Steadlith 1.0.0

Added

• Added versioned Sphinx documentation for installation, configuration, operations, migrations, JSON output, and the public Python API.
• Added a production website smoke check for key routes, metadata, headers, and assets.
• Added regression coverage for CLI contracts, provider responses and retries, cache pruning, compaction boundaries, migration recovery, and installed entry points.

Changed

• Breaking: status now reads committed index state without scanning source files. The JSON fields index_drift, source_drift, embedding_drift, pending_operations, and pending_embeddings were removed; use plan --json for source and configuration comparison.
• Chunk now rejects non-string content and non-mapping metadata. CDCParams now rejects invalid numeric and boolean fields, unknown keys, and non-CDC strategies.
• Source path metadata now uses project-relative document IDs instead of absolute paths. The first 1.0 plan over a 0.3 index can report metadata-only move operations; applying them does not re-embed unchanged chunks.
• OpenAI requests use Steadlith's retry loop without additional SDK retries.
• The README and website now provide a complete offline quick start and supported deployment and provider scope. The README also provides benchmark commands and support instructions.
• Removed the unused embed_with_cache(..., on_batch=...) callback, duplicate vector serialization code, duplicate website artwork, and an unnecessary development dependency.

Fixed

• State-path collisions now fail with typed errors that name the blocking path and the configuration key to change.
• Configuration and benchmark choice errors now list the accepted values.
• Manifest mirror verification and repair now detect mismatches and preserve a recoverable state after interrupted writes.
• compact --dry-run no longer creates a missing index database.
• Network-consent errors now report the active project configuration instead of assuming the default file.
• The release wheel smoke test now runs in an isolated virtual environment instead of altering the documentation environment.