Patrick v0.6.0

[0.6.0] - 2026-06-25

The biggest release yet: Patrick can now search your documents for prior art
and chart a claim against it, and every citation he produces clicks straight
through to the passage in the source. Plus a friendlier profile and AI setup.

Added

• In-document search. Search any open document beside it, by meaning or by
  exact text. Semantic mode finds passages by what they mean (a hybrid of meaning
  and keyword); Exact mode is a literal find. Matches highlight in the document,
  and you can sort by relevance or document order. The index is built on your own
  machine and stored in the task folder; a scanned PDF offers to extract its text
  first. Patrick can search a document too — the search_document tool casts a
  wide net with query expansions and reranks the hits — so he finds where
  something is disclosed without reading the whole document into the chat.
• Claim charting. A claim chart is one editable table: rows are a claim's
  limitations, columns are prior-art references. Patrick parses the claim into its
  limitations and construes each in light of the description (Art 69 EPC), reads
  each reference in full, and judges every limitation — Express, Derived,
  Suggested, or Absent — with reasoning and citations. You own the result: every
  cell is editable, with a trust status (AI / Edited / Approved / Stale) that a
  re-run preserves, and the construction and disclosure prompts are yours to tune
  in your profile. The analysis model is chosen per chart (quality is
  model-sensitive), under a standing "always verify" banner. Patrick drives the
  whole thing — create a chart, parse a claim, add a reference, re-run a column,
  read it back, and edit it — so you can simply ask.
• Citation navigation. Click any citation in a chart to open the reference and
  jump straight to the cited passage (a PDF or retrieved text), with the passage
  highlighted. Citations are chips you add and remove. Patrick's analysis citations
  are checked against the source as they're produced, and any that don't locate are
  dropped — so a pin you can click is a pin that lands. A limitation's construction
  basis links to its supporting passage in the specification.
• Web search, as a per-chat toggle that defaults from your profile.
• Friendlier AI setup. Provider logos and a "get a key" link, your API key
  verified automatically with a clear status row, and EPO Open Patent Services
  credentials verified the same way.

Changed

• A single Patrick menu consolidates the header actions.
• AI settings are grouped into Connection (provider and keys) and Behaviour
  (model, reasoning, web search) for a clearer profile.

Fixed

• Credential verification is hardened, reasoning is correctly disabled on models
  that don't support it, and the per-chat web-search setting is read live rather
  than captured once when a chat opens.

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Windows desktop app (unsigned alpha). Download the installer below.

On first launch Windows SmartScreen may warn "Windows protected your
PC" — click More info → Run anyway. Bring your own AI provider key.