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 ## 📰 News
 
+- **2026-05-25** 🧼 **Cleaner chat UI + composer workflow**: The Web UI keeps chat focused on the next action: upload, swarm, and research-goal modes now live behind the composer `+` menu instead of floating panels. Active context appears above the input as compact chips, and goal details expand inline only when needed. The UI also drops the old custom i18n layer in favor of direct English copy, gates Full Report cards to report-worthy runs, and hardens local dev startup/status reporting for reliable browser smoke tests.
+- **2026-05-24** 🎯 **Research Goal runtime**: Added a session-scoped Research Goal layer across backend, CLI, API/MCP, SSE, and Web UI. Goals persist claims, acceptance criteria, evidence rows, budgets, and completion policy; agent tools can create goals and attach evidence; `/goal` gives the CLI a direct entry point; REST/MCP expose goal snapshots and evidence writes; SSE keeps chat clients fresh. Follow-up audit fixes locked down verified evidence, blocked live-trading risk tiers through agent tools, wired CLI-created goals into later turns, cleaned goal ledgers on session deletion, enabled replay-all, and fixed cross-session frontend races.
 - **2026-05-23** 🖥️ **Interactive CLI refresh**: The terminal front door now opens with a larger Vibe-Trading banner, a cleaner prompt divider, prior-turn recap, post-run timing, and a Claude Code-style activity rail for live agent work. Tool calls, web/data fetches, shell-style actions, Markdown answers, and pipe tables render in a more readable transcript, while piped or non-TTY runs keep plain-text output for automation. Generated CLI screenshots are now treated as local artifacts instead of committed docs files, keeping the repository lighter.
-- **2026-05-22** 🧭 **Swarm recovery + MCP keepalive**: Swarm status now reconciles from live task files on every read, so API/MCP/SSE/list views recover crashed or stale runs instead of showing permanent `running` snapshots. `run_swarm` sends MCP progress heartbeats while it polls, with a fixed first frame of `swarm_started run_id=<id>` for clients that reconnect after transport drops; workers now heartbeat through LLM streaming, grounding fetches, and tool execution. The stale-run reaper uses per-run thresholds and derives terminal status from task states, `SwarmTool` no longer cancels a still-running team just because its wait budget elapsed, and MCP clients can call `reap_stale_runs()` for explicit cleanup. Today's DX pass also refreshed provider default models and aligned CI syntax checks with the new `agent/cli/` package. 22 new regressions cover hydration, terminal recovery, stale reaping, keepalive cadence, env parsing, and heartbeat wiring; the full swarm/MCP suite is at 169 passed, 4 skipped.
-- **2026-05-21** 🧱 **CLI package refactor**: `agent/cli.py` (3216 LOC) split into the `agent/cli/` package — interactive front door, slash router, Rich components, plus a `_legacy.py` shim that preserves every subcommand and re-exports every public symbol so `cli.cmd_*` / `cli._INIT_ENV_PATH` / `cli.Confirm` keep working. New FastAPI middleware serves the SPA shell when a browser opens `/runs/{id}` or `/correlation` directly; same narrowing landed in the Vite dev proxy. Version unified via `cli/_version.py` (no more drift between `--version` and the banner), `python -m cli` restored via `__main__.py`, and the chat-gate narrowed so `chat --help` / `chat extra` reach legacy argparse instead of being swallowed by the REPL.
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+- **2026-05-22** 🧭 **Swarm recovery + MCP keepalive**: Swarm status now reconciles from live task files on every read, so API/MCP/SSE/list views recover crashed or stale runs instead of showing permanent `running` snapshots. `run_swarm` sends MCP progress heartbeats while it polls, with a fixed first frame of `swarm_started run_id=<id>` for clients that reconnect after transport drops; workers now heartbeat through LLM streaming, grounding fetches, and tool execution. The stale-run reaper uses per-run thresholds and derives terminal status from task states, `SwarmTool` no longer cancels a still-running team just because its wait budget elapsed, and MCP clients can call `reap_stale_runs()` for explicit cleanup. Today's DX pass also refreshed provider default models and aligned CI syntax checks with the new `agent/cli/` package. 22 new regressions cover hydration, terminal recovery, stale reaping, keepalive cadence, env parsing, and heartbeat wiring; the full swarm/MCP suite is at 169 passed, 4 skipped.
+- **2026-05-21** 🧱 **CLI package refactor**: `agent/cli.py` (3216 LOC) split into the `agent/cli/` package — interactive front door, slash router, Rich components, plus a `_legacy.py` shim that preserves every subcommand and re-exports every public symbol so `cli.cmd_*` / `cli._INIT_ENV_PATH` / `cli.Confirm` keep working. New FastAPI middleware serves the SPA shell when a browser opens `/runs/{id}` or `/correlation` directly; same narrowing landed in the Vite dev proxy. Version unified via `cli/_version.py` (no more drift between `--version` and the banner), `python -m cli` restored via `__main__.py`, and the chat-gate narrowed so `chat --help` / `chat extra` reach legacy argparse instead of being swallowed by the REPL.
 - **2026-05-20** 🔬 **Hypothesis Registry CLI**: Closes the CLI side of the Hypothesis Registry shipped backend-only on 2026-05-16. `vibe-trading hypothesis list` prints a Rich table or JSON (`--status` filter, `--limit`); `show <id>` renders a detail panel including linked run cards; `invalidate <id> --note "..."` flips status to `rejected` while preserving prior invalidation notes when `--note` is omitted. Honors the existing `VIBE_TRADING_HYPOTHESES_PATH` env override and adds a per-invocation `--path`. 22 new tests cover wiring, JSON output, status filter, limit, missing-id errors, and note persistence.
 - **2026-05-19** ✨ **Live tool feedback + graceful cancel**: Long-running tools (backtests, large PDFs, swarm workers) no longer look frozen. Each tool call now emits a 3-second heartbeat plus structured per-stage progress — `run_backtest` shows phase markers (`validate` / `simulate` / `finalize`), `read_document` ticks per page on PDF or per sheet on Excel, `read_url` marks `fetch` / `parse`. The CLI Rich Live dashboard renders a Unicode spinner, ASCII progress bar, ETA, and stacks up to 3 parallel tools keyed by name; the frontend chat ships a new `ToolProgressIndicator` with rAF-coalesced renders, ARIA `role="status"` + hidden native `<progress>` for screen readers, and a determinate `ProgressRing` SVG when total is known. First `Ctrl+C` during a CLI run now calls `agent.cancel()` for graceful exit (current step finishes, trace closes cleanly); a second within 2s force-quits. Reusable primitives extracted along the way: `ProgressBar.tsx` and `lib/tools.ts` (shared tool-name i18n).
 - **2026-05-18** 🧹 **Cleanup pass + three latent bug fixes**: `CompositeEngine` no longer misroutes bare Chinese-futures codes like `RB2410` to `GlobalFuturesEngine` — `_is_china_futures` moved into a shared `_market_hooks` module with a case-normalized product table and a non-CN exchange guard, plus 9 new regression cases. Session FTS5 indexes now persist timestamps so cross-session search can sort by date; the same path also fixed a re-upsert that was wall-clocking every session's `started_at`. The Vite dev-mode proxy gained the missing `/alpha` entry so the AlphaZoo page resolves on `npm run dev`. `tests/test_e2e_harness_v2.py` (real-LLM e2e suite) is now gated behind `VIBE_TRADING_RUN_LIVE_E2E=1` so CI no longer changes shape based on env-key presence. Ruff `per-file-ignores` added for the factor zoo (3783 → 0 F401 noise), frontend tsconfig enables `noUnusedLocals` / `noUnusedParameters` as regression guards, and 76 unused `vw = vwap(...)` boilerplate lines were dropped from `gtja191` alphas. Net **-918 LOC**.