v0.8.0-alpha.8 — Windows Canonical-Path Hotfix

v0.8.0-alpha.8 — Windows Canonical-Path Hotfix

Cross-platform repository checks: PASS

Exact release artifact lifecycle: PASS

Goal Governor live E1: NOT RUN

Outcome value / multi-client portability: NOT PROVEN

This append-only hotfix supersedes alpha.7 without rewriting its public tag or evidence. The alpha.7 GitHub Actions matrix passed on Ubuntu but failed one assertion on both Windows Node versions because the runner supplied an 8.3 short temp path while Quickstart persisted the native canonical long path.

• The test now derives its expected identity with fs.realpathSync.native, exactly like production.
• Project-root confinement remains bound to canonical path, filesystem device and inode.
• Safe installer lifecycle, review-first Quickstart and the real-process offline Governor demo are otherwise unchanged from alpha.7.
• The final alpha.8 tarball is built from a clean commit, hash-bound through package-manifest.json and SHA256SUMS, and accepted through isolated dry-run, install, backup, force upgrade, rollback, uninstall, uninstall rollback and packaged Quickstart flows.
• No model, remote API or Live E1 execution was used for this hotfix.

The retained failure and artifact evidence are documented in release lifecycle and Windows CI finding. Alpha.7 remains available for audit but is superseded by this release.