Release notes
Updates
Every release we ship, newest first. Subscribe and we'll send a summary roughly weekly — no more than that, and unsubscribing is one click.
Reproducibility Review: “works for the author” vs “works for you”
v23July 17, 2026- Recipes now carry a readiness status — Draft, Ready for testing, Tested by author, Independently reproduced, Verified — earned by evidence, never self-declared: “Tested by author” needs a successful recorded run, and the independent statuses need another person's feedback.
- Authors can run a Reproducibility Review in the studio: fifteen concrete checks (missing tools, versions, sign-ins, hardcoded paths, rollback, success criteria…) each marked passed, needs attention, or couldn't be determined — with the exact edit that fixes it. No unexplained scores, ever.
- After running a recipe, you can send the author structured reproduction feedback: whether it worked, where it diverged, and in which environment. Authors can turn a failure report into a failure note attached to the exact step, one click.
- Verified recipes show which environments they were verified in, right on the badge.
rulebound.ca
v22July 16, 2026- Rulebound has a real home: https://rulebound.ca (www works too), with HTTPS throughout.
- The old azurecontainerapps.io address keeps working, so existing links and bookmarks don't break.
Housekeeping: deletes, feedback, and this very page
v21July 16, 2026- You can finally delete a rule book — a Danger zone at the bottom of the studio, gated behind typing the book's title.
- Navigation now shows a slim progress bar at the top of the page, so slower page loads visibly respond to your click.
- This Updates page: every release, what changed, and why.
- A contact page — questions, bug reports, and ideas land with us directly.
- A newsletter you can subscribe to for weekly update summaries.
Lens Draft: turn a work trail into a recipe
v20July 16, 2026- End a work trail and Lens can distill it into a draft recipe — the steps that led to the result, in clean order.
- Every proposed step cites the trail entries it came from; anything Lens infers without evidence is labeled a gap and excluded until you opt it in.
- Dead ends become failure notes attached to the recipe; project-specific values become placeholders, secrets never survive.
- Nothing saves until you review the draft and choose one of your books.
Professional polish
v19July 16, 2026- Loading skeletons across the app, friendly error pages with reference codes, and branded 404s.
- Under the hood: client-side telemetry so we can see and fix real errors faster.
Work Trails, Failure Notes, and Field Notes
v18July 16, 2026- Work Trails: a private working journal — paste commands, errors, and decisions as they happen; convert the keepers into book content.
- Failure Notes preserve what didn't work — symptom, cause, and fix — attached to the rule, card, or recipe step where the next person will hit it.
- Field Notes capture observations and lessons per chapter.
- Recipes now show "If it fails here…" troubleshooting on steps with attached failure notes.
Meet Rulebound Lens
v17July 16, 2026- Paste a situation — a plan, a PR description, a decision — and Lens reads it against books you choose.
- Findings are grouped into conflicts, applicable rules, and considerations, each citing the exact rule it came from. No citation, no claim.
- Every analysis ends with a grounded checklist of concrete next steps.
Recipes and Run Mode
v16July 16, 2026- Recipes: ordered, repeatable procedures with prerequisites, per-step verification, and rollback notes — authored in the studio like everything else.
- Run Mode: step through a recipe and record how each step went; your run is private evidence, never an edit to the published recipe.
Command Cards and the command palette
v15July 16, 2026- Command Cards: the exact command with placeholders, when to use it, and what success looks like.
- Fill placeholders and copy — destructive commands ask for confirmation first, and secret values are never stored.
- Press ⌘K anywhere to search commands across your books.
Author books as rich as the originals
v9July 15, 2026- Worked examples with side-by-side ✕/✓ code panels, editable per rule in the studio.
- Sources and related-rule links, live-editable.
- Upload your own cover art.
The honesty pass
v8July 15, 2026- Real numbers everywhere: the landing stat, follower counts, and "Most saved" sorting now reflect actual activity.
- Clearer sign-in and sign-up messages — including "that account already exists".
- Review tags you can self-select are now only ones anyone could honestly claim.
Reference Mode and real covers
v7July 15, 2026- A deep per-rule reading mode: sticky anchors, side-by-side code panels, related-rule jumps, and linked sources.
- Cover art for the flagship books and rebuilt author pages.
A library that remembers where you were
v6July 15, 2026- Resume rows with your rule position and progress bar; bookmarks deep-link straight into the spread.
- Search now looks inside chapter titles and rule text, not just book titles.
- Reading-time estimates on every book.
Launch-day polish
v5July 14, 2026- Fixed the landing shelf and mobile header layouts.
- Security hardening on the database policies that keep private books private.
Rulebound launches
v1July 14, 2026- Living books of hard-won rules: chapters, numbered rules with reasoning and exceptions, read in a two-page spread.
- Write your own, remix others', publish editions, and build a library.