Maestro Daily: Trust the Disk, Not the Cache
Today's changes cluster around a single reliability theme: several long-standing bugs traced back to state that silently drifted from what's actually on disk or in the terminal. Fixes landed for group registries, task counts, gh CLI detection, and prompt delivery to Claude's terminal.
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- Show: Maestro Daily
- Published: 2026-09-11T11:00:04Z
- Audio duration: PT2M23S
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Good morning. It's September 11th, and this is Maestro Daily.
The through-line in today's activity is stale state versus ground truth — five separate fixes, five separate subsystems, all caused by Maestro trusting a cache or a copy instead of checking what's actually there.
Start with groups. PR 1550 fixes a bug where deleting one project group emptied the entire Left Bar, including groups the user never touched. The root cause: the group registry file is the only source of truth for group names and settings, and a bad write could wipe it while agents still pointed at now-missing group…
Same pattern in PR 1544: refreshing the Auto Run document list re-read the file list from disk, but task counts lived in a separate cache that never got the memo. Playbooks edited on disk kept showing stale, sometimes zero, task counts until this fix forced a re-read.
And PR 1546 fixes GitHub CLI detection failing on machines where a working "gh" was installed via a shim, like asdf — the detection logic didn't fully honor the configured path or handle wrapper binaries, so Send Feedback reported gh as missing even though Auto Run's own PR creation worked fine.
The most striking case is commit fcf430f:…
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