Covel v0.0.35

[0.0.35] - 2026-09-17

This release fixes plugin installation, restart and recovery failures, protects existing plugin data, and adds optional tabletop character creation and configurable narrative perspective.

Added

• Optional tabletop rules use the public plugin interfaces. The tabletop-rules package provides integer point-buy creation, server-side budget validation and explicit d20 checks. Worlds configure rules through world data; recorded checks survive retries and restarts without rerolling. A renamed community ZIP exercises the same installation, approval, creation and uninstall path (#62).
• Both narrative plugins offer first-, second- and third-person narration. narrativePerson reuses plugin settings and world defaults, with second person unchanged as the default. Dialogue retains each speaker's pronouns; changes affect future narration (#63).
• Third-party function runtimes can call declared tools and validate forms. Public tool calls retain permission, argument validation and transaction boundaries. Typed forms preserve numeric values, rejected forms remain editable, and fallbackFor replaces a default runtime by capability without disabling its package's other functions.
• Plugins can review model responses before tool dispatch or story commit. Public hooks can buffer a response and request up to two bounded corrections. Rejected drafts do not execute tools or become committed story.
• Documentation now includes a gradual v2 reading path. Current guides are aligned with response review, transactional tools, typed forms, graph retrieval and local-first release checks. The v2 entry organizes play, world creation, plugin authoring and validation, with a development-agent guide; full chapter migration continues in later versions.

Fixed

• World art keeps its authored identity and scene continuity. Five Haruka Academy night backgrounds retain their daytime layout, and four Mistport portraits correct fog-rot, expedition lighting and atmospheric detail. Media hashes and localized references are synchronized; Emberback retains its distinct industrial science-fiction direction. Resource checks cover dimensions, transparency and registry references.
• Desktop restart navigates to the new server port. The main process owns navigation after the sidecar is ready, concurrent restart requests share one operation, and destroyed windows release pending state timers (#65).
• Repeated Windows ZIP imports report an existing target correctly. A rename permission error maps to HTTP 409 only when the target exists; genuine permission failures remain errors and existing packages are preserved (#64).
• New entity IDs no longer restart an in-memory counter. Randomized IDs prevent collisions caused by CJK names, normalized labels and process restarts. Graph creation also rejects occupied keys while preserving old IDs and edge endpoints (#70).
• Tool tasks cannot report success from prose or fake tool-call JSON. Guide and scene prompts request their finishing tools. State extractors require an actual finishing call or an explicit no-change call; unresolved tool failures remain failures. Relationship extraction requests a real tool call while allowing either a write or no change (#67).
• Retry results remain attached to the story they supplement. Stage choices stay visible after single or batch retries, including restored legacy records with retained retry metadata. Retries retain declared upstream inputs and guard-provided schemas without regenerating completed story or counting another player turn (#68).
• Narrators can read non-active character profiles. Both engines declare session-scoped character lookup tools, active cast includes structured attributes, and character tracking cannot overwrite an existing character's authored name, type or description (#69).
• Community plugin approvals cover the complete interaction flow. Automatic runtimes request grants before execution; restored forms can reauthorize their source after restart. Multi-plugin validation, denial and navigation retain editable input and do not commit partial submissions.
• Plugin forms and panels refresh after committed changes. Manual forms persist and appear without a reload, activation waits for server confirmation, and long mobile tab lists keep the selected panel visible. Enabling tabletop rules during play initializes rules without recreating the player and passes same-turn rules to the check runtime.
• Character creation and output validation preserve meaningful failures. String attributes accept string-valued suggestions without weakening numeric or enum constraints. Preparation chatter and failed tool result objects cannot turn a failed form operation into empty success.
• The landing page and desktop bridge display the installed package version. Translated headings and preload no longer fall back to stale hardcoded versions. Release validation checks framework versions while allowing independently versioned plugins and worlds.

Upgrade notes

• Update the server and bundled Web client together. No SQL schema migration is required. Existing IDs remain valid; data already overwritten by an older version requires an intact backup or snapshot to recover.
• Tabletop rules are optional. Advanced combat, progression, multiplayer hosting and a live remaining-points counter are not included. Third-party packages can implement their own rules through the documented interfaces.
• Narration is displayed as a complete response after its text check and may require up to two correction calls. This is a limited perspective check, not a guarantee of factual accuracy; it does not clean previously incorrect history or resolve every model inference or relationship-classification error.
• Community runtime grants may need approval again after a server restart. Packaged macOS Apple Silicon and Windows x64 artifacts remain unsigned; updates use manual download and installation.

What's Changed

• chore(release): v0.0.35 plugin recovery, world art and docs by @ackness in #71

Full Changelog: v0.0.34...v0.0.35