- Centralized catalog and registry handling on `ModelSpec` and `buildModel`, resolving compatibility at model build time.
- Removed runtime compatibility detectors and switched provider request flows to direct `model.compat` reads.
- Added compat fields (`supportsReasoningParams`, `alwaysSendMaxTokens`, `strictResponsesPairing`, `whenThinking`).
- Persisted explicit compatibility overrides through `compatConfig` in discovery and cache merge paths.
- Updated task call and result rendering to process shared context with the Markdown renderer, so context sections are now displayed with proper Markdown formatting.
- Stopped shimmer animation on pending bash/eval/task blocks once async state is `running`, preventing the committed frame from freezing a transient dark border segment.
- Adjusted rule path display to fall back to a root-relative path when cwd-relative resolution is unavailable.
- Routed image-gen, inspect-image, and web search providers through `withAuth`.
- Used `reuseInitialApiKey`/`createAuthStorageResolver` for force-refresh and rotate retries.
- Attached HTTP status to thrown errors so the retry classifier detects retryable failures.
- Added canonical `pi.zod` schema API exports and removed TypeBox package exports/imports.
- Migrated Tool schema typing from TypeBox to shared `TSchema`/Zod flow with legacy TypeBox compatibility.
- Updated AI provider adapters and MCP/agent builders to convert tool params through `toolWireSchema()`.
- Reworked schema validation from AJV to Zod-safe parsing with `fromTypeBox`, `toolWireSchema`, and meta schema checks.
- Added an optional strict field to CustomTool definitions to support non-strict execution mode.
- Set strict to false across built-in AgentTool and custom tool registrations, including browser, calculator, GitHub, image generation, and related utilities.
- Updated inspect-image tests to reflect the relaxed strict setting on the tool.
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