In the helper selection app, clicking a helper in the selectize will now submit the selected choice. Previously, the user would have to click the helper to select it and then submit the selected choice by pressing Return/Enter (#87). This change aligns behavior in the UI when selecting helpers with a mouse click versus the up/down arrows.
Users no longer need to call directory_load()
manually after adding new custom helpers; the helper selection app will
refresh the list of available helpers on app launch (#88).
Early adopters of the package will note a few changes made shortly before the release of the package to CRAN:
The package was renamed from pal to chores, and the grammar surrounding the package shifted a bit in the process: “a pal from the pal package with a given role” is now “a helper from the chores package for a given chore.”
The configuration options .pal_fn and
.pal_args have been transitioned to one option,
.chores_chat. That option takes an ellmer Chat,
e.g. options(.chores_chat = ellmer::chat_claude()).
There is no longer a default ellmer model. Early in the
development of chores, if you had an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set
up, the addin would “just work.” While this was convenient for Claude
users, but it means that the package spends money on the users behalf
without any explicit opt-in.