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Release notes, guides, troubleshooting, and workflow notes for people running Claude Code and Codex with Agent Island
Agent Island 1.6.1
Current macOS and Windows packages, local reporting updates, quota-model corrections, and retired automation surfaces removed
A completion event is not a session state
Turn identity, semantic timestamps, later-activity checks, and expiry rules for reliable coding-agent status
When a background agent finishes
Classify foreground sessions, background workers, and automation before completion can trigger an alert
Claude Code status monitor
How local session events become working, your-turn, and attention states without turning stale files into fresh alerts
Get notified when Claude Code finishes
Set up your-turn alerts, return to the relevant session, and understand the freshness boundary behind each notification
Building a local AI work ledger
Normalization rules for two JSONL formats, cache tokens, calendar windows, and a report that stays on your machine
What API value actually means
How to estimate local token activity without confusing a dated API-rate calculation with money paid or saved
Release history
What changed in each public version, with direct links to the matching release assets
Detecting session state locally
A look at the local transcript and usage signals that become working, your-turn, stalled, rate-limited, or auth-required states
Install Agent Island
Install the current macOS or Windows build, then verify that local Claude Code and Codex sessions appear
How macOS updates stay verifiable
What the auto-update path checks, why version tags matter, and how to reason about update prompts safely
Designing your-turn alerts
Open issues are the place to shape the handoff moments that deserve status, usage, or a stronger interruption
The local data boundary
What Agent Island reads, what stays on the machine, and what to redact when reporting a bug