Three changes ship together: the Experts squad's Promptor stops grading
prompts and starts rewriting them, the plugin's marketplace entry finally
carries a version so the zcode auto-update can see new releases (it had
been stuck on 4.7.3), and a relay message to a peer that cannot be reached
is parked and reported as parked instead of as delivered.
Changed — the Promptor is a prompt refiner (no longer a vote)
The Experts squad's promptor voice no longer evaluates prompts and no
longer votes. It rewrites: it receives a prompt and returns a
refined_prompt (the input restructured into Objective / Context /
Constraints / Output format sections) plus a short changes list. Every
substantive line is verbatim from the input; anything missing becomes an
explicit [UNSPECIFIED — …] marker inside the refined prompt — the
refiner never invents a fact and emits no verdict.
- Mechanism: voices carry a
votingflag (defaulttrue). The
Promptor setsvoting = false, soconvene_squadexcludes it from
recommendationandvotes_summarywhile its payload still rides in
voiceswith an emptyvote— choosing a per-voice flag over a
hardcoded name keeps the aggregation generic for future non-voting
voices. - LLM path (
use_llm=true): the attached adapter rewrites the
prompt; on any LLM failure the deterministic refinement is returned
unchanged. The refiner never raises into a squad convene. - Minimal fragments, not whole sections: when a constraint or a
format is named inside a larger clause, the refined prompt quotes only
the fragment that carries it (from the keyword, or the preposition
right before it, to the end of the clause) — it no longer repeats the
whole question or the whole context under every heading. - Limits are constraints: "max 300 words", "under $5 per month", "at
most 3 bullets", "limited to two pages", "máx. 200 palavras" land in
Constraints. Ambiguous words (under,up to,most,limited, …)
count only next to a number, so "explain it under the hood" is not a
limit; currency, abbreviations (max.,min.) and accented
Portuguese forms are recognised. - Keywords match whole words: "notable"/"stable" no longer light
table, "commonly" no longer lightsonly. - English first: detection is tuned for English input and the
section labels and gap markers are always English. Portuguese keywords
are additive and chosen never to collide with English words, so
English prompts cannot regress because of them. - Consumers updated:
conscio_squad_expertsschema description,
engine.squad_expertsdocstring, the MCP guide's Experts table, the
index page, and the tests pinning the old evaluate-and-vote behavior.
Fixed
- zcode never offered a plugin update after 4.7.3. zcode decides
whether a plugin has an update by comparing the installed version with
the marketplace entry's own"version"field, and reports "no update"
when that field is missing — theconscioentry had none, so the
catalog refreshed on every scan while the installed plugin stayed on
4.7.3. The entry now carries the version, and
tests/test_marketplace_version.pykeeps four copies in lockstep: the
marketplace entry, the shippedplugin.json, the.mcp.jsonuvx pin
andconscio.__version__.docs/RELEASING.mdstep 1 lists all four. - A message to an unreachable peer was reported as sent. A remote
peer's bridge that refused the connection or timed out gave the same
answer as one that rejected the message, andconscio_relay send
returnedokfor a message that only sat in this host's spool.
The transport now tells ACCEPTED, REJECTED and UNREACHABLE apart. A
bridge that answers "no" still fails the send; a peer that does not
answer gets the message parked in this host's spool for it to pull,
andsendreturns awarningnaming the peer and the URL that did not
answer.broadcastcarries the same warning on that peer'ssent
entry — before, the fan-out listed only an id, which reads as "it
arrived".