v1.2.0 — the harvest release

Potion is a lean project framework for Claude Code — plans are prompts, disk is memory, evidence or it didn't happen.
1.2.0 closes the loop on knowledge itself: every passing phase is harvested before its verdict is sealed, and the best of it flows to the cross-repo journal from 1.1.0.
Proven retroactively on potion's own 119-agent audit phase — receipts in .potion/phases/06-ingest/.

1.2.0 — 2026-07-05

The harvest release: no closed phase goes cold with its insights unharvested.

Phase-close harvest

• /potion:verify step 4 gains "Harvest before verdict" (pass verdicts only):
  sweep the phase's SUMMARY Deviations/Concerns, the verifier's
  ladder/panel reasoning in VERIFICATION.md, and any .potion/debug/ files
  closed during the phase; distill what clears the 5-minute bar into
  .potion/learnings.jsonl — max 5 entries, files backpointers to the
  source artifact (commit f5e260b)
• Duplicate guard: grep existing keys first, harvest only what fell through
  during the phase, never re-log; zero new entries is a valid outcome, stated
  explicitly
• CORE principle: "Phase-close ingest: a pass verdict triggers a harvest of
  the phase's SUMMARY/VERIFICATION/debug reasoning into learnings" —
  Learnings section, core/CORE.md (commit e3b1438)
• Composes with 1.1.0's promote-up bar: harvested entries ride the normal
  CORE Cross-repo knowledge bar (confidence >= 8, generalizable, loop-born)
  into ~/.claude/potion/knowledge.jsonl

Evidence

• The procedure run for real against the cold storage that motivated it —
  01-harden's 42-finding audit reasoning: 9 artifacts swept, duplicates
  skipped, 3 distilled entries appended, 2 promoted up:
  .potion/phases/06-ingest/evidence/02-retro-ingest-transcript.txt
  (commit 713dc61)