- Introduced a comprehensive specification for renaming `searchSpace` to `workspace` in `surfsense_web` and `surfsense_desktop`, ensuring all TypeScript identifiers, React props, and local data structures are updated.
- Implemented migration shims for persisted local state to prevent data loss during the transition.
- Updated observability metrics and IPC channels to reflect the new naming convention.
- Removed legacy `active-search-space` module and replaced it with `active-workspace` to maintain consistency.
- Ensured no behavioral changes or data loss for users during the renaming process.
- Added the ensure_publication function to create and verify the zero_publication if it is missing, ensuring idempotency during database initialization.
- Integrated ensure_publication into the create_db_and_tables function to prevent zero-cache crash loops on startup.
- Introduced a self-check script to validate the ensure_publication functionality on a create_all-bootstrapped database.
- Updated various components to reflect the transition from search space to workspace, including adjustments in imports and routing paths.
MCP consolidation:
- Route all MCP-capable connectors (Slack, Jira, Linear, ClickUp, Airtable,
Notion, Confluence, interim Gmail/Calendar, custom MCP) through a single
`mcp_discovery` subagent. Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox stay native to enrich the KB.
- Deprecate Discord/Teams/Luma: no viable official MCP server.
Google-only web search:
- Remove the main-agent `web_search` tool and the SearXNG platform service;
all public web search now flows through the `google_search` subagent via task().
- Deprecate the Tavily/SearXNG/Linkup/Baidu search connectors (HTTP 410 on
create, "Deprecated" badge); guide heavy users to the custom MCP connector.
- Remove web search from anonymous chat (pure Q&A).
- Tear SearXNG out of docker compose + install scripts; drop tavily-python
and linkup-sdk deps and their config/env vars.
Fix:
- metrics._package_version() now swallows any metadata lookup failure. A
malformed editable-install distribution with no `Version` field raised
KeyError deep in importlib.metadata, and since it runs on every
record_subagent_invoke_duration call it was crashing every task()
delegation. Verified end-to-end against live GPT-5.4.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
