v1.6.0

Features

Dense Extraction Pipeline

• Add autonomous skeleton-then-flesh contract and wire dense into backend, CLI & Python API (2475a85)
• Add series & conditional schema primitives and refine skeleton prompt for granularity and global & singleton entities (cc476d5)
• Add opt in barren-branch pruning (9d0669f)

Deterministic Data Grounding

• Implement deterministic data grounding and document lineage tracking (c21efc0)

Bug Fixes

Orchestration & Key Resolution

• Resolve canonical key fallback divergence to prevent edge-attachment collapse (eef791a)
• Resolve sparse root-id drift, enforce specific instance labels, and add direct-mode hints (186386e)

Pipeline Telemetry

• Resolve telemetry edge-cases, enhance entity-resolution, and export chunks (32e7569)
• Optimize docling graph extraction resilience and token economics (e2bd17a)

Linting & Validation

• Clean up dead type guards and resolve mypy warnings (1ecc28f)

Corporate Compliance

• Rename WatsonX to watsonx per official branding, closes #72 (2a1c375)

Refactoring

Extraction Modernization

• Remove delta and staged extraction code base and references (25b7e3c)
• Collapse dense extraction surface to intent primitives and fix core telemetry leaks (bb18f0c)
• Remove dead code, fix dense config propagation and improve performance (7e85841)

Documentation

Schema & System Guidance

• Document chunk schemas, advanced reporting, and extraction templates (fa907d7)
• Document data grounding architecture and provenance schema contracts (ef69c6b)
• Optimize pydantic templates for pipeline mechanisms and overhaul best practices (4c734ea)