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v0.7.4 — progress.md heartbeat: one live line per stage

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@cskwork cskwork released this 30 Aug 17:47
· 44 commits to main since this release

Heartbeat (AGENTS.md rule 9)

.sdlc/work/<slug>/progress.md now holds exactly one overwritten line —
<stage>[ n/m] · <what is happening> · <ISO timestamp> — so a human can see
where the loop is at any moment, in every stage, not just at gates.

  • Every stage writes it: on entry, at every sub-task change, before each
    dispatch; build counts plan.md's Order of work as build n/m and updates
    per fix-loop round.
  • Long sub-tasks refresh it at natural checkpoints (a command finished,
    a file edited) even when the text does not change — a stale heartbeat means
    a dead loop, not a slow step.
  • status.sh shows it as a now → line with its age (BSD/GNU stat);
    older than 30 min gets — STALE. Absent file: silent, fully
    backward-compatible.
  • A signal, not a record: init.sh gitignores it under work/ and
    archive/; history stays in deviations.md / evidence.md / harvest.md.
    Follow it live with watch -n5 cat .sdlc/work/<slug>/progress.md.

Also retro-tagged v0.7.3 (optional qa: tool in config, intent Refs: line).