Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[1.0.1] - 2026-09-15

🐛 Bug Fixes

• action: normalize local dependency cache paths (ec939fb)

[1.0.0] - 2026-09-15

🚀 Features

• action: bootstrap pinned Copilot CLI (#64) (#64) (871bd53)
• host-gates: enforce expectedHeadSha, verify head cross-check, diagnostics re-sanitization (#56) (#56) (72ffa88)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• release: preserve commit fields while normalizing hashes (2da893f)
• release: normalize git log record separators (6d3214e)
• ci: provision Copilot CLI for review lenses (#62) (#62) (559c42e)
• ci: provision Copilot CLI for review lenses (3fc782a)
• subagents: honor COPILOT_CLI_PATH in the CLI fallback (#60) (#60) (ed5ab3e)
• ci: fail closed when review lenses cannot execute (#57) (#57) (e96d977)
• ci: provision Copilot CLI for review lenses (cf002a1)

📝 Documentation

• record v0.4.0 release, refresh pinned examples, and log CI review degradation (#55) (#55) (331a13c)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• Revert "fix(ci): provision Copilot CLI for review lenses" (#61) (#61) (79f3e0b)
• Revert "fix(ci): provision Copilot CLI for review lenses" (f78cafd)

[0.4.0] - 2026-09-14

🚀 Features

• ci: add targeted documentation consistency check (#47) (#47) ( d5f6be)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• release: guard against republishing existing releases (#48) (#48) ( 3b15a0)

📝 Documentation

• record PR #53 merge and pre-release state in handoff docs (#54) (#53) (546865e)
• focused reference pages for MCP tools, roles, guidelines, diagnostics, verification, release (#53) (#53) ( 690ba5)
• post-#51 state sweep and plugin reference polish (#52) (#51) ( b9fa42)
• plugin-first documentation and Copilot marketplace entry (#51) (#51) ( d57c70)
• split first-time user documentation (#46) (#46) ( 0a7408)
• establish post-MVP dogfooding baseline (#45) (#45) ( 9b8cce)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• ci: migrate GitHub Actions off deprecated Node.js 20 runtime (#50) (#50) ( d26657)

[0.3.3] - 2026-09-13

🐛 Bug Fixes

• release: separate verification from publication ( e5bbd6)

📝 Documentation

• plan GitHub Marketplace publication (#43) (#43) ( 7b5336)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• Merge pull request #44 from xpepper/fix/release-publication-workflow (#44) (d8593f3)

[0.3.2] - 2026-09-13

🧪 Tests

• ci: isolate verbose command environment ( d3d51a)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• Merge pull request #42 from xpepper/fix/release-ci-environment-test (#42) (0adaed4)

[0.3.1] - 2026-09-13

🐛 Bug Fixes

• release: expand test files in CI shell ( 1acfaa)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• Merge pull request #41 from xpepper/fix/release-test-glob (#41) (bbbce9f)

[0.3.0] - 2026-09-13

🚀 Features

• diagnostics: safe verbose review diagnostics and execution telemetry (#40) (#40) ( 921e21)
• architecture: add architecture summary and Mermaid diagrams (#39) (#39) ( 61e06a)
• threads: PR review thread conversation replies and automated resolution (#37) (#37) ( 8bf553)

📝 Documentation

• complete Increment 22 handoff and mark ALL_INCREMENTS_COMPLETE (c9b053a)
• complete Increment 21 handoff and set Increment 22 as active mission ( 181d0f)
• plan verbose review diagnostics (#38) (#38) ( fac0d7)
• complete Increment 20 handoff and set Increment 21 as active mission ( 5d55ee)
• add step-by-step release guide and correct manifest list in README (#36) (#36) ( 201519)

[0.2.0] - 2026-09-12

🚀 Features

• guidelines: repository review guidelines & project memory (.github/gem-pr-review.md) (#33) (#33) ( f53ee4)
• ci: interactive PR comment command dispatcher (/gem-review) (#31) (#32) (#31) ( 7f3af2)
• cli: centralize CLI entrypoint infrastructure and eliminate sibling boilerplate duplication (#29) (#30) (#29) ( d92295)
• reviewer sensitivity & quality calibration (Increment 16) (#28) (#28) ( 2c1b8c)
• automated semantic versioning, release management, and manifest synchronization (Increment 15) (#25) (#26) (#25) ( ef8f0e)
• pluggable custom review roles and specialist lenses (Increment 14) (#24) (#24) ( e70b3c)
• implement reusable GitHub Action and automated CI review workflow (action.yml) (#22) (#23) (#22) ( 9c5793)
• implement candidate finding recovery from degraded and malformed model output (#20) (#21) (#20) ( 69f42c)
• implement one-shot coding-task self-review (gem_self_review) (#19) (#19) ( 70303a)
• automatic fallback model retry on quota/capacity errors (without timeouts) (#17) (#17) ( 9f2025)
• interactive finding selection and cached publish-later (#15) (#15) ( a0def2)
• implement large-diff transport and file-backed paging (> 200 KB) (#13) (#13) ( 6415ee)
• allow per-lens model and reasoning-effort overrides (#11) (#12) (#11) ( f11b10)
• rename plugin and skill to gem-pr-review (#10) (#10) ( 6e9aa7)
• verify: implement detached worktree test verification (pr_review_verify) (#7) (#7) ( fbd9c6)
• prior: implement incremental re-reviews and prior finding revalidation (#6) (#6) ( 385bb7)
• subagents: implement parallel multi-lens execution and MCP server (#5) (#5) ( 6ccb53)
• reviewer: implement minimum viable reviewer orchestrator and dogfood runner (#4) (#4) ( 277ed9)
• publish: implement host-gated review publishing with diff anchoring (#3) (#3) ( 82e7df)
• diff: implement unified diff parser and hunk anchoring (#2) (#2) ( c7c962)
• config: implement model tier and settings resolution (#1) (#1) ( 3227b6)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• publish: normalize double-escaped newlines and add safe publishing workflow to skill ( 7bca14)

📝 Documentation

• complete Increment 19 handoff and set Increment 20 as active mission (45048f5)
• clarify review entry points (#35) (#35) ( 767a92)
• clarify review entry points ( cddcfb)
• record Increment 18 delivery and set up Increment 19 roadmap in TODO, HANDOFF, and docs ( f4fca6)
• track Increment 18 (Issue #31) mission and strategic roadmap in HANDOFF.md, TODO.md, and roadmap.md (#31) ( 165c41)
• record Increment 17 and PR #30 completion in HANDOFF.md, TODO.md, and roadmap.md (#30) ( abc9e6)
• track Increment 17 (Issue #29) mission and prompt in HANDOFF.md and TODO.md (#29) ( 878744)
• simplify prompt for next agent to trust HANDOFF.md, TODO.md, and Issue #27 (#27) ( 0f95f7)
• calibrate Increment 16 prompt with language-agnostic code review framework ( 9f1524)
• track Increment 16 (Issue #27) mission and prompt in HANDOFF.md and TODO.md (#27) ( 95a5f5)
• define Increment 15 semantic versioning mission and prompt (Issue #25) (#25) ( 11b008)
• add Increment 14 pluggable custom review roles to roadmap and handoff ( 7c62d1)
• track Increment 13 mission (Issue #22) and prompt in HANDOFF.md and TODO.md (#22) ( af9aad)
• record Increment 12 completion and roadmap status in HANDOFF.md ( def046)
• record PR #19 merge and define Issue #20 handoff mission (#19) ( c067c1)
• record PR #17 merge and define Issue #18 handoff mission (#17) ( 80b74d)
• record PR #15 merge and define Increment 10 handoff mission (#15) ( c1f6f2)
• record PR #13 merge and define Issue #14 handoff mission (#13) ( f6a029)
• record PR #12 merge and prepare Increment 8 mission in HANDOFF and TODO (#12) ( a9b9e6)
• prepare handoff prompt and roadmap for Issue #11 per-lens overrides (#11) ( 338097)
• record formatting fix and Phase 7 roadmap additions in HANDOFF ( 822e0c)
• record PR #10 in HANDOFF (#10) ( eeb4d7)
• record PR #9 in HANDOFF (#9) ( 20113e)
• add copilot plugin install instructions and collision guidance (#9) (#9) ( fc9b71)
• record PR #8 in HANDOFF (#8) ( f9c38f)
• add quick start and comprehensive usage guide to README (#8) (#8) ( 853712)
• record full roadmap completion and ALL_INCREMENTS_COMPLETE in HANDOFF ( e74556)
• finalize HANDOFF.md with PR #3 merge and Increment 4 dogfooding guidance (#3) ( d35062)
• update HANDOFF.md with PR #2 merge and Increment 4 dogfooding note (#2) ( 6392f3)
• update HANDOFF.md with PR #1 merge and Increment 2 starting state (#1) ( 235d78)
• add architecture roadmap, AGENTS.md guidelines, and handoff instructions ( 0abb32)
• mark phase 1 setup completed in TODO.md ( 025cb5)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• Merge pull request #34 from xpepper/revert/accidental-readme-main (#34) ( c2d6d6)
• Revert "docs: clarify review entry points" ( 583f14)
• scripts: add autonomous dev-loop driver for incremental development ( 238381)
• initialize agent plugin scaffolding and manifest test ( 1ef6d9)