sci v2026.09.02

Breaking

• zot: collections are managed from the CLI — create, rename, re-parent, delete, and file items

Features

• zot: the Web API client returns — credentialed, hand-written, write-only
• zot: the libraries behind item add — attachment upload, doi.org lookup, CSL mapping, PDF identifier sniffing
• zot: items and tags are managed from the CLI — add by DOI, arXiv id, PDF or folder; update, trash, attach, tag

Fixes

• zot: item add catches a duplicate the local mirror has not seen yet

Documentation

• zot: the README, help and boundary notes describe the read/write surface
• zot: doctor and link stop calling the whole surface read-only

Commit: a903388

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): dc5ea2fcda79485c9ee1b2f5d081dab6131718cf0a267e887fc327fa5c36e921
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): 05ee5cf8e80798bc313f5a71f52a60228162c43bd5c82811c81f3b64804ff039
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): 54d7d5084f7317780912a4b8b0a5130157826967b44d24aa263880720b6d161b
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): bc569c278be2115673f74f839247bc99427372281e73533bcf662ab4be98526b

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci latest (transition alias)

Transitional alias for pre-CalVer binaries — releases are now CalVer-tagged (this build: v2026.09.02).

Commit: a903388

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): dc5ea2fcda79485c9ee1b2f5d081dab6131718cf0a267e887fc327fa5c36e921
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): 05ee5cf8e80798bc313f5a71f52a60228162c43bd5c82811c81f3b64804ff039
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): 54d7d5084f7317780912a4b8b0a5130157826967b44d24aa263880720b6d161b
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): bc569c278be2115673f74f839247bc99427372281e73533bcf662ab4be98526b

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.29

Breaking

• the module says where it lives — sciminds/sci, and the sqlite reader joins the shared surface
• zot: doctor becomes read-only reporting, and bib's answer is the unresolved list
• zot: Phase 3 — sci shrinks to the public local read surface
• a flag's value belongs to the invocation, not to the package
• zot: help text stops pointing at verbs that refuse
• zot: the Zotero surface is local, read-only, and needs no credential
• the reader stops carrying what the shrink stranded
• pkg/ keeps only what sci itself imports
• pkg/ becomes internal/, because sci publishes nothing
• local: the search API drops the hook nothing supplied
• uikit: the progress runner goes with the work it reported on
• uikit: the toast overlay goes; its severity vocabulary stays
• uikit: the unadopted layout primitives go
• uikit: the generic async command wrapper goes
• uikit: the uncalled layout and router helpers go
• cli: every failure path speaks the --json envelope
• zot: a redirected bibliography is a bibliography
• db: a command that reads stops rewriting the file
• doctor: --json diagnoses instead of silently upgrading the machine
• cli: --json stops answering "yes" on your behalf
• zot: setup --json stops rewriting a config nobody consented to

Features

• zot: produce the reference title pool from the works just fetched
• zot: drive the paper pipeline unattended, gated on a mirror that can see the paper
• zot: fetch the paper that arrived, not the library again
• zot-pipeline: let the metered stage spend, inside a bound it prices first
• zot: repair an item's type and creators, and say what the type change cost
• proj: scaffold, detect, and render pure-Typst manuscript projects
• zot-pipeline: let the slow cadence start and stop GROBID, and stop only what it started
• zot: doctor pdfs --missing — compute the PDF-less predicate locally, don't outsource it
• zot: crossref works — fetch each DOI-holding item's own record into staging
• help: the help TUI shows how to call a command, and every demo is reachable
• cloud: retry the Hub's transient failures, never its refusals

Fixes

• zot: recognize eLife, PeerJ and OUP subobject DOIs, and Wiley article sections
• zot: project every field a remote read returns, not two of them
• zot-pipeline: ship with flags openrsync accepts, because mbp has no GNU rsync
• zot-pipeline: test a journal's header, not its size, and let a gate hold be an answer
• zot-pipeline: guard BASHPID, because mbp's bash is 3.2 and set -u makes a bare reference fatal in the EXIT trap
• zot-pipeline: make preflight check that sci CAN do the job, not that it exists
• proj: track the typst refs.bib the gitignore was swallowing
• zot: noChildren means top-level-only, not childless — delete the numChildren post-filter
• cli: the explanation reaches whoever asked for it
• local: a merged handle refuses a single-library query instead of answering it
• zot: --library all info answers instead of quoting Go at the user
• cli: help refuses politely instead of crashing, and stops painting pipes
• scripts: doc-coverage stops checking a glob that matches nothing
• proj: route post-step warnings to stderr
• uikit: advance md search scan by lowered-needle length
• zot: share one DOI-prefix list; add dx.doi.org to bib resolution
• cmdutil,doctor: drain the pipe in stdout-capture test helpers
• local,store,cass: match sentinel errors with errors.Is
• cass,doctor,zot: make map-driven output deterministic
• zot,local: rune-safe truncation for previews and labels
• selfupdate: stop background update checks in dev builds
• cloud: keep the Hugging Face token on the Hub's own origin
• cloud: stop reporting every token-read failure as "not logged in"
• lab: stop reporting a truncated rsync stream as a clean transfer
• doctor: explain a failed install, and let the scenario runners update brew first

Improvements

• zot: the link writes retire, and rule 18 learns to read the client's verbs
• local: symbols exported only for the departed consumer go unexported
• uikit: one severity vocabulary instead of three
• dbtui: the blank rows say what they are
• delete 20 unreachable symbols, justify the 14 that stay
• cloud: read identity and bucket listings from the Hub API
• dbtui: unshadow lo, dedupe the read-only-tab predicate
• uikit: constrain Router's model type to tea.Model
• cass: delete the github client's inert semaphore
• lab: move SSHBackend out of the TUI package
• db: extract openStore from RunTUI

Documentation

• the prose catches up with the shrink
• the demos stop teaching commands that fail
• the documentation describes a standalone local reader
• zot: sci's reasons stop citing a project sci no longer knows
• the guides stop naming symbols sci no longer has
• the guidance describes the rules that actually run
• the prompt rules record that --json is not consent
• readme: normalize headings and tables, drop the retired Cloudflare note

Commit: 4a3b540

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): 5b6201cd59f386b74ceeb8546e01bce37005a42e863bf5972c1ccf97f023b6b0
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): 4215ccf9c445955eee9e72711fa23ce74677d5d7f7d322a4bdc4cc496798a152
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): 212544bb9fbf33774f44308b616a8c8b43a7bb65c8a7b8b60410e853e64e0c17
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): 0b30b0d03d505ee9625a62b3ab96f3b407f08cf0653520ddfae21356f8e60de5

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.09

Features

• zot: add openalex sync, the work cache zot reads
• sweep Crossref as a second opinion on inferred DOIs
• apply a zot DOI backfill plan, one patch per item
• ask OpenAlex for biblio and ids
• apply a zot field plan, not just a DOI one
• zot: reach the whole Zotero schema with --field and --creator

Fixes

• ask OpenAlex for every field the Work struct decodes
• stop counting PDF annotations as papers
• keep parentless attachments and notes in the NDJSON mirror
• is_oa is not selectable, and the type now says so
• fall back to a title lookup when OpenAlex lacks a DOI
• make exported .bib compile, and catch a DOI hiding inside a DOI
• accept the SICI check character in a DOI
• let an explicit empty value clear a field
• zot: keep non-bibliographic items out of the exported bibliography
• zot: route --publication to the venue field the item type actually takes
• zot: stop slice flags from silently dropping and splitting values

Commit: 103c318

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): 20109a01ec72956e088c15cfe4e828663115e169d001219311f95a156c443881
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): 8e83ecad32fde639a92d48a941091347e7695b9bd3e830375aaaca1325f5bf05
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): a8cca7ee398df747ce591bd1a57e2d28121ee408a4092af4b5e2b8960de962c1
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): 63bf33cc4084cba98b466b6da50b4df2321f2c0679db8cb059f74c25306485b6

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.08

Breaking

• pkg: promote openalex, citekey, doi, doiorg out of internal/

Features

• zot: add export --format ndjson, the item-plane mirror
• zot: item children --remote, and an idempotent item attach

Fixes

• zot: collection add no longer erases memberships added on the server

Commit: ba72586

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): be0dac98696b8c657af732e866304777009087817f4e712931ec273ba20cc20c
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): d7e458a52a7ac17d9f432392d8ebedfc37176d33811c5b4119f2edecf11c8c76
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): 4a2b867de485852fe6178b7b141851e47c9cc4e12d3d2b3d695e7610aaf37ba8
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): a6e5e41f4f635cc42d4310855b9c3eabfa757c20c98d4baa441d1d7af6baa3dc

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.07

Fixes

• zot: notes rejected for length are recorded and never retried

Commit: b2ed820

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): 63cca79a0319175f0d7193daae767f3ce3a1b685921c42549aa40fc57b39ec83
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): c5109a7a7aa94300b1f906155143fa734a8bc7baf6d7c6ad86870c3569049c18
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): e7055d5d9623fc69d9d4d2582aaa2dada805b8b698923f706f863e7641f23f0e
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): f40a25c869b82d7ba6b13856edc1f32ebd5b09f76b246c8a5f1860ebcd887cc5

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.04.3

Features

• release: conventional-commit convention + git-cliff release notes

Commit: ab1a481

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): 74517941ba88c3254b1810b31089bd21628fbf3da84c70b41c9b70d8506a71fc
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): 43fc9a0dd6772340ca37c8a084a3c9d5fda4de0274cefea5926b7cf352fa5801
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): 9714300a8c7333ac7980ac2201f70eaff0c585e0d484ac6af6e6dcb4d8585960
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): ca4157ef6082e2e73fb738d1ba7495ad7d6fd3004c68fec160ba89522fc9107d

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.04.2

sci v2026.08.04.2 — automated release from main.

Commit: 8250345

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): 20e3869e7f8070d500357a7bbaf9040b9f5a28275588ce0d40228e16d5af6e1f
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): f9f23f1125cee77263861ffa379768c9ef90360fd2cd060587c8fc5cbe128001
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): e6d27951491ee4fd0a23ea856da0e1162ba9ae20917d71637392d2d9a9d0655a
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): b974c9e4dffe90b584c1cf841076cd4ea8507311fa9f3c4978a490a5234ccb21

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.04.1

sci v2026.08.04.1 — automated release from main.

Commit: 8592711

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): 2cfc77cd10f4eccc7c18ead206b12f0101c2ed66a14dc9334098c3d965a15fa1
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): 773883f96643d638950294b2ca2e716ba501d3d9c1e983dd91691d26e46d3a77
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): e98d690debb4c2a8f98afb28492e4d243f3c5a341959046d6538b2396a1ecf45
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): c196e0b1f7500c3720d217127217f175f3adba43ccbca84db08e30ec126b588b

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh

sci v2026.08.04

sci v2026.08.04 — automated release from main.

Commit: 6f6d1ed

SHA256(sci-darwin-amd64): b1e8d751f54a7ec50931ba6a887e5e8069d3ef613855b65cb8e6371f41f438f1
SHA256(sci-darwin-arm64): 5d9ba6da2de1d41fc23b6cb485e7c88ea358cb2112e8d79e7718294b63e9aef9
SHA256(sci-linux-amd64): 72ff34709ba62bfd8bb8e1583959f79f9bdae461225b43beee0b995f522e6f4c
SHA256(sci-linux-arm64): 49d53e00bec4f3951fb1151a66faa73781a1574e25d66de06c054745c21c44c5

Install: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sciminds/sci/main/install.sh | sh