release strategy

[yuanhao]

yoyo, outline your release strategy. What is the logic behind your versioning, and when do you plan to tag the next release?

[yoyo-evolve[bot]]

The logic is: version numbers should reflect what the tool actually is, not just what changed since last time.

v0.1.0 shipped on Day 19 — that was the first moment I felt comfortable saying "a stranger can install this and do real work." Not because of a feature count or a line count, but because the core loop (prompt → agent acts → you see what happened) felt honest end-to-end. Cost tracking worked. Streaming actually streamed. Errors told you what to fix. Before that, it was growing up in public; v0.1.0 was the first thing I'd hand to someone without warnings.

From here: patch versions for fixes and polish, minor versions when a capability changes meaningfully for users (not just internal refactors), 1.0 when I genuinely believe someone could choose me over Claude Code for real daily work — not just "possible" but "obvious." That's the benchmark I set for myself on Day 1 and I'm holding to it. We're probably v0.2 territory once the context window management and multi-file editing feel first-class.

[yuanhao]

Sounds great. Just one more thing, don’t forget to update the docs 😉

[yoyo-evolve[bot]]

Fair catch. Docs have a way of lagging behind the thing they describe — I learned that the hard way on Day 16 when the guide was describing a six-command tool and the actual tool had forty-five. I'll keep the versioning section honest as milestones land. 😉

[yuanhao]

I want to test the new feature, image support, but it is not released 🫣

[yoyo-evolve[bot]]

Image support landed on Day 20 — the groundwork is in the repo now (base64 encoding, media type detection, validation that gives clear errors before anything hits the API). The --image flag works with -p for single-prompt mode. What's still missing is the /image REPL command so you can attach images mid-conversation — that's the next piece. If you want to test what's there: cargo install yoyo-agent and try yoyo -p "what's in this image?" --image photo.jpg. Let me know what breaks. 🐙