STOW v0.4.0

STOW v0.4.0

STOW v0.4.0 completes the instrumentality reconciliation: it keeps a small ordinary-writing path, loads specialist controlled-writing material only when applicable, and reserves deterministic claims for properties that are actually closed and checked.

What ships

• 65 active canonical rules: 61 contextual G1 semantic owners and four genuine G2 predicates.
• Sixteen ordinary always-on G1 owners and 45 cold or predicate-loaded G1 owners.
• Ten advisory signals, kept distinct from rule-level semantic compliance.
• A bundled 2,198-record controlled dictionary with sparse retrieval.
• A project terminology-authority overlay for approved technical nouns, technical verbs, abbreviations, and canonical terms.
• Protected-region handling and deterministic validators for closed output contracts.
• Fifty-seven behaviorally qualified G1 owners.

Measured operationalisation

In the frozen crosswalk-derived comparison, name-only controlled-language conditioning passed 78 of 86 scored requirements; STOW passed 80 of 86. The result supports a bounded claim: STOW operationalised more of the tested requirement surface by making applicability, controlled-dictionary records, project terminology authority, protected regions, contextual boundaries, and mechanical checks explicit and inspectable. It does not prove universal output superiority or cross-model equivalence.

The comparison exposed operation- and force-preservation damage in the candidate. The cause was narrowed, the guidance was repaired, and a targeted Luna Max regression passed. The complete four-arm comparison was not rerun after that repair.

Runtime instrumentality

The audit also found and removed a genuinely overengineered execution path involving reference walks, runtime discovery, --help probes, temporary candidates, advisory lint calls, and repeated model turns. Normal installed-skill measurements after that repair produced these STOW/name-only cumulative logical-input ratios:

• ordinary cold path: 3.2044x
• technical cold path: 3.1848x
• controlled cold path: 5.7776x
• two-turn workflow: 1.5651x
• second-turn steady state: 1.0651x

These are logical model-input ratios, not billing multipliers. Cached and uncached input were accounted for separately; the host exposed no authoritative applicable cached-input price, so monetary input cost remains NOT_DERIVED. The historical approximately 29x Trial 2 figure remains evaluation-and-custody evidence and is not presented as normal STOW runtime cost.

Known boundaries

• STOW-PRO-005 remains an accepted open contextual limitation.
• STOW-WRD-001 remains an external-authority boundary.
• STOW-WRD-003 and STOW-VRB-005 remain explicit contextual deferrals.
• The strict controlled-language profile remains locked.
• Universal automatic activation is not proved.
• Cross-host behavioral equivalence is not proved.
• G3 final-output custody is not shipped.

Release verification

• Final merge commit: f9f132561df2c283331bbe09e357605206a06421
• Final tree: 19e18a407d4f011e0a70b22164c4f7212818662d
• Full test suite: 1,195 passed.
• All five generators: current.
• Strong local provenance/leak gate: passed over 196 files and 40 private patterns.
• Controlled-language crosswalk, dictionary, package, install, and runtime checks: passed.
• Two independent package builds: byte-identical.
• STOW.skill SHA-256: 5aee2140331a0fad9bc21422d860594d4af78d6b1755ad574603071386491751
• Artifact size: 678,821 bytes; 77 members.