v0.23.0

First public PyPI release after v0.19.0. This release bundles the v0.20-v0.22 redraw hardening work, visual workflow skills, remote MCP profiles, platform distribution docs, cultural-term benchmark tooling, and hosted provider SDK aliases.

Highlights

• Added /visual-discovery, /visual-brainstorm, /visual-spec, /visual-plan, and /evaluate skill surfaces for agent-native visual workflows.
• Added remote-safe MCP profile support via vulca-mcp-remote for hosted clients such as ChatGPT-style remote MCP integrations.
• Added target-aware redraw hardening: source-context edit mattes, generated evidence gating, local quality gates, route/geometry advisory fields, and target mask refinement helpers.
• Added cultural-term efficacy benchmark tooling, including real-provider opt-in and signal-strengthening checks.
• Added provider SDK image aliases: gemini-tools / nb2-tools for Google GenAI tool-backed image calls, and openai-responses for the OpenAI Responses API image generation tool.
• Added vulca[providers] optional dependency group for hosted provider SDKs.
• Refreshed README install pins from 0.17.11 to 0.23.0.

Compatibility

• Existing vulca[mcp] installs continue to work.
• Hosted provider SDKs remain optional; install vulca[providers] only when using Gemini/OpenAI hosted backends directly.
• layers_redraw keeps backward-compatible defaults while surfacing new route, model, quality, and advisory controls for advanced callers.

Links

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/vulca/0.23.0/
• Pull request: #36