Release Readiness Runtime

Provenance

• Source: docs/final-release-readiness-audit-2026-05-04.md, docs/release-smoke-2026-05-05.md, tools/release_audit.py.

Entities

• Release audit gate.
• Fresh install smoke evidence.
• Version metadata alignment.
• Contract/claim sanity checks.

Requirements

• `tools/release_audit.py --root .` returns `READY`.
• Full unit/integration suite passes.
• Fresh install smoke evidence is recorded.
• Packaging docs exist: `CHANGELOG.md` and `docs/quickstart.md`.
• Deterministic sanity-check tools exist for contracts, claims, and explicit contradictions.

Current Evidence

• Latest verified suite: `129 passed`.
• Latest release audit: `READY`, 8 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail.