AIWG 2026.7.18 - "Web-first CLI and packaged Cockpit"

Released: 2026-07-23 Channel: stable

AIWG 2026.7.18 is a corrective package release for the lightweight web-backed CLI and Cockpit distributions introduced in 2026.7.17. It makes the documented no-configuration install path match the behavior of the packages users receive from npm.

Highlights

• Web resources by default in `@aiwg/cli` — install the lightweight package

and run `aiwg discover` or `aiwg show` without project configuration or resource flags. Both the binary and exported CLI API select the signed `stable` channel.

• Legacy local behavior preserved — the full `aiwg` package still defaults

to its bundled local corpus, so existing installations can opt into web mode per call without changing project deployments.

• Deployable Cockpit tarball — `@aiwg/cockpit` now includes its compiled

production web UI and license, launches through npm's global binary symlink, and remains available when the optional executor is not installed.

• Package-level regression coverage — clean-install tests verify the real

package entry points, default configuration, resource resolution, served Cockpit UI, licenses, and allowlists.

Package matrix

All three packages publish in CalVer lockstep:

[email protected]
@aiwg/[email protected]
@aiwg/[email protected]

The signed tag published all three packages to npmjs.org through GitHub OIDC trusted publishing with SLSA provenance. The same versions are mirrored in Gitea. Because Gitea's bundled npm registry is not an npmjs proxy, install a Gitea mirror tarball by URL rather than using a process-wide Gitea `--registry` override:

npm install --global \
  https://git.integrolabs.net/api/packages/roctinam/npm/aiwg/-/2026.7.18/aiwg-2026.7.18.tgz

Release validation clean-installed every package from npmjs.org and from its Gitea tarball, exercised both `aiwg` binaries without configuration, and confirmed the installed Cockpit binary serves its health endpoint and compiled UI.

Use the full local-corpus distribution:

npm install --global aiwg@latest
aiwg discover "architecture evolution"

Use the lightweight signed-web distribution:

npm install --global @aiwg/cli@latest
aiwg discover "architecture evolution"
aiwg show skill architecture-evolution

Operators can pin resources for one call with `--aiwg-version <version>` or override source selection with `--resource-source local|web|auto`.

Upgrade

npm install --global aiwg@latest
# or
npm install --global @aiwg/cli@latest

No project migration is required. Existing local configurations and explicit web-mode invocations continue to work.