v0.26.0

0.26.0 (2026-09-29)

Features

• preserve report generation options (#599) (ba1397b)

Bug Fixes

• ci: correct release wording and stale.yml inputs (#635) (d058e74), closes #634
• ci: shorten the stale window and stop auto-closing contributor-facing issues (#633) (8fd6a73)
• ci: stop the changed-file format gate failing open (#626) (51ce0df)
• ci: strip trailing whitespace breaking Ruff format check (#629) (ce9bc7a), closes #628
• cli: reject empty app suffix before import (#600) (517c73e)
• deps: drop unsupported semver cooldown keys for github-actions ecosystem (#581) (88aa687)
• templates: use an absolute URL for the security contact link (#637) (aea15fa), closes #636
• templates: use Conventional Commit prefixes in issue forms (#639) (6ea095c)

Documentation

• add ADR for inference default policy (#572) (#577) (fe1b3e8)
• add agent playbook to navigation (#590) (56e5513)
• add inference cookbook recipes (#594) (ae6356c)
• add local development quickstart (#593) (c42d99c)
• agents: forbid cross-repo umbrella issues (single-repo boundary) (#571) (4121173), closes #570
• agents: realign approval policy with the single-maintainer reality (#631) (5e80246)
• align the contributor contract with the actual configuration (#627) (89d8cfb)
• document the maintainer-authored PR approval path and admin-bypass procedure (#623) (96a4810)
• utils: document type_to_schema (#591) (94977b7)

Testing

• add dedicated test coverage for spec module (#608) (408aed8)
• cover exception hierarchy (#602) (070ec81)
• cover registry behavior (#592) (06a7952)
• cover route prefix helpers (#607) (7dc60e9)
• cover the HTTP method-set constants in routes.py (#643) (d505c15), closes #642
• preserve Unicode in CLI output (#598) (48688d1)

Miscellaneous Tasks

• adopt release-please and gate PyPI on in-chain Azure e2e (#647) (2da5cc6)
• codify open issue-creation as fleet policy (#575) (#578) (dbe9e93)
• correct the stale 2.x promotion note on the compat lane (#621) (0ea675a)
• deps: bump codecov/codecov-action in the github-actions group (#606) (f87975a)
• deps: bump ruff in the python-dependencies group (#579) (1b92bb2)
• deps: bump ruff in the python-dependencies group (#582) (3a814f1)
• deps: bump ruff in the python-dependencies group (#605) (4e715b5)
• deps: bump the github-actions group with 3 updates (#583) (e2fc86a)
• enforce Ruff formatting in PR quality checks (#619) (c0fdc26)
• harden and wire the hatch default-env-pin lint (canonical source) (#580) (3d100bc)
• ignore uv.lock (#645) (2525542), closes #644
• pins: align canonical azure/login pin with v3.1.0 (#604) (2668106)