Hugging Face Tau 0.4.8 exposes provider and model inventory to extensions
Hugging Face released Tau 0.4.8, adding ExtensionContext.available_providers and available_model_choices so extensions can see the active session's provider and model inventory. It also exposes project-trust decisions, adds CodingSessionConfig.allowed_tool_names for restricting child sessions, retries raw TLS errors, detects vision-capable llama.cpp models, and migrates docs from Hugo to Astro.
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