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Summary

Catalyst 8.2.0 introduces event-driven orchestration with real-time monitoring and bidirectional worker communication. This release replaces polling-based workflows with reactive event streams, significantly improving responsiveness and reducing resource usage for AI-assisted development workflows.

What's New

• Event-driven orchestration: Workers now communicate bidirectionally at phase boundaries, eliminating polling delays and enabling real-time coordination between development tasks
• Global activity monitoring: New catalyst-events tail command and activity feed provide real-time visibility into all orchestration events across your development workflow
• Webhook integration: Linear and GitHub webhooks now deliver events end-to-end via smee.io tunneling, enabling instant responses to issue updates and PR changes
• Smart merge recovery: Orchestrator automatically detects and recovers from dirty merge states, preventing workflow interruptions from Git conflicts
• Enhanced monitoring: catalyst-monitor status --json now exposes webhook tunnel state and includes daemon liveness checks as skill prerequisites
• Two-phase GitHub operations: New wait-for-github skill replaces polling loops in PR creation and merging with diagnostic checkpoints for better reliability

Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing catalyst-events CLI in installation script and updated default install path to ~/.local/bin
• Improved observability in usage tracking scripts and fixed worker directory fallbacks in fixup/followup operations
• Enhanced Monitor filtering with scope awareness and better error handling for awk pipe operations
• Updated workflow templates to properly handle exit-at-merging contracts and stamp orchestrator metadata on webhook events
• Added missing monitor configuration to setup templates with GitHub webhook verification

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Conventional Changelog (auto-generated)

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catalyst-dev: 8.2.0

8.2.0 (2026-05-05)

Features

• dev: bidirectional comms — workers read inbound messages at phase boundaries (CTL-249) (#403) (79aa258)
• dev: expose webhookTunnel state in catalyst-monitor status --json (CTL-244) (#398) (643055d)
• dev: orch-monitor activity feed for global event stream (CTL-225) (#358) (db72cf7)
• dev: orch-monitor daemon liveness check as skill prerequisite (CTL-223) (#356) (7e906ce)
• dev: orch-monitor version drift self-check on startup (CTL-237) (#381) (ab2edcf)
• dev: orchestrate Phase 4 — event-driven Monitor + catalyst-events tail (CTL-243) (#378) (7f3e728)
• dev: orchestrator DIRTY merge auto-recovery (CTL-232) (#386) (59222b6)
• dev: persist Linear webhook registration to Layer 2 (CTL-238) (#382) (a730499)
• dev: reactive multi-event PR lifecycle subscription (CTL-228) (#379) (e407c24)
• dev: wait-for-github diagnostic checkpoint — update callers to two-phase pattern (CTL-251) (#404) (e03f455)
• dev: wait-for-github skill — two-phase event wait with diagnostic checkpoint (CTL-247) (7738683)
• dev: wire Linear webhook delivery via smee.io end-to-end (CTL-242) (#396) (e58ae5f)
• dev: worker-status-change emitter — severity tiers, coalesce, PR enrichment (CTL-229) (#387) (682e817)

Bug Fixes

• dev: add monitor.* to config templates + verify GitHub webhook registration (CTL-254) (#409) (e09d077)
• dev: add worker done comms hook to oneshot Phase 5 (CTL-236) (#388) (a8d4030)
• dev: install-cli.sh adds catalyst-events + defaults to ~/.local/bin (CTL-227) (#357) (5dfa3ac)
• dev: make orchestrate-roll-usage.sh observable (CTL-233) (#380) (b61941d)
• dev: orchestrate-fixup/followup WORKER_DIR fallback (CTL-231) (#377) (9386849)
• dev: render DASHBOARD.md every Phase 4 cycle (CTL-230) (#385) (a618055)
• dev: replace polling loops in merge-pr and create-pr with wait-for-github (CTL-250) (#402) (96ab764)
• dev: scope-aware Monitor filter + no-awk-pipe warning (CTL-240) (#390) (7efc119)
• dev: stamp orchestrator on github.* webhook events (CTL-234) (#391) (56083c9)
• dev: update fixup/followup templates to CTL-133 exit-at-merging contract (CTL-248) (#401) (2454b19)
• dev: upgrade setup prereq checks for event-driven pipeline (CTL-253) (#408) (2d7b8bf)

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