Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.5.3] - 2026-05-20

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure from_server closes transport on error (#95): The short-lived transport created inside McpTool.from_server is now wrapped in begin/ensure, so the underlying child process (stdio) is always terminated even when fetch_tool raises.
  • Correct McpTool#close documentation (#94): The comment previously stated that calling execute after close raises an error; in practice the transport reopens automatically. The comment now reflects actual behaviour.

Documentation

  • Fix CHANGELOG date for v0.5.1 (#96): The v0.5.1 entry had an incorrect date of 2026-05-21; corrected to 2026-05-20.

[0.5.2] - 2026-05-20

Bug Fixes

  • CHANGELOG correction for v0.5.1 MCP fix (#90): The v0.5.1 entry incorrectly stated that a Mutex was added to StdioTransport#rpc_call. The actual fix was per-instance transport ownership (each McpTool instance creates its own transport in initialize). Corrected the description.

Enhancements

  • Add McpTool#close (#92): Tool instances now expose a close method that shuts down the underlying stdio child process (StdioTransport) or releases the HTTP connection (HttpTransport). This gives callers a deterministic way to clean up resources instead of relying on GC.

Maintenance

  • Archive stale Rails integration design doc (#91): Added an archived notice to spec/design/17_rails_integration.md clarifying that Rails integration was removed in v0.3.0–v0.5.1 and the document is for historical reference only.

  • Remove zombie register_workflow_context API (#93): The Phronomy.register_workflow_context, workflow_context_registry, and reset_workflow_context_registry! methods (along with the backing @workflow_context_registry and @registry_mutex module-level variables) were removed from lib/phronomy.rb. These existed to support the StateStore deserialization guard, which was removed in a prior release. The API had no remaining callers in the codebase and was not listed in the README stability table.

[0.5.1] - 2026-05-20

Bug Fixes

  • Remove broken Rails generator and Railtie (#85): The generator template referenced Phronomy::ActiveRecord::ActsAs which no longer exists, causing rails generate phronomy:install to produce broken model files. Removed lib/generators/, lib/phronomy/railtie.rb, and all references in lib/phronomy.rb.

  • Fix MCP transport ownership (#86): McpTool no longer stores a shared transport at class level. from_server now uses a short-lived transport only to fetch tool metadata and calls close immediately after. Each tool instance creates its own StdioTransport or HttpTransport in initialize, so concurrent callers (e.g. via Orchestrator#dispatch_parallel) never share stdio streams. No Mutex is needed. Also adds missing require "securerandom" and a no-op HttpTransport#close for interface consistency.

Documentation

  • README corrections (#87): Remove stale Rails generator installation instructions. Clarify that TeamCoordinator worker state is local to a single invoke call (not persistent across calls). Annotate app-level examples (09_rails_chat, 15_rails_secure_chat, 18_rails_agent_job, 19_trust_pipeline) as requiring external infrastructure. Add scope note to Agent::Orchestrator section.

Maintenance

  • Add version guard to ruby_llm_patches.rb (#88): The monkey-patch for the upstream handle_error_chunk bug (ruby_llm <= 1.15.0) is now gated behind a Gem::Version check so upgrading ruby_llm will automatically disable the override.

[0.5.0] - 2026-05-20

Breaking Changes

  • Agent::Base#invoke and #stream — messages and thread_id promoted to top-level keyword arguments: Previously these values were passed inside the config: hash. They are now explicit keyword arguments. The config: hash retains other runtime options such as :knowledge_sources, :user_id, and :session_id.

Before (v0.4.x):

  agent.invoke(input, config: { messages: prior_msgs, thread_id: "t1" })
  agent.stream(input, config: { messages: prior_msgs, thread_id: "t1" }) { |e| ... }

After (v0.5.0):

  agent.invoke(input, messages: prior_msgs, thread_id: "t1")
  agent.stream(input, messages: prior_msgs, thread_id: "t1") { |e| ... }

Applications that only pass :knowledge_sources, :user_id, or :session_id in config: require no changes.

  • Agent::Checkpoint#initialize — original_input: is now a required keyword argument: Applications that construct Checkpoint instances directly must add original_input: input. Checkpoints produced by #invoke already include this field automatically.

Fixed

  • ReactAgent#step — system instructions were never applied: The first iteration of the ReAct loop now calls build_context to assemble the system prompt and history, matching the behaviour of Agent::Base. Subsequent iterations re-apply instructions via build_cached_system_text before calling chat.complete. Previously, all iterations silently omitted the system prompt.

  • Agent::Base#resume — system instructions were not re-applied after suspension: Resuming from a Checkpoint now calls build_cached_system_text using the original input stored in the checkpoint, so the LLM receives the correct system prompt when the conversation continues. Previously, the LLM was called without any system instructions on resume.

[0.4.0] - 2026-05-19

Removed

  • Phronomy::TrustPipeline removed: The TrustPipeline class and its inner TrustResult value object have been deleted. Use Phronomy::GeneratorVerifier instead, which provides the same generator-verifier pattern with a cleaner, fully injectable API.

Added

  • Phronomy::GeneratorVerifier — Generator-Verifier coordination loop (Anthropic blog, Pattern 1). Wraps a generator agent and a verifier agent with fully injectable prompt builders, response parsers, a configurable iteration limit, and an approval-outcome raise policy.
  • Phronomy::Agent::Orchestrator — Base class for orchestrator agents (Anthropic blog, Pattern 2). Extends Agent::Base with a subagent DSL for declarative subagent registration as LLM-callable tools, plus dispatch_parallel and fan_out for programmatic parallel invocation.
  • Phronomy::Agent::TeamCoordinator — Agent teams coordination pattern (Anthropic blog, Pattern 3). An LLM-powered coordinator with a shared task queue and a pool of worker agents that carry conversation history across task assignments. Adds coordinator_provider DSL for independent LLM routing.
  • Phronomy::Agent::SharedState — Shared-state coordination pattern (Anthropic blog, Pattern 5). Peer agents collaborate via a KnowledgeStore; the member DSL registers agents with per-agent instructions; coordination sets the team protocol; build_prompt injects a tool-usage guide automatically.
  • Phronomy::LowConfidenceError — Exception raised by GeneratorVerifier when raise_policy: :raise and verification fails after exhausting the iteration limit.

Changed

  • Phronomy::Graph::StateGraph event system refactored: Per-node advance events replaced with a unified node_completed event queue, reducing event-handler registration overhead and simplifying listener registration.

[0.3.0] - 2026-05-18

Removed

  • Phronomy::Memory module fully removed: ConversationManager, all Storage backends (InMemory, ActiveRecord), all Retrieval strategies (Recent, Semantic, Composite), and all Compression helpers (ToolOutputPruner, Summary) have been deleted. Conversation history is now the responsibility of the calling application — pass prior messages via config[:messages] (Array<RubyLLM::Message>) and receive the updated array in result[:messages].
  • Phronomy::StateStore module fully removed: InMemory, ActiveRecord, Redis, and FileSystem state-store backends have been deleted. The Workflow halted-state object is now returned directly from invoke and send_event and must be stored by the caller if resumption is needed.
  • Phronomy::Configuration#default_state_store removed: No longer meaningful without a built-in state store.
  • Phronomy::Configuration#default_memory / #memory_async / #memory_job_queue removed: No longer meaningful without the Memory module.
  • Rails integration removed: Railtie initializers for AgentJob and acts_as_phronomy_message no longer load. The rails/ and active_record/ directories have been deleted.
  • Phronomy::Actor and Phronomy::ThreadActorRegistry deleted: The Active Object pattern implementation (actor.rb, thread_actor_registry.rb) has been removed. It provided synchronous blocking only (no true async) and was architecturally inconsistent with the WorkflowRunner halt/resume model. All thread coordination now uses plain Mutex where needed.
  • Phronomy.configuration.max_actors removed: The configuration option is no longer meaningful without ThreadActorRegistry.

Changed

  • Agent::Base#invoke and #stream no longer route execution through a per-thread Actor. Both methods now call _invoke_impl / _stream_impl directly on the calling thread.
  • Memory::Storage::InMemory now stores all thread data in an instance-level Hash instead of Thread.current thread-local storage. The class-level THREAD_DATA_KEY constant has been removed. with_thread_lock uses a per-thread-id Mutex to preserve concurrent-compaction safety (issue #44).
  • StateStore::InMemory now stores state in an instance-level Hash. The THREAD_DATA_KEY constant has been removed.
  • VectorStore::RedisSearch uses a Mutex for ensure_index! and clear instead of an Actor, preserving the thread-safety invariant on @index_created.
  • Tool::McpTool::StdioTransport, Tracing::LangfuseTracer, TrustPipeline, and Memory::Retrieval::Semantic no longer hold a dedicated Actor instance. All operations execute directly on the calling thread.
  • PIIPatternDetector — :my_number replaced by :ssn ([#77]): The built-in PII detector now checks for US Social Security Numbers (\b\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}\b) instead of Japanese My Numbers. The JIS X 0076 check-digit validation and my_number_valid? helper have been removed. Category key renamed from :my_number to :ssn.
  • PIIPatternDetector — phone pattern updated to international format ([#77]): The :phone pattern now matches 3-digit area code + 3–4-digit exchange + 4-digit subscriber number with optional E.164 country-code prefix ((?:\+\d{1,3}[.\- ]?)?\(?\d{3}\)?[.\- ]?\d{3,4}[.\- ]?\d{4}\b), replacing the previous Japan-specific pattern.

Fixed

  • RubyLLM::Providers::OpenAI#handle_error_chunk — NoMethodError on single-line SSE error chunks: Some models (e.g. Qwen running via LM Studio) return SSE error events as a single line (data: {...}) without a preceding event: line. The upstream implementation called chunk.split("\n")[1].delete_prefix(...), which raised NoMethodError: undefined method 'delete_prefix' for nil when the second element was absent. A monkey-patch in lib/phronomy/ruby_llm_patches.rb guards against this by returning an empty string when the split result has fewer than two elements.
  • README — stale Memory API examples ([#76]): All references to the non-existent WindowMemory, ActiveRecordMemory, SemanticMemory classes and load_messages / memory_compression API have been replaced with the correct ConversationManager-based API.
  • README — PIIPatternDetector comment ([#77]): Inline comment updated to # Detect SSNs, credit cards, emails, and phone numbers.
  • README — Configuration block markdown ([#80]): The max_actors Note block was incorrectly placed inside the Ruby code fence; moved outside so it renders as a blockquote.
  • README — Guardrails stability label ([#76]): Changed from Stable to Beta to reflect that the built-in detector patterns may evolve.
  • CHANGELOG — stale entries ([#78]): Removed the orphaned [Unreleased] section describing a never-released API, and replaced a forward "As of 0.3.0" reference with future-tense wording.
  • McpTool — YARD class comment ([#79]): Updated to document both the stdio:// and http:///https:// transport schemes.
  • README — max_actors configuration reference ([#80]): Added c.max_actors example and LRU eviction note to the Configuration section.

[0.2.2] - 2026-05-17

Fixed

  • Tool::Base type validation — strict mode (#73): Removed string-coercion pass-through for :integer, :number/:float, and :boolean parameters. A String value such as "42" now correctly raises a type error regardless of the on_schema_error mode. Fixes silent data corruption where the raw string was forwarded to execute instead of the expected numeric/boolean type.
  • README — correct send_event API example (#69): Fixed code sample that called app.send_event(:approve, config: { thread_id: ... }) (positional args) which raises ArgumentError at runtime. Corrected to app.send_event(state: state, event: :approve).
  • phronomy.gemspec — exclude vendor/ from gem package (#70): vendor/bundle (~3 500 files, ~14 MB) was included in released gems. Added "vendor/" to the file reject list.

Added

  • Phronomy::Configuration#max_actors (#72): New optional attribute (default nil = unlimited, backward-compatible). When set, ThreadActorRegistry enforces an LRU eviction policy: the least-recently-used actor is stopped and removed before a new one is created, preventing unbounded thread growth in long-running processes.
  • README — feature stability table (#71): Features section now uses a table with Stable / Beta / Experimental labels so users can assess maturity at a glance.
  • TrustPipeline::Result#citations — unverified-source warning (#74): YARD documentation now explicitly states that citations are extracted from the LLM's own output and have not been verified against any external source.

CI

  • Ruby 3.4 added to CI matrix (#75): Aligns test coverage with the gemspec requirement (>= 3.2.0) and verifies compatibility with the current stable Ruby release.

[0.2.1] — Unreleased

Changed

  • WorkflowRunner — state_machines fully drives execution (architecture overhaul). Previously state_machines was used only for post-hoc transition validation; the next-node was calculated by Phronomy internally (resolve_next_node). After this change, all state transition decisions — including guard evaluation for routing events — will be delegated entirely to state_machines.
    • PhaseTracker now exposes attr_accessor :context so guard lambdas can access the WorkflowContext via m.context.
    • Guard bridge pattern: if: ->(m) { guard_proc.call(m.context) }.
    • Three event types registered per workflow:
    • advance_<from> — unconditional after-transitions
    • <routing_event> — guarded branching from action states (name is the event name used in the DSL, e.g. :route, :route_review)
    • <external_event> — human-in-the-loop triggers from wait states
    • Invalid transitions now raise ArgumentError instead of logging warnings.
  • WorkflowRunner initializer signature changed — edges:, conditional_edges:, and wait_states: replaced by after_transitions:, route_transitions:, external_events:, and wait_state_names:. This is an internal-only change; the public Phronomy::Workflow.define DSL is unchanged.

Removed (internal)

  • WorkflowRunner#resolve_next_node — logic moved to state_machines
  • WorkflowRunner#advance_phase — replaced by fire_event!
  • Workflow::Builder#build_edges, #build_conditional_edges, #build_wait_states — replaced by unified event classification in build

[0.2.0] - 2026-05-13

Added

  • Phronomy::Graph::WorkflowRunner — state_machines-based execution engine (introduced as the internal successor to CompiledGraph).
  • state.phase — single source of truth for graph execution state (replaces current_nodes + halted_before dual attributes).
  • state.halted? — returns true when the graph is paused.
  • CompiledGraph#add_wait_state — declared a named wait state that halts automatically when reached (later superseded by wait_state DSL in Workflow.define).
  • CompiledGraph#send_event(state:, event:, input: nil) — event-driven resume API (later superseded by app.send_event).

Removed

  • ParallelNode and add_parallel_node DSL. Use Thread.new or Concurrent::Future at the application level instead.
  • Phronomy::Graph::TimeoutError (was only used by ParallelNode).