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Evidentia roadmap

Last updated: v0.10.7 (May 2026).

This roadmap synthesizes community feedback with the architecture plan at the project root. Versions v0.3.0 through v0.7.16 + v0.8.0-v0.8.7

• v0.9.0-v0.9.9 + v0.10.0 + v0.10.1 have shipped; v0.10.2 ships now (third release of the v0.10.x line in a single calendar day — 2026-05-23: v0.10.0 + v0.10.1 + v0.10.2). v0.9.0 opened the v0.9.x "federal compliance" line with POA&M + CONMON read-only library; v0.9.1 landed the Polycentric Labs org migration; v0.9.2 added the CONMON REST router + federal corpus + LLM rater + federal walk-through scenarios; v0.9.3 was the largest minor of the line — CONMON daemon (Theme A) + AI governance (Theme B); v0.9.4 was the consolidation pass closing deferred review items + the federal-SI walk-through opener; v0.9.5 landed walk-through refinement + collaboration-primitives groundwork; v0.9.6 brought the federal expansion (WORM evidence store + CLI RBAC + CONMON MCP first-mover); v0.9.7 was the comprehensive v0.9.x close-out + v1.0 prep (api-stability NORMATIVE + multi-tenant RBAC + CIMD-signature groundwork); v0.9.8 wired those primitives into live CLI, REST, MCP-dispatch, and storage surfaces; v0.9.9 was a supply-chain hygiene + gate-fidelity patch (paramiko CVE closure + an osv-scanner --sbom pre-push gate + a full Dependabot-queue clear). v0.10.0 opens the v0.10.x research-driven integration line: the OCSF-aligned findings schema (the keystone identified by the 2026-05-21 competitive/integration research pass), a bidirectional OCSF Compliance Finding mapping layer (evidentia_core.ocsf, behind the new [ocsf] extra), SARIF 2.1.0 output for evidentia gap (runs gap analysis as a CI gate, surfaced in GitHub code scanning + GitLab security dashboards), and 3 pilot collectors (AWS, GitHub, Postgres) populating the new fields. v0.10.1 consolidates the integration line on the same calendar day as v0.10.0: closes both v0.10.0 pre-release-review findings (F-V100-L1 trust-boundary on the OCSF unmapped["evidentia"] block via a new trust_unmapped=False parameter; F-V100-M1 bump_version.py over-bumping third-party pins via a [tool.uv.sources] workspace allowlist), ships the deferred third-party OCSF ingestion collector with a Detection Finding path for Prowler / AWS Security Hub, extends compliance_status population to the remaining 11 collectors, and introduces the Finding class-name alias plus evidentia collect convert --format ocsf. v0.10.2 brings the integration line into AI clients: 4 new MCP tools (gap_analyze_sarif, collect_ocsf, tprm_vendor_list, poam_list) expand the §MCP tool contract from 8 → 12; a GRC Engineering Club marketplace plugin is staged in-repo (marketplace/grc-engineering-suite/plugins/evidentia/ — generalist OSS scope per the first concrete v0.10.x plugin scope decision, with persona-tied workflows kept out of scope for the OSS plugin); and F-V101-L1 (the v0.10.1 SSRF surface on collect ocsf URL mode) is closed via a new default-on --block-private-ips flag. Per the v1.0 master-plan resequencing (2026-05-21), the v0.9.x and v0.10.x lines iterate as many times as needed toward a solid product — the operator self-test and demo/pitch recording precede the walk-throughs and multi-reviewer peer review, which complete before v1.0.0. See v1.0-transition.md for the v1.0 narrative and acceptance gates.

v0.3.0 — Compliance-as-code — SHIPPED

• evidentia gap diff — compare two gap snapshots, classify every gap as opened / closed / severity-changed / unchanged. Supports console / json / markdown / github output formats. --fail-on-regression blocks PRs that make compliance posture worse.
• evidentia explain <control_id> — LLM-generated plain-English control translation, cached on disk.
• Documentation: docs/github-action/README.md + example workflow YAML so anyone can drop a .github/workflows/evidentia.yml into their repo and get PR-level compliance checking without waiting for the reusable-action wrapper.

v0.3.1 — Examples + latent-bug fix — SHIPPED

• Three realistic end-to-end scenarios in examples/ (Meridian fintech v2, Acme Healthtech, Northstar DoD contractor).
• Dogfooded GitHub Action workflow (.github/workflows/evidentia.yml).
• Fixed _is_open bug on the in-memory gap-diff path.
• 392 passing tests.

v0.4.0 / v0.4.1 — Accessible GRC — SHIPPED

The audience shift from security engineers (CLI) to compliance officers and auditors (web UI). Three coordinated deliverables:

1. Web UI — evidentia serve — SHIPPED (v0.4.1)

FastAPI backend + React/Vite/shadcn/ui frontend, served together from 127.0.0.1:8000. Non-technical users install via uv tool install "evidentia[gui]" or pip install "evidentia[gui]", then run evidentia serve and get a polished localhost-only dashboard.

Shipped:

• evidentia serve CLI command
• New workspace package evidentia-api with 18 REST endpoints under /api/*
• New workspace directory evidentia-ui (Vite + React + shadcn/ui)
• Every user-facing page:
  • Home with three-path onboarding wizard (sample data / upload / wizard)
  • Dashboard — saved-report listing with top-line metrics
  • Frameworks (list + detail) — 82-catalog browser with tier / category / search filters
  • Gap Analyze — interactive form → TanStack Table results
  • Gap Diff — two-report picker → summary + per-entry table
  • Risk Generate — SSE-streamed per-gap progress
  • Settings — editable evidentia.yaml + LLM provider / air-gap posture
• Hatchling build hook that bundles the SPA into the Python wheel
• 36 FastAPI TestClient + 6 Vitest tests

Planned for v0.4.2 polish:

• Playwright E2E smoke test against evidentia serve
• "Commit to disk" button on the wizard preview (auto-write the three YAMLs to the CWD after confirmation)
• Deeper component test coverage (AppLayout, PathChooser, GapTable)
• Auto-generated TypeScript types from FastAPI's OpenAPI schema

Stack: React 18 + TypeScript strict + Vite 5 + shadcn/ui (Radix primitives -> WCAG 2.1 AA) + TanStack Query / Table / Virtual + React Router 6 + Zustand + React Hook Form + Zod + Recharts.

2. Air-gapped mode — --offline flag — SHIPPED (v0.4.0)

Global CLI flag plus evidentia doctor --check-air-gap validator. Every LLM / network call consults the evidentia_core.network_guard module; non-loopback / non-RFC-1918 targets raise OfflineViolationError before any network IO fires.

Positioning: "The only open-source GRC tool that runs entirely on your infrastructure. Use with Ollama for fully air-gapped FedRAMP, CMMC, and healthcare deployments."

Shipped: flag, guard module, doctor validator, LLM client integration, 43 unit tests covering the host classifier and guard functions. The UI Settings page surfaces the posture live. GUI-triggered offline-toggle is planned for v0.4.2.

3. Reusable GitHub Action — SHIPPED (v0.4.1)

allenfbyrd/evidentia-action is live at v1.0.0 + floating v1 pointer. Consumers replace the 80-line drop-in workflow template with:

- uses: allenfbyrd/evidentia-action@v1
  with:
    inventory: my-controls.yaml
    frameworks: nist-800-53-rev5-moderate,soc2-tsc
    fail-on-regression: true

Submission to the GitHub Actions Marketplace is a manual UI step in the repo settings; the listing is pending final screenshots before publication.

v0.5.0 — Phase 2 integrations — SHIPPED

First three real integrations. These shipped as empty shells all the way back to v0.1.0; v0.5.0 wires them up. What landed:

evidentia-integrations (Jira) — SHIPPED

Push gaps as Jira issues + bidirectional status sync. When a Jira issue transitions to Done, the linked gap's status becomes REMEDIATED on the next sync. Full workflow-name mapping (To Do, In Progress, Done, Won't Do, + common customizations). Credentials via env vars only; no secrets ever flow through Evidentia REST responses.

CLI: evidentia integrations jira {test,push,sync,status-map}. REST: /api/integrations/jira/{status,push/{key},sync/{key},status-map}.

evidentia-collectors[aws] — SHIPPED

Auto-evidence from AWS Config + Security Hub. Covers NIST 800-53 AC / IA / SC / AU / CM / CP / SI families for cloud-native deployments. Curated mapping of 25+ Config rules + FSBP / CIS standards controls; unknown sources fall back to empty control_ids rather than speculative attribution.

Credentials via standard boto3 chain. Unit tests use MagicMock paginators (Config) + controlled responses (Security Hub); integration-test-level moto coverage lands in v0.5.1.

CLI: evidentia collect aws [--region] [--profile]. REST: POST /api/collectors/aws/collect.

evidentia-collectors (GitHub) — SHIPPED

Branch protection + CODEOWNERS + repo visibility findings mapped to SA-11 (developer security testing), CM-2/CM-3 (baseline + change control), AC-3/AC-6 (access enforcement), SI-2 (flaw remediation). Zero extra deps — uses httpx directly rather than pulling in PyGithub.

CLI: evidentia collect github --repo owner/repo. REST: POST /api/collectors/github/collect.

v0.5.1 — deprecation shims — SHIPPED

The six old PyPI names (controlbridge, controlbridge-core, controlbridge-ai, controlbridge-api, controlbridge-collectors, controlbridge-integrations) released at v0.5.1 as transitional shims that emit a DeprecationWarning on import and forward every attribute and submodule to their evidentia-* replacements via sys.modules aliasing. Scheduled for PyPI yank at v0.7.0 (~October 2026).

v0.6.0 — Project rename (ControlBridge → Evidentia) — SHIPPED

The v0.5.0 name collided with controlbridge.ai — a live commercial SOX 302/404 compliance platform. v0.6.0 renamed the project end-to-end: PyPI packages (6 names), GitHub repo, CLI entry point, config file (controlbridge.yaml → evidentia.yaml), frontend npm scope, and all docs. No functional changes. See RENAMED.md at the repo root for the full rationale, CHANGELOG.md § 0.6.0 for the mechanical details, and the standing_rule_github_repo_names.md memory note for the absolute rule protecting the GitHub URL redirect.

v0.7.0 — Enterprise-grade release — SHIPPED

The "enterprise-grade" release. Closes all 10 BLOCKER items in docs/enterprise-grade.md and ships the end-to-end supply-chain hardening narrative:

• Evidence integrity — SHA-256 digests on every embedded resource in OSCAL Assessment Results back-matter; optional GPG signing (air-gap path) or Sigstore/Rekor signing (online path, OIDC-keyless via Fulcio).
• Verification — evidentia oscal verify checks digests + GPG .asc + Sigstore .sigstore.json bundles end-to-end. --require-signature is satisfied by either GPG or Sigstore. --expected-identity / --expected-issuer enforce signer identity for production audit pipelines.
• CycloneDX SBOM — generated from uv.lock on every release, attached to the GitHub Release alongside the wheels.
• PyPI Trusted Publisher (OIDC) — long-lived PYPI_API_TOKEN removed; release publishes are signed via the workflow's ambient OIDC identity. Auto-enables PEP 740 attestations on every wheel
  • sdist (Sigstore-signed, Rekor-logged).
• OSCAL schema conformance — compliance-trestle>=4.0 round-trip in CI catches unknown-field bugs that NIST's JSON Schema misses.
• AWS IAM Access Analyzer + GitHub Dependabot collectors with explicit BLIND_SPOTS disclosure lists threaded into the AR back-matter for auditor transparency.
• ECS-8.11 / NIST AU-3 / OpenTelemetry structured logs via --json-logs. Drop-in for Splunk / Elastic / Datadog / Sentinel.
• Secret scrubber covers AWS / GitHub / Slack / Stripe / Google / npm tokens + JWTs + generic password= patterns.
• Consolidated GitHub Action at .github/actions/gap-analysis/ (replaces the archived allenfbyrd/evidentia-action repo).
• 6 controlbridge- deprecation shims removed* from the workspace per the public migration contract from v0.6.0.

The release was preceded by a 6-step comprehensive pre-tag review (see docs/positioning-and-value.md, docs/capability-matrix.md, docs/v0.7.1-plan.md).

857 tests passing; mypy strict clean; ruff lint clean; all 10 BLOCKER items in docs/enterprise-grade.md closed.

v0.7.1 — AI features hardening (P0-only) — SHIPPED

The "AI features hardening" release. Brings evidentia-ai (risk_statements/ + explain/) up to the v0.7.0 collector-pattern enterprise grade — closing the v0.7.0 BLOCKER B3 carry-over for both AI subsystems:

• GenerationContext Pydantic model in evidentia_core.audit.provenance, sibling of CollectionContext. Captures per-output AI provenance: model, temperature, prompt_hash (SHA-256), run_id (ULID), generated_at, attempts, instructor_max_retries, credential_identity (best-effort operator label per NIST AU-3), evidentia_version. Optional field on RiskStatement and PlainEnglishExplanation (default None for v0.7.x backward compat; will tighten to required in v0.8 with deprecation cycle).
• 9 new EventAction entries under the evidentia.ai.* namespace (AI_RISK_* + AI_EXPLAIN_* covering generated/failed/retry/cache_hit/batch_completed).
• Typed exception hierarchy in evidentia_ai.exceptions (EvidentiaAIError, LLMUnavailableError, LLMValidationError, RiskStatementError, RiskGenerationFailed, ExplainError, ExplainGenerationFailed) — closes BLOCKER B3 for both AI subsystems.
• Bounded retry against shared LLM_TRANSIENT_EXCEPTIONS via the new with_retry_async decorator + build_retrying/ build_async_retrying factory functions in evidentia_core.audit.retry. AI generators pass AI_RISK_RETRY / AI_EXPLAIN_RETRY so SIEM operators can filter retry storms by namespace.
• Audit-trail correlation — every AI_* event carries run_id (and inherited trace.id from the run_id scope), so SIEM queries on evidentia.run_id surface failures + successes + retry storms attributable to the same batch.
• Best-effort operator identity via evidentia_ai.client.get_operator_identity() (returns $EVIDENTIA_AI_OPERATOR if set, else user@hostname). Closes the NIST AU-3 "Identity" gap for AI-derived artifacts.

Shipped as P0-only by deliberate scope-narrowing decision at ship time. P1 (supply-chain polish — SHA-pin composite action, action E2E smoke test, SLSA L3 build provenance, OpenSSF Scorecard) and P2/P3 (documentation polish + community-driven items) moved to docs/v0.7.2-plan.md so v0.7.1 could land focused on the BLOCKER B3 closure without scope creep.

973 tests collected (965 passed + 8 environmental skips on local Windows; 8 skips are GnuPG entropy + Sigstore CI-OIDC-only and pass on Linux CI per the v0.7.0 baseline); mypy strict clean (98 source files); ruff lint clean.

v0.7.2 — Supply-chain polish + documentation refresh — SHIPPED

The "supply-chain polish + documentation refresh" release. What landed:

• OpenSSF Scorecard weekly workflow — .github/workflows/scorecard.yml publishes to securityscorecards.dev on Mondays + push-to-main. Surfaces ~20 supply-chain checks (Pinned-Dependencies, Branch-Protection, Code-Review, SBOM, Signed-Releases, etc.). v0.7.0 work covers most baseline checks; v0.7.3 S1 SHA-pinning will improve Pinned-Dependencies.
• IDE setup for testing/validation — version-controlled .vscode/{settings,launch,tasks,extensions}.json + .cursorrules
  • .editorconfig + docs/ide-setup.md walkthrough. Both Cursor and VS Code share the same config; pytest discovery / mypy strict / ruff format-on-save / coverage gutters / 7 debug launch configs / 16 pre-canned tasks. Pre-commit hooks + dev container queued for v0.7.3 (DOC6 + DOC7).
• Catalog-drift false positive fix — closes daily-noise issues #1, #2, #3, #4 opened by catalog-refresh.yml between 2026-04-23 and 2026-04-26. Pinned yaml.safe_dump(width=200) for byte-stable manifest emit + --ignore-all-space belt-and-suspenders workflow guard.
• Pre-release-review refinements — 4 MEDIUM doc/config polish fixes from the v0.7.2 comprehensive pre-tag review (DORA past-tense, doc stamp date, Windows venv path removal, regen stderr warning).
• Scratch-directory convention — .gitignore adds .local/ for per-developer working notes and drafts not ready to share.

Shipped without the originally-scoped P0 supply-chain items (SHA-pinning, action E2E smoke test, SLSA L3) — those moved to docs/v0.7.3-plan.md along with the originally-scoped docs polish (sigstore-quickstart, v0.8.0-plan, etc.). See the v0.7.2 plan's "Deferred to v0.7.3" section for the full carry-forward inventory.

965 tests passing + 8 environmental skips on local Windows (GnuPG entropy + Sigstore CI-OIDC; full pass on Linux CI per v0.7.1 baseline); mypy strict clean (98 source files); ruff lint clean.

v0.7.3 — Composite action hardening + docs polish — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.3-plan.md for the full plan. Theme: finishes the v0.7.1-plan-originated supply-chain items that didn't make v0.7.2. P0 SHIPPED: SHA-pin every third-party action across the composite action + every workflow file (28 pinned refs), composite action E2E smoke test workflow against the Meridian fixture, SLSA L3 build provenance via actions/attest-build-provenance@v2.4.0. P1 SHIPPED: release-checklist verifier-note refresh, docs/v0.8.0-plan.md forward release plan, docs/sigstore-quickstart.md end-to-end walkthrough, architecture-plan "Updates since v0.7.0" callout block, .pre-commit-config.yaml + companion .yamllint + .markdownlint.yaml, .devcontainer/devcontainer.json. DOC5 quarterly positioning re-sync deferred to v0.7.4+ (Q3 cadence). Audit-cleanup items A6 README truncation + A10 CITATION.cff + B4 release-checklist refresh + A3 frontend dev-stack CVE bumps (vite + vitest + plugin-react) + B2 lightweight container image (Dockerfile + non-publishing CI smoke test) all landed. P2 community items (Okta, ServiceNow, Vanta/Drata, OSCAL Plugfest, multi-industry sample data) carry forward to v0.7.4+.

v0.7.4 — Dockerfile invocation hot-fix — SHIPPED

Same-day patch correcting three wrong CLI invocations shipped in v0.7.3's container-image work + an additional pre-existing latent same-pattern bug in the composite action's install step (latent since v0.7.0; never surfaced because the composite action was never externally consumed in CI before v0.7.3). The Evidentia CLI registers version as a SUBCOMMAND (alongside init, doctor, serve, gap, catalog, risk, etc.) — not as a --version flag. Similarly the framework-catalog subcommand is evidentia catalog (not evidentia frameworks). Adds a "local Docker build" line to docs/release-checklist.md Step 5 so future Dockerfile-touching releases catch this class of bug pre-tag. All v0.7.3 PyPI artifacts (wheels, SBOM, attestations) carry forward unchanged. See CHANGELOG.md [0.7.4] block.

v0.7.5 — Container publish + critical security batch + quick-win polish — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.5-plan.md. Renumbered from v0.7.4-plan at v0.7.4 hot-fix ship time; augmented 2026-04-29 post-v0.7.4 with three new buckets: P0.5 critical-security batch (S1-S6 closing 14 HIGH py/path-injection + 1 HIGH py/polynomial-redos + 3 MEDIUM stack-trace exposure + 4 MEDIUM missing-workflow-permissions + 5 MEDIUM Pinned-Dependencies + 2 HIGH URL-substring-sanitization review = ~20 of the 37 open code-scanning alerts), P0.6 Dependabot batch merge (5 currently open PRs), P0.7 quick-win polish (OpenSSF Best Practices Badge filing, /api/health hardening, docs/troubleshooting.md). Original P0 (container publish + cosign + SLSA) and P1 (R1 quarterly resync, R2 oscal verify UX) carry forward unchanged. ~5-7 week ship target.

v0.7.6 — UI alpha.2 + benchmark design + quickstart polish — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.6-plan.md. Closes the alpha.2 UI completion gap that's been outstanding since v0.4.0 (Gap Analyze form, Gap Diff picker, Risk Generate streaming page, README screenshots), runs the deferred quarterly research-resync if Q3 cadence has arrived, lands the performance benchmark design + first measurement run (docs/benchmarks.md v1), publishes docs/quickstart.md (90-second flow), and runs a /security-review deep-pass threat-model walk. ~4-5 week ship target.

v0.7.7 — SQL family evidence collectors — SHIPPED (+ v0.7.7.1 same-day Dockerfile-pin hot-fix)

See docs/v0.7.7-plan.md. First substantive new-collector release since v0.5.0. Adds 5 SQL-family adapters as evidentia-collectors[sql-{postgres,mysql,sqlite,mssql,oracle}] extras — read-only collectors mapping DB-resident compliance evidence (user privileges, audit-log status, encryption posture, schema change history) to NIST 800-53 controls AC-2 / AC-3 / AC-6 / AU-2 / AU-3 / SC-12 / SC-28. Plus the carried-forward Okta collector + ServiceNow integration + a benchmark re-run. ~6-8 week ship target.

v0.7.8 — Cloud data-warehouse collectors + BI integrations — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.8-plan.md for the full plan. Extended the v0.7.7 relational-DB evidence layer into modern cloud data warehouses (Databricks, Snowflake) and added the first BI output integrations (Tableau, Power BI). Each cloud-DW adapter maps to the same NIST 800-53 control families as the SQL adapters plus AC-2(11), AC-6(7), AC-7, IA-2(1)/(2), IR-4 for Snowflake. The Tableau + Power BI integrations push three datasets (gap inventory, risk register with AI-provenance, collection-run audit trail) to enterprise BI surfaces, positioning Evidentia as the OSS evidence-feed beneath dashboards risk officers + audit committees + boards already consume.

CSV-based Tableau publish (no .hyper native binary needed) + Power BI Push Datasets via Azure AD service-principal OAuth. CLI

• REST + status-endpoint wiring for all four. Comprehensive walkthrough docs (docs/cloud-dw-collectors.md, docs/bi-integrations.md) + Meridian-with-BI demo scenario (examples/meridian-fintech-v2-with-bi/). Step 5.A pre-tag batch landed 8 fixes (F-V08-1 unbacked azure/gcp extras removal; F-V08-2 DFAH/DSE arXiv expansion corrections; F-V08-DAST-1 frameworks 500→404 + regression test; F-V08-DAST-3 17 manual HTTPException(422) sites converted to 400 to match OpenAPI schema; F-V08-CR-H1 Snowflake LOGIN_HISTORY LIMIT; F-V08-CR-H2 Snowflake cursor-reuse refactor; F-V08-CR-H3 Power BI clear_table 404 swallow; F-V08-CR-MEDIUM Databricks workspace_url rename + O(N) coverage + dead-code removal). 1259 tests passing (+159 new); mypy strict clean across 138 source files. Some evidence sources DEFERRED to v0.7.9+ (Databricks audit logs + lineage need SQL Warehouse plumbing; Snowflake ACCESS_HISTORY needs pagination design; Databricks network policies need Account API auth path) — all surfaced as explicit BLIND_SPOTS.

v0.7.9 — TPRM module + 4 vendor-risk-collectors + OSCAL TPRM emit — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.9-plan.md + the v0.7.9 SHIPPED memory pointer. Tag v0.7.9 at commit b643caf (2026-05-04). Brings Evidentia into the regulated financial-services compliance domain via the new evidentia tprm top-level capability module — vendor inventory CRUD, due-diligence questionnaire generation + ingestion (5 formats incl. SIG BYO + caiq-full), concentration- risk reporting (6 dimensions), OSCAL TPRM emit (vendor inventory in metadata.parties[] + back-matter.resources[] with SHA-256 integrity hashes), and 4 vendor-risk SaaS collectors (Vanta + Drata + BitSight + SecurityScorecard). Plus the v0.7.8 Step 5.A carry-over batch (4 MEDIUM closed) + --security-headers middleware + PR #18 actions-bump fix. Per the comprehensive plan §19.1 final-scope-narrowing decision, the model-risk module + 7 new catalogs + governance primitives + audit chain-of-custody work split out across v0.7.10 + v0.7.11 follow-ons (rather than the original 8-10 week mega-release scope). 1540 tests / mypy strict 0/0 across 160 source files / ruff clean. Image digest sha256:a378f24efef3ea33062592a767abc82d5c4df9accea61e409a404faec34ac344.

v0.7.10 — Federal compliance + Model Risk Management overlay — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.10-plan.md. The v0.7.9 follow-on. Shipped: top-level evidentia model-risk module per SR 11-7 / SR 26-02 / OCC Bulletin 2011-12 / OCC 2026-13a (model inventory CRUD + SR-aligned doc generator + validation report generator + RiskStatement.model_inventory_ref AI-feature linkage), evidentia governance module (G1 Three Lines of Defense lines-report + G2 Effective Challenge log), 7 new bundled Tier-A catalogs (FFIEC IT Handbook 5 booklets + FFIEC CAT + OCC 2026-13a / FRB SR 26-02; total 82 → 89), Codecov + 81.87% statement coverage closing the last OpenSSF Silver MUST (test_statement_coverage80), and 4 of the 17 v0.7.9-deferred findings (M-1 / M-2 / L-3 / L-7). Pre-tag review: 0 HIGH / 1 MEDIUM (F-V10-S1 inline-fixed) / 1 LOW (F-V10-S2 deferred); 0 unfixed at ship.

v0.7.11 — Audit chain-of-custody + KRI/KPI/KGI + Open FAIR + workflows — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.11-plan.md. Shipped: P0 audit chain-of-custody (RetentionMetadata + lifecycle state machine + WORMBackend ABC + LocalFilesystemWORM reference impl), P1.5 governance trio (G3 KRI/KPI/KGI metrics + G4 Open FAIR risk quantification + G5 process-as-code workflows), P3 first-batch deferral closures (F-V10-S2 + M-1 + M-2 + M-5 + M-6 + L-1 + L-3 + L-6 + L-7), validate_within harmonization across 6 stores, + P4 docs (audit-chain-of-custody.md + governance-metrics.md + risk-quantification.md). Concrete S3/Azure/GCS WORM backends + FAIR Monte Carlo simulation deferred to v0.7.12. Pre-tag review 0 HIGH / 0 MEDIUM / 0 LOW — first PROCEED-CLEAN of the v0.7.x cycle.

v0.7.12 — Concrete WORM backends + FAIR Monte Carlo + alert-zero — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.12-plan.md. Shipped: 3 cloud- WORM backend implementations (S3ObjectLockWORM / AzureImmutableBlobWORM / GCSBucketLockWORM via evidentia[worm-s3] / [worm-azure] / [worm-gcs] extras), FAIR Monte Carlo simulation (risk quantify --method fair-mc), GDPR Article 17 purge-flow (purge_immediately + force_gdpr_purge operator override), CodeQL custom sanitizer pack registering validate_within as a path-injection sanitizer, bump_version.py inter-package pin tightening, release-checklist Steps 5.5 + 9.5 doc-consistency + release-notes practices, and 3 cloud-WORM operator runbooks. Second consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN /security-review (0 HIGH / 0 MEDIUM / 0 LOW). 2075 tests passing across 188 source files.

v0.7.13 — Dependency modernization + Codecov fix + P3 closures + release-notes hygiene — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.13-shipped.md. Wrap-up release for the v0.7.x cycle. PR #18 (13 GH Actions major bumps) merged post-ship. Codecov source_pkgs fix (Cobertura XML emits full repo-relative file paths). P3 carry-overs closed (M-9 OSCAL UUID conformance + L-2 Vanta/Drata extended fields + L-4 SIG BYO debug logging + 5 of 9 v0.7.8 LOWs). release.yml auto-populates GitHub Release body from CHANGELOG via new extract_changelog_block.py (closes the v0.7.5→v0.7.12 stub- body gap structurally). 10 historical release-body backfills landed retroactively. Third consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN /security-review (0 unfixed findings; 0 inline-fixes). Step 7 post-tag verification all sub-checks PASS + 2nd consecutive pin-trap fix validation + 1st validation of G16 release body substantiveness gate.

v0.7.14 — Frontend modernization + Codecov P2.1 + final v0.7.x hygiene + v0.8.0 G4 foundation — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.14-shipped.md. 7 of 8 PR #21 frontend major bumps landed (TypeScript 5→6, ESLint 9→10, plugin-react-hooks 5→7, plugin-react-refresh 0.4→0.5, jsdom 25→29, postcss + @types/node minors; tailwind 3→4 deferred to v0.7.15). 3 deferred v0.7.8 LOWs closed (test-coverage gaps, Tableau Windows tempfile via TemporaryDirectory, Databricks LTS env-var). Codecov 0% RESOLVED via P2.1 attempt 1 (flag_management block removal); dashboard now shows 82.14% on c0c9a31. container-build Wait extended to poll all 6 packages. Hash-pinned docker/requirements.txt preview lands as v0.8.0 G4 foundation. Fourth consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN /security-review.

v0.7.15 — Tailwind 4 + SettingsPage refactor + standing-rule pre-commit — SHIPPED

See docs/v0.7.15-shipped.md. Tailwind 3→4 migration (CSS-first @theme blocks; @tailwindcss/vite plugin; tw-animate-css replaces v3-era tailwindcss-animate), SettingsPage refactor (key-based remount; lint rule promoted warn→error), standing-rule sweep pre-commit hook (file-content stage). Fifth consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN. Ship-cycle hardening: post-ship commit fd36e78 extends release.yml publish-container Wait step to all 6 packages (matches v0.7.14 P2.2 fix for container-build.yml).

v0.7.16 — Final v0.7.x: security CVE bump + commit-msg hook + retrospective — SHIPPED

Final v0.7.x release. PR #23 closes 2 Dependabot medium-severity alerts (python-dotenv CVE — symlink-following in set_key; vulnerable < 1.2.2). Adds the commit-msg pre-commit hook variant that closes the gap left by v0.7.15's file-content-only hook (catches leaks in commit-message body too). Publishes docs/v0.7.15-shipped.md in-repo retrospective. Validates the post-v0.7.15 release.yml Wait extension (commit fd36e78) on its first release pipeline run. Refreshes the OpenSSF Silver answer sheet with v0.7.16 ship state (Codecov 82.14% test_statement_coverage80 MET via v0.7.14 P2.1 fix). Sixth consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN. v0.7.x cycle CLOSED.

v0.8.0 — The OSS-native AI moat — SHIPPED

See docs/security-review-v0.8.0.md for the full pre-tag review (5th canonical Pre-tag deliverable per the pre-release-review v4 §G7) + docs/v0.8.0-plan.md for the original plan. First minor release after the v0.7.x cycle close. Lands the four AI-quality features that distinguish a Vanta-class dashboard from a compliance-engineering tool:

• DFAH determinism harness (P0.1) — evidentia eval stub-smoke CLI verb + DFAHarness library API per arXiv 2601.15322. New module evidentia_ai.eval with harness/metrics/seeds + result models. CI-gateable via --fail-on-determinism-rate-below. 4 new EventActions (started + determinism-violation + faithfulness- violation reserved + completed).
• Policy Reasoning Traces (P0.2) — evidentia risk generate --emit-trace flag per arXiv 2509.23291. New TraceClaim + ReasoningTrace Pydantic models; optional RiskStatement.reasoning_trace field (backward-compat). OSCAL emit gains risk_statements_with_traces kwarg surfacing traces as Evidentia-namespaced back-matter resources with canonical JSON + SHA-256 (Sigstore-signable). Trestle pydantic.v1 round-trip preserves trace data. New EventAction AI_RISK_TRACE_EMITTED. v0.8.0 ships single-claim stub trace; v0.8.1 ships LLM-driven per-claim decomposition.
• MCP server (P0.3) — NEW evidentia-mcp workspace member exposing 4 read-only tools (list_frameworks, get_control, gap_analyze, gap_diff) over stdio transport. evidentia mcp serve + evidentia mcp doctor. HTTP/SSE + CIMD richness defer to v0.8.1. PyPI Pending Publisher feature validated for the new evidentia-mcp project.
• Plugin contract scaffolding (P0.4) — 4 ABCs in evidentia_core.plugins: AuthProvider, StorageBackend[T] (PEP 695 generic), MarketplaceProvider, BaseSaaSCollector. 3 reference implementations + discover_plugins() opt-in entry-point discovery.
• M-4 collector base-class refactor — Vanta, Drata, BitSight, SecurityScorecard inherit BaseSaaSCollector; per-collector scaffolding LOC drops ~60%. BitSight + SecurityScorecard override _auth_header() for HTTP Basic + custom Token schemes.

P1 architectural primitives:

• G3 Prometheus /metrics endpoint on evidentia serve (stdlib-only counter aggregator taps audit-event-firing path).
• G8 docs/evidence-integrity.md anti-tamper deployment guidance (3 deployment patterns + verification commands).
• G1 mutmut + G2 hypothesis + G4 Dockerfile --require-hashes flip deferred to v0.8.1 per pace constraints.

Image digest sha256:fa8df8028986bd005469a267db46dc25f834b47bf232566422b63f7e2f6b2c1f. PyPI: 7 packages all at 0.8.0 with PEP 740 attestations verified. SBOM 159 packages / 0 issues (osv-scanner clean). 2227 tests / 12 skipped, mypy strict 0/0 across 210 source files, ruff clean. First PROCEED-CLEAN of the v0.8.x line. Step 7 post-tag verification all 7 sub-checks PASS (PEP 740 / cosign / osv- scanner / docker run / fresh-venv install 6th consecutive pin-trap validation / G16 release-body 7615 bytes 5th consecutive auto-populate-from-CHANGELOG / Scorecard delta). Two recurring code-scanning false positives dismissed (py/partial-ssrf on BaseSaaSCollector; Pinned-Dependencies on Dockerfile); 0 open code-scanning alerts at close.

v0.8.1 — Review-deferral close-out + LLM richness + network surfaces — SHIPPED

Tag v0.8.1 at commit 3e520a0. Image digest sha256:c9dfcfee90685b6b3232646d11eb43ebf4c6842847f6fe82cec52944b45ca352. PyPI: 7 packages all at 0.8.1 with PEP 740 attestations verified. Release pipeline first-fire PASS (3m56s). Step 7 post-tag verification all sub-checks PASS: PEP 740 + cosign + osv-scanner (159 packages / 0 issues) + docker run smoke (89 frameworks + 9 crosswalks) + fresh-venv install (7th consecutive pin-trap validation) + G16 release-body 8484 bytes (6th consecutive auto-populate-from-CHANGELOG). 0 open code-scanning alerts at close. Pre-release-review v4 Continuous variant PROCEED-CLEAN — 8th consecutive of the v0.7.x → v0.8.x line.

See docs/security-review-v0.8.1.md for the full Pre-tag review. Aggressive ~4-week scope (Allen's v0.8.1 cycle-open lock-in 2026-05-05) executed in a single focused session.

ALL 12 v0.8.0-bucketed review findings closed — 2 HIGH (logger record_event level filter, MetricsRegistry encapsulation), 4 MEDIUM (collector _get non-dict raise, FastMCP private API → public, F-V08-S3 /api/metrics auth gate via Phase 3.3 AuthProvider middleware, LocalDirectoryMarketplace manifest warning), 6 LOW (LocalTokenAuthProvider symlink- rejection, doctor unbound vars, assert→ValueError under PYTHONOPTIMIZE, BaseSaaSCollector PEP-695 generic rationale, discover_plugins of_type kwarg, test defensive None checks).

LLM-driven richness landed:

• DFAH risk-determinism CLI verb — evidentia eval risk-determinism --context X --gaps Y runs the v0.8.0 DFAHarness against the live RiskStatementGenerator. CI-gateable via --fail-on-determinism-rate-below 0.95.
• PRT LLM-driven per-claim decomposition — RISK_STATEMENT_TRACE_PROMPT augments the system prompt when emit_trace=True. Instructor extracts 3-7 atomic claims with per-claim policy clause citations + self- introspected confidence. v0.8.0 stub trace remains as defensive fallback. Audit-log trace_kind=v0.8.1-llm vs v0.8.0-stub for auditor filtering.

Network surfaces:

• MCP HTTP/SSE transport — evidentia mcp serve --transport <stdio|sse|http> with --host + --port flags. Loopback-default; non-loopback warns at startup.
• FastAPI AuthProvider middleware — create_app(auth_provider=...)
  • evidentia serve --auth-token-file <path> ergonomic wiring. Closes v0.8.0 F-V08-S3 MEDIUM finding — /api/metrics + all data-bearing routes inherit the auth requirement. UNAUTHENTICATED_PATHS allowlist for liveness probes.

Deferred to v0.8.2 per §24.6 R6 (infra primitives benefit from a thoughtful integration plan, not rushed at cycle-end):

• G4 Dockerfile --require-hashes flip + reproducible-build verification (consumes v0.7.14 P1.5 hash-pinned docker/requirements.txt).
• G1 mutmut mutation-testing baseline ≥ 65%.
• G2 hypothesis property-based tests on crosswalk + normaliser.
• MCP CIMD richness (best explored against real MCP-client deployments).
• 2 NEW v0.8.1 findings: F-V81-S1 MEDIUM (HTTP/SSE file-path tool input gating), F-V81-S2 LOW (module-load AuthProvider → FastAPI lifespan).

Pre-release-review v4 Continuous variant PROCEED-CLEAN — 8th consecutive across v0.7.{11,12,13,14,15,16} + v0.8.0 + v0.8.1. 0 CRITICAL/HIGH unfixed at ship. 2240 tests / 13 skipped, mypy strict 0/0 across 211 source files, ruff clean.

v0.8.2 — Review-deferral closure + supply-chain hardening + test-quality + DFAH faithfulness — SHIPPED

Tag v0.8.2 at commit (TBD post-tag). Aggressive ~3-week scope executed in a single focused session — closes 8 reservations carried out of v0.8.1 (CIMD richness deferred further to v0.8.3 per §24.6 R6). 9th consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of the v0.7.x → v0.8.x line.

See docs/security-review-v0.8.2.md for the full Pre-tag review.

Closures:

• F-V81-S1 — evidentia mcp serve --allow-root <path> flag gates file-path tool inputs (gap_analyze, gap_diff) via validate_within. Out-of-root paths surface as PathTraversalError (MCP tool error, not server crash). Non- loopback HTTP/SSE without --allow-root warns at startup.
• F-V81-S2 — AuthProvider construction moved from import- time module-level → FastAPI lifespan async context manager. Importing evidentia_api.app is now side-effect-free; env var EVIDENTIA_API_AUTH_TOKEN_FILE is read at app startup. AuthProviderMiddleware is always-attached + reads provider from request.app.state.auth_provider at dispatch (no-op when None preserves v0.8.0 backward-compat).
• G4 Dockerfile --require-hashes (foundation; activation deferred to v0.8.3) — docker/requirements.txt regenerated against the v0.8.2 dep tree (~140 transitive deps with SHA256 hashes); bump_version.py --regenerate-requirements wires regeneration into the version-bump flow. Activation deferred per §25.6 R1: release.yml uv build is not byte-identical across hosts, so pre-tag hashes don't match PyPI. v0.8.3 closes via reproducible-build verification (SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH) OR release-pipeline regeneration step.
• G1 mutmut baseline — [tool.mutmut] config + weekly .github/workflows/mutmut.yml targeting gap_analyzer + risk_statements. docs/mutation-testing.md operator runbook ships.
• G2 hypothesis property-based tests — 8 new property tests in tests/property/ covering invariants on the gap-analyzer normalizer + the catalogs CrosswalkEngine. Configurable ci / dev profiles via tests/property/conftest.py.
• DFAH faithfulness scoring (P3.1) — second arXiv 2601.15322 metric. New evidentia_ai.eval.faithfulness module with FaithfulnessResult model + faithfulness_score() function using stdlib Jaccard token-overlap (no heavy ML deps). Default threshold 0.3. docs/dfah-faithfulness.md operator guide.
• First-class Sigstore signing for evidentia eval output (P3.2) — evidentia_ai.eval.signing module + CLI flags (--sign / --no-sign) + new evidentia eval verify subcommand. Tri-state default auto-detects via GITHUB_ACTIONS env. New EventAction.AI_EVAL_OUTPUT_SIGNED audit entry.

Quality at ship: 2277 tests / 14 skipped (was 2240 / 13 at v0.8.1), mypy strict 0/0 across ~215 source files, ruff clean. 0 CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM findings; 3 LOW deferrals to v0.8.3.

v0.8.3 — Supply-chain G4 activation + AI-quality completion — SHIPPED

Tag v0.8.3 at commit (TBD post-tag). Aggressive ~3-week scope executed in a single focused session — closes 6 of 8 v0.8.2 carry-overs; MCP CIMD richness deferred to v0.8.4 (4th cycle-deferral; per §24.6 R6 gated on empirical operator demand); DFAHarness check_faithfulness=True wiring deferred to v0.8.4 polish. 10th consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of the v0.7.x → v0.8.x line.

See docs/security-review-v0.8.3.md for the full Pre-tag review.

Closures:

• G4 Dockerfile --require-hashes ACTIVATED — Path 1 (SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH-driven reproducible builds) per §26.D. release.yml exports SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(git log -1 --format=%ct HEAD) before uv build → byte-identical wheels across hosts → SHA256 hashes match between local pre-tag pip-compile + PyPI uploads. New release.yml build-twice verification step asserts sha256sum matches before publish. bump_version.py --regenerate-requirements wraps uv build (with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH from HEAD) + pip-compile against locally-built wheels via --find-links=./dist/. Closes recurring Scorecard PinnedDependencies false-positive cycle (alerts #100 → #115 across v0.7.12 → v0.8.2) structurally + permanently.
• F-V82-S1 LOW: bump_version.py --regenerate-requirements auto-detects host platform; on non-Linux hosts auto-invokes pip-compile inside the pinned python:3.14-slim base image so Linux-only transitives (uvloop) resolve correctly.
• F-V82-S2 LOW: evidentia eval verify CLI replaces broad except Exception with specific SigstoreError subclass catches mapped to distinct exit codes (2 = infrastructure missing; 1 = cryptographic failure).
• F-V82-S3 LOW (transitive): paraphrase precision via P1.1.
• DFAH faithfulness sentence-transformers path (P1.1) — new evidentia_ai.eval.faithfulness_semantic module + opt-in [eval-faithfulness] extra carrying sentence-transformers. Default model all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (~90 MB); default threshold 0.7. Catches paraphrases that the v0.8.2 stdlib Jaccard baseline misses.
• LLM atomic-claim extraction (P1.2) — new evidentia_ai.eval.claim_extraction module + extract_claims() function decomposes any AI-generated artifact into atomic verifiable claims via LiteLLM-driven LLM call. Defensive parsing (strip bullets/numbering; drop empties). Empty input returns [] cost-aware. New EventAction.AI_EVAL_FAITHFULNESS_CHECKED reserved for v0.8.4 DFAHarness wiring.
• DFAH calibration corpus + threshold-tuning script (P1.3) — 50-entry corpus at tests/data/dfah-calibration/corpus.jsonl (4 categories; verbatim / paraphrase / semi-related / hallucination). New scripts/tune_faithfulness_threshold.py measures FPR/FNR across thresholds + recommends optimum via Youden's J. Empirically demonstrates the v0.8.2 Jaccard limitation: the bundled corpus's optimal Jaccard threshold is 0.85 (vs default 0.3) — paraphrase-heavy corpora drag the optimum upward.

Quality at ship: 2299 tests / 14 skipped (was 2277 / 14 at v0.8.2; +22 new tests across P1.1 + P1.2 + reproducible-build self-tests). mypy strict 0/0 across 220+ source files; ruff clean. 0 CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM findings; 0 LOW unfixed.

v0.8.4 — G4 Path 2 + DFAHarness wiring — SHIPPED

Tag v0.8.4 at commit (TBD post-tag). Aggressive ~2-3 week focused scope (executed in single session compression matching v0.8.3 cadence). Closes the v0.8.3 ship-failure root cause via G4 Path 2 (post-PyPI regeneration in release.yml — sidesteps cross-platform reproducibility entirely) + the v0.8.3 P1.2 deferred wiring (check_faithfulness=True first-class on DFAHarness). MCP CIMD richness deferred 5th time to v0.8.5; CLI flags + corpus expansion + real-LLM integration tests deferred to v0.8.5.

See docs/security-review-v0.8.4.md for the v4 Pre-tag-style closeout (PROCEED-CLEAN; 11th consecutive of v0.7.x → v0.8.x line).

Closed in v0.8.4

• G4 Dockerfile --require-hashes ACTIVATED via Path 2 — closes the recurring Scorecard PinnedDependencies false- positive cycle (alerts #100 → #116 across v0.7.12 → v0.8.3.1) structurally + permanently. release.yml's publish-container job now regenerates docker/requirements.txt against PyPI's just-published wheels via pip-compile --generate-hashes --no-emit-find-links BETWEEN the existing Wait-for-PyPI step + the docker build step. Hashes match because pip-compile downloads from PyPI's bytes in the Linux CI runner — same source as the container build's pip install. Cross-platform reproducibility no longer required. Built-in 3-attempt retry loop with 30s sleeps absorbs PyPI propagation lag. The committed docker/requirements.txt is preview state for operators reading the repo; release-time regeneration overwrites it ephemerally. Defense-in-depth: hash verification fires at pip-compile time + at install time (two distinct points in the supply chain).
• DFAHarness check_faithfulness=True wiring — closes the v0.8.3 P1.2 deferral. EvalSample schema gains optional source_clauses: list[str] | None = None field; EvalResult schema gains faithfulness_results: list[PromptFaithfulnessResult] list; DFAHarness.run() gains 5 new kwargs: check_faithfulness, faithfulness_threshold, faithfulness_method (jaccard | semantic), claim_extraction_fn (mock-callable injection point), faithfulness_score_fn (mock-callable injection point). EventAction.AI_EVAL_FAITHFULNESS_CHECKED (reserved-but- inactive in v0.8.0; ACTIVATED in v0.8.4) + EventAction.AI_EVAL_FAITHFULNESS_VIOLATION (reserved-but- inactive in v0.8.0; ACTIVATED in v0.8.4). Mock-callable injection points keep harness tests cost-zero (no LLM / sentence-transformers token burn in CI) while exercising real production code paths. Default callable resolution falls back to v0.8.3-shipped extract_claims + v0.8.2/v0.8.3-shipped faithfulness_score / faithfulness_score_semantic when callers don't inject mocks. 14 new unit tests across 5 test classes. Library + harness integration first-class; CLI flags (--check-faithfulness --source-clauses-file <yaml>) deferred to v0.8.5.

Test count + quality gates

• pytest 100% green: 2313 passed / 14 skipped (was 2299 / 14 at v0.8.3.1 ship)
• mypy strict 0/0 across 220+ source files
• ruff clean
• Standing-rule keyword sweep clean across both v0.8.4-cycle commits

v0.8.5 — DFAH CLI flags + corpus + real-LLM tests + CIMD — SHIPPED

Tag v0.8.5 at commit (TBD post-tag). Aggressive ~2-3 week focused scope (single-session compression matching v0.8.3 + v0.8.4 cadence). Closes ALL 4 v0.8.4 carry-overs per Allen's explicit Comprehensive scope + Implement-CIMD-now lock-in (§28). 12th consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of v0.7.x → v0.8.x line.

See docs/security-review-v0.8.5.md for the v4 Pre-tag-style closeout (PROCEED-CLEAN; 12th consecutive of v0.7.x → v0.8.x line).

Closed in v0.8.5

• DFAH faithfulness CLI flags — evidentia eval risk-determinism --check-faithfulness --faithfulness-threshold N --faithfulness-method {jaccard,semantic} --source-clauses-file <yaml> operator- facing surface. Closes the v0.8.4 P1.2 CLI-surface deferral. Pre-condition validation rejects malformed inputs BEFORE any LLM call fires.
• DFAH calibration corpus expansion to 123 entries + per-framework subsets (corpus_nist.jsonl / corpus_ffiec.jsonl / corpus_iso27001.jsonl, 24 entries each across the 4 categories). tune_faithfulness_threshold.py --corpus-pattern <glob> for per-framework sweep. Empirical per-framework recommended thresholds documented.
• Real-LLM integration tests for extract_claims() + DFAHarness.run(check_faithfulness=True) end-to-end at tests/integration/test_eval/test_real_llm_extraction.py. Opt-in via EVIDENTIA_LLM_INTEGRATION=1 env var.
• MCP CIMD richness — implemented after 5 deferral cycles per Allen's "implement now" directive. New module evidentia_mcp.cimd with CIMDDocument (per RFC 7591) + CIMDRegistry (JSON-file-backed, version-tagged). evidentia mcp serve --cimd-registry <path> flag. Server-side attribute server.evidentia_cimd exposed for tool implementations. v0.8.5 ships the registry-loading + attachment infrastructure; per-tool scope enforcement at MCP-protocol level deferred to v0.8.6.

Test count + quality gates

• pytest 100% green: 2338 passed / 17 skipped (was 2313/14 at v0.8.4 ship; +25 new across P1 + P3 + P4)
• mypy strict 0/0 across 216 source files
• ruff clean
• Standing-rule keyword sweep clean across all 4 v0.8.5-cycle commits

v0.8.6 — CIMD scope enforcement + Cohen's Kappa + per-claim confidence + retrospectives — SHIPPED

Tag v0.8.6 at commit eb0f331. Container digest sha256:583d3849b5997edd2557530c48a32f085fa22ebbc2441bbeb2e7fcf7db8799a5. Aggressive ~2-3 week comprehensive scope (single-session compression matching v0.8.3 + v0.8.4 + v0.8.5 cadence). Closes ALL 3 v0.8.5 carry-overs + 3 cycle-additions per Allen's explicit Comprehensive scope + CIMD-first sequencing

• v0.7.x-retrospective / v1.0-transition / audit-trail-layer additions lock-in (§29). 13th consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of v0.7.x → v0.8.x line.

See docs/security-review-v0.8.6.md for the v4 Pre-tag-style closeout (PROCEED-CLEAN; 13th consecutive).

Closed in v0.8.6

• CIMD scope enforcement at MCP-protocol level + per-call audit trail (P1) — closes the v0.8.5 P4 deferral. NEW evidentia_mcp.scope module monkey-binds FastMCP.call_tool with idempotency guard; per-call AI_MCP_TOOL_AUTHORIZED / AI_MCP_TOOL_DENIED audit events; --default-client-id CLI flag; deny paths raise McpError code -32602. Pass-through preserves v0.8.5 default no-gating behavior.
• Cohen's Kappa rater agreement script (P2) — closes the v0.8.5 P2 multi-rater methodology reservation. NEW scripts/compute_inter_rater_kappa.py ships κ formula + Landis-Koch interpretation + CI-gateable exit codes; rule-based jaccard rater mode probe → best κ = 0.4848 (moderate) at threshold 0.85 → ships as "single-rater + κ probe inconclusive" per §29 R3 mitigation; empirically demonstrates v0.8.3 sentence-transformers semantic path's necessity. Real LLM-assisted second rater + human second rater both reserved for v0.9.0 walk-through.
• Per-claim bootstrap-resampled confidence + framework- aware threshold defaults (P3) — FaithfulnessResult.confidence
  • framework fields; DEFAULT_THRESHOLDS_BY_FRAMEWORK_JACCARD map (NIST 0.60 / FFIEC 0.35 / ISO27001 0.30 per v0.8.5 P2 empirical sweep); resolve_threshold(framework, method) helper. CLI flag --faithfulness-threshold-mode {framework- aware,fixed} deferred to v0.8.7.
• docs/v0.7.x-retrospective.md (P4) — 18-release narrative (v0.7.0 → v0.7.16 over ~12 days).
• docs/v1.0-transition.md DRAFT (P5) — v1.0 theme candidates + acceptance gates.

Test count + quality gates

• pytest 100% green: 2383 passed / 17 skipped (was 2338/17 at v0.8.5 ship; +45 new across P1 + P2 + P3)
• mypy strict 0/0 across 217 source files
• ruff clean
• Standing-rule keyword sweep clean across all 4 v0.8.6-cycle commits

v0.8.7 — Final v0.8.x wrap-up — SHIPPED

Tag v0.8.7 at commit (TBD post-tag). Single focused session per Allen's explicit cycle-open lock-in (§30: Single v0.8.7 wrap-up release + LLM-rater deferred to v0.9.0 + CIMD signatures deferred to v1.0). 14th consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of v0.7.x → v0.8.x line. FINAL v0.8.x patch — v0.9.0 opens with a clean slate.

See docs/security-review-v0.8.7.md for the v4 Pre-tag-style closeout (PROCEED-CLEAN; 14th consecutive).

Closed in v0.8.7

• --faithfulness-threshold-mode {framework-aware,fixed} CLI flag (P2) — closes the v0.8.6 P3 CLI-surface deferral. Default framework-aware; explicit --faithfulness-threshold value always wins; framework-aware mode extracts framework from prompt_id (canonical <framework>:<control_id> format) + resolve_threshold(framework, method) lookup; fixed mode uses DEFAULT_FAITHFULNESS_THRESHOLD (0.30). Default --faithfulness-threshold changed from 0.3 → None sentinel; backward-compatible.
• 6 v0.8.6 cycle-close artifacts backfilled (P1; docs only) — security-review-v0.8.6.md + v0.8.6-plan.md + threat-model v0.8.6 delta + capability-matrix v0.8.6 snapshot + README v0.8.6 entry + ROADMAP v0.8.6 PLANNED → SHIPPED transition.

Test count + quality gates

• pytest 100% green: 2386 passed / 17 skipped (was 2383/17 at v0.8.6 ship; +3 new from TestFaithfulnessThresholdMode)
• mypy strict 0/0 across 217 source files
• ruff clean
• Standing-rule keyword sweep clean across the v0.8.7-cycle commits

v0.9.0 — Federal compliance — SHIPPED

v0.9.0 SHIPPED 2026-05-15 — first minor of the v0.9.x line. Opens the federal-compliance theme per the 2026-04-28 §10 Q4 lock-in.

Phase 1 — POA&M data layer + state model: POAMState 5-state enum (planned / in_progress / overdue / completed / verified) aligned to FedRAMP POA&M Template Completion Guide v3.0 + NIST SP 800-53A Rev 5 Appendix F. Forward-only state transitions; backward transitions programmatically blocked to preserve auditor-defensible monotonic progress. Milestone Pydantic record + ControlGap.poam_milestones optional list (default-empty for v0.7.x + v0.8.x backward-compat). New evidentia_core.poam sub-package + evidentia_core.poam_store JSON file-store mirroring v0.7.9 vendor_store (atomic-write + UUID-shape ID gate + validate_within path-traversal defense + EVIDENTIA_POAM_STORE_DIR env override). 6 new EventActions.

Phase 2 — POA&M CLI + REST + OSCAL emit: evidentia poam Typer subcommand group (7 verbs: create / list / show / update / milestone add|update / delete / calendar). /api/poam/* FastAPI router (8 endpoints) mirroring v0.7.9 TPRM router shape

• v0.7.8 F-V08-DAST-3 error-normalization. NEW evidentia_core.oscal.poam_exporter.gap_report_to_oscal_poam() emits OSCAL 1.1.2 plan-of-action-and-milestones JSON; each ControlGap → one (observation, risk, poam-item) triple with UUID cross-references; milestones as tracking-entries under risks[].remediations[]; back-matter SHA-256 integrity mirrors v0.7.0 finding-resource embedding. Default severity-filter is CRITICAL + HIGH per FedRAMP §3.1 auditor-default.

Phase 3 — CONMON cycle calendar (read-only): evidentia_core.conmon pure-function library with 7 bundled cadences (NIST 800-53 CA-7 monthly + FedRAMP ConMon × 3 + CMMC L2 triennial + DoD RMF annual + OCC 2026-13a model-risk annual). evidentia conmon CLI (3 verbs: list / next / check). 2 new EventActions. NO DAEMON — operators poll; the evidentia conmon watch live-trigger daemon is reserved for v1.0 per §31.1.

Step 5.A 14-item refinement batch (commit ceab880): UUID canonicalization in poam_store + vendor_store prevents duplicate-records-per-alias + non-conformant OSCAL UUID emit; _enum_value extracted to evidentia_core.models.common; stale-doc refreshes across governance + config + generation_context references.

15th consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of v0.7.x → v0.8.x → v0.9.x line. 2583 tests / 17 skipped / 227 source files / mypy strict 0/0 / ruff clean. Pre-release-review v4 Pre-tag full 7-step clearance + 3-invocation /security-review (diff-scoped + per-subsystem + final-gate) all CLEAR.

Phase 4 — Walk-through-as-validation: deferred to v0.9.1 per §31.A POA&M-first / walk-through-as-validation posture. v0.8.6 §29 P2 R3 single-rater κ probe inconclusive carry- forward acknowledged; domain-expert walk-through becomes the v0.9.1 reservation. v0.9.0 ships regardless.

v0.9.1 — Walk-through-driven refinement — SHIPPED

Cycle opened 2026-05-15 after v0.9.0 ship. Plan file: docs/v0.9.1-plan.md.

• Phase 1: CONMON REST router — 4 endpoints under /api/conmon/ (list, get, next, check) matching CLI parity. 17 integration tests.
• Phase 2: LLM-assisted second rater — scripts/llm_rater.py
  • --rule llm mode in compute_inter_rater_kappa.py. Temperature-0 deterministic labeling with JSONL sidecar persistence.
• Phase 3: Federal-compliance calibration corpus — corpus_federal.jsonl (24 entries; FedRAMP ConMon + POA&M + NIST 800-53 CA-7). Total corpus now 147 entries.
• Phase 4: Federal-SI walk-through scenarios — 10 scenarios (FS-1 through FS-10) in capability-matrix.md with persona, goal, surfaces exercised, expected outcome.
• Phase 5 (pending): Domain-expert walk-through execution (requires federal partner scheduling).
• Phase 6 (pending): Pre-release-review + version bump + ship.

v0.9.2 — CONMON REST + LLM rater + federal corpus — SHIPPED

(Originally PROPOSED as "AI governance foundation"; the AI governance theme deferred to v0.9.3 when the org migration consumed the v0.9.1 cycle.)

• CONMON REST router — 4 endpoints under /api/conmon/ (list, get, next, check) matching CLI parity.
• LLM-assisted second rater — scripts/llm_rater.py + --rule llm mode in compute_inter_rater_kappa.py. Temperature-0 deterministic labeling with JSONL sidecar persistence.
• Federal-compliance calibration corpus — corpus_federal.jsonl (24 entries; FedRAMP ConMon + POA&M + NIST 800-53 CA-7). Total corpus 147 entries.
• Federal-SI walk-through scenarios (FS-1 through FS-10) in capability-matrix.md.

v0.9.3 — CONMON daemon + AI governance — SHIPPED

The largest minor of the v0.9.x line so far. Combines both originally-PROPOSED themes (CONMON daemon Theme A + AI governance Theme B) into a single ship since v0.9.1 (org migration) + v0.9.2 (CONMON REST + LLM rater) consumed the originally-planned slots.

Theme A — CONMON daemon:

• evidentia conmon watch --poll — long-running daemon with state-file-driven slug→last_completed tracking, configurable poll interval, graceful SIGINT/SIGTERM shutdown.
• Basic alerting — SMTP (STARTTLS-only with has_extn assertion)
  • generic HTTP webhook (HMAC-SHA256 with timestamp-included signed material for capture-replay defense). File-backed dedup state + per-(slug, state) suppression. Secret-handling protocol enforced (file > env > error; CLI value flags rejected).
• Control health scoring — evidentia conmon health CLI + GET /api/conmon/health REST endpoint produce per-framework attention-bucket counts + cross-framework overall health score.
• ContinuousEvidenceSource plugin Protocol + NoopContinuousSource reference impl (production refs deferred to v0.9.4).

Theme B — AI governance:

• EU AI Act catalog enrichment — risk_tier + applies_to_annex_iii on every Article 9-15 control; tier promoted D→A.
• NIST AI RMF crosswalks — bidirectional mappings to EU AI Act (26 entries) + ISO 42001 (23 entries); confidence + rubric fields on catalog model.
• evidentia_core.ai_governance — classification + registry + registry_store (UUID validation + path-traversal guard + atomic write).
• evidentia ai-gov CLI (classify/register/list/get/delete) + /api/ai-gov/* REST router (5 endpoints with audit-event parity to CLI).

Carry-overs:

• LLM-rater κ recompute on 147-entry corpus (framework-agnostic κ = 0.8820; overall κ = 0.7956; 3 of 5 subsets PASS κ≥0.80).
• Docker/requirements drift CI gate.
• GHCR public-flip release-checklist item.
• API-stability.md DRAFT (v1.0 NORMATIVE commitment scope).

v0.9.4 — Daemon hardening + operator polish + walk-through — SHIPPED

Consolidation pass after v0.9.3's aggressive single-session compression. Despite the originally-planned conservative pacing, shipped via the same aggressive single-session pattern. Closed the 2 deferred MEDIUMs + 1 HIGH from the v0.9.3 review + the LOW polish batch + the federal-SI walk-through reserved since v0.9.0. 19th consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN.

Phase 1 — Daemon hardening:

• P1.1 evidentia_core.security.FileLock (POSIX fcntl.flock / Windows msvcrt.locking) + --state-lock CLI flag wiring → closes F-V93-Q3 HIGH (CWE-362 race-condition).
• P1.2 webhook SSRF mitigation: default-deny http:// + loopback/RFC1918/link-local/reserved IPs; opt-in --webhook-allow-plaintext + --webhook-allow-private-network → closes F-V93-S2 MEDIUM (CWE-918).
• P1.3 token-bucket rate-limit middleware on POST /api/ai-gov/ register + /classify + X-Idempotency-Key header support → closes F-V93-S10 LOW (CWE-770).
• P1.4 polish batch (F-V93-Q11 User-Agent + Q12 Windows latency doc + Q14 narrow except + S9 path-disclosure doc).

Phase 2 — Operator polish:

• P2.1 GET /api/conmon/daemon-status + sidecar JSON + --status-file CLI + CONMON_DAEMON_STATUS_QUERIED action.
• P2.2 evidentia conmon dedup-list CLI verb + AlertDeduper.list_entries() API.
• P2.3 evidentia ai-gov update + retire verbs wiring AI_SYSTEM_UPDATED + AI_SYSTEM_RETIRED.

Phase 3 — Federal-SI walk-through:

• P3.1 synthetic fixtures + recipe doc + smoke test.
• P3.2 3 walk-through-surfaced refinements (real cadence slugs, truncate-tolerant assertions, valid decision_role enum).

Phase 4 — Hygiene (P4.1 backfill skipped per cycle-open lock-in; P4.2 Codecov operator-completed; P4.3 DAST deferred to v0.9.5):

• P4.4 fixed flaky TestJiraStatus (real fix: assertion-scoping, NOT fixture leak as initially classified).
• P4.5 added workflow_dispatch to .github/workflows/test.yml.
• P4.6 token-rotation doc fix in docs/release-checklist.md.

2798 tests / 17 skipped / mypy strict 0 / 219 source files / ruff clean.

v0.9.5 — Walk-through-driven refinement + collaboration primitives — SHIPPED

Theme: Walk-through-driven refinement + collaboration primitives + carry-over closure.

Phase 1 — Carry-over closure (6 sub-items):

• P1.1: pytest-randomly added to dev deps + random-order test sweep clean.
• P1.2: DAST tools (schemathesis + playwright) in dev deps; tests/dast/ scaffold with test_openapi_fuzz.py + playwright.config.ts.
• P1.3: 7 v0.9.3 LOW-bucket residuals closed (F-V93-S4 SSL context, S5 trust-boundary doc, S6 SIGINT race doc, S7 state-file size cap, S8 RFC 5321 recipient validation, Q4 dedup-state mtime cache, Q13 sleep_fn typing).
• P1.4: 8 v0.9.4 formal-review LOWs + 2 INFOs closed (FileLock fd leak / fcntl per-fd doc / rate-limit LRU spray / sleep_fn type / rate-limit GIL docstring / IPv6 scope-id sort / cross- process FileLock test / model_copy validator skip / Pydantic upgrade body-hash doc / replay-after-target-deleted regression).
• P1.5: shared evidentia_core.security.atomic_write_text helper + 4 v0.9.4 inline call sites refactored.
• P1.6: EVIDENTIA_TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS=1 auto-wires uvicorn's ProxyHeadersMiddleware in create_app().

Phase 2 — Operator polish:

• P2.1: AI-persona federal-SI walk-through validation (driven by Perplexity + WebSearch + training corpus on FedRAMP 20x, RFC-0024, OMB M-24-10, NIST AI RMF). 10 refinement findings closed; docs/walkthrough-validation-v0.9.5.md captures the artifact.
• P2.2: POA&M emit + OSCAL 1.1.2 plan-of-action-and-milestones added as Step 8 of the federal-SI walk-through.
• P2.3: daemon-status REST expansion — GET /api/conmon/ daemon-history?limit=N rolling-history endpoint + Prometheus evidentia_conmon_daemon_* gauges at /api/metrics. New daemon CLI flags --history-file + --history-max-entries.

Phase 3 — Collaboration primitives (groundwork):

• P3.1: POA&M ownership fields — Milestone.owner + Milestone.reviewer + evidentia poam list --owner X --reviewer Y CLI + REST ?owner=X&reviewer=Y filter.
• P3.2: Append-only evidence versioning — EvidenceArtifact. version + lineage_id + predecessor_id fields + new_version() factory helper. Data-model + helper only at v0.9.5; WORM store-side enforcement lands v0.9.6.
• P3.3: Basic RBAC primitives — evidentia_core.rbac package with Role enum / RBACPolicy / check_permission + FastAPI require_role(action) dependency factory. EVIDENTIA_RBAC_POLICY_FILE env var loads policy at create_app(). Default permissive policy preserves v0.9.4 behavior. CLI-side RBAC enforcement deferred to v0.9.6.

Phase 4 — Hygiene: P4.1 backfill deferred (the v0.9.3 + v0.9.4 docs are the canonical pattern; backfill is portfolio polish, not blocking). P4.2 Codecov at 84.26% (vs 80% target). P4.3 uv.lock regenerated atomically at version bump.

2862 tests / 17 skipped / mypy strict 0 / ~225 source files / ruff clean / pytest-randomly seed-sweep clean.

v0.9.6 — Federal expansion + WORM + CLI RBAC + CONMON MCP first-mover — SHIPPED

Tag v0.9.6 (2026-05-18). Comprehensive ~3-week scope compressed into a focused session per the v0.9.5 cycle-close lock-in (Allen's "Comprehensive ~2-3 weeks" + "Phase 0 verification gate first" + "CONMON MCP claim now" + "defer walk-through to v0.9.7" choices). 21st consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of the v0.7.x → v0.8.x → v0.9.x line.

Phase 0 — pre-cycle verification (BLOCKING, all PASSED): OSCAL 1.2.1 changelog confirmed schema-compatible with one observation type rename; OMB M-24-10 field set locked from agency compliance plans; mypy strict scout reported 0 errors post-cross-package re-resolution.

Phase 1 — CLI RBAC + flag normalization:

• NEW evidentia.cli._rbac.require_role_cli(action) Typer decorator mirroring evidentia_api.rbac_dependency.require_role. Shares evidentia_core.rbac.check_permission + action taxonomy (read / write / admin). Denial exits with code 77 (BSD EX_NOPERM).
• NEW evidentia.cli._rbac_lifecycle — process-lifetime singleton loader. Env vars EVIDENTIA_RBAC_POLICY_FILE + EVIDENTIA_RBAC_IDENTITY + new --rbac-identity global flag.
• conmon check --state-file canonical; --last-completed-file deprecated (DeprecationWarning; removal target v1.0).

Phase 2 — WORM evidence store + lineage CLI:

• NEW evidentia_core.evidence_store — append-only enforcement; refuses overwrite of <lineage>/v<N>.json; raises EvidenceWORMViolation with canonical recovery (call EvidenceArtifact.new_version()). UUID canonicalization + path-traversal protection.
• NEW evidentia_core.evidence_store_worm — optional cloud-WORM mirror composing with WORMBackend ABC (S3 / Azure / GCS).
• NEW evidentia evidence CLI — save (write-gated) + history <lineage> (read) + show <lineage> --version N (read).
• 3 new EventActions: EVIDENCE_VERSION_PERSISTED, EVIDENCE_WORM_VIOLATION_BLOCKED, EVIDENCE_LINEAGE_QUERIED.

Phase 3 — AI-gov federal expansion:

• NEW evidentia_core.ai_governance.fips199 — FIPS199Categorization Pydantic model + high-water-mark validator per FIPS PUB 199 §3.
• NEW evidentia_core.ai_governance.omb_m_24_10 — OMBImpactCategory enum (rights / safety / both / neither) + triggers_minimum_practices() helper.
• NEW evidentia_core.ai_governance.scr — SCRForm matching FedRAMP template + classify_change() (routine / adaptive / transformative) + emit_scr_form() diff emitter + JSON / MD writers.
• Extended AISystemRegistryEntry with 4 Optional fields + NEW ATOReference submodel.
• NEW CLI verbs: ai-gov categorize-fips, ai-gov set-omb-impact, ai-gov update --ssp-reference, ai-gov update --emit-scr <path>.
• 3 new EventActions: AI_SYSTEM_FIPS_CATEGORIZED, AI_SYSTEM_OMB_CLASSIFIED, AI_SYSTEM_SCR_EMITTED.

Phase 4 — MCP first-mover + OSCAL upgrade + mypy + positioning:

• CONMON MCP first-mover CLAIMED: 4 new tools on evidentia_mcp.server (conmon_list_cadences, conmon_next_due, conmon_check_state, conmon_health) wrapping the v0.9.3 daemon. Verified-unclaimed at the v0.9.5 Q3 2026 quarterly resync; first-mover lock established ahead of FedRAMP CR26 mandatory adoption (Jan 1 2027).
• OSCAL 1.1.2 → 1.2.1 via single-source-of-truth OSCAL_SCHEMA_VERSION constant + observation types: ["finding"] → ["implementation-issue"] at one emit site.
• mypy strict gate extended to all 7 evidentia-* packages. 256 source files clean (was 223 of 247 at v0.9.5).
• Positioning: §6.1.A moat trinity + §6.1.B counter-positioning vs agentic GRC; README moat-trinity hook.

Phase 5 — Hygiene + validation + ship:

• Walk-through deferred to v0.9.7 per scope lock-in.
• docs/v0.9.6-plan.md + docs/v0.9.6-shipped.md + docs/security-review-v0.9.6.md all shipped per plan-first discipline + v4 G7.

3018 tests / 17 skipped / mypy strict 256 of 256 source files / ruff clean / pytest-randomly seed-sweep clean.

v0.9.7 — Comprehensive v0.9.x close-out + v1.0 prep — SHIPPED

Tag v0.9.7 (2026-05-19). Comprehensive ~3-4 week scope compressed into a focused session per the v0.9.6 cycle-close lock-in (Allen's "comprehensive + walk-through deferred + api- stability NORMATIVE + multi-tenant RBAC partial + CIMD signatures groundwork" choices). 22nd consecutive PROCEED-CLEAN of the v0.7.x → v0.8.x → v0.9.x line.

Phase 0 — pre-cycle verification (all PASSED): paramiko upstream still unpatched (carry-forward); RFC-0007 SCN required- field set captured; api-stability.md surface enumerated for NORMATIVE promotion.

Phase 1 — v0.9.6 carry-overs:

• P1.1 WORM auto-mirror (closes F-V96-worm-app-layer): NEW EVIDENTIA_EVIDENCE_AUTO_MIRROR_WORM + EVIDENTIA_EVIDENCE_ WORM_BACKEND_FACTORY env vars. save_evidence() calls mirror_to_worm() after local-store write succeeds. Mirror failure non-fatal. 7 new tests.
• P1.2 CIMD scope-migration CLI verb (closes F-V96-conmon- mcp-cimd-migration): NEW evidentia mcp cimd-migrate <registry- path> verb. Adds v0.9.6 conmon_* MCP tools to each client's scope. Idempotent + atomic-write + --dry-run + --client-id filter. 9 new tests.
• P1.3 Codecov target bump: 80% → 85%.

Phase 2 — v1.0 prep (headline):

• P2.1 api-stability.md → NORMATIVE: status flipped from DRAFT. v0.9.4-v0.9.6 surfaces backfilled (45+ models / 60+ EventActions / 18+ CLI commands / 8 MCP tools / 8 env vars). NEW "MCP tool contract" section + "Env-var public contract" section. Pre-v1.0 binding semantics now in force.
• P2.2 Deprecation calendar (NEW docs/deprecation-calendar.md): formal catalogue with conmon check --last-completed-file as anchor entry (target removal v1.0).
• P2.3 Multi-tenant RBAC primitives: NEW evidentia_core.rbac.multi_tenant module — TenantRBACPolicy, resolve_tenant_from_identity, check_permission_multi_tenant, load_multi_tenant_policy_from_file, from_single_tenant_policy backward-compat. 31 tests. CLI + REST integration deferred to v1.0.
• P2.4 CIMD signatures groundwork: NEW evidentia_mcp.signatures module — SignedToolOutput envelope, sign_tool_output, verify_tool_output, env-var-driven signer factory. 19 tests. FastMCP dispatch-layer auto-wrap deferred to v1.0.

Phase 3 — OSCAL SCR notification standard alignment (RFC-0007):

• SCRForm extended with 8 Optional RFC-0007 fields.
• NEW SCRForm.to_oscal_scr_notification() emitter — raises ValueError listing missing required fields. Per-category extras (Adaptive + Transformative pre-impl) auto-emitted.
• 8 new tests.

Phase 4 — Q3 quarterly resync follow-ups:

• P4.1 Academic positioning sharpened: NEW §11.2.A "OSS-native reference implementation for computational compliance" frame citing Marino & Lane (arXiv 2601.04474), de la Chica & Martí- González (arXiv 2605.14744), FedRAMP CR26 + RFC-0024 readiness.
• P4.2 HF Hub GRC LLM eval-suite scaffolding (NEW docs/hf-eval-suite-scaffolding.md): documented planned dataset structure + publication path. Full publish deferred to v0.9.8+.
• P4.3 Conference outreach DEFERRED to v0.9.8+ (needs human- reviewed talk abstracts).

Phase 5 — Hygiene + ship:

• Walk-through deferred indefinitely per scope lock-in.
• docs/v0.9.7-plan.md + docs/security-review-v0.9.7.md shipped.
• scripts/bump_version.py --to 0.9.7 + uv.lock regen.
• Backfill v0.9.1 + v0.9.2 security-review docs deferred.

3092 tests / 17 skipped / mypy strict 258 of 258 source files / ruff clean.

v0.9.8 — v0.9.7 deferral closure + v1.0-prep integration wiring — SHIPPED

Tag v0.9.8 (2026-05-21). Focused session wiring v0.9.7's data/decision-only primitives into live surfaces, closing the CR-V97 review polish, and clearing supply-chain + type-safety gaps caught during the pre-tag review.

Phase 1 — v0.9.7 deferral closure:

• Multi-tenant RBAC integration (P1.3-P1.6): NEW --rbac-tenant CLI flag + tenant-aware policy auto-detection; FastAPI require_role derives the tenant claim from the authenticated principal (closes F-V97-multi-tenant-claim-spoofing); POA&M + evidence stores gain per-tenant directory roots; NEW RBAC_TENANT_BOUNDARY_CROSSED audit event; shared load_rbac_policy_auto.
• MCP dispatch-layer signing (P1.1): SignedToolOutput wired at the FastMCP tool-dispatch path; the signature rides in CallToolResult._meta as additive provenance.
• In-tree Sigstore-keyless MCP signer (P1.2): NEW evidentia_mcp.sigstore_signer (closes F-V97-mcp-signer-trust).
• HF Hub GRC eval suite (P1.9): FedRAMP Rev 5 High + CMMC L2 corpus subsets + dataset card + scripts/publish_hf_eval.py; combined corpus regenerated to 195 entries.

Phase 2 — CR-V97 review polish:

• Shared evidentia_core.factory_resolver (CR-V97-3 de-duplication
  • CR-V97-1 cached resolution).
• sign_tool_output() canonical-JSON encoding via default=str (CR-V97-4).

Phase 3 — supply-chain + type-safety:

• idna 3.11 → 3.15 (CVE-2026-45409).
• Three SigningContext.production() runtime breaks fixed (sigstore 4.2.0 API migration) + PostgreSQL collector type narrowing.
• The CI + release-checklist mypy gates aligned (--all-extras in CI; evidentia-mcp in the checklist command) so extra-gated type errors can no longer slip through.

Deferred: federal-SI walk-through validation (folded into the v1.0 self-test phase); paramiko CVE-2026-44405 LOW (a fix now exists upstream — carried forward to v0.9.9 as its own focused SSH-library major bump).

3250 tests / 14 skipped / mypy strict 262 of 262 source files / ruff clean.

v0.9.9 — Supply-chain hygiene + pre-push gate fidelity — SHIPPED

Tag v0.9.9 (2026-05-21). A focused supply-chain patch — no source or test code changed; dependency versions, CI workflow, supply-chain tooling, and docs only.

Phase 1 — Dependabot queue clearance:

• Five grouped version-update PRs merged (the python-dev, npm-runtime, npm-dev, and github-actions groups + the Docker base-image digest), all CI-green.
• Three orphaned PRs closed — they targeted only docker/requirements.txt via a pip/uv-docker Dependabot ecosystem no longer present in .github/dependabot.yml; that file is regenerated from uv.lock at release time (G4 Path 2), so the PRs were superseded.
• .github/dependabot.yml audited — coverage confirmed complete.

Phase 2 — osv-scanner --sbom pre-push gate:

• NEW scripts/run_osv_scan.py + osv-scanner.toml allowlist + an osv-scan job in .github/workflows/test.yml + a Step 5 entry in docs/release-checklist.md. CI and the documented gate invoke one shared script. Closes the v0.9.8 gate-fidelity gap — the 16-row pre-push gate's Row 14 read Dependabot alerts, which suppress DISPUTED CVEs, so a disputed pyjwt advisory surfaced post-tag.

Phase 3 — paramiko CVE-2026-44405 closed:

• compliance-trestle 4.0.2 → 4.0.3 pulls paramiko 4.0.0 → 5.0.0, past the <= 4.0.0 vulnerable range. paramiko is a dev-only transitive dependency (via compliance-trestle, OSCAL round-trip tests); no Evidentia code imports it.

Deferred: the federal-SI domain-expert walk-through — deferred indefinitely per the resequencing above; runs before v1.0.0, after the operator self-test + demo/pitch phase.

3250 tests / 14 skipped / mypy strict 261 of 261 source files / ruff clean.

v0.10.x — Research-driven integration & AI-governance line — PLANNED

Opened 2026-05-21 following a competitive/integration research pass (see docs/integration-survey.md and docs/positioning-and-value.md §5.5 / §5.6.A). The v0.10.x line is the home for the research-driven feature surface: because it brings meaningful new feature surface, it is a minor bump from v0.9.9 rather than a continuation of v0.9.x patches.

Themes (precise per-release boundaries are set per release plan):

• OCSF normalized findings schema — the keystone, and where v0.10.0 begins. Refactor evidence collectors to emit a canonical, framework-neutral finding aligned to the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework, mapping into control gaps downstream. Decouples collector count from framework count and unlocks the integrations below.
• SARIF emit — evidentia gap emits SARIF 2.1.0 so gap analysis is a blocking PR check in GitHub / GitLab security dashboards.
• OCSF-based collectors — Prowler, AWS Security Hub, Trivy / Checkov ingestion, near-free once the normalized schema lands.
• MCP-as-backend + GRC Engineering Club interop — deepen the MCP tool/resource surface; publish a thin Evidentia MCP plugin into the GRC Engineering Club's grc-engineering-suite marketplace.
• Persona modes (auditor / engineer / TPRM) and YAML-driven catalog / control-tier definitions to broaden UX and contribution.
• AI-governance regulatory packs (EU AI Act Annex IV technical documentation, ISO/IEC 42001) and agentic-governance primitives (agent cards, tool-use permissioning) on the existing MCP / CIMD substrate.
• Map Evidentia onto the OpenSSF Gemara reference model in positioning material.

The full prioritized integration list and sequencing rationale are in docs/integration-survey.md §7.

Operator deep-dive & product-validation phase — PLANNED (after the v0.10.x feature surface)

A dedicated phase sequenced after the v0.10.x research-driven feature surface is built: the maintainer works through the entire product hands-on to fully understand it end-to-end — exercising every CLI verb, REST endpoint, evidence collector, MCP tool, and UI surface — builds out project documentation / a project wiki, and produces demo recordings. This formalizes and expands the "operator self-test + demo phase" referenced in the v0.9.9 entry above; it runs before the v1.0 domain-expert walk-through, and any gaps it surfaces feed back into the backlog.

v0.10.5 — OSS first-mover artifacts — PLANNED (added 2026-05-24)

Sourced from the Phase B audit re-run + 6-stream Evidentia-integration research synthesis (~/.claude/skills/pre-release-review/_audits/evidentia-integration-plan-2026-05-24.md). Full plan at docs/v0.10.5-plan.md. Headline: Evidentia ships 4 first-of-its-kind OSS artifacts, each currently absent from the public ecosystem (confirmed via gh api search/code + ecosystem scan):

1. First public OSCAL serialization of OpenSSF OSPS Baseline (zero prior in usnistgov/oscal-content / oscal-club/awesome-oscal / IBM/compliance-trestle / lula-tool / OpenSCAP).
2. First public OSPS-CONFORMANCE.md self-attestation (gh api search/code "OSPS-CONFORMANCE.md" returns 0).
3. First Tier-A OSPS-Baseline bundled control catalog set in any GRC tool (3 maturity files matching existing fedramp-rev5-{low,moderate,high} + cmmc-2-{l1,l2,l3} precedent).
4. First Apache-2.0 machine-readable EU AI Act ↔ ISO/IEC 42001 crosswalk (deferred to v0.11 per RF4; v0.10.5 sets up the bundled OSPS Baseline crosswalk infrastructure that v0.11 reuses).

v0.10.5 phases: (1) OSPS Baseline 3-maturity catalog set; (2) OSCAL conversion + upstream PR to oscal-club/awesome-oscal (separate publishing approval); (3) OSPS-CONFORMANCE.md + machine-readable companion + CI gate; (4) SECURITY.md + security.txt + GitHub Security Advisories enablement (separate gh api approval); (5) EOL.md + docs/verification.md consumer-side cosign + PEP 740 recipes; (6) positioning §16 skip-by-reuse note; (9) evidentia-eval workspace package extraction (Kimi audit close-out — DFAH harness extracted from evidentia-ai/eval/ to dedicated 8th package so air- gap installs of the production runtime no longer transitively pull the dev-time eval stack; evidentia_ai.eval.* retained as deprecation shim through v0.11.x, removal in v0.12.0). ~2 weeks scope.

v0.10.6 — OSS first-mover artifacts + OSPS crosswalks + GitHub collector extension + hygiene — SHIPPED

Patch on v0.10.5 (released 2026-05-26). 17 cycle commits authored 2026-05-27. Tag v0.10.6. Carried out the v0.10.5 deferred Phases 1-5 OSS first-mover artifacts theme plus downstream OSPS crosswalks + GitHub collector extension + post-v0.10.5 hygiene. Headline shipments: OSPS Baseline 3-catalog bundle + first public OSCAL Catalog 1.2.1 serialization of the OpenSSF OSPS Baseline (first- mover claim verified via gh api search); OSPS-CONFORMANCE.md self- attestation + verify-osps-conformance.yml CI gate that re-validates every evidence link on push/PR/cron (first public open-source project to ship this artifact); SECURITY.md refresh + .well-known/security.txt

• GHSA private vulnerability reporting (closes OSPS-VM-01/02/03 + CISA SbD Pledge Goal 5); EOL.md + docs/verification.md consumer-facing lifecycle + cosign + PEP 740 + osv-scanner + SLSA Provenance v1 verification recipes; 5 OSPS-Baseline crosswalks (NIST SSDF / NIST CSF 2.0 / EU CRA / PCI DSS 4.0 / NIST 800-161) shipped raw with upstream- attested provenance disclaimer per the 2026-05-26 brainstorm rigor decision (hand-verification deferred to v0.10.7); CrosswalkDefinition extended additively with 3 optional provenance/verification/ verification_note fields; evidentia_collectors.github.osps module with 16 populate_osps_* helpers covering AC/BR/DO/GV/LE/QA/VM families
• 4 additive GitHubClient methods; workflow-permissions audit (advisory; v0.10.7 promotes to blocking); Scorecard 6.2 → 6.5+ restoration via verify-changelog.yml SHA pinning. Release-checklist Step 2.A captures the v0.10.5 LL-V105-1 partial-publish prevention (new-PyPI-project pending-publisher check before tagging). Workspace ships 8 PyPI packages unchanged from v0.10.5 (no new packages this cycle, no LL-V105-1 recurrence risk). 3536 tests pass / 14 skipped / 3550 collected across 279 source files (was 268 v0.10.5); mypy strict 0/0; ruff clean. Four §12 corrections-log entries this cycle (see docs/v0.10.6-plan.md §12). OSCAL upstream contribution PR at https://github.com/oscal-club/awesome-oscal/pull/59.

v0.10.7 — Hygiene + automation-debt + pre-push gate L2 + wiki fill + doc-accuracy sweep — SHIPPED

Patch on v0.10.6 (released 2026-05-27). Tag v0.10.7 (2026-05-29). A hardening, automation-debt, and documentation cycle — no new end-user product features. Closed the v0.10.6 code-quality reviewer backlog (Groups A + D) and the 2 deferred Scorecard alerts, added a blocking pre-push gate, filled the in-repo wiki tree, and ran a doc-wide CLI-example accuracy sweep. Headline shipments:

• Scorecard delta closed — verify-osps-conformance.yml pip install hash-pinned (#123 PinnedDependenciesID); sync-wiki.yml top-level token scope reduced to read-all with contents: write pushed down to the wiki-push job (#124 TokenPermissionsID).
• OSPS crosswalk reproducibility — scripts/catalogs/gen_osps_crosswalks.py deterministically rebuilds the 5 OSPS JSONs byte-for-byte from a single-source upstream-SHA constant (_osps_upstream.py) with a --check drift mode. The ~15 literal SHAs are now a generated artifact (next upstream bump = one-line constant change + regen). Note: A2 closed-via-reproducibility, not literal-deduplication — JSON can't reference a Python constant (see docs/v0.10.7-plan.md §12.2). Crosswalk SME hand-verification remains deferred (v0.11+).
• translate_url() extraction from verify-osps-conformance.yml into the tested scripts/verify_osps_conformance.py module.
• GitHub OSPS collector DRY pass — _unknown_finding() factory dedupes the UNKNOWN-branch boilerplate; _file_present_at_any now surfaces UNKNOWN (not FAIL) on all-5xx probes (honest signal).
• Workflow-permissions audit promoted to a blocking CI gate — audit_workflow_permissions.py --strict + # JUSTIFIED: parser + --json; new verify-workflow-perms.yml; 3 workflows carry JUSTIFIED annotations (PR-comment + issue-opening bots).
• Pre-push gate Layer 2 — hand-rolled .githooks/pre-push orchestrator (consistent with the existing .githooks/commit-msg; the pre-commit framework was rejected because it conflicts with this repo's core.hooksPath setup — see §12.3) running 7 blocking checks (action-pins, secrets, CHANGELOG-presence, docs-health --strict, workflow-perms --strict, uv.lock third-party pin-drift, OSPS-crosswalk drift) + bypass logging + docs/pre-push-gate.md. L1 (local Scorecard sweep) + L3 (warning-only) deferred.
• In-repo wiki content fill (~47 pages) — auto-generated canonical mirrors + reference pages (CLI / MCP tools / config / catalogs / crosswalks) + 7 per-package API pages + hand-authored, triple-validated concept / guide / compliance pages + FAQ; generators wired into sync-wiki.yml.
• Bundled evidentia.examples/sample-inventory.yaml in the evidentia wheel so the quickstart gap analyze is runnable for pip install users.
• Doc-wide CLI-example accuracy sweep — fixed gap analyze examples in README + both quickstarts + air-gapped guide to the real --inventory/--frameworks/--output/oscal-ar surface; corrected the federal-SI walkthrough Step-8 CLI.

Two §12 accuracy corrections caught by the doc verify-everything pass (see docs/v0.10.7-plan.md §12.5/§12.6): the CIMD terminology misnomer (Client ID Metadata Document, OAuth scope — distinct from the SignedToolOutput signing mechanism) corrected in the wiki + api-stability.md; and the gap analyze CLI examples that had never matched the shipped CLI, corrected doc-wide. Workspace ships 8 PyPI packages unchanged from v0.10.6 (no new packages this cycle). 3666 tests pass / 14 skipped / 3680 collected across 281 source files (was 279 v0.10.6); mypy strict 0/0; ruff clean.

v0.10.8 — Deferred-backlog close-out — PLANNED

Carried out of the v0.10.7 cycle (narrow, ~3-5 days). Per docs/v0.10.7-plan.md §6:

• CIMD-terminology scrub across the 4 active non-wiki docs — correct the "Cryptographic CIMD signatures" / "CIMD signing" misnomer in docs/ROADMAP.md, docs/capability-matrix.md, docs/positioning-and-value.md, docs/threat-model.md to distinguish SignedToolOutput signing (the real crypto feature) from CIMD (OAuth client-scope metadata). Careful per-hit pass, NOT a blind find-replace; append-only historical docs left untouched. Internal memory entries also flagged for correction. (See §12.5.)
• CatalogEntry phantom in api-stability.md — the catalog.py frozen-models row lists CatalogEntry, which doesn't exist in code (real models: FrameworkManifestEntry / CatalogControl / ControlCatalog / FrameworkMapping / CrosswalkDefinition). Correct the NORMATIVE row + regenerate its wiki mirror.
• OSPS crosswalk SME hand-verification — upgrade the 5 OSPS crosswalks from verification: "self-attested-via-upstream" to "hand-checked" where an SME confirms accuracy (SME-grade work; could fold into the v0.11 cycle).
• D2–D6 code-quality MINORs — gen_osps_crosswalks difflib + dynamic-load alignment; github/osps.py error-type narrowing + unreachable-fallback cleanup + a qa-02 UNKNOWN test; check_docs_health.py content-anchored cross-link allowlist (recurring absolute-line-number footgun); audit_workflow_permissions.py CRLF JUSTIFIED-parser test; pre-push L2 bash smoke tests + content-anchored self-exclude; wiki-generator code-span-aware link rewriting.
• Deploy MkDocs to GitHub Pages — the 7 auto-generated API pages link to a not-yet-deployed MkDocs site (mitigated: each also links to live GitHub source). Needs a pages: write Pages workflow.
• docs/v0.9.3-plan.md cross-link WARNs — 3 self-referential cross-project links in a historical plan doc; fix to plain relative links or accept as historical (low priority).
• OSPS-LE-01.01 DCO sign-off — needs GOVERNANCE.md + a second contributor.
• OSPS-VM-05.03 osv-scanner CI gate (verify-osv-scan.yml) — small enough to land standalone or fold into v0.11.
• Pre-push gate L1 / L3 — defer-or-skip; revisit if a new pattern justifies them.

v0.11 — Federal-compliance theme + AI governance — PLANNED (post-deep-dive)

Sourced from Phase B audit v3 + integration plan §"Per-release detailed integration plan" §v0.11. Substantive minor (~6-8 weeks):

• KSI (Key Security Indicators) emission as continuous OSCAL evidence feeds — wires as third output mode on evidentia conmon alongside the 7 bundled cadences shipped v0.9.0. Aligns to FedRAMP 20x March 2026 pilot → Q3 2026 public rollout (NIST + GSA expectations harden Q3 2026; this is the v0.10.x integration- survey OCSF/MCP positioning advantage made concrete for the federal lane). Evidentia's natural slot per Phase B Stream E4: OSS engine for the audit-quality middle layer between Trestle (raw OSCAL SDK) and RegScale (commercial FedRAMP package generator).
• evidentia incident emit --format dora-art-17 (DoraIncident Pydantic record + classify_dora() per RTS 2024/1772 Art. 8 + Art. 9; auto-POA&M creation for 4h/24h/72h/1-month reporting clocks). First Apache-2.0 OSS DORA Art. 17 reference emitter (closed-source GRC vendors embed this inside paid platforms; no public OSS implementation exists). CIR 2025/302 Annex I/II/III/IV template alignment.
• nist-sp-800-218a-ai-coding Tier-B bundled catalog — 11 controls covering the AI-assisted-code-production subset of NIST SP 800-218A (vs the broader AI-model-development scope). Pair with docs/ai-coding-policy.md template (CLAUDE.md / .cursorrules / copilot-instructions.md skeleton ready for clients to fork). Strong dogfood narrative: Evidentia uses Claude Code to develop itself.
• AI-governance crosswalk enrichment 4-phase: (Phase 1) ISO 27001:2022 Amendment 1:2024 Climate as in-catalog addendum to iso-27001-2022.yaml; (Phase 2) NIST AI 600-1 GenAI Profile + ISO/IEC 23894 as Tier-B catalogs; (Phase 3) first Apache-2.0 machine-readable EU AI Act ↔ ISO/IEC 42001 crosswalk — docs/crosswalks/eu-ai-act-to-iso-42001.yaml clean-room from EU AI Act Annex III + ISO 42001 Clauses 4-10 + Annex A controls (zero public OSS equivalent); (Phase 4) Council of Europe AI Convention (CETS 225) Tier-C stub.
• evidentia vex publish --rekor — Sigstore Rekor attestation via cosign attest --type openvex. Closes OSPS-VM-04 maturity-3 control + CISA SbD Goal 6 alignment.
• VSA (Verification Summary Attestation) emit per SLSA v1.2 — evidentia oscal vsa <ar.json> → consumer-facing verification policy. Closes SLSA Source Track L2 claim path.
• Auto-generate docs/security-review-vX.Y.Z.md from per-run JSON via skill v5.1 Q9 mechanism.
• DORA-metrics extractor scripts/extract_dora_metrics.py — passive collection across 30+ Evidentia releases reading per-run JSONs → MTTR / lead-time / change-failure-rate / bypass-rate. Enables ESEM 2027 SEIP short-paper submission.
• arXiv preprint authored: "Evidentia: OSS Reference Implementation of Computational Compliance for Multi-Framework Regulatory Assurance" — 6-8pp, cites Marino & Lane (arXiv:2601.04474) blueprint, establishes priority before another impl beats Evidentia to the generalist-GRC-OSCAL niche.
• Refresh docs/integration-survey.md competitive section post-operator-deep-dive (incorporate AWS OSCAL MCP / Vanta MCP / ComplianceCow MCP / Snyk AI Trust Platform shifts).

v1.1+ — Post-v1.0 direction + remaining audit items — RESERVED (added 2026-05-24)

Items deferred from Phase B audit v3 + integration plan §"v1.1+":

• Multi-tenant RBAC full CLI/REST wire (v0.11+ scope; primitives shipped v0.9.7).
• PR-time auto-blocking workflow (closes OSPS-VM-05 + VM-06 maturity-3 controls; 100-LOC workflow YAML).
• AIReg-Bench adapter (evidentia_eval/aireg_bench.py) — scores Evidentia against Marino & Lane benchmark; establishes computational-compliance reference-implementation priority.
• Auto-redaction script for per-run JSON publication (scripts/redact_for_publication.py) — strips client-PII; enables public dataset release alongside ESEM 2027 paper + pairs with MSR 2027 Mining Challenge candidacy.
• ESEM 2027 SEIP short-paper submission (~May 2027 deadline) OR ICSE 2027 Demonstrations track (4-6pp tool demo).
• Persona modes full UX (auditor / engineer / TPRM specialists) — scope post-v1.0.
• Hosted federal-cloud variant — scope post-v1.0.
• OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Gold tier — unblocked only when Polycentric-Labs has ≥2 active core maintainers (tied to organizational-onboarding milestone; specifics out of scope pre-v1.0).
• Architectural Tier 3 items from Phase B audit v3 (control-chart script ships skill-side; dynamic-install eBPF scan; etc.).

v1.0 — Federal compliance shipped + API stability — RESERVED

See docs/v1.0-transition.md for the full narrative. v1.0 combines Candidate A (federal-compliance theme accepted by domain expert) and Candidate B (public API contract frozen). Acceptance gates include: domain-expert walk-through completed, 1+ external operator validation, API stability docs published, deprecation calendar, OpenSSF Gold tier (if achievable), cryptographic CIMD signatures, and pre-release-review PROCEED-CLEAN. Commercial packages (evidentia-pro, evidentia-enterprise, evidentia-federal) launch post-v1.0 as separate PyPI packages with proprietary licenses.

v0.7.0+ — Quality signals, more integrations, UI polish

Risk-statement quality validator

Every AI-generated risk statement gets scored against NIST SP 800-30 / IR 8286 criteria. Statements that fail validation are automatically regenerated with corrective instructions. Produces audit-survivable output that no other open-source tool guarantees.

Additional collectors + integrations

Same infrastructure as the shipped AWS / GitHub / Jira implementations, more sources:

• evidentia-collectors[aws] — IAM Access Analyzer (AC-3, AC-6, IA-2)
• evidentia-collectors[github] — Dependabot alerts (SI-2; requires security-events scope)
• evidentia-collectors[okta] — MFA enforcement, inactive users, privileged account counts (AC-2, IA-2, IA-5)
• evidentia-integrations[servicenow] — push to sn_compliance_task via REST with OAuth 2.0
• evidentia-integrations[vanta] and [drata] — custom test results push via their public APIs

Compliance ROI scoring

Reframes the cross-framework efficiency feature as "close N gaps across M frameworks with one remediation." CFOs and CISOs respond to ROI framing in ways they don't respond to "coverage %".

UI polish

• Auto-generated TypeScript types from FastAPI's OpenAPI schema (hand-authored in v0.4.0; auto-gen removes the drift class entirely)
• Tauri desktop packaging option for offline-first users who prefer an installable app over evidentia serve
• Optional multi-user auth / RBAC for network deployments (localhost-only in v0.4.0 — v0.7.0+ adds token auth)

Deferred / rejected items

• RSA Archer integration — deferred indefinitely. Enterprise-only, requires an Archer instance to develop against, and the market has been moving to REST-native alternatives for years.
• COSO framework content — legally non-starter (AICPA copyright, same basis as the SOC 2 Tier-C stub treatment).
• Per-framework crosswalk auto-generation via LLM — rejected on correctness grounds. Crosswalks are audit-critical and need human-in-the-loop review. An LLM-authored crosswalk should be reviewed and committed, not generated at runtime.

Release-runbook follow-ups

PyPI Trusted Publisher (OIDC) migration: DONE in v0.7.0 for the 6 published evidentia-* packages. The legacy PYPI_API_TOKEN was deleted from the pypi GitHub environment during v0.7.0 ship-day housekeeping (verified absent post-v0.7.1 via gh secret list --env=pypi --repo polycentric-labs/evidentia — zero secrets remain at the repo or env level). The originally-queued v0.7.1 deletion-verification step is therefore a no-op carried into v0.7.2 only as a bookkeeping line in docs/v0.7.2-plan.md.