v0.15.0

govctl v0.15.0

0.15.0 introduces first-class Conformance Cases for tracing versioned RFC
requirements to project-owned scenarios and reusable verification guards. It
also establishes a canonical-only compatibility baseline ahead of 1.0, adds
low-noise agent introspection, and refreshes the read-only governance TUI.

Added

• Added conformance as a first-class resource with new, list, get,
  show, edit, and delete commands. Cases declare a stable relationship
  between versioned RFC Clauses, project scenarios, and reusable Guards without
  becoming normative authority or a test runner.
• Added govctl conformance trace with deterministic table and JSON output,
  requirement and Guard filters, and provisional, candidate, current, and stale
  applicability states.
• Added project schema version 4 for Conformance Case storage and validation,
  including transactional migration from schema version 3.
• Integrated Conformance Cases into validation, search, tags, status, command
  discovery, shell completion, and the TUI.
• Added repository-owned Conformance Cases that exercise the traceability model
  against representative govctl integration scenarios.

Changed

• govctl describe now emits versioned, parser-owned command metadata and can
  include concise actionable project context with --context.
• Bundled skills and reviewer agents now use compact policy-and-discovery
  guidance. Heavyweight Guards are selected per Work Item unless they are truly
  universal project defaults.
• Misrouted Clause operations now fail with the corresponding canonical
  govctl clause command instead of leaving agents to guess the namespace.
• The TUI now presents aligned lifecycle matrices, separate execution and
  diagnostic regions, a dedicated filter strip, stable scroll indicators, and
  consistent wide and narrow layouts.
• Project status now includes rejected ADRs, Verification Guard totals, and
  release totals.

Removed

• Removed compatibility command aliases, field-path aliases, wire-layout
  prefixes such as content., govctl., and check., and resource-specific
  mutation flags superseded by the canonical edit interface.
• Removed legacy flat RFC and Clause TOML readers, ignored legacy fields,
  obsolete migration steps, and pre-schema-3 signature inference.
• Removed the unsupported govctl adr deprecate command.

Fixed

• Project discovery, explicit configuration, and forced initialization no longer
  fall through to an ancestor project when local governance state is incomplete
  or incompatible.
• RFC loading, Clause loading, and amendment signatures now cover every stored
  Clause while rejecting dangling and storage-escaping paths.
• Artifact creation, deletion, migration, and dry-run paths perform equivalent
  validation and preserve prior state when a multi-file operation fails.
• Conformance Case mutations validate the target and direct dependencies
  without making unrelated invalid Cases impossible to repair.
• Invalid edit paths now list valid fields, and unsupported operations identify
  the permitted operations for the addressed path.
• TUI filtering, lifecycle styling, navigation hints, search navigation, and
  narrow-layout rendering now remain consistent across supported resources.

Security

• RFC and Clause creation and loading reject path traversal and any Clause
  storage that resolves outside its containing RFC directory before mutation.

Upgrade Notes

• Run govctl migrate to upgrade a schema version 3 repository to schema
  version 4, then run govctl check.
• Repositories below schema version 3 must first be upgraded with a compatible
  earlier govctl release. Legacy RFC or Clause JSON storage is now rejected
  explicitly instead of being ignored.
• Replace removed mutation aliases and storage-layout paths with
  govctl <resource> edit <id> <path> <operation>. Clause operations always use
  the root govctl clause namespace.

Full Changelog: v0.14.2...v0.15.0