release: v0.8.0

[matt82198]

Release Summary

Bump version to 0.8.0 (2026-09-11) carrying the PolyForm Noncommercial relicense.

Files bumped:

• package.json: version 0.7.2 → 0.8.0
• package-lock.json: version 0.7.2 → 0.8.0
• CHANGELOG.md: add 0.8.0 release with relicense entry first
• STATE.md: update current version to v0.8.0 (release candidate)

CHANGELOG themes (39 PR references):

• Merge-pipeline & queue hardening: feat(tools): merge-queue advancer daemon — deterministic 5-min actor (Q1+Q2) #713, guard(queue): refuse PRs whose base is not the default branch (stacked PRs could merge into their parent while reporting MERGED) #761, feat(tools): merge-pipeline contention telemetry (debottleneck D0) #692, feat(tools): integration-batch merges by default + stacked-PR chains + landed-content close guard (debottleneck B1) #693, guard: cli gate propagator fail-closed on signal-kill (null status -> exit 2) #725, guard: fix concurrency inversion + fail-closed CANCELLED handling (Q0 — restores post-merge net 33%->100%) #695, guard(queue): restore the kill switch + atomic lock + worktree/timeout failure containment (deep-scan A1-A3,A7) #753
• Multibox coordination MVP: feat(state_store): durable instance identity + epoch fencing (multibox Inc 3) #686, feat(state_store): ClaimBackend seam + atomic dispatch claims (multibox Inc 2; fixes multi_dispatch TOCTOU) #685, fix(state_store): identity epoch fails closed on corruption #749, feat(state_store): FsClaimLog — shared-FS lease-by-append backend (multibox Inc 4a) #697, docs(design): multibox coordination design — lease-by-append over shared filesystems #687
• Guardrail hardenings: guard: G5 import-resolution actually evaluates the pushed range (was vacuously green on every push) #760, guard: silent-CI-job detector — defined-but-never-executed jobs (tool; wiring follows) #698, feat(tools): extract tool index to generated INDEX.md — collapses the top merge-contention surface (A2) #751, fix(tools): INDEX.md counts as a domain doc in the CLAUDE.md sync gate (unblocks the post-#751 sweep) #752, guard: register tools/INDEX.md as a generated path (prevents the predicted batch wedge) #757, fix: merge-queue crashed on every pass decoding em-dash output (errors=replace + lint now enforces it) #764, guard(queue): restore the kill switch + atomic lock + worktree/timeout failure containment (deep-scan A1-A3,A7) #753
• Skills-loader & init-project: fix: init_project now copies secret_scan.py and hook fails closed on missing script #769, guard: cost_ceiling --check is read-only (header creation moves to append path) #717, guard: verify_test_suite_count fail-closed on vacuous zero-file state #674, guard: count gate detects duplicated suite-count lines (exactly-one assertion) #679
• CI repair & observability: fix(ci): repair the two red scheduled workflows on main #787, fix(ci): publish weekly drift snapshot via rolling PR instead of pushing to protected main #790, guard: fix stats-refresh job (root cause of fleet-wide staleness jam) + failure visibility #716
• Docs & examples: docs(design): multibox coordination design — lease-by-append over shared filesystems #687, docs(driver): micro-kernel formalization — syscall table + hypothesis summary (increment 5) #681, feat(examples): first-wave replay kit (verified baseline wave) #682, fix(examples): replay-kit honesty — real CLI invocations + real outputs + fail-closed testCmds #702, docs: RELEASE-NOTES honesty pass — real 0.7.2 delta, historical counts restored #696, docs: README hiring-skim pass — demo visual + verified claims + artifact links #688, docs: RELEASE-NOTES/README currency to 0.7.2 with gate-derived test counts #678
• Performance & UX: perf: wire snapshot/tail-replay optimization into hot paths #768, feat(ui): cost trend forecast with ceiling projection #691
• Integration batches: integrate: 2026-08-03 batch (#683 + multibox Inc 1-3 + docs) #690

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