AIWG 2026.7.16 - "Workspace context and provider orchestration"

AIWG 2026.7.16 - "Workspace context and provider orchestration"

Released: 2026-07-21 Channel: stable (`npm install -g aiwg`)

AIWG 2026.7.16 makes project context portable across providers, tightens model-aware orchestration, and expands discovery for operational workflows. It also separates durable testing guidance from generated execution evidence.

Highlights

  • Canonical workspace context — new and existing projects can maintain a

protected `WORKSPACE.md` context graph with provider-specific adapters, conflict-aware migration, credential checks, rollback, and doctor support.

  • Explicit regeneration modes — `aiwg regenerate --workspace` maintains

the canonical graph, `--existing-project` extracts bounded project context, and `--full-inject` retains the legacy compatibility path.

  • Provider-aware orchestration — Steward now emits capability-bound launch

envelopes, validates model-wrapper capabilities, and applies dynamic provider catalogs and cheap-first role/tier policy consistently.

  • Operational discovery — procedural Markdown and declarative runbooks are

indexed as first-class assets with structured actions, verification, rollback, inventory, targets, and step metadata.

  • Testing evidence hygiene — generated reports, logs, and dashboard state

now live under ignored `.aiwg/testing/outputs/`; durable plans, protocols, and deterministic fixtures remain tracked.

  • Research incorporation portfolio — three routed model wrappers audited

1,901 local research records and identified 155 evidence-graded candidates for future architecture and implementation work.

Reliability fixes

This release also hardens SDLC skill-first routing, Steward option parsing, workspace regeneration limits, deployment verification, characterization-test isolation, flow namespace matching, provider deployment cleanup, and release discovery coverage.

Upgrade

npm install -g aiwg@latest
cd your-project
aiwg regenerate --workspace --provider codex
aiwg use all --provider codex --verbose

Replace `codex` with the target provider configured for the project. The `regenerate` command refreshes `WORKSPACE.md`, `AIWG.md`, and the provider's startup adapter. The `use all` command redeploys frameworks, kernel skills, agents, and the three model-aware subagent wrappers for that provider.

For providers with native agent definitions, a successful verbose deployment prints:

Model wrappers verified: aiwg-model-reasoning-worker, aiwg-model-coding-worker, aiwg-model-efficiency-worker

That verification is part of `aiwg use`: missing, empty, stale, or incorrectly pinned wrappers fail an unfiltered deployment. Providers without a native per-agent model surface report the applicable inherited, global, or informational policy instead of claiming an exact pin. Restart the provider session after deployment so it reloads the refreshed kernel and agent files.

Existing projects can preview bounded context extraction with `aiwg regenerate --existing-project --dry-run` before applying it. Projects that need the previous inline behavior can continue using `aiwg regenerate --full-inject`.