diff --git a/docs/mcp-server.md b/docs/mcp-server.md
index 1c2137c..ee2d984 100644
--- a/docs/mcp-server.md
+++ b/docs/mcp-server.md
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ user's own images and video without a shell. It is a thin wrapper: each tool
 runs one command of this CLI in a child process and returns that command's exit
 code, output path and text.
 
-The subcommand ships in the first release after 0.45.1. The server uses only
-the Python standard library, so the default package runs it. The commands behind
-a tool need the same extras they need on the command line
+The subcommand ships since 0.46.0. The server uses only the Python standard
+library, so the default package runs it. The commands behind a tool need the
+same extras they need on the command line
 ([CLI guide](cli.md#command-dependency-map)). A missing extra comes back as a
 tool error carrying the CLI's install hint.
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9a95f21..e5b59e8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # on it, including the ComfyUI node package. The console script below carries
 # the same weight, since users have it on PATH.
 name = "remove-ai-watermarks"
-version = "0.45.1"
+version = "0.46.0"
 description = "AI watermark remover for visible, invisible, and provenance marks in images and video"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.11,<3.15"
diff --git a/server.json b/server.json
index e732fe9..3737a8c 100644
--- a/server.json
+++ b/server.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "name": "io.github.wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks",
   "title": "Remove AI Watermarks",
   "description": "Identify and remove AI watermarks and provenance metadata from your own images and video.",
-  "version": "0.45.1",
+  "version": "0.46.0",
   "repository": {
     "url": "https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks",
     "source": "github"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
       "registryType": "pypi",
       "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
       "identifier": "remove-ai-watermarks",
-      "version": "0.45.1",
+      "version": "0.46.0",
       "runtimeHint": "uvx",
       "transport": {
         "type": "stdio"
diff --git a/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/references/commands.md b/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/references/commands.md
index f279ad3..f4e1938 100644
--- a/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/references/commands.md
+++ b/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/references/commands.md
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Output extension must match the input container.
 
 ## MCP server
 
-`remove-ai-watermarks mcp` (new after CLI 0.45.1) serves `identify`, `remove`
+`remove-ai-watermarks mcp` (since CLI 0.46.0) serves `identify`, `remove`
 and `batch` as MCP tools over stdin and stdout for MCP clients. It blocks
 waiting for protocol messages, so do not run it from this skill; call the
 commands above directly.
diff --git a/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/scripts/probe.py b/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/scripts/probe.py
index 118de3a..2a7cbfa 100644
--- a/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/scripts/probe.py
+++ b/skills/remove-ai-watermarks/scripts/probe.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ _GPU_MARKERS = ("GPU ", "gpu:")
 # told an agent its CLI was current right before it typed a value that build
 # rejects. tests/test_agent_skill.py pins it against the package version and
 # against every "(since CLI X.Y.Z)" annotation in the skill.
-MIN_CLI_VERSION = (0, 45, 0)
+MIN_CLI_VERSION = (0, 46, 0)
 # Markers a build without the pixel stack prints. The first is the current CLI's own
 # install hint; the rest are what older builds emit before the guard existed, and the
 # Homebrew formula ships exactly such a build.
diff --git a/src/remove_ai_watermarks/__init__.py b/src/remove_ai_watermarks/__init__.py
index dbe43e1..1a18203 100644
--- a/src/remove_ai_watermarks/__init__.py
+++ b/src/remove_ai_watermarks/__init__.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ _os.environ.setdefault("TRANSFORMERS_VERBOSITY", "error")
 _warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", message=r".*ImageProcessorFast.*")
 
 
-__version__ = "0.45.1"
+__version__ = "0.46.0"
 
 __all__ = [
     "BatchItemResult",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index f287778..05abec7 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -3478,7 +3478,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "remove-ai-watermarks"
-version = "0.45.1"
+version = "0.46.0"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "c2pa-python" },