v0.8.0

• Changed: steer duplicate custom/synthetic corpora toward reuse
• Changed: debounce re-gathers within a freshness window
• Added: GET /metrics route for hosted HTTP deployments
• Added: search_corpora tool for cross-corpus semantic search
• Added: boot-time config validation for the HTTP serve path
• Fixed: bind ETag cache path at load time so tests cannot clobber the real cache
• Added: find_efforts topic-first effort discovery
• Added: per-gather HTTP egress metrics on the datatracker load
• Added: surface build version and cache freshness in /health
• Added: deployment contract documentation for the HTTP serve path
• Added: auto-update an installed Claude skill when it is pristine
• Fixed: gather no longer aborts on PDFs with lone surrogates
• Changed: rewrite corpus tool descriptions as routing rules vs web search
• Changed: skip embedding concluded-draft revisions (rfc / replaced)
• Changed: generalise email-domain-is-not-affiliation guidance
• Added: opt-in MCP tools to start and monitor a corpus gather
• Changed: fix WG-means-corpus conflations in SKILL.md and tool docstrings
• Changed: use "corpus" terminology in user-facing CLI text
• Changed: harden index build/read paths for concurrent serving
• Added: remote OpenAI-compatible summariser backend
• Fixed: parse the HTTP-date form of Retry-After in the remote embed backend
• Added: structured JSON logging via IETF_LLM_LOG_FORMAT
• Changed: resolve embed and summarise settings globally, not per-WG
• Added: global service-config scope (env > CLI > global > default)
• Fixed: typecheck with the optional embedding deps absent
• Added: link GitHub authors to mailing-list identities via Datatracker
• Added: GET /health readiness endpoint on the HTTP transport
• Changed: make the server prewarm network-free for the remote backend
• Added: Streamable HTTP transport for the MCP server
• Added: configurable index directory for tmpfs placement
• Added: record embedding dimension as index provenance
• Fixed: keep schema_version across an index rebuild
• Added: configurable cache and config directories via environment
• Changed: query the embeddings index read-only
• Changed: move NotebookLM export deps to the [notebooklm] extra
• Changed: move on-device embeddings to the [local-embeddings] extra
• Added: OpenAI-compatible remote embedding backend