v0.1.0 — Vulkan Core Kit

The first release under the VCK name. Project was rebranded from VVCS
("Vulkan-VCS") to VCK — Vulkan Core Kit in commit deced77. This
release establishes the public surface (VCK.h amalgam header), the
three-layer architecture (core / expansion / execution), the in-tree
example builder (build.bat + ANSI menu), the structured logger, and
a Windows CI gate. The project is Windows-only at this point;
cross-platform support lands in v0.2.0.

Added

• Project rebrand — VVCS → VCK (Vulkan Core Kit). README, build
  scripts, header guards, and namespace VCK:: finalised.
• VCK.h amalgam header — single public include surface; per-class
  declarations stop being duplicated and the amalgam now #includes
  the layer headers directly (rule 21 precursor).
• Three-layer architecture — core/ (VulkanContext,
  VulkanDevice, VulkanSwapchain, VulkanPipeline,
  VulkanCommand, VulkanSync, VulkanBuffer, VulkanImage,
  VulkanHelpers), expansion (framebuffers, depth, samplers,
  textures, model pipelines, descriptor sets, mipmaps), execution
  (FrameScheduler, JobGraph, GpuSubmissionBatcher,
  BackpressureGovernor, DebugTimeline, TimelineSemaphore).
• VCK::Config master init-chain control struct — cfg.device,
  cfg.swapchain, cfg.pipeline, cfg.scheduler, cfg.aa, cfg.debug
  knobs; passed once to VulkanContext::Initialize.
• VulkanPipeline::Config — cull mode, front-face winding, blend
  state, push-constant ranges, descriptor-set layouts.
• Mailbox present mode by default with FIFO fallback when the
  surface doesn't expose Mailbox.
• Six VCKExpansion examples — HelloExample, ModelExample,
  VMMExample, FrameSchedulerExample, TripleBufferExample,
  LockstepExample, plus three execution-layer examples
  (SubmissionBatchingExample, JobGraphExample,
  DebugTimelineExample).
• example/build.bat — Windows MinGW builder with [1]-[9] / [A] / [0]
  ANSI-coloured menu, BUILD_ALL section that compiles every example in
  one pass, and CRLF-safe shader compile via glslangValidator.
• VMM (Vulkan Memory Manager) — three-layer allocator
  (VmmPersistent / VmmTransient / VmmStaging) wrapping VMA's
  pool-aware allocators. VmmBuffer / VmmImage are typed
  POD-by-handle wrappers. LogStats dump every N frames for the
  example.
• VCKLog — coloured [VCK] [Tag] body logger with Info /
  Notice / Warn / Error levels and an init-time global toggle
  for debug-gated Info lines.
• docs/ at repo root — split out from README into
  Build.md, Examples.md, Design.md, Home.md. README slimmed to
  badges + 60-second tour + pointers.
• GitHub wiki — initial structure; _Sidebar.md, design rules.
• CI: Windows workflow — .github/workflows/build.yml runs
  build.bat A on windows-latest for every push / PR. SDK installer
  • vk_video/*.h sparse-checkout patch (the LunarG installer's
    vulkan_video component is optional but vulkan_core.h hard-includes
    it).
• .gitattributes — forces CRLF on *.bat so Windows CMD doesn't
  fragment comment lines into garbage tokens.

Changed

• build.bat redesigned with an ANSI UI; chcp 65001 for UTF-8;
  em-dashes scrubbed from console-bound strings (CMD prints them as ?
  on default codepages).
• AllocConsole removed in favour of g++'s default
  console-subsystem stdout — no flicker on launch, no leftover console
  if the program crashes.
• VulkanContext::Initialize drops the leftover
  BuildRequiredExtensions helper (Win32-only dead code with no header
  declaration).

Fixed

• VMM lifecycle bugs — wrong destruction order between
  VmmTransient ring slots and VmmStaging was leaking allocations
  on Shutdown. Routed VMM logs to a Windows console.
• FrameScheduler Lockstep + AsyncMax deadlocks — Lockstep was
  waiting on the slot fence before signalling the previous frame's
  release; AsyncMax could double-acquire the same slot under contention.
• build.bat BUILD_ALL trailing whitespace in set EX=... causing
  the all-build pass to skip examples whose name had a trailing space.
• MinGW compile — SubmitInfo and VCK::Config need explicit
  default ctors; gcc 13 wouldn't aggregate-init through inheritance.
• JobGraph::Add — counted invalid (out-of-range) deps toward the
  job's wait count, so Execute() could deadlock waiting for a job that
  would never run.
• VCKExpansion.h — forward-declared VulkanDepthBuffer before
  VulkanFramebufferSet (compile order fix).
• HelloExample — quad winding flipped so the embedded "Hello,
  World" text isn't back-face culled.