v0.5.0 Phase Ecology Lab

What changed

v0.5.0 adds the Phase Ecology Lab. It helps you inspect a group of agent reports over time and see where work is useful, blocked, duplicated, or still only a candidate.

The package can now build diagnostic views for phase windows, effective packet graphs, closure checks, execution-available paths, bottlenecks, queue pressure, abstraction-lift checks, and typed action traces.

Why it matters

PIC is meant to help agents and operators keep evidence, unfinished work, and safety boundaries visible. This release makes that easier from an installed pip package, without needing a full source checkout for the main demo path.

Main additions

• pic phase lab ... commands for local Phase Lab diagnostics.
• pic ecology ... commands for effective graphs and execution-available paths.
• pic bit ... commands for bottleneck and inversion diagnostics.
• pic sqot ... commands for queue pressure and reserve checks.
• pic alt ... lift commands for abstraction-liquidity diagnostics.
• pic trc ... adapter commands for typed traces and action boundaries.
• More exported schemas, packaged demo assets, and OS-independent command examples.
• New docs that explain the release boundary and the remaining future work.

Safety boundary

This release does not execute agent output, does not grant approval to act, and does not claim that a system is settled. Raw packet volume is not treated as progress. Diagnostic outputs keep unresolved work visible, and settled=false is expected when obligations remain.

Quick start

python -m pip install --upgrade percolation-inversion-compiler==0.5.0
pic demo installed-smoke --profile development
pic demo bootstrap --output-dir pic-demo

Validation

Before release, the local suite passed: formatting, lint, type checks, tests, build, Twine metadata checks, distribution artifact checks, and bare-pip smoke testing from the built wheel.