1.0.0-beta.8

published 12 September 2026

• Changed sovereign mode to be the one bypass: the Boot Menu's Sovereign mode row skips every permission question, computer use included, and the computer-use ask card's fifth answer turns it on
• Added the computer-use access type under it: asks, permissive or full, with asks as the default; with sovereign mode on the default is full, and a saved value wins either way; permissive lets the model work in the application in front when the turn began and asks once before any other
• Fixed a line sent during a compaction standing under the composer for good when the session's runner was replaced before it took the line: the row is removed and a notice names the words to send again; a line the runner keeps is delivered once, in order, and its plate reads held while the compaction runs
• Added the engine job service to the Godot tooling: Mercury runs headless Godot workers itself, in parallel, each on a frozen copy of the project, with a compile gate in seconds and results as data; `mercury godot run|check|jobs|cancel|result` for scripts
• Changed the preserved-thinking notice: the chat no longer shows it; the doctor and health rows carry the count and the cause