v0.1.0

Install on macOS or Linux:

curl -fsSL https://deftcli.com/install.sh | sh

First version. See docs/COMMANDS.md for the full command list.

Added

• Command groups: pdf, image, video, audio, doc, slides, data, sheet, md, html, epub, email, youtube, file, qr.
• Top-level commands: convert, info, find, schema, engine, skill, doctor.
• One-line results starting with ok, partial or error, and --json for structure.
• Stable error codes, with a hint: when there is a concrete fix.
• Three layers of help with token budgets enforced by tests, and deft find to search by intent.
• A generated skill for Claude Code and Codex: deft skill install --agent all.
• External plugins: a deft-<group> program on the PATH acts as a group.
• Watermarks, page numbers and subtitles in any script, including Chinese.

Known limits

• video and audio need ffmpeg, which must be installed by hand. youtube needs yt-dlp.
• WebP is written losslessly only.
• PDF rendering uses pure-Rust hayro; quality on complex PDFs still needs checking.
• Releases cover macOS and Linux. Windows builds and passes unit tests, but has no installer yet.
• Full end-to-end tests run on macOS only.

Measured

On the 85 supported tasks of a 100-task benchmark, with Codex (gpt-6-luna, medium effort), counting the latest attempt: 85 solved with deft and 78 without, 27% fewer tokens, 57% less time, 3 failed commands against 70. Method and limits are in the README.