1. 2026-05-01 Major Update

   CRAFT is on the Beta-2 release rail

   If you’ve been running CRAFT, you’re now on Beta-2 — the release rail that follows Cowork’s arrival as the single CRAFT product. The site, the recipes, the cookbooks, and the framework anchors all reflect that. The pre-Cowork bits — three flavors, the cross-platform language, file-attachment workflows — are gone. What you see is what you run, and the version you’re on is the one shipping.

2. 2026-04-23 Action Required

   Pattern 21 — your LOCKED files now expect byte-preservation

   If you LOCK specs, recipes, or pages in your CRAFT project, there’s a new rule for what comes next. Pattern 21 (and its 21b refinement) says LOCKED state stays byte-identical through subsequent edits — silent rewrites are out. Need to change something? Author a revision-delta block stating what changed, why, the BLESS source, and the scope. Old patterns of “just edit and move on” don’t pass review anymore.

3. 2026-04-16

   Recipes now carry lifecycle stages so you know what to trust

   Browsing the recipe library got easier. Every recipe now carries a lifecycle stage — Experimental, Tested, Official, or Deprecated — that tells you how battle-tested it is before you bring it into your work. AI sessions reading the stage adjust trust accordingly without inspecting the recipe body for hints. If you’ve ever pulled a half-baked recipe by accident, this is the change that fixes that class of mistake.

4. 2026-04-29

   Your CLAUDE.md file is now spec-defined

   Every CRAFT project has a CLAUDE.md that the AI reads on session boot. That file now has a written contract — required sections, optional sections, behavioral-directive encoding rules. If your project predates the spec, sessions will still work, but your CLAUDE.md may want a tune-up to match the structure new projects start from. The benefit: every session in every project opens with the same orientation pass.

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