v3.18.1

What's Changed

• docs(solutions): checkpointed host-judgment protocol design conventions by @mvanhorn in #858
• fix(docs): align Reddit ScrapeCreators backup copy with empty-only behavior by @tmchow in #869
• fix(competitors): stop silently dropping vs-entities beyond 4 by @tmchow in #870
• fix(bird_x): normalize retries and preserve clean empty results by @spiky02plateau in #840
• chore(deps): bump github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go from 0.55.0 to 0.56.0 in /mcp by @dependabot[bot] in #843
• chore(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.5.0 to 5.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #844
• chore(deps): bump actions/attest from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #845
• chore(deps-dev): bump pytest from 9.1.0 to 9.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #846
• chore(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 6.4.0 to 6.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #848
• chore(deps): bump github/codeql-action/upload-sarif from 4.36.2 to 4.37.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #849
• chore(deps): bump zizmorcore/zizmor-action from 0.5.6 to 0.5.7 by @dependabot[bot] in #847
• fix(youtube): avoid unnecessary transcript fallback spend by @terry-li-hm in #864
• fix(xurl): pin search to app-only auth — OAuth1-signed multi-word queries 401 by @papamo44 in #855
• fix: reject low-confidence general evidence by @terry-li-hm in #863
• chore(release): bump version to 3.18.1 by @tmchow in #871

New Contributors

• @terry-li-hm made their first contribution in #864
• @papamo44 made their first contribution in #855

Full Changelog: v3.18.0...v3.18.1