Fix (ADR-0043, idea 0037, plan 0032; amends ADR-0008): the provenance citation format dropped the patch component, so fix releases fell out of scope.
The citation was pinned everywhere as the two-component placeholder Based on decision-trail vX.Y. Because that placeholder advertises the scope at which a version is read and compared, a consumer modelled its version as major.minor and collapsed patch releases together — a repo on v2.18.1 and a target v2.18.2 both read as "v2.18", so a fix-level change went unrecognized.
Fix: pin the citation to full three-component semver vX.Y.Z across the live surfaces (adopter template, updating.agent.md read-version step + conformance item #6, adopting.md, the spec delta note, and AGENTS.md), and read the full major.minor.patch when comparing.
Adopter migration — Required
Ensure your Based on decision-trail citation carries the full three-component semver (vX.Y.Z) in both docs/working-method.md and the AGENTS.md "How we work" block. If it reads only major.minor (e.g. v2.7), append the patch of the version you are on (→ v2.7.0). From now on, cite and compare the full three-component version. An adopter already citing a full vX.Y.Z (e.g. v2.18.2) needs only the normal version bump.