anymd 8.4.0

The anymd core stays free and open source (MIT), forever; nothing that was free before is now paid. 8.4.0 adds anymd Pro (US$29 once): video evidence and cite-check. Pro funds development.

Minor Changes

• anymd Pro licence check. anymd pro status and anymd pro activate <token> manage an offline-verified (Ed25519) licence, read from ANYMD_PRO_TOKEN or <config dir>/anymd/pro-token. Pro unlocks only the new operations below; everything that was free before 8.4.0 stays free, MIT and ungated. Without a licence, the Pro operations return a short message with the link instead of doing any work. See anymd Pro.

• (anymd Pro) Add bounded local video timelines and decoded frames to inspect, with matching read and outline projections. Cuts are heuristic FFmpeg scene-score 0.4 detections, not semantic scenes or confidence values. Chapters and timed subtitle/ASR cues retain their playback clock and source hash. Optional OCR and captions are sampled single-frame observations; OCR reuses the existing request permit, and captions need a user-configured local-command adapter, with no built-in captioning. Malformed subtitle files become a subtitles gap instead of failing the request. Frames, manifests and successful captions share the existing generated-image cache budget. Ordinary reads remain unchanged without timeline.

• (anymd Pro) Add inspect operation cite_check for deterministic PDF quote and location checks. Exact, case-sensitive matching is the default; optional whitespace_v1 only collapses and trims whitespace. Results distinguish supported quotes, complete non-matches and insufficient evidence, keep native/OCR geometry provenance, and check source SHA-256 when requested. This checks extracted text at a location, not semantic truth or OCR accuracy.