v0.98.0

What's Changed

• fix(exec-runner): feed stdin concurrently so a large input cannot deadlock by @ThibautMelen in #256
• feat(check): native-first — the check names the native path by @ThibautMelen in #258
• docs(pack): surgical vendor — provider count catches canon (16) by @ThibautMelen in #259
• fix(ci): the coherence bot's openvsx probe points at the real extension by @ThibautMelen in #260
• feat(nika-builtin): fetch vNext — form · multipart · bounded traverse by @ThibautMelen in #257
• feat(nika-cli): wizard wow — the conversation speaks the display seam by @ThibautMelen in #261
• fix(nika-catalog): declare fetch traverse — the merged binary refused every crawl by @ThibautMelen in #263
• fix(nika-cli): wizard coherence — never promise what the file doesn't carry by @ThibautMelen in #266
• fix(nika-cli): the night batch — the why reaches the operator by @ThibautMelen in #265
• feat(cost): cost intelligence — provenance, cache-aware math, agent split, budget guard by @ThibautMelen in #271
• fix(nika-mcp): a dirty check is isError:true — the repair loop must trigger by @ThibautMelen in #270
• fix(nika-builtin): fetch vNext hardening — the crawl stops leaking, over-reading, truncating by @ThibautMelen in #272
• fix(nika-cli): the budget's unbounded warning names each reason, not the fixed disjunction by @ThibautMelen in #273
• docs(nika-cli): --max-cost-usd help names its three real limits at the point of use by @ThibautMelen in #274
• fix(nika-cli): the wizard's hand-off commands survive a spaced filename by @ThibautMelen in #275
• fix(nika-cli): the wizard escapes user strings into YAML by @ThibautMelen in #276
• test(nika-cli): the own-corpus law is a ratchet — every template audits clean by @ThibautMelen in #277
• fix(nika-schema): native-first rule 004 gets the bare-head guard its siblings have by @ThibautMelen in #278
• fix(nika-schema): check catches an out-of-range max_turns — audit before run by @ThibautMelen in #279
• feat(check): schema-portability hint — the grammar-blind keywords named by @ThibautMelen in #262
• fix(providers): openai strict rejects not/allOf — strip and flatten at the wire by @ThibautMelen in #267
• feat(verb-infer): retry-loop economics — numbered repair list + truncation fast-fail by @ThibautMelen in #268
• feat(providers): gemini rides responseJsonSchema — the OpenAPI converter dies by @ThibautMelen in #269
• feat(nika-cli): the scaffolded agents.md teaches the live clap tree by @ThibautMelen in #281
• feat(providers): anthropic native structured output — output_config.format by @ThibautMelen in #264
• fix(nika-schema): a compact block-sequence bomb no longer aborts the process (CRITICAL) by @ThibautMelen in #282
• fix(providers): capability is a PROVIDER fact — deepseek has no json_schema by @ThibautMelen in #283
• test(nika-cli): pty e2e — the wizard conversation gets executable coverage by @ThibautMelen in #285
• fix(nika-schema): check catches for_each over a typed non-array var — audit before run by @ThibautMelen in #284
• test(nika-cli): pty hardening — raii dirs, transcript tee, the third door by @ThibautMelen in #289
• chore(ci): public-api baseline — Profile::supports_response_format joins by @ThibautMelen in #290
• feat(verb-infer): the coercion ladder — SAP-lite repair before a paid retry by @ThibautMelen in #280
• fix(nika-cli): the runtime honors the documented key ladder — NIKA_ prefix wins by @ThibautMelen in #286
• feat(doctor): the health surface names the instruction-fallback clouds by @ThibautMelen in #287
• feat(cost): billed-then-failed spend reaches the frame, the totals, and the budget gate by @ThibautMelen in #288
• docs(adr): ratify ADR-094 — FCI-004 reserved-core catches the D4 taxonomy by @ThibautMelen in #292
• fix(nika-types): cost.rs imports String from alloc — the no_std powerset holds by @ThibautMelen in #297
• fix(nika-providers): gpt-5/o-series budget key — max_completion_tokens on the openai wire by @ThibautMelen in #294
• feat(nika-schema): exec-json-capture hint — capture stdout when bindings parse it by @ThibautMelen in #295
• feat(nika-lsp): hostile-input hardening — the #282 bomb served, mid-char offsets floored by @ThibautMelen in #296
• fix(nika-runtime): bind the envelope env namespace — a green check must run by @ThibautMelen in #293
• feat(nika-cli): nika welcome + nika explain — the 30-seconds narrative layer by @ThibautMelen in #298
• test(scripts): Rail C — the live structured-output battery (P0) by @ThibautMelen in #299
• feat(nika-tmpl): admit to workspace — the ONE ${{ }} island lexer, all 12 gates passed by @ThibautMelen in #302
• feat(lsp): $/cancelRequest — stale requests die before they compute by @ThibautMelen in #303
• feat(nika-cli): the long-tail hatch gets its surface — NIKA__BASE_URL for clouds by @ThibautMelen in #304
• feat(nika-pck-manifest): admit to workspace — all 12 gates passed (42/42) by @ThibautMelen in #306
• feat(nika-cli): the mirror speaks the colour seam — and shows the language by @ThibautMelen in #305
• chore(release): v0.98.0 — structured output goes native, the checker closes its gaps by @ThibautMelen in #307

Full Changelog: v0.97.0...v0.98.0

MCP bundles (added 2026-07-10)

The read-only MCP oracle now ships as one-click .mcpb bundles next to the
tarballs — nika-mcp-macos-arm64-0.98.0.mcpb · nika-mcp-linux-x64-0.98.0.mcpb,
checksums in MCPB.sha256. Manifest 0.2, server.type: binary, entry
server/nika with args: [mcp] — packed from the checksum-verified release
binaries and introspection-probed from the unpacked bundle before publish.
Wiring guide: https://github.com/supernovae-st/nika-agents/tree/main/integrations/mcp