Image pipeline hardening, big memory cuts, and swarm orchestration upgrades
Highlights
- Inline images are hardened end to end: payloads are released after decode (~8MB back per image-heavy session), evicted cache entries self-heal from disk, and undecodable images can no longer spin the render loop
- Client memory drops sharply: syntect switches to the onig backend (~17MB), the session-search index is bloom-filtered (-24MB server-side), retained heap is trimmed on idle, and glibc mmap thresholds are pinned so large transients return to the OS
- Swarm plans render as a live inline mermaid task graph in chat, with per-agent task labels, honest run_plan progress, and per-spawn model/effort selection
Improvements
- Swarm: broadcasts and shared context are scoped to the sender's spawned subtree
- Swarm: tasks stranded on dead workers are salvaged and reported to the coordinator; orphaned children are reparented when a mid-tree member leaves
- Swarm: run_plan pauses on credential-failure waves and surfaces the fix instead of burning retries
- Swarm: state persistence moved to a durable directory so it survives reboots
- Swarm: long messages and reports require a tldr and collapse to it with an expand badge
- Composed input text is mouse-selectable and copyable (issue #430)
- Interrupts fan out to all active turn signals so cancel is immediate (issue #428)
- Fable 5 defaults to low reasoning effort; effort=none now fully suppresses thinking
- Provider runtimes (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, Antigravity) moved out of the base crate, so provider edits rebuild far less
- Resumed sessions survive corrupt journal lines and keep the last prompt
- agentgrep fixes common agent failure modes and truncates huge trace lines
Fixes
- Scroll no longer hangs when older history is prepended to a live transcript (issue #344)
- Sidebar context figure stays consistent with compaction accounting (issue #441)
- Auto provider init registers external runtimes in every entry path, so OpenAI-compatible profile routes always reach the model picker
- Resume no longer deadlocks when the live-attach target agent is busy
- Auto-poke continuations no longer render as user prompts after reload
- Copy badges no longer truncate blockquote content
Full changelog: v0.35.1...v0.36.0