Release 0.27.0

🚀 What's Changed

📋 Release Summary

This release introduces advanced reasoning controls with the /effort command and enhances the development experience through semantic skill activation, hybrid search capabilities, and improved multimodal support for video content (b393e5b, fe4d334, 5d7f68d, c5df2ea). System efficiency is significantly improved via intelligent prompt caching, automated session compaction, and a new cost-tracking mechanism for real-time API pricing (0356fa7, 095a58e, 2fe619b). Stability is further bolstered by refined retry logic for API failures, atomic message persistence, and a refreshed visual identity across the CLI (3a12176, 4142dff, 1f5b8ee).

✨ New Features & Enhancements

• session: add /effort command for reasoning control b393e5b9
• llm: add reasoning effort configuration aecf4807
• session: add prompt cache keepalive mechanism 0356fa70
• chat: prioritize video file URLs in clipboard c5df2eaa
• mcp: implement margin gate for semantic skill activation ddfe1fd8
• mcp: implement progress tracking for environment capabilities 9edba62f
• mcp: implement deterministic and dynamic capability loading 5030df75
• core: split runtime server and add tap tool 77065240
• agent: prevent stdin deadlocks in subagents 6174f1fa
• mcp: implement tap agent discovery and background execution b2428aea
• session: enforce concise output constraints 549f1a66
• chat: wrap multiline pastes in log tags ec99cafc
• cost_tracker: use real per-token pricing 2fe619b0
• mcp: implement refcounted shared server management ecf7119c
• core: implement dynamic capability discovery and activation cb8b678f
• chat: add retry mechanism for failed API requests 3a121767
• schedule: add support for repeating tasks 77526e75
• branding: implement visual identity and CLI startup banner 1f5b8ee2
• acp: add CLI overrides for session management bcc48c70
• mcp: support namespaced tool filters in capabilities 8c6e924f
• mcp: clarify tool availability in activation response e29e21f3
• mcp: support activation of deps-only capabilities 0b2e83f6
• skill: implement semantic activation triggers fe4d334e
• learning: implement hybrid search with RRF 5d7f68d3
• mcp: implement LRU eviction for active capabilities 8cb730b7
• capability: deterministic auto-activation via trigger embeddings 508d9c34
• embeddings: update model paths and enhance session tracking 322eb61e
• mcp: add capability discovery and model warmup 11cea454
• plan: wire compaction anchor into task-level compression 6e0aae30
• session: add anchor data model for iterative compaction summaries 095a58e0
• session: deduplicate identical tool results within a session 20f479cb
• capability: use embedding cosine for discover with keyword fallback 87ec231e
• embeddings: add internal embedding module backed by octolib fastembed 3471f00a
• mcp: expose capability as a runtime tool faace7c1

🔧 Improvements & Optimizations

• mcp: simplify and standardize tool descriptions a9b9fe02
• workflow: link libgcc for musl static builds a1959845
• workflow: build re2 target for static ORT 3a17c752
• workflow: fix static linking for ONNX Runtime 16769806
• workflow: verify full onnx build via re2 check 115d450d
• assets: redesign logo and icon assets 22adece1
• github: fix windows linking and musl search paths b2caf7b6
• workflow: correct ORT_LIB_LOCATION for static linking 458ef8c8
• branding: reformat grid and cell logic 6dd124e3
• github: optimize onnxruntime static linking for linux and windows 32dd480a
• musl: bust stale ORT cache key to force clean rebuild dd4e2032
• github: switch to powershell for windows runner c009ec0a
• workflow: add Windows static ONNX Runtime build 21914f46
• github: persist static library via volume mount 185487c8
• github: relocate onnxruntime build artifacts 7e5f30ed
• workflow: preserve library directory during build b53bef94
• learning: move lesson extraction to background tasks 31207910
• github: add ONNX Runtime static lib download 4429f6f1
• github: add static ONNX Runtime build for musl f88b419c
• agent: reformat code for consistency 4d51a27f

🐛 Bug Fixes & Stability

• chat: wrap validation errors in xml tags 62adb157
• chat: prevent history truncation on tool follow-up errors 43603a61
• session: exclude tool errors from deduplication c48e08ad
• session: improve retry logic for follow-up API failures 1c45366b
• chat: ensure atomic message persistence across session types 4142dff8
• mcp: prevent false-positive skill activation fb7d6e97
• branding: snap icon rects to design grid 6b08b81a
• chat: prevent context loss from empty summaries e41805fb
• build: create workspace dir for musl targets 27f65eda
• chat: ensure spinner cleanup and handle cancellation d494f6e2

📚 Documentation & Examples

• readme: synchronize model names and commands 5bc0ee00
• readme: restructure pillars and update branding 250590e5
• mcp: explain split between core and runtime 78aec1b2
• instructions: update project structure and code patterns bb393a80
• readme: rewrite content to focus on three pillars 848587d7

🔄 Other Changes

8 maintenance, dependency, and tooling updates not listed individually.

📦 Installation

Quick Install Script (Universal)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Muvon/octomind/main/install.sh | sh

Works on: Linux, macOS, Windows (Git Bash/WSL/MSYS2), and any Unix-like system

Manual Download

Platform	Architecture	Download
Linux	x86_64 (static)	octomind-0.27.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
Linux	ARM64 (static)	octomind-0.27.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
Windows	x86_64	octomind-0.27.0-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
Windows	ARM64	octomind-0.27.0-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
macOS	x86_64	octomind-0.27.0-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
macOS	ARM64	octomind-0.27.0-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz

Using Cargo (from crates.io)

cargo install octomind

Using Cargo (from Git)

cargo install --git https://github.com/Muvon/octomind

Verify Installation

octomind --version