-sol now pins gpt-6-astra; the two effort tiers (ultra for the seven deep audits, xhigh everywhere else) are unchanged, and so is the executor — whatever agent you run ARIS in. No access to the model yet? The capability fallback tries gpt-5.6-sol, then gpt-5.5, both at xhigh — nothing to configure.

• 2026-09-06 — 🧹 The installer stops dropping Copilot profiles into every project (#431, thanks @oblivion-1521). Since 2026-08 every run symlinked two Copilot reviewer profiles into your .github/agents/ whether or not anything used them — dead files for Claude Code and Codex users, broken links if you committed them. Now they are deployed only while auto-review-loop is installed; --no-agent-profiles switches them off for good (undo with --agent-profiles). Your next re-run removes the links the installer created earlier; files you wrote yourself are never touched.

• 2026-09-03 — 📣 Papers are launches, not progress reports (rules adopted from anti-defensive-writing-Skill by @Adkid-Zephyr — 🌟 it). The writing contract gains four rules: organize the narrative around the strongest genuine advantage; pick the contest the paper wins; unfavorable numbers stay in the tables, explained as a tradeoff where the evidence supports that and stated neutrally where it does not — never narrated as a defeat; every experiment carries an argumentative duty or leaves the main line; abstract and introduction open with problem → gap → idea → strongest result, and the conclusion never ends on new self-negation. /auto-paper-improvement-loop flags the same defects. Indexed under Awesome Community Skills.

• 2026-08-26 — 🧯 Two over-defense leftovers (#425). /research-review — the one reviewer prompt that never got the scope-limits block — now carries it, and its brief ends with "if the work holds up, say so clearly" instead of bare brutality; the adversarial stance itself is untouched. /research-pipeline no longer dies overnight on a missing VENUE: ideas, experiments, analysis and the narrative report are venue-independent and run to completion — only paper formatting defers, stamped clearly for a later resume. It had also been declaring VENUE = ICLR while forbidding silent defaults; the default is gone.

• 2026-08-26 — ✍️ Papers stop reading like confession letters (#423, #424; several rules adopted from humanize-paper). Claims are stated at the strength the evidence earns; generic caveats ("further research is needed") live in Limitations only; "don't mention X" means X is absent — never "we do not address X" in print; results are ordered by argument, not by the order experiments ran.

• 2026-08-26 — 💡 The idea pipeline stops killing ideas for having neighbors (#419–#422; community reports). ABANDON now has to name the published paper that already contains your result, and concurrent work is a race — your call, not a veto. Brainstorming runs two generator models (gpt-5.6-sol + gpt-5.5) and unions their ideas, aiming for creative direct attacks instead of corner-case stacks. Search digs as hard as ever.

• 2026-08-21 — 🔌 Optional HTTP reviewer fallback for when Codex MCP is unreachable (#413; by @TheFlashForge). Off by default; fires only when Codex provably never got the request — a timeout doesn't count, that could pay twice for two conflicting verdicts. The fallback reads your actual files and gets less trust than Codex, never more.

• 2026-08-21 — 🧹 Four community fixes in one day (#406–#410; by @ZLZLGe and @JasmineLCY). AUTO_PROCEED=true now actually continues on its own; the idea-discovery gate demands a real reviewer receipt, not a checkbox; cached wiki context is scanned right before /idea-creator reads it; Codex users with Claude as reviewer get their three paper skills back.

• 2026-08-09 — 🦆 Copilot CLI defaults /auto-review-loop to its native rubber-duck reviewer (#360, closes #258). Active only inside Copilot CLI sessions; review evidence is revalidated from host events, and same/unknown-family fails closed. The standard Claude Code + Codex setup is untouched.

• 2026-08-09 — 🚧 /idea-discovery can no longer silently skip a stage (#383, closes #285; by @3mom3). Each of the five stages needs recorded evidence, or the report says BLOCKED instead of looking complete.

• 2026-08-05 — 🈶 The research wiki handles non-ASCII (#386, #387; reported by @LIMMIL7). cp936-written wikis were unreadable on other machines, and Chinese-only titles collapsed to <year>_untitled and got deduped away. Existing UTF-8 wikis unaffected.

• 2026-08-04 — 🖼️ Upstream spotlight: posterly — the engine behind /paper-poster-html — shipped a major design upgrade (MIT, by @Chenruishuo; ~50 posters at this year's ICML). GitHub · Blog.

• 2026-08-03 — 🧭 /proof-orchestrator — Workflow 7: proof campaigns with a memory (#381; by @shenmuxing, from their EtaSkill). Stateful local-first proof runs that continue across sessions, with a ready-to-paste GPT Pro handoff when a proof stalls. /proof-checker remains the submission gate.

• 2026-07-15 — 🔗 Double-blind citation field audit (#371). New /citation-crosscheck: two agents work blind — one reads each cited entry from the local .bib, one re-fetches it from the web — and a deterministic gate diffs them field by field (author set+order, year, venue, arXiv-id/DOI), emitting a side-by-side .xlsx with MATCH/MINOR/MISMATCH. Complements /citation-audit (context-fit); this owns field accuracy.

• 2026-07-14 — 🐞 /web-debug-search (Issue #211). Adds a focused debugging/discovery workflow for GitHub Issues and Discussions: exact and normalized error-string matching, version compatibility tracking, and explicit failure handling. Results are labeled for debugging only and are not paper-citation evidence.

• 2026-07-14 — 🧩 Selective install + global helper pointer (#366). The 81 skills are no longer all-or-nothing — all four installers support group/skill-level picks (--list-groups, --groups X,Y, --skills X, --exclude Y, or a bare-TTY checkbox picker), with hard pipeline deps auto-included. Updates now confirm each NEW upstream skill individually (--add-new / --skip-new for scripting; declines are remembered and never re-asked). Also fixes copy installs (~/.claude/skills) losing helper-script resolution, via a new ~/.aris/repo pointer file. ⚠️ Backward compatible — --quiet fresh installs still install everything; run any installer/updater once to pick up the pointer file. Selective install →

• 2026-07-12 — 🛡️ Your paper now gets the reviewer-side forensics treatment before you submit (#357). New /integrity-forensics skill: a SHA-pinned thin launcher runs Anti-Autoresearch's hostile-reviewer sweep (evidence ledger, nine auditor dimensions, numeric core, rules-only adjudicator) on your paper first. The verdict feeds a typed gate — flags can block a submission, a clean sweep is recorded as "no new blocker" (never an acquittal) — and findings close only with typed, hashed evidence or a recorded human waiver (rewording the flagged sentence doesn't count; the ledger notices). /paper-writing runs it by default at submission assurance (— self_forensics: false opts out; the Codex mirror is opt-in and limited to upstream's deterministic slice, which can flag but never say CLEAN). ⚠️ First run clones and validates the pinned upstream (needs network); run bash tools/smart_update.sh --apply.

• 2026-07-10 — 🧠 Reviewer default is now GPT-5.6-Sol; deep audits think at the new ultra level (#354). codex-cli 0.144.1 added max/ultra reasoning above xhigh; ARIS reviews now default to gpt-5.6-sol, with the seven heavyweight verdicts (/proof-checker, /kill-argument, /research-review, /experiment-audit, /paper-claim-audit, /result-to-claim, /meta-apply) at ultra and everything else at xhigh. Older codex-cli or no model access steps down automatically (5.6-sol → 5.5, both xhigh) — never below xhigh, never on a mere timeout. Also fixed: /result-to-claim now stops honestly instead of judging its own results when the reviewer is unreachable. ⚠️ Upgrade codex-cli to ≥ 0.144.1, restart the session (MCP reloads only then), and run bash tools/smart_update.sh --apply.

• 2026-07-03 — 🧬 Three small updates adapted from Anthropic's Claude Science skills (#339, #340, #341; Apache-2.0). ARIS now has one shared way to describe GPU environments, so the same setup can be reused across SSH machines, Modal, and clusters, then checked by a fresh agent following the setup notes. We also added a small tool that tests whether a skill description actually makes the right skill get picked. Finally, figure and writing checks now separate facts from style: truth checks must pass, style advice stays optional. ⚠️ Run bash tools/smart_update.sh --apply to pull.

• 2026-07-02 — 🔁 Ideas from Karpathy's LOOPS.md, brought into ARIS (#333–#337). Reviewers now start by looking for what may be wrong, not by giving a polite score. If a review result looks strange, ARIS points you to the saved reviewer transcript before you ask the model again. A failed build can be restarted from the plan instead of endlessly patched, while plans, logs, and results are kept. Scoring can now use real good and bad examples, /meta-optimize asks what can be removed, and /paper-writing agrees on a clear "done" checklist before drafting starts. ⚠️ Run bash tools/smart_update.sh --apply to pull.

• 2026-06-20 — 📚 Research wiki: all four node layers now have deterministic writers — fixes "re-generated ideas not recorded" (#305, #306, #307, #308). A user hit a real bug — ideas recorded on the first /idea-creator run vanished on re-generation — because wiki pages were written freehand, a prose step the model skips on a re-prompt. Each layer now has a dedicated research_wiki.py writer joining ingest_paper: add_claim (claims born at /proof-checker), upsert_idea (/idea-creator), add_experiment (/result-to-claim) — each guarded by a drift-check so it can't silently regress to dead code. A claim's status is now a strict proof axis (verified/refuted/unproven/…) while experiment support is carried by supports/invalidates edges (closing a latent contradiction the shared validator rejected), and the Codex-CLI skill mirror is synced to match. Zero behavior change when no research-wiki/ is present.

• 2026-06-19 — 🛰 Overnight loops can now notice when they die or get stuck (#300, #301, #302; adapted from operational patterns in Deli Chen's AutoResearch). A new watchdog checks whether an unattended loop is still updating its state file and writes an alert when it goes quiet; it only reports the problem, never restarts a verdict-bearing run. A separate iteration log watches for rounds that stop finding anything new: two empty rounds force a change of direction, four call in a human, and the cross-model jury still decides whether the result is actually good enough.

• 2026-06-07 — 🖼️ /paper-poster-html is now the default poster pipeline; the old LaTeX /paper-poster is retired. It builds the poster as one HTML/CSS file at the venue's real print size, then runs measured layout and asset checks before a content reviewer sees it, so review time goes to the science instead of crooked columns. It also ships templates, reusable poster components, and venue token packs; the core gate machinery was adapted from posterly (MIT, by @Chenruishuo). ⚠️ /paper-poster now redirects to /paper-poster-html; the LaTeX pipeline lives only in git history.

• 2026-05-31 — 🤝 Two community tools worth a look. Claude Fleet (@tianyilt) is a local read-only dashboard for keeping track of many Claude Code / Codex windows at once. posterly (@Chenruishuo) builds conference posters as a single HTML/CSS file and exports a print-ready PDF through headless Chromium, no LaTeX needed. Both are listed under Awesome Community. 🌟 if they help you.

• 2026-05-31 — 🛰 Fourth reviewer backend: Gemini via Antigravity CLI (#267 by @ZGJY95). — reviewer: agy routes review through the Antigravity CLI for users without Codex MCP / Oracle — fail-closed on the cross-model invariant (recovers + verifies the real Gemini-family model, refuses non-Gemini, binds the recovered transcript to the call via a user-event nonce). Wired into reviewer-routing.md.

• 2026-05-29 — ⚙️ ultracode-native convention layer — fan out for breadth on any runtime tier, keep the cross-model jury sacred. Three new shared-references docs decouple breadth from verdict: fan-out-pattern.md (skills generate candidates across same-family Claude subagents — Tier-1 Workflow / Tier-2 Agent / Tier-3 sequential — all ending in the identical cross-model jury), acceptance-gate.md ("a loop can DRIVE, it cannot ACQUIT" — self-judge execution-completeness, never quality/correctness), and external-cadence.md (/loop & CronCreate are fire-control, never a jury). Wired into /idea-creator, /research-lit, /proof-checker, /kill-argument (fan-out) plus 16 skills (cadence fence/affordance). Also stripped 48 vestigial Agent grants (least-privilege + a drift-check guard), fixed /idea-creator's same-family idea pre-filter, and reconciled an /auto-review-loop OR→AND stop-condition inconsistency. Non-ultracode users benefit immediately — fan-out degrades to sequential with the same final jury.

• 2026-05-28 — 📝 First blog shipped: A Survey on Continuous DLM (2026 H1, 6 papers) — long-form bilingual technical survey by Ruofeng Yang (SJTU), written end-to-end through the ARIS-in-AI-Offer workflow (Claude Opus 4.7 + Codex GPT-5.5 xhigh + Gemini auto-gemini-3 cross-model discussion). Compares ELF, ByteDance Cola-DLM, and Flow-Matching family across discrete-DLM problems, the "known-unknown" continuous space idea, training pipeline, architecture / params / shapes, inference grids + Tab 6/7 numerical results, denoising trajectories, and a Field Landscape against Cola-DLM. A 1.7 MB self-contained HTML (no build) — demonstrates the kind of long-form analysis the /render-html toolchain can produce.

• 2026-05-26 — 🌐 HTML auto-emission activated at 8 workflow checkpoints. /idea-discovery, /auto-review-loop, /research-pipeline, /kill-argument, /proof-checker, /paper-claim-audit, /citation-audit, /rebuttal now auto-render their primary MD artifact to a single-file HTML view via /render-html. Cost-tiered: interim views use --no-review, audit-class / reviewer-facing deliverables keep the full Codex render-fidelity gate. Default on (RENDER_HTML = true); per-skill opt-out. Failures non-blocking — source MD stays canonical.

• 2026-05-26 — 🤝 Community PR wave — 5 merges this week. /wiki-enrich (#247 by @hungchun0201) fills paper TODOs ingest_paper leaves as scaffolds — Karpathy LLM-wiki principle, fetch chain alphaxiv→deepxiv→arXiv. Mirror drift checker + CI (#241 by @VeraPyuyi) keeps main↔mirror in sync. /research-pipeline Stage 2/3 unified into /experiment-bridge delegation (#243 by @ZBigFish) — old inline was a strict subset of the bridge. Windows PowerShell installer parity with reparse-chain inside-repo guard + -FromOld legacy migration + Windows CI matrix (#242 by @VeraPyuyi). Plus manual-review MCP (#246 by @ZBigFish) — third reviewer backend — reviewer: manual for zero-cost cross-model review (paste prompt to any non-Claude model: DeepSeek / Kimi / ChatGPT / Gemini / local llama); cross-model invariant guarded by bilingual UI banner + per-session token auth + fail-closed when MCP unavailable.

• 2026-05-17 — 🐙 GitHub Copilot CLI adaptation — native SKILL.md + MCP support, no skill mirror needed. Installer (install_aris_copilot.sh) + smart-updater + 13-test suite. Community contribution by @EarendelH (#229, closes #214 / #227 / #203).

• 2026-05-17 — 🛠 Tools-stability roadmap (Phase 1+2+3) complete (closes #176 / #177 / #178). Community reported that helper scripts weren't propagating into user projects after install_aris.sh. Phase 1 — every SKILL.md caller of the 10 canonical helpers now resolves via the strict-safe 3-layer chain .aris/tools/ → tools/ → $ARIS_REPO/tools/ documented in integration-contract.md §2 (which also defines 5 failure policies A/B/C/D1/D2/E). Phase 2 — new advisory CI lint catches hardcoded python3 tools/foo.py patterns in PR-modified SKILL.md (advisory only, never fails CI). Phase 3 — three single-owner helpers (figure-spec, paper-illustration-image2, experiment-queue) moved into their SKILL's scripts/ subdirectory; owner SKILLs use Layer 0 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ ahead of the canonical chain; legacy tools/ paths retained as os.execv Python forwarding shims. ⚠️ Existing users: no action needed — legacy tools/ entries are now shims. If you haven't run install_aris.sh since 2026-04-30, one idempotent rerun catches everything up.

• 2026-05-14 — 🩹 /paper-plan + /paper-write learn GAP_REPORT.md + <!-- DATA_NEEDED --> discipline (#217). When — style-ref: is set and the user's project has structural assets (figures/, results/, NARRATIVE_REPORT.md, etc.), /paper-plan emits a Gap Report mapping the exemplar's section topology + density (from style_profile.md) against your actual assets — surfacing slots you have no evidence to fill (e.g., "exemplar has 3×4 ablation table, you have no ablation data"). Then /paper-write writes <!-- DATA_NEEDED: <Slot ID> — <description> --> HTML comments instead of fabricating content at missing slots — invisible in the compiled PDF, grep-friendly for human triage / /experiment-bridge follow-up. Narrow carve-out from the "no placeholders" rule, scoped to GAP_REPORT-listed slots only. Original idea by @zhangpelf.

• 2026-05-14 — ⚙️ Default reviewer model: gpt-5.4 → gpt-5.5 across ~30 SKILL.md REVIEWER_MODEL defaults. Codex MCP has routed gpt-5.5 as the default since 2026-04-24; this catches the docs up to runtime. ⚠️ Behavior changes: (a) .aris/traces/* JSONs from prior runs are not reproducible — re-runs on 5.5 may emit different WARN/FAIL verdicts on borderline cases (reviewer-quality lift, not regression). (b) ChatGPT Plus/Pro monthly quotas drain faster under heavy use. Fallback: pass — reviewer-model: gpt-5.4 per invocation, or pin REVIEWER_MODEL = gpt-5.4 per skill. Oracle Pro tier (routed via — reviewer: oracle-pro) is a separate path and unaffected.

• 2026-05-13 — 🔍 tools/verify_papers.py + Pre-Search Verification Protocol — anti-hallucination filter for literature-facing skills. New helper does 3-layer fallback verification (arXiv batch API up to 40 IDs/request → CrossRef DOI lookup → Semantic Scholar fuzzy title match, default 0.6 word-overlap) and emits 4-state per-paper status (verified / unverified / verify_pending / error) plus a top-level verdict aligning with assurance-contract.md (PASS / WARN / BLOCKED / ERROR). Transient failures (5xx, timeouts, 429) are tagged verify_pending and excluded from the hallucination rate so network blips don't get conflated with fabricated references. Per-project cache at <project>/.aris/cache/verify_papers.json with 30-day TTL; canonical key priority arxiv:{id_without_version} → doi:{lowercase} → title:{sha1[:16]}. New Pre-Search Verification Protocol subsection in shared-references/citation-discipline.md makes the split explicit: this protocol is the fast filter between SEARCH (Step 1) and full VERIFY (Step 2); /citation-audit and /paper-claim-audit remain the submission-time audit gates and are not replaced. /research-lit gets a mandatory Step 1.5: Verify Candidate Papers calling the helper; /idea-creator and /novelty-check add a Key Rule reference for cited Closest Prior Work / landscape entries. Unverified papers are retained in output tagged [UNVERIFIED] (retention-over-silent-removal) so search-quality issues stay visible. Set ARIS_VERIFY_EMAIL in your shell to lift CrossRef to the polite-pool rate. Original signal from @YiwenZhu77 in #120 — landed via clean reimplementation rather than direct merge (PR was 5 weeks old + scope creep into figure-style).

• 2026-05-06 — 🎤 /paper-talk workflow + /slides-polish skill — end-to-end conference talk pipeline. /paper-talk orchestrates paper → slide outline → Beamer + PPTX → per-page polish → assurance audits → final report (sister to /paper-writing, /paper-poster); composes /paper-slides, /slides-polish, plus /paper-claim-audit + /citation-audit when assurance: conference-ready. /slides-polish is the post-generation visual pass: per-page Codex review against a reference PDF + a fix-pattern catalog (PPTX font scaling 1.5-1.8× for projector-readable size, text-frame resize after font bump, banner-as-tcolorbox, italic style leak guard, em-dash spacing, Chinese EA font hint via PingFang SC, anonymity placeholder discipline). Assurance ladder draft / polished (default) / conference-ready is independent from the effort axis; effort: lite, assurance: conference-ready is legal and means "fast pipeline, every audit must emit verdict before final". Phase 4 staging adapter materializes slide text + speaker notes + talk script as a synthetic paper directory (.aris/paper-talk/audit-input/sections/*.tex + symlinked .bib / results/ / figures/) so the existing audits run with their paper-shaped contracts and emit 6-state JSON verdicts per shared-references/assurance-contract.md.

• 2026-05-05 — 🔁 /resubmit-pipeline — Workflow 5: text-only resubmit across venues (#208). Port a polished paper from one venue to another under hard constraints (no new experiments, no bib edits, no framework changes, never overwrite prior submissions). 5 phases: physical isolation → 5-layer anonymity check → audits (proof / claim / citation --soft-only) → microedits via /auto-paper-improvement-loop --edit-whitelist with per-round diff gate → adversarial gate via /kill-argument → final compile + Overleaf push via /overleaf-sync. Two prerequisite SKILL upgrades shipped in the same PR: /auto-paper-improvement-loop --edit-whitelist <path> (YAML schema with allowed/forbidden paths + forbidden_operations like new_cite / new_theorem_env / numerical_claim, forbidden_deletions, requires_user_approval_for, max_edits_per_round) and /citation-audit --soft-only (translates KEEP/FIX/REPLACE/REMOVE verdicts to text-rewrite proposals when bib is frozen; hallucinated citations get drop_cite_in_body_only action). Master RESUBMIT_REPORT.json ledger per shared-references/assurance-contract.md; 7-verdict failure mode table including USER_DECISION runtime state.

• 2026-05-05 — 🗡 /kill-argument — adversarial Attack-Adjudication review for theory papers (#206). Two fresh codex 5.5 + xhigh threads: Thread 1 writes the strongest 200-word rejection memo a senior area chair would produce; Thread 2 (independent adjudicator, NOT defender) reads the current paper and classifies each rejection point as answered_by_current_text / partially_answered / still_unresolved with file:line evidence. Output: KILL_ARGUMENT.{md,json}, detect-only. Integrated as Phase 5.6 of /paper-writing (between claim-audit and citation-audit) and as the canonical implementation called from /auto-paper-improvement-loop Step 5.5 — replaces inline prompt in both places. Mandatory at assurance: submission for theory-heavy / scope-heavy papers; emits NOT_APPLICABLE for empirical papers without scope claims. Audit JSON is verify_paper_audits.sh-compatible (full schema per shared-references/assurance-contract.md, 6-state verdict). Catches the failure mode score-based reviews miss: when every local component is correct (numbers match, cites resolve, theorems prove) but the paper still oversells what it actually establishes.

• 2026-05-04 — 🪲 /research-wiki and 8 caller skills now resolve helper via fallback chain (#204). Bug: after bash tools/install_aris.sh the helper lives at .aris/tools/research_wiki.py (symlink), but skills hard-coded tools/research_wiki.py and silently failed when invoked — research-wiki/ stayed empty across full W1 runs. Fix: 3-layer chain (.aris/tools/ → tools/ → $ARIS_REPO/tools/) codified in shared-references/wiki-helper-resolution.md. The manual-copy workaround at <project>/tools/research_wiki.py is layer 2, so users who cp-installed the helper as a temporary fix continue to work. ⚠️ Existing users: rerun bash tools/install_aris.sh once — also picks up a separate Python 3.9 ImportError fix in the helper.

• 2026-05-03 — 🎨 Opt-in — style-ref: <source> for writer-side skills (#202). /paper-{plan,write,writing,illustration,poster,slides}, /grant-proposal, and /auto-paper-improvement-loop accept an optional — style-ref: <source> argument that mimics a reference paper's structural style (section ordering, theorem/figure density, sentence cadence, citation style) without copying its prose, claims, or terminology. Sources: local .tex dir/file, local PDF, arXiv id (2501.12345 or arxiv:2501.12345), HTTP/HTTPS URL. Overleaf URLs/IDs are rejected — clone via /overleaf-sync setup <id> first. Default OFF; existing behavior unchanged when the flag is absent. Reviewer / auditor sub-skills (/proof-checker, /paper-claim-audit, /citation-audit, the improvement-loop reviewer) never see the style ref — cross-model review independence preserved. ⚠️ Existing ARIS users: the helper ships at tools/extract_paper_style.py, distributed via the .aris/tools symlink (install_aris.sh Phase 0, added in #192). Re-run bash tools/install_aris.sh once to refresh the symlink and pick up the helper. Manual fallback: cp <ARIS-repo>/tools/extract_paper_style.py <your-project>/tools/. Without either, the writer skill aborts with a clear error pointing here.

• 2026-05-02 — 🪨 Community spotlight: rosetta by @SyntaxSmith. Programmatic access to ChatGPT Pro / gpt-5.5-pro / DeepResearch from Node, via Chrome CDP Fetch interception + WebSocket second-leg streaming; ships an MCP server for Claude Code / Codex / Cline. Alternative implementation path to Oracle MCP for ARIS users invoking — reviewer: oracle-pro — same target capability (Pro-tier reviewer), different mechanics. Indexed under Awesome Community Skills & Extensions. 🌟 if you're using it!

• 2026-05-02 — 💎🧿 Model & MCP routing updates. (a) /gemini-search default bumped to gemini-3-pro-preview (strongest Gemini, out-of-box). ⚠️ Action required: requires gemini-cli v0.40+ (run gemini --version; upgrade with npm i -g @google/gemini-cli if older). Legacy override: /gemini-search "topic" — model: gemini-2.5-pro. Other overrides: gemini-3-flash-preview (faster), auto-gemini-3 (load-routed). (b) /idea-discovery Phase 1 now includes Gemini in its literature survey by default (#199) — auto-injects — sources: all, gemini into /research-lit unless the user passed an explicit — sources:; graceful skip if gemini-cli not installed. (c) Oracle MCP upstream PR queue (steipete/oracle/pulls) is the first triage stop when invoking — reviewer: oracle-pro (especially o3-deep-research / gpt-5.5-pro) — ARIS does not vendor Oracle MCP; check upstream first if behavior surprises you (reviewer-routing.md)

• 2026-05-02 — 🛠️🔗 Tools-infrastructure migration started. (a) install_aris.sh creates optional .aris/tools symlink (#192, closes #174) — Phase 0 of the 4-step tools-stability plan (#174 → #176 → #177 → #178); idempotent, zero impact until rerun. (b) /experiment-queue orchestration paths repaired (#193) — first real user of the symlink; 7 cascading bugs fixed via 3 rounds of Codex MCP gpt-5.5 xhigh audit. Pure prose + docstring; queue_manager.py logic untouched. Windows install_aris.ps1 parallel update tracked as follow-up

• 2026-05-02 — 🔬 Three new opt-in audit flags via fast-path delegated-agent workflow (#187, #188, #189). /citation-audit --uncited surfaces bib entries with no \cite{} reference (detect-only). /proof-checker --deep-fix adds a repair-grade plan to the Phase 1 reviewer prompt (corrected statement / patch plan / closure tests + Schur/quadratic-form algebra sanity). /proof-checker --restatement-check adds Phase 3.6 cross-location theorem drift detection (6 drift signatures). Zero behavior change when flags unset. Plus doc PRs #190 (thread-policy) + #191 (auto-loop xref). Delegated-agent + maintainer-fixup pattern; Codex MCP gpt-5.5 xhigh review caught 6+ blockers

• 2026-05-01 — 🔍 Gemini + OpenAlex literature sources for /research-lit (#175, community contribution by @stdAri). Two opt-in sources: /gemini-search (AI-driven discovery via jamubc/gemini-mcp-tool MCP) and /openalex (250M+ work open citation graph, no API key). Triggered via — sources: gemini or — sources: openalex; zero behavior change when default all (both excluded). Maintainer fixups: corrected @google/gemini-cli npm name; added try/except ImportError + bash preflight for graceful OpenAlex skip when requests missing

• 2026-04-30 — 📝 /rebuttal per-reviewer thread mode + transferable patterns (SKILL.md). Adds VENUE_MODE (single_document | per_reviewer_thread) for OpenReview-style venues, reviewer_priority: pivotal routing, structural_distinction response mode, 5 reviewer-defensive heuristics, 2 Phase 5 lints, and severity-scaled stress rounds. Default VENUE_MODE = single_document keeps ICML-style behavior — zero change for existing users. Three rounds of cross-model review before/after merge

• 2026-04-30 — 🪞 Codex skill mirror rebuilt + dedicated install/update chain (#179, community contribution by @No-518). skills/skills-codex/ now mirrors all 67 mainline skills; replaces mcp__codex__codex reviewer path with Codex-native spawn_agent + send_input. New tools/install_aris_codex.sh + tools/smart_update_codex.sh handle project-local symlinks with manifest tracking. Anti-drift: tests/test_codex_skill_mirror.py + tests/test_codex_install_update.py (26 failure paths). Open discussion in #184

• 2026-04-24 — 🎨 /paper-illustration-image2 — Codex-native image generation as Phase 2b illustration backend (#166, community contribution by @kbr19-thu 清华). Uses ChatGPT Plus/Pro quota via local Codex app-server MCP bridge — no GEMINI_API_KEY required. Triggered by /paper-writing — illustration: codex-image2; default stays figurespec (zero behavior change). Async-only API, sandboxed writes to figures/ai_generated/, integration-contract-compliant helper. Marked experimental (Codex debug app-server is unstable upstream)

• 2026-04-21 — 📚 Research Wiki ingest actually works now (research_wiki.py, /research-wiki). Fixes user-reported bug where /research-wiki init left papers/ empty forever (ingest subcommand had no implementation; paper-reading skills had no wiki hook). New canonical python3 tools/research_wiki.py ingest_paper helper owns slugging / metadata fetch / dedup / page render; all 6 paper-reading skills wired to it. Manual backfill via sync --arxiv-ids or sync --from-file. Ships with integration-contract.md formalizing the six-component pattern every cross-skill integration must follow

• 2026-04-21 — 🛡️ Assurance Gate: — effort: beast | max now really runs mandatory audits (assurance-contract.md, tools/verify_paper_audits.sh). Fixes silent-skip of /proof-checker / /paper-claim-audit / /citation-audit at high effort. New assurance axis (draft | submission) independent from effort: lite / balanced → draft (zero behavior change), max / beast → submission. At submission the 3 audits emit a JSON artifact with 6-state verdict; paper-writing Phase 6 runs the external verifier as source of truth (non-zero exit blocks Final Report). SHA256 input hashing catches stale audits. Escape hatch: — effort: beast, assurance: draft

• 2026-04-20 — 🩹 Project install: flat layout + manifest tracking — fixes a real bug where the previous nested install (.claude/skills/aris/) hid skills from Claude Code's slash-command discovery (CC only scans one directory level). Anyone who ran install_aris.sh before this date was silently affected. New install_aris.sh creates one symlink per skill at .claude/skills/<name>, writes a versioned manifest to .aris/installed-skills.txt, and is re-runnable to reconcile new/removed upstream skills. Defense-in-depth: 13 safety rules (no-symlinked-parents, exact-target revalidation, slug regex, atomic same-dir manifest rename, no-overwrite-real-files, mkdir-based portable lock, ADOPT for crash recovery, …). Granular --adopt-existing / --replace-link flags replace the all-or-nothing --force. Migration paths: --from-old for legacy nested symlink, --migrate-copy keep-user|prefer-upstream for legacy nested copy. smart_update.sh --target-subdir .claude/skills/aris is now deprecated with a redirect to install_aris.sh. Stale-file bug in cp -r overlay also fixed (now rm -rf && cp -r for safe-update path)

• 2026-04-19 — 🔗 /overleaf-sync — two-way bridge between local ARIS paper directory and an Overleaf project via the official Overleaf Git bridge (Premium). Lets collaborators keep editing in the Overleaf web UI while ARIS audit/edit pipelines (/paper-claim-audit, /citation-audit, /auto-paper-improvement-loop) keep running locally. Sub-commands: setup (one-time, user-driven so the agent never sees the token) / pull (with diff-protocol — flags half-sentences, typos, claim/cite changes that should re-trigger audits) / push (with confirmation gate before writing to shared Overleaf state) / status (3-way divergence check). Token never touches the agent or any file — primed once into macOS Keychain via the user's terminal, then auth-free for all subsequent agent operations

• 2026-04-19 — 📚 /citation-audit — fourth and final layer of the evidence-and-claim assurance stack (experiment-audit → result-to-claim → paper-claim-audit → citation-audit). Fresh cross-family reviewer (gpt-5.4 via Codex MCP) with web/DBLP/arXiv lookup verifies every \cite{...} along three independent axes: existence (paper resolves at claimed arXiv ID/DOI/venue), metadata correctness (authors/year/venue/title match canonical sources), and context appropriateness (the cited paper actually establishes the claim it supports — the most diagnostic check). Per-entry verdicts: KEEP / FIX / REPLACE / REMOVE. Auto-integrated into Workflow 3 Phase 5.8 as the pre-submission bibliography gate. Empirical motivation: in a real submission run, several real papers were cited in contexts they did not actually support, and at least one entry shipped with author = "Anonymous" — none caught by metadata-only checks

• 2026-04-17 — 🔀 /experiment-queue integrated into Workflow 1.5 + research-pipeline — experiment-bridge Phase 4 Deploy now auto-routes by milestone job count: ≤5 jobs → /run-experiment, ≥10 jobs or phase dependencies → /experiment-queue (with OOM retry, stale-screen cleanup, wave-transition gating, crash-safe state). New --- batch: queue override for global force-queue mode. Large multi-seed sweeps from EXPERIMENT_PLAN.md (e.g., 36-cell N × seed × n_train grids) now get proper orchestration without manual queue invocation

• 2026-04-17 — 🔗 Project-local symlink install (resolves #118) — new recommended default install. bash tools/install_aris.sh auto-detects platform (Claude Code / Codex CLI), creates .claude/skills/aris or .agents/skills/aris symlink to the ARIS repo, adds a managed <!-- ARIS:BEGIN --> block to CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md telling the agent to use only project-local skills, and records install metadata in .aris/skill-source.txt. Solves the skill collision problem when ARIS is mixed with Superpowers / OpenHands / other community packs in the same global skill directory. PowerShell version (install_aris.ps1) ships with junction support for Windows. smart_update.sh --target-subdir flag added for .agents/skills/aris (Codex) project-copy installs; symlinked installs now correctly refuse smart_update and direct users to git pull. Global install remains supported for power users

• 2026-04-16 — 🎨 /figure-spec — deterministic JSON→SVG renderer packaged as a first-class skill. Preferred default for architecture/workflow/pipeline/audit-cascade figures in papers. Shape-aware edge clipping (rect/circle/ellipse/diamond), self-loops, curved edges, multi-line labels with CJK width estimation. Editable vector output, reproducible (same spec → same SVG), no external API. Phase 2b in Workflow 3 restored: illustration: figurespec (new default) / gemini / mermaid / false — 4-way illustration selector with complementary strengths

• 2026-04-16 — ⚙️ /experiment-queue — SSH job queue for multi-seed/multi-config ML experiments. Designed from real 36-cell NeurIPS sweep pain points: OOM-aware retry with backoff, stale-screen cleanup, wave-transition race prevention, teacher→student phase dependencies, crash-safe scheduler that resumes from JSON state. Declarative grid specs expand automatically (e.g., N × seed × n_train → 36 jobs). Configurable conda_hook + gpu_free_threshold_mib for non-standard environments. Use for ≥10 jobs; /run-experiment stays for ad-hoc

• 2026-04-15 — 🛡️ Paper Writing Pipeline Hardening — 10 empirically-motivated patches from a real NeurIPS run. REVIEWER_BIAS_GUARD=true: every review round uses a fresh thread (codex-reply inflated 3→8/10). Reviewer Independence Protocol: no fix summaries to reviewer. Step 4.5 Restatement Regression Test: catches theorem drift across fix rounds. Step 5.5 Kill Argument Exercise: final-round adversarial attack/defense for theory papers. Location-aware overfull blocking. Theory Paper Consistency Pass in /paper-write. Enforced Bib Hygiene with DBLP/CrossRef validation. Phase 5.5 Mandatory Final Claim Audit as submission gate. Review Tracing Protocol: full prompt/response pairs saved to .aris/traces/ for reviewer-independence audit (review-tracing.md, save_trace.sh). Inspired by community contribution from @李傲龍

• 2026-04-15 — 🎨 FigureSpec Renderer v2 — deterministic JSON→SVG figure generation for academic papers. Shape-aware edge clipping (rect/circle/ellipse/diamond), self-loops, curved edges, multi-line labels with CJK width estimation, comprehensive validation (type checks, structure, palette). Went through 5 rounds of Codex review (3/10→7/10). All architecture and workflow diagrams in the ARIS tech report were generated with this pipeline. New --- mode: vector for /paper-illustration skill

• 2026-04-14 — 📋 /paper-claim-audit — zero-context paper-to-evidence verification. Fresh reviewer with NO prior context compares every number in the paper against raw result files. Catches rounding inflation, best-seed cherry-pick, config mismatch, delta errors, scope overclaim. Auto-integrated into Workflow 3 (Phase 4.7). Completes the 3-layer audit chain: /experiment-audit (code) → /result-to-claim (science) → /paper-claim-audit (reporting). 👁️ Visual PDF review also added to improvement loop — reviewer now sees compiled PDF, not just LaTeX source. Inspired by Hermes Agent

• 2026-04-13 — 🧿 GPT-5.4 Pro via Oracle — — reviewer: oracle-pro on any skill for the strongest available reviewer. API mode (fast) or browser mode (free). Supported on: /research-review, /auto-review-loop, /experiment-audit, /proof-checker, /rebuttal, /idea-creator, /research-lit. Default stays Codex xhigh. Not installed = zero impact. Setup →

• 2026-04-13 — 🔬 /proof-checker — rigorous mathematical proof verification via cross-model review. 20-category issue taxonomy, two-axis severity, side-condition checklists (DCT/MCT/Fubini/IFT/...), counterexample red team, proof-obligation ledger. Auto-integrated into Workflow 3: detects \begin{theorem} and runs before improvement loop. Complements /proof-writer

• 2026-04-10 — ⚡ Effort Levels — — effort: lite | balanced | max | beast. Controls work intensity across all skills: papers found, ideas generated, review rounds, writing depth. Codex reasoning stays xhigh always. beast = every knob to maximum for top-venue sprints. Default balanced = zero change for existing users. Details →

• 2026-04-10 — 🔎 DeepXiv integration — progressive paper retrieval via DeepXiv CLI. Opt-in: — sources: deepxiv or — sources: all, deepxiv. Staged reading: search → brief → head → section. pip install deepxiv-sdk to enable. Community contribution by @DreamEnding

• 2026-04-10 — 🛡️ /experiment-audit — cross-model experiment integrity verification. GPT-5.4 reads your eval scripts and results directly, checks for fake ground truth, self-normalized scores, phantom results, and scope inflation (#131, #57). Advisory — warns loudly, never blocks. /result-to-claim auto-reads audit if present. New experiment-integrity.md shared reference. The executor must never judge its own integrity.

• 2026-04-10 — 🧠 tools/smart_update.sh — intelligent skill updater. Compares local vs upstream, detects personal customizations (server paths, API keys), only updates safe skills. bash tools/smart_update.sh --apply

• 2026-04-10 — 🏆 Community paper: UAV-CC — first community paper with full PDF archived. UAV change captioning benchmark for IEEE TGRS by @wxx827. Stack: Claude Opus 4.6 + Codex 5.4 xhigh + Cursor. Papers now archived in community_papers/

• 2026-04-08 — 📚 /research-wiki — persistent research knowledge base inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki. Accumulates papers, ideas, experiments, and claims across the entire research lifecycle with typed relationships. Wiki-aware hooks in /research-lit (ingest papers), /idea-creator (read wiki + write ideas back), and /result-to-claim (update claim status + trigger re-ideation). Failed ideas become anti-repetition memory. ARIS now learns from its mistakes.

• 2026-04-05 — 🧬 /meta-optimize — outer-loop harness optimization for ARIS. Passively logs skill invocations, tool calls, failures, and parameter overrides via Claude Code hooks. Run /meta-optimize to analyze accumulated usage data and propose SKILL.md improvements — reviewer-gated, user-approved. Inspired by Meta-Harness (Lee et al., 2026). ARIS now optimizes itself.

• 2026-04-04 — 🔧 Codex Plugin deep integration — /codex:rescue now auto-invoked when experiments fail (Workflow 1.5) or LaTeX won't compile (Workflow 3). GPT independently diagnoses the bug before Claude retries — two AI debuggers are better than one. Optional: codex exec powers nightmare review, /codex:rescue powers auto-debug. Setup →

• 2026-04-03 — ☁️ Modal serverless GPU — no GPU? gpu: modal in CLAUDE.md, one command (modal run launcher.py), no SSH, no Docker, auto scale-to-zero. $30/month free tier — enough to try ARIS experiments without any hardware. pip install modal && modal setup and go. Community contribution by @zeyuzhangzyz

• 2026-04-03 — 🎮 Reviewer Difficulty Levels — medium (default, unchanged), hard (reviewer memory + debate protocol), nightmare (GPT reads repo directly via codex exec — Claude can't hide anything). — difficulty: nightmare for maximum stress test before submission

• 2026-03-30 — 🔥 Auto-debug & exhaust-before-surrender — experiment-bridge auto-diagnoses failures (OOM, import, CUDA, NaN) and retries up to 3×. Inspired by PUA

• 2026-03-30 — ☁️ Vast.ai GPU rental — gpu: vast auto-rents cheapest GPU. By @YIHONG-JIN. 🔧 MiniMax M2.7 upgrade by @octo-patch

• 2026-03-27 — 📄 IEEE venue support (9 families). 🔎 Semantic Scholar. By @ypd666

• 2026-03-26 — 📄 Document-based input — RESEARCH_BRIEF.md auto-detect

• 2026-03-24 — 📝 Workflow 4: /rebuttal — 7-phase pipeline, 3 safety gates

• 2026-03-23 — 🔧 /training-check, /result-to-claim, /ablation-planner integrated. 📦 compact mode. By @JingxuanKang & @couragec

• 2026-03-22 — 📋 Templates — input templates for every workflow. 📄 7 venue templates — CVPR, ACL, AAAI, ACM MM added. 🛡️ Anti-hallucination fix — Workflow 2 enforces DBLP → CrossRef → [VERIFY]. 🔗 base repo — clone a GitHub repo as base codebase (— base repo: https://github.com/org/project)

• 2026-03-22 — 🔍 Codex + Gemini review guide — Codex executes, Gemini reviews via local gemini-review MCP bridge. CN

• 2026-03-20 — 🚀 Antigravity adaptation guide — use ARIS skills in Google Antigravity (agent-first IDE). Community contribution by @PeppaPigw

• 2026-03-20 — 🖥️ Trae adaptation guide — use ARIS skills in Trae (ByteDance AI IDE). Community contribution by @Prometheus-cotigo. 🔢 formula-derivation — Community contribution by @Falling-Flower

• 2026-03-19 — 🖼️ paper-poster — Conference poster. Community contribution by @dengzhe-hou

• 2026-03-19 — 🔗 Workflow 1.5 upgraded — /experiment-bridge GPT-5.4 code review. 📊 W&B fix

• 2026-03-18 — 🎤 paper-slides + 🔁 Codex+Claude bridge + 🖱️ Cursor guide + 🤖 Codex CLI skills + 📝 grant-proposal + 🎨 paper-illustration (Gemini) + 📊 CitationClaw

• 2026-03-17 — 🔧 Git code sync + 🆓 ModelScope guide + parameter pass-through

• 2026-03-16 — 🔬 research-refine + experiment-plan — turn vague ideas into problem-anchored proposals with claim-driven experiment roadmaps. Now integrated into Workflow 1 (/idea-discovery). Community contribution by @zjYao36

• 2026-03-16 — 🇨🇳 Alibaba Coding Plan guide — one API key, 4 models (Kimi-K2.5 + Qwen3.5+ + GLM-5 + MiniMax-M2.7), dual-endpoint setup. Community contribution by @tianhao909

• 2026-03-15 — 🔀 Bring your own model! Any OpenAI-compatible API now works as reviewer via llm-chat MCP server. GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, LongCat, DeepSeek all tested — zero Claude or OpenAI API needed

• 2026-03-15 — 🐾 OpenClaw adaptation guide — use ARIS research workflows in OpenClaw without Claude Code slash skills

• 2026-03-15 — 📐 proof-writer — community skill for rigorous theorem proof drafting. 📚 Anti-hallucination citations — /paper-write now fetches real BibTeX from DBLP/CrossRef instead of LLM-generated entries — on by default, zero install

• 2026-03-14 — 📱 Feishu/Lark integration: three modes (off/push/interactive), mobile notifications for experiments, reviews, and checkpoints

• 2026-03-13 — 🛑 Human-in-the-loop: configurable AUTO_PROCEED checkpoints across all workflows. Full autopilot or step-by-step approval

• 2026-03-12 — 🔗 Zotero + Obsidian + local PDFs + arXiv/Scholar: multi-source literature search with cross-model novelty verification

• 2026-03-12 — 🚀 Three end-to-end workflows complete: one prompt → top-venue-style paper. /research-pipeline chains idea discovery → auto review → paper writing autonomously

• 2026-03-12 — 📝 /paper-writing workflow: narrative report → structured outline → figures → LaTeX → compiled PDF → 2-round auto-improvement (4/10 → 8.5/10)

Give ARIS persistent memory across sessions. Papers, ideas, failed experiments — nothing is forgotten:

# In Claude Code:
> /research-wiki init                         # creates research-wiki/ in your project
# That's it. From now on, /research-lit auto-ingests papers, /idea-creator reads
# the wiki before brainstorming (and writes ideas back), /result-to-claim updates
# claim status. Failed ideas become anti-repetition memory for future ideation.

Run these in your normal terminal (not inside Claude Code) to enable passive usage logging:

# One-time setup in your project directory
mkdir -p .claude .aris/meta tools/meta_opt
cp Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/templates/claude-hooks/meta_logging.json .claude/settings.json
cp Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tools/meta_opt/*.sh tools/meta_opt/
chmod +x tools/meta_opt/*.sh
# Then start Claude Code — hooks are active immediately
claude

Events are logged to both project-level (.aris/meta/events.jsonl) and global (~/.aris/meta/events.jsonl) logs. After 5+ workflow runs, run /meta-optimize to see data-driven improvement proposals. Use /meta-optimize --global to analyze trends across all your projects.

📝 Templates available! See templates/ for ready-to-use input templates for every workflow — research brief (Workflow 1), experiment plan (Workflow 1.5), narrative report (Workflow 3), paper plan (Workflow 3).

🔎 Optional: DeepXiv progressive retrieval

pip install deepxiv-sdk

Then use /deepxiv directly or opt into it from /research-lit with — sources: deepxiv or — sources: all, deepxiv.

🔎 Optional: Exa AI-powered web search

pip install exa-py
export EXA_API_KEY=your-key-here

Then use /exa-search directly or opt into it from /research-lit with — sources: exa or — sources: all, exa. Covers blogs, docs, news, and research papers with built-in content extraction.

🔎 Optional: Keenable web search (no API key needed)

export KEENABLE_API_KEY=your-key-here   # optional, only raises rate limits

Then use /keenable-search to search the web (title, URL, and page-text snippet per result) or fetch a URL as markdown. Works without a key and needs no extra Python packages.

🔎 Optional: Firecrawl web search and scraping

export FIRECRAWL_API_KEY=your-key-here

Then use /firecrawl-search to search the web with full-page markdown for each result, or to scrape a URL (HTML or PDF) to markdown. No extra Python packages needed.

🗑️ Uninstall: To remove ARIS skills without affecting your own personal skills:

cd Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep && ls skills/ | xargs -I{} rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/{}

All pipeline behaviors are configurable via inline overrides — append — key: value to any command:

/research-pipeline "your topic" — AUTO_PROCEED: false                          # pause at idea selection gate
/research-pipeline "your topic" — human checkpoint: true                       # pause after each review round to give feedback
/research-pipeline "your topic" — sources: zotero, web                         # only search Zotero + web (skip local PDFs)
/research-pipeline "your topic" — sources: all, deepxiv                        # default sources plus DeepXiv progressive retrieval
/research-pipeline "your topic" — sources: all, exa                            # default sources plus Exa AI-powered web search
/research-pipeline "your topic" — sources: all, gemini                         # default sources plus Gemini discovery
/research-pipeline "your topic" — sources: all, openalex                       # default sources plus OpenAlex citation graph
/research-pipeline "your topic" — arxiv download: true                         # download top arXiv PDFs during literature survey
/research-pipeline "your topic" — difficulty: nightmare                        # maximum adversarial review before submission
/research-pipeline "your topic" — effort: beast                               # all knobs to maximum — top-venue sprint
/research-pipeline "your topic" — effort: beast, reviewer: oracle-pro         # beast + GPT-5.5 Pro reviewer — ultimate mode
/research-pipeline "your topic" — effort: lite                                # quick exploration, save tokens
/research-pipeline "your topic" — effort: max, review_rounds: 3               # max effort but cap review at 3 rounds
/research-pipeline "your topic" — AUTO_PROCEED: false, human checkpoint: true  # combine options
/proof-checker "paper/" — reviewer: oracle-pro                                # Pro-level proof verification

The runtime's sandbox settings provide a configured baseline, while a tool request may also carry sandbox-related overrides. In the legacy compatibility mode, the effective request can therefore differ from the values written in settings.json.

To make the configured policy authoritative, enable strictMode:

{
  "sandbox": {
    "enabled": true,
    "strictMode": true
  }
}

With strictMode: true, the runtime ignores these LLM-supplied overrides: dangerouslyDisableSandbox, namespaceRestrictions, isolateNetwork, filesystemMode, and allowedMounts. The configured sandbox policy remains in effect even when a tool call requests a different value. This is opt-in so existing configurations keep their legacy behavior by default.

Run aris doctor to inspect the currently reported sandbox state. strictMode controls whether tool requests can override the runtime configuration; it does not replace the host operating system's permissions, filesystem protections, or network policy.

Important: ARIS skills pin the reviewer explicitly (model: gpt-6-astra + a per-tier reasoning effort) in every fresh call — your ~/.codex/config.toml no longer silently decides the reviewer. Still set model = "gpt-6-astra" there (recommended): it covers codex-native/mirror sessions and anything that doesn't pin. ultra/max effort needs codex-cli ≥ 0.144.1 + a session restart.

Choose a reviewer in Codex: install the full skills/skills-codex/ pack and select — reviewer: claude-code, antigravity, or grok. See the backend contract for bridge setup and session rules.

The old Claude/Gemini partial overlays are frozen for existing installations; migrate safely to the full pack. The historical Claude and Gemini guides describe those legacy installations.

Want the Codex mirror install chain? Use tools/install_aris_codex.sh for managed project installs and tools/smart_update_codex.sh for copied Codex installs. The Claude scripts remain the mainline entry points for Claude projects.

The base Codex mirror defaults to a fresh Codex reviewer: same-family reviews remain provisional. Other routes require actual model identities and a completed, in-scope review before cross-family acceptance; a backend selection alone is insufficient. Submission and deterministic verification gates still apply.

• 📊 87 composable skills — mix and match, or chain into full pipelines (/idea-discovery, /auto-review-loop, /paper-writing, /research-pipeline). See full catalog →

• 🔍 Literature & novelty — multi-source paper search (Zotero + Obsidian + local PDFs + arXiv/Scholar) + cross-model novelty verification

• 💡 Idea discovery — literature survey → brainstorm 8-12 ideas → novelty check → GPU pilot experiments → ranked report

• 🔄 Auto review loop — 4-round autonomous review, 5/10 → 7.5/10 overnight with 20+ GPU experiments

• 📝 Paper writing — narrative → outline → figures → LaTeX → PDF → auto-review (4/10 → 8.5/10), one command. Anti-hallucination citations via DBLP/CrossRef

• 🤖 Cross-model collaboration — Claude Code executes and GPT-6-Astra reviews; in Copilot CLI, /auto-review-loop uses the native complementary rubber-duck model and verifies the actual cross-family pair from host events. Optional: — reviewer: oracle-pro → GPT-5.5 Pro via Oracle

• 📝 Peer review — review others' papers as a conference reviewer, with structured scoring and meta-review

• 🖥️ Review-driven experiments — when GPT-6-Astra says "run an ablation", Claude auto-writes the script, rsyncs to GPU, runs in screen, collects results, folds back into the paper. Configure server in CLAUDE.md (setup), or rent from Vast.ai with gpu: vast

• 🔀 Flexible models — default Claude × GPT-6-Astra, also supports GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, LongCat, DeepSeek, etc. — no Claude or OpenAI API required

• 🛑 Human-in-the-loop — configurable selection checkpoints. AUTO_PROCEED=true reports the choice and continues in the same turn; false asks for approval. Explicit Feishu interactive gates remain user-controlled

• 📱 Feishu/Lark notifications — three modes: off (default, recommended), push-only (webhook → mobile), interactive (approve/reject in Feishu). Zero impact when off

  Preview: Push cards (group) & Interactive chat (private)

  Push Only — group chat cards (experiment done, checkpoint, error, pipeline complete):

  

  Interactive — private chat with Claude Code (approve/reject, custom instructions):

  

• 📚 Research Wiki — persistent knowledge base across papers/ideas/experiments/claims. Failed ideas become anti-repetition memory — ARIS gets smarter every run. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki

• 🧩 Extensible — domain-specific skills welcome! Add a SKILL.md and open a PR. See community skills like dse-loop (architecture/EDA)

What to pass as argument? A short topic or scope is enough — the skill automatically reads your project's narrative docs (NARRATIVE_REPORT.md), memory files, experiment results, and prior reviews to build the full context for GPT-6-Astra. Examples:

• /auto-review-loop "factorized gap in discrete diffusion LMs" — broad topic, skill finds everything
• /auto-review-loop "focus on Section 3-5, our CRF results are weak" — targeted scope with hints
• /auto-review-loop — also works: skill reads project files and infers the topic

🎮 Reviewer Difficulty — control how adversarial the reviewer is:

/auto-review-loop "topic" — difficulty: nightmare    # GPT reads your code and verifies claims itself

🛡️ Key safety features:

• 🔒 MAX_ROUNDS = 4 — prevents infinite loops; stops early if score threshold is met
• ⏱️ > 4 GPU-hour experiments skipped — won't launch massive jobs; flags them for manual follow-up
• 🧠 Prefer reframing over new experiments — when both can address a weakness, chooses the cheaper path
• 🪞 No hiding weaknesses — explicit rule: "Do NOT hide weaknesses to game a positive score"
• 🔧 Fix before re-review — must actually implement fixes before resubmitting; no empty promises
• 💾 Compact recovery — persists state (REVIEW_STATE.json) after each round. If the context window fills up and auto-compacts mid-loop, the workflow reads the state file and resumes from where it left off — no human intervention needed

Key features:

• 📐 Claims-Evidence Matrix — every claim maps to evidence, every experiment supports a claim
• 📊 Auto figure generation — line plots, bar charts, comparison tables from JSON data
• 🧹 Clean bib — automated filtering removes uncited entries (948→215 lines in testing). Real BibTeX from DBLP/CrossRef instead of LLM-generated entries
• 📄 Flexible sections — 5-8 sections depending on paper type (theory papers often need 7)
• 🔍 GPT-6-Astra review — each step optionally reviewed by external LLM
• ✂️ De-AI polish — removes AI writing patterns (delve, pivotal, landscape...)
• 🎯 Page verification — pdftotext-based precise check that main body fits page limit

⚠️ Figure generation scope: /paper-figure auto-generates data-driven plots (training curves, bar charts, heatmaps) and comparison tables from JSON/CSV. For architecture diagrams and method figures: illustration: gemini (default) uses Claude→Gemini→Nano Banana Pro for publication-quality diagrams; illustration: mermaid generates Mermaid diagrams for free; illustration: false skips AI figures entirely.

Gemini API setup (for illustration: gemini): Get your API key at Google AI Studio, then set it as an environment variable: export GEMINI_API_KEY="your-key". Or add to your shell profile (~/.zshrc / ~/.bashrc). No other dependencies needed.

Tested end-to-end: Generated a 9-page ICLR 2026 theory paper (7 sections, 29 citations, 4 figures, 2 comparison tables) from a single NARRATIVE_REPORT.md — zero compilation errors, zero undefined references.

Score Progression (Real Test — ICLR 2026 theory paper):

Final: 8 pages main body (ICLR limit: 9), 0 overfull hbox, ICLR-compliant. +4.5 points across 3 rounds.

Four entity types:

Typed relationships (stored in graph/edges.jsonl):

paper --extends--> paper              idea --inspired_by--> paper
paper --contradicts--> paper          idea --tested_by--> experiment
paper --addresses_gap--> gap          experiment --supports--> claim
paper --supersedes--> paper           experiment --invalidates--> claim

Spiral learning in action:

Round 1: read 15 papers → wiki remembers → idea A → experiment → FAIL
         wiki records: "A fails because OOM at batch>32, loss diverges"

Round 2: /idea-creator reads wiki → sees A failed → generates idea D (avoids A's trap)
         → experiment → PARTIAL SUCCESS
         wiki records: "D works on small models, fails on large"

Round 3: /idea-creator reads wiki → knows A failed + D partial → generates idea F
         (combines D's success with new approach) → experiment → SUCCESS 🎉

Subcommands:

/research-wiki init                              # initialize wiki
/research-wiki ingest "paper title" — arxiv: xxx  # manually add a paper
/research-wiki query "topic"                      # rebuild query_pack.md
/research-wiki update idea:001 — outcome: negative # update entity
/research-wiki lint                               # health check (orphans, contradictions, stale claims)
/research-wiki stats                              # overview (paper/idea/experiment/claim counts)

Setup (one-time, in normal terminal):

mkdir -p .claude .aris/meta tools/meta_opt
cp Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/templates/claude-hooks/meta_logging.json .claude/settings.json
cp Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/tools/meta_opt/*.sh tools/meta_opt/
chmod +x tools/meta_opt/*.sh
claude   # hooks active immediately

Usage (after 5+ workflow runs):

> /meta-optimize                        # analyze current project
> /meta-optimize "auto-review-loop"     # focus on one skill
> /meta-optimize --global               # analyze trends across ALL projects
> /meta-optimize apply 1                # apply recommended change #1

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Workflow M: Meta-Optimize                        │
│                                                                  │
│   Normal ARIS usage (W1-W4)                                      │
│         │ (hooks log events passively)                           │
│         ▼                                                        │
│   .aris/meta/events.jsonl                                        │
│         │                                                        │
│         ▼                                                        │
│   ┌──────────┐     ┌──────────┐     ┌──────────┐               │
│   │ Analyze  │────▶│ Propose  │────▶│ GPT-6-Astra  │               │
│   │ patterns │     │ SKILL.md │     │ reviews  │               │
│   │          │     │ patches  │     │ patch    │               │
│   └──────────┘     └──────────┘     └──────────┘               │
│                                          │                       │
│                                          ▼                       │
│                                    User approves?                 │
│                                     Yes → Apply                  │
│                                     No  → Skip                   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

What gets optimized (harness components):

If you previously installed via install_aris.sh (which created .claude/skills/aris/ as a single nested symlink) or via smart_update.sh --target-subdir .claude/skills/aris, your slash commands probably weren't being auto-discovered by Claude Code. Migrate to the flat layout:

# Symlink-style legacy install:
bash ~/aris_repo/tools/install_aris.sh ~/your-project --from-old

# Copy-style legacy install (with possible local edits — chose strategy explicitly):
bash ~/aris_repo/tools/install_aris.sh ~/your-project --from-old --migrate-copy keep-user
#   → keeps your nested .claude/skills/aris/ copy intact alongside the new flat install
bash ~/aris_repo/tools/install_aris.sh ~/your-project --from-old --migrate-copy prefer-upstream
#   → archives nested copy to .aris/legacy-copy-backup-<timestamp>/, then flattens

Project-local copy (no symlinks, useful for per-project skill edits):

mkdir -p ~/your-project/.claude/skills
bash ~/aris_repo/tools/smart_update.sh --project ~/your-project --apply
# Default --target-subdir is .claude/skills (flat), which is what Claude Code expects.
# (The old --target-subdir .claude/skills/aris is now deprecated — see migration block above.)

Global install (one copy in your home dir, available to every project):

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r ~/aris_repo/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
# Update with: bash tools/smart_update.sh --apply

Global install increases the risk of skill name collisions with other globally-installed packs. Use only if you don't mix ARIS with Superpowers / OpenHands / etc. — otherwise prefer the project-local install above.

codex-plugin-cc provides additional Codex capabilities that ARIS auto-detects when installed:

# In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add openai/codex-plugin-cc
/plugin install codex@openai-codex
/reload-plugins
/codex:setup

Where ARIS uses the plugin:

All plugin features are optional — if not installed, ARIS falls back to Claude's own diagnosis. The plugin just adds a second pair of eyes.

Note: ARIS's core cross-model review (paper scoring, idea evaluation, rebuttal stress test) still uses Codex MCP, which allows custom prompts. The plugin cannot replace this.

To run the auto-review loop without clicking permission prompts, add to .claude/settings.local.json:

{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__codex__codex",
      "mcp__codex__codex-reply",
      "Write",
      "Edit",
      "Skill(auto-review-loop)"
    ]
  }
}