Added
- (rig-basics) the default plugins.toml no longer lists SessionPickerPlugin (#2863) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-basics) a welcome at the top of the transcript: rig's mark, version, model and directory (#2861) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-tui) [breaking] a flat look: no box drawing, call rows tinted by state, the status line in the input (#2859) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-basics) [breaking] rig over its pipes: --json, -p as the same front, and the helper tool (#2854) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (harness) [breaking] beat Pi, part 4: fix what the benchmark found (#2843) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (harness) [breaking] beat Pi, part 2: deletions, forks are agents, one recovery path, Esc stops subagents (#2841) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (harness) [breaking] beat Pi, part 1: fail closed, one fixed system prompt, keys redacted, /plugins, kernel tests (#2838) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (harness) smaller defaults, whole color-coded transcript, syntax highlighting (#2832) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (gemini) Gemini 3 image, text-to-speech, current deep research (#2809) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (vertexai) Claude through Vertex AI (#2817) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rmcp) rmcp 3 and MCP feature pass (#2812) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (auth) pluggable token storage (#2815) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (minimax) image, speech, voice cloning and M3 (#2807) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (transcription) segments, word timings and speakers (#2814) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-harness) [breaking] a thin coding agent over rig libraries, with rig-ecs and rig-tools (#2771) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (agent) [breaking] stream tool items as a projection of committed history (#2763) (by gold-silver-copper)
Fixed
- (rig-tools) [breaking] triobench round 8: a read of part of a small remote file gets it whole so an edit after it is one call, an edit's reply shows the changed lines and a few around them (#2860) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-tools) triobench round 6: shell output drops terminal escape codes, a cut keeps the first and last errors, a remote write cut off mid-way says whether it happened, an edit after a write is one call (#2858) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-tools) triobench round 4: edits apply in order, an edit of a file seen whole is one transport call, a stopped command says how it was stopped (#2857) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-tools) triobench round 3: one transport call per remote write, remote reads sent only their lines, killed commands name the signal (#2855) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-tools) [breaking] triobench round 2: one transport call per remote file operation, a per-host cap and read retries, SIGTERM before SIGKILL, quiet calls, readable cuts, edit misses, long-line reads (#2852) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig) [breaking] triobench round 1: subagent messages and reports, remote HOST:PATH paths, shell streams and cuts, search paths, OSC 133 turn marks (#2849) (by gold-silver-copper)
- [breaking] everything the pre-0.45 API review found (#2848) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2848
- (compaction) a stop during a held summary cancels it (#2846) (by gold-silver-copper)
- [breaking] API review follow-up: defects, async storage, restored capabilities (#2845) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2845
- three small correctness and privacy bugs (#2802) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2802
- (rig-typesafeai) [breaking] read OpenRouter's numeric usage.cost instead of failing the reply (#2800) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (catalog) [breaking] overrides reach every wire, one lookup and reference rule, connect from the environment (#2769) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-agent) [breaking] runs survive a restart at any point: one answer owner, resumable in-flight steps, executable-only CallTools (#2762) (by gold-silver-copper)
- [breaking] one TurnPolicy per model turn owns its tool choice; Skip, hooks and the ECS checks read it (#2757) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2757
- (rig-core) [breaking] one meaning for a document's text on every wire (DocumentSourceKind::String becomes DocumentData::Text) (#2754) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (core) classify an in-band provider error envelope in one place (#2758) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (agent) every dispatched completion gets exactly one on_outcome (#2756) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (observe) [breaking] observe usage once, from the usage the decoder normalized (#2755) (by gold-silver-copper)
Other
- README: the warning at the end, Bevy plugins, GPT-6.1 Sol in the example (#2864) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2864
- a README that is a front door: the agent first, then the library; the agent's reference in docs/agent.md (#2862) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2862
- (rig-basics) [breaking] fold the headless runner into the print front (#2856) (by gold-silver-copper)
- make the test suite deterministic (#2853) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2853
- (rig-tools) [breaking] the koh transport is koh exec HOST --sh, as koh/8 takes argv after -- (#2850) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (rig-ecs) read the save-failure notice one frame after the turn ends (#2847) (by gold-silver-copper)
- drop the one-off rig-harness-protocol publish step (#2840) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2840
- (harness) [breaking] beat Pi, part 5: a smaller core, more plugins, fewer crates (#2844) (by gold-silver-copper)
- publish rig-harness-protocol once, on the next push to main (#2839) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2839
- [breaking] remove the coverage gate (#2837) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2837
- (rig-harness) publish rig-ecs, rig-harness, rig-tools and the plugin crates (onto main) (#2836) (by gold-silver-copper)
- faster, simpler, smaller rig (one PR) (#2835) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2835
- fast, solid CI (one corpus build, hangs fail fast, heavy lanes in the queue) (#2833) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2833
- point "Who is using Rig?" to awesome-rig (#2801) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2801
- dependency bumps and workspace cleanup (#2803) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2803
- (rig) [breaking] measured performance pass on rig's libraries, with benchmarks (#2796) (by gold-silver-copper)
- (examples) add LiteLLM proxy agent example (#2772) (by gold-silver-copper)
- [breaking] remove the rig-ecs crate and its tests, goldens and fixtures (#2761) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2761
- 0.44.0 changelog and the 0.43 → 0.44 migration guide (#2760) (by gold-silver-copper) - #2760