Changelog

What changed for the people who use Ablehand: the teams who install it and the users who type into it. Widget releases are immutable; the nav.0.x.js channel always serves the newest 0.x release.

October 7, 2026

• Several domains per site. One site key now covers an app, its staging origin, its docs, and wildcard subdomains. A goal that moves between them keeps going; linked jumps across registered domains are allowed. (Widget 0.4.25)
• Console. Sign-in and onboarding screens restyled to match the console; guardrail gates are switches; the top unmet need is shown as a ring; usage charts render without JavaScript.

October 4, 2026

• Closing lines are grounded. When a goal finishes, the bar says what happened in one sentence that quotes the page, or says plainly that the answer isn't on this site. A goal that typed or chose something is reported as an action, not a question. (Widget 0.4.22 to 0.4.24)
• Fewer dead ends. Links to the page the user is already on are no longer offered; a step that is skipped twice is treated as a stall and the bar asks instead of looping.
• "Do the rest for me" appears on every guided step when the site allows Do mode, and a question asked after a guided step gets an answer box. (Widget 0.4.20, 0.4.21)

October 3, 2026

• Guide mode on popup-heavy stores. Learnings from a live tour of a storefront: a dialog that opens during the first look is preferred over the earlier fuller view; a guided click that loads a new page keeps the goal. (Widget 0.4.16 to 0.4.18)
• Users can switch who performs the steps mid-goal, when the site allows it. (Widget 0.4.19)
• Onboarding. The first live tag request marks the site as installed; the wizard explains why finishing failed if it did.

October 2, 2026

• Hand-offs. When a step leads somewhere the widget doesn't run (a payment provider, an external login), the goal ends as handed off and says so, rather than spinning. (Widget 0.4.12 to 0.4.15)
• Nothing done inside the widget reaches the host page. Clicks and key presses in the bar no longer close a store's quick-buy drawer or menu. (Widget 0.4.13)
• Steadier first look. The widget waits for the set of controls to settle, not for images, so goals start sooner on heavy pages. Per-step timing is recorded for every goal. (Widget 0.4.8 to 0.4.11)
• Decision logic scoped to the goal, not the page. A page's only required field, its first dialog, or its newsletter box is no longer taken as evidence of what the user meant. The model decides which field, if any, the goal needs; a required attribute alone never triggers a question. Fixtures added for pages with unrelated forms and for non-English pages.
• Loop detection compares page state, not labels, so "add three of these" is not mistaken for a loop.

October 1, 2026

• Themes and design tokens. Light, dark, or auto; brand color, position, pill text, shortcut, and type tokens set once per site in the console and overridable per page. Live switching from the host app. (Widget 0.4.0)
• Release channel. nav.0.x.js follows the newest 0.x release, so fixes reach every site within minutes. Pinning a version with an integrity hash is opt-in.
• Console: exports. Goals and Usage export as CSV and JSON.
• Self-serve sign-in for the console, with organizations.

September 30, 2026

• Insights. Every goal is classified at ingest; unmet needs are grouped by intent with the reason they failed and the first fix to try; themes are discovered overnight for you to accept or dismiss; a weekly digest goes out by email on Mondays. (Widget 0.3.0)

September 29, 2026

• The command bar. The widget is a command bar with a progress line, not a chat window. Starter chips, "Your turn" when it's waiting on the user, clearer confirmations. (Widget 0.2.0)
• Page jumps stay on the current origin. (Widget 0.2.1)
• Resilience. Retries on transient database failures; a failed store initialization is retried rather than cached.

September 28, 2026

• Ablehand. The product is named and lives at ablehand.ai.
• Versioned widget delivery with immutable releases and integrity hashes.
• Durable storage. Tenant configuration, catalog, traces, outcomes, and usage move to Postgres.
• Retention policy per site with a daily cleanup job.
• Trust and security documentation published.

September 22, 2026

• Guide mode: highlight and narrate; the user performs each step.
• Operator hints, per-site guardrails, redaction policy over an always-on floor, rate limits and quotas, graceful degrade when the model is unreachable.
• Outcome-verified execution: every action is checked for its expected effect; stale actions are deferred when a dialog appears mid-decision; actions whose effect is already present are skipped.

September 21, 2026

• First working build: widget, edge, demo workspace, evaluation harness, confirmation gate for irreversible actions, registered-origin lock, site catalog and page suggestions.