# Overseer v0.1.4 Release Notes

Overseer `v0.1.4` overhauls the core engine with Architecture V3.3 through V3.8, delivering intent-aware synthesis, multimodal perception, grounding decoupling, and user attachment visibility — alongside the first binary size optimization pass for desktop.

## Highlights

- **Intent-Driven Synthesis (V3.3)**: The final synthesizer now matches response detail to the user's actual question — concise answers for specific queries, brief summaries for general descriptions, and full evidence only when explicitly requested.
- **3-Tier JSON Robustness (V3.3.1)**: A multi-stage extraction pipeline prevents internal LLM artifacts from leaking into user-facing responses.
- **Conversational Intelligence (V3.4)**: Simple greetings bypass the Lattice for low-latency direct chat. Creative tasks preserve narrative framing instead of collapsing into status reports.
- **Tiered Media Perception (V3.5–V3.6)**: Multimodal inputs are processed through native Rust parsers, local OCR, or a query-guided Vision Assistant depending on complexity.
- **Grounding Decoupling (V3.7)**: Generic image descriptions are cached permanently while turn-specific perception is transient, eliminating contextual echo.
- **User Attachment Visibility (V3.8)**: User-sent file attachments now render inline in chat bubbles with download capability and immediate optimistic display.
- **Release Profile Optimization**: LTO, symbol stripping, and single codegen-unit compilation for significantly smaller release binaries.

## Operator Notes

- Evidence governance now only surfaces sources when explicitly requested — vision and media queries receive natural conversational answers.
- Grounding enforcement uses silent delivery for operational tasks, suppressing technical noise in favor of clean success messages.
- Core engine files remain modularized under the strict 100-line rule.
