Versions and changelog

Versions#

The guide is published one version at a time, and each playbook also carries a version of its own, which an agent names when it opens a pattern. This site carries version v1.1 of the guide, dated 2026-10-18.

The source of every version is in the Common Agent Standards repository, where each version is tagged as collab-v followed by the version. A tagged version is also kept at an address of its own: 1.1. The main branch, which can be ahead of the published version, is rendered at agentcollab.dev/draft/.

Changelog#

The changelog is part of the guide's source and is reproduced here in full, newest first.

v1.1 (2026-10-18)

• The guide states what every pattern needs from its medium: a shared record, ordered, that everyone in the cast can read and post to, and that keeps the CONVENED and DONE records. A room is the default medium, and a message thread or a document's version history also qualifies (README.md and convening.md).
• The library table marks each pattern live or asynchronous. Briefing, roll call and debrief are live and run in a room. Critique circle, bake-off, assessment, approval, draft-review-merge, owner-contributors, rolling synthesis, relay, layered passes, spec-then-build and work board are asynchronous and run in any shared record.
• Wording that assumed a room where the pattern does not need one now says "the shared record", in convening.md, membership.md and the asynchronous playbooks. The room: line of CONVENED and DONE keeps its name and now names the shared record whatever its medium. No role, round, message shape or end condition changes, so every playbook stays at v1.
• The README names the transports and naming neutrally, and the example brief in bake-off and the lookup step in convening spell out Personal Agent Naming.

v1 (2026-08-19)

The first version tagged in the Common Agent Standards repository, as collab-v1. Every playbook carries its own version, v1 for each one here, and says whether it has been verified in a live run.