ScholarScout v1.6.0

v1.6.0 Release Notes (2026-06-15)

Research-grade trust layer

• Evidence Pack on every generated idea: source papers, evidence claims, grounding score, and risk flags
• Invalid or missing paper references now surface explicitly instead of failing silently
• Deep Dive grounding verification and evidence-aware serialization are now part of the default research workflow

Better idea quality

• Self-improvement upgraded from light text cleanup to a critique-and-rewrite loop
• Refined ideas can now explain their main weakness, why the rewritten version is stronger, where the novelty sits, and what execution risk still remains
• Refined ideas are marked directly in the dashboard and idea detail modal

Personalized idea steering

• Added user preference steering for generation and refinement
• New personality controls: work style, scope preference, risk tolerance, output tone, and extra constraints
• Upvote/downvote now supports reason capture, so ScholarScout can learn what the user actually likes or rejects
• Ideas can now show fit-to-user summary, misalignment flags, and user fit score

Dashboard workflow improvements

• Idea detail modal upgraded with a floating action rail for Deep Dive, Export, Copy, Bookmark, Regenerate, and feedback
• Export and copy from the modal now include refinement and user-fit context
• Session rendering remains backward-compatible with older ideas that do not yet have evidence or refinement fields

Reliability and generation fairness

• Idea distribution across selected categories is now dynamic and fairer
• Fixed the old behavior where early categories could consume the full idea budget before later categories were reached
• Quick mode, regenerate, and full pipeline now all accept personality/profile context

Research tooling

• Implementation discovery support is included for finding related code, tools, datasets, and packages
• Health/usage helpers, evidence helpers, and analysis utilities added to support more audit-ready output
• config.yaml removed from version control; config.example.yaml remains the source of truth for setup

API and backend

• Added or extended support for POST /api/implementations, POST /api/refine, and POST /api/roadmap
• Personality-aware request flow now reaches the pipeline and idea generation routes

Testing

• Added coverage for evidence helpers, refinement flow, personalization helpers, implementation discovery, and UI structural checks
• Core Python tests, JS tests, and compile checks passed for the shipped v1.6 ScholarScout path