v0.1.0 - CI-backed Skill Routing Evaluation Harness

v0.1.0 - CI-backed Skill Routing Evaluation Harness

Initial public release of Hermes SkillEval.

Highlights

• 80-task / 45-skill Hermes-style benchmark with gold and negative skill labels.
• Keyword, hybrid, embedding, verification-gated, contrastive, and
  cross-encoder router comparisons.
• Recall@K, MRR, NDCG, Negative Hit Rate, JSONL traces, Markdown reports, and a
  static dashboard.
• Blind validation that caught a fine-tuned-router regression despite unchanged
  Recall@5.
• KEEP_BASELINE release decision that preserves baseline-minilm as the
  default router.
• CI-backed release reproducibility check with a committed manifest and artifact
  hashes.

Reviewer Entry Points

• README: README.md
• Release handoff: docs/release-handoff.md
• Phase 16 blind validation comparison:
  docs/demo/phase16-blind-validation/comparison.md
• Phase 17 release decision:
  docs/demo/phase17-calibrated-release-selector/release-decision.md
• Phase 18 release manifest:
  docs/demo/phase18-ci-release-reproducibility/release-manifest.md

Boundary

This release presents a self-built Hermes-style skill-routing evaluation and
release-gate workflow. It does not promote the fine-tuned router as the default
and does not include model checkpoints or private machine details.