harness-python/v0.1.2

harness-python/v0.1.2

Auto-drafted from commits in harness-python/v0.1.1..harness-python/v0.1.2, grouped by conventional-commit type. Edit on the release page after publish if you want a polished writeup; the canonical release notes live on the website.

🐛 Fixes

• fix(cli): improve onboarding and terminal responsiveness (#4518) (2db4074)
• fix(bidi): remove retired Nova Sonic 1 from integration tests (#4512) (d29c36e)
• fix(cli): install provider SDKs with the CLI (#4508) (91a4478)
• fix(sandbox): preserve UTF-8 across stream chunk boundaries (#4157) (20231cb)
• fix(mcp-py): send auth flow requests as yielded and strip decoded framing headers (#4233) (f4567bf)
• fix(harness): let an explicit web_search: 'exa' win over native search (#4491) (523d4d0)
• fix(harness): default effort back to 'auto' so no-reasoning models resolve (#4473) (98547f1)
• fix(cli): depend on the published harness in exported projects (#4478) (8ecf1eb)
• fix(harness): align Node requirement and default model docs (#4469) (1f08ea6)

♻️ Refactoring

• refactor(bidi): adopt production component names (#4444) (d6e9571)

📚 Documentation

• docs(changelog): sync strands-agents/harness-sdk python/v1.57.0 (#4517) (880c5bd)
• docs(changelog): sync strands-agents/harness-sdk typescript/v1.19.0 (#4516) (68cf9d2)
• docs: use Strands wordmarks in package READMEs (#4475) (42c4c42)
• docs: remove stale test issue references (#4467) (1e2d99d)
• docs: update README badges and resource links (#4477) (4d376d8)
• docs(blog): update deployment providers and install instructions (#4466) (ada9513)
• docs: refresh README with the Strands wordmark (#4462) (7b2e050)

👷 CI

• ci(typescript): bump the production-minor group across 1 directory with 3 updates (#4344) (b2e8d1c)
• ci(typescript): bump hono from 4.13.0 to 4.13.8 (#4386) (6be001d)
• ci(typescript): bump fast-uri from 3.1.5 to 3.1.8 (#4385) (50549ae)
• ci(docs): bump astro from 7.2.6 to 7.3.3 in /site (#4436) (8a2ad9b)
• ci(docs): bump prettier from 3.9.6 to 3.9.8 in /site (#4434) (57a919b)
• ci(docs): bump typedoc-plugin-markdown from 4.13.0 to 4.13.1 in /site (#4485) (d46cba8)
• ci(docs): bump p-limit from 7.3.2 to 7.3.3 in /site (#4483) (f5e9d27)
• ci: add @strands-agents/cli CI + npm release pipeline (#4468) (7586562)

🔧 Chores

• chore(harness-ts): lift the @strands-agents/sdk <1.18.0 cap (#4520) (15c42ff)

🔖 Other

• Docs/blog deploy and install updates (#4474) (1da0d15)