instar 1.3.976 → 1.3.978

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "instar",
-  "version": "1.3.976",
+  "version": "1.3.978",
   "description": "Coherence infrastructure for self-evolving AI agents — on the Claude Code or Codex subscription you already have.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/index.js",

package/src/data/builtin-manifest.json

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
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   "schemaVersion": 1,
-  "generatedAt": "2026-07-26T02:45:59.451Z",
-  "instarVersion": "1.3.976",
+  "generatedAt": "2026-07-26T03:27:13.325Z",
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@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@
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+# Upgrade Guide — vNEXT
+
+<!-- assembled-by: assemble-next-md -->
+<!-- bump: patch -->
+
+## What Changed
+
+**`GET /metrics/learning-velocity` now counts work that FINISHED, not work that was filed.**
+
+The metric answering "are we actually learning and adapting?" counted every evolution action at its
+`createdAt`. Verified 2026-07-25: 739 of 771 "learning events" (96%) were items merely FILED, and on
+the real queue 494 of those carry the abandonment sweep's own resolution text. So the metric had
+inverted — **the faster work was abandoned, the higher the adaptability score climbed.** It read
+88/100 "accelerating" on the morning the operator halted all work because the opposite was visibly
+true.
+
+An action now contributes a learning event only when `status === 'completed'`, stamped at
+`completedAt` (falling back to `updatedAt`). Pending, in-progress, cancelled and auto-abandoned
+actions contribute nothing.
+
+Measured before/after on a real queue, 30-day window, rule change only: **784 events → 18** (of
+1,288 considered: 743 pending, 494 auto-abandoned, 29 cancelled, 2 in progress).
+
+Two doors deliberately shut: a `completed` action with no completion timestamp is EXCLUDED rather
+than back-dated to `createdAt` (which would re-import the filing bias), and the window still
+excludes old completions.
+
+`computeLearningVelocity` itself is untouched — only the route's event gathering changed.
+
+## What to Tell Your User
+
+Your adaptability score will drop, in most cases sharply, and the new number is the honest one. The
+old one was largely a count of how fast items were being filed. The response now states the counting
+rule and itemises what was excluded and why, so a low score reads as "little has finished recently"
+rather than "we have stopped learning" — those call for opposite responses.
+
+## Summary of New Capabilities
+
+- `counting` — the rule in one line, travelling with the number.
+- `evolutionActions` — `{ considered, counted, excluded }` by reason, with `auto-abandoned` named
+  specifically (the largest bucket, and the one the old metric scored as learning).
+
+## Evidence
+
+- `tests/integration/learning-velocity-routes.test.ts` — 7 tests. Three existing cases rewritten
+  (they asserted filed items count as learning — a specification of the inversion), three added:
+  the real queue in miniature (5 filed-or-abandoned + 1 completion → exactly 1 event); a completion
+  with no timestamp excluded rather than back-dated; a completion outside the window excluded by
+  date while still visible in `counted`.
+- `tests/e2e/learning-velocity-lifecycle.test.ts` — the counting rule and accounting survive the
+  production initialization path.
+- `tests/unit/LearningVelocityScorer.test.ts` — unchanged and passing: the pure scorer's contract
+  did not move.

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+# Upgrade Guide — vNEXT
+
+<!-- assembled-by: assemble-next-md -->
+<!-- bump: patch -->
+
+## What Changed
+
+**The standards audit's own honesty field was overclaiming, and reported `trustworthy: true` over the
+exact defect it was added to expose.**
+
+Verified on the LIVE endpoint two hours after v1.3.975 deployed: `total: 22`,
+`enforcedRatio: 0.0455`, **`assessmentTrustworthy: true`**, zero canary failures — while the source
+registry carries **81** articles. The stale agent-home copy is not malformed; it is a self-consistent
+document that is a quarter of the real one, so it passes every INTERNAL check by construction.
+
+`assessmentTrustworthy` was `total > 0 && canaryOk` — i.e. "my internal checks passed" — but it READ
+as "this assessment is trustworthy". Those are different claims.
+
+- **`assessmentConfidence`** (new): `'verified' | 'unverified' | 'untrustworthy'`.
+  - `untrustworthy` — a check actively failed (nothing parsed, or the canary objected).
+  - `unverified` — internal checks passed but NO external expectation existed to confirm this is the
+    CURRENT constitution rather than a coherent older copy.
+  - `verified` — internal checks passed AND a same-build expectation matched.
+- **`confidenceReason`** (new): always populated, plain English.
+- **`assessmentTrustworthy`** — deprecated, retained one release, TRUE only on `verified`.
+
+`'verified'` is **unreachable today**: the expectation mechanism is a separate, not-yet-approved
+change. So every passing read now reports `unverified` — including a complete, correct registry,
+because the instrument genuinely cannot verify completeness. Anything stronger would be the same
+overclaim in nicer clothes.
+
+**A project item could never be recorded as merged if its pull request's CI had ever been red — even
+after it was fixed.**
+
+`StageTransitionValidator.ciIsGreen` evaluated EVERY entry in GitHub's `statusCheckRollup`. GitHub
+returns every run of every check, **including superseded ones**, so a check that failed and was
+re-run to green appears twice and the failure never disappears. Verified on the live PR #1641
+(merged legitimately): 31 rollup entries, four check names duplicated, including
+`eli16 FAILURE 01:44:01Z` beside `eli16 SUCCESS 01:45:32Z`. Branch protection merged the PR because it
+uses each check's CURRENT state; the tracker refused it with `CI_NOT_GREEN` because it also counted
+the stale run.
+
+The rollup is now collapsed to the **latest run per check name** (by `completedAt`, falling back to
+`startedAt`) before greenness is judged — which is what GitHub's own merge gate does.
+
+Three safeguards so the dedupe can never hide a genuine failure: the latest run is authoritative in
+BOTH directions (a success followed by a later failure is still not green); runs that cannot be
+ordered FAIL CLOSED (equal or missing timestamps ⇒ the failing run wins); and unnamed status entries
+are keyed individually so a failing one is never collapsed into a passing one.
+
+End-to-end, against the two real merged pull requests with the route's exact helper wiring: both went
+from refused to accepted.
+
+## What to Tell Your User
+
+If you read a standards-enforcement figure, it now comes with a confidence verdict and a plain
+reason beside it. Most installs will see the verdict "unverified" — that is honest rather than a
+fault. It means the numbers are arithmetic over whatever copy of the rules was on disk, and nothing
+yet confirms that copy is the current one. A verdict of "untrustworthy" means a check actually
+failed and the figures describe only a fragment of your rules.
+
+If you track work in projects, marking an item as merged now succeeds for a pull request whose checks
+went red and were then fixed — which previously failed with a confusing "CI is not green" long after
+the pull request had merged.
+
+## Summary of New Capabilities
+
+- Greenness is evaluated per check against its latest run, matching branch-protection semantics.
+
+## Evidence
+
+- `tests/unit/standards-enforcement-auditor.test.ts` — a coherent-but-stale registry passes every
+  internal check (zero dropped headings, `parsed === articleHeadings`) and still must not read
+  `verified`; plus all four `deriveAssessmentConfidence` verdicts in both directions.
+- `tests/integration/conformance-dev-gate-route.test.ts` — the HTTP body carries the verdict.
+- `tests/e2e/standards-coverage-lifecycle.test.ts` — the verdict + reason survive production init.
+
+- `tests/unit/StageTransitionValidator.test.ts` — five new cases: the live superseded-failure shape;
+  the reverse direction (later failure still refuses); unorderable runs fail closed across three
+  variants; unnamed entries never collapsed; an in-flight latest run still not green.
+
+## Known Gap (stated, not resolved)
+
+A coherent stale registry is still reported with real-looking figures; it is now LABELLED
+`unverified` with a reason naming that possibility, but the instrument cannot say which case it is
+in. Closing that needs an external expectation shipped beside the registry — the blocked
+`standards-registry-snapshot-refresh` spec. This change makes the uncertainty visible; it does not
+resolve it.