Changelog¶

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.1.5] - 2026-06-20¶

MCP v2 Features:
build_document tool: create complete Word documents in a single call (10x fewer tool calls).
Document editing tools: get_section_text, replace_section, delete_section, append_to_section, get_full_text, get_document_info, add_comment.
Media tools: add_image and add_chart to insert pictures and embedded plots.
Citation tools: set_citation_style, add_citation, add_bibliography.
MCP prompts: academic_paper, business_report, quick_document, edit_document to guide LLMs through templates.
Bugfixes:
Fixed absolute path resolution on non-Windows platforms (e.g. Linux CI/containers) by checking os.name == "nt" before identifying slash-prefixed paths as sandboxed container paths.

--output-dir CLI option for mcp-server to configure where documents are saved
PAPERSMITH_OUTPUT_DIR environment variable support for custom output directories
get_document_base64 MCP tool for sandbox-proof document retrieval
Linux container path detection — redirects /mnt/... paths to host filesystem

save_document now omits base64 payload on successful filesystem writes (major speed improvement)
export_pdf optimized with same approach — fast success, base64 only on failure
Docs workflow only deploys on push to main, not on PRs

MCP startup crash caused by console.print() writing to stdout (corrupts JSON-RPC)
Sandbox filesystem isolation: files saved inside container were invisible to host
Slow saving in Claude Desktop caused by redundant base64 payload in every response

Renamed package from PaperSmith to papersmith (PEP 8 compliance, Linux CI fix)
Dynamic version resolution via importlib.metadata
CLI commands use lowercase papersmith