Helm 0.5.11 adds explicit handoff state for long-running tasks and tighter preflight routing around planning work and skill selection.
- finalized profiled tasks now write markdown
[STATE_SNAPSHOT]artifacts under.helm/state-snapshots/ helm context state-snapshotshows the latest snapshot or a specific task snapshot- profiled runs expose the previous snapshot through
HELM_PREVIOUS_STATE_SNAPSHOTandOPENCLAW_PREVIOUS_STATE_SNAPSHOT - adaptive harness preflight now records
interaction_workflowfor divergence/convergence routing - explicit skill choices are scored with
skill_relevance, and poor matches fail preflight - file-intake evidence probing can now be inferred from existing command paths during backfill
Long-lived agent work fails less often when the next run can recover from a compact file artifact instead of relying on chat history. This release makes that handoff explicit and inspectable.
The harness changes also reduce two practical failure modes:
- complex planning requests being treated as immediate execution without a divergence step
- unrelated skills being forced onto a task just because a skill name was supplied
This is a patch release focused on operational continuity and safer routing.