litclaude-ai 0.3.11 → 0.3.12

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  # Changelog
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+ ## 0.3.12 - 2026-06-23 — resilient public-source research routing
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+ - Add `lit search` and `lit query` natural-language routing to litresearch while preserving slash/code/near-miss trigger safety.
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+ - Harden litresearch and librarian lanes with public API/feed preference, validator-first retrieval checks, compact route traces, metadata fallback, prompt-injection quarantine, and honest auth/paywall/private-data stop reasons.
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+ - Add an A/B retrieval check so enhanced public-source retrieval is kept only when it improves evidence quality over the baseline search/fetch path.
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  ## 0.3.11 - 2026-06-21 — native goal/workflow/team route hardening
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  - Add honest native `/goal` binding guidance with degraded-mode `BLOCKED:` fallback when Claude Code exposes no supported programmatic goal surface.
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  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/npm-litclaude--ai-cb3837" />
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- <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.3.11-2ea44f" />
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.3.12-2ea44f" />
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  </p>
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  > `litclaude@litclaude-ai`, so normal `claude` launches can load the
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  > LitClaude skills and hooks without a long `--plugin-dir` command.
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- This checkout is prepared as `litclaude-ai@0.3.11` for personal install
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+ This checkout is prepared as `litclaude-ai@0.3.12` for personal install
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  convenience. The repo can remain quiet; preparing npm package metadata here does
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  not imply public repo promotion, marketplace publication, or advertisement.
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- Future package releases still require explicit user approval. The v0.3.11
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- release materials preserve the v0.3.10 build-decision gate and add honest native
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- goal binding attempts plus workflow/team setup gates while retaining installer permission-preference discipline.
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+ Future package releases still require explicit user approval. The v0.3.12
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+ release materials preserve the v0.3.11 route hardening and add resilient
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+ public-source research while retaining installer permission-preference discipline.
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  ## Features
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  - **v0.3.11 native route hardening** - `lit goal` / `lit workflow` / `lit team`
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  routes attempt native Claude surfaces honestly, report degraded mode when a
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  host trigger is unavailable, and avoid phantom goal/workflow/team success
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+ - **v0.3.12 resilient public-source research** - `lit research`, `lit search`,
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+ and `lit query` use validator-first source checks, public API/feed preference,
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+ route traces, metadata fallback, and explicit stop reasons without crossing
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+ authentication, paywall, or private-data boundaries
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  - **5-lane review** - `/review-work` checks goal/constraint verification,
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  hands-on QA execution, code quality, security, and local-first context mining
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  ```bash
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  ```
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  LitClaude HUD. A typical no-color render starts like:
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- [🔥LITCLAUDE v0.3.11] | O4.8 │ ctx [▎░░] 9%/1000k │ 5h [▏░] 4% ↻2h15m │ 1w [▊░] 35% ↻3d6h │ git main +3 ✓
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+ [🔥LITCLAUDE v0.3.12] | O4.8 │ ctx [▎░░] 9%/1000k │ 5h [▏░] 4% ↻2h15m │ 1w [▊░] 35% ↻3d6h │ git main +3 ✓
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  lit plan <what you want planned>
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+ lit query <evidence question>
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+ For resilient public-source research, `lit research`, `lit search`, and
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+ `lit query` all route to `/litclaude:litresearch` when the prompt explicitly
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+ asks for a cited investigation rather than a one-search answer. Web lanes prefer
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+ public APIs or feeds before rendered pages, validate that retrieved content
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+ actually supports the claim, keep a route trace with attempted and untried
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+ surfaces, treat fetched content as untrusted prompt-injection data, and stop
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+ honestly at authentication, paywall, private-data, or credential boundaries.
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  > 설치되므로, 매번 긴 `--plugin-dir` 없이 일반 `claude` 실행에서
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- 현재 checkout은 `litclaude-ai@0.3.11` 배포 준비용으로 정리되어 있습니다. 목적은
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  다른 PC에서도 빠르게 설치하기 위한 개인용 package metadata를 갖추는 것입니다.
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- 승인 후에 진행합니다. v0.3.11 release material은 v0.3.10 build-decision
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- gate를 보존하고, native goal binding 시도와 workflow/team setup gate를
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+ 승인 후에 진행합니다. v0.3.12 release material은 v0.3.11 route hardening을
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+ 보존하고, 공개 소스 조사(public-source research)의 검증력과 stop reason을
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- description: "Maximum-saturation LitClaude research orchestrator for Claude Code: decompose a research demand into atomic sub-questions, fan out parallel retrieval swarms via the Workflow tool and litclaude: subagents, recursively chase every lead to convergence, verify contested claims with code runs or adversarial review, and synthesize a fully cited answer. Activate ONLY on an explicit research demand — investigate, survey, find all, map prior art, compare approaches across, exhaustive/ultra-precise investigation, 'deep research', 'litresearch', or any-language equivalent. NEVER self-activate for ordinary Q&A, single reads, single searches, debugging, or single-file edits."
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+ description: "Maximum-saturation LitClaude research orchestrator for Claude Code: decompose a research/search/query demand into atomic sub-questions, fan out parallel retrieval swarms via the Workflow tool and litclaude: subagents, recursively chase every lead to convergence, verify contested claims with code runs or adversarial review, and synthesize a fully cited answer. Includes resilient public-source retrieval lanes with validator-first evidence checks and route traces. Activate ONLY on an explicit research demand — investigate, survey, find all, map prior art, compare approaches across, exhaustive/ultra-precise investigation, 'deep research', 'litresearch', 'lit search', 'lit query', or any-language equivalent. NEVER self-activate for ordinary Q&A, single reads, single searches, debugging, or single-file edits."
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  # litresearch — maximum-saturation research orchestrator (Claude Code)
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  ## Activation
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- Activate ONLY on an explicit research demand — the user asks to investigate, survey, compare across, find all sources, map prior art, or produce a cited report. Trigger language: "research", "litresearch", "deep research", "investigate", "find all", "survey the landscape", "compare approaches across", "what does the literature/source say", "exhaustive", "ultra-precise investigation".
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+ Activate ONLY on an explicit research demand — the user asks to investigate, survey, compare across, find all sources, map prior art, or produce a cited report. Trigger language: "research", "litresearch", "lit search", "lit query", "deep research", "investigate", "find all", "survey the landscape", "compare approaches across", "what does the literature/source say", "exhaustive", "ultra-precise investigation".
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  NEVER self-activate for:
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  - Changelog/version hunting: `<project> changelog OR "release notes" <version>`.
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+ ## Public-source retrieval resilience (embed in web/browsing lanes)
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+ Use this ladder when a public web source matters and plain snippet/fetch evidence
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+ is weak, blocked, dynamically rendered, or likely stale. This is not a bypass
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+ mode: stop honestly at authentication walls, paywalls, private data, robots/ToS
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+ constraints, or credential requirements.
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+ 1. **Safety preflight.** Before fetching arbitrary URLs, reject localhost, link-local,
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+ private-network, metadata-service, and suspicious redirect targets (SSRF guard).
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+ Re-check after every redirect. Never ask the user for site credentials to enrich
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+ a research lane; if a source requires credentials, stop and ask for a public URL,
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+ exported artifact, or user-provided excerpt that can be cited without credential use.
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+ 2. **Public API / public feed first.** For platforms with stable public surfaces,
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+ prefer official docs, public APIs, RSS/Atom feeds, oEmbed/syndication endpoints,
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+ package registries, code-host raw files, arXiv/HN-style APIs, or archived public
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+ snapshots before browser rendering. Pin versions, commit SHAs, API dates, or
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+ 3. **Validator-first success.** HTTP 200 is not enough. Classify each retrieval as
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+ challenge markers, and whether the page actually contains the claim. Treat
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+ small valid JSON/API responses as evidence; do not reject them for being short.
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+ 4. **Diverse route order.** Under a small budget, vary route families early:
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+ search result → official/public endpoint → alternate URL form → metadata
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+ (`og:*`, JSON-LD, schema payloads) → browser-rendered page state. Do not burn
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+ 5. **Metadata as partial evidence.** If full text is unavailable but OGP, JSON-LD,
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+ 6. **Route trace.** Every web/browsing lane returns a compact route trace: attempted
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