v.1.6.0 - APRA data access and convenience improvements

[AnthonyPuggs]

AusEcon MCP Server v1.6.0

This release adds release-ready convenience tooling and governance improvements for ABS, RBA, and APRA data access while preserving the existing source-native retrieval contract.

Highlights

• Added MCP convenience tools for latest observations, top numeric observations, dataset descriptions, and release-event discovery.
• Added ABS and RBA release-event awareness backed by official release-page parsing.
• Added APRA release-pulse rows based on curated cadence and seed freshness, without presenting APRA as having a central official release calendar.
• Strengthened APRA workbook URL resolution with live landing-page discovery, bundled APRA-hosted HTTPS .xlsx seed fallbacks, and trusted catalogue fallback metadata.
• Scoped APRA AASB 17 framework-break warnings to relevant insurance performance publications only.
• Added local Australian geography alias handling for semantic geography resolution.
• Expanded response-schema metadata support for selection provenance, APRA URL resolution, framework breaks, and warnings.
• Added CodeQL, Dependabot, and Python 3.10-3.13 CI coverage.

New MCP Tools

• get_latest_observations
• get_top_observations
• describe_dataset
• list_release_events

Contract Notes

Existing expert retrieval tools remain available and the {metadata, series, observations} response shape is preserved. Source-native ABS SDMX keys, RBA table and series IDs, and APRA publication, table, and series IDs remain visible.

Verification

• uv run --python 3.12 ruff check src tests scripts
• uv run --python 3.12 pytest (757 passed)
• uv run --python 3.12 python scripts/update_docs_reference.py --check
• npm --cache .npm-cache run build from docs-site
• uv build --wheel --out-dir /private/tmp/ausecon-wheel-check

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