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title: v1.4.0 — Evidence quality
summary: GitHub-owned achievement criteria, 91.2 evidence coverage, controlled research missions, adjudication, and release-ready evidence governance.
description: First-party achievement contracts, public reconstruction evidence, mission intake and review, promotion planning, and resolved evidence gates.
permalink: /releases/v1.4.0/
v1.4.0 — Evidence quality
Released 20 July 2026.
Added
- Event-linked evidence records that preserve negative, delayed, and inconclusive outcomes.
- Threshold-boundary investigations with explicit brackets, blockers, and completion criteria.
- Fail-closed evidence adjudication rules, contradiction assessments, and deterministic release-readiness gates.
- Evidence-intelligence pressure scoring and seven bounded acquisition missions.
- Mission-specific intake, privacy screening, human review, conflict disclosure, and controlled dispositions.
- Non-executable promotion plans with exact impact previews, validation requirements, and rollback scope.
- Six-record public reconstruction corpus for Quickdraw, YOLO, and Pair Extraordinaire.
- GitHub-owned live achievement-fragment corpus with exact criteria, linked history, and normalized fingerprints.
- Complete first-party milestone histories for Pull Shark, Galaxy Brain, and Starstruck.
- Weekly live-fragment drift verification.
- Static API discovery expanded to forty public JSON files.
Changed
- Evidence coverage increased from 44.2 at the v1.3.0 baseline to 91.2/100 — Robust.
- Twelve of thirteen canonical claims are now official or confirmed.
- Only Pair Extraordinaire numerical tier thresholds remain below confirmed.
- Quickdraw's five-minute timing contract is now official.
- Pull Shark milestones are now officially documented as 2, 16, 128, and 1,024 merged pull requests.
- Galaxy Brain milestones are now officially documented as 2, 8, 16, and 32 accepted answers.
- Starstruck milestones are now officially documented as 16, 128, 512, and 4,096 repository stars.
- YOLO's broad contract is now officially documented as Merged without a review.
- Pair Extraordinaire's broad contract is now officially documented as coauthored commits on merged pull requests.
- Open contradictions reduced from six to three.
Corrected
- Replaced community-only milestone classifications where GitHub's live product fragments publish the exact contracts.
- Separated broad trigger certainty from unresolved edge cases, processing behaviour, transfer semantics, and attribution rewrites.
- Removed stale blocked-release wording after the merged-main evidence and operational gates passed.
Included work
- PR #232 — Phases 52–56: evidence quality programme
- PR #233 — Evidence intelligence dashboard
- PR #234 — Targeted evidence acquisition missions
- PR #235 — Mission execution intake and triage
- PR #236 — Mission packet review queue
- PR #237 — Mission evidence promotion planner
- PR #238 — Independent public reconstruction evidence
- PR #239 — GitHub-owned achievement contracts
Verification
Validated from merged main on 20 July 2026:
| Gate | Verified | Required | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evidence coverage | 91.2 | ≥ 70.0 | PASS |
| Official or confirmed claims | 12 | ≥ 8 | PASS |
| Claims below confirmed | 1 | ≤ 5 | PASS |
| Open contradictions | 3 | ≤ 3 | PASS |
| Operational health | 100/100 | 100 | PASS |
- All permanent evidence, content, API, browser, visual, release, and repository-audit workflows passed.
- GitHub-owned fragment criteria and normalized fingerprints were re-fetched and verified live.
- Markdown, links, catalogue consistency, JSON contracts, Jekyll output, search routing, and visual baselines passed.
- The release is published from the merged release-note commit by the repository's verified immutable release workflow.
Known limitations
- Pair Extraordinaire numerical tier thresholds remain community-reported because GitHub's x4 detail fragment does not publish the counts.
- YOLO alternate review states and structured merger identity remain unresolved edge cases.
- Pair Extraordinaire squash, rebase, email-mismatch, and rewritten-history behaviour remains unresolved.
- Starstruck repository transfer, organisation ownership, forks, archival, falling counts, and persistence remain unresolved.
- Achievement processing and profile visibility may still be delayed independently of a qualifying event.
- Public product fragments can change; the weekly monitor fails closed on criterion or fingerprint drift.