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id: change.authoring-tools
title: Working-tree authoring tools
summary: Discover project context and validate working-tree edits in a separate capture.
type: changelog-entry
area: authoring
subarea: authoring-agent-workflows
canonical: /changelog/authoring-tools
date: 2026-10-13
---

# Working-tree authoring tools

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**Published: 2026-10-13.**

This change concerns the private prototype; no package release is claimed.

- Project-wide discovery and bounded source reads work without selecting a page or configuring an authoring provider.
- Existing coding agents edit ordinary working-tree files. Baselines record the starting state; validation checks a separate capture and retains findings and build artifacts. Freshness checks detect later source changes.
- Checked plan/apply commands retain their existing protections.

Snapshot preview serving, consolidated review reports, and the portable skill's complete working-tree workflow remain planned. Compiler checks do not replace factual or editorial review.

## Related reading

### Next steps

- [Authoring tools for your coding agent](https://www.shoalrun.com/author/agent-overview.md) — Understand project discovery and snapshot validation for existing agents. (Status: experimental.)