figure-agent v0.8.0

Release-hardening pass for the v0.8 audit kernel after Issues 57-61.

Highlights

• Real-fixture audit adoption matrix for explicit text-boundary, label-path, reference, aesthetic, paper-wide, and journal-playbook coverage.
• Shared single next-action summary across status, driver, loop, and closeout surfaces.
• SVG polish promotion dogfood evidence showing the route stays blocked behind stale critique gates until source-level evidence is fresh.
• Journal style-pack catalog with opt-in Nature Communications, Nature Materials, Science, and graphical-abstract playbook/context packs.
• Optional external vision review evidence import for local second-opinion reviews without provider API calls.

Guardrails

• figure-agent remains a quality/audit kernel, not a hidden auto-designer.
• This release does not claim automatic Nature/Science acceptance.
• External vision review is opt-in evidence only; conflicts route to human judgment.
• SVG polish remains bounded finalization/handoff, not semantic repair or hidden source mutation.

Verification

Latest main at 39d21e0 passed:

• figure-agent tests
• figure-agent full render tests

Local release-hardening verification before merge passed:

• uv run pytest -q -> 1337 passed, 3 skipped, 1 xfailed
• uv run ruff check .
• git diff --check
• claude plugin validate .claude-plugin/plugin.json
• claude plugin validate .
• claude plugin validate ../../.claude-plugin/marketplace.json