rpotato v0.52.0 - Structured Small-Model Tool Turns

Release date: 2026-07-28

This minor release replaces free-form web-tool instructions with a
schema-constrained decision and observation loop designed for small local
models. The runtime, rather than model text, now owns the transition from a tool
request through verified evidence to the final visible answer.

Included

• Requires one bounded JSON-schema decision per conversational model turn:
  Answer, WebSearch, WebOpen, WebFind, or ContinueLocal.
• Executes WebSearch, WebOpen, and WebFind through the same
  ToolCall → Observation → Answer lifecycle and never displays a raw tool
  report as the final model answer.
• Generates the final answer only after a separate model call receives the
  runtime-owned, bounded observation.
• Builds follow-up search queries from recent user requests while excluding
  model responses, attachments, credentials, private values, and unrelated
  prior topics.
• Treats malformed structured decisions as a safe local continuation instead
  of exposing private protocol text.
• Distinguishes general analysis questions from repository inspection requests
  unless the request names a repository, project, source, file, or code scope.
• Separates search, open, find, query sanitation, and runtime request support
  into bounded owners protected by architecture and native-terminal tests.
• Prevents PR label and ready-state events from canceling one another while
  retaining same-event supersession for newer candidate commits.

Compatibility and boundaries

• Existing models, sessions, projectors, web grounding, browser restrictions,
  and public commands remain compatible.
• Web observations are read-only, bounded, untrusted evidence. They cannot
  grant browser, shell, filesystem-write, credential, or approval authority.
• GitHub Releases remains the only supported binary distribution channel.