Release ChatWalaʻau v0.111.0 · motojinc25/chatwalaau

This release adds two capabilities to ChatWalaʻau: a GUI to build declarative agents, and a real per-agent tool surface.

Behavior change: a declarative agent's tools: block is now honored (it was previously ignored). See the note below.

Highlights

The Declarative Agents panel gains a Create button (and Edit / Delete on each of your custom agents) that opens a full-screen editor -- no hand-written YAML required.
The editor has three panels: form fields for the name, description, and instructions; a visual canvas to attach a model (with its reasoning effort / verbosity) and to add tools from a searchable list of every built-in tool, MCP server/tool, and Skill; and a live YAML preview you can also edit directly.
Model selection is driven by your configured models -- the editor never asks for a provider, endpoint, or credentials, because ChatWalaʻau resolves those itself. Save writes the YAML and the new agent appears in the list right away, ready to activate.
Validation runs continuously and mirrors what activation enforces, so warnings are shown inline while you edit rather than surprising you later.
GUI authoring is available when DECLARATIVE_AGENTS_DIR points at a writable folder; it is read-only otherwise.

A declarative agent can now carry its own tool surface: list exactly the built-in tools, MCP servers/tools, and Skills it should have, and it runs with only those. Leave the tools out and the agent inherits every enabled tool, exactly as before.
The Declarative Agents panel shows when an agent's tools are restricted ("tool surface restricted to N tools"), and an unrecognized tool name is a warning that blocks activation -- so a typo can never silently drop a tool.

Previously a tools: block in a custom declarative-agent YAML was ignored (every agent got the full tool surface). It now restricts that agent to the listed tools.
If you hand-authored a YAML with a tools: block, that agent will now run with only those tools. To restore the old behavior for that agent, remove its tools: block (absent = inherit all).
The bundled CORE agent, and any custom agent without a tools: block, are unchanged.

This release includes implementation work from:

Internal design management content and architecture control artifacts are intentionally omitted from this release note.

See the repository README for setup and usage instructions.