• Added a unified GenAI provider API for prompt instructions, execution, embeddings, tool registration, working-directory context, cleanup, and usage reporting.
• Added provider resolution through GenaiProviderManager, including Provider:model selectors, fully qualified provider classes, provider initialization, and aggregated token usage.
• Added an OpenAI-compatible provider with Responses API execution, function tool calling, input logging, timeout and output-token configuration, embeddings, and usage mapping.
• Added EPAM CodeMie integration with OAuth token acquisition and delegation to an OpenAI-compatible backend.
• Added a no-op provider for disabled, offline, test, and prompt-capture scenarios.
• Added extensible functional tools support with FunctionTools, FunctionToolsLoader, ToolFunction, Java ServiceLoader discovery, configurable placeholder resolution, and working-directory-aware tool execution.

• Added WebSearchTool support for web search integration.
• Added MCP server support, including helper methods for web search and MCP server registration.
• Implemented support for multiple MCP server definitions.
• Added support for gemini- family models in the CodeMie provider.

• Set reasoning defaults to prevent reasoning-related issues, including ReasoningEffort.NONE handling for supported models.
• Fixed multi-MCP registration handling for repeated addMcpServer() definitions.
• Renamed ProcessTerminationException to TaskTerminationException for clearer task termination semantics.
• Updated recursive file discovery to use ProjectLayout.findFiles(directory) and include excluded directory handling.

• Updated Javadoc and release notes.
• Extended system and final instructions to include excluded directory configuration such as .machai.

Tests and Maintenance

• Added tests and addressed multiple sonar issues.
• Performed CodeMie provider cleanup and related maintenance updates.
• Released version 1.1.8.