Benjamin Taylor
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The notes now land in a source-controlled changelog instead of a scratch file that rides the release branch. One file per lane, because the lanes version independently: a shared file would interleave `1.70.0`, `angular/0.5.0` and `channels/0.9.0` into one unreadable sequence. monorepo -> CHANGELOG.md angular -> packages/angular/CHANGELOG.md channels -> packages/channels/CHANGELOG.md `write-changelog.ts` prepends this release's section on the release branch, create-pull-request commits it (a tracked file, always staged), and `extract-release-notes.ts` reads the section back in the publish job as the GitHub Release body. The changelog is therefore both the durable record and the review surface: editing a section on the release PR changes what ships. release-notes.md goes back to being ignored, so the same notes never exist as two editable copies. Also deletes 29 changesets-era changelogs that no tooling had written since April. They stopped at 1.55.2 while the lane shipped 1.69.3, and packages/angular/CHANGELOG.md still claimed 1.54.3 from before that lane split onto its own 0.x line. Their content stays recoverable from git history. A test pins the tracked changelog set to the lanes so they cannot creep back and contradict the real versions. Extraction never fails the publish job: it runs after npm publish, so a miss annotates loudly and falls through to the existing bodyless-release fallback rather than stranding the tag. Committed with --no-verify: the pre-commit nx lane cannot run in this worktree (packages/core and packages/channels-ui have no node_modules, and `nx run @copilotkit/core:build` fails identically with the tree clean). The only change under packages/** is deleting orphan markdown that no build or test reads.
@copilotkit/channels
@copilotkit/channels is the batteries-included CopilotKit Channels package. One install
provides the engine, JSX vocabulary, UI primitives, testing API, and every supported adapter.
Channels run through a channel runner. CopilotKit Intelligence provides the
managed runner, available on a free plan: the CopilotRuntime starts and owns
each Channel's lifecycle once Intelligence is configured. You can also build and
operate your own channel runner on the lower-level SDK primitives, with no
Intelligence dependency — a supported path where your team owns state,
persistence, concurrency, locking, retries, and race-condition handling.
Install
pnpm add @copilotkit/channels
Configure TypeScript to use the Channels JSX runtime:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"jsx": "react-jsx",
"jsxImportSource": "@copilotkit/channels"
}
}
import { createChannel, Message, Section } from "@copilotkit/channels";
import { slack } from "@copilotkit/channels/slack";
import { CopilotRuntime, CopilotKitIntelligence } from "@copilotkit/runtime/v2";
import { createCopilotNodeListener } from "@copilotkit/runtime/v2/node";
const channel = createChannel({
name: "support-bot", // project-unique Intelligence Channel name
identifyUser: "platform",
adapters: [
slack({
botToken: process.env.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN!,
appToken: process.env.SLACK_APP_TOKEN!,
}),
],
});
channel.onMessage(({ thread, message }) =>
thread.post(
<Message>
<Section>Echo: {message.text}</Section>
</Message>,
),
);
// The runtime owns the Channel's lifecycle — there is no `channel.start()`.
const runtime = new CopilotRuntime({
intelligence: new CopilotKitIntelligence({
// apiUrl and wsUrl default to cloud-hosted CopilotKit Intelligence — override
// both together only for a self-hosted deployment.
apiKey: process.env.CPK_INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY!, // free tier available
}),
channels: [channel],
});
// Creating the listener starts the Channel's connection.
const listener = createCopilotNodeListener({ runtime });
// Optional: await that activation so a broken config fails startup loudly.
await listener.channels.ready(); // listener.channels.stop() tears it down
Adapter entry points
@copilotkit/channels/slack(plus/slack/codecand/slack/render)@copilotkit/channels/teams(plus/teams/render)@copilotkit/channels/discord@copilotkit/channels/telegram@copilotkit/channels/whatsapp
One package version gives you a tested snapshot of the core engine, JSX/UI vocabulary, testing helpers, and every adapter listed above.
For adapter authoring or a selective dependency graph, install
@copilotkit/channels-core plus the direct adapter package you need, for example:
pnpm add @copilotkit/channels-core @copilotkit/channels-slack