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0.24.0 — the docs say what the tooling does, and a tag cuts its own release

August 26, 2026 · 4 min read

0.24.0 — the docs say what the tooling does, and a tag cuts its own release | AEPThe site had drifted to the point of misdescribing the repository: since 0.13.0 the code gained 7,805 lines and the website gained three. Plus a release workflow, and a self-test that found a real defect on its first run.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

Since 0.13.0 this repository gained 7,805 lines of code and its website gained three. protocol reverse — four verbs and 2,782 lines — had no mention anywhere on the site, and the status page still opened "current as of 0.10.0-horizons-dogfood-lab".

0.23.2 — the first tag this repository has verified

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.23.2 — the first tag this repository has verified | AEPCI had been red for eleven consecutive releases behind a green local gate, because task check was missing exactly the two jobs CI also ran. One failure arrived through the lockfile with no source change at all.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

The least comfortable release note here.

CI had been red for eleven consecutive releases — every tag from 0.13.0 to 0.23.1 — with a green local gate the whole time.

0.23.1 — the pin says what it links, and the ladder says draft

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.23.1 — the pin says what it links, and the ladder says draft | AEPTwo corrections that are the same mistake in two places: a dependency pin recording a tag two releases behind what exists, and a new ladder starting at drafted — one letter from a built-in.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

A small release, and both fixes are the same mistake wearing different clothes: a label that had drifted from the thing it names.

0.23.0 — a claim that left the boundary

August 25, 2026 · 4 min read

0.23.0 — a claim that left the boundary | AEPEvery other ladder here models evidence flowing inward. An outbound claim runs the other way — a number already in a customer's inbox — and sending is not undoable. Added as a YAML file with no Rust change at all, which is what the whole entity-runtime programme was for.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

Every ladder in this repository models evidence flowing inward: something was observed, and an artifact's status records what we now know.

An outbound claim runs the other way. A number in a customer's inbox. A status page saying "resolved". An availability figure in a renewal deck. Those are assertions that already left the boundary, and nothing here modelled them.

0.22.0 — a second harness, and what it immediately found

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.22.0 — a second harness, and what it immediately found | AEPOne trace-spec/1 specification now decides two transcript shapes, so harness neutrality stops being a claim with one case behind it. Plus three prose counts re-derived from the commands that print them.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

Every behavioural document here is published as harness-neutral, and until this release exactly one transcript adapter existed. So "neutral" was a claim with no second case behind it.

A vocabulary tested against one harness is a vocabulary shaped like that harness, and nobody can tell which from the inside.

0.21.0 — four mechanisms the engine and driver were missing

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.21.0 — four mechanisms the engine and driver were missing | AEPEvidence names its subject, so a green run for one story can no longer discharge another story's gate. An advisory tier that reports and gates nothing. A circuit breaker on step dependencies. And the driver writes down what a step was not allowed to do.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

Four mechanisms, each closing a gap where the rule existed and nothing enforced it.

0.20.0 — evidence you record, and provenance for a decision

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.20.0 — evidence you record, and provenance for a decision | AEPprotocol artifact evidence records an observation against an artifact so a later move can be decided on it. And a move now separates evidence that was recorded from evidence that was asserted — saying so at the moment it leans on the weaker one.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

0.15.0 let a rung cost evidence. This release is how the evidence gets there.

$ protocol artifact evidence outbound-claim:q3-uptime \
    --kind approval --source "legal review" --ref https://example.invalid/approvals/814
outbound-claim:q3-uptime: approval recorded from legal review
  on hand: approval=1

$ protocol artifact move outbound-claim:q3-uptime --to cleared
outbound-claim:q3-uptime moved draft -> cleared (revision 2)

0.19.0 — the plan has a history

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.19.0 — the plan has a history | AEPThe markdown store gains an append-only journal, so what happened to an artifact becomes a question you can ask rather than a git log you reconstruct. A corrupt line is skipped and counted, never silently dropped.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

The planning store is markdown files in git, so its history was always there — as git log, in a form you had to reconstruct. This release makes it a question you can ask.

$ protocol artifact history outbound-claim:q3-uptime
2026-08-26T00:08:16Z  operator  created as draft (revision 1)
2026-08-26T00:08:20Z  operator  approval recorded from legal review (https://example.invalid/approvals/814) (revision 1)
2026-08-26T00:08:20Z  operator  moved draft -> cleared (revision 2)
2026-08-26T00:08:20Z  operator  moved cleared -> sent (revision 3)

0.18.0 — the typed blocker, and a vocabulary that says why it is closed

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.18.0 — the typed blocker, and a vocabulary that says why it is closed | AEPTwo rungs, and the value is entirely in the type: a blocker is typed by what would clear it, so "blocked" stops being a label on a card. Plus an audit of every adopter-facing vocabulary — open or closed, and what each closure buys.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

$ protocol artifact lifecycle blocker
blocker starts at open
  cleared -> nothing
  open -> cleared

Two rungs. The value is entirely in the type: a blocker is typed by what would clear it, so blocked stops being a label on a card and becomes a statement with a named exit.

0.17.0 — obligation, a commitment on a clock nobody here controls

August 25, 2026 · 3 min read

0.17.0 — obligation, a commitment on a clock nobody here controls | AEPA second ladder, and the rule attached to it is the point: an obligation must never gate a transition. A missed external deadline is a fact to report, not a permission to withhold.AEPfield-noteaepfield-noteadopterdevelopertry-spec-driven-developmentunderstand-safe-agentic-codingresearch

An obligation is a commitment on a clock nobody here controls: a customer's deadline, a regulator's window, a partner's delivery date.

$ protocol artifact lifecycle obligation
obligation starts at open
  met -> nothing
  open -> met, slipped
  slipped -> met