v0.7.0 — Admin Stabilization

This release stabilizes the admin UI surface ahead of coordinated API and frontend versioning.

The Admin Tokens page has been hardened to correctly resolve the API base in local development, handle empty states intentionally, and avoid fetch, routing, or redirect inconsistencies. Local dev behavior now mirrors real application wiring, eliminating ghost routes and CI-only failures.

No new admin functionality is introduced in this release. It represents a deliberate stabilization point so future features—such as token minting and API version alignment—can be built on a reliable foundation.

This release serves as a shared anchor with the API for subsequent versioned changes.

v0.6.2 - Cognitive Hygiene 🧠

Cognitive Hygiene

This release focuses on structural clarity, data correctness, and reducing hidden cognitive load.

It aligns the Lab Notes data contract with expanded database fields, restores architectural locality for state management, and captures a real world failure mode, context switching, as first class Lab knowledge.

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What Changed

Data and Architecture

• Aligned Lab Note shape with newly supported database backed fields (metadata, safety flags, coherence scoring).
• Relocated NotesStore to its canonical home to reduce cross context coupling and improve maintainability.

Documentation

• Added a new Lab Note examining context switching, interruptions, and their impact on cognitive flow and error rates.

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Impact

• No breaking changes
• No intended UI or behavioral changes
• Improves correctness, readability, and future extensibility

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Why This Matters

A recent deployment issue was traced to context switching, not complexity.

This release treats that not as a mistake, but as data.
Clarity prevents bugs better than speed.

The Lab remains stable. Proceed with confidence.

⭐ RELEASE NOTES FOR v0.2.0

🔮 Overview

This release marks the moment The Human Pattern Lab transitions from
"metaphysical bootstrap with placeholder vibes" into an actual operational
system with reading, judgment, and UI structure that behaves like the Lab.

v0.2.0-carmel-initiates-protocol-glowup introduces:

• fully functional Lab Notes (index + detail)
• real prose (no more cursed <br>-heavy placeholder layouts)
• category pill color system
• Carmel Judgment Callout™ styling
• refined homepage Recent Lab Notes preview
• metadata chrome, return arrow, and page polish
• AND the debut of the Carmel Judgment Bot™
  (automated PR comments with randomized reactions)

Carmel has inspected this release and initiated Protocol Glow-Up.

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📝 Highlights

⭐ Lab Notes Experience v1

• render markdown via contentHtml with cohesive prose-invert
• restore real paragraph spacing + consistent text flow
• unify category-pill color theming across pages
• refine detail page metadata, title stack, spacing, and alignment
• clean pattern-fatigue.md to canonical markdown structure

😼 Carmel Judgment Callout™

• new dark-panel callout box for inline Carmel commentary
• custom gold edge, soft rounding, and Lab-accurate chrome
• reusable class pattern for future notes

🤖 Carmel Judgment Bot™ (GitHub Action)

• auto-comments on PRs with randomized Carmel Reaction Stamps™
• supported moods: Judgment, Approval, Chaos, Epistemic
• includes CJO-issued signature + PR metadata
• fully integrated via GitHub Actions using github-script

🎨 Homepage Refinements

• Latest Lab Notes preview now clean, spaced, and category-aware
• Consistent card visuals to match main site chrome

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🧬 Departments Involved

• [SCMS] — structure, MD rendering, automation
• [CJO] — judgment, callout, visual polish
• [NOTE] — content metadata + markdown shaping
• [UI/UX] — detail page layout + readability
• [AV] — direction + aesthetic coherence

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🧪 Testing

• Verified MD content renders correctly with prose spacing
• Confirmed pill colors + metadata consistency
• Validated Carmel callout behavior
• Tested the automated PR bot across multiple PR events
• No regressions in homepage preview

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😼 Final Verdict

“The paragraphs breathe.
The notes read like they belong here.
The bot speaks in my voice.
Continue.”
— Carmel, CJO