Theme: Skill-Support Delivery + Verify-at-Point-of-Use + Hygiene
For: downstream agent maintainers deciding whether to adopt v3.22.0.
No breaking changes. Minor, additive governed tooling. Existing instances upgrade by version-bump only. Two principles ship as runnable gates. First, propagation carries a paired point-of-use verify — the freshness and coherence checks are that verify half. Second, distribution stays surgical — the skill deployer works one skill at a time, not as a blanket overwrite.
What's New
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Surgical skill deployment lands as a governed script.
scripts/deploy_skill.pydeploys one skill at a time with its companion artifacts, defaults to a dry run, logs every change for audit, and runs an independent post-deploy verification.
Traceability: deploy_skill.py -
Citation freshness becomes a runnable gate.
scripts/check_claim_freshness.pyparses governed artifacts for#NNNN STATEissue-citations;--onlinere-derives each viagh;--strictexits nonzero for CI and release gating.
Traceability: check_claim_freshness.py -
Skill-frontmatter coherence becomes a runnable gate.
scripts/check_skill_coherence.pydetects declared-but-absent Governing-Spec or SOP references, plus stale "future" framing of artifacts that already shipped.
Traceability: check_skill_coherence.py -
Ontology-spec binding gains its validator half.
scripts/validate_spec_binding.pyvalidates ONTOLOGY-SPEC-BINDING, withscripts/ground_artifact.pyas its loader dependency.
Traceability: validate_spec_binding.py, ground_artifact.py -
Test coverage grows by 20-plus V-tests across the new scripts, all passing in canonical.
Changed
/aget-propose-actionsadvances to v1.8.0. It adds Step 3.5 Self-Critique (a 10-point checklist), REQ-PA-018/019/020 (named-person leverage and a non-artifact action at multi-day budgets), and a Type column that makes action-type bias visible. Propagated to all 13 templates, also clearing the accumulated v1.7.x lag.scripts/validate_ontology_reciprocity.pyscope fix. Dangling now means whole-vocabulary; cross-cluster is reclassified as non-defect and excluded from TOTAL DEFECTS.
Sleeping-CAPs Disclosure
Zero new sleeping CAPs at the V-test layer in v3.22.0. No prior-cycle sleeping CAPs were closed or grace-extended by this release.
Compatibility
No breaking changes in v3.22.0. Existing instances upgrade by version-bump only.
See CHANGELOG.md for the full Added and Changed sections.
What This Release Doesn't Change
- The five pre-existing test failures (contract-test reference-rate, config tier-detection, skill-count map) are carried debt, disclosed not hidden. They were not introduced by this release.
- Skill deployment shipped as a script; the broad deploy across downstream instances is tracked separately and is not completed by this tag.
Traceability: CAP-REL-006-02-NN release-body template; H-AMB-322 ambition experiment.