Research Collector

2026.08.28.1

Changed: Normalized the extension license to Apache-2.0 and corrected the copyright holder to "Sean Escriva". Extensions that previously shipped an MIT LICENSE.md are now Apache-2.0, consistent with the repository root and every other extension. No code or behavioral changes.

Upgrade note: License text only. No API, schema, or runtime behavior changed.

2026.08.26.2

Fixed: Restored inline npm:zod@4.4.3 import specifiers so the registry quality scorer can resolve dependencies and score the extension. An earlier release used a bare "zod" import-map specifier, which published but scored as unscored.

Changed: Retained explicit compilerOptions.strict in deno.json. No behavioral or schema changes.

2026.08.26.2

Fixed: Restored inline npm:zod@4.4.3 import specifiers so the registry quality scorer can resolve dependencies and score the extension. An earlier release used a bare "zod" import-map specifier, which published but scored as unscored.

Changed: Retained explicit compilerOptions.strict in deno.json. No behavioral or schema changes.

2026.08.24.1

Added: Output metadata attributes for observability.

• durationMs: Method execution duration in milliseconds.
• collectedBy: Extension name that produced the data.
• fetchedAt: ISO 8601 timestamp when data was fetched (added to resources that previously lacked it).

2026.08.23.1

Changed: Documentation only — no code changes. Documented the silent per-source degrade behavior in gatherAll — all 7 scraped sources fail independently to an empty array with only an info-level log — and flagged the regex-based AI Daily Brief HTML scraping as the most fragile source.

2026.08.21.1

Changed: When a source (HN, Lobste.rs, SRE Weekly, IFIN Discourse, RedMonk, arXiv, or The AI Daily Brief) fails to gather, gather now logs the source name and the underlying error message before falling back to an empty result for that source. Previously the failure was discarded silently, so a brief with hnFrontPage.stories: [] gave no clue whether HN genuinely had nothing new or the fetch failed. gather still returns partial data on a single source failure — that behavior is unchanged.

Upgrade note: No schema changes. Existing instances need no migration.

Add Swamp Club RSS feed as a research source.

Add System Design RSS feed as a research source.

Add Latent.Space RSS feed as a research source.

Add Simon Willison's Weblog Atom feed as the simonWillison research source.

2026.07.23.1

Added: New digest method builds a compact daily digest from the latest research brief: top items per source (normalized 0-100 prominence score), cross-source topic clusters (keywords appearing in 2+ sources), and a delta against the previous digest (new vs carried items). Writes a new digest resource (24h lifetime) for downstream journal/briefing workflows.

Changed: The model now reads prior resources via the readResource context method. digest requires a gather run first — it throws if no brief exists.

Upgrade note: No changes to the research brief schema or existing global args. Existing instances upgrade in place (no attribute migration needed). The new digest resource is additive and safe to ignore for workflows that only use gather.

2026.07.21.1

Added: The AI Daily Brief as a seventh gather source. gather now fetches recent editions from theaidailybrief.com, keeps written takeaway "nuggets" with headings, bodies, and anchors, and drops video embeds so only written analysis survives. Controlled by a new aiDailyBriefDays global arg (1-14, default 3).

Fixed: The test module had unescaped quotes in three XML fixture string literals that stopped Deno from parsing the file, so the AI Daily Brief coverage test never ran. Switched those fixtures to template literals.

Changed: gather's output resource now carries an aiDailyBrief object with editions alongside the existing source arrays. Existing sources and resource shapes are unchanged.

Add The AI Daily Brief as a seventh source: scrapes daily written editions from aidailybrief.ai, keeps written analysis nuggets, discards video/audio embeds. New global arg aiDailyBriefDays (1-14, default 3).

2026.07.18.1

Added: An upgrades array entry (no-op) to research_collector.ts for proper typeVersion tracking on existing instances. No schema or behavior changes.