KIN Design System 2.0.0

Changed

• Advanced the contract to KIN 2.0 with design-tool interoperability and a versioned consuming-project contract.
• Added release-version consistency checks and corrected mobile reference touch targets to the 44px contract.
• Removed decorative navigation glyphs and misleading disclosure symbols from reference interfaces.
• Darkened the light-theme muted text Token and expanded contrast validation so informative metadata meets the 4.5:1 baseline.
• Added cross-tab synchronization for theme and contrast preferences with automated coverage.
• Replaced the mobile Inspector removal with an accessible bottom drawer and focus-restoration behavior.
• Preserved provenance and selected-product operational details in the mobile information and ecommerce references.
• Added an accessible mobile property drawer for engineering selections and generated-change review.
• Reduced static-audit noise by consolidating same-line matches and recognizing required browser theme-color plumbing.
• Made missing pinned contracts and Token integration files blocking adoption-check errors instead of advisory warnings.
• Restricted the local reference server to the examples/ tree and hardened malformed/path-traversal requests.
• Added a release runbook covering validation, CI, immutable tags, repository settings, and rollback.
• Upgraded the design contract to KIN 1.1 with DESIGN.md alpha-format metadata and machine-readable color, typography, spacing, radius, and component tokens.
• Advanced the contract to KIN 1.2 with generated interoperability output and normative component-state coverage.
• Advanced the contract to KIN 1.3 with high-contrast references and automated interface-state coverage.
• Advanced the contract to KIN 1.4 with task-specific product patterns instead of one universal workspace template.
• Recalibrated the dark accent hover value to preserve WCAG AA contrast with its defined button text.
• Moved executable Agent routing and contract checks earlier in the roadmap.

Added

• Added a create-only Figma Variables REST payload with light, dark, and high-contrast color modes, scale variables, and flattened typography primitives.
• Added a documented DTCG-to-Tokens Studio path without making the plugin a project dependency.
• Added a read-only candidate audit CLI with severity, source locations, JSON output, reviewed exceptions, and explicit human-verification limits.
• Added adoption initialization, configuration schema, structural checks, migration records, and automated tooling tests.
• Added generated Figma payload integrity checks for unique IDs, references, value types, and color channels.
• Added release validation for the adoption Schema and example configuration.
• Locked the Google DESIGN.md exporter in package-lock.json instead of downloading it through an ad-hoc npx invocation.
• Added the kin-design Agent Skill with progressive build, redesign, audit, review, and product-register references.
• Added design-contract validation for required token groups, references, theme parity, and baseline contrast.
• Added the design validator to repository instructions, contribution checks, pull requests, and CI.
• Added reproducible Tailwind CSS and DTCG token exports with drift checking.
• Added state, interaction, accessibility, and acceptance matrices for core KIN components.
• Added a framework-free responsive workspace fixture with light, dark, and system themes.
• Added high-contrast light and dark reference Tokens without changing business-status semantics.
• Added a state reference for data rows, forms, empty/error/stale feedback, Command Menu, and dialog focus behavior.
• Added Playwright checks for responsive layout, theme persistence, high contrast, Inspector focus restoration, form states, and Command Menu focus.
• Added CI screenshot artifacts for visual review without platform-sensitive pixel gating.
• Added Git-based Token change reports.
• Added normative information-site, intelligence-workspace, ecommerce-operations, and engineering-canvas patterns.
• Added distinct information, ecommerce, and engineering reference interfaces alongside the intelligence workspace.
• Extended Playwright coverage to reading/provenance, money/inventory/approval, tool/object selection, units, revisions, and generated-change review.

Documentation

• Reframed the README for a general audience, expanded the supported interface scenarios, and added separate paths for designers, engineers, teams, independent makers, and coding tools.
• Added a complete Simplified Chinese README and translation maintenance rules.