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CrewX 0.8.9 Release - Work Instruction Board, Subscription Widget, Git Save Points & More

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Doha Park
Doha Park
Founder @ SowonLabs

CrewX 0.8.9 ships seven UI-first features: a brand-new work instruction board with drag-and-drop status management, a sidebar subscription limit widget for Codex/Claude/GLM quotas, git change browsing and save points without the terminal, document highlighting and annotation, and memory compression controls.

๐ŸŽฏ Key Featuresโ€‹

Work Instruction Board (WIUI001)โ€‹

Browse and manage your docs/wi work instructions without leaving the UI.

  • Board/list view of all work instructions, organized by status
  • Drag cards to change status (e.g. Todo โ†’ In Progress โ†’ Done)
  • Side drawer opens the full WI Markdown source for reading

No more manually editing WI files โ€” the board gives you a visual overview of what's assigned, in progress, and done.

Subscription Limit Widget (USGUI003)โ€‹

A new sidebar widget keeps subscription quotas visible at all times.

  • Shows remaining quota for Codex, Claude, and GLM in a compact sidebar chip
  • Click to expand a popover with 5-hour/weekly limits and reset timers
  • Per-provider display toggles in settings to show or hide individual providers

Stay on top of your usage without navigating to a separate settings page.

Git Save Points UIโ€‹

You can now inspect your workspace's git changes and create save points entirely from the UI โ€” no terminal required.

  • Tree view of all modified files, organized by directory
  • Per-directory checkboxes to select exactly the files you want to stage
  • Side-by-side diff hunks for reviewing changes before committing
  • Create a save point (commit) with a message, directly from the panel

This makes it easy to checkpoint your agent's work at any time without switching to a terminal.

Document Highlight & Annotation Systemโ€‹

The document viewer now supports inline highlighting and comment callouts.

  • Highlight any text in yellow, green, or other colors
  • Attach comment callouts anchored to specific highlighted passages
  • Highlights are deduplicated automatically, and you can delete them individually
  • Annotated documents get OKF metadata and show up higher in weighted search results

Useful for reviewing agent-generated documents and leaving inline feedback.

Memory Decay Rate (decayRate)โ€‹

Long-running agents can accumulate large activity logs that eat into context windows. The new decayRate setting controls how aggressively the dreaming continuity system compresses older log entries.

  • Configurable per-task from the settings UI
  • Lower values preserve more history; higher values compress faster
  • Prevents token bloat without discarding recent context

Activity Log Entry Size Cap (maxEntryChars)โ€‹

Each activity log entry can now be capped at a maximum character count. Entries that exceed the limit are truncated with a marker, keeping context windows predictable on tasks with verbose tool output.

Configure the cap directly from the settings card in the UI.

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixesโ€‹

  • Fixed workspace route preservation when switching workspaces
  • Fixed git save point diff walking
  • Fixed git commit message formatting preservation
  • Fixed delegated child-only threads not rendering
  • Fixed doc editor frontmatter corruption on save
  • Fixed highlight comment callout positioning, stacking, and viewport anchoring
  • Fixed duplicate highlights; added delete action
  • Fixed user-facing fallback text localization
  • Fixed doc comment toggle and highlight connectors

๐Ÿš€ Upgradeโ€‹

npm install -g crewx@0.8.9