Spark r23 update is here! Here are some of the headlines: • Browser-use reliability improved. • CLI diagnostics are cleaner and safer. • Sandbox path and access handling improved. • UTF-8 truncation now avoids broken multibyte output. • Trust prompt now handles literal yes correctly. • Managed env cleanup now uses safer atomic writes. • Hosted allowed-host validation handles bracketed IPv6 cases more safely. • Git approval checks now better classify risky filter-branch commands. • Telegram relay secret UX improved, including no-echo behavior for rejected secrets. • Spawner mission reliability improved. • Spawner malformed JSON recovery improved. • Spawner mission-control hydration fixed. • Spawner creator-mission error clarity improved. • Spawner provider-client abort-listener cleanup landed. • Spawner trace/token/bundle reliability improved. • Voice profile JSON error handling improved. • Voice hook malformed-input handling improved. • Voice realtime websocket JSON handling improved. • Researcher timestamp parsing improved. • Researcher memory lock-boundary behavior improved. • Researcher malformed config handling improved. • Character persona pointer cleanup improved. • Character chip id path guard improved. • Character critic exact-pass behavior tightened. • Domain chip scoring observability improved. Spark Compete update • r22-to-r23 scoring ledger is published. • 164 merged or maintainer-adopted PR rows were credited. • 9,460 public points were released in this ledger. • Total public leaderboard points now show 12,795. Thank you to everyone who submitted fixes. r23 is Spark getting sharper through the community.