v2.45.24

What's New

Performance

• Cache-first fast path — skip browser/HTTP entirely when cache has data (~5-50ms vs 1-3s)
• Deferred Chrome — process multi-page crawls from cache before launching a browser
• Work-stealing (hedged requests) — parallel retry for slow crawl requests
• io_uring — StreamingWriter for high-throughput file I/O on Linux

Agent

• Per-round model pool routing — route cheap rounds to fast models, complex rounds to capable ones
• Comprehensive router tests — 30+ multi-LLM reliability tests

Fixes

• Chrome mode honors wait_for config (e.g. idle_network0) before HTML extraction
• Smart mode lifecycle waiting matches Chrome coverage without re-fetch
• Auto-retry www. URLs on SSL protocol errors
• Reject empty HTML from all cache paths
• Default no_sandbox() for headless Chrome (#354)

CLI

• --wait-for flag for page load strategies (#352)

Housekeeping

• Clippy warnings and formatting cleanup across workspace
• Rewritten README, CONTRIBUTING.md, CHANGELOG backfill
• Issue/PR templates, security policy, CI workflows (lint, audit, release)