v0.0.26 — dev-loop steering rework + roster/CI/install follow-ups

Highlights

The public DEV-1 dev-loop steering rework (epic — 9 units) plus roster/CI/install follow-ups. Every shared-path mechanism is opt-in / default-off (byte-identical when unused).

Steering

• 1:1 GitHub-issue-shaped work-unit data model (labels + parent).
• No-blind-coding: a design→implementation approval gate (record_design + /approve).
• No-blind-advance: an advance-to-done gate that requires a status: done feedback signal.
• An authoritative per-turn steering-state block (the engine reports its own active project/unit/stage).
• launch_coder — a first-class trigger verb for the coding handover.
• /board — an LLM-free task board projected from the store.
• watcher/autopilot disentangle + a task-scoped progress heartbeat + an explicit blocked state.

Roster

• Grok (xAI) as a headless code-agent + a reasoning fan-out provider.
• SONNET upgraded to Claude Sonnet 5.

Install / CI

• ironclad in a new folder auto-binds to the installed runtime (no re-install); it reuses a running engine only for the same project (workdir-aware), and isolates the developed software under a code subdir.
• CI runs a single Python 3.14 leg (requires-python stays >=3.10).

See CHANGELOG.md [0.0.26] for the full list.