Signing off a plan used to archive it and leave the branch for later. Now Approve is the integrate step.

Anchor's whole job is getting the right model onto the right work. This release tightens that in three ways: lesser models stop refusing work they're good at, a new plan_fit.py decides fit mechanically so no model has to eyeball it, and a plan can now be assigned to a person — which agents quietly leave alone.

The review-needed/ lane held finished work for human eyes. /review is how those eyes work: one plan, an AI pass, then Approve / Needs Work / Skip.

Subscription tiers ration capacity, not just tokens: a session cap, a rolling window, a weekly quota. Anchor now has doctrine for what an agent does when it hits one — and a /commit-prep that actually ships to your projects.

Your backlog was always readable with ls. Now it's readable at a glance.

Bare /work now selects only from ready lanes (bugs/, features/) and never scans in-progress/. In-progress plans are owned by a required lease — so several agents can share one project without ever stealing each other's work.

Agent-claimed Done when and human-verified done were the same event. Now they don't have to be.

Anchor already treats a model’s claim of success as an input to verification, not a substitute. That sentence now has a ledger.

Role separation graduated from prompt framing to a harness guarantee: a planner phase cannot write product files, an executor cannot touch .plans/** or its own spec, and a critic cannot write anything — enforced by code, not by asking nicely.

Two scattered disciplines — "will this even fit?" and "did I check the basics before diving in?" — are now one mechanical gate: every task spec declares a token budget up front, and mythos-core rule 13 makes every executor print a fixed pass/fail checklist before doing any work.