HADARA 0.4.2

Stable release for the 0.4.2 command-surface reduction, status performance, init structure, and stable-preflight dogfood line.

Highlights

Promotes the 0.4.2-rc.0 command portfolio cleanup: retired public command surfaces and stale redirect stubs stay removed, while current workflow guidance stays centered on task status, task finalize, validation run, and evidence list/add-command.
Improves status/read-model performance with faster default status output, explicit full/detail modes, and invocation-local selected-task read memoization.
Keeps task finalize --execute --auto as the ordinary guarded close path, with close-plan blockers detected before partial finish writes.
Adds response-only evidence append-lock diagnostics and preserves direct-result validation recovery for restricted agent environments.
Fixes stable-preflight dogfood issues from the published RC line: consumer context pack source/release-warning leakage, empty-project first-task guidance, similar handoff-to-open-task matching, EOF slice truncation semantics, and validation recovery guidance.
Adds final profile-aware cleanup: basic and standard projects do not warn about optional missing docs/AGENT_HANDOFF.md, and task-selection required-reading recommendations only include docs present in the project profile.

0.4.2-rc.0 was published on npm with next and released as a public GitHub prerelease.
RC installed-package recycle passed from consumer paths.
Installed toy-project dogfood covered basic, standard, and governed profiles.
Stable-preflight source dogfood rerun in T-0544 confirmed the prior findings stayed fixed and closed a governed toy task through the current workflow.
Stable source preparation in T-0545 retargets metadata/docs to 0.4.2 and leaves npm/GitHub publication as explicit operator actions.

npm publish uses the latest tag for 0.4.2.
Docker image publish, PyPI publish, installer execution, MCP release/package execution, and full 0.5 state-first adoption remain out of scope.
After publish, run a separate installed-package recycle capsule against hadara@latest expected 0.4.2.