v0.2.0

v0.2.0

These release notes summarize the v0.2.0 GitHub Release package. They describe
implemented capabilities and committed review evidence only. This is not a Marketplace
Action release, not PR comment automation, not a SaaS dashboard, and not a
runtime MCP router.

Summary

v0.2.0 publishes the Hermes SkillEval release-gate evidence chain and
Reusable GitHub Action RC support evidence. The default-router decision remains
KEEP_BASELINE; baseline-minilm remains the current default router; and
finetuned-embedding is not approved as default.

Implemented Capabilities

• Release-gate evidence chain: Phase 16 blind validation, Phase 17 release
  selector, and Phase 18 reproducibility keep baseline-minilm as the default.
• Reusable GitHub Action RC: the root action.yml runs
  skilleval github-action-gate for external skill-library maintainers.
• Local external-consumer action smoke: committed RC support evidence over
  consumer-shaped skills/, benchmark/, and output paths.
• Hosted consumer action smoke: one captured hosted consumer workflow run that
  calls Raidriar7170/hermes-skilleval@main and records downloaded gate
  artifacts.
• Final approval checklist: the pre-publish reviewer-facing checklist used for
  the human GO/NO-GO decision.

Evidence

• v0.2.0 release decision:
  records the pre-publish NEEDS_REVIEW, Published: false, and
  KEEP_BASELINE review package.
• Phase 16 blind validation:
  records the blind regression evidence that blocked the fine-tuned candidate.
• Phase 17 release selector:
  records KEEP_BASELINE and keeps baseline-minilm as default.
• Phase 18 reproducibility manifest:
  records the reproducible release-check evidence.
• local external-consumer action smoke:
  records ALLOW_MERGE, Recall@5 1.0, and negative_hit_rate 0.0 for the
  local RC fixture.
• hosted consumer action smoke:
  records one hosted run with downloaded gate artifacts.
• v0.2.0 final approval checklist:
  records the pre-publish GO conditions, NO-GO items, and required human
  confirmation.

Boundaries

These notes describe implemented review evidence only. This release keeps
baseline-minilm as the default router and does not approve
finetuned-embedding as default. It is not a Marketplace Action release, not
Marketplace publication, not GitHub API PR comments, not PR annotations, not
SaaS, not a runtime MCP router, not a SOTA claim, not benchmark status, not
production readiness, and not automatic merge approval.