v3.2.3 Karnak Released

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Codev v3.2.3 Karnak is out — a patch cycle focused on multi-architect UX polish, closing out the Tower recovery-family investigation, and laying the foundation for the Codev IDE fork.

Multi-architect Agents view polish

Several long-standing paper cuts in the Agents view are addressed. Childless architects now stay visible in the architect axis so a row can't disappear mid-session when its last builder is cleaned up (#1174). Once there are 2 or more idle sibling architects, they group under a collapsible "Idle Architects" node to reclaim vertical space; main is always its own top-level row (#1182). The "Reference issue in architect" inline Backlog action honors the QuickPick selection instead of always routing to main (#1139). The per-window terminal cap is now configurable via codev.maxTerminals with a new default of 25 (up from 10) — the old cap was impractical in multi-architect workspaces where main plus 4 siblings would consume half the slots (#1180). Group-header context menus no longer offer builder-scoped actions on group rows (#1170).

Recovery-family investigation closeout

Four independent fixes to Tower's recovery pathways together close out a machine-crash investigation kicked off from user reports. afx workspace recover preserves each builder's original owning architect on respawn instead of re-attributing everything to whoever ran the command (#1140). codev adopt and main-architect launch no longer hijack unrelated Claude Code sessions that happen to live in the same working directory (#1145). Deliberately-removed sibling architects stay removed across Tower stop/start cycles even after partial DB delete failures (#1150). Claude-architect crash-loops on stale --resume UUIDs degrade to a fresh session after three fast failures instead of trapping the user in a 100-second retry storm (#1149).

Codev IDE foundation

The VS Code extension lands its dual-mode activation model: two context keys (codev.hasWorkspace and codev.ideMode) explicitly model the extension's four operating quadrants. Under onStartupFinished activation, the guest + no-codev-workspace path is provably inert (no Tower spawn, no UI mutation, no state writes), so marketplace users opening non-Codev projects pay nothing for having the extension installed. In the Codev IDE fork, the ideMode && !hasWorkspace quadrant focuses the Codev container and shows welcome content (#1144).

Notable other

Codex CMAP lane restored on macOS 26 by moving off a certificate-revoked codex-sdk vendor binary (#1128). Sidebar defaults collapse Pull Requests / Recently Closed / Team / Status on fresh install to give the primary Workspace / Agents / Backlog surfaces more room (#1169). Runnable-worktrees terminology sweeps from "Dev Server" to just "Dev" so users of non-web stacks can see themselves in the feature (#1158) — breaking change for any keybindings.json entry targeting codev.devServer.*, which must migrate to codev.dev.*.

Install

npm install -g @cluesmith/codev@3.2.3
afx tower stop && afx tower start

The VS Code extension ships separately via the Marketplace — Codev by cluesmith.codev, version 3.2.3.

Full release notes: https://github.com/cluesmith/codev/releases/tag/v3.2.3