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Release notes — Visual Evidence Gateway v0.5.0

What this is

A local, read-only MCP server that lets text-first agents (DeepSeek, OpenCode, Pi, …) call one tool, vision.inspect, for controlled visual evidence. The default backend is the local Codex CLI with explicit gpt-5.6-luna and forced ChatGPT subscription authentication; no API key, no silent fallback, no verifier by default.

Changes since vision-bridge-mcp v0.4.1

  • Renamed to Visual Evidence Gateway (visual-evidence-gateway distribution, visual_evidence_gateway package, visual-evidence-gateway CLI/MCP name, VISUAL_EVIDENCE_GATEWAY_* env vars). The old vision-bridge-mcp name collided with an existing same-purpose project on GitHub/npm; migration notes are in the README.
  • Transport-level model identity verification for the Codex CLI backend.
  • Hardened ChatGPT-mode environment stripping (OPENAI_BASE_URL, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY now also blocked).
  • Local-path masking in error/refusal output.
  • Windows junction/reparse paths are rejected cleanly (crash fixed).
  • Installers: mandatory SHA-256 verification, rollback on setup failure, explicit Windows ARM64 message.
  • Pre-release validation kit: strict JSON-Schema gate, cache-hit no-backend-call gate, junction negative test, fresh-cache runs, official-MCP-client host gate.
  • CI fixes: Windows wheel reinstall path, typer for the PyInstaller build.

Verified platforms

  • Windows 11 x64: full validation PASS (real Luna probes, six fixture types, security negatives, cache, schema, host MCP, installer simulation, PyInstaller single-file binary with real probe).
  • macOS/Linux: installer integration test + CI matrix (python 3.10–3.13); binary builds run in GitHub Actions (linux x86_64/arm64, macOS x86_64/arm64, Windows x86_64).

Not yet verified / boundaries

  • Codex Desktop app host call through MCP (manual restart + call needed; npm CLI 0.146.1 on Windows cannot complete stdio MCP tool calls — see FINAL_RELEASE_DECISION.md).
  • Windows ARM64 prebuilt binary (no GitHub-hosted runner).
  • Binary signing (none; transport + SHA-256 only).
  • Real-world latency on other accounts/regions (this machine: median ~21–25 s per visual call at validation time).
  • ModLens comparison run (requires external Antigravity CLI login).

Install

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scy7796/visual-evidence-gateway/main/install.ps1 | iex
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scy7796/visual-evidence-gateway/main/install.sh | sh

Prerequisite: official Codex CLI (npm install -g @openai/codex) signed in with ChatGPT.