Release v1.7.1

What changed

• Added CI artifact smoke-install checks for both wheel and sdist distributions.
• Added end-to-end runtime taxonomy audit coverage to verify stable error.json classification.
• Hardened run-log sanitization to prevent secret leakage in diagnostics.
• Added docs/ops-runbook.md with incident triage guidance.
• Linked ops runbook from README and release checklist docs.

Why it matters

• Improves operational reliability and failure diagnostics in CI and runtime contexts.
• Reduces risk of secret exposure in run artifacts.
• Strengthens confidence that packaged artifacts behave correctly when installed.

Notes

• v1.7.1 is a hardening patch release.
• No CLI interface changes.
• No output schema/contract changes.
• Stateless execution model remains unchanged.

GitHub Pull Requests Included

• test(v1.7.1): harden error taxonomy and wrapped transport failure logging by @damienSavoldelli in #35
• ci(v1.7.1): smoke install built wheel and sdist artifacts by @damienSavoldelli in #36
• test(v1.7.1): audit runtime error taxonomy end-to-end by @damienSavoldelli in #37
• fix(v1.7.1): sanitize run logs and redact secrets in error artifacts by @damienSavoldelli in #38
• docs(v1.7.1): add ops runbook and link release docs by @damienSavoldelli in #39
• release: prepare v1.7.1 by @damienSavoldelli in #40

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.7.1