visual-ai-assertions 0.25.0 → 0.26.0

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  // Explicit configuration
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  const ai = visualAI({
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- model: "claude-sonnet-4-6", // optional, sensible defaults per provider
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+ model: "claude-sonnet-5-5", // optional, sensible defaults per provider
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  apiKey: "sk-...", // optional, defaults to provider env var
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  debug: true, // optional, logs prompts/responses to stderr
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  // Use constants for IDE autocomplete
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  const ai = visualAI({
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  ```
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  // Basic comparison
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  const result = await ai.compare(before, after);
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- // gemini-3-flash-preview includes an annotated diff by default.
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- // Pass { diffImage: false } to opt out.
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+ // Every Gemini flash model — the gemini-3.8-flash default included — auto-includes
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+ // an annotated diff. Pass { diffImage: false } to opt out.
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  instructions: ["Ignore date/time differences"],
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- // With AI-generated diff image (supported by gemini-3-flash-preview and gemini-3.5-flash;
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- // only gemini-3-flash-preview auto-enables it — pass diffImage: true explicitly for 3.5-flash)
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+ // Requesting the diff image explicitly (it is already on by default for the flash tier).
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+ // Supported on gemini-3-flash-preview, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8-flash (DIFF_ALLOWED_MODELS);
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+ // Flash-Lite and Pro tiers produce none even when asked.
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  pass: boolean; // true if no critical/major changes
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  reasoning: string; // overall summary
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  ### Optional Configuration
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- | `VISUAL_AI_MODEL` | Default model when `model` is not set in config. Overrides the provider's default model. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG` | Enable error diagnostic logging to stderr. Does **not** enable prompt/response logging. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_PROMPT` | Enable prompt-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_RESPONSE` | Enable response-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES` | Persist sampled video frames to disk for offline inspection. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. Frames are written to `./visual-ai-debug-frames/<timestamp>-<id>/` (override path with the next variable). Has no effect on image-only inputs. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES_DIR` | Override the base directory for `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES`. Each call still gets its own timestamped subdirectory inside it. |
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- | `VISUAL_AI_TRACK_USAGE` | Enable usage tracking (token counts and cost) to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_MODEL` | Model used when `model` is not set in config, overriding the provider's default. It also **selects the provider**, since the provider is inferred from the model name — so this is how you pick a provider when several API keys are set. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_REASONING_EFFORT` | Reasoning effort when `reasoningEffort` is not set in config. One of `minimal`, `low`, `medium`, `high`, `xhigh` (case-insensitive). An unrecognised value throws `VisualAIConfigError` rather than being ignored. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG` | Enable error diagnostic logging to stderr. Does **not** enable prompt/response logging. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_PROMPT` | Enable prompt-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_RESPONSE` | Enable response-only debug logging to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES` | Persist sampled video frames to disk for offline inspection. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. Frames are written to `./visual-ai-debug-frames/<timestamp>-<id>/` (override path with the next variable). Has no effect on image-only inputs. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES_DIR` | Override the base directory for `VISUAL_AI_DEBUG_FRAMES`. Each call still gets its own timestamped subdirectory inside it. |
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+ | `VISUAL_AI_TRACK_USAGE` | Enable usage tracking (token counts and cost) to stderr. Use `"true"` or `"1"`. |
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  ## Configuration
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- | Anthropic | `claude-sonnet-4-6` |
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- | Google | `gemini-3-flash-preview` |
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  ## Reasoning Effort
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- | Anthropic (Fable 5/Opus 4.8/4.7/Sonnet 5) | `thinking.type: "adaptive"` + `output_config.effort` | `effort: "xhigh"` |
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- | Anthropic (other) | `thinking.type: "adaptive"` + `output_config.effort` | `effort: "max"` |
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- | OpenAI | `reasoning.effort` (Responses API) | `effort: "xhigh"` |
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- | Google | `thinkingConfig.thinkingLevel` (1:1: low/medium/high) | `"high"` (max level) |
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+ | Anthropic (Fable 5.1/5, Opus 5.5/5/4.8/4.7, Sonnet 5.5/5) | `thinking.type: "adaptive"` + `output_config.effort` | `effort: "xhigh"` |
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+ | Anthropic (Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6) | `thinking.type: "adaptive"` + `output_config.effort` | `effort: "max"` |
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+ | Anthropic (Haiku 4.5) | budget-based extended thinking (token budget) | 16384-token budget |
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+ | OpenAI | `reasoning.effort` (Responses API) | `effort: "xhigh"` |
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+ | Google | `thinkingConfig.thinkingLevel` (1:1: low/medium/high) | `"high"` (max level) |
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- | Claude Fable 5.1 | `claude-fable-5-1` | $10 | $50 | Most capable; long-horizon agentic work |
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- | Claude Fable 5 | `claude-fable-5` | $10 | $50 | Predecessor to Fable 5.1, same price |
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- | Claude Opus 4.8 | `claude-opus-4-8` | $5 | $25 | Most capable Opus tier; supports `xhigh` |
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- | Claude Opus 4.7 | `claude-opus-4-7` | $5 | $25 | Previous Opus; supports `xhigh` effort tier |
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- | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | `claude-sonnet-4-6` | $3 | $15 | **Default** — best value |
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- | Claude Haiku 4.5 | `claude-haiku-4-5` | $1 | $5 | Fastest, budget-friendly |
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+ | Claude Fable 5.1 | `claude-fable-5-1` | $10 | $50 | Most capable; long-horizon agentic work |
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+ | Claude Fable 5 | `claude-fable-5` | $10 | $50 | Predecessor to Fable 5.1, same price |
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+ | Claude Opus 5.5 | `claude-opus-5-5` | $4 | $20 | Newest Opus; >30% faster output than Opus 5 |
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+ | Claude Opus 5 | `claude-opus-5` | $5 | $25 | Previous Opus flagship; supports `xhigh` |
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+ | Claude Opus 4.8 | `claude-opus-4-8` | $5 | $25 | Prior Opus tier; supports `xhigh` |
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+ | Claude Opus 4.7 | `claude-opus-4-7` | $5 | $25 | Previous Opus; supports `xhigh` effort tier |
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+ | Claude Opus 4.6 | `claude-opus-4-6` | $5 | $25 | Previous flagship, 128K max output |
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+ | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | `claude-sonnet-5-5` | $2 | $10 | **Default** — newest Sonnet; supports `xhigh` |
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+ | Claude Sonnet 5 | `claude-sonnet-5` | $3 | $15 | Near-Opus quality on coding/agentic work |
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+ | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | `claude-sonnet-4-6` | $3 | $15 | Prior default; best value in its generation |
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- | GPT-6 Astra | `gpt-6-astra` | $10 | $50 | Most capable; restricted access¹ |
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+ | GPT-5.2 | `gpt-5.2` | $1.75 | $14 | Balanced quality and cost |
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- Astra reasons heavily enough to spend the entire 4096-token default output budget before emitting an answer, so **it is given a 32768-token budget automatically**, at every reasoning effort rather than only at `high`/`xhigh` like other OpenAI models. That follows OpenAI's guidance to reserve at least 25,000 tokens for reasoning and output. Its output length is erratic — identical calls have used anywhere from 0 to 16384+ reasoning tokens — so a large budget reduces truncation without eliminating it; a call that exhausts the budget still bills for the tokens it burned. Passing `maxTokens` explicitly still wins. It also accepts a fifth reasoning level, `max`, above `xhigh`; this library's `reasoningEffort` stops at `xhigh`, which is passed through unchanged, so `max` is not currently reachable.
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- | Gemini 3.6 Flash | `gemini-3.6-flash` | $1.50 | $7.50 | Prior GA flash; fewer out-tokens |
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+ | Gemini 3.6 Flash | `gemini-3.6-flash` | $1.50 | $7.50 | Prior GA flash; fewer out-tokens |
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  Meta also publishes `meta/muse-spark-1.3-contributor`, the same model at $0.10 / $0.20 per MTok — about 12x cheaper — because Meta uses everything submitted through it for product improvement. It has **no named constant** (`Model.OpenRouter` does not expose it) and never appears by default anywhere in this library, so using it takes a deliberate, explicit choice: pass the slug directly as a plain string, `visualAI({ model: "meta/muse-spark-1.3-contributor" })`. Any OpenRouter slug works this way — see the note above the table — and cost tracking works correctly once you opt in. OpenRouter itself blocks it with HTTP 404 (`paid-model-training-violation-by-account`) until the account's privacy settings allow training endpoints, at [openrouter.ai/settings/privacy](https://openrouter.ai/settings/privacy). Only use it if sending your screenshots to Meta for training is a trade you've deliberately made.
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  `qwen/qwen3.7-max` and the DeepSeek V4 family (`deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`, `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash`, and dated variants such as `deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813`) are not listed because they accept no image input on OpenRouter.