0.4.0

What's Changed

• Add StringEncryptionHelper (AES-GCM) by @alkampfergit in #30
• Add MCP servers and docs-research speckit extension by @alkampferoutlook in #34
• Reranker support (Cohere) by @alkampferoutlook in #33
• Change automata cron to 5 minutes by @alkampferoutlook in #36
• Add copilot to automata allowed users by @alkampferoutlook in #46
• chore(#37): rebase rag101 RAG foundations onto develop for verification by @alkampfergit in #44
• chore: add .gitattributes and renormalize line endings (merge after #44) by @alkampferoutlook in #47
• feat(#42): harden bulk embedding for real corpora by @alkampferoutlook in #48
• feat(#38): Anthropic grounded chat with native citations by @alkampferoutlook in #49
• feat(#39): OpenAI / Azure OpenAI grounded chat with citations by @alkampferoutlook in #50
• feat(#41): prompt caching support across providers by @alkampferoutlook in #51
• feat(#40): prompt-injection grounded-chat fallback by @alkampferoutlook in #52
• feat: add epic-planner and epic-orchestrator skills by @alkampfergit in #54
• feat(#58): async chunking contract with EndOffset and Metadata by @alkampferoutlook in #62
• feat(#56): vector math helpers (cosine, dot, normalize, top-k) by @alkampferoutlook in #63
• feat(#57): ITokenCounter with local tokenizer and Cohere tokenize by @alkampferoutlook in #64
• feat(#60): semantic chunker with embedding-similarity boundaries by @alkampferoutlook in #65
• feat(#61): context packing with token budget and lost-in-the-middle ordering by @alkampferoutlook in #66
• feat(#59): recursive structure-aware chunker with token-aware sizing by @alkampferoutlook in #67
• test(#68): property-based invariant tests for all ITextChunker implementations by @alkampferoutlook in #69
• feat(#74): backend-agnostic IRetriever contract with RRF hybrid fusion by @alkampferoutlook in #75
• feat(#71): Anthropic search_result content blocks with caller-supplied citations by @alkampferoutlook in #76
• feat(#73): web search as retrieval via provider server-side tools by @alkampferoutlook in #77
• feat(#72): OpenAI hosted retrieval via IHostedRetrievalFeature by @alkampferoutlook in #79
• Enable NuGet trusted publishing with OIDC and post-publish provenance attestations by @alkampfergit with @Copilot in #81

New Contributors

• @alkampfergit with @Copilot made their first contribution in #81

Full Changelog: 0.3.0...0.4.0