Covel v0.0.25

[0.0.25] - 2026-08-11

This release hardens the complete default game flow, from choosing a world and running setup plugins through narrative execution, post-turn plugins, persistence, and client recovery.

Added

• Transaction-scoped execution journals. Runtime messages and domain proposals are buffered until the turn finalizer commits, so a failed commit leaves no partial player message, interaction, or plugin write behind.
• Framework audit remediation records and logging self-checks. The P1/P2 data-flow plans, architecture diagrams, server log-tee coverage, and desktop logging self-check make the new contracts explicit and diagnosable.

Changed

• Setup runtimes pass world schemas through explicit same-execution outputs. Character creation no longer depends on reading uncommitted world-init state from the store; downstream setup runtimes consume the scheduler-visible result instead.
• Post-turn memory uses authoritative committed context. The executor refreshes session context after commit, resolves localized character labels, and applies deterministic merge rules so the current turn's form and character values reach memory intact.
• Quest updates preserve stable identities. core-quest assigns durable ids and semantically merges repeated extraction results, preventing duplicate quests and accidental state resets across turns.

Fixed

• Local session bootstrap now mirrors the complete server contract. Active plugins, locale, model overrides, and lore overrides are synchronized before the session becomes active, eliminating first-turn configuration races.
• Turn commit and SSE failure handling are atomic end to end. Interaction-record failures roll back the entire finalize transaction; failed terminal events clear optimistic streamed text and leave the client in a settled state.
• Action, form, and plugin-RPC boundaries reject malformed or conflicting input. Discriminated action parsing validates identifiers, locales, models, submitted field types and options; form submissions are transactional and idempotent; plugin RPC actions serialize on the session lock.
• World-init writes follow the runtime proposal contract. Guards inspect the execution write buffer, batch writes respect schema availability, and setup no longer relies on direct store mutation.
• Server and desktop logs retain complete lines reliably. Log tee writes, shutdown behavior, and desktop log configuration now preserve diagnostics across the supported launch paths.

What's Changed

• docs(readme): refresh screenshots for the RPG suite by @ackness in #41
• v0.0.25: atomic turn lifecycle, input hardening & deterministic plugin state by @ackness in #42

Full Changelog: v0.0.24...v0.0.25