Maestro Daily: Closing the Loop on Dispatch and Composer Drift
Maestro shipped a callback mechanism that finally lets dispatched agents notify their caller when work finishes, alongside a cluster of fixes to keep the prompt composer's caret and mention highlights trustworthy. A new cross-tab search feature and its follow-up patches rounded out the day.
Duration: PT2M21S
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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: 2026-07-30T11:00:42Z
- Audio duration: PT2M21S
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Good morning. It's July 30th, and here's what moved in Maestro overnight.
The headline is orchestration finally getting a feedback loop. PR 1328 adds "dispatch, notify on complete," so a dispatched task can start a real turn back in the caller's live tab once it finishes, instead of leaving a human to watch a tab and manually say "it's done." This shipped in two phases together, because…
Second theme: composer reliability. Three connected changes, PR 1329, PR 1330, and the underlying commits, all target the same fragile spot: the AI prompt composer's caret and mention highlighting drifting out of sync with what's actually typed. The fix makes the native text box the single source of truth for text…
Separately, Pedram Amini landed cross-tab message search, letting users search every open tab in an agent at once rather than just the current one, bound to Option-Command-F. That shortcut used to belong to focusing the active tab, so it moved to Option-Command-Up, with documentation updates covering the change and…
What to remember: if you use dispatch in automation, notify-on-complete replaces manual polling, but check your CLI version supports callback IDs. And if Option-Command-F…
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