Summary

• add a no-op benchmarks feature and disable the library bench harness so the CI bench job can forward Criterion CLI flags
• bump the crate to v0.24.14 and document the new flag in the changelog, README, and template so local runs match automation

Testing

• cargo +nightly fmt --
• cargo +1.90.0 clippy --all-features -- -D warnings
• cargo +1.90.0 build --all-targets
• cargo +1.90.0 test --all
• cargo +1.90.0 doc --no-deps
• cargo deny check
• cargo audit
• cargo +1.90.0 bench -F benchmarks --benches -- --save-baseline smoke

https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_e_68dca6c7db8c832b81e9d95a567e7a19