AIWG 2026.8.8 - Managed project capability routing

AIWG 2026.8.8 - Managed project capability routing

Release date: 2026-08-12 Channel: stable

AIWG 2026.8.8 gives projects a compact, automatically maintained way to expose their own extensions and addons to agents. It also makes context regeneration choose and explain the appropriate workflow from repository state, strengthens the CLI performance gate, and improves artifact-root and documentation-release reliability.

What changed

  • Project-local extensions, addons, frameworks, plugins, and providers can now

synthesize a project-only kernel quickref from discovered bundle manifests. This keeps custom capabilities visible without adding them to AIWG's base quickrefs or loading every project artifact into context.

  • Operators can curate managed quickrefs with `.aiwg/quickref.config.json`,

including exclusions and overrides. Existing `.aiwg/quickref.json` definitions continue to work as the legacy compatibility format.

  • `aiwg regenerate` now selects workspace refresh or transactional project

adoption when no branch flag is supplied. It reports whether the choice was explicit or inferred and lists the evidence used to make it.

  • Artifact relocation preserves the repository-local control plane while

discovery and synchronization follow the attached corpus.

  • CI now enforces a reproducible CLI cold-start performance gate with documented

local diagnostics.

  • Scheduled documentation publication checks for releasable changes every six

hours.

Verification

The release candidate must pass version and marketplace lockstep validation, plugin metadata and layout checks, TypeScript, the production CLI build, the full automated test suite, metadata and Fortemi-index validation, stable UAT, hosted CI, signed-tag verification, and post-publication checks for npm packages, installer checksums, release assets, SBOMs, and provenance.

Package matrix

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

Upgrade

npm install --global [email protected]

For the lightweight signed-web distribution:

npm install --global @aiwg/[email protected]

After upgrading, run `aiwg use all --provider <provider>` and `aiwg regenerate --provider <provider>` in each project that should receive the updated kernel and context routing.

Rollback

Roll all three npm packages back together to `2026.8.7`, then redeploy the project's provider assets and regenerate its context files.