openmerit 0.3.3 → 0.3.4

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.3.4 — 2026-11-05
+
+- `openmerit scout --results` refuses a file with more than 50 results before sending it, instead of failing with HTTP 413; split larger reports into files of up to 50.
+- Claude Code's install success message names the MCP server, startup rule and skill instead of Pi's extension.
+
 ## 0.3.3 — 2026-11-05
 
 - Fix `openmerit install --client claude-code` exiting with `ENOENT … dist/terminal/src/updates.ts` (0.3.1 and 0.3.2). Setting up automatic Scout instruction updates copied the updater from its TypeScript source, which the package does not ship; it now copies the module that is running. The MCP server, skill and rule were already written, but automatic updates stayed off and the installer reported failure.

package/dist/terminal/scout-update.json

@@ -1 +1 @@
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Downloading local\nweights, using a pretrained browser model or accepting an SDK default is a model\ndecision: consult Scout before model-specific code, installs or downloads.\nPreserve the user's explicit model choice; assess it rather than silently replacing\nit. Leave unchanged, approved application selections in place.\n\n## Project policy\n\nRead `.openmerit/scout.json` before searching. If it is absent, ask once whether this\nproject uses **existing-only** (only endpoints it can already reach) or\n**existing-first** (prefer them, ask before searching the whole catalogue), and\nwhich public catalogue endpoint IDs it can access. Save the answer:\n\n```sh\nnpx -y openmerit@latest project --policy existing-only --endpoint-id <id> ...\n```\n\nNever infer access from a model name, SDK or environment-variable name. Never\nrecord credentials, private URLs, prompts or customer data. An empty inventory\nis not permission to search all models.\n\n## Searching\n\nCall `scout_models` with a non-confidential task description as `prompt` and\n`endpointIds` set to the saved inventory, including `[]` when empty. Send\nonly task requirements, never source files, secrets or real customer records.\nIf the MCP tool is unavailable, run\n`npx -y openmerit@latest scout \"<task>\" --json`; it applies the saved inventory.\n\nScout is a conversation with the agent behind openmerit.ai/scout. When\n`status` is `needs_answers`, fill in what the user or project already states,\nshow the user Scout's brief and remaining questions, and wait for their answers.\nThen call again with the returned `conversationId` and `brief` set to the\nrewritten components, or `skip: true` if the user wants Scout to assume. Never\nanswer Scout's questions with guesses. Send later refinements to the same\n`conversationId`. A call with only a `conversationId` reads an interrupted turn.\n\nWhen `status` is `recommended`, Scout has split the work into `tasks`, one\nper model, each with up to five ranked `models`; cover every task. Each\nmodel's `cost` names the `endpointId` and `providerModelId` to call.\nExisting-only never broadens. For existing-first, if no existing candidate fits a\ntask, explain the gap and ask before a new conversation without `endpointIds`.\nCompare quality evidence, reference cost/time and watch-outs. Prefer the cheapest\nusable option the evidence supports, without claiming benchmarks prove\napplication accuracy. Use the project's actual SDK and protocol.\n\n## Measuring candidates\n\nEach task also has an `evaluation`: the checks (per model call, agent run or\nend-to-end outcome), labelled examples per candidate and when to stop a losing\ncandidate. Offer to run it before the user commits to a model. Use the evals the\nproject already has, such as datasets and experiments in its eval or tracing\nplatform, or its own eval scripts and fixtures: add the shortlisted candidates as\nextra runs of those evals. Do not build a second eval or copy their datasets.\nIf the project has no eval for the task, propose a minimal one built from its\nexisting traces and the decisions people already make, and create it only where\nand how the user agrees. Ask before spending on model calls or writing to an\neval platform.\n\nReport what you measured with `scout_models`: the same `conversationId` and\n`results`, one aggregate per model and metric (`level`, `task` title, `scope`,\n`model` endpoint or model ID, `metric`, `value`, `higherIsBetter`,\n`samples`, `source`). Set `kind` to `usd` or `seconds` for measured cost\nor time (per call at the task level, per run at the agent level), so Scout uses\nyour cost instead of its estimate. Report each agent's own checks at the agent\nlevel: an end-to-end result also measures the agents you did not swap. Send\naggregates only, never inputs, outputs or records.\nScout ranks them above public benchmarks for this user only; models whose\n`quality.measured` is true rest on them.\n\n## Boundaries\n\nAsk before adding providers or credentials, spending, deploying or external\nwrites. Report recommendation, endpoint connectivity and application checks as\nseparate results, each only after it succeeds. Do not switch this coding agent's\nown model.\n\nIf Scout fails or has no suitable candidate/evidence for the required deployment,\nsay so and pause the model decision; do not substitute a remembered recommendation\nor SDK default. Continue only model-independent work. Local/browser models are not\nexempt when the catalogue lacks coverage. When an install or login waits for approval (exit code\n10), show the user the approval link and its UTC expiry in your reply, not only in\ncommand output, then rerun the same command once they approve. If it reports that the device key is missing,\nexpired or revoked, run `npx -y openmerit@latest login` and then\n`npx -y openmerit@latest install` again. 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If it is missing, ask and save it first.\nScout may answer with clarifying questions: relay them to the user and continue\nthe same Scout conversation with their answers before choosing.\nIf Scout is unavailable, fails or has no suitable evidence/candidate, disclose the\ngap and pause the model decision; do not fall back to a remembered or SDK-default\nmodel. You may continue work that does not commit to a model.\n\nDo not consult Scout for unrelated edits, normal inference calls using an unchanged\napproved model, or this coding agent's own model. Do not reselect approved models\nunless the task introduces or changes a model decision.\n\nWhen the user says \"update openmerit\", run\n`npx -y openmerit@latest update --scope user` (use `--scope project` if this\nrule is in the project's .claude/rules directory). Report the result, including\nany conflict or manual-upgrade requirement. Do not delete edited files, bypass\npermissions or rerun login automatically. A new session loads updated instructions.\n"}
+{"format":1,"contract":"scout-recommend-v1","version":"0.3.4","skill":"---\nname: openmerit-scout\ndescription: Consults OpenMerit Scout before choosing, adding, downloading, replacing or configuring any application inference model, including implicit choices while building features, pretrained browser/local models, SDK defaults, embeddings, OCR, speech, classification, detection, segmentation, LLMs and agents. Not for unrelated edits, ordinary inference calls or this coding agent's own model.\n---\n\n# OpenMerit · Scout\n\nBefore introducing, recommending, replacing or configuring an application\ninference model, call the `scout_models` tool on the `openmerit` MCP server.\nThis applies even when the user never mentions models or Scout. Downloading local\nweights, using a pretrained browser model or accepting an SDK default is a model\ndecision: consult Scout before model-specific code, installs or downloads.\nPreserve the user's explicit model choice; assess it rather than silently replacing\nit. Leave unchanged, approved application selections in place.\n\n## Project policy\n\nRead `.openmerit/scout.json` before searching. If it is absent, ask once whether this\nproject uses **existing-only** (only endpoints it can already reach) or\n**existing-first** (prefer them, ask before searching the whole catalogue), and\nwhich public catalogue endpoint IDs it can access. Save the answer:\n\n```sh\nnpx -y openmerit@latest project --policy existing-only --endpoint-id <id> ...\n```\n\nNever infer access from a model name, SDK or environment-variable name. Never\nrecord credentials, private URLs, prompts or customer data. An empty inventory\nis not permission to search all models.\n\n## Searching\n\nCall `scout_models` with a non-confidential task description as `prompt` and\n`endpointIds` set to the saved inventory, including `[]` when empty. Send\nonly task requirements, never source files, secrets or real customer records.\nIf the MCP tool is unavailable, run\n`npx -y openmerit@latest scout \"<task>\" --json`; it applies the saved inventory.\n\nScout is a conversation with the agent behind openmerit.ai/scout. When\n`status` is `needs_answers`, fill in what the user or project already states,\nshow the user Scout's brief and remaining questions, and wait for their answers.\nThen call again with the returned `conversationId` and `brief` set to the\nrewritten components, or `skip: true` if the user wants Scout to assume. Never\nanswer Scout's questions with guesses. Send later refinements to the same\n`conversationId`. A call with only a `conversationId` reads an interrupted turn.\n\nWhen `status` is `recommended`, Scout has split the work into `tasks`, one\nper model, each with up to five ranked `models`; cover every task. Each\nmodel's `cost` names the `endpointId` and `providerModelId` to call.\nExisting-only never broadens. For existing-first, if no existing candidate fits a\ntask, explain the gap and ask before a new conversation without `endpointIds`.\nCompare quality evidence, reference cost/time and watch-outs. Prefer the cheapest\nusable option the evidence supports, without claiming benchmarks prove\napplication accuracy. Use the project's actual SDK and protocol.\n\n## Measuring candidates\n\nEach task also has an `evaluation`: the checks (per model call, agent run or\nend-to-end outcome), labelled examples per candidate and when to stop a losing\ncandidate. Offer to run it before the user commits to a model. Use the evals the\nproject already has, such as datasets and experiments in its eval or tracing\nplatform, or its own eval scripts and fixtures: add the shortlisted candidates as\nextra runs of those evals. Do not build a second eval or copy their datasets.\nIf the project has no eval for the task, propose a minimal one built from its\nexisting traces and the decisions people already make, and create it only where\nand how the user agrees. Ask before spending on model calls or writing to an\neval platform.\n\nReport what you measured with `scout_models`: the same `conversationId` and\n`results`, one aggregate per model and metric (`level`, `task` title, `scope`,\n`model` endpoint or model ID, `metric`, `value`, `higherIsBetter`,\n`samples`, `source`). Set `kind` to `usd` or `seconds` for measured cost\nor time (per call at the task level, per run at the agent level), so Scout uses\nyour cost instead of its estimate. Report each agent's own checks at the agent\nlevel: an end-to-end result also measures the agents you did not swap. Send\naggregates only, never inputs, outputs or records.\nScout ranks them above public benchmarks for this user only; models whose\n`quality.measured` is true rest on them.\n\n## Boundaries\n\nAsk before adding providers or credentials, spending, deploying or external\nwrites. Report recommendation, endpoint connectivity and application checks as\nseparate results, each only after it succeeds. Do not switch this coding agent's\nown model.\n\nIf Scout fails or has no suitable candidate/evidence for the required deployment,\nsay so and pause the model decision; do not substitute a remembered recommendation\nor SDK default. Continue only model-independent work. Local/browser models are not\nexempt when the catalogue lacks coverage. When an install or login waits for approval (exit code\n10), show the user the approval link and its UTC expiry in your reply, not only in\ncommand output, then rerun the same command once they approve. If it reports that the device key is missing,\nexpired or revoked, run `npx -y openmerit@latest login` and then\n`npx -y openmerit@latest install` again. Never ask the user to paste a key.\n","rule":"# Application model decisions · OpenMerit Scout\n\nBefore choosing, recommending, adding, downloading, replacing or configuring\nANY application inference model, load the `openmerit-scout` skill and consult\n`scout_models` on the `openmerit` MCP server before committing to a model.\nThis applies even when the user only asks you to build a feature, never mentions\nmodels or Scout, or names a model themselves (assess it; do not silently replace it).\n\nA pretrained model, local weights, browser inference, an SDK's default model,\nembeddings, OCR, speech, image classification, detection and segmentation all\ncount as model choices, not implementation details. Identify this decision before\nwriting model-specific code, installing a model package or downloading weights.\n\nFollow the skill's project access policy. If it is missing, ask and save it first.\nScout may answer with clarifying questions: relay them to the user and continue\nthe same Scout conversation with their answers before choosing.\nIf Scout is unavailable, fails or has no suitable evidence/candidate, disclose the\ngap and pause the model decision; do not fall back to a remembered or SDK-default\nmodel. You may continue work that does not commit to a model.\n\nDo not consult Scout for unrelated edits, normal inference calls using an unchanged\napproved model, or this coding agent's own model. Do not reselect approved models\nunless the task introduces or changes a model decision.\n\nWhen the user says \"update openmerit\", run\n`npx -y openmerit@latest update --scope user` (use `--scope project` if this\nrule is in the project's .claude/rules directory). Report the result, including\nany conflict or manual-upgrade requirement. Do not delete edited files, bypass\npermissions or rerun login automatically. A new session loads updated instructions.\n"}

package/dist/terminal/src/install.mjs

@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ async function install(root, { client, scope, plan, open, log, wait, telemetry,
   if (connection === 'key_rejected') throw new Stop('OpenMerit rejected this device key (expired or revoked).', exitCodes.denied, 'Run "openmerit login", then rerun install.');
   return { action: 'install', applied: true, client, scope, changes, connection,
     next: connection === 'connected'
-      ? `Scout is ready in new ${clients[client]} sessions. Start a new session to load the extension, instructions and skill.`
+      ? `Scout is ready in new ${clients[client]} sessions. Start a new session to load ${client === 'pi' ? 'the extension, instructions and skill' : 'the MCP server, startup rule and skill'}.`
       : `Installed, but the connection check failed. Run "openmerit doctor --client ${client} --scope ${scope}".` };
 }
 

package/dist/terminal/src/scout.js

@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ export async function main(args, { root = process.cwd(), print = console.log } =
             }
             if (!Array.isArray(results))
                 throw new Error(`${file} must hold a JSON list of results.`);
+            // Scout accepts at most 50 per turn; each call is a turn that recommends again, so splitting is the caller's choice.
+            if (results.length > 50)
+                throw new Error(`${file} holds ${results.length} results; Scout accepts at most 50 per call (200 per conversation). Split them into files of up to 50 and report each with --results in turn; Scout recommends again after each.`);
             request.results = results;
         }
         else if (arg.startsWith('-'))

package/docs/scout.md

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ OpenMerit does not run evaluations or host an eval platform. Scout tells you wha
 
 - **Measured cost.** A result can set `kind` to `usd` or `seconds` (default `quality`): cost or time per model call at the task level, per agent run at the agent level, per outcome at the environment level. Cost and time results are never quality evidence. A model's agent- or task-level `usd` result on a task appears as `cost.measured` (`usdPer1kTasks`, `usdPer1kAgentRuns`, and the `result` it came from), and when every model in a group (measured or unmeasured) has one, the group is ranked by measured cost instead of Scout's catalogue estimate, which can be far off for agent runs.
 - **Environment results and attribution.** An environment-level result also measures every other agent and control. Scout no longer drops a candidate below the bar when its own task- and agent-level quality results on that task match a candidate that reaches it; an environment miss alone does not show the swapped model caused it.
+- **Since the Scout serving deploy of 5 November 2026 (version `a4d46878-5c00-4997-b7e6-0d0abd0187e7`) and npm 0.3.4:** models that tie under the conversation's priority, such as equal quality from the same measured results, are ordered by measured cost when both have one, so a quality priority no longer keeps the benchmark order among measured equals. Results stored before `kind` existed count as quality again, so older conversations keep `quality.measured`. `openmerit scout --results` refuses more than 50 results per call before sending them.
 - **Scope.** Results are stored with the conversation for your account and inform only your recommendations. They are not shared with other accounts or used to change Scout's catalogue.
 
 The quality bar now considers what an error costs once your environment's controls, such as a person approving every payment, have acted. Cost remains the default ranking among models that reach the bar.

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "openmerit",
-  "version": "0.3.3",
+  "version": "0.3.4",
   "description": "Evidence-driven model decisions for coding harnesses.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {