janreges/ai-distiller-mcp

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Version v1.4.0 of janreges‑ai‑distiller introduces selective expansion, Windows install fixes, new exclusion controls, AI action support, and an automated release pipeline; it now requires Go 1.25 for source builds while prebuilt binaries stay unchanged.

Why it matters: The update mandates Go 1.25 when compiling from source (prebuilt binaries unaffected), adds configurable `--exclude` directory matching, enables built‑in AI prompts, and automates CI/CD publishing via OIDC.

Summary

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Updates 🐛 Bug Fixes, 🔧 Improvements, and ✅ Also Resolved across a mixed release.

Changes in this release

Type	Severity	Summary	CVE
Breaking	Medium	Requires Go 1.25 for building from source; prebuilt binaries and npm package remain unaffected. Requires Go 1.25 for building from source; prebuilt binaries and npm package remain unaffected. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: high	—
Feature
Feature	Medium	Adds selective expansion with `--expand` for agent-driven context building. Adds selective expansion with `--expand` for agent-driven context building. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Implements fully automated release pipeline publishing CGO‑enabled binaries and npm packages via OIDC. Implements fully automated release pipeline publishing CGO‑enabled binaries and npm packages via OIDC. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Supports excluding fields and properties via `--fields=0` / `--methods=0`. Supports excluding fields and properties via `--fields=0` / `--methods=0`. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: low	—
Feature	Medium	Enables `prompt-` AI actions out of the box with embedded prompt templates. Enables `prompt-` AI actions out of the box with embedded prompt templates. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: low	—
Dependency	Medium	Refreshes Go and npm dependencies. Refreshes Go and npm dependencies. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: low	—
Bugfix
Bugfix	Medium	Fixes Windows install path extraction using PowerShell instead of tar. Fixes Windows install path extraction using PowerShell instead of tar. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Fixes Windows architecture detection to be locale‑independent. Fixes Windows architecture detection to be locale‑independent. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Makes `--exclude` match directories as well as files. Makes `--exclude` match directories as well as files. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Renders C# method bodies with `--implementation=1` and applies visibility filtering inside namespaces. Renders C# method bodies with `--implementation=1` and applies visibility filtering inside namespaces. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-25 Confidence: high	—

Full changelog

This release adds selective implementation expansion for agent-driven context building, fixes the Windows install path end-to-end, and ships a fully automated, OIDC-published release pipeline.

🚀 New Features

Selective expansion with --expand — distill to clean signatures as usual, then keep full implementation only for the symbols you care about, matched by glob (--expand "GetUser", --expand "*Service*,run"). Matches a function/method name; matching a type name expands the methods nested inside it (Python/TypeScript/Java/C#…). Perfect for agents that explore a codebase and pull full code for just a few symbols. Also exposed on the MCP distill_file / distill_directory / distill_with_dependencies tools via an expand parameter. (#1)

🐛 Bug Fixes

Windows MCP install fixed — the npm postinstall tried to extract the .zip with tar on Windows ("Unrecognized archive format"); it now uses PowerShell extraction. (#11)
Windows install.ps1 architecture detection — a localized OSArchitecture string ("64 bits") caused "Unknown architecture"; detection is now locale-independent. (#10)
--exclude now matches directories — a bare pattern like *migrations* only matched file names; it now matches any path segment and correctly skips whole directories. (#9)
C# method bodies & visibility — method implementations now render with --implementation=1 (the formatter previously emitted empty { }), and visibility filtering (e.g. --internal=0) now applies inside namespace blocks. (#3)

✅ Also Resolved

Exclude fields/properties — supported via --fields=0 / --methods=0. (#5)
prompt-* AI actions work out of the box — prompt templates are embedded in the binary. (#8)

🔧 Improvements

Fully automated releases — tagging vX.Y.Z now builds CGO-enabled binaries (full tree-sitter language support) for all platforms, publishes this GitHub Release with checksums, and publishes the MCP package to npm — entirely in CI, via npm Trusted Publishing (OIDC) with provenance.
Dependency refresh — updated Go and npm dependencies.
Test fixtures — corrected stale integration fixtures across languages.

📦 MCP Package

New expand parameter on distill_file, distill_directory, and distill_with_dependencies.
Updated to MCP TypeScript SDK 1.29.

⚠️ Notable

Building from source now requires Go 1.25 (users of the prebuilt binaries and the npm package are unaffected).

Breaking Changes

Minimum Go version bumped to 1.25 for building from source

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