ConnectOnion 1.9.2b16 (beta)

Install this preview

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

python -m pip install --upgrade 'connectonion==1.9.2b16'

A first handoff mail a stranger can read

The first co handoff to someone new is an email, and it is often their first contact with ConnectOnion. It now reads like an introduction (#2431, #2415):

• Who and what first. Who sent it, what ConnectOnion is in one line, then the task, where it stands and what is still open.
• One thing to do. Three numbered steps, then a single block marked START and END to paste into Codex or Claude Code. Only that block is shaded.
• Promises it keeps. The steps say exactly what the agent does: install co if it is missing, tell the sender you have it, then ask before touching files.
• Works in every inbox. A table layout that holds in Outlook; the pasted block stays whole when Gmail clips a long mail, keeping the newest part of a long conversation and saying how much it left out.
• A shorter install. One line from the release's own install.sh on macOS and Linux, one uv tool install on Windows. The install floor is 1.9.2b16.

Also in this preview

• co handoff status --wait returns for an answer that arrived before the wait began, instead of waiting for the next message.
• An accepted handoff stays accepted when its acceptance mail falls out of a busy mailbox.
• The brief never passes on permissions the sender gave their own AI: an owed merge, release or payment waits on the sender unless they granted it to the recipient by name (#2404).
• The line co handoff accept prints for handing work back now works when the sender uses an agent mailbox (#2426).
• The record says which handoff made each side a contact (#2429), and co trust list --global shows the identity co ai and co handoff use (#2430).

Verification and limits

• The mail was rendered at 1280 and 390 pixels and reviewed twice by a UI and product-flow pass; all of its must-fix findings are applied.
• New tests failed on 1.9.2b15 and pass; the handoff, co ai and watcher suites pass (472 tests).
• Outlook desktop still lets a very long code widen the block; the copied text is unaffected.