2026-08-02

Agent-driven development tightened its grip on reliability across the board: a canonical Orca/OpenCode workflow page now gives collaborators a single setup entry point with supported remote-SSH and remote-VM patterns minus personal-machine noise, a dedicated web-researcher subagent isolates untrusted web evidence from the mutation-capable supervisor, and every workflow surface—from implementation to daily and weekly automation—shares a validation-continuation contract that reroutes required-test failures through systematic debugging and current-origin/main freshness checks instead of stopping dead at red. The daily devlog automation hardened its own guardrails by verifying GitHub-ruleset branch protection before auto-merge and pinning landing-date attribution to origin/main merges so stale commit-author timestamps cannot skip or backdate landed work. Local builds got quieter and faster: the default make build profile is now minimal and CEF-off with summary-only output and a complete log file, reserving make build-full for browser-surface iteration. On the Windows side, backslash normalization, SPACE_ASSETS_PATH fixture resolution, and POSIX-symlink skips brought the artifact fast-suite to green—together making the agent loop and cross-platform tooling faster and harder to trip over.