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-# Patchloom for VS Code
-
-This release aligns the extension with [Patchloom CLI v0.6.0](https://github.com/patchloom/patchloom/releases/tag/patchloom-v0.6.0), the biggest CLI release to date: 41 PRs, 112 files changed, and 1,816 tests.
-
-## What's new in the CLI
-
-### 11 AST tools for code-aware agents
-
-The CLI's MCP server now exposes 43 tools (up from 32), with 11 new AST tools powered by tree-sitter:
-
-| Tool | What it does |
-|------|-------------|
-| `ast_list` | List symbol definitions (functions, classes, structs) across 20 languages |
-| `ast_read` | Read a specific symbol's source code by name |
-| `ast_rename` | Rename identifiers across files (skips strings and comments) |
-| `ast_validate` | Check syntax and report parse errors with line numbers |
-| `ast_search` | Structural search using tree-sitter queries and code patterns |
-| `ast_refs` | Find all references to a symbol, distinguishing definitions from uses |
-| `ast_deps` | Extract import/dependency statements from source files |
-| `ast_map` | Generate a ranked repository map using PageRank over the symbol graph |
-| `ast_diff` | Structural diff showing added, removed, and modified symbols |
-| `ast_impact` | Transitive impact analysis: trace dependents through the reference graph |
-| `ast_replace` | Replace text only within a specific symbol's body |
-
-### Declarative MCP tool registry
-
-The MCP server architecture was rebuilt around a declarative registry. Tool schemas are derived directly from Rust types via `schemars`, eliminating schema drift between CLI operations and MCP tools.
-
-### Performance improvements
-
-- **`spawn_blocking` for all sync I/O** on Tokio's blocking thread pool, critical for HTTP/HTTPS transport under concurrent requests
-- **Tree-sitter parse tree caching** for repeated AST queries against the same file
-- **PageRank convergence** using L1-norm (threshold 1e-6) instead of fixed iterations
-
-### Bug fixes
-
-- `doc flatten` now includes empty arrays and empty objects instead of silently dropping them
-- Transaction engine preserves idempotent delete semantics within a plan
-- `search --jsonl` with zero matches returns exit code 3 consistently
-- `ast_rename` with a no-op rename returns early instead of rewriting files identically
-- Git argument injection blocked across all commands that accept paths
-- Concurrent-write warnings added to all MCP tool descriptions
-
-## Install or update the CLI
-
-```bash
-brew upgrade patchloom           # Homebrew
-cargo install patchloom          # crates.io
-```
-
-Or run **Patchloom: Update Patchloom** from the VS Code command palette if using the managed installer.