Changelog

1.1.0 (2026-10-30)

Features

• rules: promote STRSPC-001, 002, 005 and 006 to Published (f5e762a)
• rules: promote STRSPC-001, 002, 005 and 006 to Published (aba70bb)
• rules: promote STRSPC-005 to Implemented (5927548)
• rules: promote STRSPC-005 to Implemented (7011c47)

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1.0.0 (2026-10-30)

Features

• release: start the spec at 1.0.0 (#28) (d9271ba)

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0.2.0 (2026-10-30)

Features

• release: release from conventional commits with release-please (5b199f5)
• release: release from conventional commits with release-please (747aa13)

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What's Changed

• docs(specs): standards-as-realms design (#144) by @pleberre in #145
• docs(specs): space table delimiters in standards-as-realms design by @pleberre in #146
• docs(specs): require a clause label on every live rule of a standard realm by @pleberre in #147
• chore(rules): migrate added_by to github:pleberre by @pleberre in #148
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.17.1 by @pleberre in #149
• chore(rules): fix key word wording from the P to I audit by @pleberre in #151
• feat(rules): promote the #55 replacements to Published by @pleberre in #152
• chore(release): 1.18.0 by @pleberre in #150

Full Changelog: v1.17.0...v1.17.1

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What's Changed

• chore(rules): split two-statement rules and move examples to notes by @pleberre in #139
• fix(rules): narrow STDREF-008 to an http or https URL by @pleberre in #140
• feat(rules): promote NTE-021, NTE-022 and RLM-023 to Published by @pleberre in #141
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.17.0 by @pleberre in #142
• chore(release): 1.17.0 by @pleberre in #143

Full Changelog: v1.16.0...v1.17.0

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What's Changed

• feat(rules): add Draft rules for contributor identifiers by @pleberre in #134
• feat(rules): promote CTRB-001 to CTRB-008 to Published by @pleberre in #136
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.16.0 by @pleberre in #137
• chore(release): 1.16.0 by @pleberre in #138

Full Changelog: v1.15.0...v1.16.0

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What's Changed

• ci: sync auto-approve caller to the v1.10.0 template by @pleberre in #124
• feat(rules): add Draft rules for external standards references by @pleberre in #125
• feat(rules): add a Draft rule that examples live in example notes by @pleberre in #127
• feat(schema): accept standards and standard notes by @pleberre in #129
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.15.0 by @pleberre in #130
• chore(release): 1.15.0 by @pleberre in #131

Full Changelog: v1.14.0...v1.15.0

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What's Changed

• feat(rules): add Draft rules for realm language by @pleberre in #119
• fix(rules): drop a false claim from the RLM-019 note by @pleberre in #120
• feat(schema): accept realm.language in the realm manifest by @pleberre in #121
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.14.0 by @pleberre in #122
• chore(release): 1.14.0 by @pleberre in #123

Full Changelog: v1.13.0...v1.14.0

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What's Changed

• ci(release): validate core against its own schemas by @pleberre in #105
• ci(release): promote core schema validation to main by @pleberre in #106
• ci: pin core in strspc-pr-review and strspc-cloud by @pleberre in #107
• ci: promote consumer pin automation to main by @pleberre in #108
• ci: stop pinning core in the strspc-spec README by @pleberre in #109
• ci: promote the strspc-spec pin fix to main by @pleberre in #110
• fix(rules): require a declared realm in NTE-007 references by @pleberre in #111
• feat(rules): add Draft rules for entity visibility by @pleberre in #115
• feat(schema): add entity visibility by @pleberre in #116
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.13.0 by @pleberre in #117
• chore(release): 1.13.0 by @pleberre in #118

Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.13.0

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What's Changed

• ci: stop pinning the strspc CLI in release and build-schema by @pleberre in #92
• ci: resolve the realm with strspc check by @pleberre in #91
• fix(rules): add a key word to ENT-009 and ENT-010 by @pleberre in #93
• ci: rename the validate-rules job to rules by @pleberre in #94
• fix(ci): sync rules/_schema in core pin PRs by @pleberre in #95
• docs: squash pull requests into develop by @pleberre in #96
• ci: lint pull request titles by @pleberre in #97
• docs(readme): restyle README and refresh stale details by @pleberre in #98
• ci: re-evaluate auto-approve after the PR title check by @pleberre in #99
• fix(rules): align inheritance rule wording with resolution by @pleberre in #100
• feat(rules): publish inheritance rules by @pleberre in #101
• ci: validate core against its own schemas by @pleberre in #102
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.12.0 by @pleberre in #103
• chore(release): 1.12.0 by @pleberre in #104

Full Changelog: v1.11.0...v1.12.0

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What's Changed

• chore(steerspec-sync): update dependabot to 1.0.0 by @steerspec-sync[bot] in #82
• docs(inheritance): correct the manager contract by @pleberre in #83
• feat(schema): add entity inherits and rule overrides to entity.v1 by @pleberre in #85
• chore(steerspec-sync): update dependabot to 1.0.1 by @steerspec-sync[bot] in #86
• chore(deps): bump the actions group across 1 directory with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #84
• docs: fix markdownlint MD060 table style by @pleberre in #87
• ci: sync auto-approve caller to the v1.9.0 variable-driven template by @pleberre in #88
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.11.0 by @pleberre in #89
• chore(release): 1.11.0 by @pleberre in #90

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #84

Full Changelog: v1.10.0...v1.11.0

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What's Changed

• feat(nte): draft note versioning rules NTE-008..011 by @pleberre in #77
• feat(realm): define the rule_identifier_format object in realm.v1 by @pleberre in #79
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.10.0 by @pleberre in #80
• chore(release): 1.10.0 by @pleberre in #81

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.10.0

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What's Changed

• docs(readme): document version rules and refresh version examples by @pleberre in #71
• ci(release): open core pin PRs in consumer repos after a release by @pleberre in #72
• feat(ent): add Draft rules for entity inheritance and rule overrides (#35) by @pleberre in #74
• docs(skills): add releasing-strspc-rules project skill by @pleberre in #73
• chore(release): bump realm.version to 1.9.0 by @pleberre in #75
• chore(release): 1.9.0 by @pleberre in #76

Full Changelog: v1.8.1...v1.9.0

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1.41.0 (2026-11-03)

Features

• entityops: check added_by against contributors and rewrite it (#263) (071272c)
• rulehistory: derive entity and rule change history from file versions (#261) (47bf457)
• rulelint: report added_by values outside the contributor format and list (#264) (5217f62)

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1.40.0 (2026-11-03)

Features

• entity: keep realm.contributors in RealmMeta (#258) (96b816f)

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1.39.0 (2026-11-03)

Features

• rulediff: accept github:<login> contributor identifiers in RD019 (#253) (b8c240c)

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1.38.0 (2026-11-02)

Features

• rulelint: lint each pinned sub-realm against its own core pin (#242) (28a168d)

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1.37.0 (2026-11-02)

Features

• rulelint: expose unresolved standard notes as structured data (#235) (56174be)

Bug Fixes

• entity: match excluded sub-realm dirs from the realm root (#236) (cb63dc0)
• result: list the standard note type in RL010's fix text (#237) (ccdf380)

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1.36.1 (2026-11-01)

Bug Fixes

• schema: keep cache paths inside the cache (#227) (bcf169d)

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1.36.0 (2026-11-01)

Features

• coverage: report how rules map to external standards (#224) (71ef4a4)
• entity: add standards references and standard notes (#221) (375246b)
• rulelint: report inline examples and likely two statements on Draft rules (#223) (d0ff0e7)

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1.35.1 (2026-11-01)

Bug Fixes

• ruleeval: tell the model when it sees only part of a diff (#217) (1b29312)

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1.35.0 (2026-11-01)

Features

• rulerefs: report text that copies a rule's body (RF007) (#208) (042c5f5)

Bug Fixes

• remote: stop a crafted tar size overflowing the extraction cap (#202) (cb1ba94)

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1.34.0 (2026-10-31)

Features

• realm: carry the realm language and reject it on sub-realms (#199) (e324949)
• remote: report what the cache holds without the network (#197) (7896096)

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1.36.0 (2026-11-05)

Features

• realm: add realm contributor commands and an --added-by default (#245) (3f6c004)

Bug Fixes

• entity: never follow a symlinked entity file in entity rehash (#248) (2e6c46b)

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1.35.0 (2026-11-04)

Features

• realm: check added_by against contributors and add rewrite-added-by (manager v1.41.0) (#238) (f1a395e)

Documentation

• standards: describe the planned coverage gate and standard realms (#240) (7288a12)
• standards: gate only pull requests into develop in the CI example (#241) (08a55e2)

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1.34.1 (2026-11-03)

Bug Fixes

• doctor: token remedy for HTTP 401 and name GH_TOKEN (#230) (3fc2c52)
• realm: accept and keep realm.contributors (manager v1.40.0) (#234) (1955bca)

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1.34.0 (2026-11-03)

Features

• doctor: add --online release and source reachability checks (#224) (a29257f)

Bug Fixes

• deps: bump strspc-manager to v1.39.0 (#227) (5b7def3)
• doctor: exit 4 on output errors, and implement CMD-006 and CMD-007 (#226) (5e67d5f)

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1.33.0 (2026-11-02)

Features

• doctor: add strspc doctor diagnostic command (#219) (4692931)
• standards: add entity and realm standards commands (#204) (#206) (e246cc4)
• standards: add entity and realm standards update (#209) (ca5037e)
• standards: refuse standards add on a realm pinned to core before 1.15.0 (#208) (dc2efd3)

Bug Fixes

• entity: validate the EUID in every command that resolves an entity file (#207) (4570dce)
• lint: check a pinned sub-realm's entities only against its own pin (#213) (5737a6e)
• realm: accept only realm IDs the realm schema allows (#215) (3cc5fcf)

Documentation

• readme: list the standard note type (#214) (777eacf)

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1.32.0 (2026-11-01)

Features

• realm: sync _schema files when upgrading dev.steerspec.core (#200) (e250ed3)
• standards: add strspc standards coverage (#201) (d096cdf)

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1.31.0 (2026-11-01)

Features

• realm: keep realm.language when rewriting realm.json (#193) (8366da3)
• status: show how a project's rules stand (#192) (8b03ad2)

Bug Fixes

• output: make printed diagnostics safe to show (#189) (ef51cc0)

Documentation

• readme: drop core versions the pin tool does not move (#188) (0086442)
• readme: list the refs input of strspc-lint.yml (#191) (d0b02f4)

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1.30.0 (2026-10-31)

Features

• check: pick up entity visibility from strspc-manager 1.33.0 (#184) (88b117c)
• explain: add strspc explain and an --explain flag (#183) (15ab276)
• refs: validate rule citations in text files (#182) (ca7bee6)

Documentation

• rework the README against the manager spec (#180) (ce0a359)

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1.29.0 (2026-10-31)

Features

• check: send the rules an extends note names to the evaluator (#177) (6baafb8)

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1.28.0 (2026-10-31)

Features

• check: report broken references in relation notes (#174) (e5a9202)
• realm: send the GitHub token only to allowed owners (#172) (bcd3f3f)

Bug Fixes

• check: run realm-resolve for every realm (#173) (a716b0c)
• realm: drop the false RM005 note from validate --recursive (#171) (4af3eaa)

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0.4.1 (2026-11-01)

Bug Fixes

• rules: move inline examples into example notes (7b79877)
• rules: move inline examples into example notes (56f4891)

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0.4.0 (2026-10-30)

Features

• e2e: add the e2e test harness (GH #99) (4d700c3)

Bug Fixes

• action: pass inputs to strspc as quoted arguments, not shell text (a23af57)
• action: pass inputs to strspc as quoted arguments, not shell text (e92c00c)
• e2e: address Copilot review of wave 1 (GH #99) (d3bb6b3)
• e2e: apply E2E_ORG to the org_name variable (GH #99) (4460aba)
• e2e: delete files with a signed GraphQL commit (GH #99) (7f153eb)
• e2e: delete files with a signed GraphQL commit (GH #99) (0d7d1af)
• e2e: fail on missing secrets, confirm 422 branch deletes, probe at the deadline (GH #99) (239835d)
• e2e: give each test its own run prefix (GH #99) (b193524)
• e2e: reset state and sweep labelled issues at cleanup (GH #99) (a6a2dd5)
• e2e: scope the symlink test's PR check to its own prefix (GH #99) (ec9b184)

Documentation

• e2e: record the live runs and the mutation check (GH #99) (a84b2d2)
• e2e: record the live runs and the mutation check (GH #99) (7595ada)
• e2e: the green run passed 10 scenarios, not 9 (GH #99) (8575e36)
• fix markdownlint MD060 table style (75a58da)
• use compact table delimiter rows for markdownlint MD060 (33cf967)

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Changelog

• 54423f5 Merge pull request #101 from SteerSpec/fix/skip-noop-state-commit
• b256d7b Merge pull request #104 from SteerSpec/chore/release-v0.3.0
• 2734df7 Merge pull request #97 from SteerSpec/chore/core-1.9.0
• 860c2ac Merge pull request #98 from SteerSpec/feat/per-visibility-sources
• 322e0b7 chore(release): v0.3.0 (GH #103)
• 55f1d46 chore(rules): pin dev.steerspec.core to 1.9.0
• 6584502 docs(rules): TMPLT-004 allows per-visibility and cross-repo sources (GH #80)
• a539b55 feat(config): per-visibility template sources (GH #80)
• bee2a8a fix(config): validate the fallback source at load; link the resolved source repo (GH #80)
• d7f32d2 fix(sync): skip the deployment-state commit when nothing changed (GH #100)

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Changelog

• 75bbd8c Merge pull request #95 from SteerSpec/fix/skip-content-already-current
• a081c3b Merge pull request #96 from SteerSpec/chore/release-v0.2.10
• eceff55 chore(release): v0.2.10
• 7740c57 fix(sync): a missing destination is never current, even for an empty template (GH #94)
• a8ad23d fix(sync): skip a target whose default branch already holds the rendered content (GH #94)

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Changelog

• 18f5d4d Merge pull request #92 from SteerSpec/fix/retry-closed-sync-pr
• 3b76d2c Merge pull request #93 from SteerSpec/chore/release-v0.2.9
• 56e56c1 chore(release): v0.2.9
• 4d19342 fix(sync): report a target whose last sync PR was closed unmerged (GH #91)

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Changelog

• 174ce68 Merge pull request #89 from SteerSpec/fix/symlink-tree-mode
• 6edccf9 Merge pull request #90 from SteerSpec/chore/release-v0.2.8
• 89c205d chore(release): v0.2.8
• 1cdb9a4 fix(github): read the symlink mode from the git tree, not the Contents API (GH #82)

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Changelog

• a42c218 Merge pull request #86 from SteerSpec/docs/dependabot-pin
• c8fc4e8 Merge pull request #87 from SteerSpec/fix/symlink-detection
• ac14b53 Merge pull request #88 from SteerSpec/chore/release-v0.2.7
• 621edbc chore(release): v0.2.7
• bad99f9 docs(readme): document pinning and Dependabot for the action (GH #85)
• bb30896 docs(readme): say a sync opens PRs only where the rendered content changed (GH #85)
• 1b18e47 fix(sync): detect a symlinked destination from the parent directory listing (GH #82)
• 5c795e9 fix(sync): fail a target when its destination cannot be read; test the 404 branch of IsSymlink (GH #82)

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Changelog

• 9249cab Merge pull request #78 from SteerSpec/chore/node24-actions
• 755867e Merge pull request #81 from SteerSpec/steerspec-sync/claude-md/1.0.1
• e168a8d Merge pull request #83 from SteerSpec/fix/symlink-destination
• 336b810 Merge pull request #84 from SteerSpec/chore/release-v0.2.6
• 1ff11e9 chore(ci): move workflow actions to Node 24 majors (GH #77)
• 730dbf0 chore(docs): use actions/checkout@v7 in the README and quickstart workflows (GH #77)
• 3490420 chore(release): v0.2.6
• af8988d chore(steerspec-sync): update claude-md to 1.0.1
• ae927fd fix(sync): skip a symlinked destination instead of writing through it (GH #82)

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Changelog

• 0848a64 Merge pull request #76 from SteerSpec/fix/release-version-check
• bb68279 chore(release): v0.2.5, check VERSION against the tag (GH #75)
• 1376de1 fix(release): compare VERSION as the actions read it, without stripping whitespace (GH #75)

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Changelog

• bc45eea Merge pull request #66 from SteerSpec/ci/golangci-skip-config-verify
• 5e06ae3 Merge pull request #67 from SteerSpec/chore/core-1.7.0
• ce38a70 Merge pull request #68 from SteerSpec/feat/syncpr-003-published
• 3abe24e Merge pull request #69 from SteerSpec/chore/core-1.8.0
• b581559 Merge pull request #71 from ect2000/fix/template-pr-head-filter
• 44f9cf4 Merge pull request #72 from SteerSpec/fix/pr-lookup-head-branch
• 22adab4 Merge pull request #74 from SteerSpec/chore/golangci-lint-2.15
• 7f73baa chore(rules): pin dev.steerspec.core to 1.7.0
• cf3f223 chore(rules): pin dev.steerspec.core to 1.8.0
• c33ff30 chore: bump golangci-lint to v2.15.0 in the pre-commit hook and CI (GH #73)
• 07980b4 feat(rules): promote SYNCPR-003 to Published, realm 0.2.0
• 533d47d fix(github): qualify the PR list head filter with the owner, check the label request (GH #70)
• 75b0c13 fix(sync): find the existing PR by head branch without requiring the label (GH #70)
• de1aa3b fix(sync): keep a created PR when only its label fails (GH #70)
• 3fe2ebf fix: match sync pull requests to their template branch

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1.10.2 (2026-11-05)

Bug Fixes

• retry transient GitHub 5xx errors and dropped connections inside the action (#175) (ac11e5b)

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1.10.1 (2026-11-03)

Bug Fixes

• approve only on a Copilot overview, and ignore reviews of nothing (#159) (03002c1)

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1.10.0 (2026-10-31)

Features

• add copilot-clean-on to pass 'Needs a closer look' with no open issues (#138) (a8162a1)
• approve develop-to-main promotions without a Copilot review (#139) (e0e4512), closes #123
• approve release-please PRs without a Copilot review (#140) (b738b01), closes #124

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1.9.3 (2026-10-31)

Bug Fixes

• read Copilot's review overview before calling a review clean (#132) (8632270)

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1.9.2 (2026-10-31)

Bug Fixes

• re-check the draft state around the approval (98e87df)
• refuse draft and fork PRs on every event (42ff8ec)
• refuse draft and fork PRs on every event (62787f0)

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1.9.1 (2026-10-30)

Bug Fixes

• pass bot_login through env in the deprecated reusable workflow (2e8cb96)
• pass bot-login to the review-request script through env (7ec8fba)
• pass bot-login to the review-request script through env (e3b99df)

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1.9.0 (2026-10-30)

Features

• configure callers through org-level STRSPC_PR_AUTO_APPROVE_* variables (1ac1c4a)
• configure callers through org-level STRSPC_PR_AUTO_APPROVE_* variables (44ee64a)
• re-request Copilot's review when it errors (65c955d)
• re-request Copilot's review when it errors (copilot-error-retries) (198cd67)
• wire copilot-error-retries to STRSPC_PR_AUTO_APPROVE_COPILOT_ERROR_RETRIES (a3479a9)

Bug Fixes

• always let main through the template's base-branch pre-filter (6d2fb7a)
• anchor the errored-review match and limit it to COMMENTED reviews (ce535af)
• don't re-request Copilot while a request is already pending (0c8306a)
• don't treat an errored Copilot review as clean (1b7db7c)
• don't treat an errored Copilot review as clean (c2dc28b)
• e2e: restore only script-owned repo variables; paginate; POSIX grep (032f698)
• e2e: stop sandbox-vars.sh status printing 404 JSON for unset vars (c831d82)
• e2e: stop sandbox-vars.sh status printing 404 JSON for unset vars (9055c44)
• make CLAUDE.md a regular file so SteerSpec Sync PRs check out (41183cb)
• make CLAUDE.md a regular file so SteerSpec Sync PRs check out (5770dc3)
• match the pending Copilot reviewer by exact login (2c97470)
• report errored reviews seen while polling; cover quoted error text (b18ba9c)
• retry on a stale review plus an errored head attempt; parse retries strictly (ffe8f67)

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1.8.1 (2026-10-24)

Bug Fixes

• decide: fail closed when the file listing fails, and re-check the merge base (1bddfbc)
• decide: fail closed when the reviews cannot be listed for the stale-approval check (32ddb08)
• decide: gate every relaxed rounds-by-type entry on copilot-optional-paths (d762e32)
• decide: harden the rounds-by-type path gate (96f1f66)
• decide: keep a rounds-by-type 0 path-gated even when it is the default (f1f6966)
• decide: list the PR's changed files for the evaluated head SHA (23e1c17)
• decide: re-read the base branch around approval and name it as heads/<ref> (2bb5174)
• decide: restrict the default copilot-optional-paths to Markdown (ec6d685)
• update vulnerable and outdated dependencies (1f6f387)
• update vulnerable and outdated dependencies (d503919)

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1.8.0 (2026-10-23)

Features

• decide: per-commit-type rounds and optional Copilot review (92c0aa2)
• decide: per-commit-type rounds and optional Copilot review (9d42255)
• decide: test the Copilot review request and add an e2e scenario (c7b3962)
• decide: test the Copilot review request and add an e2e scenario (93acbe4)

Bug Fixes

• decide: dismiss stale approvals with the workflow token when the bot token is refused (171625f)
• decide: do not treat a sibling auto-approve check as CI (697c2ff)
• decide: fail on an empty bot-login and ignore the bot's own review events (07a6cea)
• decide: fail on an empty bot-login and ignore the bot's own review events (6c4f026)
• decide: harden rounds-by-type against retitles, truncation and malformed entries (8932865)
• decide: ignore the Copilot check run in the CI gate for types that skip Copilot (f452356)
• decide: keep honoring the first-form copilot-optional approval marker (29f2b58)
• decide: only honor a 0 rounds type when changed files match an allowlist (dd6dad3)
• decide: pin approval to the evaluated head and re-check it before a threshold-0 approval (991bfa0)
• decide: stamp rounds approvals, narrow the check filters, document dismissal (3085536)
• decide: treat a whitespace-only bot-login as empty (e9b1ccc)
• decide: withdraw stale no-Copilot approvals first, fail closed, recheck after approving (2512f10)
• e2e: search every page of PR events for the Copilot request (13ee4f0)

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1.7.2 (2026-10-21)

Bug Fixes

• decide: poll for the Copilot review itself when no check run exists (4a0239a)
• decide: poll for the Copilot review itself when no check run exists (14a5354), closes #86
• decide: re-apply the CI gates after waiting for the review (2c479bc)
• decide: re-apply the no-checks guard after the review wait; document both waits (f433617)

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