Phase 8 of the v2.5 plan — fold the Hermes v2026.4.23 integration into
the existing v2.5 release artifacts rather than creating a v2.6 set.
releases/v2.5.0/RELEASE_NOTES.md:
- Lead paragraph extended to mention slash commands, chat parity,
Spotify, design-md.
- Six new sections: Portable project-scoped slash commands, Hermes
v2026.4.23 chat parity, Spotify + design-md skill onboarding,
SKILL.md frontmatter chips, "What's New" pill, state.db deltas,
hermes memory reset.
- All inserted before the existing "Mac global Sessions" section so
the Hermes-v0.11 work reads as the headline alongside ScarfGo.
README.md:
- "What's New in 2.5" lead bullets gain slash commands, Hermes v0.11
chat parity, Spotify+design-md, SKILL.md chips, snapshot pill.
- Test count bumped 163 → 179.
- Requirements: Hermes recommended bumped from v0.10.0+ to v0.11.0+
with feature attribution.
- Compatibility table: v0.11.0 row added as the current target;
v0.10.0 row demoted to "Tool Gateway introduced".
- Targeting paragraph rewritten for v2.5/v0.11.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Authored locally (not pushed). Phase D of the v2.5 release plan needs:
- A privacy policy at a stable URL before App Store Connect lets you
submit for Beta App Review.
- A pre-flight checklist so the Xcode + App Store Connect dance
doesn't lose state.
`scarf/docs/PRIVACY_POLICY.md` — minimal, accurate. The apps don't
collect data on developer-controlled servers (no analytics, no
telemetry, no ads, no IDFA). Covers SSH credentials, Hermes state
cache, the project + attribution sidecars, the network connections the
apps make. Ready to host on gh-pages at /privacy/ when the user opts to
push it.
`releases/v2.5.0/TESTFLIGHT_CHECKLIST.md` — step-by-step from Apple
Developer Program prerequisites through Beta Review submission, with a
beta-description copy block, "What to test" copy, and a rollback note.
Explicitly calls out NOT bumping versions manually (release.sh does it
in Phase G) and NOT enabling Push Notifications until APNs cert +
sender land together.
Both files stay local until the user pushes them — the checklist is
the user's reference, the privacy policy gets copied into the
gh-pages worktree when ready to submit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Authored before `release.sh` so it gets included in the version-bump
commit auto-generated by the script in Phase G.
Highlights: ScarfGo iOS public TestFlight, Mac Sessions project filter
+ badges (parity with ScarfGo's Sessions tab), human-readable cron
schedules cross-platform, shared-services refactor, silent-failure
hardening on the iOS lifecycle, test-suite consolidation that fixes the
cross-suite factory races we hit during pre-release verification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>