Release 0.5.2

Release 0.5.2

Date: 2026-09-15

v0.5.2 turns tokenizer-aware acceptance into durable tokenizer-aware accounting. Token Terminator now records exact raw, final, and saved request tokens whenever a supported tokenizer is available, together with model and tokenizer-backend provenance.

Highlights

• Persistent per-request exact token savings and tokenizer coverage reporting.
• tiktoken installed by default for automatic supported OpenAI-family measurement.
• Provider-qualified OpenAI model names normalized for tokenizer lookup.
• Active model identity propagated into native and temporal compression accounting.
• Character counts retained as the deterministic reduction invariant and audit trail.
• Explicit chars/4 fallback labelling where no exact tokenizer is available.
• README now links directly to this GitHub Wiki.

Compatibility

The artifact vault remains compatible with v0.5.1. No destructive data migration is required. The public Python import package remains rtk_hermes_plus.