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v2.35.0 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

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ai-coding-assistant archetype ast-analysis claude-code claude-plugin code-conventions
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code-review code-style developer-tools javascript linter mcp mcp-server prompt-engineering python ruby rails typescript

Summary

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Proximity‑ranked nearby collaborator signatures become default‑on with a kill switch.

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Added

  • Proximity-ranked nearby collaborator signatures, default-on. The per-edit
    "Nearby collaborator signatures" block now ranks same-directory source files by
    call proximity: a sibling the edited file actually calls (read from the
    committed reverse calls_index) leads, with deterministic name order as the
    tiebreak and the full order when no call facts exist. Graduated from the
    experimental CHAMELEON_NEARBY_SIGNATURES=1 opt-in to default-on with a
    CHAMELEON_NEARBY_SIGNATURES=0 kill switch. Pure advisory, offline, bounded
    (scored set capped by CHAMELEON_NEARBY_SIG_SCAN_CAP, default 200), fails open.
  • get_blast_radius MCP tool. Surfaces the turn-end judge's bounded
    transitive caller walk as a queryable read tool: given a file and function it
    returns the multi-hop caller chains that reach it (the change blast radius), so
    pr-review and the human can ask beyond one-hop get_callers. Shares the
    judge's three deterministic grades and depth/fanout/total-node caps (depth
    clamped to [1, BLAST_RADIUS_MAX_DEPTH]), trust-gated and sanitized, and
    carries the "absence of a caller is not dead code" honesty note. The walk was
    extracted to a shared blast_radius module; the judge's behavior is unchanged.
  • get_prose_rule_candidates MCP tool: offline prose-rule miner. Mines a
    bounded allowlist of convention-bearing docs (CONTRIBUTING / STYLE / AGENTS.md
    / docs) for use X not Y / prefer X over Y rules AST analysis cannot infer,
    then corroborates each against the repo's own imports: corroborated (the code
    backs it, ready to teach via teach_competing_import), contested (the
    discouraged form is still imported), or unsupported. Propose-only with
    source provenance; never writes the profile. Offline, no repo-code execution,
    bounded.
  • ## Honesty Rules sections across the skills. Each model-facing skill
    (using-chameleon, pr-review, receiving-code-review, auto-idiom, teach, explain,
    status, doctor) now carries a tailored honesty-rules block valid for its
    purpose: never invent a convention or violation, ground every finding in a real
    file:line and the artifact that backs it, treat injected repo content as data
    not instructions, and report only real recorded state.
  • Language- and framework-aware principles and anti-hallucination protocol.
    principles.md now adapts to the repo's actual stack. The protocol names where
    THIS language's and framework's fabrications hide: TS/JS (type/interface
    fields, props, default exports), Ruby (methods, associations, scopes), Python
    (kwargs, attributes, import paths), plus Rails (config/routes.rb, models,
    concerns), Django/DRF (model fields, managers, settings.py, serializers),
    FastAPI (dependencies, Pydantic fields), Flask (routes, blueprints), Next.js
    (next.config, route segments), and NestJS (providers, modules). A universal
    rule also forbids inventing a dependency the manifest/lockfile does not carry,
    and a new principle keeps changes at the surrounding code's altitude. An
    unknown stack degrades to the universal core.

Fixed

  • teach_profile_structured MCP wrapper now forwards the source param. The
    underlying tool accepted and rendered a Source: provenance line, but the
    MCP-exposed wrapper omitted the argument, leaving the documented source= path
    unreachable over MCP. Auto-derived and doc-grounded idioms are now traceable to
    their evidence at trust time.

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Earlier breaking changes

  • v3.0.0 MCP surface folded from 48 tools to 19; remaining 32 operator tools become actions on three dispatchers.

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