Covel v0.0.26

[0.0.26] - 2026-08-19

This release rebuilds provider and model configuration around explicit connection profiles, capability-aware reasoning controls, and safer provider-specific request handling.

Added

• Provider connections are first-class settings. Each connection has its own stable id, provider family, protocol, base URL, API-key namespace, and model list. Multiple proxies or accounts for one provider can coexist without sharing credentials, while existing presets migrate automatically.
• Reasoning effort follows model capabilities. Settings expose only the effort values supported by the selected model and translate them into the provider-specific request fields used by OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Qwen-compatible endpoints.

Changed

• LLM settings now separate connections, models, slots, and advanced request options. Provider catalogs normalize ids consistently, slot bindings clear stale reasoning overrides when their model changes, numeric fields can be cleared, and base URLs commit once on blur or Enter.
• Project documentation is organized by audience and lifetime. Stable user and developer guides live under docs/; audits, implementation plans, temporary analysis, and handoff notes live under devs/docs/. Desktop packaging and world-media generation now have indexed guides, and the architecture section carries the maintained technical-debt ledger.

Fixed

• Thinking models no longer emit incompatible tool-call payloads. DeepSeek V4 thinking requests omit tool_choice, tool-call assistant messages retain non-null content, and streaming and non-streaming paths share the same compatibility rules.
• Reasoning controls reject unsupported combinations before they reach providers. Claude 4.0 no longer receives newer Anthropic effort fields, gpt-5-pro exposes only high, and Qwen thinking-only models cannot be forced into disabled thinking.
• Provider migration preserves independent credentials and model references. Canonical provider ids no longer collapse distinct connections, request routing uses the connection namespace, legacy family-level keys remain available as a fallback, and orphaned preset secrets are cleaned up.

What's Changed

• v0.0.26: provider profiles and capability-aware reasoning by @ackness in #43

Full Changelog: v0.0.25...v0.0.26