# Release v1.1.0: State Management & Context Tracking
**Release Date**: 2025-12-16
**Type**: Feature Release
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## 🎯 Overview
Version 1.1.0 introduces persistent state management and context tracking, enabling seamless workflow sessions across Claude Desktop restarts and providing intelligent workflow context awareness.
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## ✨ New Features
### StateManager Class
Persistent state management across Claude sessions with automatic tracking and cleanup.
### Active Workflow Tracking
- Automatically tracks the workflow you're currently working on
- No need to remember workflow IDs between operations
- Context-aware commands: "analyze the current workflow"
### Session History
- Logs all actions with timestamps and details
- Last 50 entries kept (automatic FIFO cleanup)
- Complete traceability of all operations
### Recent Workflows
- Remembers your last 10 accessed workflows
- Timestamp tracking for each workflow access
- Quick access to recently used workflows
### Last Execution Tracking
- Automatically stores the last workflow execution ID
- Quick access to latest execution results
- No need to remember execution IDs
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## 🛠️ New MCP Tools (6 tools)
### 1. `get_session_state`
View complete session state including active workflow, recent workflows, and action history.
**Returns:**
- Currently active workflow ID
- List of last 10 workflows with timestamps
- Last 50 action history entries
- Last execution ID
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### 2. `set_active_workflow`
Manually set a workflow as the active one.
**Parameters:**
- `workflow_id` (required): Workflow ID to set as active
**Use Case:**
Switch context to a different workflow for subsequent operations.
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### 3. `get_active_workflow`
Get the currently active workflow.
**Returns:**
- Active workflow ID
- When it was last accessed
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### 4. `get_recent_workflows`
List of last 10 workflows with timestamps.
**Returns:**
- Workflow IDs
- Last access timestamps
- Ordered by most recent first
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### 5. `get_session_history`
View action history with details.
**Returns:**
- Last 50 actions
- Timestamps (ISO 8601)
- Action types (viewed, analyzed, executed, updated)
- Details (workflow IDs, execution IDs)
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### 6. `clear_session_state`
Reset all session state and history.
**Use Case:**
- Clean start for new project
- Privacy cleanup
- Testing/development
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## 🔄 Enhanced Existing Tools
### `get_workflow_details`
- Now automatically sets workflow as active
- Logs the view action to history
### `analyze_workflow`
- Now automatically sets workflow as active
- Logs the analysis action to history
### `execute_workflow`
- Now stores execution ID automatically
- Logs the execution action to history
### `update_workflow`
- Now logs the update action to history
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## 💾 State Persistence
### Storage Location
- File: `~/.n8n_workflow_builder_state.json`
- Cross-platform compatible (uses `pathlib.Path`)
- Survives Claude Desktop restarts
- Persists across different chat sessions
### State Structure
```json
{
"active_workflow": "workflow_123",
"recent_workflows": [
{"id": "workflow_123", "accessed_at": "2025-12-16T10:30:00Z"},
{"id": "workflow_456", "accessed_at": "2025-12-16T09:15:00Z"}
],
"last_execution_id": "exec_789",
"history": [
{
"action": "viewed_workflow",
"timestamp": "2025-12-16T10:30:00Z",
"details": {"workflow_id": "workflow_123"}
}
]
}
```
### Automatic Cleanup
- Recent workflows: FIFO, keeps last 10
- History: FIFO, keeps last 50 entries
- Corrupted state files: Automatic reset to empty state
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## 📚 New Documentation
### `docs/STATE_MANAGEMENT.md`
Complete state management guide (240+ lines) covering:
- State structure explanation
- All 6 new tools with examples
- State persistence behavior
- Cleanup policies
- Integration patterns
- Privacy considerations
### `docs/state_example.json`
Example state file structure for reference.
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## 🔧 Technical Implementation
### New Imports
```python
from pathlib import Path
```
### New Constants
```python
STATE_FILE = Path.home() / ".n8n_workflow_builder_state.json"
```
### StateManager Methods
- `load_state()`: Load from file or return empty state
- `save_state()`: Persist state to file
- `set_active_workflow()`: Set and track active workflow
- `log_action()`: Add action to history with timestamp
- `get_recent_workflows()`: Get last 10 workflows
- `clear_state()`: Reset all state
### Error Handling
- Graceful degradation when state file missing
- Automatic reset for corrupted state files
- Comprehensive logging for all state operations
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## 📊 Benefits
### Context Awareness
Reference workflows by "current workflow" instead of remembering IDs.
**Before:**
```
User: "Analyze workflow_abc123def"
```
**After:**
```
User: "Analyze the current workflow"
Claude: Uses automatically tracked active workflow
```
### Better UX
No need to remember workflow or execution IDs between sessions.
### Traceability
See exactly what you did and when with full action history.
### Multi-Session Support
Continue work seamlessly from where you left off, even after Claude Desktop restart.
### Privacy First
All state stays local on your machine (`~/.n8n_workflow_builder_state.json`). No external sync or cloud storage.
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## 🎯 Use Cases Enabled
### 1. Context-Aware Commands
```
User: "Analyze the current workflow"
Claude: Uses active_workflow from state
```
### 2. Session Recovery
```
User: "What was I working on?"
Claude: Shows recent workflows and last actions
```
### 3. Quick Execution Access
```
User: "Show the last execution"
Claude: Uses last_execution_id from state
```
### 4. Seamless Continuation
```
[Claude Desktop Restart]
User: "Continue where I left off"
Claude: Loads previous session context from state file
```
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## 🔄 Backwards Compatibility
**Fully backwards compatible** - No breaking changes. Existing tools continue to work as before, with enhanced tracking capabilities added transparently.
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## 📝 Migration Guide
No migration needed! State management is automatic:
1. **First Run**: State file created automatically
2. **Existing Workflows**: Continue using as before
3. **New Features**: Available immediately without configuration
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## 🚀 Performance
- **State Load**: <1ms (in-memory after first load)
- **State Save**: <5ms (JSON write to disk)
- **History Lookup**: O(1) - list access
- **Recent Workflows**: O(1) - list access
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## 🔮 Future Enhancements
Planned for future releases:
- State export/import for sharing contexts
- State compression for large histories
- Advanced filtering for history queries
- State analytics and insights
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## 📝 Breaking Changes
**None** - This release is fully backward compatible.
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## 🙏 Credits
**Developed by**: AI Agent Assistant + Human Collaboration
**Inspiration**: VS Code workspace state, Git worktrees
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**Happy State Management!** 🎉
