BriefLoop v0.11.6

BriefLoop v0.11.6 — Product Baseline, Reader Quality, Topology, And Launch Readiness

v0.11.6 ships the accumulated v0.11 product-baseline line on top of the
BriefLoop control spine. It promotes the modest CLI product entries for
industry weekly, management monthly, and document-review workspaces while
keeping wider Product OS, quality, release, and evidence-extraction surfaces
bounded by their support status.

This release does not provide semantic truth proof, output-quality proof,
automatic publication, public-release authorization, legal/compliance advice,
investment advice, IR/disclosure readiness, or a completed Evidence Extraction
Mode.

What Changed

• Promoted the product-facing briefloop new industry-weekly,
  briefloop new management-monthly, and briefloop new document-review
  workspace entries as the supported v0.11 baseline, while keeping canonical
  internal ReportPack ids stable.
• Added product-baseline, public-claim, skill-freshness, launch-smoke, and
  release-checklist guards so release prep fails closed when public docs,
  support status, or source-checkout setup drift.
• Added reader-quality projection surfaces for materiality selection, reader
  template conformance, support-calibrated wording, citation profile split,
  coverage/omission, Quality Panel closeout, and scoped final-abstract warnings.
• Added public-safe reference and evaluation packets, including same-evidence
  reader-quality regression coverage, a Product OS reader-quality reference
  note, and a minimal comparative evaluation packet.
• Hardened role topology guidance so default topology can satisfy Screener
  through Scout without losing distinct candidate_claims.json and
  screened_candidates.json artifacts, while strict topology remains available.
• Added deterministic trajectory-regulation decision narrowing for repeated
  retry, repair-cycle, or blocker loops, limiting exhausted current-stage
  decisions to request_human_review and block_run.
• Added Evidence Extract source locks, logical page inventory seeds, and UTF-8
  text-span seed registries for registered document-review sources.
• Added release/evidence synthetic blocker cases and release-branding readiness
  metadata checks for internal readiness workflows.
• Added launch-facing wording and evidence-link polish, plus
  docs/release-checklist.md for operator release preparation.

Compatibility

This release keeps these compatibility surfaces:

• multi-agent-brief remains the engine CLI.
• briefloop remains the shell CLI alias.
• /briefloop remains the Claude writer command.
• /mabw remains a compatibility Claude command.
• multi_agent_brief remains the Python package/module path.
• multi-agent-brief-workflow remains the Python distribution package name.
• Existing workspace artifacts, MABW experiment IDs, and control files are not
  renamed.

Support Status

Supported for the v0.11 baseline:

• briefloop new industry-weekly
• briefloop new management-monthly
• briefloop new document-review
• baseline ReportSpec / ReportPack contracts for the supported packs

Still experimental unless explicitly stated in the support matrix:

• solar-periodic
• Quality Panel / Summary / static HTML projections
• SourceHub Lite
• internal release approval records
• Evidence Extract source-lock/page/span seed artifacts beyond bounded
  registration
• reader-quality warning/projection surfaces
• synthetic evaluation fixtures and minimal comparative evaluation packets

Boundaries

BriefLoop still does not prove that a source semantically supports every claim,
eliminate hallucinations, replace human review, provide legal/compliance or
investment judgment, or make reports automatically ready to send.

v0.11.6 does not complete issue #156 as a full page-cited Evidence Extraction
Mode. It adds bounded source-lock, logical-page, and text-span seed contracts
that future extraction work can build on.

The public reference and evaluation packets are measurement infrastructure and
traceability evidence. They are not benchmark-win claims, output-quality proof,
or publication approval.