kernel_chat v0.6.0

kernel_chat 0.6.0 advances the user-owned continuity kernel for cloud chats while preserving a small, present-first host bridge and explicit human authority over external effects.

This release adds and consolidates:

• capability-relative onboarding: the receiving environment determines which authorized setup effects the assisting model can perform directly and which remain operator-owned;
• a clearer separation between package source, user-owned instance, configured bridge, operator-confirmed installed bridge, repository reachability, exercised behavior, and later assimilation;
• optional project/context initialization rather than project identity being required by the kernel;
• exact bridge byte identity, target and provenance receipts, including conservative handling of legacy or unknown provenance;
• operator confirmation correlated to the exact bridge incarnation actually delivered, preventing delayed confirmation from being transferred to a newer bridge;
• temporal receipt validity: historical identity remains distinct from current applicability;
• cooperative INSTANCE writer conflict visibility without introducing a global transaction manager or controller;
• fresh remote receipt readback before remote/new-chat reliance;
• stronger discovery and CommonMark consumer proof using explicit stable anchors and composed anchor→owner relations;
• preservation of literal user data that resembles template syntax;
• Python 3.11–3.14 support across Ubuntu and Windows.

Verification for the material rereview:

2c111f2797a7ffe945067ac4b6eee8baace7c9c9

• external rereview result: no_change
• CI: 35390696891
• validator: valid=true, errors=[], warnings=[]
• tests: 58/58
• matrix: 8/8

Release-promotion revision:

d2c94ca4e4523f1f7a343601d6beec1e84031fac

• CI: 35391971484
• validator clean
• 58/58 tests
• 8/8 Python/OS jobs

This release does not automatically migrate existing user instances, replace configured bridges, modify ChatGPT Custom Instructions, prove repository reachability in a specific conversation, or establish behavioral assimilation. Those remain separately selected effects.