ConnectOnion 1.9.2b10 (beta)

Install this preview

Stable remains 1.9.1. Install this opt-in beta by exact pin:

python -m pip install --upgrade 'connectonion==1.9.2b10'

A handoff mail you can read on a phone

The co handoff mail now reads like a mail. It opens with who handed you what, then the task, where it stands and the open questions, as paragraphs. One sentence says what to do next, and below it is the block for Codex or Claude Code, in a box that wraps on any screen. The machine-readable bundle that co handoff open reads is still there, in small grey type at the end.

Before, the whole mail was one unwrapped block. At a 390 px phone width the page measured 4,494 px across, the prompt's Markdown fences showed, and the task sat under the install step.

• An install floor that exists. The paste-in block used to ask for connectonion>= the sender's own version. A sender on a development build (1.9.2b10.dev1) therefore asked for a version no index had. The floor is now the oldest release whose accept does everything the prompt promises: 1.9.2b10, because its accept also makes the sender a contact.
• co installs in its own environment (#2396): uv, then pipx, then a venv at ~/.co-venv, never the recipient's global Python.
• co email send keeps paragraphs (#2395): a plain-text body arrives with its line breaks instead of as one paragraph.

Also in this preview

• One line installs co (#2403): curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openonion/connectonion/main/install.sh | sh installs co in its own uv environment and sets it up: identity, starter credit, and Codex and Claude Code learn about co. co init now prints one line per coding agent instead of a 40-row skills table.
• A handoff makes contacts (#2399): once a handoff is accepted, each side is the other's agent contact (co trust list) and can hand work back by name. The code in the prompt is still not an invite code. Finer per-contact policies are coming (#2401).

Tested across two machines

A handoff went from one Mac to Parrot, a second machine whose co was 1.9.2b5. The text inside the box, exactly what a person copies, was given to Codex on Parrot:

Step	Result
co --version	1.9.2b5, older than the floor
uv tool install "connectonion>=1.9.2b8"	1.9.2b5 → 1.9.2b8
co handoff accept … --brief HANDOFF.md	accepted; a first try hit a transient mail-service error, and Codex retried the printed command
Codex then	stopped to ask the person before changing files
Sender's co handoff status ho-ba300b27	"Accepted by 0xadfeca14cb… at 2026-10-11T01:00:28"

This run used the earlier floor of 1.9.2b8; the released floor is 1.9.2b10, so a recipient on 1.9.2b8 or 1.9.2b9 upgrades too.

Verification and limits

• New tests, red on 1.9.2b9: the install floor never names a dev build, and the task is read before the agent steps, with no Markdown fences in the mail. The handoff suites pass.
• The box is shown with inline styles only. Mail clients that strip styles show it as plain preformatted text, still in reading order.
• The two-machine test is one run, with Codex. Claude Code reads the same text, but it was not run in this test.