0.71.3-alpha · core 2026-09-26

release 0.71.3-alpha on GitHub →

Fixed

• The contrast schema now states what the host validator enforces. schemas/interface-contrast.json declared items: {type: "object"} for fixedConstraints, evidence and options — any object passed. The host validator rejects a receipt whose fixedConstraints[] lacks source, whose evidence[] lacks claim, or whose evidence source is outside the closed set, as artifact-malformed. A worker following the published schema therefore produced receipts the host refused, burning a whole run on a contract that had never been contradicted: the card showed "Working" forever and the decision question was lost.

This was fixed once before in the host's vendored copy of the schema, which is the wrong place — data/stelow-assets/schemas is synced, not owned, and the next asset sync overwrote the fix and brought the loose shape straight back. The schema is the only place a fix survives, so it is fixed here: the required trios, the closed evidence-source enum, and the pinned compatibility const, with four unit tests on the schema as published.

• Shape rework works again. The route-position scoping added in 0.71.2 removed it by accident: shape declares rework: shape — the same stage, re-run — and re-running the current stage is never a route violation, so filtering it out refused shape -> shape and took shape rework with it. It now survives alongside backward and immediate-forward moves. Caught by the existing lock test in stelow-fs.test.ts, not by the change that caused it.