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+ # Changelog
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+
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+ All notable changes to Chutes Build will be documented in this file. The format
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+ is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and this
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+ project follows [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
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+ ## [Unreleased]
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+ ## [0.4.2] - 2026-08-01
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+ ### Added
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+ - `/undo` is accepted as an alias for `/rewind`.
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+ - Added repository-wide coding-agent guidance and editor defaults.
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+ - The npm launcher archive now includes the changelog and security policy.
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+ ### Changed
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+ - Reviewed Grok Build upstream through `0.2.117` and recorded the selective
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+ port and deferral decisions.
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+ - Removed the orphaned Dependabot auto-merge workflow after automated version
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+ update PRs were disabled.
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+ - The Windows CI job no longer disables real-time malware protection.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - Repeated-tool-call reminders are injected only after the preceding tool
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+ results are committed, preventing duplicate results from corrupting session
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+ history.
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+ - Empty Enter no longer silently approves a plan while the revision prompt is
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+ focused; revision notes are required, with `a` as the explicit approve key.
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+ - Notification-hook tests that launch external shells are serialized, avoiding
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+ Windows CI failures caused by concurrent PowerShell startup contention.
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+ - The asynchronous notification-hook test now joins its worker before checking
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+ output, removing a race with slow PowerShell startup on loaded CI runners.
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+ - Removed Rust 1.94 Clippy warnings in the Windows crash handler, PTY text
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+ rendering, and workspace utilities without changing their behavior.
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+ - Notification events without an owning session explicitly remove any stale
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+ `CHUTES_BUILD_SESSION_ID` inherited from the parent process.
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+ ### Security
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+ - Documented and aligned repository security controls for SHA-pinned Actions,
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+ read-only workflow tokens, and reviewed security-update PRs.
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+ - Updated vulnerable transitive `rand` and AWS SDK lockfile entries to their
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+ first compatible patched releases.
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+ ## [0.4.1] - 2026-07-26
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+ ### Added
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+ - Remote ACP background terminal tasks now persist their cumulative output
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+ locally while they run; terminal results use the real remote exit status.
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+ - Repeated identical tool calls are detected, warned about, and eventually
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+ stopped without emitting a misleading assistant response; repeated `true`
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+ no-ops use a shorter limit.
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+ ### Changed
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+ - Dependabot auto-merge is limited to patch updates. Minor and major updates
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+ remain open for manual review.
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+ - The upstream-watch workflow refreshes the existing review issue with the
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+ current upstream commit and version instead of leaving stale issue content.
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+ - Plugin subagents inherit the parent's already-connected MCP pool through the
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+ normal inheritance filter, without allowing plugins to create connections.
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+ - A fresh managed-MCP catalog is propagated to live sessions and refreshes the
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+ tool-search index without requiring an application restart.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - Session-creation failures now clear the stuck loading state, remove orphaned
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+ sessions, and surface a useful warning or failure block.
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+ - A bare `Esc` cancels a running turn in non-vim and minimal modes while
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+ fullscreen vim retains navigation semantics; the queued draft is preserved.
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+ - Fork/rewind copies only live history and the compaction checkpoint files it
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+ actually references, rejecting malformed paths and non-regular files.
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+
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+ ### Security
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+ - Chutes and Context7 endpoint resolution now rejects insecure schemes,
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+ credentials in URLs, private/special-use network targets, and unapproved
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+ custom endpoints unless the corresponding explicit development opt-in is
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+ enabled. API keys are never sent to custom Context7 endpoints.
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+ - Generated media streams to temporary files with bounded response sizes and
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+ uses create-new persistence so existing artifacts cannot be overwritten.
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+ - Automatic permission classification only fast-paths deterministic read-only
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+ shell commands; classifier failures fall back to the normal user prompt.
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+ - Permission resolution now honors the folder-trust verdict: an untrusted
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+ project's `.claude/settings.json` (including `defaultMode: bypassPermissions`)
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+ and `.chutes-build/config.toml` `[permission]` rules are no longer
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+ auto-applied. A cloned repository could previously ship permission rules
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+ that auto-approved tool calls regardless of the folder's trust state. Global
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+ and admin-tier permission sources are unaffected. Found while reviewing
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+ upstream grok-build for changes worth porting.
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+ ### Documentation
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+ - Reworked the README around a concise product overview, static terminal
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+ screenshot, quick start, privacy contract, common workflows, and repository
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+ map; removed the obsolete promotional video assets.
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+ - Added dedicated getting-started and configuration guides, reorganized the
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+ documentation index, and aligned privacy, security, architecture, npm,
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+ contributor, and embedded `/docs` references with current behavior.
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+ - Corrected OAuth guidance, media response limits, automatic-permission
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+ semantics, remote terminal behavior, `Esc` cancellation, and upstream
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+ baseline rules.
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+ ## [0.4.0] - 2026-07-23
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+ ### Added
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+ - Machine-readable `--json` output for the model catalog and local session
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+ list/search/delete commands.
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+ - Headless worktree creation, including `--worktree-ref`, and headless
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+ `--no-subagents` / memory controls.
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+ - CSS-selector or snapshot-index addressing for browser click/type actions.
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+ - A complete public CLI and slash-command reference.
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+ ### Changed
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+ - Session storage, search, deletion, traces, and workspace state are now
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+ enforced as local-only product policy. Inherited remote write-back settings
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+ cannot override it.
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+ - Updates are manual through npm/release artifacts. The runtime no longer links
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+ or starts the inherited automatic updater.
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+ - Custom model catalogs use `CHUTES_MODELS_API_KEY`; ambient Chutes API/session
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+ credentials are restricted to allowlisted official HTTPS endpoints.
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+ - Destructive session, memory, plugin, marketplace, and worktree operations
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+ require confirmation or an explicit `--yes`.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - OAuth login (`l` / `/login`, "Sign in with Chutes"): the token exchange (and
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+ now refresh) send a `client_secret` when one is configured. The built-in app
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+ (`cid_nyt9i...`) currently rejects the token exchange with `invalid_client`
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+ unless a secret is sent, despite being documented as a public PKCE client —
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+ confirmed by isolating scope as a non-factor in a controlled A/B test.
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+ `openid` is also requested again — Chutes' own app docs list it as
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+ required, contradicting the assumption an earlier revision of this list was
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+ based on.
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+ - A `client_secret` supplied via `CHUTES_BUILD_OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET` /
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+ `CHUTES_BUILD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` was silently dropped before reaching the
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+ token request whenever `config.toml` also had an
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+ `[grok_com_config.oidc]`/`[oauth2]` table: the config merge round-trips
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+ through a generic TOML value, which does not preserve fields marked
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+ `#[serde(skip)]`.
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+ - Relative `--cwd` values are canonicalized before changing directories,
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+ avoiding a second relative-path resolution.
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+ - `--load` now behaves as an alias of `--resume`; resume/restore conflicts,
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+ headless-only options, `--no-plan`, `--best-of-n`, and prompt/subcommand
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+ combinations fail with actionable parser errors instead of being ignored.
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+ - Agent `--reauthenticate`, `--reasoning-effort`, model-list cancellation,
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+ export/clipboard failures, worktree partial failures, plugin registry
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+ failures, and custom OAuth refresh secrets now behave consistently.
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+ - `CHUTES_BUILD_HOME` now relocates user roles/personas and the bundled-agent
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+ cache together with the rest of the application state, including on Windows.
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+ - Media writes roll back partial artifacts when either media or provenance
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+ persistence fails.
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+ ### Security
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+ - Removed the hidden remote workspace-exposure CLI and disabled the matching
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+ leader protocol capability.
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+ - `mcp list --json` redacts environment/header values, command arguments, and
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+ URL credentials/query/fragment data.
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+ - `agent serve` defaults to loopback, rejects short secrets, and requires
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+ `--allow-remote-bind` for non-loopback listeners.
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+ - Plugin/marketplace removal and generated-media persistence now surface
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+ partial failures instead of reporting false success.
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+ ### Removed
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+ - Inherited remote share, feedback, coding-data retention, update, setup, and
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+ workspace-exposure commands that were unavailable or incompatible with the
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+ Chutes Build privacy contract.
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+ - The no-op `trace --local`, `agent serve --remote`, and duplicate load/update
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+ flags.
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+ ### Documentation
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+ - README: documented the OAuth environment variables and the custom-client
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+ fallback.
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+ ## [0.3.0] - 2026-07-22
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+ ### Added
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+ - Voice recording bar: an animated wave visual while the mic is capturing.
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+ - Auto-update checks re-enabled (were previously hardcoded off regardless of
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+ config or CLI flag). Still off in debug builds; honors `--no-auto-update`
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+ and the new `CHUTES_BUILD_DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER` env var.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - Voice dictation actually works now: default transcription switched to a
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+ batch REST call against Chutes' own STT endpoint. The prior WebSocket
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+ streaming client only ever worked against the original upstream backend —
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+ every dictation attempt against Chutes' inference API failed with a
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+ WebSocket 404 (no such route exists there). The streaming transport is
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+ still available (`stt_mode = "streaming"`) for a backend that speaks it.
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+ - Voice dictation: the 10-second no-speech timeout now distinguishes true mic
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+ silence (permissions, muted input) from other failures and surfaces a
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+ platform-specific fix hint instead of one generic message.
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+ - Sampler: a zero-retry budget now fails fast instead of silently falling
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+ through the generic/rate-limit retry paths; retry backoff sleeps are now
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+ cancellable, so a cancelled request during backoff no longer waits out the
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+ full delay.
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+ ### Security
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+ - Sandbox: fixed a fail-open bypass where an unopenable device file (e.g.
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+ `/dev/tty` with no controlling terminal under headless/CI) aborted the
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+ entire Landlock/Seatbelt ruleset instead of just skipping that one rule,
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+ leaving the sandbox unenforced.
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+ - Permission auto-mode and exec-risk classification brought forward from a
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+ stale pre-0.2.106 baseline: kubectl/`ps`/`rg` heuristic hardening
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+ (credential-plugin and environment-dump risks), a 3-tier environment-risk
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+ model replacing a binary check, opaque-shell detection, an ambient
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+ exec-risk scan for `git -C`/`--git-dir`/submodule config paths, and
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+ reinstated consecutive/total auto-deny limits.
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+ - MCP tool permission checks now use an overlap-aware `server__tool` name
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+ parser (rejects names with more than one delimiter boundary) instead of
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+ splitting on the first occurrence.
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+ ## [0.2.0] - 2026-07-22
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+ ### Added
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+ - Chutes-native inference, model discovery, automatic routing, and fallback
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+ handling.
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+ - Adaptive reasoning controls backed by a centralized model capability
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+ registry.
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+ - Advisor and parallel subagent orchestration.
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+ - Built-in Context7, official Chutes research, web search, browser automation,
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+ and project memory.
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+ - Chutes usage indicators for rolling four-hour and monthly limits.
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+ - Typed image, video, and audio artifacts with bounded, opt-in terminal
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+ previews and native-player fallbacks.
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+ - Privacy-first defaults with telemetry, remote trace upload, and automatic
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+ update checks disabled.
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+ - Cross-platform npm launcher and native package pipeline.
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+ - Voice dictation (`/voice`, Ctrl+Space, or the mic icon), enabled by default;
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+ recording still starts only on an explicit manual press.
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+ - Hybrid memory search enabled by default: local recall now combines full-text
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+ search with semantic vector search against a built-in Chutes-hosted
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+ embedding model (`Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B-TEE`).
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+ - Advisor now reasons at maximum effort by default (previously inherited
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+ whatever effort the parent session was using). `/advisor on|off` enables or
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+ disables the subagent; `/advisor <model>` pins the model it uses;
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+ `/advisor default` clears the pin. Writes `[subagents.roles.advisor]` /
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+ `[subagents.toggle]` in config.toml — the running session's own model is
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+ never touched.
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+ - On-demand OCR (`ocr_page` tool): extracts text verbatim from a single image
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+ or PDF page via a dedicated Chutes vision model, independent of the active
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+ chat model's vision support. Billed against the account's subscription
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+ quota, never the separate marketplace/wallet balance third-party chutes use.
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+ ### Changed
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+ - Rebranded the public product, binary, user data directory, and themes as
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+ Chutes Build.
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+ - Cached FFmpeg and package-manager discovery for the lifetime of the process
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+ so idle TUI rendering does not repeatedly probe external commands.
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+ - Bounded account quota fallback concurrency and cached model-capability
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+ discovery to reduce unnecessary API work.
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+ - The model-capability catalog response and the vision transcription client's
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+ chat-completion response are now parsed into small typed structs instead of
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+ navigated as raw JSON, so an unexpected shape in a field we don't read can't
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+ silently change behavior; fields whose absence or wrong shape must stay a
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+ soft "not found"/"no match" (a model's `input_modalities`, a transcription's
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+ `content`/`finish_reason`) are still parsed leniently, only genuinely
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+ malformed responses now surface as a distinct decode error. Account usage
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+ and per-chute media responses stay dynamic on purpose — their shapes
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+ legitimately vary per tier/quota kind and per third-party chute schema.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - Interactive login: the welcome screen and `/login` had no working path to
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+ the OAuth method the rebrand advertised, and no way to enter an API key
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+ from inside the running app at all (only the separate `chutes-build login`
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+ CLI subcommand worked, before ever starting the TUI). Added "Sign in with
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+ Chutes" OAuth end-to-end (issuer, client, scopes, loopback callback) and an
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+ in-TUI API key entry reachable from the welcome screen (`k`), `/login`, and
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+ `/apikey`, and fixed two stale-state bugs (`auth_show_raw_url`,
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+ `welcome_prompt_focused`) that silently swallowed keyboard input on the
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+ auth screen.
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+ - `get_chutes_usage` and all media tools 401'd by default: the account/media
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+ HTTP client sent the API key without the `Bearer` prefix `api.chutes.ai`
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+ requires.
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+ - The macOS native build failed to compile (a stray `cfg` left an
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+ `std::process` import unreachable in a macOS-only module).
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+ - The secret sanitizer that filters Sentry/Mixpanel/log output did not
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+ recognize the `cpk_` Chutes API key prefix, so real keys were not redacted
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+ from those sinks.
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+ - The browser automation tool left a dead session in place after any
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+ connection-level failure (closed socket, crashed browser), making it
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+ unusable for the rest of the session until an explicit `close`.
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+ - `generate_media` only validated the top-level shape of `params` against a
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+ cord's schema, so a payload with the right outer wrapper (e.g. `args`) but
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+ wrong fields nested inside it passed local validation and round-tripped to
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+ Chutes for a generic "Invalid input parameters" error instead of a precise
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+ local one.
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+ - The terminal window/tab title showed "grok" instead of "chutes-build".
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+ - Memory embeddings always sent requests to the chat completion base URL
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+ (`llm.chutes.ai`, which does not proxy `/embeddings` and 404s), and
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+ unconditionally requested Matryoshka-truncated output via a `dimensions`
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+ field the default embedding model rejects outright (400). Together these
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+ made vector memory search completely unusable even when `[memory.embedding]`
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+ was explicitly configured. Embeddings now use their own configurable base
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+ URL (defaulting to the model's dedicated endpoint) and no longer request
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+ truncation.
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+ - `generate_media` only encoded workspace file paths found at the top level
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+ of `params`; a cord requiring a wrapper shape (e.g. `{"args": {"image":
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+ "input.png"}}`) never got its nested path encoded, so the literal filename
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+ round-tripped to Chutes instead of the file's contents. Asset discovery now
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+ recurses through nested objects and arrays.
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+ `additionalProperties`/`unevaluatedProperties` with its own default —
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+ including stripping them entirely when `CHUTES_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_PARAMS` was
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+ disabling this tool's own default. It now only adds its own restriction
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+ where the schema has no existing opinion.
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+ the requested media. Responses are now verified against actual byte
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+ content, not just the declared header.
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+ - The model-capability catalog cache held a single global lock for the
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+ entire network refresh, serializing every concurrent lookup behind one
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+ HTTP request whenever the cache was stale.
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+ - On the Windows native build, file-tool path remapping (`resolve_model_path`)
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+ and the `.gitignore` out-of-repo guard both tested `Path::is_absolute()`,
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+ which on Windows also requires a drive letter. The forward-slash-rooted
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+ virtual paths these paths actually deal with (e.g. a sandboxed session's
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+ `/home/user/project`) were therefore misclassified as relative, silently
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+ breaking model-facing path resolution and letting an out-of-repo path fall
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+ through to a crate call that can panic. Both now check for a root instead
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+ - On the Windows native build, LSP crash-recovery silently failed to replay
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+ document's file path by stripping the literal `"file://"` prefix off its
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+ quietly dropped instead of being replayed. Now uses proper file-URI-to-path
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+ disabled credential-bearing redirects, and bounded generated-media and input
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+ - Restricted browser and media output paths to canonical workspace locations,
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+ prevented silent file overwrite, and redacted password values from browser
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+ - Added full-history secret scanning, Rust dependency/source policy checks,
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+ native archive checksums, and assembled-package smoke testing to CI.
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+ - `CHUTES_INFERENCE_BASE_URL`/`CHUTES_API_BASE_URL`/`CHUTES_ROUTER_BASE_URL`
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+ - Outbound requests for Chutes credentials and generated-media downloads now
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+ refuse to connect to loopback/private/link-local/reserved addresses,
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+ - Unified secret detection: Context7's outbound-query guard and persistent
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+ memory filtering matched only 12 hardcoded substrings (`api_key`,
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+ `bearer`, `password`, ...) and could miss shapes like a bare AWS key or
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+ now route through the same canonical detector.
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- | `api.chutes.ai/idp` | OAuth sign-in and refresh | authorization code or refresh token, PKCE verifier, public/custom client ID, and a custom client secret only when configured |
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+ | `api.chutes.ai/idp` | OAuth sign-in and refresh | authorization code or refresh token, PKCE verifier, registered client ID, and a client secret only when configured |
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- **A privacy-first, open-source coding agent built for the [Chutes](https://chutes.ai) ecosystem.**
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+ Chutes Build combines a polished terminal interface, a production-grade agent
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+ runtime, Chutes-native model routing, subagents, local memory, multimodal tools,
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+ > **Development preview:** Chutes Build is under active development. Review
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+ > commands and file changes before approving them, especially in unfamiliar
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+ > repositories.
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- > **Development preview:** the project is under active development. Build it
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+ ## Why Chutes Build
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- ## Contents
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-
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- - [Highlights](#highlights)
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- - [Quick start](#quick-start)
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- - [Features](#features)
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- - [Configuration](#configuration)
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- - [CLI reference](#cli-reference)
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- - [Privacy & security](#privacy--security)
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- - [Project](#project)
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-
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- ## Highlights
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- - 🔒 **Privacy by construction** — telemetry, remote error reporting, automatic
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- update checks, remote trace upload, and upstream session sharing are all
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- disabled at the product-policy level.
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- - ⚡ **Chutes-native inference** — live model discovery, `Auto (Chutes Router)`
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- as the default, and automatic fallback when a model is temporarily
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- unavailable.
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- - 🧭 **Advisor** — an on-demand reasoning agent that reviews plans, blockers,
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- and completion claims without ever taking over the executor loop.
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- - 🧩 **Subagent orchestration** — concurrent fan-out with isolated worktrees
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- for real parallel decomposition, not just sequential delegation.
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- - 🎨 **Multimodal, natively** — image, video, music, speech, and on-demand OCR,
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- built directly into the Rust runtime instead of a bolted-on MCP process.
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- - 🧠 **Hybrid memory & voice** — full-text plus semantic vector recall, and
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- hold-to-record voice dictation, both on by default.
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-
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- See [Features](#features) below for the complete list.
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+ | Principle | What it means |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | **Chutes-native** | Live model discovery, `Auto (Chutes Router)`, model-aware reasoning controls, account usage, OCR, voice, and media generation are integrated directly into the Rust runtime. |
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+ | **Private by default** | Sessions, memory, traces, logs, configuration, and exports stay local. Cloud features run only when their documented provider call is needed. |
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+ | **Built for real repositories** | Planning, permission controls, worktrees, MCP, skills, background tasks, advisor review, and parallel subagents share one coherent session model. |
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+ | **Transparent fork** | Chutes-specific product code is separated from retained `grok-build` infrastructure, with documented upstream review and Apache-2.0 attribution. |
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  ## Quick start
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- ### Install with npm
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+ ### Install
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- Release builds install without a Rust toolchain:
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+ The npm package selects the native binary for Windows, macOS, or Linux. A Rust
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+ toolchain is not required.
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  ```powershell
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  npx chutes-build
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  ```
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- The npm launcher selects a native binary for Windows, macOS, or Linux. It does
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- not collect telemetry and does not download executables from an install script.
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-
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- ### Build from source
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+ The launcher does not download executables from a lifecycle script.
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- Prerequisites:
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+ ### Authenticate
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- - Rust stable (`rustup` is recommended)
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- - Git
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- - a platform C/C++ build toolchain supported by Rust
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-
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- Protocol Buffer tooling is vendored for normal builds; a separate `protoc`
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- installation is not required.
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+ An API key is the most reliable way to start. Create one in the Chutes
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+ dashboard, then press `k` on the welcome screen, run `/apikey`, or store it
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+ through the hidden-input CLI flow:
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  ```powershell
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- git clone https://github.com/TheStreamCode/chutes-build.git
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- cd chutes-build
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- cargo build -p chutes-build --release
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+ chutes-build login
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+ chutes-build
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  ```
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60
 
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- The Windows executable is `target\release\chutes-build.exe`; on macOS and
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- Linux it is `target/release/chutes-build`.
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-
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- ### First run
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-
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- Run `chutes-build` with no prior setup and log in from the welcome screen:
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- press `l` for "Login with Chutes" (opens your browser) or `k` to paste a
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- Chutes API key directly. `/login` reopens this choice at any time and
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- `/apikey` jumps straight to the API-key prompt.
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-
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- To provide a key non-interactively instead, create one in Chutes and either
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- expose it only to the current process:
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+ For a process-local credential:
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62
 
100
63
  ```powershell
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64
  $env:CHUTES_API_KEY = "your-api-key"
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  chutes-build
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  ```
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67
 
105
- or store it using the hidden-input login flow:
68
+ Browser-based OAuth with PKCE is available through `l` or `/login`. Chutes
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+ OAuth applications may require registered client credentials; see
70
+ [Authentication](docs/getting-started.md#authentication) for the supported
71
+ fallbacks and environment variables.
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+
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+ ### Choose a model
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+
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+ `Auto (Chutes Router)` is the default when no model preference has been saved.
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+ Use `/model` interactively or inspect the live catalog from the CLI:
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77
 
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  ```powershell
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- chutes-build login
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- chutes-build
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+ chutes-build models
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+ chutes-build models --json
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+ chutes-build --model model-router
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  ```
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- `Auto (Chutes Router)` is the first entry in the model picker and the default
113
- when no preference has been saved. Select a concrete model with `/model` or
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- `chutes-build --model <model-id>`. Inspect the resolved catalog with
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- `chutes-build models` or machine-readable `chutes-build models --json`.
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-
117
- ## Features
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-
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- ### Agent & coding
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-
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- - **Coding agent runtime:** repository inspection, edits, shell commands,
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- planning, goals, MCP servers, skills, sessions, worktrees, and permission
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- controls inherited from the mature upstream runtime.
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- - **Local session lifecycle:** list, search, resume, fork, export, trace, and
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- delete sessions without a remote registry. Machine-readable list/search
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- output is available with `--json`; destructive commands require confirmation
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- unless `--yes` is supplied.
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- - **Advisor:** a read-only, on-demand reasoning agent that reviews plans,
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- difficult decisions, blockers, and completion claims without taking over the
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- executor loop. Reasons at maximum effort by default. `/advisor on|off`
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- toggles it; `/advisor <model>` pins a specific model (e.g. your largest or
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- highest-tier available one — Chutes' catalog carries no price/size metadata
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- to pick one automatically); `/advisor default` clears the pin.
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- - **Subagent orchestration:** foreground and background workers, concurrent
135
- fan-out, multi-worker waits, bounded nesting, and isolated worktrees. The
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- `chutes-build-orchestrator` preset is tuned for parallel decomposition.
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-
138
- ### Chutes integration
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-
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- - **Chutes-native inference:** API-key authentication, live model discovery,
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- `Auto (Chutes Router)` as the first model choice, configurable fallback
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- chains, and automatic retry when a selected model is temporarily unavailable.
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- - **Chutes account:** read-only subscription, quota, and usage access through
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- `get_chutes_usage`, a compact plan/quota indicator in the TUI, and detailed
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- `/usage` output. Per-model statistics remain disabled unless requested.
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- - **Chutes media:** live discovery and invocation for image generation and
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- editing, video, music, speech, and other supported Chutes media models through
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- `list_media_models`, `describe_media_model`, and `generate_media`. This is the
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- native Rust integration of the `chutes-media-mcp` workflow, so Chutes Build
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- does not need to spawn a separate Node/MCP process for its core media tools.
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- Generated output crosses the tool/ACP/TUI boundary as a typed artifact:
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- images use bounded lazy previews, videos use a two-frame rolling decoder,
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- and music/speech expose local pause/resume, seek, volume, duration, and
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- waveform controls with native-player fallback. Media work starts only while
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- inference is idle, never autoplays, and stays off the TUI render thread.
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- - **Capability routing:** image inputs stay with the selected model when it
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- supports vision and are otherwise delegated to a vision-capable Chutes route.
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- - **On-demand OCR:** the `ocr_page` tool extracts text verbatim from a single
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- image or PDF page via a dedicated Chutes vision model, independent of the
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- active chat model's vision support. Returns extracted text only — the image
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- itself is never added to the conversation.
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-
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- ### Research & tools
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-
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- - **Current coding documentation:** Context7 search and documentation tools are
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- built in and avoid sending credentials or known secrets.
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- - **Official Chutes research:** before answering Chutes-specific questions, the
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- main agent and subagents consult both the official
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- [documentation](https://chutes.ai/docs) and [news](https://chutes.ai/news),
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- treating directly relevant official pages as primary authority.
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- - **Research and browser tools:** native web search (DuckDuckGo by default,
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- optionally Brave) plus agentic Chrome/Edge control through a local DevTools
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- connection and an isolated temporary browser profile. Browser actions accept
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- either CSS selectors or the numeric element indices shown by snapshots.
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-
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- ### Memory & voice
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-
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- - **Local memory:** Chutes Build maintains a secret-filtered `memories.md` file
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- and can be launched with `--no-memory` when a stateless session is preferred.
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- Recall is hybrid by default — full-text search combined with semantic vector
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- search against a built-in Chutes-hosted embedding model. Semantic recall
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- sends the selected memory chunks to that Chutes embedding endpoint; use
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- `--no-memory` when this is not appropriate.
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- - **Voice input:** hold-to-record dictation transcribes speech into the prompt
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- box. Enabled by default; activation is always manual (mic icon, `/voice`, or
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- Ctrl+Space) — Chutes Build never records without an explicit press.
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- - **Time awareness and wellness:** the agent receives the local date, time, and
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- timezone and can suggest a break after long or late sessions.
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-
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- ### Privacy by construction
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-
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- Telemetry, remote error reporting, automatic update checks, remote trace
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- upload, upstream session sharing, and remote workspace exposure are disabled.
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- Updates are installed manually from npm or a release artifact. See
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- [Privacy & security](#privacy--security) below for the full data boundary.
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-
197
- ## Configuration
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-
199
- ### State root
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-
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- User state defaults to `~/.chutes-build`. Set `CHUTES_BUILD_HOME` to relocate
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- the complete state tree, including configuration, credentials, sessions, logs,
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- trace exports, plugins, user roles/personas, and the managed bundled-agent
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- cache. Chutes Build does not combine roles or bundle data from the default home
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- with a custom state root.
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-
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- Project-scoped `.chutes-build` directories remain inside their repositories and
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- continue to take precedence over user and bundled agent definitions.
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-
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- ### Model selection, reasoning, and routing
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-
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- Auto sends `model-router` requests to the Chutes router endpoint, allowing the
213
- service to select a model for the task and handle cold or unavailable capacity.
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- A concrete model remains pinned unless a qualifying pre-stream failure advances
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- the explicit fallback chain.
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-
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- Reasoning is model-specific. The model picker exposes only the controls
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- supported by the exact deployed generation: binary `Instant`/`Thinking` modes,
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- GLM-5.2's three modes, or no selector for fixed and non-reasoning models. Use
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- `/effort` interactively or `--effort <option-id>` in headless invocations. The
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- published model default is preserved unless the user explicitly changes it.
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-
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- See [Model reasoning compatibility](docs/model-reasoning-compatibility.md) for
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- the current model matrix and forward-compatibility rules.
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+ ## What is included
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85
 
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- ```powershell
227
- # Ordered comma-separated fallback chain. model-router is appended as the
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- # final Chutes fallback unless strict mode is enabled.
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- $env:CHUTES_FALLBACK_MODELS = "model-a,model-b"
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+ | Area | Capabilities |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | **Agent runtime** | Repository inspection, edits, shell commands, plans, goals, permissions, sandbox profiles, local sessions, worktrees, and structured headless output. |
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+ | **Model routing** | Live Chutes catalog, automatic routing, explicit fallback chains, exact-generation reasoning controls, and vision-capability delegation. |
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+ | **Orchestration** | Read-only advisor, foreground/background subagents, concurrent fan-out, bounded nesting, grouped waits, and isolated worktrees. |
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+ | **Knowledge** | Context7 library documentation, official Chutes source checks, web search, local full-text memory, and Chutes-hosted semantic recall. |
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+ | **Multimodal** | Image and PDF OCR, image/video understanding, voice dictation, and typed image, video, music, and speech generation artifacts. |
93
+ | **Automation** | MCP servers, plugins, skills, background tasks, and isolated Chrome/Edge control through local DevTools. |
230
94
 
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- # Never change the selected model automatically.
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- $env:CHUTES_STRICT_MODEL = "1"
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- ```
95
+ Generated media is streamed to bounded temporary storage and persisted with
96
+ create-new semantics. Inline previews remain local; unsupported terminals use
97
+ safe text cards and native-player fallbacks.
98
+
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+ ## Privacy contract
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+
101
+ | Boundary | Policy |
102
+ | --- | --- |
103
+ | **Local state** | Configuration, credentials, sessions, memory, logs, traces, exports, plugins, and agent definitions live under `~/.chutes-build` or `CHUTES_BUILD_HOME`. |
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+ | **Hosted inference** | Prompts and selected context leave the machine only for the Chutes model request that needs them. Semantic memory sends selected memory chunks to the configured Chutes embedding route. |
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+ | **Explicit tools** | OCR, voice, media, web, browser, MCP, and plugin actions send only the inputs required by the selected operation and provider. |
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+ | **Disabled surfaces** | Product telemetry, remote error reporting, automatic trace upload, upstream session sharing/search, remote workspace exposure, and automatic updates cannot be enabled through normal configuration. |
107
+ | **Credentials** | Ambient Chutes credentials are restricted to allowlisted official HTTPS hosts. Custom endpoints require dedicated credentials and explicit trust configuration. |
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+
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+ Read [Privacy](PRIVACY.md) for the complete data-flow inventory and
110
+ [Security](SECURITY.md) for the threat boundaries and reporting process.
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111
 
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- Fallback happens only for transient availability/capability responses and only
236
- before response streaming begins. Chutes Build does not redirect requests or
237
- credentials to a non-Chutes inference endpoint.
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-
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- Ambient Chutes credentials are attached only to official Chutes/router
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- endpoints. Custom inference models must declare their own `api_key` or
241
- `env_key`; a custom model-catalog endpoint uses the dedicated
242
- `CHUTES_MODELS_API_KEY`. Neither receives `CHUTES_API_KEY` or a cached Chutes
243
- session token implicitly.
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-
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- The inference client shares pooled HTTP connections, enables TCP no-delay, and
246
- forwards parsed SSE events without an application-level streaming buffer. Cold
247
- starts and model-side generation can still dominate latency. Auto is the
248
- recommended default when a particular model is not required. The client does
249
- not apply reduced-quality generation settings; target selection and quality
250
- remain router decisions.
251
- Selecting `Instant` can reduce reasoning latency, but it intentionally changes
252
- the model's reasoning behavior and is never enabled silently.
253
-
254
- ### Account plan and quota
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-
256
- When authenticated, Chutes Build fetches subscription usage, plan metadata, and
257
- quota data concurrently. The TUI status bar shows the plan plus the rolling
258
- four-hour and monthly percentages when available; its color follows the most
259
- constrained active window and changes at 80% and 100%. Click the indicator or
260
- run `/usage` for every active window, percentage, and reset time. If aggregate
261
- quota usage is unavailable, the client falls back concurrently to the
262
- documented per-chute quota endpoints.
263
-
264
- ### OAuth login (Sign in with Chutes)
265
-
266
- Pressing `l` at the welcome screen (or `/login`) runs a standard OAuth 2.0 +
267
- PKCE flow against Chutes' own identity provider. The built-in app is a public
268
- client and does not bundle or require a client secret. Custom confidential
269
- clients can be configured under
270
- [Chutes' developer settings](https://chutes.ai/app/api):
112
+ ## Common workflows
113
+
114
+ Start an interactive session in the current repository:
271
115
 
272
116
  ```powershell
273
- $env:CHUTES_BUILD_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID = "cid_..."
274
- $env:CHUTES_BUILD_OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET = "csc_..." # only if your app has one
275
117
  chutes-build
276
118
  ```
277
119
 
278
- Both variables are read from the environment and are never written to
279
- `config.toml` or any other file on disk. The custom secret is included in both
280
- the initial token exchange and refresh requests. `k` / `/apikey` (pasting a
281
- Chutes API key directly) needs no app registration.
120
+ Run one headless task:
282
121
 
283
- ### Optional web and browser configuration
122
+ ```powershell
123
+ chutes-build -p "Review this repository and report only actionable findings"
124
+ ```
284
125
 
285
- Web search uses DuckDuckGo without a dedicated key. For Brave Search:
126
+ Create an isolated worktree session:
286
127
 
287
128
  ```powershell
288
- $env:BRAVE_SEARCH_API_KEY = "your-brave-key"
289
- $env:CHUTES_WEB_SEARCH_PROVIDER = "brave"
129
+ chutes-build --worktree feature-auth
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130
  ```
291
131
 
292
- Browser automation discovers Chrome or Edge automatically. Overrides:
132
+ Resume the latest session for the current directory:
293
133
 
294
134
  ```powershell
295
- $env:CHUTES_BROWSER_EXECUTABLE = "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
296
- $env:CHUTES_BROWSER_HEADFUL = "1" # optional; default is headless
135
+ chutes-build --continue
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136
  ```
298
137
 
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- Browser screenshots may only be written inside the active workspace. The
300
- automation profile is temporary, isolated from the user's normal browser
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- profile, and launched with sync and background-update features disabled.
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+ Use `chutes-build --help` for the installed version's authoritative option
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+ set. See the [CLI reference](docs/cli-reference.md) and
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+ [slash-command reference](docs/slash-commands.md) for the maintained overview.
302
141
 
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- Video attachments are sampled locally with FFmpeg and routed as representative
304
- frames through the same Chutes vision path. Set `CHUTES_FFMPEG_EXECUTABLE` when
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- FFmpeg is not discoverable on `PATH`; restart Chutes Build after installing or
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- changing FFmpeg so the per-process capability cache is refreshed.
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+ ## Documentation
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143
 
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- Media behavior can be tuned with the compatible `chutes-media-mcp` variables
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- `CHUTES_OUTPUT_DIR`, `CHUTES_WARMUP`, `CHUTES_COLD_START_RETRIES`,
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- `CHUTES_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_PARAMS`, and `CHUTES_PROVENANCE`. Downloaded media is
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- limited to 512 MiB by default (`CHUTES_MAX_MEDIA_BYTES`, hard ceiling 2 GiB),
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- while workspace inputs are limited to 64 MiB by default
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- (`CHUTES_MAX_INPUT_ASSET_BYTES`, hard ceiling 512 MiB).
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+ - [Getting started](docs/getting-started.md) — installation, authentication,
145
+ first session, models, and troubleshooting.
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+ - [Configuration](docs/configuration.md) — state paths, routing, credentials,
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+ web/browser options, media limits, and development-only endpoint overrides.
148
+ - [CLI reference](docs/cli-reference.md) and
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+ [slash commands](docs/slash-commands.md) — public command surfaces.
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+ - [Architecture](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) — runtime layers and ownership map.
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+ - [npm distribution](npm/README.md) and [release procedure](docs/releasing.md)
152
+ — launcher contents, native packages, verification, and publication order.
153
+ - [Privacy](PRIVACY.md), [security policy](SECURITY.md), and
154
+ [security review](docs/security-review.md) — operational trust boundaries.
155
+ - [Documentation index](docs/README.md) — complete user, maintainer, and design
156
+ reference map.
314
157
 
315
- ## CLI reference
158
+ The concise guides available through `/docs` are embedded from
159
+ `crates/codegen/xai-grok-pager/docs/user-guide/`.
316
160
 
317
- The complete command and option reference is in
318
- [docs/cli-reference.md](docs/cli-reference.md). Interactive slash commands are
319
- documented in [docs/slash-commands.md](docs/slash-commands.md). Installed
320
- binaries remain authoritative for the exact version: use
321
- `chutes-build --help` and `chutes-build <command> --help`.
161
+ ## Build from source
322
162
 
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- ## Privacy & security
163
+ Prerequisites are Rust stable, Git, and the native C/C++ toolchain required by
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+ Rust on your platform. Protocol Buffer tooling is vendored for normal builds.
324
165
 
325
- ### Local data
166
+ ```powershell
167
+ git clone https://github.com/TheStreamCode/chutes-build.git
168
+ cd chutes-build
169
+ cargo build -p chutes-build --release
170
+ ```
326
171
 
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- User-level state defaults to `~/.chutes-build` or the directory set in
328
- `CHUTES_BUILD_HOME`. Project memory is stored in `memories.md`. Configuration,
329
- sessions, logs, exports, credentials, plugins, user roles/personas, and bundled
330
- agent definitions remain local. Prompts, selected repository content, memory
331
- embeddings, voice recordings, OCR/media inputs, and browser traffic leave the
332
- machine only when their corresponding hosted feature is invoked.
172
+ The executable is `target\release\chutes-build.exe` on Windows and
173
+ `target/release/chutes-build` on macOS/Linux.
333
174
 
334
- See [PRIVACY.md](PRIVACY.md) for the exact network and data boundaries.
175
+ ### Repository map
335
176
 
336
- ### Security model
177
+ | Path | Ownership |
178
+ | --- | --- |
179
+ | `AGENTS.md` | Repository-wide guidance and verification contract for coding agents. |
180
+ | `crates/chutes-build-core/` | Chutes routing, endpoint policy, catalog, reasoning, account, media, privacy, and product policy. |
181
+ | `crates/codegen/` | Retained and adapted upstream runtime crates. Keep crate names stable to make upstream review practical. |
182
+ | `npm/` | Native launcher, platform-package assembly, and npm verification. |
183
+ | `docs/` | Public technical references, maintainer procedures, and design records. |
184
+ | `.github/workflows/` | CI, security policy checks, upstream monitoring, and release packaging. |
185
+ | `prod/` and `third_party/` | Shared protocol sources and retained attribution/material from upstream. |
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186
 
338
- Chutes Build is an agent capable of reading files, running commands, editing
339
- code, and controlling an isolated browser. Use it only in repositories you
340
- trust, review proposed commands, and keep the default permission checks enabled
341
- for sensitive work. Never place API keys in prompts, source files, or committed
342
- configuration. See the [security review](docs/security-review.md) for release
343
- controls, trust boundaries, and tracked dependency exceptions.
187
+ The root `Cargo.toml` is generated and treated as read-only. Make dependency
188
+ changes in the owning crate manifest or generator source instead of manually
189
+ reorganizing the generated workspace.
344
190
 
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191
  ## Project
346
192
 
347
- ### Provenance
348
-
349
193
  Chutes Build is a substantially modified fork of
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- [`xai-org/grok-build`](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build). The upstream
351
- project is licensed under Apache License 2.0; this fork retains the upstream
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- license and third-party notices.
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-
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- See [NOTICE](NOTICE), [LICENSE](LICENSE), and
355
- [THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES](THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES) for attribution.
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-
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- New upstream releases and commits are detected by a read-only scheduled check
358
- and reviewed through the documented [upstream synchronization
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- procedure](docs/upstream-sync.md); upstream changes are never merged or released
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- automatically.
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-
362
- ### Contributing
194
+ [`xai-org/grok-build`](https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build). Upstream changes
195
+ are reviewed and ported selectively; they are never merged or released
196
+ automatically. See [Upstream synchronization](docs/upstream-sync.md).
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  Issues and focused pull requests are welcome. Read
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+ # Security Policy
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+ ## Supported versions
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+ Chutes Build is currently a development preview. Security fixes are applied to
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+ the latest revision of the default branch; older source snapshots are not
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+ supported.
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+ ## Reporting a vulnerability
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+ Use the repository's private GitHub Security Advisory reporting flow. Do not
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+ open a public issue and do not include live credentials, private source code,
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+ session archives, or personal data in a report.
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+ Include:
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+ - the affected revision and platform;
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+ - a concise description of the impact and trust boundary;
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+ - minimal reproduction steps using synthetic data;
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+ - whether exploitation requires user approval, repository control, browser
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+ - any proposed mitigation.
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+ You should receive an acknowledgement when the report is reviewed. Disclosure
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+ ## Security boundaries
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+ Chutes Build can execute commands, modify files, invoke models, start subagents,
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+ MCP servers, tool responses, and downloaded documents are untrusted input. Keep
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+ permission prompts enabled, use trusted repositories, and never expose secrets
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+ The project intentionally disables telemetry, remote trace uploads, automatic
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+ upstream managed configuration. These are compile-time product policies, not
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+ Ambient Chutes credentials are restricted to allowlisted official HTTPS hosts.
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+ Custom inference and model-catalog endpoints require dedicated credentials.
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+ OAuth client secrets are read from the environment, used for token exchange
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+ Machine-readable MCP listings redact environment/header values and URL
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+ credentials. Destructive session, memory, plugin, marketplace, and worktree
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+ operations require an interactive confirmation unless an explicit `--yes`
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+ flag is provided. Media responses stream to bounded temporary storage, default
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+ to 128 MiB with a 512 MiB hard ceiling, and use transactional create-new
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+ artifact writes. Automatic permission mode only fast-paths deterministic
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+ read-only shell commands; classifier failure returns to the normal user prompt.
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+ ## Automated release checks
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+ CI scans the complete Git history for known secret patterns and evaluates the
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+ Documented advisory exceptions must include a bounded rationale in `deny.toml`.
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