v0.2.1 - Enforce version-wide release blocks

Portfolio evidence addendum: the owner explicitly replaced the independent-human benchmark requirement with transparent AI-authored characterization. The 40-trace report preserves three false positives and three false negatives, all first-run evidence, and an AI-inspected walkthrough. Independent human validation has not been performed on this set. Portfolio finalization is complete under the revised scope.

The addendum source is 2f318dc; all six CI jobs passed: 292 tests per OS/Python matrix job plus 16 PostgreSQL tests. Pages and the dependency audit also passed. benchmark-addendum-0.2.1.zip and BENCHMARK-SHA256SUMS contain the separately source-bound evidence. The original v0.2.1 tag, software packages, SHA256SUMS and verification ZIP remain unchanged.

Original corrective software release:

This corrective release fixes approval of an older pending review after another run blocked the same agent version. Upgrade from 0.2.0 to enforce the documented version-wide block consistently.

• Current release decisions and accepted regression baselines honor all committed blocks of an agent version, including older passing or approved runs. Historical gate artifacts and approvals remain intact; reports identify the effective blocking runs.
• Gate publication and approval serialize on the agent's database row across SQLite and PostgreSQL. A stale gate computed before a concurrent block is refreshed atomically with its audit hash and pause state.
• New regressions cover the original bypass, historical acceptance, baseline exclusion, stale PASS/REVIEW publication, corrupt evidence, failed monitoring and both block/approval commit orders.
• README formatting and portfolio completion accounting are corrected. Existing human approval remains recorded; the original independent benchmark was pending at this software snapshot; see the subsequent scope decision above.

Validation: all six CI jobs passed at the released source revision, with 290 tests passing per OS/Python matrix job and 16 additional PostgreSQL tests. The full local Windows/Python 3.14 run passed all 306 tests with PostgreSQL enabled and 95.55% line coverage. Installed-wheel, container, persistent Compose/MCP, private HTTPS and dependency checks passed.

Release CI | Correction record | Demo

No database schema change or backfill is needed; the corrected implementation reads existing committed gates. This is enforcement of the existing gate-policy/1.2 rule; scoring thresholds and the scorer are unchanged. Previously accepted runs of a blocked version now report an effective blocked decision.

At the original software release, independent human evidence was still pending. The subsequent owner-approved scope change and AI-authored evidence addendum above supersede that portfolio completion status. The existing 33-row/35-label corpus remains separately human-reviewed and development-exposed, with all nine disagreements preserved. The original independence criterion was replaced, not fulfilled.

Assets: wheel, source archive, verification ZIP and SHA256SUMS. The checksum file covers all three artifacts; the verification manifest binds test reports, CI records, operational evidence and benchmark status to the exact source commit. Original 0.2.0 packages and evidence remain available as historical artifacts.