Make the local chat-host loop explicit and cheap so users can warm the machine once instead of rediscovering environment and guest setup on every session.
Add cache-backed daily-loop manifests plus the new `pyro prepare` flow, extend `pyro doctor --environment` with warm/cold/stale readiness reporting, and add `make smoke-daily-loop` to prove the warmed repro-fix reset path end to end.
Also fix `python -m pyro_mcp.cli` to invoke `main()` so the new smoke and `dist-check` actually exercise the CLI module, and update the docs/roadmap to present `doctor -> prepare -> connect host -> reset` as the recommended daily path.
Validation: `uv lock`, `UV_OFFLINE=1 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make check`, `UV_OFFLINE=1 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make dist-check`, and `UV_OFFLINE=1 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make smoke-daily-loop`.
Add workspace summary across the CLI, SDK, and MCP, and include it in the workspace-core profile so chat hosts can review one concise view of the current session.
Persist lightweight review events for syncs, file edits, patch applies, exports, service lifecycle, and snapshot activity, then synthesize them with command history, current services, snapshot state, and current diff data since the last reset.
Update the walkthroughs, use-case docs, public contract, changelog, and roadmap for 4.3.0, and make dist-check invoke the CLI module directly so local package reinstall quirks do not break the packaging gate.
Validation: uv lock; ./.venv/bin/pytest --no-cov tests/test_vm_manager.py tests/test_cli.py tests/test_api.py tests/test_server.py tests/test_public_contract.py tests/test_workspace_use_case_smokes.py; UV_OFFLINE=1 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make check; UV_OFFLINE=1 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make dist-check; real guest-backed workspace create -> patch apply -> workspace summary --json -> delete smoke.
Add a dedicated pyro host surface for supported chat hosts so Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode users can connect or repair the canonical MCP setup without hand-writing raw commands or config edits.
Implement the shared host helper layer and wire it through the CLI with connect, print-config, doctor, and repair, all generated from the same canonical pyro mcp serve command shape and project-source flags. Update the docs, public contract, examples, changelog, and roadmap so the helper flow becomes the primary onramp while raw host-specific commands remain as reference material.
Harden the verification path that this milestone exposed: temp git repos in tests now disable commit signing, socket-based port tests skip cleanly when the sandbox forbids those primitives, and make test still uses multiple cores by default but caps xdist workers to a stable value so make check stays fast and deterministic here.
Validation:
- uv lock
- UV_OFFLINE=1 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make check
- UV_OFFLINE=1 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make dist-check
Make repo-root chat startup native by letting MCP servers carry a default project source for workspace creation. When a chat host starts from a Git checkout, workspace_create can now omit seed_path and inherit the server startup source; explicit --project-path and clean-clone --repo-url/--repo-ref paths are supported as fallbacks.
Add project startup resolution and materialization, surface origin_kind/origin_ref in workspace_seed, update chat-host docs and the repro/fix smoke to use project-aware workspace creation, and switch dist-check to uv run pyro so verification stays stable after uv reinstalls.
Validated with uv lock, focused startup/server/CLI pytest coverage, UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make check, UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make dist-check, and real guest-backed smokes for both explicit project_path and bare repo-root auto-detection.
make test was dominated by teardown-heavy workspace integration tests, not by coverage overhead. Service shutdown was treating zombie processes as live, which forced repeated timeout waits, and one shell test was leaving killpg monkeypatched during cleanup, which made shell close paths burn the full wait budget.\n\nTreat Linux zombie pids as stopped in the workspace manager so service teardown completes promptly. Restore the real killpg implementation before shell test cleanup so the shell close path no longer pays the artificial timeout. Also isolate sys.argv in the runtime-network-check main() test so parallel pytest flags do not leak into argparse-based tests.\n\nAdd pytest-xdist to the dev environment and run make test with pytest -n auto by default so available cores are used automatically during local iteration.\n\nValidation:\n- uv lock\n- targeted hot-spot pytest rerun after the fix dropped the worst tests from roughly 10-21s each to sub-second timings\n- UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make check\n- UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make dist-check
Turn the stable workspace surface into five documented, runnable stories with a shared guest-backed smoke runner, new docs/use-cases recipes, and Make targets for cold-start validation, repro/fix loops, parallel workspaces, untrusted inspection, and review/eval workflows.
Bump the package and catalog surface to 3.6.0, update the main docs to point users from the stable workspace walkthrough into the recipe index and smoke packs, and mark the 3.6.0 roadmap milestone done.
Fix a regression uncovered by the real parallel-workspaces smoke: workspace_file_read must not bump last_activity_at. Verified with uv lock, UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make check, UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make dist-check, and USE_CASE_ENVIRONMENT=debian:12 UV_CACHE_DIR=.uv-cache make smoke-use-cases.
