v1.3.0

AIHelper v1.3.0

AIHelper v1.3.0 adds retryable HTTP workflows and atomic response extraction for
multi-step API checks. It also restores Windows updater rollback handoff and
makes managed MCP restart and stop behavior reliable on Task Scheduler hosts
where native failure retries do not run consistently.

Highlights

• HTTP requests and assertion cases support opt-in fixed-delay retries through
  both CLI and typed MCP.
• Assertion specs can extract JSON values, headers, and regex captures for use
  by later cases without publishing extracted secrets in reports.
• Windows managed MCP owns its bounded retry loop and safely handles task
  instances disappearing during stop.
• Interactive CLI errors provide actionable corrections, usage, and scoped
  help without changing machine-readable JSON diagnostics.

What's Changed

✨ New

• ah http request, get, post, put, patch, delete, replay,
  assert, and run accept --retry and --retry-delay-ms. Transport
  failures, timeouts, response read failures, and HTTP 5xx responses are
  retryable; HTTP 4xx and assertion failures are not.
• HTTP assertion specs support an extract map with JSON-path, response-header,
  and text-regex selectors. A case publishes its values only after all
  assertions and extractors succeed, and reports never include extracted
  values.

🚀 Improvements

• Interactive text errors replace internal-code-first output with concise
  explanations, likely command corrections and descriptions, valid command
  shapes, scoped --help guidance, and practical recovery hints. --json
  retains the stable diagnostic fields used by automation.

🐛 Fixes

• Windows update activation, recovery, and ah upgrade --rollback validate the
  inherited named-mutex lifecycle lease used by the managed MCP service.
• ah-mcp-service.exe performs one initial child launch plus at most three
  retries at one-minute intervals, while native Task Scheduler retries remain
  disabled to prevent duplicate retry loops.
• ah mcp service stop tolerates the exact Task Scheduler instance disappearing
  during state readback or immediately before Stop() without weakening task,
  instance, or PID identity checks.

⚠️ Compatibility

• Existing CLI behavior, stable JSON/MCP response contracts, and plugin C ABI
  remain backward compatible; retries and extraction are opt-in additions.
• Retrying POST, PUT, PATCH, or DELETE after an ambiguous transport failure or
  HTTP 5xx can repeat a remote mutation that already succeeded.
• Windows managed MCP installations require ah-mcp-service.exe beside
  ah.exe. Keep it together with ah-update-helper.exe and the
  executable-relative plugins/ directory.

Downloads

Platform	Archive
Windows x64	ah-windows-x64.zip
Linux x64	ah-linux-x64.zip
macOS ARM64	ah-macos-arm64.zip

Each archive contains the ah executable and its executable-relative
plugins/ directory. The Windows archive also contains
ah-mcp-service.exe and ah-update-helper.exe. Each archive is published with
matching .manifest.json and .manifest.sig assets.

Full Changelog

v1.2.1...v1.3.0