v0.1.21 — Unified paper library workspaces

What's new in v0.1.21

Patch release focused on making ResearchForge's local library useful as a daily reading workspace.

Unified paper library workspaces

• Adds stable, deterministic opaque record IDs with backward-compatible migration for existing project libraries.
• Expands /library rows with authors, year, venue, collections, tags, and PDF/parsed-text status.
• Adds canonical read-only /library/{id} workspaces that join metadata, notes, parsed passages, and available local PDFs.
• Adds /library/{id}/pdf and redirects matched legacy /papers/{id} links while preserving unmatched parsed-paper views.

Documentation and release health

• Refreshes the README around the evidence-first workflow and restores decision-gate/license references required by release validation.
• Keeps the CLI and project-local files authoritative; the web workspace remains a read-only navigation layer.

Validation receipts

• Clean committed-tree make ci passed on Go 1.26.6.
• GitHub CI and Playwright end-to-end workflows passed for release commit a9f939c.
• make license-decision-live-audit and make license-decision-approval-gate reported approved:true.
• Cross-platform artifacts were built from tag v0.1.21; SHA-256 verification passed.

License approval receipt

• License SPDX identifier: MIT
• Copyright holder: Trebuchet Dynamics
• Approved by: XelHaku (repository owner)
• Approval date: 2026-06-13

Compatibility

• Project schema: backward compatible; legacy library records receive deterministic persisted IDs when opened through the library store.
• Lockfile schema: unchanged.

Known limitations

• Paper workspaces are read-only in this release; collection/tag editing and passage-linked user annotations remain future work.