v4.14.0 — Decouple from crickets: agentm stands alone

MINOR. agentm and crickets are now fully decoupled at install time. crickets v3.0 retired its bespoke per-host installer (install.sh/.ps1 + lib/install/) in favor of native Claude Code / Antigravity plugins; this is agentm's side of that clean break. The harness is now a self-contained standalone install — it no longer clones or bootstraps crickets, and owns its install library outright. crickets remains the optional toolkit, installed separately via its native plugin path. Single-repo release. Also folds in the V4 verification battery (internal tooling).

Changed

• The installer no longer bootstraps crickets. install.sh / install.ps1 dropped the crickets-sibling auto-detect + clone + invoke-crickets/install.sh block (that installer no longer exists). Operators install crickets separately — its one-line bootstrap.sh or claude plugin install. The two repos are decoupled at install time.
• sync-lib.sh is now local-only. It was the cross-repo byte-sync that kept agentm/lib/install/ and crickets/lib/install/ byte-identical; crickets no longer ships lib/install/, so the script now just regenerates agentm's own lib/install/.checksums.txt (+ a --verify mode), with no ../crickets/ targeting. check-lib-parity de-staled to match — agentm owns lib/install/ outright. Closes ADR 0006's lib-sync re-audit trigger.
• Docs point crickets install at native plugins. The README "install Crickets" step uses crickets's native one-line installer; /release's ship-release graceful-skip message points at crickets/bootstrap.sh / claude plugin marketplace add instead of the deleted crickets/install.sh.

Internal

• V4 verification battery. New scripts/verify-v4.sh — a one-shot scratch-vault integration check for the #23 auto-orchestration push surface (29 checks; hermetic; self-cleaning; never touches a real vault). New scripts/check-all.sh — the standard local gate battery (unit suite + every check-* gate + verify-v4 in one command, with a PASS/FAIL table). verify-v4 wired into the Linux + Mac CI workflows; wiki/reference/CI-Gates.md + AGENTS.md document the battery + how to grow it.

Cross-references

• crickets v3.0 #40 (native-plugins consolidation) — the cross-repo effort this is agentm's half of; paired with crickets's clean break (deleting its bespoke install machinery in favor of native plugins).
• agentm v4.13.1 — the prior release (auto-orchestration fast-follows).