- Restructured hashline edit schema from flat op/pos/end/lines fields to nested loc/content objects with discriminated union types.
- Replaced operation names (replace_line, replace_range, append_at, prepend_at) with unified loc object patterns supporting line, block, append, and prepend anchors.
- Updated content field to accept array of strings or null instead of lines parameter in edit entries.
- Refactored edit resolution logic to dispatch on loc shape instead of op enum, simplifying location handling.
- Added boundary duplication warning to detect off-by-one range errors in replace_range and replace_line operations.
- Updated hashline tool documentation with boundary duplication trap guidance to prevent closing delimiter duplication.
- Renamed hashline operation types for clarity: append->append_at, prepend->prepend_at, append_eof->append_file, prepend_bof->prepend_file.
- Updated all operation type references in patch implementation, tests, and documentation to reflect new naming convention.
- Restructured hashline tool documentation with hierarchical sections and simplified examples for improved clarity.
- Consolidated validation rules and added explicit warning about invalid anchors and operation/field combinations.
- Refactored hashline edit operations from implicit `replace` to explicit `replace_line` and `replace_range` with mandatory `end` parameter for ranges.
- Added file-level operations `append_eof` and `prepend_bof` for boundary insertions, making `pos` required for anchor-based operations.
- Enforced stricter anchor validation per operation type and simplified edit application logic by separating file-level from anchor-based operations.
- Updated hashline edit application to preserve duplicated boundary lines without auto-correction, changing previous behavior.
- Added autoresearch extension with autonomous experiment loop supporting init, run, and log experiment tools for metric-driven optimization.
- Added widget placement system enabling extensions to position UI components above or below the editor via ExtensionWidgetOptions.
- Added dashboard controller with interactive overlay for viewing experiment results, metrics, and progress with keyboard navigation.
- Removed auto-correction logic for off-by-one range edits in hashline editor to preserve user intent in patch operations.
- Added state reconstruction utilities to parse autoresearch.jsonl logs and rebuild experiment state across sessions.
- Added comprehensive type definitions and helper utilities for metric parsing, ASI validation, and process management.
- Changed bash interceptor configuration from boolean flags to customizable pattern-based rules array.
- Clarified hashline range replace semantics: end parameter is now strictly exclusive boundary.
- Fixed bash interceptor to apply built-in default rules when no custom patterns are configured.
- Updated hashline range validation and calculations to enforce exclusive end semantics throughout.
- Added line hashes to compact diff preview for unchanged and added lines to enable integrity verification.
- Modified compact diff preview to track line number synchronization between old and new files when processing insertions and deletions.
- Fixed line number parsing in compact diff preview to handle variable-width line number fields with leading whitespace.
- Extracted parsing and formatting logic into dedicated functions (parseNumberedDiffLine, formatCompactHashlineLine, syncOldLineCounters, syncNewLineCounters) for maintainability.
- Updated 4 test cases to verify line hash generation, line number synchronization, and handling of variable-width fields.
- Fixed line normalization to trim trailing whitespace and strip carriage returns instead of removing all whitespace.
- Fixed no-op detection to check array length equality before comparing lines, preventing false classification of multi-line expansions.
- Added clarification to hashline tool documentation on `replace` operation semantics and `lines` boundary constraints.
- Added test case validating single-line to multi-line expansion behavior and firstChangedLine calculation.
- Added auto-correction logic for off-by-one range start errors in hashline edits.
- Added safety check to prevent false-positive auto-correction when position already includes boundary.
- Added test coverage for off-by-one range correction and duplicate leading line handling.
- Extracted turn-aborted-guidance prompt to external markdown file for better maintainability.
- Added buildCompactHashlineDiffPreview() function to generate collapsed diff previews for tool responses.
- Enhanced EditTool response to include diff summary with added/removed line counts and compact preview.
- Added project-level discovery for .agent/ and .agents/ directories walking up to repository root.
- Implemented helper functions for truncating long diff runs (collapseFromStart, collapseFromEnd, collapseFromMiddle).
- Refactored hlineref Handlebars helper to return JSON-quoted strings for safer JSON embedding in prompts.
- Improved hashlineParseText to preserve blank lines and trailing empty strings while normalizing line endings.
- Optimized duplicate line detection in range replacements using trimmed comparison to reduce whitespace false positives.
- Added auto-correction for escaped tab indentation in edits via PI_HASHLINE_AUTOCORRECT_ESCAPED_TABS environment variable.
- Added warning detection for suspicious Unicode escape placeholder \uDDDD in edit content.
- Clarified hashline documentation that \t in JSON represents real tab characters, not literal backslash-t strings.
- Added comprehensive test coverage for escaped tab auto-correction and Unicode escape detection.
Clarify inclusive end semantics in the hashline prompt with bad/good examples.
Add range-replace duplicate-boundary auto-correction with a safety guard so correction only triggers for off-by-one ends.
Expand hashline heuristics tests to cover brace/); correction, blank-line guard, and boundary-already-in-range false-positive prevention.
- Removed replaceText edit operation and content-replace logic from hashline module.
- Removed autocorrect heuristics including line merge detection and whitespace normalization.
- Simplified edit operations to line-anchor-based methods (delete, rename, prepend, append, insert).
- Removed HL_REPLACE_ENABLED feature flag and related conditional logic.
- Changed hashline format separator from pipe (|) to colon (:) for improved readability across all tools and output formats.
- Refactored hashline edit API with operation-based structure: renamed delete->rm, rename->mv, set->target/new_content, and added explicit op field for operation types.
- Updated hashline hash encoding from 4-character base36 to 2-character hexadecimal for more compact representation.
- Replaced anchor terminology with tags throughout hashline documentation and API for clearer semantics.
- Redesigned hashline edit API with new operation names (set, set_range, insert) and structured body parameter accepting string arrays for multiline edits.
- Changed hashline reference format from LINE:HASH to LINE#ID throughout tools and documentation for improved clarity.
- Enhanced insert operation to support optional before/after anchors enabling flexible insertion positioning and boundary echo stripping.
- Made hashline autocorrect heuristics conditional on PI_HL_AUTOCORRECT environment variable for controlled behavior.
- Added benchmark reports for claude-haiku-4-5 and GPT-5.2-Codex models demonstrating hashline edit variant performance.
- Added provider failure detection and exponential backoff retry logic to handle authentication and authorization errors in benchmark tasks.
- Implemented HashlineMismatchError behavior in coding-agent to fail on stale hash references instead of silently relocating edits.
- Simplified hashline validation by removing automatic line relocation logic and hash tracking infrastructure.
- Added benchmark report for claude-sonnet-4-6 model showing 85% task success rate with detailed failure analysis and performance metrics.
- Improved skill discovery to use native glob pattern matching instead of manual directory traversal, enabling more efficient file discovery with gitignore support.
- Enhanced hashline reference parsing to accept optional leading whitespace and arrow prefixes (>>> or >>), allowing more flexible formatting of hashline references.
- Strengthened type safety in hashline edit formatting by adding runtime type guards and defensive property access for malformed edit objects.
- Fixed skill discovery to extract skill names from directory paths when frontmatter name is missing, improving fallback behavior.
- Updated ajv dependency from ^8.17.1 to ^8.18.0.
- Changed hashline format separator from two spaces to pipe character (|) throughout codebase for consistency.
- Simplified ollama installation checks in test files by replacing execSync with Bun.which() and inverting PI_NO_LOCAL_LLM to PI_LOCAL_LLM environment variable.
- Added early return guards in test beforeAll hooks to skip tests when required tools (ollama, magick) are unavailable.
- Added debug instrumentation to system prompt building via PI_DEBUG_STARTUP environment variable for startup performance monitoring.
- Removed prompt cache retention assertion from openai-codex streaming test.
- Changed hashline display format separator from pipe to two spaces for improved readability.
- Removed `lines` and `hashes` parameters from read tool in favor of automatic file display mode resolution.
- Added `resolveFileDisplayMode` utility to centralize file display mode configuration logic.
- Integrated file display mode settings into grep and read tools for consistent output formatting.
- Consolidated tool parameter types to use schema-derived types via Typebox `Static` utility.
- Updated parseLineRef to handle both legacy pipe-separator and new two-space hashline formats.
- Added new `replace` hashline edit operation for substring-style fuzzy text replacement without line references, with optional `all` flag for replace-all behavior.
- Added `noopEdits` array to `applyHashlineEdits` return value to report edits that produced no changes, including edit index, location, and current content for diagnostics.
- Added validation to detect and reject hashline edits using wrong-format fields (`old_text`/`new_text` from replace mode, `diff` from patch mode) with helpful error messages.
- Renamed hashline edit operation keys from `single`/`range`/`insertAfter` to `set_line`/`replace_lines`/`insert_after` for clearer semantics.
- Enhanced error messages for wrong-format hashline edits to guide users toward correct operation syntax.
- Added noopEdits array to applyHashlineEdits return type to track edits that produce no changes.
- Added validation to reject edits with wrong-format fields (old_text/new_text from replace mode, diff from patch mode) that indicate model confusion.
- Added additionalProperties tolerance to hashline edit schemas to allow flexible field handling.
- Added deduplication logic to remove duplicate edits targeting the same line(s) with identical destination content.
- Improved error handling for missing end fields in edit ranges by returning single-line specs instead of requiring both start and end.
- Enhanced no-op error recovery guidance in prompts with detailed instructions to re-read file and function context after consecutive no-op errors.
- Removed whitespace preservation logic that was overriding model-generated formatting choices in patch application.
- Deleted `preserveWhitespaceOnlyLines` and `preserveWhitespaceOnlyLinesLoose` functions that were incorrectly reverting intentional formatting changes.
- Updated test to reflect that model whitespace choices are now respected without override.
- Renamed hashline edit operation types from replaceLine/replaceLines to single/range for improved clarity.
- Renamed content field to replacement in hashline edit operations to better reflect its purpose.
- Enhanced no-op edit diagnostics to perform line-by-line comparisons and distinguish between identical and normalized replacements.
- Improved error messages for hashline edits to clarify differences between literal identical content and whitespace-normalized content.
- Removed timeout-retries configuration option from react-edit-benchmark CLI and simplified retry logic.
- Updated all test cases and documentation to reflect renamed hashline edit operation types and fields.
- Removed insertBefore and substr hashline edit operations, simplifying the edit API to support only replaceLine, replaceLines, and insertAfter operations.
- Updated hashline edit schema and type definitions to remove insertBefore and substr operation types from the ParsedRefs union and edit validation logic.
- Removed insertBefore and substr test cases from hashline test suite, including tests for insert-before functionality, anchor echo stripping, and substring matching.
- Updated benchmark runner to refactor edit operations from src/dst format to discriminated union types (replaceLine, replaceLines, insertAfter) and adjusted insertAfter line references.
- Added remaps property to HashlineMismatchError to store a map of stale references to their corrected versions with quick fix suggestions.
- Added diagnostic output for no-op edits that displays target lines from failed edit operations to help users understand why edits had no effect.
- Added computeLineHash and parseLineRef helper functions to public exports for use in diagnostic and validation logic.
- Enhanced error messages in HashlineMismatchError with quick fix suggestions showing stale references and their corrected versions.
- Updated hashline edit tool documentation with critical guidelines on preserving formatting, recovery procedures, and pre-submission verification checklist.
- Redesigned hashline edit API to use discriminated union variants (replaceLine, replaceLines, insertAfter, insertBefore, substr) instead of nested src/dst structure.
- Changed hash algorithm from xxHash64 hex to xxHash32 base36 encoding and increased hash length from 2 to 3 characters.
- Added substr edit variant to match and replace content by unique substring when line hashes are unavailable.
- Implemented line relocation heuristics to resolve stale line references when hash uniquely identifies a moved line.
- Moved substr needle search from edit application phase to pre-validation phase for earlier error detection.
- Migrated hashline edit type definitions from manual TypeScript interfaces to schema-derived types using Static<typeof schema> pattern.
- Added `substr` source specification kind to match and replace lines by unique substring without requiring line-hash references.
- Implemented substring matching logic in hashline edits with validation for uniqueness and error handling for not-found and ambiguous cases.
- Added schema definition and type guards for the new `substr` operation type across patch system.
- Added mutation preview hints to error messages when edits fail with 'No changes made' errors, showing line numbers, hashes, and added/removed lines.
- Changed formatter to pin JavaScript fixtures to the flow parser to avoid parser-dependent formatting drift.
- Added whitespace preservation logic to treat whitespace-only differences as passing in file verification.
- Removed substring source specification kind from hashline edits, requiring users to use line-hash references instead.
- Simplified SrcSpec type to use generic type parameter for line references, removing substring variant from union.
- Updated react-edit-benchmark to use --max-tasks option for deterministic task sampling and changed default batch sizes to 1.
- Added streaming functions `streamHashLinesFromUtf8` and `streamHashLinesFromLines` for processing large files with configurable chunking.
- Added `HashlineStreamOptions` interface to control streaming behavior with `startLine`, `maxChunkLines`, and `maxChunkBytes` options.
- Changed hashline format from 4-character to 2-character hex hashes for more compact output.
- Updated `computeLineHash` function to normalize whitespace and removed line number from hash seed for consistency.
- Improved CLI argument parsing with explicit handling of `--help`, `--version`, and subcommand detection.
- Removed `@types/diff` dev dependency as it is no longer needed.
- Fixed line hash computation to normalize whitespace before hashing, ensuring consistent hashes for semantically identical lines.
- Removed index parameter from hash computation to prevent hash variance based on line position.
- Changed `HashlineEdit.src` from string format (e.g., `"5:ab"`, `"5:ab..9:ef"`) to structured `SrcSpec` object with discriminated union types (`{ kind: "single", ref: "..." }`, `{ kind: "range", start: "...", end: "..." }`, `{ kind: "insertAfter", after: "..." }`, `{ kind: "insertBefore", before: "..." }`, `{ kind: "substring", needle: "..." }`).
- Refactored `parseSrc` function to `parseSrcSpec` to handle structured `SrcSpec` objects instead of string parsing, replacing string validation and delimiter parsing logic with explicit case handling for each operation kind.
- Updated tool schema in `index.ts` to define `srcSpecSchema` as a discriminated union type with five variants, replacing the previous simple string-based `src` parameter definition.
- Added substring-based source matching for hashline edits to support matching lines by content when hash references are unavailable.
- Added automatic detection and repair of single-line merges where models incorrectly combine multiple lines into one.
- Added normalization of Unicode-confusable hyphens to ASCII hyphens to handle model-generated variations.
- Added heuristics to restore indentation and preserve wrapped line formatting during edits.
- Relaxed comma validation in src to allow commas while rejecting inputs with multiple line references.
- Enhanced parseLineRef to accept shorter hash prefixes instead of requiring exact hash matches.
- Improved error messages for hash mismatches to provide more actionable guidance.
- Replaced HashlineEdit API from old/new/after fields to src/dst fields with unified range syntax supporting single lines, ranges, insert-after, and insert-before operations.
- Added parseSrc() function to parse structured line references from src strings supporting formats like '5:ab', '5:ab..9:ef', '5:ab..', and '..5:ab'.
- Added heuristics to strip anchor line echoes and range boundary echoes from model-generated replacement content.
- Implemented preserveWhitespaceOnlyLinesLoose() for improved whitespace preservation using loose matching strategy when replacement line counts don't match.
- Added comprehensive benchmark reports for Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, and GPT-5.1 Codex Mini models evaluating hashline edit performance across 60 tasks.
- Added automatic stripping of `LINE:HASH|` display prefixes and unified-diff `+` markers from replacement content in hashline edits.
- Enhanced replace edits to preserve original whitespace on lines where only whitespace differs, preventing spurious formatting diffs when models reformat code.
- Added helper functions `stripNewLinePrefixes()`, `preserveWhitespaceOnlyLines()`, and `equalsIgnoringWhitespace()` to improve edit robustness.
- Added `toArray()` helper function to normalize `string | string[]` inputs for hashline edit operations with comma-separated line reference support.
- Added `HashlineMismatchError` class that displays grep-style output with `>>>` markers for hash validation failures.
- Added `HashMismatch` type for representing individual hash mismatches with line number, expected hash, and actual hash.
- Updated `HashlineEdit` type to accept `string | string[]` for `old` and `new` fields, allowing both singular and plural input formats.
- Reduced hash length from 4 to 2 hex characters (16-bit hashes) for more concise line references.
- Enhanced `parseLineRef()` to strip display-format suffixes and `validateLineRef()` to throw `HashlineMismatchError` with context lines for better error reporting.
- Optimized line hash computation by precomputing hex lookup table and using bitwise operations instead of string formatting.
- Simplified conditional logic in read tool for hash and line number configuration.
- Refactored react-edit-benchmark model/provider parsing to use concise ternary operator.
- Added HashlineMismatchError class with formatted error messages showing mismatched hashes with context lines.
- Added HashMismatch type to represent hash validation errors with line number, expected, and actual hash values.
- Enhanced hash validation in applyHashlineEdits to collect all hash mismatches before applying edits instead of failing on first mismatch.
- Renamed HashlineEdit fields from 'src'/'dst' to 'old'/'new' for improved naming clarity and consistency.
- Added hashline edit mode for line-addressed edits using hash-verified line references with xxHash64 integrity verification.
- Replaced `edit.patchMode` boolean setting with `edit.mode` enum supporting 'replace', 'patch', and 'hashline' modes.
- Added `readHashLines` configuration setting to include line hashes in read output for hashline edit mode.
- Implemented `computeLineHash`, `formatHashLines`, `parseLineRef`, `validateLineRef`, and `applyHashlineEdits` utility functions for hashline operations.
- Updated read tool to support optional `hashes` parameter and prioritize hash lines over line numbers when both are requested.
- Changed `getEditModelVariants()` return type from `Record<string, 'patch' | 'replace'>` to `Record<string, EditMode | null>` and removed hardcoded model-specific defaults.
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