Release Notes
This page lists notable changes for each release of the Atelier VS Code extension.
- Broken deep links are now detected and visually flagged in the editor, including links inside Mermaid diagrams
Improved
Section titled “Improved”- More accurate text fragments for deep links
Changed
Section titled “Changed”- Breaking: Verify Skill writes verification reports in a new walkthrough format, with one acceptance criterion per page. Reports written before 0.4.0 stop contributing to card progress until they are regenerated.
- Walkthrough mode for Markdown docs with pagination, table of contents, progress tracking, and preview tabs
- Deep links in file references, including copy-link support for text highlights and fragment-aware navigation
- Smarter editing assistance with file-mention autocomplete and skill autocomplete
- Richer document viewing with split-pane file previews, file type icons, fullscreen image lightbox, and find-in-document search
- New Explore Skill for generating grounded walkthroughs of code and documents
Improved
Section titled “Improved”- Annotation and suggested-edit workflows are more reliable
- Link handling across docs and walkthroughs is more consistent
- Better selection and highlighting of table cell ranges
- Revise Skill now works with any markdown document, not just plans
- Browser links no longer open accidentally when clicking inside the editor
- Code block highlights and annotation marks now persist correctly instead of dropping or leaking between states
- Markdown editor loading performance improvements
- Cell content disappearing when table cells were selected
- Document scrolling unexpectedly when hovering over the sidebar
- Suggested edits in code blocks clipped at the block boundary
- Accepting or rejecting a single edit incorrectly applied the action to every edit in the same thread
- List edits duplicated on save when additions and deletions overlapped
- Revise workflow — Claude can now propose inline additions and deletions directly in your Markdown documents, displayed as tracked changes with visual highlights
- Revise Skill — processes inline feedback annotations on a Markdown document and produces suggested edits
- New subagents for analyzing code and documents as part of the revise workflow
- Annotation replies — reply to an annotation directly in the sidebar, with an editable first message and full conversation thread
- Agent installation in the Customize skill — the customize skill can now install grounding agents alongside other skill assets
- Standalone spec editor for Markdown plans
- Real-time status on kanban cards when Claude is awaiting user input, with a clickable link to jump to the terminal
- Mermaid diagram rendering for plans and tasks with editable mermaid code blocks
- Model selection to choose which Claude model (Opus, Sonnet) to use for planning, implementation, and verification
- Keyword search in the Kanban Board toolbar for filtering cards by name across all columns
- Customize skill for interactively configuring Atelier for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor
- Multiple kanban boards per workspace — each TODO.md file opens as its own board in its own tab
- Brainstorm skill for interactively exploring a Todo through guided questions and adding nested notes directly to TODO.md
Improved
Section titled “Improved”- Link navigation focuses existing editor tabs instead of opening duplicates, and opens files alongside the Kanban Board
- Unified verify skill combining plan and task verification into a single workflow
- Todo checkbox toggle not persisting the checked state when saving to TODO.md
- Cards shuffling out of order during startup when multiple indexers load at the same time
- Deleting a plan file automatically archives its linked Todo item, keeping the board in sync with the filesystem
Removed
Section titled “Removed”atelier-verify-planskill (replaced by unifiedatelier-verify)atelier-verify-taskskill (replaced by unifiedatelier-verify)
0.1.2 (Initial release)
Section titled “0.1.2 (Initial release)”- Interactive Kanban board
- Install Atelier skills: Brainstorm, Planning, Implement, Verify
- Real-time file sync with TODO.md, plan files, and task JSON
- Launch tasks in the terminal from the kanban board
- Automatically verify acceptance criteria for plans and tasks
- Hover over cards to see related tasks
- Customizable file patterns for TODO.md, plan files, and task JSON
- Customizable prompt templates for planning, implementing, verifying tasks, and verifying plans
- Customizable commands for launching tasks in the terminal
For the latest version and install instructions, see Getting Started.