0.71.1-alpha · core 2026-09-26

CI is green again after the Scope Map and Interface Contrast contracts landed. Two independent breaks, both the same shape: a contract gained a requirement and the test exercising it was not updated. The stage walk refused at scope (which now requires scope-map.json) and again at interface (which requires both interfaces/*.md and interfaces/contrast.json), because the e2e fixture wrote at most one artifact per stage — every later assertion cascaded from there. The skill-count contracts also still said 28 skills (14 + 14) after stelow-workflow-interface-contrast and stelow-product-scope-mapping landed, leaving the README, the product-strategies registry, and three suites out of step. The fixture's stage→artifact map is now a list, because a stage can require more than one artifact, and the counts stay pinned so the contract keeps its teeth.

The 0.71.0-alpha release is now published. The tag and the changelog entry existed, but the GitHub Release never did: the documented procedure stops being run after the tag push, and the landing page shows Releases only. A consumer pinning 0.71.0-alpha had nothing to install. Tag and Release are linked — never one without the other.

Record the slice-split and secure-subprocess patterns in the host blueprint, the rule-slice and per-tab state seams, the intent-route edge that leaves a stage with no exit, and where the host breaks its own rule about wrapped verbs.