Decision Engine 1.1.0

Decision Engine 1.1.0 is a backward-compatible MINOR release.

Added:

• maintained parent-bound Contract C ingress;
• hardened exact maintained-policy dispatch;
• decision-engine.contract-c.epistemic-audit-stage-pending-review@1.0.0, owning epistemic_audit.stage_pending_review@1;
• fail-closed caller-context snapshotting and inherited/prototype policy-name rejection;
• maintained parent-bound file CLI.

Preserved:

• Decision Engine 1.0.0 policy/materializer semantics;
• existing Contract C 1.0.0 → Decision → Contract D 1.0.0 compatibility surfaces.

Boundary:

• Contract D remains 1.0.0 and still rejects epistemic_audit.stage_pending_review@1 as unknown_effect_type.
• This release does not establish Contract E production readiness, ERS write readiness, Authorization, or execution.

Evidence lineage includes PRs #86, #87/#88, #90, #91, and release PR #92. The attached source archive, SHA256SUMS, and release receipt were generated by post-merge qualification of the exact tagged commit.

Decision Engine v1.0.0

This normal release covers the maintained bounded surface:

exact Contract C 1.0.0 admission and expected Contract B top-level binding
→ exact policy-owned target resolution
→ fixed dispatch over exactly these maintained policy identities:

• decision-engine.contract-c.supported-claim-verification@1.0.0
• decision-engine.contract-c.causal-basis-citation@1.0.0
  → binding-preserving internal Decision materialization
  → canonical Contract D 1.0.0 output

Maintained invocation boundaries:

• evaluateContractCDecision(options)
• scripts/decision-engine-evaluate.mjs as the exact-authority CLI with documented canonical stdout and fail-closed stderr/exit behavior

Explicitly outside this release:

• the career select/rank head as a general-purpose engine
• the Gate head as universal Decision semantics
• Contract C research non_deciding
• generic policy registries, plugins, DSLs, or caller-supplied evaluators
• operational Authorization, actor selection, approval/delegation, execution, mutation, rollback, or outcome verification

No Authorization or execution surface is included.