@velum-labs/cursorkit 0.1.3 → 0.2.0

package/DISCLAIMER.md

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 # Disclaimer
 
-This is an unofficial and unsupported interoperability research project.
+This is an unofficial and unsupported interoperability research project. It is
+not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Cursor.
 
-It attempts to emulate enough of Cursor's backend protocol for personal,
-experimental use with a self-hosted model. Reverse-engineering a client protocol
-to run your own models may conflict with Cursor's Terms of Service. Do not
-deploy this project as a hosted service, do not represent it as affiliated with
-Cursor, and do not rely on it for production workloads.
+It exists for personal interoperability research: emulating enough of Cursor's
+backend protocol for experimental use with a self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible
+model. Reverse-engineering a client protocol to run your own models may conflict
+with Cursor's Terms of Service, so you are responsible for ensuring your own use
+complies with any agreements you have with Cursor.
 
-Use it only for local research where you understand the legal, security, and
-compatibility risks.
+The software is provided under the Apache License 2.0 on an "AS IS" basis,
+without warranties or conditions of any kind. Use it at your own risk, and make
+your own assessment of the legal, security, and compatibility implications.

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package/README.md

@@ -151,8 +151,10 @@ the experimental local plugin shape. Examples are typechecked by
 
 ## Release Gates
 
-This package remains private and local-only. See `docs/release-gates.md` for the
-checks required before sharing a tarball or changing the API stability posture.
+This package is published to public npm as `@velum-labs/cursorkit` under the
+Apache License 2.0; see `LICENSE` for the license terms and `DISCLAIMER.md` for
+the unofficial-research caveats. See `docs/release-gates.md` for the checks
+required before publishing a release or changing the API stability posture.
 Use `pnpm baseline:check` to verify generated route/config/docs drift and
 `pnpm release:check` for the authoritative deterministic local release gate,
 including package artifact smoke validation.

package/dist/src/ckLauncher.d.ts

@@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ export declare function buildCkLaunchPlan(options: {
     instanceId?: string;
     seedAuthFromDefault?: boolean;
     cwd?: string;
+    /**
+     * Folder Cursor opens as its workspace. Defaults to {@link cwd}; set it to
+     * decouple the opened project from the ck state directory (which stays under
+     * {@link cwd}), so an embedding launcher can keep certs/state/logs in a
+     * scratch dir while still opening the user's real repo.
+     */
+    workspacePath?: string;
 }): CkLaunchPlan;
 export declare function commandForDisplay(spec: CommandSpec): string;
 export declare function buildCkRoutePlan(options?: {

package/dist/src/ckLauncher.js

@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ function compactCkArgs(args) {
 }
 export function buildCkLaunchPlan(options) {
     const cwd = options.cwd ?? process.cwd();
+    const workspacePath = options.workspacePath ?? cwd;
     const profileMode = options.profileMode ?? "isolated";
     const stateDir = options.instanceId === undefined
         ? path.join(cwd, CK_STATE_DIR)
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ export function buildCkLaunchPlan(options) {
             ...bridgeCommandSpec(cwd),
             env: stringEnv(bridgeEnv),
         },
-        cursor: cursorCommandSpec(profileMode, userDataDir, extensionsDir, options.debugPort, cwd, options.bridgePort, profileMode === "isolated", connectProxyPort),
+        cursor: cursorCommandSpec(profileMode, userDataDir, extensionsDir, options.debugPort, workspacePath, options.bridgePort, profileMode === "isolated", connectProxyPort),
         bridgePort: options.bridgePort,
         ...(connectProxyPort !== undefined ? { connectProxyPort } : {}),
         ...(agentHttpPort !== undefined ? { agentHttpPort } : {}),
@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ export function buildCkLaunchPlan(options) {
         ...(connectProxyLogPath !== undefined ? { connectProxyLogPath } : {}),
         userDataDir,
         extensionsDir,
-        workspacePath: cwd,
+        workspacePath,
         profileMode,
         seedAuthFromDefault: profileMode === "isolated" && options.seedAuthFromDefault !== false,
         authSeedStatus: "not-requested",
@@ -516,6 +517,13 @@ async function runCkCommand(parsed) {
     const bridgePort = await chooseBridgePort();
     const connectProxyPort = parsed.profileMode === "isolated" ? await chooseFreePort() : undefined;
     const agentHttpPort = parsed.profileMode === "isolated" ? await chooseFreePort() : undefined;
+    // CK_WORKSPACE_PATH lets an embedding launcher open the user's real repo while
+    // keeping ck's state/cert/log directory under cwd (a scratch dir). Unset for
+    // normal `pnpm ck`, where the workspace is the current directory.
+    const workspacePathEnv = process.env.CK_WORKSPACE_PATH;
+    const workspacePath = workspacePathEnv !== undefined && workspacePathEnv.length > 0
+        ? workspacePathEnv
+        : undefined;
     const plan = buildCkLaunchPlan({
         env: process.env,
         bridgePort,
@@ -525,6 +533,7 @@ async function runCkCommand(parsed) {
         debugPort: parsed.debugPort,
         instanceId: parsed.instanceId,
         seedAuthFromDefault: parsed.seedAuthFromDefault,
+        ...(workspacePath !== undefined ? { workspacePath } : {}),
     });
     if (parsed.dryRun) {
         printPlan(plan);

package/dist/src/fixtures/modelFusion.d.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export declare const MODEL_FUSION_SCHEMA_BUNDLE_HASH = "sha256:aae33b89a771fd5916e21bfffc5993d2d7ef98ecfc8542ba9570a8c99074d541";
+export declare const MODEL_FUSION_SCHEMA_BUNDLE_HASH = "sha256:3e8388595aefc8e82962d76e822c514db6552f6ee65e62d487534ef825ad87b8";
 export type JsonValue = null | boolean | number | string | JsonValue[] | {
     [key: string]: JsonValue;
 };

package/dist/src/fixtures/modelFusion.js

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
-export const MODEL_FUSION_SCHEMA_BUNDLE_HASH = "sha256:aae33b89a771fd5916e21bfffc5993d2d7ef98ecfc8542ba9570a8c99074d541";
+export const MODEL_FUSION_SCHEMA_BUNDLE_HASH = "sha256:3e8388595aefc8e82962d76e822c514db6552f6ee65e62d487534ef825ad87b8";
 const STATUSES = [
     "pending",
     "running",

package/dist/src/providers/openai.d.ts

@@ -31,6 +31,29 @@ export type OpenAICompletionEvent = {
     toolCalls: OpenAIToolCall[];
 };
 export type OpenAIBackendErrorCode = "http_error" | "malformed_sse" | "request_aborted" | "request_timeout";
+/**
+ * Canonical egress error taxonomy, mirrored from the fusionkit WS1 classifier
+ * (`fusionkit_core.clients.ProviderErrorCategory`) so the Cursor bridge and the
+ * fusion gateway agree on what an upstream failure *means*:
+ *
+ * - `transient`: retrying may succeed (HTTP 429 rate limits, 5xx, vendor
+ *   `overloaded_error`, timeouts). Honors `Retry-After`.
+ * - `quota_exhausted`: the account is out of money/quota (`insufficient_quota`,
+ *   billing/credit errors). Re-running the same key will not help — fail over
+ *   to the fusion ensemble.
+ * - `auth_permanent`: the request can never succeed as-is (401/403, invalid
+ *   key, `model_not_found`). Do not retry, do not blind-failover.
+ * - `unknown`: could not be classified; treated as non-retryable.
+ */
+export type OpenAIBackendErrorCategory = "transient" | "quota_exhausted" | "auth_permanent" | "unknown";
+export interface OpenAIBackendErrorOptions extends ErrorOptions {
+    /** Egress taxonomy classification. Defaults from {@link OpenAIBackendErrorCode}. */
+    category?: OpenAIBackendErrorCategory;
+    /** Parsed `Retry-After` (seconds) when the upstream supplied one. */
+    retryAfter?: number;
+    /** Upstream HTTP status code, when the failure was an HTTP response. */
+    status?: number;
+}
 export interface OpenAIStreamOptions {
     signal?: AbortSignal;
     timeoutMs?: number;
@@ -43,7 +66,12 @@ export interface OpenAIStreamOptions {
 }
 export declare class OpenAIBackendError extends Error {
     readonly code: OpenAIBackendErrorCode;
-    constructor(code: OpenAIBackendErrorCode, message: string, options?: ErrorOptions);
+    readonly category: OpenAIBackendErrorCategory;
+    readonly retryAfter: number | undefined;
+    readonly status: number | undefined;
+    constructor(code: OpenAIBackendErrorCode, message: string, options?: OpenAIBackendErrorOptions);
+    /** Only `transient` failures are worth retrying as-is. */
+    get retryable(): boolean;
 }
 export declare class OpenAIStreamParseError extends OpenAIBackendError {
     constructor(message: string, options?: ErrorOptions);
@@ -62,3 +90,20 @@ export declare class OpenAICompatibleProvider implements ModelProvider {
 export declare function parseOpenAIStream(stream: AsyncIterable<Uint8Array>): AsyncGenerator<string | Extract<OpenAICompletionEvent, {
     type: "tool_calls";
 }>>;
+export interface BackendErrorClassification {
+    category: OpenAIBackendErrorCategory;
+    retryAfter: number | undefined;
+}
+/**
+ * Classify a non-2xx upstream (vendor/gateway) response into the egress
+ * taxonomy. Reads the status code, the `Retry-After` header, and the raw error
+ * body so a vendor 429 / `insufficient_quota` / billing signal is no longer
+ * collapsed into a generic `http_error`.
+ */
+export declare function classifyUpstreamHttpError(status: number, retryAfterHeader: string | null | undefined, body: string): BackendErrorClassification;
+/**
+ * Parse an HTTP `Retry-After` header. Supports both the delta-seconds form
+ * (`"7"`) and the HTTP-date form (`"Wed, 21 Oct 2025 07:28:00 GMT"`), returning
+ * a non-negative seconds value, or `undefined` when absent/unparseable.
+ */
+export declare function parseRetryAfter(value: string | null | undefined): number | undefined;

package/dist/src/providers/openai.js

@@ -1,10 +1,20 @@
 import { emitTrace, newSpanId, TRACE_ID_HEADER, TRACE_SPAN_HEADER, } from "../trace.js";
 export class OpenAIBackendError extends Error {
     code;
+    category;
+    retryAfter;
+    status;
     constructor(code, message, options) {
         super(message, options);
         this.code = code;
         this.name = "OpenAIBackendError";
+        this.category = options?.category ?? defaultCategoryForCode(code);
+        this.retryAfter = options?.retryAfter;
+        this.status = options?.status;
+    }
+    /** Only `transient` failures are worth retrying as-is. */
+    get retryable() {
+        return this.category === "transient";
     }
 }
 export class OpenAIStreamParseError extends OpenAIBackendError {
@@ -115,6 +125,9 @@ export class OpenAICompatibleProvider {
                 code: classified instanceof OpenAIBackendError
                     ? classified.code
                     : undefined,
+                category: classified instanceof OpenAIBackendError
+                    ? classified.category
+                    : undefined,
                 cause: error instanceof Error && error.cause instanceof Error
                     ? error.cause.message
                     : undefined,
@@ -124,7 +137,12 @@ export class OpenAICompatibleProvider {
         }
         if (!response.ok || response.body === null) {
             const body = await response.text().catch(() => "");
-            const error = new OpenAIBackendError("http_error", `Model backend returned ${response.status}: ${body}`);
+            const classification = classifyUpstreamHttpError(response.status, response.headers.get("retry-after"), body);
+            const error = new OpenAIBackendError("http_error", `Model backend returned ${response.status}: ${body}`, {
+                category: classification.category,
+                retryAfter: classification.retryAfter,
+                status: response.status,
+            });
             this.logger?.warn("model backend response failed", {
                 modelId: this.config.id,
                 providerModel: this.config.providerModel,
@@ -133,6 +151,8 @@ export class OpenAICompatibleProvider {
                 durationMs: Date.now() - started,
                 bodyPreview: body.slice(0, 500),
                 code: error.code,
+                category: error.category,
+                retryAfter: error.retryAfter,
             });
             abortContext.dispose();
             throw error;
@@ -188,6 +208,9 @@ export class OpenAICompatibleProvider {
                 code: classified instanceof OpenAIBackendError
                     ? classified.code
                     : undefined,
+                category: classified instanceof OpenAIBackendError
+                    ? classified.category
+                    : undefined,
             });
             throw classified;
         }
@@ -339,6 +362,121 @@ function createRequestAbortContext(timeoutMs, upstreamSignal) {
         },
     };
 }
+// Lower-cased substrings matched against the upstream error body. Mirrors the
+// fusionkit WS1 marker sets so both egress points classify identically.
+const QUOTA_MARKERS = [
+    "insufficient_quota",
+    "insufficient quota",
+    "exceeded your current quota",
+    "billing_hard_limit_reached",
+    "billing",
+    "credit balance",
+    "out of credits",
+    "payment required",
+    "quota exceeded",
+];
+const AUTH_MARKERS = [
+    "invalid api key",
+    "invalid_api_key",
+    "invalid x-api-key",
+    "authentication_error",
+    "permission_error",
+    "permission denied",
+    "permission_denied",
+    "model_not_found",
+    "model not found",
+    "does not exist",
+    "no such model",
+    "unauthorized",
+];
+const TRANSIENT_MARKERS = [
+    "overloaded",
+    "rate_limit",
+    "rate limit",
+    "ratelimit",
+    "try again",
+    "timeout",
+    "timed out",
+    "temporarily unavailable",
+    "service unavailable",
+    "service_unavailable",
+];
+/**
+ * Classify a non-2xx upstream (vendor/gateway) response into the egress
+ * taxonomy. Reads the status code, the `Retry-After` header, and the raw error
+ * body so a vendor 429 / `insufficient_quota` / billing signal is no longer
+ * collapsed into a generic `http_error`.
+ */
+export function classifyUpstreamHttpError(status, retryAfterHeader, body) {
+    return {
+        category: categoryForUpstream(status, body.toLowerCase()),
+        retryAfter: parseRetryAfter(retryAfterHeader),
+    };
+}
+function categoryForUpstream(status, blob) {
+    // Quota first: an OpenAI `insufficient_quota` is delivered as HTTP 429, so it
+    // must win over the generic "429 is transient" rule below.
+    if (QUOTA_MARKERS.some((marker) => blob.includes(marker))) {
+        return "quota_exhausted";
+    }
+    if (status === 401 || status === 403) {
+        return "auth_permanent";
+    }
+    if (status === 404 && blob.includes("model")) {
+        return "auth_permanent";
+    }
+    if (AUTH_MARKERS.some((marker) => blob.includes(marker))) {
+        return "auth_permanent";
+    }
+    if (status === 429) {
+        return "transient";
+    }
+    if (status >= 500) {
+        return "transient";
+    }
+    if (TRANSIENT_MARKERS.some((marker) => blob.includes(marker))) {
+        return "transient";
+    }
+    return "unknown";
+}
+/**
+ * Parse an HTTP `Retry-After` header. Supports both the delta-seconds form
+ * (`"7"`) and the HTTP-date form (`"Wed, 21 Oct 2025 07:28:00 GMT"`), returning
+ * a non-negative seconds value, or `undefined` when absent/unparseable.
+ */
+export function parseRetryAfter(value) {
+    if (value === null || value === undefined) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    const trimmed = value.trim();
+    if (trimmed.length === 0) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    const seconds = Number(trimmed);
+    if (Number.isFinite(seconds)) {
+        return seconds >= 0 ? seconds : undefined;
+    }
+    const dateMs = Date.parse(trimmed);
+    if (!Number.isNaN(dateMs)) {
+        const deltaSeconds = (dateMs - Date.now()) / 1000;
+        return deltaSeconds > 0 ? deltaSeconds : 0;
+    }
+    return undefined;
+}
+function defaultCategoryForCode(code) {
+    switch (code) {
+        case "request_timeout":
+            return "transient";
+        case "http_error":
+        case "malformed_sse":
+        case "request_aborted":
+            return "unknown";
+        default: {
+            const exhaustive = code;
+            return exhaustive;
+        }
+    }
+}
 function classifyBackendError(error, abortContext) {
     if (error instanceof OpenAIBackendError) {
         return error;

package/dist/src/services/chat.js

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 import { create, fromBinary, toBinary } from "@bufbuild/protobuf";
 import { encodeEndStream, encodeEnvelope } from "../connectEnvelope.js";
 import { StreamUnifiedChatRequestWithToolsSchema, StreamUnifiedChatResponseSchema, StreamUnifiedChatResponseWithToolsSchema, } from "../gen/aiserver/v1/aiserver_pb.js";
+import { OpenAIBackendError } from "../providers/openai.js";
 import { cursorRequestToOpenAI } from "../translation.js";
 export function getLocalChatDecision(payload, models) {
     const request = fromBinary(StreamUnifiedChatRequestWithToolsSchema, payload);
@@ -31,17 +32,76 @@ export async function writeLocalChatResponse(response, decision, logger, options
         logger.info("served local chat", { model: decision.model.id });
     }
     catch (error) {
+        const failure = classifyLocalChatFailure(error);
         logger.error("local chat failed", {
             model: decision.model.id,
             error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
+            category: failure.category,
+            retryAfter: failure.retryAfter,
         });
-        endLocalChatFailure(response);
+        endLocalChatFailure(response, serverBubbleId, failure);
     }
 }
-function endLocalChatFailure(response) {
+function classifyLocalChatFailure(error) {
+    if (error instanceof OpenAIBackendError) {
+        return { category: error.category, retryAfter: error.retryAfter };
+    }
+    return { category: "unknown", retryAfter: undefined };
+}
+function endLocalChatFailure(response, serverBubbleId, failure) {
     if (!response.headersSent) {
         response.statusCode = 200;
         response.setHeader("content-type", "application/connect+proto");
     }
-    response.end(encodeEndStream({ error: "local model failed" }));
+    // Surface a clear, user-facing terminal notice (named cause) for rate-limit /
+    // credit failures. The product decision is pre-stream failover + one-tap
+    // resume on the ensemble, so we do NOT attempt a transparent mid-stream
+    // cut-over here — we just tell the user what happened and keep the Connect
+    // stream protocol valid for Cursor.
+    const notice = failureNotice(failure);
+    if (notice !== undefined) {
+        response.write(encodeEnvelope(toBinary(StreamUnifiedChatResponseWithToolsSchema, create(StreamUnifiedChatResponseWithToolsSchema, {
+            streamUnifiedChatResponse: create(StreamUnifiedChatResponseSchema, {
+                text: notice,
+                serverBubbleId,
+            }),
+            eventId: randomUUID(),
+        }))));
+    }
+    response.end(encodeEndStream({ error: failureMetadata(failure.category) }));
+}
+function failureNotice(failure) {
+    switch (failure.category) {
+        case "quota_exhausted":
+            return "\n\n> ⚠️ The model backend is out of credits / quota (vendor billing or hard quota). Re-run this turn on the fusion ensemble — it routes around the exhausted provider.";
+        case "transient": {
+            const wait = failure.retryAfter !== undefined
+                ? ` (retry after ~${String(Math.ceil(failure.retryAfter))}s)`
+                : "";
+            return `\n\n> ⚠️ The model backend is rate-limited or temporarily overloaded${wait}. Re-run this turn on the fusion ensemble, or retry shortly.`;
+        }
+        case "auth_permanent":
+        case "unknown":
+            return undefined;
+        default: {
+            const exhaustive = failure.category;
+            return exhaustive;
+        }
+    }
+}
+function failureMetadata(category) {
+    switch (category) {
+        case "quota_exhausted":
+            return "model out of credits / quota";
+        case "transient":
+            return "model rate-limited or temporarily unavailable";
+        case "auth_permanent":
+            return "model auth or permission error";
+        case "unknown":
+            return "local model failed";
+        default: {
+            const exhaustive = category;
+            return exhaustive;
+        }
+    }
 }

package/dist/src/tools/releaseCheck.d.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export interface ReleaseCategoryStatus {
     optionalSuiteIds: string[];
     summary: string;
 }
-export declare const REQUIRED_PACKAGE_ENTRIES: readonly ["package/package.json", "package/README.md", "package/DISCLAIMER.md", "package/dist/src/cli.js", "package/dist/src/cli.d.ts", "package/proto/agent/v1/agent.proto", "package/proto/aiserver/v1/aiserver.proto", "package/docs/protocol.md", "package/docs/release-gates.md", "package/docs/testing-harness.md", "package/docs/test-manifest.json", "package/docs/route-contract-manifest.json", "package/docs/release-summary.json"];
+export declare const REQUIRED_PACKAGE_ENTRIES: readonly ["package/package.json", "package/README.md", "package/DISCLAIMER.md", "package/LICENSE", "package/dist/src/cli.js", "package/dist/src/cli.d.ts", "package/proto/agent/v1/agent.proto", "package/proto/aiserver/v1/aiserver.proto", "package/docs/protocol.md", "package/docs/release-gates.md", "package/docs/testing-harness.md", "package/docs/test-manifest.json", "package/docs/route-contract-manifest.json", "package/docs/release-summary.json"];
 export declare const EXCLUDED_PACKAGE_ENTRY_PREFIXES: readonly ["package/examples/"];
 export declare function runReleaseCheck(repoRoot?: string): number;
 export declare function buildReleaseCategoryStatuses(results: ReleaseGateStatusInput[], optionalSuites?: OptionalLiveSuite[]): ReleaseCategoryStatus[];

package/dist/src/tools/releaseCheck.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export const REQUIRED_PACKAGE_ENTRIES = [
     "package/package.json",
     "package/README.md",
     "package/DISCLAIMER.md",
+    "package/LICENSE",
     "package/dist/src/cli.js",
     "package/dist/src/cli.d.ts",
     "package/proto/agent/v1/agent.proto",

package/docs/cursor-app.md

@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ settings.
 It does not run `sudo`, install certificate trust, edit `/etc/hosts`, modify
 `pf`, bind privileged ports, or kill your normal Cursor instance.
 
+Set `CK_WORKSPACE_PATH=<repo>` to make the launched Cursor open a specific
+project while ck keeps its certs/state/logs under the current directory. This is
+how an embedding launcher (for example `fusionkit cursor --ide`) opens the
+user's repo without writing a `.cursor-rpc/` folder into it.
+
 Useful commands:
 
 ```bash

package/docs/model-fusion-protocol-origin.json

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     "status": "reserved-for-future-internal-streaming-connect-grpc",
     "notes": "Do not require protobuf/Buf for v1 package or HTTP/JSON service consumption."
   },
-  "schemaBundleHash": "sha256:aae33b89a771fd5916e21bfffc5993d2d7ef98ecfc8542ba9570a8c99074d541",
+  "schemaBundleHash": "sha256:3e8388595aefc8e82962d76e822c514db6552f6ee65e62d487534ef825ad87b8",
   "persistedJsonSchemas": [
     "harness-run-request.v1",
     "harness-run-result.v1",

package/docs/release-gates.md

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Package smoke validates:
 
 - `pnpm pack` succeeds after a build.
 - The tarball contains the required `dist/src`, `proto`, `docs`, `README.md`,
-  and `DISCLAIMER.md` files.
+  `DISCLAIMER.md`, and `LICENSE` files.
 - `examples/` is intentionally excluded from the tarball; source examples are
   typechecked by `pnpm examples:check` against the built package exports.
 - A temporary clean project can install the tarball with `pnpm add --offline`.

package/package.json

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
   "name": "@velum-labs/cursorkit",
-  "version": "0.1.3",
+  "version": "0.2.0",
   "private": false,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Unofficial research bridge for experimenting with Cursor's ConnectRPC protocol against a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible model.",
-  "license": "UNLICENSED",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "git+https://github.com/velum-labs/cursorkit.git"
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
   },
   "modelFusionProtocol": {
     "packageName": "@velum-labs/model-fusion-protocol",
-    "version": "0.2.0",
-    "schemaBundleHash": "sha256:aae33b89a771fd5916e21bfffc5993d2d7ef98ecfc8542ba9570a8c99074d541",
+    "version": "0.3.0",
+    "schemaBundleHash": "sha256:3e8388595aefc8e82962d76e822c514db6552f6ee65e62d487534ef825ad87b8",
     "contracts": "json-schema+openapi-3.1",
     "origin": "fusionkit"
   },
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
     "proto",
     "docs",
     "README.md",
-    "DISCLAIMER.md"
+    "DISCLAIMER.md",
+    "LICENSE"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
     "@bufbuild/protobuf": "^2.12.0",
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@
     "@bufbuild/buf": "^1.70.0",
     "@bufbuild/protoc-gen-es": "^2.12.0",
     "@types/node": "24.10.1",
-    "@velum-labs/model-fusion-protocol": "0.2.0",
+    "@velum-labs/model-fusion-protocol": "0.3.0",
     "@vitest/coverage-v8": "4.1.8",
     "prettier": "3.8.4",
     "tsx": "4.22.4",