Chitta 0.9.6 fixes plugin routing. With a plugin that has many examples, Chitta no longer re-reads all of them on every message: they are prepared once in the background while Chitta is idle, kept on this PC, and never hold up chat, pictures or web answers; until they are ready, plain word matching decides. Short examples no longer pull in unrelated questions (for example a list of films is not sent to a plugin because one of its examples is "top 5"). A key you skip is not asked for again on every message, and a plugin turn never waits on a key it does not need; you can add or change keys from the plugin's page (Keys). Questions from a plugin's own page stay in one chat for that page instead of a new chat each time. If a plugin's settings file has a problem, Chitta now tells you in a small note with the details tucked away. Quitting no longer waits for that background work, and plugin programs are stopped on quit. Arch-Router's trained adapter now really loads in the app (it was being dropped on the way to the loader), so its short route list is used. 0.9.6 was checked with the offline test suite and a quick core check in the app on the Surface PC; the full live check on Windows was not run for this release. Everything in 0.9.5 stays: Chitta 0.9.5 adds a plugin slot. A plugin is a separate program you install yourself in C:\AI\Chitta\plugins; Chitta never ships one and never writes into a plugin's folder. When a plugin is present, questions that match its examples are answered by it in the chat, and the details stay in the closed "How I answered" section. The first time you use a plugin, Chitta shows what it does and asks you once. Before a plugin runs, Prāṇa checks there is enough free memory for it; if not, it says so and the plugin does not start. Stop ends a running plugin. Keys a plugin needs are asked for with a hidden field, kept in Windows secure storage and given only to that plugin. A plugin may add its own page to the sidebar, shown only from this PC (localhost). Scheduled plugin runs use Chitta's scheduler and stop when automation is paused. Without plugins Chitta works exactly as in 0.9.4. Everything in 0.9.4 stays: Chitta 0.9.4 makes routing faster and steadier. Arch-Router now has a small Chitta-trained adapter and a short route list: it answers with the route name only, and the fixed part of its instructions is kept ready on disk, so on the Surface PC its routing answer took about a quarter of a second instead of about three quarters (median of a 20-prompt check), and a routed request was about 0.4 s quicker overall, model loading included. Prāṇa still loads Arch-Router only for that decision and unloads it straight after; if there is not enough RAM, the closed "How I answered" section says "RAM not available" and the quick neural check routes alone. In Auto, a new neural chain check keeps only clear, confident single requests with the quick check; chains of helpers, unsure requests, follow-ups and pasted or longer requests go to Arch-Router (on PCs with 8 GB or more). Deep and Thinking still send every message to Arch-Router, then Śilpī-Laghu, then the quick check with an honest note. Requests to study, compare or look at something in depth are no longer mistaken for coding, so a correct "research the web, then write, then paint" chain is kept, and asking to edit a picture when none is attached makes a new picture instead of being dropped. Rakṣā now locks original face pixels only when you ask (for example "keep my face exactly the same"), and then finds the faces itself; it asks you to mark a face only when it cannot find one or is unsure. A Settings switch can make it lock faces on every photo edit (off by default). Pictures that use your photo as a reference now pick the strongest picture model that can really take a reference, and say so when Citra-Tīkṣṇa · Uttama cannot (it cannot use a reference photo in this build), instead of quietly falling to the smallest model. On a new PC, first-run setup now also selects Buddhi · Mārga (the router and its adapter), Cakṣu (picture understanding), Smṛti and Nyāya by default, with their sizes shown and nothing downloaded until you agree; an existing install is told once which of them are missing and can download them from Settings → Models. The 🎮 games orb is now always at the bottom-right, above the message box; it never opens by itself. Everything in 0.9.1 stays. Windows is unsigned; the Android app is 0.8.8.