Evidence and release status

Release status

v1.1.0 is the current Release. The full loop — context before a change, autonomous capture after it, human authority over pinned rules, and the live Control Room — has been stable since v1.0.0 and is used on Rationale’s own repository. v1.1.0 adds the rationale skill and English agent-facing text with replies in the user’s language.

How 1.1 was verified

• CI on three platforms. Formatting, Clippy with warnings denied, and 386 Rust tests on macOS, Linux, and Windows, plus the Control Room and this site’s checks. The tests keep the embedded skill identical to its directory, enforce the Agent Skills limits, fail when the candidate validator drifts from the capture gate, and fail if an embedded file was checked out with CRLF.
• Windows line endings. The first CI run of the skill failed on Windows because Git converted the skill to CRLF. The fix forces LF through .gitattributes, and all 386 tests pass on a fresh clone with core.autocrlf=true, the setting Git for Windows uses by default.
• Release workflow. The tagged source goes through formatting, Clippy, release-profile tests, the dependency audit, and the documentation, Control Room, and website checks before any artifact is packaged.

How 1.0 was verified

• Automated gates. Formatting, Clippy with warnings denied, 366 Rust tests (unit and integration, including a governance chain in which an agent captures a Record, a person pins it, and a later attempt to replace it becomes a conflict that is resolved), RustSec audit, schema validation, the Control Room’s typecheck, tests, and build, and this site’s static checks.
• Clean checkout. The same gates pass from a fresh checkout of the release commit, where the binary serves its fallback page without ui/dist.
• Release artifact. The packaged binary was extracted and exercised: CLI, doctor --check, the embedded Control Room (Host allow-list, read-only methods, path traversal rejected), and all five MCP tools against the real Codebase Memory.
• Registration migration. Installing over pre-1.0 registrations for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex (with the real codex CLI, in isolated homes) migrated all three, converged on a second run, and uninstalled cleanly while keeping unrelated servers.
• Dogfood. A real change to Rationale itself went through one persistent agent session: prepare, governance stated, change, tests, capture of three Records with provider-confirmed bindings, retrieval of the new rule as governing, and the whole operation visible live in the Control Room.

The detailed records live in the repository under docs/work-items/.

What remains open

• Windows is built and tested by CI; the local release verification ran on macOS.
• Lexical intent-conflict polarity is a known noisy heuristic (see Known limits).
• Several ADRs behind 1.0 are implemented but still proposed pending independent review.