Early adopters of the package will note a few changes made shortly before the release of the package to CRAN:
The package was renamed from pal to chores, and the grammar surrounding the package shifted a bit in the process: “a pal from the pal package with a given role” is now “a helper from the chores package for a given chore.”
The configuration options .pal_fn and
.pal_args have been transitioned to one option,
.chores_chat. That option takes an ellmer Chat,
e.g. options(.chores_chat = ellmer::chat_claude()).
There is no longer a default ellmer model. Early in the
development of chores, if you had an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set
up, the addin would “just work.” While this was convenient for Claude
users, but it means that the package spends money on the users behalf
without any explicit opt-in.