Sasha Studio Release Notes: v1.0.969 to v1.0.1025

Release Period: January 2026
Version Range: 1.0.969 → 1.0.1025
Total Commits: 228
Actual Code Changes: 1010 files changed, 180,882 insertions, 20,340 deletions

TL;DR - Business Summary

What's New in Plain English:

This release delivers 5 major capabilities:

Scheduled Prompts - Automate recurring AI tasks on a schedule. Set up daily reports, weekly summaries, or any repeating work and let Sasha handle it automatically without human intervention.
Skills Favorites - Star your most-used skills for quick access. Starred skills appear at the top, saving time when you have many skills to choose from.
Move Documents Between Projects - Easily reorganize your knowledge base by moving documents from one project to another through the file manager interface.
Live Documentation Updates - When you add or edit markdown files in your knowledge base, Sasha automatically regenerates the HTML documentation. No more manual rebuilds.
Enhanced Chat Experience - Floating chat input, scroll navigation buttons, better status indicators, and improved visual feedback for background sessions make conversations smoother.

Business Value:

Automation: Scheduled prompts eliminate repetitive manual tasks
Efficiency: Favorites and improved navigation save time daily
Flexibility: Document reorganization supports evolving knowledge structures
Real-Time: Live documentation updates keep knowledge current without admin work

Executive Summary

This release focuses on automation and user experience refinements. The headline feature is Scheduled Prompts, a complete scheduling system that lets users configure AI tasks to run automatically on cron schedules. This enables automated daily reports, periodic analyses, or any recurring AI workflow.

The Knowledge Panel received significant attention with live documentation watching—markdown changes now trigger automatic HTML regeneration. Users can also move documents between projects through the UI, and the sidebar displays formatted filenames for better readability.

UI polish touches nearly every surface: floating chat input with transparent background, scroll navigation buttons, enhanced status bar with phase/tool/token display, emerald indicators for background sessions, and starred skills for quick access. Many spacing, z-index, and scrolling issues were resolved for a more refined experience.

Infrastructure improvements include security patches (hono JWT vulnerabilities, js-yaml prototype pollution), streaming reliability fixes for dropped messages, and expanded plan mode capabilities for read-only exploration.

Major Features & Improvements

Scheduled Prompts

Cron-Based Automation - Configure prompts to run on any cron schedule (daily, weekly, custom)
In-Process Scheduler - Reliable scheduling service with comprehensive unit tests
Schedules Panel - New menu bar panel to view and manage scheduled prompts
Test Button UX - Prominent styling and toast notifications for testing schedules
Localhost API Access - Scheduler can trigger prompts without authentication overhead

Skills & Favorites

Star Skills - Mark frequently-used skills as favorites for quick access
Self-Analytics Skill - New skill for analyzing your own usage metrics and quality signals
Skills Audit - All skills audited and fixed to comply with skill-creator format

Knowledge Panel

Docs Watcher - Automatic HTML regeneration when markdown files change
Polling in Docker - File watching works reliably in containerized deployments
Move Documents - New modal to move documents between projects
Formatted Filenames - Sidebar shows human-readable names instead of raw titles
Chart.js Support - Bar charts and other Chart.js visualizations render in SPA

Chat & UI

Floating Chat Input - Transparent background with modern appearance
Scroll Navigation - Buttons to quickly scroll up/down in chat history
Enhanced Status Bar - Shows current phase, tool being used, and token counts
Background Session Indicators - Emerald badge shows processing or unread background sessions
Thinking Toggle - Quick toggle to show/hide Claude's thinking process
Design Mode Button - Easy access to design and plan mode
Tool Status Display - Toggle to show detailed tool activity inline

Streaming & Reliability

Dropped Message Recovery - Diagnostics and fixes for messages lost during long tasks (#345)
WebSocket Auto-Recovery - Automatically recovers from stuck loading state after reconnect
Stale Closure Fix - Uses refs for selectedSession in WebSocket handlers

Admin & Control Panel

Aggregated Stats Endpoint - Refresh aggregated statistics via admin API
Sortable Columns - Clients table headers now sortable

Plan Mode

Expanded Tools - More tools allowed during read-only exploration in plan mode

MCP Integrations

Postmark Auto-Register - Postmark MCP automatically registers on server startup

Stability & Reliability

Knowledge Panel

Fixed CSS scoping to handle comments before :root selector
Enabled polling for docs watcher in Docker environments
Prevented breadcrumbs from covering navigation tabs
Removed 40px gap above breadcrumbs
Fixed sidebar navigation scrolling with overflow hidden
Fixed Chart.js script re-execution causing declaration errors
Prevented embedded SPA styles from overriding main app CSS variables

Streaming

Added diagnostics for dropped messages during streaming
Deferred history load during active streaming
Skip reconciliation when legitimacy signals present (#338/#341)

UI Fixes

Raised z-index of sidebar dropdown menus above floating icon bar
Auto-recover from stuck loading state after WebSocket reconnect
Fixed thinking/reasoning section background visibility
Reduced todo list item vertical height by 50%
Fixed tooltip visibility and button opacity
Restored project selection highlighting in sidebar
Fixed file delete in sidebar menu
Unified consecutive status items into single list appearance

Security

Updated hono to 4.11.4 to fix JWT vulnerabilities across MCP integrations
Updated js-yaml to fix prototype pollution vulnerability

Scheduler

Migrated from cron-parser v4 to v5 API
Surface error messages in scheduled jobs UI

Developer Experience

Documentation

Added starring pattern documentation for markdown files
Added mermaid rendering architecture and lessons learned
Added chat processing indicators documentation
Added design plan mode feature documentation

New Skills

self-analytics - Analyze usage metrics and quality signals
scheduled-prompts - Create and manage scheduled AI tasks
chromium-web-scraping - Web scraping capabilities
pii-scanning-removal - PII detection and removal

Testing & Debugging

Added reconcile signal instrumentation for issue #338
Added streaming state to bug reports
Added diagnostic logging to trace sub-agent message flow

Refactoring

Audited and fixed all skills to comply with skill-creator format
Added knowledge base directory to allowed CLI paths

Upgrade Notes

Scheduled Prompts

New Feature: Navigate to Schedules panel in menu bar to create automated prompts
Cron Syntax: Uses standard cron expressions (e.g., 0 9 * * * for daily at 9am)
Testing: Use the Test button to verify prompts before scheduling

Skills Favorites

Star Skills: Click the star icon on any skill to add to favorites
Quick Access: Starred skills appear at the top of the skills list

Knowledge Panel

Automatic Updates: Markdown changes now auto-regenerate HTML
Docker Users: Polling enabled by default for file watching compatibility

Breaking Changes

cron-parser v5: Scheduler migrated to new API (internal only, no user impact)

Changelog Summary (since v1.0.969)

Features

Scheduled prompts with in-process scheduler and cron support
Skills starring/favorites functionality
Self-analytics skill for usage metrics
Docs watcher for automatic HTML generation
Move documents to project feature
Floating chat input with transparent background
Scroll navigation buttons in chat interface
Enhanced status bar with phase, tool, and token display
Emerald indicators for processing/unread background sessions
Thinking toggle and design mode button
Show tool status toggle
Message injection during processing
Sortable column headers in control panel clients table
Expanded plan mode tools for read-only exploration
Postmark MCP auto-registration

Fixes

Knowledge panel CSS scoping and scrolling issues
Chart.js rendering in SPA knowledge panel
Dropped messages during long-running streaming tasks
WebSocket auto-recovery from stuck loading states
UI z-index and spacing issues throughout
Security updates for hono and js-yaml

Security

Fixed JWT vulnerabilities in hono across all MCP integrations
Fixed prototype pollution in js-yaml

Looking Ahead

Scheduled Prompt Analytics: Track success rates and performance of automated prompts
Skill Categories: Organize skills by category for easier discovery
Batch Document Operations: Move or delete multiple documents at once
Schedule Templates: Pre-built templates for common automated workflows
Enhanced Quality Signals: More granular metrics for response quality analysis

Jargon Buster - Technical Terms Explained

Scheduled Prompts

AI tasks that run automatically on a schedule (daily, weekly, etc.)
Like setting a recurring calendar reminder, but the AI does the work
Useful for daily summaries, weekly reports, or any repeating analysis

Cron

A time-based job scheduling syntax from Unix systems
Format like 0 9 * * * means "at 9:00 AM every day"
Sasha uses cron to know when to run scheduled prompts

Skills Starring

Marking skills as favorites for quick access
Starred items appear at the top of lists
Similar to bookmarking or favoriting in other applications

Docs Watcher

A background service that monitors your markdown files for changes
When you edit a file, it automatically regenerates the HTML documentation
Eliminates manual rebuild steps when updating knowledge base content

WebSocket

A technology for real-time communication between browser and server
Enables live updates in chat without page refreshes
The auto-recovery fix ensures chat remains responsive after network hiccups

Emerald Indicators

Green badge/dot that appears on background sessions
Shows a session is either actively processing or has unread content
Helps track activity across multiple concurrent sessions

Plan Mode

A read-only exploration mode for understanding code before making changes
The expansion allows more tools during this planning phase
Helps Claude understand context without making premature edits

Thanks for upgrading. This release brings automation through scheduled prompts, organization through favorites and document management, and polish through dozens of UI refinements.