0.82.0-alpha · core 2026-10-22

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Fixed

• The intent route the runtime enforces was not the route the source declares. stages.yaml owns routes.intents, but the helper parsed the route out of a hand-written prose block in the transitions template, and the rework edges were hand-written too. Editing stages.yaml changed the published catalog and left the enforced mirror byte-identical, with a green CI: two owners of one fact. The generator now expands the routes and the rework edges from stages.yaml, and a test renders a mutated source to prove the mirror moves with it. The regenerated mirror is byte-identical to the committed one — the curated prose happened to agree.
• stelow seed started every intent but new-product at setup — a stage no intent route declares. The entry skill, the routes, and the host all start at triage; only the helper disagreed, and a test pinned the wrong answer. The seed now reads the first stage of the intent's route.
• The breadboard contract accepted a boolean for a number. schemaVersion: true passed the check, because Python says True != 1 is False while the contract says a boolean is not a number. The parity test now covers the type keyword, which is the gap that let it through.
• advance could skip the breadboard check in silence. The pre-condition accepted any file ending in interfaces/breadboard.json while the guard resolved two exact paths, so a map parked in a subdirectory satisfied "the artifact exists" and the check was skipped without a word. The guard now checks every map the pre-condition accepts.
• A store that only talked to itself counted as read. A self-wire satisfied the "connects" and "is read" rules, and a loop of stores that feeds only itself passed every check — a map that looked complete and said nothing. A self-wire is now an error; a store whose data never leaves the store layer is a gap.
• The scope stage and its skill named different recipes. stages.yaml bound the stage to the scope-map recipe while the skill's frontmatter said recipe: null, so a host reading one ran what the other did not describe. The skill now names the recipe the stage runs, and the validator refuses a single-stage owner whose frontmatter disagrees.
• A transition verb typo vanished. An unknown verb was accepted by the schema and the validator, and the generator emitted no line for it — the edge disappeared from the enforced mirror with a green CI. The verbs are now enumerated.
• A stage's own recipe could name a different skill. Nothing compared a stage with the recipe it runs, so a rename could leave two owners.
• Two shipped hand-off blocks named the wrong stage. The critique skill handed off to plan-gate (skipping gate), and the ads skill handed off to promotions, which is not a stage at all. Both are fixed, and a test checks every hand-off block against the graph.
• The prose lists of valid values had drifted. The state template said "all 18 stage names" and listed 17 — architecture was missing — and both it and the state contract listed 4 of the 6 review modes. The lists now match the catalog, and a test binds them to it.
• doctor reported "ok" without the transitions reference, and the advance pre-condition required nothing when the stage had no section. Both failed open; both now fail loud.
• The recipe catalog generator published an empty catalog and exited 0. A host reading it found no recipe for any stage and ran none, with every gate green. It now refuses to publish one.
• The renderer ran the helper as an executable instead of through bash, which fails on every host that syncs the helper as a 0644 file.

Added

• The recipe condition vocabulary has one owner. recipes.schema.json declares every when value a recipe task may carry; the validator reads that declaration instead of keeping its own list, and the generated catalog may only carry declared values. The host evaluates exactly the vocabulary the schema declares.
• The two catalog generators are covered by a test. The transitions mirror had one; the stage and recipe catalogs did not, so npm test passed on a catalog that no longer matched its source.