v0.5.0 · Traditional scholar support: lineages + multi-perspective

Major framework expansion: traditional (pre-modern, multi-reception) scholars now first-class.

Prior to v0.5, scholar-wendao was optimized for contemporary scholars (Stiegler, Yuk Hui, Latour, Haraway — recent or near-contemporary single-author corpora). v0.5 adds first-class support for traditional scholars (Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Kant, Hegel — pre-modern figures with multiple reception lineages over centuries).

What "traditional scholar" means

A scholar whose work has been read through multiple distinct interpretive traditions across history (e.g., Aristotle has the Scholastic / Arabic / Heideggerian / post-analytic lineages). The framework can no longer treat them as a single voice — it must produce multi-perspective analysis showing how each lineage reads the scholar differently.

Added

• Lineages as first-class concept — each traditional scholar has N reading lineages distilled, with their own concept maps, methodological commitments, and characteristic readings of the source.
• Multi-perspective output mode — when analyzing material with a traditional-scholar lens, the skill can output a fused single voice, OR show how each of N lineages would read it.
• scholar_type: traditional schema — meta-skill workflow branches by type at Phase 0.

Validated by

• v0.5.1 (Aristotle) — first traditional-scholar dogfood
• v0.5.2 (Stiegler reverse-upgrade) — proves framework is bidirectional (works for both contemporary and traditional scholars)

See CHANGELOG via git log for full history.