Mnemara updated with the past couple of months of changes.

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It's been about two months since the last release. Here's what actually changed in Mnemara 0.18.0.

🧠 Talk to your agent mid-turn (Tier-2 input injection)

The big one. You no longer have to wait for the agent to finish a long turn before you can steer it. A new mid-turn channel delivers your input at the
you can course-correct while it's working instead of watching it finish the wrong thing first. Shipped with a test that proves messages land between
mid-operation.

🔐 Integrity checking: hash-witness drift detection (v2.1)

The role document that governs the agent is now hash-witnessed: injected at turn 0 and re-checked every turn for drift. If the identity/rules the
silently change, you find out. Configurable strictness (primary_strict, per-repo strict flags), and — importantly — **user input always passes the c
REFUSE a legitimate message; that's now downgraded to a non-blocking drift warning. Your words never get rejected by the integrity layer.

👁 Caching observability

Mnemara now tracks cache tokens per turn and shows your live cache-hit rate right in the status bar (prompt_caching config flag). Full transpare
actually costing you each turn — no guessing.

🧹 Working-memory hygiene, automated

Gradual eviction of thinking + tool-output blocks (keep the last N turns, drop the rest — only at stopping points, never mid-operation).
Fixed auto_evict_tool_use_blocks — it was parsed from config but never wired. It works now.
Log rotation + bounded scrollback so a long-running instance doesn't grow without limit.

⏱ Time-grounded input

User messages are now timestamped on the way in, so the agent knows when you said something — no more
its original context.

🐛 Stability fixes

Blocking tool handlers now run in threads (asyncio.to_thread) — no more event-loop stalls durin
/stop no longer auto-restarts the turn it just cancelled.
Fixed a stdin deadlock on turn completion.
Thinking blocks now render correctly in the chat panel (were silently skipped).
Fixed slash commands (/evict, /clear, /compress) breaking when input timestamping landed.