Changelog

1.6.0 — 2026-09-16

• Add ACF 0.2 nested AND/OR filters, per-entity eligibility conditions, and same-file metric references with inherited lineage.
• Validate measure grammar, reference cycles and dimension subsets; optionally check lineage columns against local dbt manifests.
• Update authoring guidance, draft worked examples, and generated scaffolds.

1.5.4 — 2026-09-09

• Add the portable Agent Plugins manifest and production-ready Nodal logo for OpenAI's universal plugin directory while retaining Codex and Claude compatibility manifests.
• Add public privacy, terms, and support pages for the open-source plugin.
• Add OpenAI listing copy, release notes, starter prompts, and reproducible reviewer cases for a skills-only submission.

1.5.3 — 2026-09-09

• Require a fresh progress line immediately before every interview question, including selection-tool calls, follow-ups, and verification prompts.
• Reinforce the question loop across full interviews and test drives, retain visible progress when counts need rebuilding, and keep remaining estimates scoped to the domain round across stage transitions.

1.5.2 — 2026-09-08

• Show a combined text progress indicator during full interviews and test drives, with the current stage, answered questions or completed core topics, and an adaptive estimate of remaining questions.
• Explain added follow-ups, keep deferred topics outside the quick-test budget, and show live-verification progress separately from interview questions.

1.5.1 — 2026-09-04

• Add a shipped Sigma dashboard-verification playbook with explicit organization, workbook, and page resolution for multi-workbook deployments.
• Capture Sigma workbook/page identity, version, controls, resolved date state, and partial-filter limitations alongside each page-scoped result.
• Define safe tiered extraction for Sigma network payloads, visible elements, and local on-demand exports without credentials, scheduled delivery, or writeback.

1.5.0 — 2026-09-03

• Add opt-in isolated host-state testing with a fresh Codex home or Claude bare mode while preserving the existing clean-project default.
• Launch interactive Codex clean-room tests with the required workspace-write sandbox so the sibling context repository is accepted as a writable root.
• Install local or Git-ref Codex marketplace snapshots inside the isolated home and support authenticate-then-launch prepared rooms without copying secrets.
• Capture non-interactive transcripts and add a browser-install lifecycle scenario that checks configured state, restart and approval guidance, and suppression of repeated installation offers.
• Add a public agent onboarding guide and an isolated pre-install scenario that verifies one-distribution installation, consent boundaries, and the new-task handoff to setup-nodal.
• Document the separate macOS-account or VM smoke test required for faithful Codex Desktop, browser, approval, and restart coverage.

1.4.0 — 2026-09-02

• Clarify the current technical operator and domain-expert audiences, including enterprise adoption through verified domain-by-domain rollout.
• Separate representative evaluation from production onboarding and document optional automated dashboard verification before browser consent.
• Persist browser intent as ask-when-needed, manual, or automated; suppress repeated installation offers and distinguish a required restart from a missing binding.
• Clarify how Nodal's active interview, evidence, and human confirmation differ from passive documentation generation.
• State explicitly that the open-source package sends no data or credentials to Nodal, and distinguish it from the separate paid, opt-in hosted path.

1.3.0 — 2026-08-27

• Add read-only query-history visibility probes and document permissions, retention windows, degraded modes, and privacy caveats for Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift.
• Add product and context-validation diagrams covering the interview, governed answer, dashboard verification, and enterprise learning loops.
• Strengthen the five-question test drive and dashboard-validation handoff, including filter-aware captures and human-read fallback behavior.

1.2.0 — 2026-08-27

• Add challenge-result for user-requested skeptical second reviews of completed analytics answers.
• Add context-isolated and structured same-context challenge modes that test both the reported number and the user's expectation without treating either as ground truth.
• Add UPHELD, REPLAN, and INCONCLUSIVE outcomes with assumption and hypothesis ledgers, bounded read-only diagnostics, and escalation gates.
• Route material corrections back through analytics-plan so a revised plan receives fresh approval before any new execution.

1.1.0 — 2026-08-27

• Add analytics-plan as the single plan-before-query workflow across ACF, KTX, dbt, local documentation, approved documentation MCPs, and warehouse evidence.
• Add an auditable, explicitly uncalibrated uncertainty v0 with expert-escalation gates before and after execution.
• Add verify-result for plan-fidelity, grain/join, and plausibility review.
• Add analyst-handoff as a transition-focused orchestrator over context-interview.
• Replace generated data-question with the universal analytics-plan; generated context repos remain directly consumable through AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md.
• Extend .nodal.local.json with classified local and MCP context sources while continuing to reject secrets and raw connection errors.

1.0.0

• Package context-interview, dashboard-verify, and explicit-only setup-nodal for Claude, Codex, and skills.sh installation.
• Add the manifest-driven, hash-checked context scaffold distribution mirror.
• Add guarded project-local configuration and consent-based browser binding setup.
• Preserve clone-and-run development and generated-repository workflows.
• Add a tracked, non-destructive clean-room integration harness while keeping operator briefs, connection configuration, and permissions local.

Release checklist

• Run python3 scripts/sync_skill_payload.py --check and all tool CI locally.
• Install from a temporary checkout with Claude; confirm all seven namespaced skills and bundled hidden files/scripts are present.
• Install from a temporary checkout with Codex; list the available plugin and confirm all seven skills load.
• Install into a temporary project with npx skills@latest add; confirm scripts, executable modes, .claude, .gitignore, and .gitkeep survive.
• Invoke setup in each native host, confirm .nodal.local.json, and consent to a test .mcp.json merge without overwriting an existing binding.
• With authenticated read-only connections, run all three capability probes.
• Complete a context-interview test drive against a temporary context repo.
• Exercise analytics-plan against ACF, KTX, and an approved documentation MCP; verify an evidence conflict produces a clarification and escalation.
• Run verify-result against a missing mandatory filter and a fanout fixture.
• Run challenge-result against an upheld answer, a material time/filter defect that produces REPLAN, and a missing-evidence case that produces INCONCLUSIVE; confirm no revised SQL runs before approval.
• Complete an analyst-handoff domain and confirm it emits eval seeds.
• Run the tracked clean-room harness against the source checkout, installed Claude and Codex plugins, and a temporary skills.sh installation; complete its resume check and generated-repository assertions.
• Install the Codex plugin in a fresh isolated host home and run the browser-install-lifecycle scenario against both the local release candidate and its Git release ref.
• Run agent-guided-onboarding from an empty isolated Codex home, then paste the public agent-guide prompt into the clean Desktop smoke-test account.
• From a separate macOS user or restored VM snapshot, smoke-test Codex Desktop installation, project-server approval, browser launch, and the post-install restart path.
• Invoke dashboard-verify against an authenticated dashboard and reconcile at least one value and filter window.
• Confirm repository and isolated installed-skill scaffold smoke tests pass.
• Bump plugin semver for every published package change and add release notes.