Maestro Daily: CLI Parity Push and Pianola Watch Cleanup
The CLI now matches major UI flows for cues, auto-run, marketplace, and feedback, while Pianola gains collapsed watches and opt-in auto-watch. Windows remote docs and queue UX remove common dead ends.
Duration: PT2M12S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Maestro Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Maestro Daily
- Published: 2026-09-28T11:00:32Z
- Audio duration: PT2M12S
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Good morning, it's Monday, September 28th, 2026, and this is Maestro Daily.
The lead signal is CLI to UI parity. Most of this weekend's work closes gaps where the backend already existed but only the interface could reach it.
First theme: the command line catches up. Commit e9e114b adds cue enable, disable and activity viewing, auto-run status and folder changes, and marketplace list, show and import, for browsing the Playbook Exchange and installing into an agent. Commit 3077d69 moves feedback logic into a shared service so the command…
Second theme: Pianola learns to scale. PR 1653 by chr1syy collapses the watched-agent list by default once it exceeds five entries, while keeping the count and add action visible. It also adds an opt-in setting to automatically watch new top-level agents when their first AI tab is saved, and removes those automatic…
Third theme: fewer silent dead ends. PR 1655 extends the Windows remote docs to explain choosing a WSL distro — keep the default shell and use set-default — that distros are per Windows account, and why Force Command breaks Maestro. Complementing that, commit b6a4c28 makes a dimmed Force Send button clickable with…
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