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  # Changelog
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+ ## 0.18.0 (2026-11-04)
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+
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+ - Biome 2.6.2 (with @inquirer/prompts 8.7.4, react 19.3.1 and smol-toml 1.9.1, from Dependabot's
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+ group update). Biome 2.6 formats Markdown and YAML by default: Markdown formatting is off (the
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+ docs keep their own layout), and pnpm's lockfiles are left out.
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+ - Dependabot: `@types/node` stays on the oldest supported Node line (no major updates); each other
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+ major update comes as its own pull request.
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+ - The Homebrew formula in the repository names 0.17.0 and its tarball hash.
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+ - Eval evidence, part 1 (T11a): the report gives the pass rate over all attempts with a 95%
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+ interval (a cluster bootstrap over tasks, so repeats of one task count together), the tasks that
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+ passed every run or none, the median and p95 of steps, tokens and time, the cost per accepted
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+ change (all attempts divided by the passes), and unexpected changes (files that a run changed
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+ but the task did not need; a new `allowChanges` field widens a task's scope). `--shuffle` and
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+ `--seed` set the run order. `report.json` is version 2, with Garuda's version and commit, the
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+ model, the OS, the seed, the run order and a hash of each task. A run whose every attempt failed
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+ with an error gives no interval ("No scored run"), a task with only error runs is not counted as
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+ "passed none", and an authentication error (401 or 403, for example a refused API key) stops the
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+ eval at the first run instead of failing every run the same way.
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+ - `garuda eval compare <a> <b>` (T11a part 2): two reports of the same tasks side by side, the
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+ difference of the pass rates (B − A) with a paired 95% interval, and each arm's cost per accepted
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+ change, unexpected changes and median time. It refuses reports whose tasks differ, and a
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+ difference whose interval contains 0 is "no clear difference". The run report now says when its
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+ interval is only a rough guide (fewer than 10 tasks, or every draw gave the same rate).
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+ - The Claude Code baseline (T11b): `garuda eval --agent claude-code` runs `claude -p` on the same
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+ tasks with the same scratch folders, time limit and grading, so `garuda eval compare` can set
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+ Garuda against Claude Code. Claude Code runs with every tool allowed, so only in the OS sandbox,
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+ with network only to `api.anthropic.com`, a new config folder per run, and the API key in its
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+ environment only. Its turns, tokens and cost come from its JSON result. `eval compare` prints a
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+ zero difference as "0 pts" and says when every draw gave the same difference. The user's first
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+ live baseline run found that the proxy for `api.anthropic.com` started only in a Garuda turn, so
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+ Claude Code had no network: the runner now starts it first (`Runtime.prepareCommands`). An eval
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+ now also stops at the first run that cannot reach the API (a refused connection, an unknown
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+ host, a certificate error), as it does for a refused key.
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+ - `garuda eval compare` also compares the cost per accepted change: the ratio B/A with a paired
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+ 95% interval, and a verdict ("B costs more", "B costs less" or "no clear difference"). An unknown
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+ cost gives no ratio. The hard-coupon task allows changes in the coupon module and the API routes
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+ (`allowChanges`): both agents made them in the first baseline runs. Its task hash changes, so
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+ compare new hard-suite runs only with new ones.
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+ - A held-out set (T11c): 10 new, harder tasks in TypeScript, Python and Java, apart from every
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+ suite. `--split heldout` runs them, `--split all` runs them with the dev tasks, and a plain
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+ `garuda eval` never does (a held-out id with `-t` is refused with the fix). They cover a defect
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+ whose cause is in another file (3), a refactor across modules (2), tests that a mutation check
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+ must find good enough (2), conventions from the repository's `AGENTS.md` that a hidden test
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+ checks (2), and a vague request (1). Each task's hash is recorded in the tests: a changed task
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+ must change its hash on purpose, and a tuning result seen before the change is invalid.
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+ `report.json` records the split. `--list` shows the held-out set. The compare note now says
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+ "the same pass-rate difference".
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+ - The first held-out run (Haiku 5.5, 3 runs a task: 27/30) found a fault in one task:
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+ the export-dates task (now `med-export-dates`) failed 0/3 only because the agent, with the right fix each time, added a CSV
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+ test to the protected test file. Its hidden test decides, so the visible tests are no longer
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+ protected, and a new test is in scope there and in the two conventions tasks. The hashes of these
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+ three tasks change: compare held-out runs only with runs made after this change.
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+ - A harder held-out set (T11c, second version). The first set was at its ceiling for Haiku 5.5,
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+ so it is now a dev suite, `-s medium` (ids `med-…`), and 10 new tasks took its place. Each has a
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+ trap: a quick fix that passes the visible tests fails the hidden test or the mutation check (a
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+ cache key without the currency, a new idempotency key per retry, invoice shares and yen, a
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+ command registry with unchanged output, settings by the README's rules, 6 subtle mutants in two
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+ test-writing tasks, a migration and a reset endpoint by `AGENTS.md`, and a slow search that must
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+ keep every result). Their ids start with `held-out-`. The tests prove each trap. Compare
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+ held-out runs only with runs made after this change. The run report's id column now fits the
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+ longest id, so the columns after it line up.
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+ - The second held-out run (Haiku 5.5, 3 runs a task: 28/30) found two faults, both in the checks.
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+ `held-out-conventions-migration` failed 2/3 with correct work: the agent named the field
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+ `dueAt` (as `created_at` suggests), and the hidden test read `dueDate`, which the prompt never
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+ named. The prompt now names it. The report gave "The check failed:" with nothing after it: a
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+ guard stopped the check with no output. Each guard now prints what is missing, and a check with
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+ no output reports its exit code. Four held-out hashes change.
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+ - Tests: `test/evals.test.ts` self-tests the basic and hard suites only (the medium tasks ran twice
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+ there), with 60 s for each task. The user's `pnpm check` timed out on `hard-rounding` at 5 s,
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+ then on the LSP reference sample. `vitest.config.ts` now gives every test 30 s, the limit that
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+ the release checks used, so `pnpm check` agrees with them.
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+ - The third held-out run, with the Claude Code baseline, ran an old build: `dist/` was older than
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+ the checkout, so the old tasks ran, and `report.json` named the checkout's commit, not the
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+ build's. A build now records the commit it came from (tsup sets it), `report.json` gives it as
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+ `garuda.commit` and adds `garuda.checkout` when the checkout differs, and `garuda eval` warns
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+ at the start: "This build is from commit …, but the checkout is at …: run pnpm build first."
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+ - Held-out prompts with visible tests now say "You may add tests in new files, but do not change
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+ the existing test files": in the same run the agent appended a correct test to a protected test
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+ file after "do not change the existing ones". Five held-out hashes change.
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+ - Same run, same (old) tasks, Haiku 5.5: Garuda 26/30, Claude Code 27/30, no clear difference in
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+ the pass rate; Claude Code cost ×1.50 per accepted change (paired interval ×1.35 to ×1.71).
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+ - Design (T11; T11a and T11b built, T11c–d not yet): eval evidence — intervals and consistency over repeated runs, cost per
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+ accepted change, unexpected changes, a Claude Code baseline runner, a held-out task split, and a
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+ proposer loop that edits only a prompt addendum (`docs/lld/eval-evidence.md`).
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+ - An eval A/B of one MCP server: `garuda eval --mcp <server>` allows that one server from your
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+ own `~/.garuda/mcp.json` (no other server, and none from a project file), and
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+ `--mcp-prepare <command>` runs a command in each scratch folder, in the sandbox, before the agent
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+ starts; what it writes is not counted as the agent's change. For Graphify:
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+ `--mcp graphify --mcp-prepare "graphify update ."`. Each run records its MCP tool calls; the
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+ report and `eval compare` show them ("the agent never used the server" when none), compare notes
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+ when the arms' servers differ, and `report.json` records the server and the command. A server
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+ that does not start, or a failed prepare command, stops the eval at the first run. The Claude
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+ Code baseline refuses both options.
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+ - The prepare command now runs before the agent's runtime starts, so a note that it writes into
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+ `GARUDA.md` reaches the agent (the user's first Graphify run: the agent never called the server,
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+ and a note written later would not have been read). A `~/.garuda/mcp.json` whose `"servers"` is a
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+ list now gets a message that shows the right form, not "expected record, received array".
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+ - Docs: Graphify as an example MCP server in the tools guide (install, `mcp.json`, the note in
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+ `GARUDA.md`, and what we measured: ×1.28 cost per accepted change on the hard suite, no change in
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+ passes). Garuda does not include it. The T11d design gets the user's keep rule: an edit with the
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+ same passes stays when its cost per accepted change is clearly lower.
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+ - Tests: `waitUntil` waits up to 20 s by default (it was 5 s), under the 30 s test limit. The
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+ user's `pnpm check` failed the M5 Ctrl-C test on a busy machine. Two test files had their own
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+ copy with 4 or 5 s (a second M5 Ctrl-C test then failed the same way); they use `waitUntil`
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+ now, and a test refuses a new copy.
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+ - The proposer loop (T11d): `garuda eval tune --addendum <file>` improves a prompt addendum. A
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+ proposer model (default `claude-opus-5-5`) reads the dev runs that failed, or each task's cost
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+ when all passed, and writes a new version; it stays when no task goes from all runs to none and
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+ it passes 2 more runs (`--margin`) or as many at a clearly lower cost per accepted change (the
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+ user's rule). Texts that ask to skip or edit tests or checks, or to leave the sandbox, are
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+ refused before a run; the proposer never sees the held-out tasks; `--max-cost` (default $20)
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+ stops before a round that would pass it. At the end the held-out set compares no addendum with
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+ the final one. Garuda never edits the file: the versions, inputs, reports and history go to
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+ `.garuda/evals/tune-<id>/`. `garuda eval --addendum <file>` runs any suite with an addendum.
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+ - `eval tune` after the user's first run (Haiku 5.5 agent, Opus 5.5 proposer, $0.65): the kept
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+ version cut the held-out cost per accepted change to ×0.81 (×0.75 to ×0.88), all runs passing.
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+ The run also found four faults, now fixed: two of three proposals were refused for phrases in
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+ rules against cheating ("never modify tests to make them pass") or about reading ("skip tests
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+ you won't run"), so a negation now clears a phrase and a refused text gets one more try in the
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+ round; the held-out comparison said the reports had no task hashes; runs went one at a time
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+ (about 16 minutes a score), so `--parallel` (default 4) runs them together; and nothing printed
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+ during a score, so each run prints a line. Two runs of one task at the same time can no longer
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+ take the same session file name (also for `garuda eval --parallel`).
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+ - The system prompt tells the agent how to work in few steps: batch tool calls that do not depend
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+ on each other, find before reading, no exploration with bash, all edits in one step, one narrow
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+ test run, fix the code not the tests, stop when done. The rules come from the first
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+ `garuda eval tune` run: on the held-out set, with every run passing, they cut the cost per
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+ accepted change to ×0.81 (95% interval ×0.75 to ×0.88) with Haiku 5.5 and ×0.87 (×0.79 to
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+ ×0.95) with Sonnet 5.5. The tuned text's rules against `remember` and for one-sentence answers
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+ are left out: they served the evals, not users. The prompt's own wording, measured against
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+ 0.17.0's prompt on the held-out set (3 runs a task, seed 7): with Sonnet 5.5, 30/30 both and
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+ ×0.90 (×0.84 to ×0.96); with Haiku 5.5, 30/30 and 29/30 (one miss of the invoice refund trap)
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+ and ×0.88 (×0.79 to ×1.02), so the Haiku saving is likely but not shown with confidence.
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+ ## 0.17.0 (2026-10-27)
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+ - macOS: no command process outlives the command (IPI-04). Seatbelt has no process namespace, so a
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+ process could leave the command's process group (setsid, setpgid, posix_spawn with SETSID or
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+ SETPGROUP, Node's detached spawn) and keep running, inside the sandbox. Each sandboxed command now
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+ gets two marker files in its Seatbelt profile, and after the command a small helper,
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+ `native/bin/garuda-reap` (C, universal arm64 + x86_64, ad-hoc signed, built in the release
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+ workflow and shipped in the npm package), kills every process of the user with those markers. On
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+ the user's Mac all four ways out were found and killed, no other process matched, and one scan took
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+ 12 ms. The bash tool tells the model when Garuda killed such a process. Without the helper (a
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+ source checkout without the Command Line Tools, the standalone binary) Garuda warns, and the
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+ strict profile refuses sandboxed commands. The IPI-04 case now expects no escape on macOS too.
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+ - Node and dependency security (2026-10-21): Garuda warns at start on a Node without the latest
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+ security fixes of its line (22.23.4, 24.22.1, 26.12.1; the Node.js security release of
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+ 2026-10-21: TLS hostname checks, DNS, Brotli), and `engines` names those versions. CI, the
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+ release and website workflows take the newest Node of their line (`check-latest`) and stop on an
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+ older one (`scripts/check-node.mjs`); `pnpm package` refuses one for the standalone binary. A new
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+ Audit workflow (each push, pull request and Monday) fails on any advisory in a shipped package;
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+ Dependabot opens weekly updates. `@modelcontextprotocol/client` 2.3.1 fixes two advisories in
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+ the OAuth and HTTP transport of remote MCP servers (GHSA-6qxp-vccf-f47h, GHSA-6prh-2h8m-c8cw).
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+ `glob` and `grep` refuse a pattern that brace expansion makes into more than 1000 patterns or
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+ that nests `{…}` more than 10 deep: `braces` has no fix for GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm, and such a
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+ pattern ran Node out of memory. See docs/security-deps.md.
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+ - zod 4.6.7: GHSA-mrhx-c7xc-m3w5 (high), one oversized array could run Node out of memory
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+ during validation. zod checks the model's tool input and, in the MCP SDK, the messages of MCP
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+ servers. The new Audit workflow found it.
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+ - GitHub Actions: `actions/checkout` 7.0.1 and `actions/setup-node` 7.1.0, which run on Node 24
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+ (GitHub forces actions built for Node 20 onto Node 24 and warns). Still pinned to full commit
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+ hashes. The release job turns off setup-node's automatic dependency cache.
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+ - Indirect prompt injection suite (`test/ipiSuite.test.ts`): ten injected-call cases against the
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+ real sandbox, permission engine, tools, web_fetch, audit log and approval display, each with a
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+ control; `pnpm ipi:mutations` shows that every case fails without its defence. Two known gaps are
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+ recorded: sandboxed commands may write the shared package caches (IPI-03), and on macOS a
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+ process in a new session outlives the command (IPI-04).
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+ - Docs: the README is short now (what Garuda does on your machine, install, quick start, links);
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+ the user guide moved to `docs/guide/` (ten pages; the website shows them as the User guide
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+ section). New community files: `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md`, a pull request template
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+ and issue forms for bugs and features. `SECURITY.md` names 0.16.x as supported.
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+ - Models: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 with their prices (Haiku 5.5 has a higher price for
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+ prompts over 100,000 tokens); `sonnet` and `haiku` now name them. `garuda setup` lists the
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+ models of your Anthropic account (Models API) and saves the list for `/models`; a model that
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+ this Garuda does not know shows "price unknown". `pnpm models:check` is a release check.
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+ - Staged commands (T5, off by default): with `"commands": { "mode": "staged" }`, each sandboxed
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+ command runs in a staging copy of the project; when it changes files that git tracks, you see the
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+ diff and apply or discard (all or nothing, with `/undo`). Ignored files stay in the copy. No copy:
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+ the session does not start (no fallback to direct mode). Linux mounts the copy at the project's
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+ path; macOS runs the command at the copy's path with the project read-only. The question also
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+ counts the ignored files that the command wrote (never applied) and names sensitive ones.
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+ - MoE wording (review of 3a9f51b): the `delegate_expert` description and the system prompt no
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+ longer promise "deep language AST tools"; they name the code index tools and say that results
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+ outside JS/TS are approximate. A test guards public and model-facing text.
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+ - Job and night-digest costs (review of 3a9f51b): an incomplete cost shows as "≥ $X (incomplete)"
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+ and an unknown cost as "unknown" (before: exact $0.5000 and $0.0000), also in the totals and
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+ for the review. A review attempt with no reported usage marks the review cost incomplete; an
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+ estimated review response costs 0 as a minimum instead of an estimated price.
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+ - Executor contract test (Codex review of 1370184): after `shutdown()`, the shell and any sandbox
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+ wrapper must be gone too, not only the background child.
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+ - T10 evidence (Codex review of 1370184): the corpus, oracle and source fingerprints are hashed
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+ with LF line endings, so a Windows checkout with CRLF passes the evidence tests. The published
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+ values do not change.
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+ - Token budget (Codex review of 1370184): while tools run, the room that subagents must leave
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+ for the parent also covers a compaction that is due before the next request.
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+ - Subagent spend with no report (Codex review of 1370184): a cancelled child's tokens, already in
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+ the budget, now make the cost "≥ $X (incomplete)" and show the budget line, with the part from
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+ subagents named.
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+ - Docs (Codex review of 1370184): Go and Rust experts are heuristic, not AST parsers; MoE
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+ specialists get the code index tools, not "full AST" tools; the T10 record says that only one
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+ capture is stored; the README states what the precision/recall figures do and do not cover.
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+ - T10 evidence guard (Codex review of 1370184): fixed precision/recall floors (Java 33/54 and
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+ 33/36, Python 45/63 and 45/48) apply on every run, also during an evidence refresh; a refresh
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+ variable set in CI fails the test.
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+ - Approximate references (Codex review of 1370184): Go and Rust references, and every user or
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+ project plugin's, now carry the same approximate warning as Java/Python in tools, chat, callers
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+ and impact. Tool descriptions name these languages.
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+ - TypeScript references (Codex review of 1370184): the search starts at the declaration's own
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+ name, not at the first matching word on its line, which could be another symbol (a property of a
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+ type declared earlier on the line).
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+ - Jobs (Codex review of 1370184): a review that was asked for but failed (a provider error, no
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+ budget) gives the verdict "needs a look", never "ready to merge". The error stays in `reviewError`.
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+ - JSON output (review of 1370184): `total_cost_usd` stays a number for compatibility, but an unknown
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+ or partial cost is never a bare number: new `total_cost_is_unknown`, `total_cost_is_incomplete` and
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+ `cost_is_incomplete` flags, beside the existing `cost_is_unknown`.
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+ - Cost after a failed attempt (review of 1370184): one retry, 529, batch fallback or cancel no
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+ longer makes the cost unknown for the rest of the session. The cost stays a known minimum, shown
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+ as "≥ $X (incomplete)" in the turn line, `/usage`, `/sessions`, job reports and eval reports, also
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+ after a resume. Only a missing price makes the cost unknown.
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+ - The job review is under the token budget (Codex review of 1370184): its request reserves first
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+ (a one-token policy no longer lets an 8,192-token request through), every attempt is metered, and
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+ its usage counts for the session and on resume.
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+ - Team policy `denyPaths` in the OS sandbox (Codex review of 1370184): when the patterns match more
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+ than 1,000 paths, commands stop with a message instead of running with only the first 1,000
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+ protected; the patterns now find files in every folder, also `node_modules` and `.git`
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+ (review of 3a9f51b: `**/private.txt` had no sandbox rule in `node_modules`).
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+ - Code intelligence (T10): Java/Python reference results carry `approximate: true`, propagated to
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+ callers and impact, including empty results. Model tool output starts with a warning; chat adds
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+ `≈`. Impact risk is labelled heuristic. Matching algorithms are unchanged. A frozen 30-Java/
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+ 30-Python corpus, captured with jdtls 1.61.0 and pyright 1.1.406, records precision and recall;
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+ offline regression checks verify the oracle, source fingerprints and published results. A
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+ supplementary manually labelled edge-case sample records stricter alias semantics separately.
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+ - Token budget, review of b2bf1c2: successful OpenAI-compatible responses with missing, partial
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+ or invalid usage keep their full reservation charged. Estimates remain labelled on responses
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+ for context sizing, but do not enter reported session or child totals, avoiding a double charge.
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+ The existing `unreported` records preserve the charge across resume; affected costs are unknown.
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+ Usage displays and JSON distinguish budget charges and estimates; evals mark incomplete token
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+ totals and means unknown. Legacy journals remain readable with their historical totals.
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+ - Token budget, review of 597104a: every input reservation covers the full current request,
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+ including changed instructions, tool definitions and server-tool settings on resume. A larger
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+ previous measured context plus new messages is still kept. Oversized requests stop before a
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+ provider call; small budgets may refuse calls earlier. Existing journals need no migration.
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+ - Token budget, review of 6c9f929: metered Anthropic batch submission disables SDK retries;
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+ reported child debits survive cancellation, parallel failures and resume, without duplicating
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+ report aggregation. Started parallel calls settle before the turn ends. Complete results are
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+ capped after hooks and on errors (20 000 characters for subagents, including metadata; 100 000
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+ otherwise), also for custom/replay runners. The final-answer floor accounts for JSON escaping
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+ and result-message structure; small budgets can refuse child work earlier. Compaction reserves
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+ its system prompt and the rest of its full request. Existing journals remain readable.
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+ - Token budget, review of 31aab17: a subagent's wrap-up request is reserved in full (system prompt
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+ and tools too); every provider request reserves, also an HTTP retry and a batch job's switch to
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+ the normal API (the Anthropic SDK no longer retries on its own under the budget; the loop retries,
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+ also a rate limit); the parent's room for its final answer covers the results of its calls (a
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+ tool result is at most 100 000 characters, a subagent's answer at most 20 000); charges for
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+ failed requests stay with the session, also after a resume; `/compact` counts against the budget.
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+ - One token budget for the turn and its agent tree (review T9): each model call reserves its request
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+ and output limit first, and the run stops with `token_budget` when they do not fit; subagents,
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+ compaction and retries reserve in the same budget; parallel subagents cannot pass the parent's cap,
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+ and they leave the parent room for its final answer. A failed or cancelled call with no reported
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+ usage counts as fully spent. A small `tokenBudget` now stops a run before the call that would pass
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+ it, not after.
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+ - Job write scopes, third review: a job never runs a command outside the sandbox, also when an
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+ allow rule matches (`outside_sandbox` dropped the scope); an edit through a symbolic link must
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+ reach a path in the scope, checked by the engine and again by the write tool just before it writes;
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+ the job's test command has the same scope as every other command, and the approval question says
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+ so. Claims: without a sandbox, a command (or an MCP call) asks unless an allow rule covers it; undo
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+ covers the files in its snapshot. The claims test knows these phrases.
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+ - Job write scopes (review T6): `/schedule` proposes `"writeScope"`, the paths in the worktree that
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+ the job may change (the plan's edit and write paths, and the build folders), and the question
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+ shows it. The OS sandbox makes the rest of the worktree read-only for the job's commands, the
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+ engine denies edits outside it, and a change outside it fails the job with no commit. Jobs without
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+ a scope say "Commands may write anywhere in the worktree."
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+ - Design (second review): staged commands never fall back to direct mode and never apply an
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+ incomplete change list; the shared budget keeps a reservation as spent when a request fails or is
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+ cancelled with no reported usage (docs/lld/bounded-changes.md).
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+ - Exact claims, second pass (second review): the sandbox writes the project, temp folders and
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+ package caches (not "only the project"); a command outside the sandbox asks unless an allow rule
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+ or a session answer covers it (not "always"); `/undo` restores the files in its snapshot, not
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+ ignored files (not "what a turn changed"). The claims test now reads whole paragraphs and knows
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+ these phrases.
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+ - Audit checkpoint fixes (second review): a failed checkpoint write no longer makes the next audit
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+ line repeat the sequence number and chain head (the chain was broken); a checkpoint or a folder
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+ that cannot be read is reported as broken, not as "no checkpoint" or "no files".
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+ - Audit checkpoint: with `"audit": { "checkpoint": true }` in a policy file (off by default),
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+ Garuda keeps each log file's last `seq` and `hash`, and `/audit verify` finds lines cut from the end
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+ of a file and a deleted file. The docs list what verify detects with and without it (review T8).
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+ - The strict profile: `"profile": "strict"` in a policy file or in `.garuda/settings.json` requires
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+ the OS sandbox. Without one, Garuda stops at startup with the reason; `"executor": "host"` is an
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+ error; the `bash` tool has no `outside_sandbox`. A project can turn it on, never off (review T7).
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+
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+ - Also in this release: the changes planned as 0.16.2, which was never published. Docs that say
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+ "0.16.2" mean this release.
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+ - The design of the bounded-changes work above (staged commands, job write scopes, the strict
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+ profile, the audit checkpoint, one token budget for the agent tree, approximate labels for Java
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+ and Python references): docs/lld/bounded-changes.md.
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+ - Exact safety claims (an external review found an overclaim): edits ask first, but commands in the
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+ OS sandbox run with no question, inside its limits, so they can change project files (`/undo`
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+ restores them). The website, the blog posts, the share image, the README and the editor's mode
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+ text said that every change asks first; they now say what each limit does. A test keeps the old
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+ phrases out.
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+ - Tests skip cleanly where a machine has no OS sandbox, refuses Unix sockets, or cannot change a
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+ file's owner (found by the same review): the sandbox tests no longer fail while they register,
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+ the editor tests ignore the "No OS sandbox" notice, and the proxy and ownership tests skip with a
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+ reason. Checked with a PATH that has no bubblewrap: 0 failures.
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+ - `garuda eval` reports success two ways: over the scored runs (error runs left out) and over all
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+ attempted runs (error runs count as failures). `report.json` has both in `summary`.
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+ - The system prompt names Garuda's version and the model, so "which model are you?" gets a true
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+ answer. After `/models`, the next message tells the model about the switch; the system prompt
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+ stays the same bytes, so the prompt cache stays valid.
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+ - Website: a share image and share tags (LinkedIn, X and chat previews) on every page, structured
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+ data on the landing page, and a place for the Google Search Console tag (`site/src/seo.ts`; see
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+ docs/release.md). More npm keywords.
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+ - Website: comments under blog posts (giscus: threads with replies, stored as GitHub Discussions,
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+ sign-in with GitHub) and a contact page. Both use `site/src/community.ts`; empty values hide them.
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