ReaLackey v0.3.1

Fixed

• The Gemini provider preset now defaults to gemini-3.5-flash. The previous
  default, gemini-2.0-flash, has been retired by Google, so adding a Gemini
  provider seeded a model that no longer exists. gemini-3.5-flash is the current
  latest stable Flash model (multimodal, free-tier accessible). You can still pick
  another model with Fetch models… — e.g. gemini-2.5-flash or
  gemini-2.5-flash-lite for higher free-tier throughput.
• OpenAI-compatible providers: newer OpenAI models (GPT-5, the o-series)
  no longer fail with Unsupported parameter: 'max_tokens'. Those models require
  max_completion_tokens instead of max_tokens; the adapter now sends the right
  field for api.openai.com, and for any other endpoint that needs it, it retries
  once transparently and remembers the choice for the rest of the session. Servers
  that only understand max_tokens (Ollama, LM Studio, DeepSeek, Groq, …) are
  unaffected.

ReaLackey v0.3.0

Added

• Reasoning display: models that expose their chain-of-thought — DeepSeek-R1,
  Qwen3, and Ollama "thinking" models over the OpenAI-compatible endpoint (via
  reasoning_content) — now stream it into a collapsible Reasoning block above
  the answer. It's shown separately from the reply and is not spoken as the final
  answer.
• Anthropic extended thinking, as a per-provider toggle ("Extended thinking
  (reasoning)" in the provider settings dialog, Anthropic only). When on, the
  request asks for adaptive thinking — the model reasons more on hard tasks, less
  on easy ones — and streams that reasoning into the same collapsible Reasoning
  block as above. The thinking blocks are stored and replayed verbatim (with their
  signatures) so multi-step tool-use conversations keep their reasoning continuity;
  toggling thinking back off cleanly drops them from the ongoing conversation.
  Requires a model that supports adaptive thinking (Claude Opus 4.8 / 4.7 / 4.6,
  Sonnet 4.6+); older models reject it.
• Lower per-request token usage (helps free-tier keys, which meter tokens/minute
  and re-charge the whole tool list + prompt every agentic turn):
  • Trimmed the tool descriptions and system prompt (deduped boilerplate now
    stated once) — ~12% off the static overhead, no behaviour change.
  • Media eviction: past screenshots/audio/video-clip frames were re-uploaded
    every later turn; now only the most recent captures stay live (older ones
    become a placeholder). Tunable via RAAI_MEDIA_KEEP (default 2).
  • Prompt caching on the Anthropic path (cache_control on the tools+system
    prefix): repeated turns re-read it as a rate-limit-free cache read.
    RAAI_PROMPT_CACHE=off to disable.
  • Progressive tool disclosure (opt-in RAAI_PROGRESSIVE_TOOLS=on): only a
    core set + a load_tools(query) loader are sent; the model pulls in the rest
    by capability on demand (session-persisted, with keyword pre-loading). Cuts the
    tool payload ~70–90% for the turn — aimed at free tiers like Gemini.
• Video-clip vision (capture_video_clip): instead of a single screenshot of
  REAPER's Video window, the assistant can grab several frames across a time
  range (stepping the edit cursor, playback stopped) and — for audio-capable
  models — the clip's audio, so it can reason about motion, cuts, transitions,
  on-screen text timing, and A/V sync. One consent covers the whole clip. Range
  defaults to the time selection; frame count defaults to 6 (2–12). The
  seek-to-frame settle delay is tunable via RAAI_VIDEO_SETTLE_MS (default 250 ms)
  if a heavy video-FX chain needs longer to re-render.
• Per-provider "Supports audio (listening)" checkbox in the provider settings
  dialog, next to "Supports images". Audio input was previously auto-detected from
  the model id only, so a locally-run multimodal model (e.g. Google Gemma
  3n/4 via Ollama or LM Studio) had no way to enable listening; now you can toggle
  it explicitly. Gemma is also recognized as vision-capable by default. (Whether a
  given local server accepts audio input is up to the server/model.)
• Prompt presets: save reusable prompts and drop them into the chat composer
  instead of retyping. Manage them (add / edit / delete) from Extensions →
  ReaLackey → "Prompt presets…"; in the chat window the Presets button (or
  Alt+P) opens a picker that inserts the chosen prompt into the composer so
  you can tweak it before sending. Stored globally in presets.json, next to
  providers.json.
• Chat message navigation + copy: Alt+1 … Alt+0 (and the key right of 0) jump
  to that message and move focus to it (the screen reader reads it); a quick second
  press of the same combo copies that message — your request or the model's
  response — to the clipboard.
• Action & keyboard-shortcut tools: search_actions (find actions by name),
  get_action_info (an action's name, toggle state, and bound shortcuts),
  run_action (run any action by id or named command — a catch-all for anything
  without a dedicated tool), delete_action_shortcut, and add_action_shortcut
  (opens REAPER's key-assignment dialog, since the API can't bind a key directly).
• Time-selection tools: get_time_selection, set_time_selection (with an
  optional seek to move the edit cursor to the start), and
  clear_time_selection; the time selection is also reported by get_transport.
  The assistant can now mark a range and then analyse, render, or measure it (the
  analysis/render tools default to the time selection).

Fixed

• The assistant no longer finishes silently when the model returns an empty
  response (no answer and no tool call). Previously the status just went to
  "Ready." with nothing shown — which reads as a crash — most visibly with local
  models (Ollama) that don't reliably do tool use. It now says the response was
  empty and hints at likely causes.
• macOS: the release .dylib is now a universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel).
  It previously shipped arm64-only, so it silently failed to load in REAPER on
  Intel Macs or under Rosetta.
• macOS: the release is now Developer-ID-signed and Apple-notarized (when the
  repo's signing secrets are configured — see docs/macos-notarization.md), so
  it loads without the manual quarantine step. Without the secrets it falls back
  to an ad-hoc signature (users then run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine).
• macOS: keyboard handling in the chat window. Keys typed in the composer could be
  swallowed by REAPER — arrow keys jumping focus to the arrange, and Cmd+C/V/X not
  reaching the text field (they hit REAPER's Edit menu). When the window is in
  front, its keystrokes are now handed to the webview's native editing
  (copy/paste/cut/select-all, arrow keys, typing) instead of REAPER's global
  shortcuts/menu.

ReaLackey v0.2.0

Added

• Item-edge trimming (set_item_edge): move an item's left or right edge to an
  absolute time in one undo block — the left edge shifts the take's source offset
  so the audio content stays put.
• Over-time audio analysis (analyze_audio_timeline): a level envelope, silent
  regions, transient onsets, and single-frequency tracking across a passage —
  a time-series, not just one aggregate number.
• Video production support: capture_view can now snapshot REAPER's Video window
  (the processed frame, with video FX applied) so the assistant can see it; the
  Video processor's parameters and presets already work via the FX tools, and new
  get_fx_config / get_track_state_chunk / set_track_state_chunk tools reach
  its EEL code and other advanced RPP-level edits.
• Multiple API keys per provider, with automatic failover. A provider can hold an
  ordered list of keys (add / delete / move up / move down in the settings dialog);
  the top key is used and, on a quota or auth error, the assistant switches to the
  next key — announced in the chat pane and via the screen reader — until it finds
  one that works or all are exhausted. Useful when you have several keys for the
  same provider (e.g. Gemini's free tier).

Removed

• The standalone "Set Anthropic API key" entry in the Extensions → ReaLackey
  menu. API keys are now managed entirely in the Providers dialog (per provider,
  as a key list), so the separate action was redundant.

Fixed

• macOS: the assistant windows never opened. "Open window" and "Providers"
  in the Extensions menu did nothing (focus just returned to REAPER). The SWELL
  dialog-resource tables generated from assistant.rc weren't compiled into the
  extension, so the native dialogs couldn't be created; they now are.

ReaLackey v0.1.0

Added

• Native REAPER extension with an AI assistant: a modeless chat window — an
  embedded HTML pane (WebView2 on Windows, WKWebView on macOS) with a native
  edit-control fallback on Linux — and an Extensions → ReaLackey menu.
• ~100 tools spanning tracks/FX (incl. input & monitoring FX chains and preset
  load), MIDI, sends/receives, automation envelopes (track, FX-parameter and
  send/receive), markers/regions, tempo map, stretch markers, render settings,
  item/take/track properties, grouping, copy/move/delete, and transport.
• Multi-provider support: Claude (native) plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint —
  OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, xAI, Ollama, LM Studio, or custom —
  managed from a Providers dialog with model fetching and per-provider settings.
• Vision: capture and reason about custom plugin GUIs, and (opt-in) operate them
  with synthetic clicks/drags/typing when a control has no automatable parameter.
• Audio: pure-Rust DSP analysis (LUFS/LRA/true-peak, peak/RMS, clipping, spectral
  profile) of raw or processed post-FX audio, plus listening to a rendered clip
  on audio-capable models.
• Accessibility: OSARA announcements, screen-reader-aware prompting, keyboard
  flow, role="status" status line, and consent gates for any cloud upload.
• Per-project memory and notes stored in the .rpp.
• Portable config under REAPER's resource path; API keys in the OS credential
  store.