0.71.2-alpha · core 2026-09-26

release 0.71.2-alpha on GitHub →

Fixed

• main builds again, and the fix is in the source of truth. generate-transitions: transitions.md is stale was red because references/transitions.md had been hand-edited to let context reach audit. The content was right and the method was wrong, and the method is where the bug was hiding. The investigate track is triage -> select -> setup -> context -> audit, so with no context -> audit edge in the graph the per-stage block and the route intersect to zero candidates and an investigate card dies at context with no transition defined — a deadlock with no redirect, on the one track whose whole point is to stop at the audit. The edge now lives in stages.yaml and the mirror is regenerated, so the generated output is byte-identical to what was hand-written.
• One graph edge can no longer rewrite every track. Scoping that edge needed a real fix, because route membership cannot express it: every route ends at audit, so "is audit in my route" is true for all of them, and the membership test handed context -> audit to feature, new-product, bugfix and refactor — letting a card jump from analysis straight to the final review, skipping shape, planning, execution and verification. That is worse than the deadlock it fixes. Candidates are scoped by position now: a forward move survives only as the route's immediate next stage, which is exactly what distinguishes investigate, and anything further ahead is still reached by the review-mode skip passthrough. A backward move survives when the target is already behind, so context -> setup and every other reject and rework keeps working.
• Blueprint rules for option document provenance and section. A document that reaches an option it was never attached to must be marked, on both routes — inheritance and manifest recovery; marking one fixed nothing on a real card. When several options open the same document, opening it shows that option's section, matched on words rather than substring containment (Hybrid A+C is a substring of a title that merely ends in "hybrid"). And the option's label travels under one shared exported handler type, because a handler taking fewer parameters is assignable and would silently reinstate the old behaviour.

Added

• stelow-product-scope-mapping and stelow-workflow-interface-contrast remain the two decision skills: Scope Map owns the approved feature map (slices, boundaries, dependencies) and Interface Contrast explores bounded interface alternatives under one reaction, preserving the first reaction and emitting a named disposition.