- Privatized the legacy `nextToolChoice` method to `#nextHardToolChoice` to ensure all tool-choice directives flow through the unified `nextToolChoiceDirective` entry point.
- Eliminated redundant dual entry points for fetching tool choices, which previously bypassed the soft pending-preview lifecycle.
- Updated test suites to consume `nextToolChoiceDirective` where appropriate to maintain consistency with internal agent-loop logic.
- Migrated all wire protocol, schema definitions, and tools validation from Zod to ArkType across multiple packages.
- Updated extension runtimes, custom tools loader, and TypeBox compatibility shim to expose and use ArkType instances.
- Added a comprehensive ArkType migration guide, validation parity tests, and helper utilities.
- Removed redundant PDF asset routing and parsing implementations from the read tool.
- agent-loop: raise repetition-detection floor to 180 chars and clear thinking
replay anchors when collapsing a detected loop.
- providers/google: ignore empty text parts, retain terminal thoughtSignatures,
and stop function-call signatures clobbering the prior block.
- autolearn: capture goal-mode at the turn boundary; harden managed-skill writes
against hard-links/symlinks (O_NOFOLLOW + nlink); refuse minting managed skills
whose name an authored skill already claims.
- eager tasks: thread agentKind through the session so a custom top-level agentId
still gets always-mode delegation; split Eager Tasks prompt into hard vs soft.
- title-generator: race the online title model against a local tiny-model fallback.
- eager-todo: keep the soft reminder aligned with the todo init schema.
- mcp/stdio: keep close() detaching the read loop instead of awaiting it.
- stream loop: fix collapsing and tool-call thought-signature handling.
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