Separate conversation creation and expose credential/model/effort selection

[luokerenx4]

What changes

alice conversation create now explicitly starts a new Session and sends its first task. ask continues a Session or addresses an artifact author; the old fresh-target forms remain compatible with installed Skills.

Both commands accept optional vault credential / native authentication, model and effort. Fresh Sessions inherit Workspace headless preferences. Explicit follow-up changes patch the idle Session binding, keep its Runtime identity, and discard old model/effort defaults when switching credentials. Busy or invalid-credential requests leave the binding unchanged. Issue dispatch retains its existing binding rules.

Updated collaboration, AutoQuant delegation and Workspace Manager guidance and live help. Skill bundle revisions follow content hashes; no persisted shape changed.

Validation

• Root TypeScript check and focused tool, dispatch, binding and gateway regressions.
• Real isolated Codex CLI: create with native / Sol / medium; continue with high; continue again without overrides, retaining high and the same Session.
• Real CLI rejected concurrent edits, missing credentials and Session addressing on create.
• Full hermetic suite: 776 files passed, 6898 tests passed, 3 skipped. Final creation-validation and injection checks: 35 tests passed.

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated
openalice-demo	Ready	Preview	Sep 10, 2026 6:06am UTC