# Talking Stick 0.4.4

Date: 2026-05-12

## Added
- **Automatic release prep.** `npm version <new-version>` now runs `scripts/prepare-release.mjs`, moving `CHANGELOG.md`'s `Unreleased` entries into the new version section, creating `docs/releases/<version>.md`, and adding the GitHub release link before npm creates the version commit/tag.

## Changed
- **Ambient receiver guidance.** The shipped skill now says to run exactly one streaming ambient receiver per session, and warns that exit-notify background commands silently swallow `tt events --follow` output instead of surfacing mid-task events.

## Fixed
- **Idle-room retention.** Opportunistic cleanup still deletes long-idle rooms after the seven-day default retention, but it now preserves a room when any recorded member process is provably still alive. Once no member is recently active or live, the same cleanup path removes the room and its member, event, and note rows.

## Verification

```bash
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build
node dist/cli.js --help
git diff --check
npm pack --dry-run
```