v3.0.0-beta — the honest-status release

Seven clusters, built and adversarially verified in one day. Pre-release: annealing on main — graduation criteria for v3.0.0 final live in docs/v3-beta-plan.md.

Headlines

• Declared maturity — contracts carry an honest Status: (stub → verified) weighted into the compliance badge; selective declaration can't launder a tier
• Steward rename — computed lifecycle verified → impl-present (S1-STEWARD 2.0): file presence never overclaims again
• SessionStart hook — cold-start health as harness fact, not prose; installed by rebar init/new/adopt
• Peer-inbox paradigm (field-verified) — scripts/inbox-watch.sh + coordination-seat hygiene
• Claude Skills — four cold-start nudges, pointers to practices, never copies
• rebar: abstract refs — cross-repo references that resolve local → $REBAR_ROOT → checkout → upstream (scripts/rebar-doc.sh / rebar doc)
• Test-fidelity ladder + UAKS gate, FANOUT_PATTERN doctrine, JTBD + prefix-uniqueness ci gates

Breaking (migration notes in CHANGELOG)

1. Steward JSON/report vocabulary: verified → impl_present / ip
2. Status: header expected on contracts (pre-v3 repos: advisory only, no penalty)
3. SessionStart hook expectation (+ use cp -r templates/project-bootstrap/. <target>/ — the /* glob drops .claude/)
4. Two new unconditional ci-checks + P8 decay pattern (escape hatches: SKIP_JTBD=1, SKIP_PREFIX_UNIQUENESS=1)

Feedback → ask rebar featurerequest or a peer-inbox memo. That's the annealing input.