Feather Pulse: Apr 20-26 Updates

Feather Weekly Update - April 20-26, 2026

Welcome back to Feather Pulse. This week we shipped automatic compaction so long conversations hold on to their full context, a cleaner and more reliable annotations panel, and rebuilt agentic state tax crawlers that produce more accurate citations across California, Florida, Texas, and New York.

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Conversations stay sharp no matter how long they get

Feather now automatically compacts long conversations behind the scenes. When a thread grows beyond a certain length, older messages are summarized and the summary replaces the raw history - so the AI keeps full context without hitting model limits. The process is transparent: you keep scrolling through the full conversation as before, and Feather keeps answering with the same depth it had from message one.

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Better annotations panel

The highlights panel received a UI overhaul. The panel is cleaner, the right-panel layout state now persists across page reloads, and the panel opens and closes more reliably from the chat header. If you use annotations to pull key figures out of research answers, it should feel noticeably smoother.

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Rebuilt agentic state tax ingestion with better accuracy

We rebuilt the crawlers behind our agentic state tax ingestion pipeline. The pipeline is semi-automated and runs on demand from our internal dashboard, not on a fixed schedule, but every run now produces noticeably better results:

• Full source URLs on every citation: each ingested chunk carries a working link back to the original government source, so you can verify any answer in one click and links embedded inside citations actually resolve.
• HTML parsing instead of PDF OCR: where official sources publish HTML, we now parse it directly. That removes a long tail of OCR errors and preserves the original structure and inline links.
• Accurate published dates: we fixed the published date extraction so each source carries the correct effective or issue date, which helps Feather pick the most current authority when it answers.

This week we ran the rebuilt pipeline against:

• California: Revenue and Taxation Code, section by section
• Florida: Chapters 192-220 of the Florida Statutes
• Texas: Texas Comptroller's publications and official PDFs
• New York: Department of Taxation and Finance publications and bulletins

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Other fixes

• Fixed math symbols like \$\rightarrow\$ being rendered as escaped text instead of the correct characters in some model responses.
• Improved keyword rewriter accuracy so IRS form references and section numbers link correctly in more edge cases.

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That's all for this week. Take care!