Prepare the v3.0.1 release note

.woodpecker/release.yml

@@ -1,26 +1,21 @@
+matrix:
+  include:
+    - GO_IMAGE: golang:1.25.5
+      RELEASEKIT_VERSION: v0.1.0
+
 when:
   - event: tag
+    ref: refs/tags/v*
 
 steps:
-  - name: build-release-assets
-    image: golang:1.25.5
-    commands:
-      - bash scripts/build-release.sh "$CI_COMMIT_TAG" dist
-
-  - name: publish-release
-    image: woodpeckerci/plugin-release
-    depends_on:
-      - build-release-assets
-    settings:
-      api_key:
+  - name: deliver
+    image: ${GO_IMAGE}
+    environment:
+      RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN:
         from_secret: GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN
-      files:
-        - dist/audita-*-linux-amd64
-        - dist/audita-*-linux-arm64
-      note: docs/releases/${CI_COMMIT_TAG}.md
-      checksum: sha256
-      checksum-file: SHA256SUMS
-      checksum-flatten: true
-      file-exists: skip
-      overwrite: false
-      prerelease: false
+    commands:
+      - |
+        go run gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/cmd/releasekit@${RELEASEKIT_VERSION} ci-deliver \
+          --repo "$${CI_WORKSPACE}" \
+          --commit "$${CI_COMMIT_SHA}" \
+          "$${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"

README.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita
 Processing requires a reachable [compatible LLM endpoint](docs/integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md)
 and access to a model you select. The [minimal config](examples/minimal-config.yml)
 targets an unauthenticated local endpoint; edit its endpoint and
-[local profiles](examples/profiles/) to match your service and models. The
+[local profiles](examples/profiles/local/) to match your service and models. The
 [service example](examples/production-config.yml) demonstrates a named credential
 reference and a shared backend. Set its referenced environment variable before
 validating it. The [testing overlay](examples/overlays/testing.yml) selects both

cmd/audita/main_integration_test.go

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ func newProcessFixture(t *testing.T, mode, modules string) processFixture {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	for _, id := range []string{"proposal", "validation"} {
-		profile := fmt.Sprintf("id: %s\nbackend: local\nmodel: local\ntimeout_seconds: 5\n", id)
+		profile := fmt.Sprintf("profiles:\n  %s:\n    backend: local\n    model: local\n    timeout_seconds: 5\n", id)
 		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", id+".yaml"), []byte(profile), 0600); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
@@ -293,6 +293,25 @@ func (f processFixture) run(t *testing.T, includeOutput bool, extra ...string) (
 	return code, stdout.String(), stderr.String()
 }
 
+func (f processFixture) runConfigView(t *testing.T, view string) (int, string, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	command := exec.Command(os.Args[0], "-test.run=^TestProcessSubprocessHelper$", "--", "config", "print-effective", "--config", f.config, "--view", view)
+	command.Dir = f.dir
+	command.Env = append(os.Environ(), "AUDITA_HELPER_PROCESS=1", "AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY="+f.provider.secret)
+	var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+	command.Stdout, command.Stderr = &stdout, &stderr
+	err := command.Run()
+	code := 0
+	if err != nil {
+		if exit, ok := err.(*exec.ExitError); ok {
+			code = exit.ExitCode()
+		} else {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	return code, stdout.String(), stderr.String()
+}
+
 func (f processFixture) errors(t *testing.T) reporting.ErrorsDocument {
 	t.Helper()
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(f.dir, "errors.yml"))
@@ -799,15 +818,70 @@ func TestSubprocessStdoutAndSelectedReportDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestSubprocessUsesIndependentTranscriptReportAndDebugDestinations(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newProcessFixture(t, "normal", "[grammar]")
+	transcriptDir := filepath.Join(f.dir, "transcripts")
+	reportDir := filepath.Join(f.dir, "reports")
+	debugDir := filepath.Join(f.dir, "debug")
+	for _, dir := range []string{transcriptDir, reportDir} {
+		if err := os.Mkdir(dir, 0700); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	f.output = filepath.Join(transcriptDir, "corrected.json")
+	code, stdout, stderr := f.run(t, true, "--report-dir", reportDir, "--debug", "--work-dir", debugDir)
+	if code != 0 || stdout != "" || !strings.HasPrefix(stderr, "Completed:") {
+		t.Fatalf("code=%d stdout=%q stderr=%q", code, stdout, stderr)
+	}
+	if output, err := os.ReadFile(f.output); err != nil || !bytes.Contains(output, []byte("Hello world")) {
+		t.Fatalf("transcript: %s %v", output, err)
+	}
+	for _, name := range []string{"errors.yml", "recoveries.yml", "report.md"} {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(reportDir, name)); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("report %s: %v", name, err)
+		}
+		if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(transcriptDir, name)); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			t.Fatalf("report %s appeared beside transcript: %v", name, err)
+		}
+	}
+	dirs, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(debugDir, "run-*"))
+	if err != nil || len(dirs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("debug runs: %v %v", dirs, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dirs[0], "correction-ledger.json")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("debug capture: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSubprocessReportingAndDebugSelections(t *testing.T) {
 	var expectedOutput, expectedSummary string
 	for _, selection := range []struct{ reporting, debug bool }{
 		{false, false}, {false, true}, {true, false}, {true, true},
 	} {
 		f := newProcessFixture(t, "normal", "[grammar]")
-		extra := []string{"--reporting=false", "--report-dir", filepath.Join(f.dir, "missing")}
+		if selection.reporting && selection.debug {
+			original, err := os.ReadFile(f.config)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			old := fmt.Sprintf("backends:\n  local:\n    endpoint: %s/v1\n    credential: AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY", f.server.URL)
+			inherited := fmt.Sprintf("backends:\n  local-base:\n    endpoint: %s/v1\n    credential: AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY\n    concurrency: 2\n    queue_capacity: 0\n  local:\n    extends: local-base\n    concurrency: 1", f.server.URL)
+			updated := strings.Replace(string(original), old, inherited, 1)
+			if updated == string(original) {
+				t.Fatal("process fixture backend configuration was not found")
+			}
+			if err := os.WriteFile(f.config, []byte(updated), 0600); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		}
+		reportDir := filepath.Join(f.dir, "missing")
+		extra := []string{"--reporting=false", "--report-dir", reportDir}
 		if selection.reporting {
-			extra = []string{"--reporting=true", "--report-dir", filepath.Join(f.dir, "missing")}
+			reportDir = filepath.Join(f.dir, "selected-reports")
+			if err := os.Mkdir(reportDir, 0700); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			extra = []string{"--reporting=true", "--report-dir", reportDir}
 		}
 		if selection.debug {
 			extra = append(extra, "--debug")
@@ -827,7 +901,7 @@ func TestSubprocessReportingAndDebugSelections(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatalf("selection changed processing: %+v summary=%q output=%s", selection, summary, output)
 		}
 		for _, name := range []string{"errors.yml", "recoveries.yml", "report.md"} {
-			_, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(f.dir, name))
+			_, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(reportDir, name))
 			if selection.reporting && err != nil || !selection.reporting && !os.IsNotExist(err) {
 				t.Fatalf("selection=%+v report %s: %v", selection, name, err)
 			}
@@ -842,6 +916,31 @@ func TestSubprocessReportingAndDebugSelections(t *testing.T) {
 					t.Fatal(err)
 				}
 			}
+			if selection.reporting {
+				effective, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dirs[0], "effective-config.redacted.yaml"))
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				if !strings.Contains(string(effective), f.server.URL+"/v1") || !strings.Contains(string(effective), "concurrency: 1") || !strings.Contains(string(effective), "queue_capacity: 0") || strings.Contains(string(effective), f.provider.secret) {
+					t.Fatalf("effective inherited settings: %s", effective)
+				}
+				origins, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dirs[0], "config-origins.yaml"))
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				for _, want := range []string{"from: /backends/local-base/endpoint", "to: /backends/local/endpoint", "reference: /backends/local/extends"} {
+					if !strings.Contains(string(origins), want) {
+						t.Fatalf("configuration origins missing %q: %s", want, origins)
+					}
+				}
+				if strings.Contains(string(origins), f.provider.secret) {
+					t.Fatal("configuration origins exposed the resolved inherited credential")
+				}
+				code, explain, stderr := f.runConfigView(t, "explain")
+				if code != 0 || stderr != "" || !strings.Contains(explain, "from: /backends/local-base/endpoint") || strings.Contains(explain, f.provider.secret) {
+					t.Fatalf("inheritance explanation: code=%d stdout=%s stderr=%s", code, explain, stderr)
+				}
+			}
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -1011,6 +1110,63 @@ func TestSubprocessInvalidInputLeavesFailedReports(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestSubprocessMissingInheritanceParentFailsBeforeProviderDispatch(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newProcessFixture(t, "normal", "[grammar]")
+	original, err := os.ReadFile(f.config)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	updated := strings.Replace(string(original), "  local:\n    endpoint:", "  local:\n    extends: missing\n    endpoint:", 1)
+	if updated == string(original) {
+		t.Fatal("process fixture backend configuration was not found")
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(f.config, []byte(updated), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	code, stdout, stderr := f.run(t, true)
+	if code != 2 || stdout != "" || f.provider.callCount() != 0 || !strings.Contains(stderr, "referenced sibling does not exist") {
+		t.Fatalf("missing parent handling: code=%d stdout=%q stderr=%q provider calls=%d", code, stdout, stderr, f.provider.callCount())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSubprocessInvalidInputWritesFailedReportsToSelectedDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newProcessFixture(t, "normal", "[grammar]")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(f.transcript, []byte("not JSON"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	reportDir := filepath.Join(f.dir, "failed-reports")
+	if err := os.Mkdir(reportDir, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	code, _, _ := f.run(t, true, "--report-dir", reportDir)
+	if code != 1 || f.provider.callCount() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("invalid input dispatched: code=%d calls=%d", code, f.provider.callCount())
+	}
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(reportDir, "errors.yml"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var document reporting.ErrorsDocument
+	if err := yaml.Unmarshal(raw, &document); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if document.Status != reporting.StatusFailed || len(document.Errors) != 1 || document.Errors[0].Scope != "run" {
+		t.Fatalf("failed report: %+v", document)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(reportDir, "recoveries.yml")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(reportDir, "report.md")); err != nil || !bytes.Contains(raw, []byte("Status: failed")) {
+		t.Fatalf("Markdown status: %s %v", raw, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(f.dir, "errors.yml")); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Fatalf("failed report appeared in default directory: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(f.output); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Fatalf("failed transcript published: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSubprocessOutputFailureBeforeModelDispatch(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newProcessFixture(t, "normal", "[grammar]")
 	f.output = filepath.Join(f.dir, "missing", "output.json")
@@ -1243,4 +1399,47 @@ func TestSubprocessProfileSources(t *testing.T) {
 	if code != 2 || !bytes.Equal(before, after) || f.provider.callCount() != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("loaded profile not protected: %d %s", code, stderr)
 	}
+
+	parentDir := filepath.Join(f.dir, "profiles", "catalog")
+	childDir := filepath.Join(f.dir, "profiles", "nested", "child")
+	for _, directory := range []string{parentDir, childDir} {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(directory, 0700); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	parent := filepath.Join(parentDir, "arbitrary-name.yaml")
+	child := filepath.Join(childDir, "override.yaml")
+	resource := filepath.Join(parentDir, "report.md")
+	for path, content := range map[string]string{
+		parent:   "prompts:\n  source:\n    release/1~draft:\n      messages:\n        - role: user\n          content_file: ./report.md\n      output:\n        format: text\n        validation_mode: basic\n",
+		child:    "prompts:\n  literal/~child:\n    extends: source\n",
+		resource: "Captured operator message.\n",
+	} {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(content), 0600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	resourceBefore, err := os.ReadFile(resource)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	f.output = resource
+	code, _, stderr = f.run(t, true, "--reporting=false")
+	resourceAfter, err := os.ReadFile(resource)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if code != 2 || !bytes.Equal(resourceBefore, resourceAfter) || f.provider.callCount() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("consumed message file not protected as transcript output: %d %s", code, stderr)
+	}
+
+	f.output = filepath.Join(f.dir, "output.json")
+	code, _, stderr = f.run(t, true, "--report-dir", parentDir)
+	resourceAfter, err = os.ReadFile(resource)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if code != 2 || !bytes.Equal(resourceBefore, resourceAfter) || f.provider.callCount() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("consumed message file not protected as report output: %d %s", code, stderr)
+	}
 }

docs/adr/0001-releasekit.md

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# ADR 0001: Adopt ReleaseKit for release management
+
+## Status
+
+Accepted.
+
+## Date
+
+2026-10-07
+
+## Context
+
+Audita maintains custom release scripts, build tooling, delivery configuration,
+and tests for mechanics shared across applications in the same suite.
+[ReleaseKit](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit) provides a common implementation and standard workflow for
+those responsibilities.
+
+## Decision
+
+Adopt ReleaseKit for shared release validation, source publication, binary
+builds, version information, and hosted delivery. Audita will follow its standard
+workflow and supply product identity, delivery targets, release notes, and
+necessary product-specific checks.
+
+Better maintainability and less locally owned release-focused code outweigh any
+small advantage from retaining Audita's custom release procedure. Changes to
+that procedure are an accepted consequence of standardization.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+Retaining the custom procedure would preserve its exact behavior and local
+control. It would also retain responsibility for duplicated mechanics, tests,
+and maintenance across projects. The shared implementation offers greater
+long-term value.
+
+## Consequences
+
+Audita's release integration becomes smaller, with common mechanics and their
+tests maintained upstream. Audita benefits from shared fixes and takes on
+ReleaseKit dependency maintenance.
+
+Adoption requires updates to release tooling, CI wiring, documentation, and
+runtime version reporting. The [release policy](../policy/release.md) continues
+to govern compatibility and release completion; the
+[release procedure](../release.md) will describe the adopted workflow.

docs/adr/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # Architectural Decision Records
 
-No ADRs have been recorded here. Use the
+## Accepted
+
+- [ADR 0001: Adopt ReleaseKit for release management](0001-releasekit.md) —
+  accepted 2026-10-07.
+
+Use the
 [documentation policy's ADR lifecycle](../policy/documentation.md#architecture-decision-records)
 for significant decisions. Current architecture belongs in the
 [architecture policy](../policy/architecture.md); implementation status belongs in

docs/cli.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ the [migration guide](migrations/v2.md) maps retired inputs.
 audita process <transcript.json> --glossary <glossary.yml> [flags]
 audita config validate --config <config.yml> [flags]
 audita config print-effective [flags]
+audita version
 ```
 
 Root invocation, `--help`, `-h`, and command help succeed without loading a config
@@ -26,6 +27,16 @@ Missing system candidates are skipped; inaccessible selected files are errors.
 No file means a configuration error. `AUDITA_CONFIG` is ignored. The selected
 overlay is loaded beside the main file, not used to locate profile files.
 
+`audita version` prints `audita <version>` and a newline to stdout, with no
+application configuration or provider setup. It returns `0` on success with
+empty stderr. `help version`, `version -h`, and `version --help` print command
+usage to stdout and return `0`. Help follows standard flag parsing and can
+short-circuit trailing arguments. Other invalid invocations return `2` with a
+usage error on stderr. The command uses ReleaseKit's public
+`buildinfo.Version()` accessor. It reports an injected release identifier when
+present, otherwise the executable's main-module version when available and not
+`(devel)`, and `dev` when neither source provides a release identifier.
+
 ## Setting overrides
 
 Only flags actually supplied override file or overlay settings. `--modules ''`
@@ -48,12 +59,17 @@ validation. The shared setting flags are:
 An omitted or empty output value selects stdout. Nonempty output filenames are
 used literally, including whitespace.
 Reporting defaults to enabled. `--reporting=false` disables all three ordinary
-reports; an explicit false overrides a true file or overlay setting. With file
-output, reports go beside the transcript and `--report-dir` has no effect. With
-stdout output, `--report-dir` selects the report directory, defaulting to the
-invocation working directory. `--debug` separately enables retained detailed
-artifacts under `--work-dir`. Configuration inspection does not create or probe
-these output directories.
+reports; an explicit false overrides a true file or overlay setting. For stdout
+output, reports use the effective `reporting.stdout_dir`, which defaults to the
+invocation working directory. For file output, they go beside the transcript
+unless `--report-dir` is explicitly supplied. The flag selects the report
+directory for either transcript destination; a config-file or overlay value for
+`reporting.stdout_dir` alone affects stdout output only. A selected report
+directory must be nonblank when reporting is enabled. With reporting disabled,
+the report destination is inactive and is not probed. `--debug` separately
+enables retained detailed artifacts under `--work-dir`; selecting `--work-dir`
+alone does not enable capture. Configuration inspection does not create or
+probe these output directories.
 Per-role model, base URL, key, timeout, retry, and concurrency flags have been
 removed. Models and generation controls belong to PromptKit profiles, backend
 credentials and capacity to configuration, and retry/deadline settings to the
@@ -69,9 +85,14 @@ YAML summary of selected ID, backend, model, sampling controls, per-attempt
 timeout, service tier, and reasoning effort for each role. It omits credentials,
 endpoints, and arbitrary extra provider parameters. Explain writes a YAML
 sequence of field paths, source origins, and recorded derivations without
-resolved setting values. These views share the same settings and profile
-validation path as `process`. Unknown views are usage errors. The effective
-settings YAML is for inspection and is not guaranteed reloadable.
+resolved setting values. An inherited field may also include an `inheritance`
+sequence; each step identifies `from`, `to`, and `reference` paths as JSON
+pointers. These fields describe the effective inheritance chain without
+including configuration values. A direct child override reports its own source
+instead. Debug configuration origins use the same explanation shape. These views
+share the same settings and profile validation path as `process`. Unknown views
+are usage errors. The effective settings YAML is for inspection and is not
+guaranteed reloadable.
 
 For `process`, `--output` writes the corrected transcript to a file and leaves
 stdout empty on success. Without it, stdout carries transcript JSON only on

docs/config.md

@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 This reference describes the version-2 configuration loader in `internal/core/config`.
 Use the maintained [local](../examples/minimal-config.yml) and
-[service](../examples/production-config.yml) examples with their PromptKit
-[profiles](../examples/profiles/) and optional [testing overlay](../examples/overlays/testing.yml).
+[service](../examples/production-config.yml) examples with their separately
+selected [local profiles](../examples/profiles/local/) and
+[service profiles](../examples/profiles/service/), plus the optional
+[testing overlay](../examples/overlays/testing.yml).
+The [ConfigKit inheritance example](../examples/configkit-inheritance.yml)
+shows a local child backend reusing and overriding sibling settings.
 Choose real models for your endpoint; a testing profile makes no cost or quality
 guarantee. See the [migration guide](migrations/v2.md) for retired inputs.
 
@@ -20,26 +24,123 @@ and secret-directory bootstrap are disabled. Unknown fields and missing, null,
 or non-integer `version: 2` are errors. Version-1 files require migration; no
 compatibility loader or implicit environment configuration remains.
 
+After overlay and explicit CLI override precedence is applied, ConfigKit resolves
+native sibling inheritance before typed decoding. Any input mapping may use
+`extends: <sibling-name>`; the child keeps its key, inherits parent settings, and
+overrides them with its own settings. Selected overlay and CLI values therefore
+participate in inheritance at their normal precedence. The generic syntax and
+resolution rules are defined by ConfigKit v0.5.0's
+[sibling inheritance contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/tag/v0.5.0/docs/config.md#sibling-inheritance).
+
+`extends` is reserved structural input in base files, imports, overlays, and
+other application input mappings, including mapping values supplied by explicit
+CLI setting overrides. ConfigKit consumes it before typed decoding. A previously
+valid backend whose ID is literally `extends` cannot be represented under this
+rule. Rename that backend to a non-conflicting ID and update every PromptKit
+profile that selects it. This compatibility impact means the upgrade does not
+promise that every previously valid configuration remains valid.
+
+Inherited values count as explicit input, including zero, false, empty, and
+null. Existing field rules still apply: for example, inherited backend
+concurrency must be positive, while an inherited queue capacity of zero is
+valid. Parent backends undergo the same decoding and application validation as
+other backends, whether or not a selected profile uses them. A child
+`credential: null` removes the child's inherited credential; it does not remove
+the parent's credential reference, which remains subject to ordinary secret
+resolution.
+
 Validation runs after overlays, explicit overrides, and derived settings have
 resolved. An override can therefore repair an invalid lower-precedence setting
 when that setting can be decoded. ConfigKit retains field origins and derivations
 for effective-configuration inspection. Its effective YAML redacts resolved
 credentials.
 
-Profile files are resolved against the selected main file's directory, or may
-use an absolute `profiles_dir`. Both selected profiles must exist and select a
-registered backend. Their effective endpoints must match that backend's endpoint
-after surrounding whitespace and trailing slashes are removed. Profiles cannot
-supply a competing `api_key_env` lookup. The backend credential supplies the
-runtime key when required; inspection makes no provider call. The
-[CLI inspection views](cli.md#streams-and-exit-status) show selected controls and
-field provenance separately from ConfigKit's redacted settings YAML.
+### PromptKit profiles and operator prompts
+
+`profiles_dir` selects a PromptKit configuration root, resolved against the
+selected main file's directory unless it is absolute. The root may contain
+keyed `profiles`, `backends`, and `prompts` definitions; it is not limited to
+profile-only files. IDs come from literal YAML mapping keys, never filenames.
+Multiple definitions may share a document, and a document may contribute to any
+of the supported mappings. Directory discovery is recursive, but discovery
+order does not establish field precedence. Contributions within each source
+group must compose without conflicting values.
+
+PromptKit assembles sources in this order: its selected catalogs and owned
+defaults, Audita's embedded prompt/schema inputs, operator documents under
+`profiles_dir`, then the application backend mapping. The application mapping
+owns each configured endpoint, concurrency limit, queue capacity, and credential
+environment lookup. Other supported provider fields can be contributed by the
+operator documents. Imports remain disabled. The current maintained examples
+select separate roots: [local](../examples/profiles/local/) and
+[service](../examples/profiles/service/), so definitions for one backend do not
+enter the other example's final configuration.
+
+Both selected roles must resolve to an existing profile, registered backend,
+nonblank effective model, and nonblank endpoint. The normalized effective
+endpoint must match the application backend endpoint. A selected profile cannot
+introduce a competing `api_key_env` lookup; the application backend credential
+supplies the runtime key when required. Other unselected profiles may be
+partial, but every final backend, profile, and prompt definition is validated
+when the engine is constructed. A malformed or conflicting unused definition
+can therefore make the selected root invalid. A missing selected root is an
+operator configuration error; an empty root may contribute no definitions.
+
+Profile IDs and parent IDs are exact, literal keys. PromptKit profiles can use
+native `extends` inheritance; child fields override inherited fields, while
+unmentioned controls survive changes to model or backend. For example:
+
+```yaml
+profiles:
+  "shared~base":
+    backend: service
+    model: example-model
+    temperature: 0.4
+    top_p: 0.8
+  "proposal fast":
+    extends: "shared~base"
+    model: faster-model
+    temperature: 0
+```
+
+Presence matters. Explicit `temperature: 0` is sent as zero; omission leaves it
+unspecified; null suppresses an inherited temperature. Other fields have their
+own native null and omission rules. Provider `extra_params` maps merge
+recursively, and a null provider value is sent as JSON null. See the pinned
+[PromptKit format reference](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/formats.md)
+for the complete field semantics.
+
+Operator documents can also override an embedded prompt/version, including its
+messages and definition-level output settings. Shared variables supplied by the
+adapter are rendered only when an effective message references them; Audita does
+not append omitted shared text. Audita's per-call schemas, structural repair
+budget, and downstream domain validators remain in force. The engine captures
+effective definitions and message-file contents when constructed, so edits are
+observed only by a newly constructed runtime.
+
+### Migrating PromptKit profile documents
+
+For the PromptKit v0.11 format, wrap each profile's fields under
+`profiles: {<literal-id>: ...}`, remove inner `id`, and replace
+`base_profile` with `extends`. Profile and prompt IDs are mapping keys, so they
+need not match source filenames. Review zeros, omitted values, and nulls against
+the native presence rules before deploying. Select a root whose final
+definitions have valid backend references; eager validation applies even to
+unselected definitions. See the complete maintained [local](../examples/minimal-config.yml)
+and [service](../examples/production-config.yml) examples and the pinned
+[consumer migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md#migrate-from-the-previous-configuration-api).
+This incompatible profile-format migration is intended for an Audita major
+release; no automatic file conversion is provided.
+
+The [CLI inspection views](cli.md#streams-and-exit-status) show selected
+controls and field provenance separately from ConfigKit's redacted settings
+YAML. Inspection resolves both roles without provider calls.
 
 ## Settings
 
 | Field | Default | Rule |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `profiles_dir` | `profiles` | Nonempty; profile files are resolved relative to the selected main file. |
+| `profiles_dir` | `profiles` | Nonempty PromptKit document root; resolved relative to the selected main file, or absolute. |
 | `backends.<id>.endpoint` | None | Required nonempty endpoint for each backend. At least one backend is required. |
 | `backends.<id>.concurrency` | `1` | Positive finite capacity; shared by both roles using that backend. |
 | `backends.<id>.queue_capacity` | `1024` | Nonnegative; zero disables waiting admission. |
@@ -62,17 +163,20 @@ field provenance separately from ConfigKit's redacted settings YAML.
 | `thresholds.glossary`, `.homophones`, `.spoken_word`, `.grammar` | `0.8` each | Confidence thresholds in `[0, 1]`. |
 | `context.description` | Empty | Trimmed prompt context, at most 500 bytes. |
 | `reporting.enabled` | `true` | Write the ordinary three-file report bundle when processing. |
-| `reporting.stdout_dir` | `.` | Report directory for stdout transcript output; ignored for file output or disabled reporting. |
+| `reporting.stdout_dir` | `.` | Report directory for stdout transcript output; a `--report-dir` flag can select reports for either transcript destination. |
 | `diagnostics.debug` | `false` | Persist detailed debug artifacts when processing. |
 | `diagnostics.work_dir` | `/tmp/audita` | Parent of the retained debug run directory; required only when debug is enabled. |
 
 Module keys select correction modules; validator chains remain built into them.
 The loader preserves module order and repetitions. Normalization time settings
 accept numeric seconds only. The operation timeout uses a duration string.
-`reporting.stdout_dir` must be nonblank only for reporting-enabled stdout runs;
-`diagnostics.work_dir` must be nonblank only with debug enabled. These path
-requirements are checked when choosing process destinations, not during
-configuration inspection.
+`reporting.stdout_dir` must be nonblank when it supplies the active report
+destination: for stdout output, or for file output when `--report-dir` is
+explicitly supplied. File output without that flag uses the transcript's parent,
+so the configured value is inactive. Reporting-disabled runs do not select a
+report directory. `diagnostics.work_dir` must be nonblank only with debug
+enabled. These path requirements are checked when choosing process destinations,
+not during configuration inspection.
 
 ## Credentials
 

docs/integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ failures; explicit zero makes one attempt. `llm.repair_attempts` counts
 additional generations for schema-invalid model output. The operation timeout
 covers preparation, capacity waiting, retries, generation, and repair. Caller
 cancellation or an earlier deadline also applies. See [configuration](../config.md#settings)
-for defaults and [PromptKit's consumer contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.11.2/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md)
+for defaults and [PromptKit v0.12.0's consumer contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md)
 for the pinned protocol and retry details.
 
 A model operation that exhausts structural repair, a live-parent local operation

docs/integrations/subprocess.md

@@ -9,11 +9,14 @@ The [CLI reference](../cli.md) owns command syntax, streams, and exit semantics;
 Use an argument array with the transcript path and required glossary argument,
 following the [process examples](../cli.md#commands-and-help). For machine workflows,
 select an explicit transcript file destination and a configuration path. Reports
-then go beside the transcript. For stdout output, select `--report-dir` or use
-the invocation working directory. Debug is independent and off by default.
-Supplying a configuration path also
-makes file selection predictable; only explicitly referenced credential variables
-are read from the environment.
+go beside the transcript unless an explicit `--report-dir` selects another
+directory. For stdout output, reports use the effective `reporting.stdout_dir`
+(defaulting to the invocation working directory), including a `--report-dir`
+override. A config-file or overlay value for `reporting.stdout_dir` alone does
+not redirect file-output reports. `--work-dir` selects a debug root, while
+configuration or `--debug` enables capture; the path flag alone does not.
+Supplying a configuration path also makes file selection predictable; only
+explicitly referenced credential variables are read from the environment.
 
 Resolve the executable deliberately and set the child's working directory so
 relative input/output paths and reported artifact paths have a known base.
@@ -28,7 +31,8 @@ Consume transcript/report data through the
 [output-file contract](output-files.md), and treat stderr as human-readable detail.
 The three reports may be absent after early configuration or destination
 failures. After initialization, failed reports can describe invalid input or
-partial processing. Exit `0` can include recoverable model errors and applied
+partial processing and use the same selected report directory as successful
+runs. Exit `0` can include recoverable model errors and applied
 corrections; inspect `errors.yml` and `recoveries.yml` for those outcomes. A
 transcript may have been written before a later required report failure, so
 the file alone does not prove completion.

docs/internal/cli-config.md

@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ CLI wiring, and maintained examples. Definitions of behavior belong to the
    for the changed behavior.
 4. Update the CLI reference and affected integration guidance.
 
+The `version` route uses ReleaseKit's public `buildinfo.Version()` accessor and
+stays independent of application runtime assembly. Preserve its behavior from
+the [CLI contract](../cli.md#commands-and-help) when changing the command; the
+adoption decision is recorded in [ADR 0001](../adr/0001-releasekit.md).
+
 ## Validating Examples
 
 Keep complete copyable files in [examples](../../examples/) and link to them from
@@ -35,11 +40,18 @@ From the repository root, validate the maintained configuration examples:
 
 ```sh
 go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/minimal-config.yml
+go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/configkit-inheritance.yml
 AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY=synthetic-example go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/production-config.yml
 AUDITA_SERVICE_KEY=synthetic-example go run ./cmd/audita config validate --config examples/production-config.yml --overlay testing
 go run ./cmd/audita config print-effective --config examples/minimal-config.yml --view profiles
+go run ./cmd/audita config print-effective --config examples/configkit-inheritance.yml --view explain
 ```
 
+The local and ConfigKit inheritance files select `profiles/local`; the service
+file selects `profiles/service`, including the service testing profiles. Keep
+these roots separate because PromptKit validates every final definition in a
+selected root, including definitions that are not selected for a role.
+
 Only referenced credentials read environment values; use a controlled synthetic
 value when validating the service example. Check affected CLI examples against the
 parser and use schema tests for maintained transcript/glossary inputs. Example

docs/internal/llm-runtime.md

@@ -2,11 +2,28 @@
 
 ## Client Boundary
 
-`llm.NewRuntime` assembles one PromptKit engine for both roles. It loads embedded
-prompt and schema assets, registers application backends, and inspects the
-selected proposal and validation profiles offline. A role-bound `llm.RoleClient`
-implements `structuredoutput.Client`; proposal and validator contracts alias that
-interface. Both roles share engine-local backend capacity.
+`llm.NewRuntime` assembles one PromptKit engine for both roles. PromptKit's
+catalogs and defaults are followed by Audita's embedded prompt and schema
+inputs, operator documents from `profiles_dir`, and the highest-priority
+application backend mapping. Audita owns backend endpoints, capacity settings,
+and resolved credentials; native PromptKit layering owns profile inheritance,
+prompt overrides, and provider-specific fields. Imports are disabled. The
+runtime inspects both selected roles offline, requiring complete model and
+endpoint values and rejecting competing profile credential lookups. A
+role-bound `llm.RoleClient` implements `structuredoutput.Client`; proposal and
+validator contracts alias that interface. Both roles share engine-local backend
+capacity.
+
+Successful construction captures the final definitions and referenced message
+contents. The runtime does not reload operator documents or message files during
+calls. If final engine construction fails, an embedded-only diagnostic
+construction distinguishes shipped asset failures from invalid operator input.
+An asset failure remains an asset error; when embedded construction succeeds,
+the original failure remains a configuration error. The diagnostic engine
+never replaces or executes the requested configuration, and caller cancellation
+skips this path. The captured inspection also supplies an internal source
+ledger: all loaded host YAML plus effective, source-relative host
+`content_file` resources are tracked for output-collision checks.
 
 For each logical call, the adapter starts an operation context and a diagnostic
 record before preparation. It supplies the reserved hardening text, the selected
@@ -24,6 +41,10 @@ Counts distinguish provider attempts, transient retries, and structural
 repairs, including on errors. Secrets from all configured backends, including unselected
 ones, are available to the diagnostics redaction boundary.
 
+CLI explain output and debug configuration origins share a value-free projection
+of effective field origins. The [CLI contract](../cli.md) defines its optional
+inheritance evidence fields.
+
 ## Orchestration
 
 CLI processing supplies two role clients from the same engine to the runner.

docs/internal/prompts.md

@@ -11,18 +11,27 @@
 - `validators.meaning_reversal_review` (`v1`)
 - `validators.editorial_review` (`v1`)
 
-PromptKit reads the embedded definitions and renders their system and user
-messages from named string variables. The role-bound adapter supplies
+PromptKit reads the embedded definitions as shipped defaults and renders their
+messages from named string variables. Operator documents in `profiles_dir` may
+contribute native keyed prompt definitions and override an embedded
+prompt/version, including its messages and definition-level output settings.
+The effective operator text is captured when the runtime is constructed; the
+embedded assets remain the source of Audita's shipped task instructions. The
+role-bound adapter supplies
 `HardeningPolicy` alongside `ProposalContract` and `ValidationContract` from
-embedded fragments under `assets/shared`, after caller variables so callers cannot replace those
-instructions. Common literal-span and identity guidance lives in the proposal
-fragment; shared candidate-reference, context, and confidence guidance lives in
-the validation fragment. Module-specific policies and examples remain in YAML.
-Proposal prompts receive the section JSON, glossary JSON where used, and transcript description block.
-Validator prompts receive the correction payload and description block.
-The prompt assets retain the prior task instructions and output-schema
-association. The role-bound runtime supplies the complete JSON Schema output contract
-and repair count; the definition does not own an operator-facing repair default.
+embedded fragments under `assets/shared`, after caller variables so callers
+cannot replace those instructions. Common literal-span and identity guidance
+lives in the proposal fragment; shared candidate-reference, context, and
+confidence guidance lives in the validation fragment. Module-specific policies
+and examples remain in YAML. Proposal prompts receive the section JSON, glossary
+JSON where used, and transcript description block. Validator prompts receive
+the correction payload and description block.
+The embedded prompt assets retain the shipped task instructions and
+output-schema association. An operator override controls which template
+variables its messages reference: supplying a shared variable does not append
+its text when the effective message omits that reference. The role-bound runtime
+supplies the complete JSON Schema output contract and repair count; the
+definition does not own an operator-facing repair default.
 The correction-set schema requires a string replacement and accepts an empty
 string. Proposal guidance uses it for eligible span deletion and permits literal
 spacing edits; validator guidance evaluates the full before/after segment under

docs/operations.md

@@ -17,23 +17,32 @@ settings, and the [output contract](integrations/output-files.md) owns schemas.
 ## Required Output Files
 
 Reporting is enabled by default. For file transcript output, `errors.yml`,
-`recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` go in the transcript output's parent directory.
-For stdout transcript output, they go in `reporting.stdout_dir` (default `.`),
-overridden by `--report-dir`. `--reporting=false` suppresses all three reports
-and removes their path requirements. It does not suppress the stderr summary or
+`recoveries.yml`, and `report.md` go in the transcript output's parent directory
+unless `--report-dir` is explicitly supplied. For stdout transcript output, they
+go in the effective `reporting.stdout_dir` (default `.`), including a
+`--report-dir` override. A config-file or overlay value for
+`reporting.stdout_dir` alone does not redirect file-output reports. An active
+selected report directory must be nonblank. `--reporting=false` suppresses all
+three reports and leaves their destination inactive, so it is not probed merely
+because `--report-dir` was supplied. It does not suppress the stderr summary or
 fatal errors. Stdout contains only transcript JSON; file output leaves it empty.
 
 Existing report directories and parents for regular transcript files must be
 writable. Audita prevents report writes from overwriting transcript, glossary,
-loaded configuration, or loaded profile sources, and rejects conflicting output
-destinations. The final transcript may intentionally replace its own input after
-successful processing; other input/configuration/profile sources remain protected.
+loaded application configuration, host YAML discovered under `profiles_dir`,
+or host message files referenced by effective PromptKit `content_file` fields,
+and rejects conflicting output destinations. Source paths come from the
+runtime's captured configuration; unrelated files in the selected directory
+remain eligible output destinations. The final transcript may intentionally
+replace its own input after successful processing; other input/configuration/
+profile sources remain protected.
 Preparation never truncates an existing transcript. Device and pipe destinations
 (such as `/dev/null` and named pipes) receive ordinary writes at publication time;
 they are not opened during preflight or replaced with regular files. A pipe write
 can wait for its reader, and stream write errors are fatal. With reporting enabled,
-reports still use the output path's parent; disable reporting when that placement
-is unsuitable for a stream destination.
+reports still use the output path's parent unless an explicit `--report-dir`
+selects another directory; disable reporting when that placement is unsuitable
+for a stream destination.
 
 With reporting enabled, all three reports are initialized as `in_progress` before
 input processing. Output is encoded fully before publication. Each regular output
@@ -48,10 +57,12 @@ finalized where possible. An uncatchable termination can leave `in_progress`.
 
 ## Diagnostics Directory
 
-`--debug` enables detailed evidence independently of reporting. One directory
-named `run-<id>` is created under `diagnostics.work_dir` (default `/tmp/audita`)
-and retained on success or failure. Without debug, no directory or payload
-files are created. The parent is created when needed only for debug. Failure to
+`--debug` or `diagnostics.debug` enables detailed evidence independently of
+reporting. One directory named `run-<id>` is created under
+`diagnostics.work_dir` (default `/tmp/audita`), which `--work-dir` can override,
+and retained on success or failure. Selecting `--work-dir` alone does not enable
+capture. Without debug, no directory or payload files are created. The parent
+is created when needed only for debug. Failure to
 write optional debug evidence prints a redacted stderr diagnostic but does not
 change correction decisions or the exit status.
 

docs/oss/attribution.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ License and notices: [CC BY-SA 4.0](licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt) |
 
 ## ConfigKit
 
-Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit` at `v0.4.2`.
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit` at `v0.5.0`.
 
 Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
 
@@ -24,9 +24,23 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
 
 License and notices: [LGPL v3](licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt) |
 [GPL v3](licenses/GPL-3.0.txt) |
-[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/67c03690181c5af8dde6be325abac241dae6732f/COPYRIGHT).
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd/COPYRIGHT).
 
-[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/67c03690181c5af8dde6be325abac241dae6732f).
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/commit/dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd).
+
+## ReleaseKit
+
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit` at `v0.1.0`.
+
+Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+License and notices: [LGPL v3](licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt) |
+[GPL v3](licenses/GPL-3.0.txt) |
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/commit/5e60fe3113c69f95c42fbbe32a8ca4b51f5b83c1/COPYRIGHT).
+
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/commit/5e60fe3113c69f95c42fbbe32a8ca4b51f5b83c1).
 
 ## Go runtime and standard library
 
@@ -142,7 +156,7 @@ License and notices: [Apache 2.0](licenses/Apache-2.0.txt).
 
 ## PromptKit
 
-Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit` at `v0.11.2`.
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit` at `v0.12.0`.
 
 Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
 
@@ -150,37 +164,37 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
 
 License and notices: [LGPL v3](licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt) |
 [GPL v3](licenses/GPL-3.0.txt) |
-[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/commit/12d6d80024e80c552d122a076c22429bf6f2f6c2/COPYRIGHT).
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/commit/4b8169da286917fde7875425bb32b799b12c6af3/COPYRIGHT).
 
-[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/commit/12d6d80024e80c552d122a076c22429bf6f2f6c2).
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/commit/4b8169da286917fde7875425bb32b799b12c6af3).
 
 ## Promptkit OpenRouter Catalog
 
-Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v2` at `v2.20260926.0`.
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v3` at `v3.20260930.0`.
 
 Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
 
 SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
 License and notices: [MIT](licenses/MIT-Catalogs.txt) |
-[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/4f731d217e0bc39151c010f50fb5912706e7b6b3/COPYRIGHT) |
-[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/4f731d217e0bc39151c010f50fb5912706e7b6b3/LICENSE).
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/f17d208cb7ad1fb043cda2266cd3011d11b40aa0/COPYRIGHT) |
+[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/f17d208cb7ad1fb043cda2266cd3011d11b40aa0/LICENSE).
 
-[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/4f731d217e0bc39151c010f50fb5912706e7b6b3).
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/src/commit/f17d208cb7ad1fb043cda2266cd3011d11b40aa0).
 
 ## Promptkit Rakestrawhome Catalog
 
-Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v2` at `v2.20260926.0`.
+Selected module: `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v3` at `v3.20260930.0`.
 
 Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw
 
 SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
 License and notices: [MIT](licenses/MIT-Catalogs.txt) |
-[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/48918a3ad39fd99843cda94a86133b1b3881d596/COPYRIGHT) |
-[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/48918a3ad39fd99843cda94a86133b1b3881d596/LICENSE).
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/993443d88c451901f4c917fa00c204fd3b54d28d/COPYRIGHT) |
+[LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/993443d88c451901f4c917fa00c204fd3b54d28d/LICENSE).
 
-[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/48918a3ad39fd99843cda94a86133b1b3881d596).
+[Source](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/src/commit/993443d88c451901f4c917fa00c204fd3b54d28d).
 
 ## yaml.v3
 

docs/policy/release.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **Base Policy Version:** 1.4
 
-**Last Updated**: 2026-09-28
+**Last Updated**: 2026-10-07
 **Upstream Source:** [Standard Repository Policies release](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/release.md)
 
 ## Purpose
@@ -49,12 +49,17 @@ failures and optional investigations under artifact-delivery status.
 | --- | --- |
 | Linux amd64 | Required production target |
 | Linux arm64 | Required production target |
-| macOS arm64 | Best effort for local development; failures do not block a release or Linux artifact publication |
+| macOS arm64 | Best effort for local development; development failures do not block a release or Linux artifact publication |
 
 Windows and macOS amd64 are unsupported. Neither their builds nor tests are
 release requirements. Native macOS testing and access to a Mac are not release
 prerequisites.
 
+Linux amd64 and arm64 remain the required production targets. Publication from
+a host outside the selected target set must pass ReleaseKit's temporary native
+version check. This check does not require access to a Mac or native tests on
+every delivery target.
+
 ## Versioning And Compatibility
 
 Stable releases use Semantic Versioning in the form `vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH`, with

docs/release.md

@@ -1,144 +1,120 @@
 # Releasing Audita
 
-The [release policy](policy/release.md) defines versioning, supported platforms,
-immutability, and success. This runbook implements it with
-[scripts/release.sh](../scripts/release.sh). Publication ends after a successful
-source/tag push; binary delivery runs asynchronously.
+The [release policy](policy/release.md) owns release requirements. This runbook
+uses the native commands in [scripts/release.sh](../scripts/release.sh), which
+builds and invokes ReleaseKit. A confirmed source tag completes the release;
+Woodpecker reports binary delivery separately.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-Use Bash, Git, and Go 1.25.5 or newer (CI uses Go 1.25.5), with dependencies
-available locally or downloadable. Tests themselves are offline. Work from a
-checkout of `main` with permission to push that branch and tags to `origin`.
-For this repository, `origin` is `https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita.git`.
-The script uses the checkout's configured `origin`; set it correctly before use.
-The remote must support atomic pushes. No CI credentials or Mac are needed locally.
+Use Bash, Git, and Go 1.25.5 or newer. The authoritative remote is `origin`,
+which must point to `https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita.git`; the
+primary branch is `main`. Source publication needs no delivery credential.
+Woodpecker uses the existing `GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN` secret for delivery.
 
-CI uses the existing `GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN` secret for asynchronous asset delivery.
-macOS arm64 is a best-effort development environment; no macOS binary is published.
+Prepare dependencies before offline candidate validation:
 
-## Prepare the Candidate
+```sh
+GOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=local go mod download
+```
 
-Choose an unused version following the policy. Write
-`docs/releases/<version>.md`, beginning with `# Audita <version>`, followed by a
-short summary and any compatibility or upgrade instructions relevant to the
-release. There are no mandatory boilerplate sections. Update affected canonical
-documentation with behavior changes.
+If dependency preparation changes `go.mod` or `go.sum`, include those changes in
+the committed candidate. The release wrapper separately bootstraps the pinned
+ReleaseKit command into ignored `bin/releasekit`; that build is tool preparation,
+not candidate validation.
 
-End each new note with these links, substituting the selected release version for
-`<version>`:
+## Prepare and publish the candidate
+
+Choose an unused version under the [release policy](policy/release.md), write
+`docs/releases/<version>.md`, and begin it with `# Audita <version>`. Include a
+short summary, relevant compatibility or upgrade instructions, and the required
+`COPYRIGHT | LICENSE | ATTRIBUTION` footer with links for the selected version.
+Update affected canonical documentation with behavior changes.
+
+End each note with this footer, substituting its complete tag for `<version>`:
 
 ```markdown
 [COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/docs/oss/attribution.md)
 ```
 
-Check that all three paths exist in the candidate source. Retire completed
-roadmaps when useful during preparation, preserving planned and deferred work
-and repairing affected links. This is ordinary preparation, not a script gate.
-
-Commit the intended changes, including the note, on `main`. The release script
-requires a clean index and worktree and does not create commits. There is no
-separate approval round. Published notes describe their tagged release; existing
-release history does not need to be reconstructed.
-
-## Validate and Publish
-
-From the repository root, substitute the chosen version:
+Commit the complete candidate on `main`, including the release note, then push
+the branch first:
 
 ```sh
-bash scripts/release.sh --publish v0.2.0
+git push origin main
 ```
 
-This single invocation:
+Record the candidate commit. Before publication, remote `main` must identify
+that exact commit. ReleaseKit checks this along with the clean candidate, note,
+version, and remote tag state.
 
-1. Checks the version, branch, clean candidate, matching note title, and tag absence.
-2. Runs the default offline test suite once, then builds both required Linux targets
-   in a temporary directory using the same build script as CI.
-3. Checks that the candidate and worktree are unchanged and that it includes the
-   current `origin/main` history.
-4. Creates the version tag at that commit and atomically pushes the exact source
-   commit to `main` and the exact tag to `origin`.
-5. Reports release success and exits without polling CI or checking asset availability.
-
-To validate a prepared candidate without remote access, creating a tag, or pushing:
+Publish from the repository root, substituting the selected version:
 
 ```sh
-bash scripts/release.sh --check v0.2.0
+bash scripts/release.sh publish VERSION
 ```
 
-This is an optional diagnostic command, not a required step before `--publish`.
-Publication validates within its own invocation; it does not use persistent cached
-results. Both modes require the candidate note and a clean `main` checkout.
+The command runs `go test -mod=readonly -count=1 ./...` once with module and
+toolchain network access disabled, builds the profile's Linux amd64 and arm64
+targets, and checks the native version output. It creates an annotated tag whose
+message comes from the committed note, then pushes the exact tag object. A
+successful publication completes the source release without waiting for CI or
+checking artifact availability.
 
-## Artifact Delivery
+`bash scripts/release.sh check VERSION` is an optional local diagnostic. It
+does not inspect remote availability or publish a tag, and it is not a required
+step before `publish`, which performs its own candidate validation.
 
-[Woodpecker](../.woodpecker/release.yml) runs on tag events. It invokes
-[scripts/build-release.sh](../scripts/build-release.sh), then publishes:
+The wrapper preserves ReleaseKit's exit status: `0` means confirmed publication;
+`1` means a known validation or publication failure/conflict; `2` means usage,
+profile, or version input error; and `3` means the push outcome remains unknown.
+
+## Binary delivery
+
+Woodpecker runs the pinned ReleaseKit `ci-deliver` command for tags under
+`refs/tags/v*`. It verifies the triggering commit against the tag, prepares the
+tagged source, and uses `releasekit.json` to build and deliver:
 
 - `audita-<version>-linux-amd64`
 - `audita-<version>-linux-arm64`
 - `SHA256SUMS`
 
-Builds disable CGO and use the shared script's release flags. The version is in the
-asset name and source tag; Audita has no CLI version command. Cross-compilation
-checks compilation, not native execution on each architecture.
-
-The CI job status and logs show delivery progress or failure. Assets appear on
-the matching Gitea release page when delivery succeeds. A successful tag push
-must not be reported as confirmation that these files are available.
-For a new hosted release, the release plugin uses the checked-in note at the
-tag as its body, including the footer. On delivery retries it preserves
-existing release information and skips files that already exist.
-
-Consumers can download the binary for their Linux architecture and `SHA256SUMS`
-from that page, check its listed SHA-256 digest with `sha256sum`, and make it
-executable. Optional consumer checks are not maintainer release gates. Digests
-detect file mismatches; they are not an independent signature of authenticity.
-
-## Failure and Retry
-
-**Local validation fails:** correct the issue, commit any changes, and rerun the
-publication command. A failure before tag creation publishes nothing. Temporary
-local build files are removed on exit.
-
-**Push fails or the connection is interrupted:** the script retains the local tag
-and reports failure rather than guessing whether publication succeeded. Inspect
-remote state with the actual version:
+The workflow invokes:
 
 ```sh
-git rev-parse 'v0.2.0^{commit}'
-git ls-remote origin refs/heads/main refs/tags/v0.2.0
+go run gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/cmd/releasekit@${RELEASEKIT_VERSION} ci-deliver \
+  --repo "$${CI_WORKSPACE}" \
+  --commit "$${CI_COMMIT_SHA}" \
+  "$${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
 ```
 
-If the remote tag identifies the intended candidate and its source is on remote
-`main`, the release succeeded; no CI waiting is needed. An atomic push normally
-updates both refs or neither. If `main` has advanced since publication, fetch it
-and check candidate ancestry rather than requiring tip equality.
+Woodpecker sets `RELEASEKIT_VERSION` to `v0.1.0` for this workflow.
 
-If the tag is absent remotely and was never published or used by a release
-channel, remove only that unpublished local tag (`git tag -d v0.2.0`), resolve
-any rejected branch update, and rerun the command. If the remote tag has a
-different target, do not overwrite it; choose a fresh version. Never force a
-branch or tag update to bypass the guards.
+The complete checked-in release note, including its licensing footer, supplies
+the hosted release body. The workflow maps the existing `GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN`
+secret to `RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN`. Delivery runs independently after source
+publication; its status and logs report delivery progress or failure.
 
-**CI delivery fails:** the release remains successful. Inspect the failed tag
-job's logs and retry that same tagged job for a transient failure. Publication is
-configured to skip existing filenames and not overwrite assets. Keep the same
-source and build environment when retrying; inspect any existing assets/checksum
-manifest before filling gaps. Do not regenerate and replace a published manifest
-or binary. If an existing manifest cannot describe the missing rebuilt assets,
-use a new version instead. A pipeline or source defect also requires a corrected
-commit and new version. An outage does not require moving the tag.
+ReleaseKit handles content-aware retries and retained-artifact recovery. See
+the pinned [publication recovery guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/consumers/publish.md)
+and [delivery guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/consumers/delivery.md)
+for those mechanics. A delivery failure does not undo a confirmed source
+release. Retry the same immutable tag after resolving the reported state; do not
+replace published files or a checksum manifest.
 
-**A released source defect is discovered:** fix it on `main` and publish a new
-appropriate version with a note explaining the correction. Leave the old tag and
-published files intact.
+## Failure and recovery
 
-## Maintaining the Release Workflow
+Fix validation failures in a new committed candidate, then rerun `publish`.
+After a failed push, ReleaseKit retains the local annotated tag and reports the
+captured authoritative endpoint and publication state. Resolve the result
+against that endpoint before retrying. An exact remote tag-object match, with
+its source available on remote `main`, can confirm publication. If the remote
+state cannot be read, the result remains unknown; do not remove or replace the
+tag while uncertain. Follow the pinned [publication recovery guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/consumers/publish.md)
+for object-level recovery details.
 
-The shared build script keeps local and CI build settings aligned. Tests in
-[scripts/release_test.go](../scripts/release_test.go) exercise publication against
-temporary local Git remotes, including guard failures and rejected pushes, with
-Go execution stubbed to avoid recursive builds/tests. They run in `go test ./...`.
-Changes to CI delivery should preserve explicit asset names, checksums, and
-non-overwriting publication. CI delivery is separate from the local success path.
+A source-release success and artifact-delivery status are separate. For a
+partial or uncertain delivery, inspect the job output and follow the pinned
+[delivery recovery guidance](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/consumers/delivery.md).
+A source or published-content correction requires a new appropriate version;
+leave the original tag and its contents intact.

docs/releases/README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+- [Audita v3.0.1](v3.0.1.md)
+- [Audita v3.0.0](v3.0.0.md)
 - [Audita v2.0.1](v2.0.1.md)
 - [Audita v2.0.0](v2.0.0.md)
 - [Audita v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md)

docs/releases/v3.0.0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Audita v3.0.0
+
+Audita v3 adopts native configuration inheritance and layered PromptKit
+definitions, and allows transcript and report destinations to be selected
+independently. This is an intentional breaking release: existing PromptKit
+profile files require migration from the v2 release format.
+
+## Changes
+
+- ConfigKit is updated from v0.4.2 to v0.5.0. Application configuration supports
+  native sibling inheritance, and configuration explanations include value-free
+  inheritance provenance.
+- PromptKit is updated from v0.11.2 to v0.12.0, with both backend catalogs at
+  `v3.20260930.0`. Native keyed definitions support profile inheritance and
+  operator prompt overrides. The selected `profiles_dir` can contain profiles,
+  backends, and prompts; application backend endpoints, capacity, and credentials
+  remain authoritative.
+- Effective definitions and referenced prompt message contents are captured at
+  runtime construction. Consumed host configuration and message files are
+  protected from output collisions. Audita retains its per-call schemas, domain
+  validators, retry and repair budgets, and resilient processing behavior.
+- An explicit `--report-dir` now selects reports for either file or stdout
+  transcript output. File output without that flag still places reports beside
+  the transcript. This supports Narratio's independent output destinations;
+  debug capture remains independently selectable.
+
+## Upgrading from v2
+
+1. Convert each old PromptKit profile to a keyed definition under
+   `profiles: {<profile-id>: ...}`, remove its inner `id`, and replace
+   `base_profile` with `extends`. Profile IDs come from mapping keys rather than
+   filenames. No compatibility loader or automatic conversion is provided.
+2. Review explicit zero, omitted, and null generation controls. For example,
+   `temperature: 0` now sends an explicit zero, omission leaves the control
+   unspecified, and null suppresses an inherited control. A zero profile timeout
+   disables PromptKit's generation deadline; Audita's operation deadline still
+   applies.
+3. Select a configuration root whose final definitions are valid. PromptKit now
+   validates unused definitions too, including backend references, and conflicting
+   values within a directory source group are errors. The maintained examples
+   use separate [local](../../examples/profiles/local/) and
+   [service](../../examples/profiles/service/) roots. Runtime source edits take
+   effect on the next invocation.
+4. Rename any application backend literally named `extends` and update its
+   profile references. ConfigKit now reserves that key for inheritance.
+5. Validate the migrated installation with
+   `audita config validate --config /path/to/config.yml`, including any selected
+   testing overlay. Application configuration continues to use `version: 2`.
+
+The [configuration reference](../config.md#promptkit-profiles-and-operator-prompts)
+contains the migrated format and presence rules. Start from the maintained
+[local](../../examples/minimal-config.yml),
+[service](../../examples/production-config.yml), or
+[application inheritance](../../examples/configkit-inheritance.yml) examples.
+The [CLI reference](../cli.md) describes report selection, and the
+[release procedure](../release.md) describes source publication and asynchronous
+Linux binary delivery.
+
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.0/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.0/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.0/docs/oss/attribution.md)

docs/releases/v3.0.1.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Audita v3.0.1
+
+This patch release adds a configuration-free version command and adopts
+ReleaseKit for source publication and Linux binary delivery. Transcript
+processing, configuration, and LLM behavior are unchanged.
+
+## Changes
+
+- `audita version` prints the application version without loading application
+  configuration or contacting an LLM provider.
+- Release publication and Linux artifact delivery now use ReleaseKit v0.1.0.
+  The release runbook describes the maintainer workflow and delivery recovery.
+
+[COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.1/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.1/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/v3.0.1/docs/oss/attribution.md)

docs/roadmap/configkit.md

@@ -1,171 +1,133 @@
-# ConfigKit Adoption Roadmap
+# ConfigKit v0.5.0 Adoption Roadmap
 
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-24
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-03
 
-**Status:** Production implementation complete. The selected configuration and
-overlay model is implemented; [implementation evidence](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/cb405f6/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
-records verification. No release has been published.
+**Status:** Complete. The implementation and tests are committed through
+`8175ed8`. Final documentation and example changes were included in the full
+build, test, example-validation, and local-link checks before the documentation
+completion commit. The [historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/b31955fc97adec707b4e5f9a1b0c43c4cbc66750/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
+records the ordered work and verification.
 
-## Purpose and Direction
+## Purpose and Baseline
 
-Adopt ConfigKit to harmonize Audita's configuration policy with the other
-applications in the suite. Consistent configuration conventions are the primary
-benefit; reducing application-owned configuration infrastructure is a secondary
-benefit and a useful measure of integration quality.
+Adopt ConfigKit v0.5.0 as an independently reviewable step before PromptKit
+v0.12.0. Use the library's configuration and inheritance conventions while
+preserving Audita's domain ownership and existing operator workflows.
 
-This is an intentional breaking migration. There is no goal of backward
-compatibility with existing installations, configuration files, CLI flags,
-environment variables, or configuration-inspection output. Provide a migration
-guide instead of legacy loaders, aliases, dual operating modes, or an ongoing
-compatibility layer. Retain existing syntax only when it independently suits the
-new model, not because compatibility requires it.
+At the reviewed Audita revision `6ae1d7cd5f548b26de5787372d3f2249eaa4757d`,
+[go.mod](../../go.mod) selects ConfigKit v0.4.2, PromptKit v0.11.2, and Go
+1.25.5. ConfigKit already owns loading, presence, secret resolution, and
+configuration inspection. Audita's `internal/core/config` supplies typed
+settings, defaults, derived values, and domain validation; `internal/cli`
+selects files, overlays, and explicit overrides. The
+[configuration contract](../config.md) and [CLI contract](../cli.md) own the
+implemented behavior.
 
-The initial review and prototype used ConfigKit v0.3.1, then verified v0.4.0
-selected overlays. Those findings remain historical; the prototype was removed
-after production integration. The application depends on a versioned module,
-without a sibling checkout or local module replacement.
+The reviewed upstream release is
+[ConfigKit v0.5.0](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/tag/v0.5.0/docs/releases/v0.5.0.md),
+commit `dc09959cca4e105f49ec316c6d4ba585bd2340bd`. It adds layered underlays,
+caller-owned filesystem sources, mapping sources, source resource contexts, and
+built-in sibling inheritance. The Go minimum and YAML dependency do not change.
+Ordinary `Load` remains available; adopting `LoadLayered` is optional.
 
-The shared boundary/prototype unit is complete. Its [selected contract, inventory,
-and evidence](library-boundary-findings.md) define the detailed target alongside
-this roadmap. Production configuration migration is complete.
+This roadmap supersedes the completed original adoption plan at this path.
+The [historical roadmap](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/6ae1d7cd5f548b26de5787372d3f2249eaa4757d/docs/roadmap/configkit.md)
+records that earlier migration. Its coordinated breaking-refactor instructions
+and release target do not govern this incremental upgrade.
 
 ## Target End State
 
-- ConfigKit owns strict YAML loading, input presence, default application, explicit
-  override mechanics, recorded resolution, secret references, and safe inspection.
-- Audita owns its configuration types, field meanings, defaults, schema-version
-  policy, file selection, CLI parsing, domain validation, and runtime initialization.
-- Adopt ConfigKit's precedence and validation lifecycle rather than reproduce
-  Audita's current per-layer validation and environment-overlay behavior.
-- General configuration environment overrides are retired. Credentials use typed
-  environment-name secret references; supplied references must resolve according
-  to ConfigKit's contract. File selection follows the application-owned
-  discovery rules in the selected boundary.
-- Standardize duration representations, explicit empty/null/zero handling, and
-  inheritance on the shared conventions. Express genuine Audita domain rules
-  through the supported resolution and validation APIs.
-- Retained domain-setting flags and proposal/validation profile flags become
-  explicit ConfigKit overrides according to the migration inventory. Remove old
-  provider/key/retry/concurrency flags and aliases. Credentials use secret references.
-- Use ConfigKit's redacted effective output and provide source/explanation access
-  through the selected views below. Legacy JSON inspection is replaced.
-  Diagnostic configuration snapshots use the same new model.
-- Delete superseded loading and override machinery. Do not hide the old model
-  behind adapters that defeat the adoption's consistency benefit.
+- Audita uses the released ConfigKit v0.5.0 module, with no local replacement.
+  PromptKit stays at v0.11.2 throughout this adoption unit.
+- Configuration retains the current file-selection, overlay, explicit-override,
+  resolution, and validation flow, subject to the reserved-key compatibility
+  impact described below. Retain the application schema version, CLI interface,
+  and main-file-relative resource rules defined in the current contracts.
+- Application configuration can use ConfigKit's native sibling `extends`
+  relationships. Audita does not implement a second inheritance resolver,
+  special backend-only syntax, or an opt-in switch around the library feature.
+- Inherited values participate in presence-aware defaults, domain validation,
+  secret resolution, and safe inspection just like other effective input.
+  In particular, inherited backend settings must not be overwritten merely
+  because they were not written directly on the child.
+- Effective settings and explanations remain useful and secret-safe when
+  values are inherited. Preserve existing inspection fields and add compact,
+  value-free inheritance evidence from ConfigKit's metadata rather than
+  reconstructing provenance from YAML.
+- Canonical documentation and a maintained example explain the adopted
+  inheritance behavior. Attribution identifies the exact new upstream source.
 
-Keep Audita's domain capabilities, such as ordered and repeated correction modules,
-expressible in the new model. Their existing configuration spelling is not binding.
-Transcript/glossary formats, processing algorithms, and output schemas are outside
-this migration unless later planning identifies a concrete dependency or an
-explicitly coordinated change.
+The upstream [configuration contract](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit/src/tag/v0.5.0/docs/config.md#sibling-inheritance)
+owns generic inheritance mechanics. The integration must account for three
+consequences: `extends` is reserved automatically throughout input mappings;
+relationships resolve after source precedence and before typed decoding; and
+inherited zero, false, empty, or null values count as explicit input. An inherited
+value still has to satisfy Audita's field-specific rules. Parent definitions
+also undergo ordinary application validation; inheritance does not introduce
+abstract, validation-exempt backend entries.
+
+## Scope and Adoption Boundary
+
+Keep the existing `Load` integration unless implementation reveals a concrete
+need to change it. Source-backed defaults, additional operator underlay tiers,
+imports, and source-relative reinterpretation of application paths are outside
+this feature. Their availability upstream does not require expanding Audita's
+configuration surface. Imports and secret-directory bootstrap retain their
+current disabled state.
+
+ConfigKit inheritance applies to Audita configuration in this step. PromptKit
+profile formats, profile inheritance, engine construction, embedded prompts,
+and backend catalogs remain governed by the existing PromptKit integration.
+There is no application-owned translation of profile documents in this work.
+
+This is an independent ConfigKit adoption ahead of the planned PromptKit
+migration. A separate public release between the two units is optional.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- The released ConfigKit v0.5.0 dependency and exact source attribution are
+  adopted; PromptKit remains at v0.11.2 with its existing catalogs.
+- Native inheritance preserves effective endpoints, capacity, explicit zero
+  queue capacity, child overrides, and surviving credential references through
+  Audita's loading, resolution, and validation boundary.
+- Selected overlays and explicit overrides retain their precedence; omitted
+  validation-role selection still derives from the final proposal selection.
+- Null can remove a child's credential while surviving references on parents
+  and other unselected backends still follow the existing credential contract.
+- Selected roles use inherited backend settings and share its configured
+  capacity under the existing PromptKit runtime contract.
+- Effective settings remain redacted, and both CLI explanations and debug
+  configuration origins expose compact, value-free inheritance evidence while
+  retaining existing fields and application-derived explanations.
+- A maintained complete example and canonical documentation describe native
+  inheritance, its field-validation implications, and the reserved-key
+  compatibility impact. Existing workflows and applicable offline checks pass.
+
+## Completion and Release Treatment
+
+Adoption is complete when the released dependency is pinned, existing workflows
+pass, representative inheritance works through loading and runtime wiring,
+inspection includes value-free inheritance evidence and remains secret-safe,
+and the example, canonical docs, and attribution match the implementation. No
+PromptKit migration or provider behavior change is required to close this unit.
+
+Release classification remains provisional. A minor release would be appropriate
+for a backward-compatible addition, but the newly reserved `extends` key can
+invalidate currently valid application configuration. For example, Audita
+currently permits a backend literally named `extends`; ConfigKit v0.5.0 treats
+that mapping key as an inheritance directive rather than a backend ID. Do not
+promise blanket compatibility or settle on a minor release until the final
+compatibility review resolves this impact under the
+[release policy](../policy/release.md). Describe any required migration in the
+canonical documentation and release notes when the upgrade ships. Do not select
+or publish a release as part of roadmap preparation. A later PromptKit
+migration's profile-format compatibility decision belongs to that separate
+feature.
 
 ## Selected Overlays for Testing
 
-Enable ConfigKit's optional selected-overlay feature in the migration. A testing
-configuration that selects cheaper, faster LLMs is the initial use case. ConfigKit
-**overlays** modify application settings; PromptKit **execution profiles** still
-own model and generation settings. Keep `profiles_dir`, the PromptKit `profiles/`
-directory, and proposal/validation profile names unchanged by this terminology
-change.
-
-The planned interface is `--overlay <name>` on `process`, `config validate`, and
-`config print-effective`. Treat selection as invocation state passed to
-`Options.Overlay`, not as another persistent setting or environment overlay.
-Follow ConfigKit v0.4.0's selection contract: omission, an empty name, or `default`
-selects no overlay; a named selection loads `overlays/<name>.yml` beneath the selected
-configuration root. A missing selected overlay is an error. Use the library's
-single-overlay semantics without adding stacking, inheritance, or legacy-directory
-fallback.
-
-Precedence is application defaults, main configuration, selected overlay, then
-explicit setting flags. Perform Audita's role inheritance and semantic validation
-on the resolved configuration. ConfigKit's base parsing and schema-version checks
-still precede overlay application; overlays cannot replace the schema version or
-contain ConfigKit directives. General environment-variable overrides remain retired.
-Imports and secret-directory bootstrap remain disabled.
-
-Provide a maintained `overlays/testing.yml` example that selects testing execution
-profiles through `llm.proposal_profile` and `llm.validation_profile`. Model names and
-generation controls belong in the corresponding PromptKit profile files. Set both
-role selections in this example so a base configuration's explicit validation
-profile cannot accidentally retain the production model. Normal omission-based
-validation-profile inheritance continues to apply to the final effective settings.
-The example must make its backend/credential requirements clear and use no real
-secrets. Model choice is operator-controlled; “testing” does not promise a price,
-performance level, or equivalent correction quality.
-
-Overlays may modify other ordinary application settings supported by the schema;
-they are not restricted to profile selection. The resulting configuration must
-still satisfy shared backend capacity, credential, and domain rules. Validation,
-effective-config inspection, selected-profile inspection, and processing must all
-use the same selected overlay. Preserve overlay provenance in configuration
-explanations and diagnostics while retaining secret redaction.
-
-The [recorded overlay results](library-boundary-findings.md#selected-overlay-extension-2026-09-24)
-prove the representative load, inspection, and HTTP path. Production acceptance
-requires the same selection to reach both actual LLM roles, with explicit flags
-winning over overlays and surviving secret references resolved/redacted correctly.
-The isolated prototype is evidence, not a second supported runtime.
-
-## Inspection and Invocation Contract
-
-`process`, `config validate`, and `config print-effective` share file/overlay
-selection and retained setting overrides. Invocation I/O paths remain process-only.
-Only explicitly supplied flags override settings. Validation requires an explicit
-config file; processing and inspection use the selected discovery order. Help is
-available before configuration loading. All three commands validate selected
-profiles without requiring a provider call during setup.
-
-`config print-effective --view settings|profiles|explain` exposes three YAML views:
-
-- `settings` (default): ConfigKit's redacted effective configuration.
-- `profiles`: an Audita-owned summary of each selected role's profile, backend,
-  model, temperature, token limit, top-p, timeout, service tier, and reasoning
-  effort where present. Arbitrary extra provider parameters and credentials are
-  omitted; this is a selected-controls view, not every execution input.
-- `explain`: field paths, sources, and derivation records from ConfigKit, without
-  resolved secret values.
-
-A ConfigKit snapshot alone does not describe profile-owned controls. Profile
-inspection must enforce the registered-backend and credential boundary. Diagnostic
-snapshots use these safe views and preserve overlay/explicit-override provenance.
-The migration guide explains the intentional replacement of legacy inspection JSON.
-
-## Integration and Completion Criteria
-
-ConfigKit and PromptKit form one intentional breaking refactor. Intermediate
-commits need not build or run. The target contains no temporary old-runtime adapter,
-compatibility shim, processing gate, dual loader, or automatic legacy conversion.
-The [combined feature roadmap](library-adoption.md) owns execution/reporting intent;
-[implementation.md](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/cb405f6/docs/roadmap/implementation.md) alone owns stage order and implementation tasks.
-
-The final application loads all retained domain settings, assembles both selected
-profiles, and processes through PromptKit. Controlled HTTP evidence must connect
-configuration selection to actual requests, domain outcomes, safe diagnostics,
-and shared finite backend capacity. Maintained examples and one migration guide
-cover the complete file/flag/environment transition. Obsolete application-owned
-loading, transport, rendering, and scheduler machinery is removed.
-
-The combined target is Audita v2.0.0. Release compliance and publication remain
-last and separate from implementing the refactor. Retention and transcript timestamp
-changes are not included; the selected retry/repair contract resolves the retry
-follow-up in [runtime behavior](runtime-behavior.md).
-
-## Scope Boundaries
-
-- Pin ConfigKit v0.4.0 in production and align Go/toolchain requirements. ConfigKit requires
-  Go 1.25; the combined PromptKit prototype requires Go 1.25.5. Adopting these libraries
-  does not automatically remove Audita's existing YAML dependency used for glossary parsing.
-- Implement the selected configuration and final PromptKit runtime directly,
-  without temporary runtime adapters, compatibility shims, or process gates.
-- Enable selected overlays as specified above. Keep imports and secret-directory
-  bootstrap disabled unless a separate concrete requirement justifies them.
-- Validation and inspection resolve surviving credential references and fail on
-  missing or empty values; no credential-free bypass is planned.
-- Inspection and diagnostics use the safe selected-profile view and ConfigKit
-  provenance described above. Changed formats are covered by the migration guide.
-
-The eventual completion test is that Audita follows the suite's ConfigKit
-conventions while retaining its intended domain capabilities, with a clear
-migration guide and no ongoing obligation to support the previous configuration
-model.
+This heading preserves links from historical adoption documents. The original
+[overlay plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/6ae1d7cd5f548b26de5787372d3f2249eaa4757d/docs/roadmap/configkit.md#selected-overlays-for-testing)
+is historical; current overlay behavior belongs to [configuration](../config.md).
+This upgrade preserves that workflow and adds native ConfigKit inheritance
+without reviving the earlier combined migration plan.

docs/roadmap/decision-set-reconciliation.md

@@ -1,162 +0,0 @@
-# Partial Success for Validator Decision Sets
-
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-25
-
-**Status:** Implemented. This document owns the target behavior and user intent.
-[historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/91d9be68a7bb3a102900253fdfd8438f0a43f666/docs/roadmap/implementation.md) owns concrete decisions, ordered work,
-and verification.
-
-## Purpose and User Intent
-
-Preserve usable validator decisions when other entries in the same model response
-have missing, duplicate, or unexpected correction indices. One defective entry
-should not prevent unrelated candidates from completing their required validation.
-This extends Audita's existing partial-success approach without another model call.
-
-Implement this simpler improvement before reconsidering guided domain recovery.
-Missing validation must never authorize applying a correction, but neither should
-it invalidate a different candidate's unambiguous approval or editorial rejection.
-The existing [resilience design](resilience.md) remains the foundation.
-
-## Historical Baseline
-
-The reviewed application baseline is `d2a6fcf`:
-
-- PromptKit validates the complete model response against Audita's embedded JSON
-  Schema and performs its configured structural repairs. Only structurally valid,
-  decoded responses reach domain decision mapping.
-- `mapLLMResponseToDecisions` in
-  [`llm_validators.go`](../../internal/framework/validators/llm_validators.go)
-  requires exactly one decision for every requested correction index. An empty
-  decision list, missing index, duplicate index, or unexpected index returns an
-  error instead of retaining usable decisions.
-- `LLMBackedValidator.Validate` consequently marks the entire batch unavailable
-  with `validation_decisions_invalid`. Other batches continue, but usable decisions
-  within that batch are lost.
-- The runner's cardinality checks enforce an internal contract: each candidate
-  receives one outcome from each validator it reaches. These checks apply to
-  Audita-owned results, not directly to raw model entries.
-- Deterministic validators already filter individual proposals. Unpreviewable
-  candidates and oversized validation inputs are isolated; recoverable provider
-  failures remain batch-local; application skips individual conflicts.
-- Ordinary reports distinguish failed operations from successful operations with
-  recoveries. Several failed operations in one stage/chunk share one work-unit
-  error record. The [output contract](../integrations/output-files.md) owns the
-  current counts and serialized representation.
-
-The defect addressed here is the all-or-nothing domain mapping boundary, not
-validation itself or the runner's internal consistency checks.
-
-## Target Decision Semantics
-
-Reconcile each structurally valid response against the indices actually requested
-in that particular validator batch. Correction indices, rather than segment IDs
-or positions in the response array, identify candidates. Several corrections may
-legitimately target the same segment.
-
-| Response condition | Target behavior |
-| --- | --- |
-| Exactly one valid decision for a requested index | Preserve its approval or rejection and associated decision evidence. |
-| Requested index omitted | Produce an explicit validation-unavailable outcome for that candidate. |
-| Requested index appears more than once | Treat that candidate's validation as unavailable; preserve unrelated decisions. |
-| Index was not requested in this batch | Ignore the extraneous entry and record the handled defect. |
-| Empty decision list for a nonempty request | Mark all requested candidates unavailable; do not fail the run. |
-| Decisions appear in a different order | Match by identity and retain deterministic internal results. |
-
-Duplicate handling does not choose the first or last answer, nor infer a verdict
-by voting. Even identical duplicates follow the agreed duplicate-index handling;
-accepting them specially is not needed for this feature. Duplicate extraneous
-indices remain extraneous entries, not reasons to invalidate requested candidates.
-
-An unavailable candidate remains unapplied and does not proceed as approved to
-later validators. It is distinct from a valid `approved: false` decision, which
-is ordinary editorial processing. Valid approvals continue through the remaining
-required validators and apply-time checks; this feature grants no bypass.
-
-The mapper returns one internal outcome for every requested candidate and no
-outcome for an extraneous index. Preserve strict runner cardinality checks so
-application bugs are still detected. Do not convert genuine internal invariant
-failures, cancellation, or fatal setup failures into tolerated model defects.
-
-## Outcomes and Reporting
-
-Keep existing work-unit aggregation and operation accounting:
-
-- If any requested candidate lacks an unambiguous usable decision, record a
-  validation-operation error identifying the affected requested indices. Other
-  candidates' usable decisions from that operation remain effective. An operation
-  error does not mean every candidate in its batch failed.
-- If all requested candidates have usable decisions and extra entries were
-  ignored, record a successful operation with a recovery for that handled defect.
-  This remains a recovery even if all legitimate decisions are editorial rejections.
-- If missing/duplicate requested decisions and ignored extras coexist, retain the
-  operation error. Follow the existing rule that failed operations do not also
-  produce recovery records; retain extra-entry details in debug evidence.
-- A valid complete response with no handled defect adds neither error nor recovery.
-  Valid editorial rejection alone never adds either category.
-- Preserve actual structural repair and service-retry counts. On successful
-  operations, consolidate applicable recovery reasons in one recovery record.
-  Do not count reconciliation as another LLM operation or structural repair.
-
-Error attribution must distinguish affected candidates from the rest of the batch.
-Debug evidence should preserve supplied decisions, ignored entries, and the reason
-an expected candidate became unavailable. Do not fabricate candidate ledger entries
-for unknown indices or mislabel missing decisions as deliberate editorial rejection.
-Ordinary reports must retain safe metadata without raw transcript or response text.
-
-Use a decision-specific recovery reason rather than treating ignored validator
-entries as defective correction proposals. Concrete reason names and minimal data
-model changes belong in the implementation plan. Keep YAML, Markdown, and CLI
-counts consistent, with the existing reporting-disable and independent debug options.
-
-## Ownership and Target Architecture
-
-Audita's validator layer reconciles structurally valid model responses into
-complete internal candidate outcomes. The runner preserves strict internal
-cardinality and advances only approved candidates. Reporting consumes operation
-facts without treating partial validation failure as loss of every decision.
-Debug evidence distinguishes unavailable validation from editorial rejection.
-
-The schema/transport boundary remains with PromptKit; reconciliation needs no
-additional model call. Concrete helper structures, reason names, mapping changes,
-and verification steps belong in the [historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/91d9be68a7bb3a102900253fdfd8438f0a43f666/docs/roadmap/implementation.md).
-
-## Scope Boundaries
-
-PromptKit's whole-response structural validation and repair remain unchanged.
-A malformed entry, including an extraneous entry that violates the schema, may
-still invalidate the response and exhaust structural repairs before reconciliation
-can run. Ignoring schema-valid extras does not promise salvage from malformed JSON,
-missing required fields, wrong types, or out-of-range values.
-
-General per-entry structural salvage is a separate design question, not part of
-this fix. Likewise, guided regeneration remains deferred for reconsideration after
-this change; no new retries, feedback prompts, budgets, upstream dependency changes,
-or operator controls are required here.
-
-Preserve module scope, literal replacement behavior, fixed chunks, stage barriers,
-span-deletion safeguards, backend capacity limits, and fatal cancellation behavior.
-No additional restrictions on valid corrections or guarantees about model judgment
-are introduced. This work does not itself authorize tagging or publishing v2.0.0.
-
-## Acceptance Criteria
-
-- A schema-valid response can retain usable decisions despite missing, duplicate,
-  or unexpected indices elsewhere in the same batch.
-- Only the affected requested candidates become unavailable; extras never create
-  candidates or attach decisions to a different batch's candidates.
-- Valid negative decisions remain editorial outcomes, and every applied correction
-  completes all required validation.
-- Internal validator results satisfy existing strict cardinality checks.
-- Missing/duplicate requested decisions yield accurately attributed errors without
-  losing valid work. Extra-only defects yield a consolidated recovery; mixed
-  defects follow existing failed-operation reporting semantics.
-- Final transcript, debug evidence, YAML reports, Markdown counts, and CLI summary
-  agree about applied work and failures/recoveries.
-- Reconciliation makes no additional provider calls. Existing structural failures,
-  provider failures, and cancellation retain their documented handling.
-
-## Open Questions
-
-No unresolved product-policy questions block implementation. Guided recovery and
-structural salvage remain separate future decisions.

docs/roadmap/future.md

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 # Deferred Feature Work
 
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-25
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-03
 
 **Status:** Deferred or exploratory work; not implemented or scheduled. These
-entries preserve scope outside the [resilience roadmap](resilience.md) and
-[span-deletion consistency roadmap](span-deletion.md). Each entry states its
-intent; inclusion does not commit us to implementing every capability.
+entries preserve work beyond the completed resilience and span-deletion
+features. Each entry states its intent; inclusion does not commit us to
+implementing every capability.
 
 ## Domain-Aware Response Recovery
 
-The [partial-success decision reconciliation](decision-set-reconciliation.md)
+The implemented [partial-success decision reconciliation](../internal/validators.md#llm-validator-batching)
 preserves usable decisions without another model call. Guided recovery remains
 deferred pending evidence from failures that remain. General per-entry
 salvage from structurally invalid responses is also a separate design question;
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ No new scheduler, global limiter, or execution mode is selected by this entry.
 
 Potential future work, subject first to evaluating whether it is worth implementing
 at all. Empty replacement text and deletion of a span within a surviving segment
-are covered by the accepted [span-deletion consistency roadmap](span-deletion.md).
+are covered by the implemented [span-deletion behavior](../internal/modules.md#proposal-generation-ownership).
 That feature does not remove segment records or permit blank resulting segments.
 
 Before designing segment removal, review representative production examples to

docs/roadmap/implementation.md

@@ -1,313 +1,327 @@
-# Implementation Plan: Standard Policy Alignment
+# Implementation Plan: ReleaseKit Adoption
 
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-28
-
-**Status:** Complete; Stages 1–4 implemented.
-**Audience:** gpt-5.6-terra coding agent.
-**Audita planning baseline:** `91d9be68a7bb3a102900253fdfd8438f0a43f666`.
-**Selected upstream revision:** `d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843`.
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-07
+**Status:** Complete; Stages 1–5 complete.
+**Audience:** Luna coding agent.
 
 ## Scope and Execution
 
-Implement the accepted [Standard Policy Alignment roadmap](policy.md). It owns
-the intended end state and reasons for local variations; this plan owns ordered
-implementation and verification. Complete Stage 1 through Stage 4 in order, each
-as one focused agent task. Record completion evidence under each stage and commit
-completed units with short, plain English messages under the agent policy.
+Implement the target in the [ReleaseKit roadmap](releasekit.md), following
+[ADR 0001](../adr/0001-releasekit.md). The roadmap owns intent and policy
+choices; this document owns execution. The planning baseline is Audita commit
+`418da456d75a68d3bb5a43ab823c5b2b434b90cc`: v3.0.0 is released, the ADR is
+accepted, and release tooling still uses the custom scripts and delivery plugin.
 
-Begin with [development guidance](../development.md) and the
-[agent policy](../policy/agents.md). Read the policies governing each stage;
-reuse unchanged policy context. For policy edits, read that policy and affected
-cross-references. Follow the adopted selective reading guide once installed.
-Use graph-first discovery for application code; document and shell/configuration
-inspection does not need a graph lookup.
+This replaces the completed PromptKit plan. Its
+[completion record](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/418da456d75a68d3bb5a43ab823c5b2b434b90cc/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
+remains available for historical adoption references.
 
-Use the public upstream repository at
-`https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy` and check out the exact revision above
-in a temporary directory outside Audita. Verify its full commit before copying.
-Read its `docs/adoption.md`, relevant `docs/policy/` files, `COPYRIGHT`, and
-referenced assets. Do not replace the selected revision with current main or
-reconstruct prior adoption baselines. The public repository and its attribution
-are now explicitly approved.
+Execute Stage 1 through Stage 5 in order. Each is a bounded Luna implementation
+unit. Commit completed units with plain English messages under the
+[agent policy](../policy/agents.md), recording the relevant checks. Intermediate
+commits need not be release-ready; complete the migration directly without
+compatibility wrappers for the old release arguments or temporary release modes.
 
-This plan replaces the completed decision-set plan, preserved at
-[the planning baseline](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/91d9be68a7bb3a102900253fdfd8438f0a43f666/docs/roadmap/implementation.md).
-Repair historical roadmap references in Stage 4; do not reopen those features.
+Start with [development guidance](../development.md), use graph-first discovery,
+and follow the applicable [architecture](../policy/architecture.md),
+[testing](../policy/testing.md), [documentation](../policy/documentation.md),
+[release](../policy/release.md), and [OSS](../policy/oss.md) policies. Preserve
+transcript processing and its current configuration, reporting, and LLM behavior.
 
-Implement directly toward the final state. Intermediate commits need no temporary
-policy files, compatibility machinery, or complete dependency inventory. Keep
-partial work truthful and finish cross-document consistency by Stage 4. Do not
-release, tag, push, rewrite published material, change dependency versions, or
-refactor application code as part of this work. No extra approval round is needed
-between stages. If factual verification uncovers a concrete unresolved rights or
-publication issue, report it rather than inventing an obligation or claiming it
-resolved.
+Use ReleaseKit v0.1.0, commit
+`5e60fe3113c69f95c42fbbe32a8ca4b51f5b83c1`. The sibling checkout is reference
+material. Its pinned [configuration](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/config.md),
+[CLI](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/cli.md),
+[build](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/consumers/build.md),
+and [delivery](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/docs/consumers/delivery.md)
+contracts own generic mechanics. Keep Go 1.25.5 and unrelated dependency
+selections. Use released modules without a production local replacement.
 
-## Common Adoption Decisions
+### Selected Implementation Decisions
 
-- Start each policy from the selected upstream file. Preserve shared substantive
-  wording verbatim. Remove its `Base Policy Template` section after fulfilling
-  the instructions; include only the project customizations selected below.
-- Retain the upstream base version and set `Last Updated` to the actual adoption
-  date. Add `**Upstream Source:**` with a Markdown link to that same file at the
-  full selected commit, using the URL prefix
-  `https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/`.
-  Do not claim this was the source of old local documents.
-- Keep discovery URLs in `meta.md` pointed to the public repository and
-  `/src/branch/main/docs/adoption.md`. Pin example links in the adopted OSS policy
-  to this selected commit, after checking their paths. Preserve examples upstream.
-- Explain substantive local variations briefly where they apply. No separate
-  exception register, synchronization system, policy snapshot tests, or legal
-  approval workflow is needed.
-- Keep policy credit in the single canonical attribution entry. Describe only
-  material adopted so far, expanding it as later stages copy more material.
-  Metadata and template removal mean an adopted file can truthfully be described
-  as adapted even when its substantive rules are verbatim.
-- Ordinary link/text review is sufficient for documentation changes. Do not run
-  application tests simply because a policy document changed. Each stage ends
-  with `git diff --check` and review of its staged diff before committing.
+- Audita imports `ReleaseKit/buildinfo` for runtime version information. The
+  upstream executable owns release orchestration; no application release engine
+  or private linker variable is needed.
+- `releasekit.json` owns product facts. Local tooling builds the executable from
+  the module graph; CI pins the same v0.1.0 release explicitly.
+- Keep `scripts/release.sh` as a thin entry point with native ReleaseKit
+  arguments, such as `publish VERSION` and `check VERSION`. Compile its tool into
+  ignored `bin/releasekit` and invoke it with `exec` to preserve native statuses.
+- Main-first preparation, annotated tags, the offline standard suite, Linux
+  builds, and the native version smoke check are accepted. On a nonselected
+  host, the shared builder may compile a temporary native executable and require
+  its check to succeed. Keep only Linux amd64 and arm64 delivery targets.
+- CI uses managed `ci-deliver` and the existing `GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN` secret,
+  exposed to the command as `RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN`. Retained prebuilt artifacts
+  remain an upstream recovery option rather than a second ordinary CI sequence.
+- Additional profile checks are omitted. Do not repeat the standard suite,
+  maintain a local Git/publication guard layer, or copy upstream delivery logic.
+  Focus tests on Audita wiring and reuse existing protection for common mechanics.
 
-## Stage 1 — Establish Provenance and Shared Agent/Testing Policies
+This implementation sprint does not choose an Audita release version, write a
+new versioned release note, tag, push to the authoritative repository, contact
+Gitea with delivery credentials, or wait for CI. Deployment observations belong
+to the first adopting release and its separate delivery status. No extra release
+gates or platform guarantees are introduced by these adoption checks.
 
-**Completed:** 2026-09-28. Adopted meta 1.0, agents 1.3, and testing 1.3 from
-the verified upstream commit, preserving Audita's graph-first discovery rule.
-The initial attribution and scoped copyright notice identify only these three
-adapted policies; the CC-BY-SA text matches upstream byte-for-byte. Substantive
-policy text, pinned source paths, local links, and `git diff --check` were checked.
+## Stage 1 — Add the Dependency and Version Command [x]
 
-**Files:** `docs/policy/meta.md`, `docs/policy/agents.md`,
-`docs/policy/testing.md`, `docs/oss/attribution.md`,
-`docs/oss/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt`, and `COPYRIGHT`.
+**Primary files:** `go.mod`, `go.sum`, `internal/cli/run.go`, and focused tests in
+`internal/cli`.
 
-1. Adopt meta 1.0, agents 1.3, and testing 1.3 with the common metadata and
-   template-removal rules. Preserve the existing Codebase Discovery section as
-   the one local addition to agents: Audita deliberately uses graph-first
-   discovery. Adopt the remaining agent rules and the testing rules verbatim.
-2. Create attribution with `# Open Source Attribution Notices`, followed directly
-   by the canonical entry from `examples/licensing/policy-attribution.md`.
-   Substitute the selected commit in its COPYRIGHT, LICENSE, and Source URLs.
-   Initially identify the three newly adapted policy files in its `Material:`
-   sentence. Do not claim the remaining files have already been updated.
-3. Copy the selected revision's `docs/oss/licenses/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt` byte-for-byte.
-   Keep the supplied upstream copyright and links to its grant/disclaimer.
-4. Add the adoption guide's scoped CC-BY-SA notice to Audita's `COPYRIGHT`, with
-   affected material identified through attribution. Preserve Audita's name,
-   copyright, GPL-3.0-or-later application grant, warranty statement, and third-party
-   statement. Leave the root GPLv3 `LICENSE` unchanged.
-5. Keep metadata local and truthful. `meta.md` points to the local attribution
-   and developer guide even though selective reading guidance is added next.
+1. Add `gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit@v0.1.0` with `go get`. Import its
+   public `buildinfo` package in the CLI and run `go mod tidy` after the import
+   is present. Review the dependency diff for unrelated upgrades or replacements.
+2. Add `version` dispatch to the existing CLI. With no arguments, print
+   `audita ` followed by `buildinfo.Version()` and a newline to stdout, returning
+   zero. Run this route independently of application configuration and runtime
+   assembly. Use the existing output streams and standard-library parsing style.
+3. Add the command to root help. Support `help version` and the usual
+   `version -h`/`version --help` help behavior with stdout and status zero.
+   Unexpected positional arguments or unknown flags use the existing usage-error
+   status two. No new version flags are needed at the root level.
+4. Add compact CLI coverage for successful version output, help, and malformed
+   invocation. Derive the expected version from the public accessor rather than
+   hardcoding `dev`. Exercise the version route from a temporary working directory
+   without application setup and verify stderr stays empty on success. Preserve
+   existing commands and help behavior.
 
-**Validation and completion:** Compare the substantive agent/testing text directly
-with the selected upstream documents, allowing only template removal, metadata,
-and the identified discovery addition. Verify each new source link's exact file
-and revision, local attribution links, copied license bytes, and narrow grant
-scope. No application test or publication is required.
+**Verification and completion:** Run
+`go test ./internal/cli ./cmd/audita`, build the application to ignored
+`bin/audita`, and run its `version` command. Run `git diff --check`, review the
+module diff, and commit. Real release-version injection is verified in Stage 5;
+no test should hardcode an upstream private linker symbol.
 
-## Stage 2 — Customize Remaining Policies and Install Selective Orientation
+**Completed 2026-10-07:** Added ReleaseKit v0.1.0 and the configuration-free
+`audita version` command with root/help routing and usage-error handling.
+Checks passed: `go test ./internal/cli ./cmd/audita`,
+`go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita`, `./bin/audita version`, and
+`git diff --check`.
 
-**Completed:** 2026-09-28. Adopted architecture 1.3, documentation 1.11,
-release 1.4, and OSS 1.8 with the selected Audita variations. Installed the
-upstream root orientation and verbatim Policy Reading Guide, expanded the
-scoped attribution, and repaired the release documentation heading link.
-Checked versions, provenance and example destinations, local links, policy
-differences, and `git diff --check`.
+## Stage 2 — Introduce the Product Profile and Thin Local Wrapper [x]
 
-**Files:** `docs/policy/architecture.md`, `docs/policy/documentation.md`,
-`docs/policy/release.md`, `docs/policy/oss.md`, `AGENTS.md`,
-`docs/development.md`, `docs/oss/attribution.md`, and `COPYRIGHT` as needed for
-accurate copied-guidance scope.
+**Primary files:** new `releasekit.json`, `scripts/release.sh`, and
+`scripts/release_test.go`.
 
-1. Adopt architecture 1.3. Retain the upstream general Purpose And Ownership,
-   Architectural Approach, and Adopted Constraints And Implemented Structure
-   guidance. Replace Application-Specific Topics with Audita's established
-   purpose, ownership/dependency boundaries, correction/concurrency rules,
-   recovery, state/compatibility, secret handling, and selected library ownership.
-   Reuse existing local decisions; avoid duplicating general upstream prose.
-   Replace example threat discussion with the existing secret/input boundaries
-   and canonical links where useful. Do not infer new threat exclusions,
-   filesystem guarantees, interfaces, or package restructuring from the template.
-2. Adopt documentation 1.11. Keep applicable upstream ownership rows verbatim;
-   omit public HTTP and public Go API rows. Add the existing concrete ownership
-   of `docs/integrations/output-files.md` and contributor change recipes, and
-   retain the deliberate retirement of standalone troubleshooting documentation.
-   Account for the retained agent discovery/commit responsibilities in its owner
-   row. Keep reading triggers in development guidance, not a second policy table.
-3. Adopt release 1.4. Retain upstream completion, validation, guard, immutability,
-   recovery, and preparation language. Preserve the existing Supported Platforms
-   table and unsupported-platform statement as Audita's support commitment.
-   Replace the upstream discretionary human-gate paragraph with Audita's selected
-   rule against manual approvals, sign-offs, and routine confirmations as release
-   gates. Remove the obsolete list describing now-shared upstream rules as local
-   deviations. Keep concrete atomic-push mechanics in the runbook.
-4. Adopt OSS 1.8. Add a concise Audita context paragraph identifying the existing
-   GPL-3.0-or-later grant and linking to COPYRIGHT and the release procedure for
-   Gitea distribution. Use the upstream House Format and interpretation language
-   verbatim. Pin application/library COPYRIGHT and attribution examples to the
-   selected upstream commit; remove template-only setup text. No license change
-   to application code or blanket dependency compatibility claim is authorized.
-5. Replace root orientation with upstream `agents/AGENTS.md` wording while
-   retaining any existing applicable repository instructions. Keep detailed
-   discovery rules in their current agent-policy owner rather than duplicating
-   them in a newly created block.
-6. Insert the adoption guide's Policy Reading Guide and accompanying reading rules
-   into `docs/development.md` verbatim. Remove the blanket architecture-reading
-   instruction; preserve contributor commands and component-specific task rows.
-   Adjust cross-links that would otherwise contradict selective reading.
-7. Expand the single policy attribution entry to identify all `docs/policy/`
-   documents, adapted root orientation, and the copied Policy Reading Guide in
-   `docs/development.md`. Scope the COPYRIGHT CC-BY-SA notice to those materials,
-   not unrelated contributor prose or application documentation. Keep the material
-   sentence factual and concise; retain the pinned upstream credit links.
-8. Find and repair local links to policy headings renamed by adoption, including
-   the release correction heading. Do not edit published historical release
-   notes to retrofit new headings or licensing conventions.
+1. Write a JSON profile with these exact product settings:
 
-**Validation and completion:** Compare all seven policies to the pinned source;
-review every substantive difference against the roadmap's justified variations.
-Check versions (1.3, 1.3, 1.11, 1.3, 1.4, 1.0, 1.8 for agents, architecture,
-documentation, testing, release, meta, OSS respectively), file-specific source
-links, removed template sections, example destinations, ownership consistency,
-and selective reading. Temporary pending release/attribution implementation is
-completed by the following stages; do not create scaffolding for it.
+   | Field | Value |
+   | --- | --- |
+   | `product` | `Audita` |
+   | `remote` | `origin` |
+   | `build.main_package` | `./cmd/audita` |
+   | `build.binary_name` | `audita` |
+   | `build.targets` | `linux/amd64`, `linux/arm64` |
+   | `delivery.base_url` | `https://gitea.maximumdirect.net` |
+   | `delivery.owner` | `eric` |
+   | `delivery.repository` | `audita` |
+   | `delivery.token_env` | `RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN` |
 
-## Stage 3 — Complete Component Attribution and README Navigation
+   Omit `checks`. Store no token value and use the upstream profile format
+   directly; Audita does not need another profile parser in production.
+2. Replace the wrapper body with straightforward Bash using `set -euo pipefail`:
+   select the repository directory relative to the script, create `bin/`, build
+   the selected CLI, and execute it with the original argument vector. The
+   build command is:
 
-**Completed:** 2026-09-28. Both CGO-disabled Linux target dependency lists
-selected the same eight production modules. Inspected their selected source
-notices and copied assets, excluded test-only dependencies, and resolved the
-Go 1.25.5 source tag and its four incorporated vendored modules. Added 14
-House Format entries including policy provenance, complete applicable license
-texts, and the README footer. Checked 33 pinned source and notice destinations,
-license bytes, local links, entry shape, and `git diff --check`.
-
-**Files:** `docs/oss/attribution.md`, applicable texts under
-`docs/oss/licenses/`, and `README.md`. Add factual exception treatment to the OSS
-policy only if the actual inventory uncovers a concrete need.
-
-1. Inventory actual incorporated material using the selected modules, production
-   package dependencies for both Linux targets, source/assets, and shipped Go
-   runtime. Use `go list -deps` for `./cmd/audita` with `CGO_ENABLED=0` and each
-   target architecture, plus source inspection for copied material. Inspect test
-   dependencies where relevant to included material; a go.mod entry or tool use
-   alone is not sufficient reason for attribution. Do not change go.mod/go.sum.
-2. At the planning baseline, production dependencies include ConfigKit v0.4.1,
-   PromptKit v0.11.1, both catalogs v2.20260926.0, jsonschema/v6 v6.0.2,
-   yaml/v4 v4.0.0-rc.6, x/text v0.14.0, and yaml.v3 v3.0.1. Start with the four
-   verified source commits recorded in the feature roadmap; resolve remaining
-   module versions to exact source commits and inspect their COPYRIGHT, LICENSE,
-   NOTICE, PATENTS, and relevant bundled material as applicable. Account for
-   additional material discovered in that inspection rather than treating this
-   starting list as an exhaustive guarantee.
-3. For the Go runtime, use the release build's configured Go 1.25.5 source tag
-   and resolve it to its full source commit. Do not silently substitute the
-   inspecting agent's installed toolchain (Go 1.26.8 during planning). Preserve
-   actual runtime/standard-library notices, including relevant bundled third-party
-   material. Document maintenance of this entry when the distributed toolchain
-   changes; do not pin new toolchain behavior or reject other supported local Go
-   versions merely to simplify attribution.
-4. Add entries following OSS 1.8 exactly, with selected module/version or material
-   scope where useful. Preserve supplied copyrights and accurate license
-   expressions; use the prescribed link labels and `[Source](COMMIT_URL).`
-   spelling. Keep policy attribution first. Order other entries consistently by
-   project name; ordering is presentation, not a new public contract.
-5. Copy applicable complete standard texts from verified sources, using the
-   pinned reference collection where applicable. Share identical standard texts
-   and include required companions (LGPLv3 and GPLv3 for the two libraries).
-   Include upstream commit links when a file contains project-specific material
-   in addition to standard wording. Preserve existing incorporated notices.
-6. Apply the adopted house interpretation for project-specific notice links.
-   Put concrete exception reasoning in OSS policy or an appropriate decision
-   record, never in attribution. Do not add missing-copyright filler, research
-   narratives, inferred licensing choices, or legal conclusions to entries.
-7. End README with the two OSS statements, identifying Audita as GPL v3.0 or later
-   and linking to `COPYRIGHT` and `docs/oss/attribution.md`. The linked grant owns
-   the separately licensed policy scope; no duplicated notice list is needed.
-
-**Validation and completion:** Inspect entries against selected source evidence,
-resolve every source/notice commit and path, compare standard license bytes, and
-check local links. Confirm that actual distributed material is accounted for
-without blindly including dependency graph or development-tool entries. Record
-concise inventory/check evidence under this stage; no new SBOM, scanner, durable
-inventory generator, or test suite is required.
-
-## Stage 4 — Integrate Release Notes and Finish Cross-Document Validation
-
-**Completed:** 2026-09-28. Wired the checked-in release note into the hosted
-release plugin, documented immutable-tag notice links and release preparation,
-repaired the specified historical roadmap references, and marked the feature
-roadmap implemented. Parsed the YAML, substituted `v2.0.0` to a tracked note,
-checked non-overwrite settings and candidate footer paths, reviewed all seven
-policies against the pinned source, and checked repository-local Markdown links
-and `git diff --check`. Hosted execution awaits the next real release.
-
-**Files:** `.woodpecker/release.yml`, `docs/release.md`, affected documentation
-links, `docs/roadmap/policy.md`, and this plan. Repair the historical references
-specified below; do not retire unrelated roadmaps in this sprint.
-
-1. Add this setting to the existing `publish-release` step:
-
-   ```yaml
-   note: docs/releases/${CI_COMMIT_TAG}.md
+   ```sh
+   GOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=local go build -mod=readonly \
+     -o ./bin/releasekit gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/cmd/releasekit
    ```
 
-   The [official release-plugin documentation](https://woodpecker-ci.org/plugins/release)
-   supports a file path in `note`; the
-   [environment reference](https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/usage/environment)
-   makes `CI_COMMIT_TAG` available for configuration substitution. These interfaces
-   were checked during planning. Use the checked-out tagged note directly; no
-   generator, custom publisher, or additional dependency is needed. Preserve
-   `overwrite: false`, `file-exists: skip`, existing assets/checksum settings,
-   secret reference, image, and step dependency.
-2. In `docs/release.md`, add the footer preparation instruction with this pattern
-   (substitute the selected release version for `<version>`):
+   Finish with `exec ./bin/releasekit "$@"`. Preserve argument boundaries and
+   build failures. Existing `bin/` ignore rules suffice. Let ReleaseKit parse
+   its commands and report errors; remove all local note, version, Git, test,
+   build-target, and publication mechanics from the wrapper.
+3. Replace `TestReleaseWorkflow`'s old fourteen-scenario matrix. Use a temporary
+   layout with the real wrapper and a stub at the Go/tool boundary to verify
+   repository selection, forwarded native arguments (including an argument with
+   spaces), and returned tool status. Include uncertain publication status three
+   and a failed bootstrap that never executes the tool. The stub writes a small
+   executable at the requested output path; assert effects and arguments without
+   tying tests to harmless build-flag ordering or a particular shell layout.
+4. Add a focused check of the committed JSON profile's product/build/delivery
+   facts and absence of additional checks or credential values. Standard JSON
+   decoding in test code is sufficient. Keep this coverage alongside wrapper
+   tests; compare target membership rather than incidental list order. Avoid
+   reproducing upstream profile validation or remote guard tests.
+5. Keep `scripts/build-release.sh` until Stage 3 removes its CI caller. The new
+   wrapper already uses ReleaseKit's selected build specification.
 
-   ```markdown
-   [COPYRIGHT](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/COPYRIGHT) | [LICENSE](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/LICENSE) | [ATTRIBUTION](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/tag/<version>/docs/oss/attribution.md)
+**Verification and completion:** Run `go test ./scripts`, then
+`bash scripts/release.sh version` to verify real tool bootstrap and execution.
+This prints the tool's version, not Audita's. Check ignored build output and
+`git diff --check`, then commit. No publication or delivery invocation against
+an external service is needed.
+
+**Completed 2026-10-07:** Added the Audita profile and replaced the local
+publication workflow with a wrapper that builds and execs ReleaseKit. Replaced
+the publication test matrix with focused wrapper and profile checks. Checks
+passed: `go test ./scripts`, `bash scripts/release.sh version`, ignored-output
+verification for `bin/releasekit`, and `git diff --check`.
+
+## Stage 3 — Migrate Woodpecker Delivery and Retire the Builder [x]
+
+**Primary files:** `.woodpecker/release.yml` and deletion of
+`scripts/build-release.sh`.
+
+1. Adapt the maintained upstream
+   [tag-delivery template](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/src/tag/v0.1.0/examples/woodpecker/tag-delivery.yml).
+   Use its matrix and single `deliver` step with `GO_IMAGE: golang:1.25.5` and
+   `RELEASEKIT_VERSION: v0.1.0`. Select tag events under `refs/tags/v*`.
+2. Map the command environment variable `RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN` from the
+   existing Woodpecker secret `GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN`. Use the existing credential;
+   no new secret name or credential provisioning is selected by this migration.
+3. Use the template's command, preserving Woodpecker interpolation escaping:
+
+   ```sh
+   go run gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/cmd/releasekit@${RELEASEKIT_VERSION} ci-deliver \
+     --repo "$${CI_WORKSPACE}" \
+     --commit "$${CI_COMMIT_SHA}" \
+     "$${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
    ```
 
-   Explain that the plugin uses the checked-in note for new hosted releases and
-   preserves existing release information on retries. Keep old notes and pages
-   intact. Validate intended paths locally during preparation; do not add remote
-   footer checks, a footer parser, or a new release-script gate.
-3. Align the runbook with the adopted policy: retain `origin`, `main`, atomic
-   source/tag publication, one offline validation pass, required Linux builds,
-   optional check mode, and asynchronous immutable delivery retries. Reference
-   the policy for requirements rather than introducing additional ones. Add
-   proportionate completed-roadmap retirement guidance for future release
-   preparation without making it a script-enforced condition. No release script
-   change is expected from this adoption.
-4. Repair both current-plan links in `decision-set-reconciliation.md` to the
-   historical plan at the full Audita planning baseline listed above. Remove
-   the stale sentence in `library-adoption.md` saying the current implementation
-   plan covers span deletion. Preserve historical records and deferred work.
-5. Review the final adoption diff against upstream and the feature roadmap.
-   Check all policy source metadata, template removal, local exception reasons,
-   copied-material scope, license text fidelity, local links/anchors, and pinned
-   upstream destinations. Ensure the feature roadmap records implemented status
-   only after its accepted outcomes are achieved.
-6. Parse/review the affected YAML using an available YAML parser or Woodpecker
-   linter. Substitute a representative existing release tag locally and confirm
-   the note path resolves to the tracked note; old notes need not have the new
-   footer. Check a temporary example of the new footer against candidate paths.
-   Verify non-overwriting publication settings remain unchanged. Do not call the
-   forge to create a test release, run a plugin with production credentials, or
-   wait for CI. Static configuration and documented plugin-interface validation
-   are sufficient for this wiring change; report that hosted execution awaits
-   the next real release rather than claiming it was exercised.
+   ReleaseKit owns fetch/checkout verification, dependency preparation, builds,
+   note-page creation, manifests, and uploads. Remove the separate build step,
+   release plugin, wildcard asset settings, and local checksum configuration.
+   Managed delivery gets its targets and destination from `releasekit.json`.
+4. Delete `scripts/build-release.sh` after confirming its active caller is gone.
+   Search remaining script/CI references and remove only obsolete active
+   invocations. Historical release records retain their original descriptions.
+5. Review the parsed workflow against the template: selected image/pin, tag
+   trigger, token mapping, and event arguments. Use the existing YAML dependency
+   or available tooling for local syntax inspection. Confirm the tool pin matches
+   the selected module. This is adoption validation; it does not require a new
+   permanent workflow-text snapshot test or a running Woodpecker instance.
 
-**Validation and completion:** Run `git diff --check`, review staged content and
-all affected links, and record the final verification evidence. No full Go suite
-or build matrix is required when only documents and the note setting changed.
-If an actual release-script behavior change becomes necessary, justify its
-scope and run focused `go test ./scripts` coverage for that behavior rather than
-inventing additional release gates. Commit the completed work; leave a clean
-workspace without publishing.
+**Verification and completion:** Run `go test ./scripts`, review the workflow
+and profile together, and run `git diff --check`. Commit the delivery migration.
+The existing Go image must provide compatible Go and Git; real runner execution
+is observed during subsequent delivery, independently of source completion.
 
-## Open Questions
+**Completed 2026-10-07:** Migrated Woodpecker to the pinned managed
+`ci-deliver` step using the existing secret, then removed the obsolete binary
+builder. Verified the parsed workflow settings and command against the pinned
+template, confirmed the module/workflow pins match, ran `go test ./scripts`,
+confirmed no active CI or script caller remained, and passed `git diff --check`.
 
-None requiring a policy or design decision before implementation. The upstream
-revision, local exceptions, attribution arrangement, target documents, and
-release-body mechanism are selected. Exact component notice details and source
-revisions are factual verification work in Stage 3, not permission gates. If
-that inspection reveals an uncovered obligation, follow the adopted exception
-procedure and identify the concrete decision instead of silently expanding scope.
+## Stage 4 — Align Policy, Documentation, and Attribution [x]
+
+**Primary files:** `docs/release.md`, `docs/policy/release.md`, `docs/cli.md`,
+`docs/internal/cli-config.md`, `docs/adr/README.md`, and
+`docs/oss/attribution.md`. Update other current references only where affected.
+
+1. Rewrite the runbook around dependency preparation, a committed candidate,
+   `git push origin main`, and `bash scripts/release.sh publish VERSION`.
+   Explain that remote `main` must identify the captured candidate exactly.
+   `bash scripts/release.sh check VERSION` is an optional local diagnostic,
+   never a required pre-publication step. Document preparation with
+   `GOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=local go mod download`; if it changes module files,
+   those changes belong in the candidate before publication.
+2. Describe annotated notes-derived tags, native publication statuses, and
+   recovery against the captured authoritative endpoint. State that the tool
+   retains a local tag after push failure. An exact-object recovery can confirm
+   success; an unreadable result remains unknown. Link to pinned upstream
+   recovery guidance instead of implementing or repeating its full algorithm.
+   Remove the old atomic-push prerequisite and procedure.
+3. Describe the shared tagged-source delivery command, the existing secret
+   mapping, Linux artifacts, note body/footer, and separate delivery status.
+   Explain content-aware retries and retained-artifact recovery by linking to
+   upstream. Remove references to the retired builder/plugin and the assertion
+   that Audita has no version command. Keep the release script's bootstrap
+   preparation distinct from its offline candidate validation.
+4. In the release policy, retain upstream wording wherever it already permits
+   the selected approach. Add a concise project-specific native-host check
+   provision under supported platforms/candidate validation: Linux delivery
+   targets remain required, macOS development remains best effort, and running
+   publication on a nonselected host requires ReleaseKit's temporary native
+   version check to succeed. Qualify the existing statement that macOS failures
+   never block release accordingly. Mac access and native tests on every target
+   remain unnecessary. Date the local policy update and preserve its upstream
+   source attribution. Avoid unrelated policy changes or additional gates.
+5. Document `audita version`, its stdout/help/usage behavior, and public version
+   fallback in `docs/cli.md`. Add a short implementation/change-recipe note in
+   `docs/internal/cli-config.md` linking to that contract and the accepted ADR.
+   Update the ADR index to list ADR 0001; its current assertion that no ADR exists
+   is obsolete. Preserve the accepted ADR's content.
+6. Add a House Format ReleaseKit entry with selected module v0.1.0,
+   `Copyright (C) 2026 Eric Rakestraw`, and `LGPL-3.0-or-later`. Link existing
+   `licenses/LGPL-3.0.txt` and `licenses/GPL-3.0.txt`, and the upstream COPYRIGHT
+   and source at commit `5e60fe3113c69f95c42fbbe32a8ca4b51f5b83c1`. Check the
+   selected module's notices. Keep the application grant and unchanged license
+   texts intact; no policy-template material is copied in this feature.
+7. Repair current navigation affected by replacing this implementation plan.
+   Completed PromptKit/ConfigKit roadmap references that intend to identify
+   their former plan should link to the corresponding historical completion
+   records, not this ReleaseKit plan. Preserve published release notes and tags.
+   The next release note is deferred to release preparation.
+
+**Verification and completion:** Check commands against the new wrapper/CLI,
+local links and anchors, pinned upstream references, source attribution, and
+`git diff --check`. Use the prior successful code checks for unchanged code.
+Commit the documentation unit.
+
+**Completed 2026-10-07:** Updated the ReleaseKit runbook, release policy,
+version contract and contributor guidance, ADR index, and component attribution.
+Repaired PromptKit and ConfigKit links to their historical implementation
+records. Verified local links and anchors, release CLI and version commands,
+pinned module/notices, source attribution, and `git diff --check`.
+
+## Stage 5 — Verify Adoption and Close the Plan [x]
+
+**Primary files:** This plan and the ReleaseKit feature roadmap; fix an
+implementation file only if the final checks expose a real integration defect.
+
+1. Audit the roadmap acceptance criteria against the landed files. Confirm the
+   runtime uses the public version accessor, the profile selects only the two
+   Linux targets, pins agree, the wrapper owns no common release mechanics, and
+   the old builder and repeated publication tests have been retired.
+2. Prepare dependencies if necessary, then run `go test ./...` and
+   `go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita`. Run the normal binary's `version`
+   command without application setup. These tests remain offline; preparation
+   may use the module network separately.
+3. On the committed implementation, verify the real shared builder once using
+   temporary output outside the repository:
+
+   ```sh
+   releasekit_check_dir=$(mktemp -d)
+   bash scripts/release.sh build --output "$releasekit_check_dir" v0.0.0
+   ```
+
+   `v0.0.0` is solely a build-test identifier, not an Audita release selection.
+   `build` requires no release note or remote publication. Confirm both
+   `audita-v0.0.0-linux-amd64` and `audita-v0.0.0-linux-arm64` are produced;
+   ReleaseKit's own mandatory native smoke check must report success. It checks
+   `audita v0.0.0` with a newline on a host-runnable executable, building a
+   temporary native executable itself when needed. Do not execute a foreign
+   architecture binary. Remove the temporary output afterward. The CLI's private
+   build receipt is an upstream artifact and should not enter Git.
+4. Review the dependency/attribution diff, wrapper/profile wiring evidence,
+   workflow syntax and pin, and current documentation. Run `git diff --check`
+   and confirm no generated output, credentials, or unrelated work is staged.
+   Fix proven defects and rerun only affected checks. No real tag publication,
+   hosted upload, paid inference, extra platform matrix, or CI polling is needed
+   to establish this implementation's completion.
+5. Mark the plan and feature roadmap complete after these requirements pass.
+   Record the tested implementation revision and checks; distinguish a later
+   documentation-only closure commit. Summarize the local infrastructure removed
+   and any remaining deployment observations accurately. Commit the closure.
+   The first adopting release and live delivery remain separate authorized work.
+
+**End state:** Audita supplies a product profile, native version command, thin
+local entry point, and shared CI invocation. ReleaseKit owns the common release
+mechanics and their tests. Documentation and attribution match the integration.
+No implementation-blocking open questions remain.
+
+**Completed 2026-10-07:** Audited the adoption criteria against implementation
+revision `5ac704c4c42fd23ed94b1f7351491ad580726db1`. Checks passed:
+`go test ./...`; `go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita` followed by the binary's
+`version` and `--help` commands; ReleaseKit's real `build` command produced
+`audita-v0.0.0-linux-amd64` and `audita-v0.0.0-linux-arm64` and passed its
+native version smoke check; profile, module/tool pins, wrapper, and parsed
+Woodpecker workflow matched the selected integration; and `git diff --check`.
+The closure record is a documentation-only commit after the tested
+implementation revision. Audita's local build and publication mechanics and
+their repeated-mechanics test matrix have been removed in favor of ReleaseKit.
+The first adopting release and live Woodpecker/Gitea delivery observation
+remain separate work.

docs/roadmap/library-adoption.md

@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-# Coordinated ConfigKit and PromptKit Adoption
-
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-28
-
-**Status:** Production implementation complete. ConfigKit v0.4.2 and PromptKit
-v0.11.2 are adopted; [historical implementation evidence](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/cb405f6/docs/roadmap/implementation.md) records the
-completed checks. Release compliance and publication remain separate work.
-
-## Goal and Ownership
-
-Adopt ConfigKit and PromptKit to align Audita with the application suite's shared
-configuration and LLM execution conventions. Consistency is the primary benefit;
-removing overlapping application infrastructure is a secondary benefit. Preserve
-Audita's transcript-correction capabilities and domain protections.
-
-| Owner | Responsibilities |
-| --- | --- |
-| ConfigKit | Strict application configuration loading, presence/default semantics, explicit overrides, recorded resolution, secret references, and safe inspection |
-| PromptKit | Prompt/profile formats and rendering, provider calls, structural output validation and repair, transient retries, engine-local backend admission, and execution observations |
-| Audita | Setting meanings, file/CLI selection, role/profile association, normalization/chunking, ordered modules, domain validation, correction application, reports, diagnostic redaction, and artifact lifecycle |
-
-The [configuration roadmap](configkit.md) owns configuration and inspection policy.
-The [boundary findings](library-boundary-findings.md) own the selected defaults,
-full migration inventory, failure mapping, and prototype evidence. The selected
-production versions are ConfigKit v0.4.2 and PromptKit v0.11.2, with Go 1.25.5 as
-the minimum. Use published modules, never sibling checkouts or local replacements.
-The existing YAML dependency remains while glossary parsing needs it.
-
-## Migration Posture
-
-This is an intentional breaking transition targeting Audita v2.0.0. No backward
-compatibility is required for existing installations, config files, CLI flags,
-environment overlays, or inspection output. Provide one migration guide, without
-legacy loaders, aliases, dual modes, or automatic conversion tooling.
-
-Both libraries belong to one refactor. Intermediate commits need not build or run;
-there is no supported intermediate product state. No temporary adapters, compatibility
-shims, or processing gates are needed. The complete application must work and pass
-its checks before the refactor is finished. Release compliance and publication
-come last, with no intermediate public release.
-
-## Configuration and Execution Target
-
-ConfigKit selected overlays enable a testing configuration that chooses cheaper or
-faster models. The example selects both proposal and validation profiles. ConfigKit
-application overlays and PromptKit execution profiles remain separate concepts.
-Complete operator-maintained profiles own model/generation controls; embedded
-application prompts and schemas are not operator-selected files. No catalog wiring,
-profile-inheritance feature, ConfigKit imports, or secret-directory bootstrap is
-part of this migration.
-
-Capacity controls serve two needs: respecting a local service's hard simultaneous-
-query limit and bounding concurrent paid API activity. One finite limit per backend
-is shared across both roles and every initial, retry, and repair attempt. Limits
-are engine-local, not coordinated across processes. No additional global or
-per-role limiter or fine-grained scheduling policy is required. Profiles must use
-registered backends and ConfigKit-resolved credentials; endpoint-only bypass and
-competing profile credential lookup are excluded.
-
-Structural repair is enabled by default for both roles because additional attempts
-to obtain valid output are desired. Transient retries and structural repairs have
-separate budgets; explicit zero disables the respective behavior. Each generation,
-including a repair, receives its own transient-retry budget. The Audita logical-call
-deadline covers preparation, waiting, backoff, all generations, and repairs; profile
-HTTP timeouts apply per attempt. Exact defaults and bounds are in the
-[selected contract](library-boundary-findings.md#configuration-and-profile-contract).
-No Audita outer retry loop restores the old broader retry policy.
-
-Audita retains all four correction modules, five LLM-validator prompts,
-deterministic validators, confidence/applicability checks, glossary protection,
-validation batching/cardinality, deterministic proposal and ledger ordering,
-transcript encoders, and artifact retention. PromptKit-valid JSON still passes
-Audita's domain checks. Repair exhaustion, provider failure, and domain rejection
-follow the [selected failure table](library-boundary-findings.md#execution-and-failure-mapping).
-Retention and transcript timestamp changes remain separate work; this migration
-resolves the [retry-count follow-up](runtime-behavior.md).
-
-## Reporting and Diagnostic Target
-
-Keep stable Audita-owned serialized records; do not expose raw library structs.
-Use process report schema `v2` with the existing domain outcomes and a new
-`llm_summary` separating logical calls, dispatched provider attempts, transient
-retries, structural repairs, and usage. Transcript schema versions remain unchanged.
-The implementation plan specifies the concrete new fields and artifact wiring.
-
-Usage distinguishes known zero, unknown, and incomplete totals. Preserve observations
-from failed calls even when no final result exists. Count terminal totals once;
-attempt observations provide diagnosis without being added to those totals again.
-This is operational evidence, not a complete billing ledger.
-
-Replace global/role scheduler utilization with per-backend configured capacity and
-observed queue/generation/retry/logical-call timing. Do not fabricate measurements
-that the event API does not provide. Keep domain timing and deterministic correction
-ledger ordering. Record prompt definition/rendered hashes and selected profile/model
-without promising the old hash values. Callbacks are short, concurrency-safe, and
-free of blocking I/O or waits on their own execution.
-
-Effective configuration and selected-profile snapshots remain distinct safe views.
-Secret values must not escape through inspection, logs, reports, runtime errors,
-or retained diagnostic files. Observation records exclude payloads, URLs, raw
-provider messages, prompts, and credentials. Existing artifact lifecycle and
-partial-failure handling remain Audita responsibilities.
-
-## Completion Criteria and Release Boundary
-
-- Both libraries own their selected responsibilities in the production application.
-  Superseded loaders, transport, renderers, schedulers, aliases, and the isolated
-  prototype are gone once its useful evidence is represented in production tests.
-- Offline tests prove configuration-to-execution routing for both roles, selected
-  overlays and explicit overrides, shared backend capacity, retry/repair outcomes,
-  cancellation/deadlines, domain decisions, redaction, and truthful partial reports.
-  Tests exercise real internal collaborators and controlled HTTP boundaries.
-- Maintained examples and canonical docs describe the implemented final model.
-  One migration guide covers files, flags, environment inputs, profiles, credentials,
-  overlays, inspection, and changed runtime/report/diagnostic semantics.
-- The assembled application passes its required checks; Linux amd64 and arm64 build.
-  macOS arm64 remains best effort. No live-provider or CI-success gate is added.
-
-PromptKit v0.11.0's reviewed retry, observation, and capacity APIs remove the earlier
-upstream feature prerequisites; no upstream edit is required for adoption. The
-prototype proved representative behavior, not release compliance or model quality.
-
-The selected PromptKit release uses LGPL-3.0-or-later. A later release unit must
-review the actual production dependency graph and distribution requirements,
-including notices and source/rebuild materials, before binary publication. This
-implementation plan does not claim that review is complete. Release publication
-uses the existing [procedure](../release.md) and completes on successful source/tag
-push, without waiting for CI or artifact delivery.

docs/roadmap/library-boundary-findings.md

@@ -1,392 +0,0 @@
-# Shared Library Boundary: Decisions and Evidence
-
-**Status:** Boundary and offline prototype completed, 2026-09-23. Selected prototype contract and proposed
-production migration target; not the current Audita configuration contract.
-The [bounded roadmap](library-boundary.md) owns scope and completion criteria.
-
-**Subsequent scope decision:** The [ConfigKit overlay plan](configkit.md#selected-overlays-for-testing)
-adds optional selected overlays, with v0.4.0 as the migration baseline. It supersedes
-the original no-overlay decision and adds an input layer between the main file and
-explicit setting overrides. The v0.3.1 prototype results below remain historical
-evidence; they do not establish overlay integration.
-
-## Selected Boundary
-
-The former prototype is retained in Git history at `590604b`; it was a separate
-Go module using published ConfigKit v0.4.0, PromptKit v0.11.0, and
-Audita v1.1.0. The Audita dependency lets this consumer reuse actual internal domain
-helpers through its Audita module namespace without a local replacement. It does
-not make those internal packages a new public API. Remove this dependency along
-with the prototype after equivalent production integration tests landed.
-
-The initial prototype results below were recorded with ConfigKit v0.3.1. On
-2026-09-24, upgrading only its ConfigKit pin and sums to v0.4.0 required no source
-changes. With Go 1.26.8 on linux/amd64, the nested offline `go test ./...` passed
-and `go run .` still reported one accepted correction, four attempts, zero
-transient retries, and two structural repairs. This verifies the dependency
-upgrade, not selected-overlay behavior.
-
-ConfigKit owns loading, presence, explicit overrides, secret resolution, and
-redacted effective settings. PromptKit owns profile parsing, rendering, provider
-execution, transient retries, structural repair, and backend admission. Audita
-owns file selection, setting meanings, role selection, domain acceptance, and
-mapping execution facts into reports. Production CLI and runtime remain unchanged.
-
-## Configuration and Profile Contract
-
-Selected for the prototype and recommended for production:
-
-- Main YAML requires integer `version: 2`; absent, null, unknown fields, and older
-  versions fail. No legacy parser, aliases, environment overlays, or automatic
-  conversion. Defaults precede the selected file; explicitly supplied CLI settings
-  become ConfigKit overrides. Validation runs on the resolved result, so an override
-  may repair an invalid lower-precedence setting when decoding succeeds.
-- Production file selection: explicit `--config`, then
-  `/usr/local/etc/audita/config.yml`, then `/etc/audita/config.yml`. Select one file;
-  do not merge them. Missing system files are skipped; explicit missing or empty
-  paths and inaccessible selected files fail. No selected file fails with a request
-  to configure backend/profile selection: no hidden provider or model default.
-  Remove `AUDITA_CONFIG`. The prototype loads its explicit fixture only; discovery
-  and command parsing belong to the ConfigKit implementation stage.
-- `profiles_dir` defaults to `profiles`, resolved relative to the selected main
-  configuration file, with absolute paths accepted. PromptKit reads that directory.
-  Prompts and schemas are application-embedded, not operator-selected prompt files.
-  The prototype uses complete application-owned profile files. Catalog profiles and
-  profile inheritance are not needed for this migration; do not add catalog wiring.
-- `backends.<id>.endpoint` is required. Use one application backend identity per
-  service capacity pool. Do not split proposal and validation into different backend
-  IDs when they use the same service. Limits are engine-local, not shared across
-  multiple Audita processes or other applications.
-- `backends.<id>.concurrency` defaults to **1**, must be positive, and is shared by
-  both roles and all initial/retry/repair attempts. Operators can select **4** for
-  the described local backend or a suitable finite paid API limit. There is no
-  additional global or per-role limiter. `queue_capacity` defaults to **1024**,
-  following PromptKit; non-negative, with zero meaning no waiting admission.
-  This is an operational escape hatch rather than a second scheduling hierarchy.
-- `backends.<id>.credential` is an optional ConfigKit secret reference: a scalar
-  environment variable name. Omission or null means no credential. A supplied
-  reference must resolve to a nonempty value, including during validation and
-  inspection. There is no direct key field or CLI key flag. ConfigKit resolves it
-  once and Audita supplies `RunRequest.APIKey`. Profiles must not introduce another
-  `api_key_env` lookup. Backend credentials also support unauthenticated local use.
-- Profiles own model, temperature, output token limit, top-p, per-generation timeout,
-  service tier, reasoning effort, and extra provider parameters using PromptKit's
-  format. They select the application `backend`; their effective endpoint must
-  equal that backend's endpoint. Endpoint-only execution is rejected because it
-  bypasses the requested finite capacity boundary. A named registered backend is
-  mandatory even if both roles use the same profile.
-- `llm.proposal_profile` is required. Omitted `llm.validation_profile` inherits the
-  final proposal profile as a whole, with ConfigKit recording the derivation.
-  Explicit empty or null values fail; no individual model/endpoint/key inheritance.
-- `llm.transient_retries` defaults to **2** additional attempts per generation;
-  explicit zero disables retries; negative is invalid. PromptKit owns which failures
-  are eligible. Do not add an Audita retry loop.
-- `llm.repair_attempts` defaults to **2** additional generations for both roles;
-  explicit zero disables repair when deliberately requested. PromptKit supports
-  0–3. Positive defaults are exercised in the prototype. Audita owns this common
-  setting and supplies a complete request output contract with the role's embedded
-  schema, avoiding separate user-facing repair defaults in each prompt.
-- `llm.operation_timeout` defaults to **15m**, must be positive, and uses a Go
-  duration string. It starts before each logical proposal/assessment call and covers
-  preparation, capacity waiting, transient backoff, generation, and repairs. It is
-  separate from whole-process cancellation. Profile `timeout_seconds` defaults to
-  PromptKit's **600** seconds and is applied afresh to each built-in HTTP attempt.
-  It does not bound the combined retry/repair sequence. A stricter caller/transport timeout can
-  also end execution. The two defaults are selected starting points, not throughput
-  measurements. With the default T=2 and R=2, each logical call dispatches at most
-  **9** attempts before deadline/cancellation; proposal plus assessment may use 18.
-- Omission retains static defaults or invokes the recorded role/backend derivations.
-  Null is not a general synonym for omission: nonoptional scalars reject it. Optional
-  credentials and the future optional section target accept null. Explicit empty
-  module lists will mean an empty correction pipeline, not “restore defaults.”
-  Repeated modules retain their existing ordered meaning.
-- The original prototype disabled ConfigKit imports, selected configuration layers
-  (then called configuration profiles), and secret-directory bootstrap. Selected
-  overlays are now verified under the linked overlay decision; the other two
-  features remain disabled. PromptKit execution profiles retain their meaning.
-
-Configuration validation/inspection must assemble and inspect both selected profiles
-without provider calls. ConfigKit's effective YAML describes only its loaded state;
-a separate selected-profile view shows effective model controls/backend selection.
-Do not imply either snapshot alone represents the full execution configuration.
-The prototype exercises the two APIs but does not implement production subcommands.
-Do not serialize raw profile/library objects as a permanent Audita report schema.
-
-## Migration Inventory
-
-This inventory covers the current configuration and process flags documented in
-[configuration](../config.md) and [CLI](../cli.md), including environment-only fields.
-“Retain” below means retain domain meaning in the new schema, not accept old files.
-All legacy environment overlays listed afterward are removed.
-
-| Current file field / setting | Current CLI flag(s) | Target and rationale |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| File selection | `--config` | Retain explicit invocation flag; discovery described above. |
-| Transcript input | positional path | Invocation only; retain one transcript path. |
-| Glossary input | `--glossary` | Invocation only; retain required glossary path. |
-| Corrected output | `--output` | Invocation only; retain stdout fallback. |
-| Report output | `--report-json` | Invocation only; retain separate report file. |
-| `pipeline.modules` | `--modules` | Retain sequence/default `[glossary, homophones, glossary, spoken_word, grammar]`; explicit empty clears rather than inherits. |
-| `output.schema` | `--output-schema` | Retain encoder selection/default `bare-segments`. |
-| `llm.proposal.base_url`, `llm.validation.base_url` | `--base-url`, `--validation-base-url` | Replace with backend endpoint; remove per-role endpoint flags. |
-| Both `llm.*.model` | `--model`, `--validation-model` | Replace with profile model; new `--proposal-profile` / `--validation-profile` select whole profiles. |
-| Both `llm.*.api_key_env`, direct runtime keys | `--llm-api-key`, `--validation-llm-api-key` | Replace with backend ConfigKit secret reference; remove direct key flags. |
-| Both `llm.*.timeout` | `--llm-timeout-seconds`, `--validation-llm-timeout-seconds` | Replace with profile `timeout_seconds`, plus `llm.operation_timeout`; no duplicate timeout flags. |
-| Both `llm.*.max_retries` | `--max-retries`, `--validation-max-retries` | Replace with common `llm.transient_retries` and distinct `llm.repair_attempts`; remove misleading old flags. |
-| `concurrency.total_llm` | `--total-llm-concurrency`, `--llm-concurrency` | Replace with per-backend concurrency; remove global/alias flags. |
-| `concurrency.proposal_llm`, `concurrency.validation_llm` | `--proposal-llm-concurrency`, `--validation-llm-concurrency` | Remove role budgets; shared backend handles service capacity. |
-| Validation prompt budget (no old YAML field) | `--validation-max-prompt-tokens` | Add `validation.max_prompt_tokens`, default 2048, positive; retain explicit flag override. Audita owns batching. |
-| `chunking.target_sections` | `--target-sections` | Retain optional positive target; omission/null means automatic, zero invalid. |
-| `chunking.max_section_tokens` | `--max-section-tokens` | Retain 8192, positive. |
-| `chunking.min_section_tokens` | `--min-section-tokens` | Retain 2048, positive, no greater than maximum. |
-| `normalization.max_segment_gap` | `--normalize-max-segment-gap` | Retain 4.0 numeric seconds, non-negative; drop alternate YAML duration syntax for these domain numeric fields. |
-| `normalization.ellipsis_gap` | `--normalize-ellipsis-gap` | Retain 3.5 numeric seconds, non-negative. |
-| `normalization.max_segment_duration` | `--normalize-max-segment-duration` | Retain 60.0 numeric seconds, positive. |
-| `normalization.max_segment_tokens` | `--normalize-max-segment-tokens` | Retain 2048, positive. |
-| `thresholds.glossary` | `--glossary-confidence-threshold` | Retain 0.8 in [0,1]. |
-| `thresholds.homophones` | `--homophones-confidence-threshold` | Retain 0.8 in [0,1]. |
-| `thresholds.spoken_word` | `--spoken-word-confidence-threshold` | Retain 0.8 in [0,1]. |
-| `thresholds.grammar` | `--grammar-confidence-threshold` | Retain 0.8 in [0,1]. |
-| `context.description` | `--transcript-description` | Retain trimming and 500-byte limit; empty clears context. |
-| `diagnostics.work_dir` | `--work-dir` | Retain `/tmp/audita`, nonempty; artifact lifecycle remains Audita-owned. |
-| `diagnostics.retention` | `--work-dir-retention` | Retain `auto` default and selection; existing `never` follow-up is separate. |
-| Help/version/config commands | `--help`, `-h` | Retain command purpose; help should parse before loading configuration. Effective-config output intentionally becomes ConfigKit YAML, not legacy JSON. |
-
-Retained setting flags become explicit ConfigKit overrides only when supplied;
-CLI parser defaults must not overwrite file values. Normalization flag values stay
-numeric seconds. Domain values convert into existing domain structs after validation;
-do not spread ConfigKit or PromptKit types into correction algorithms.
-
-Complete environment removal map (names remain permissible if explicitly named as
-secret references; none have implicit configuration meaning):
-
-| Old environment names | Replacement |
-| --- | --- |
-| `AUDITA_CONFIG` | File selection above. |
-| `AUDITA_MODULES` | `pipeline.modules` / explicit flag. |
-| `AUDITA_LLM_API_KEY`, `OPENROUTER_API_KEY`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_API_KEY` | Explicit backend credential references; no implicit fallback. |
-| `AUDITA_MODEL`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_MODEL` | Profile files and role selection. |
-| `AUDITA_BASE_URL`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_BASE_URL` | Backend endpoints. |
-| `AUDITA_LLM_TIMEOUT_SECONDS`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_TIMEOUT_SECONDS` | Profile timeout and operation deadline. |
-| `AUDITA_MAX_RETRIES`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_MAX_RETRIES` | Common transient/repair settings. |
-| `AUDITA_TOTAL_LLM_CONCURRENCY`, `AUDITA_LLM_CONCURRENCY`, `AUDITA_PROPOSAL_LLM_CONCURRENCY`, `AUDITA_VALIDATION_LLM_CONCURRENCY` | Backend concurrency; remove alias/role budgets. |
-| `AUDITA_VALIDATION_MAX_PROMPT_TOKENS` | `validation.max_prompt_tokens` / explicit flag. |
-| `AUDITA_TARGET_SECTIONS`, `AUDITA_MAX_SECTION_TOKENS`, `AUDITA_MIN_SECTION_TOKENS` | Corresponding chunking fields / flags. |
-| `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_GAP`, `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_ELLIPSIS_GAP`, `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_DURATION`, `AUDITA_NORMALIZE_MAX_SEGMENT_TOKENS` | Corresponding normalization fields / flags. |
-| `AUDITA_GLOSSARY_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD`, `AUDITA_HOMOPHONES_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD`, `AUDITA_SPOKEN_WORD_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD`, `AUDITA_GRAMMAR_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD` | Corresponding threshold fields / flags. |
-| `AUDITA_WORK_DIR`, `AUDITA_WORK_DIR_RETENTION` | Diagnostics fields / flags. |
-
-## Execution and Failure Mapping
-
-The executable uses grammar proposal plus grammar review, current response schemas,
-current hardening text, transcript-section/description helpers, proposal preview, and
-actual decision-cardinality enforcement from Audita v1.1.0. PromptKit renders the
-adapted templates; the custom HTTP transport supplies OpenAI-compatible responses.
-The prototype pre-expands Audita's `hardening` template function into the embedded
-PromptKit definitions; it passes existing named string variables unchanged. No
-provider, paid call, or injected high-level LLM client participates.
-
-Generated JSON is structurally validated/repaired by PromptKit before Audita decodes
-it. Audita then checks proposal applicability, confidence, and decision identity and
-cardinality. The demonstration previews corrections without mutation. Production
-retains every module's full validator chain, glossary protection, batching, and
-apply-time checks; the representative prototype does not claim to replace them.
-
-| Outcome | Section/batch effect | Overall run |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| Structural repair succeeds | Continue domain validation. | Normal execution. |
-| Proposal repair exhausted | No proposals from this section; malformed-output warning. | Continue other work; successful completion may include warnings. |
-| Assessment repair exhausted | Reject this batch; malformed-output warning. | Continue other work. |
-| Schema-valid invalid/missing/duplicate decision indices | Reject batch and warn; no semantic retry/repair. | Continue other work. |
-| Inapplicable/low-confidence proposal or negative assessment | Reject affected proposal; preserve domain reasons. | Continue other work. |
-| Provider failure, retry exhaustion, transport or malformed HTTP response | Stop affected operation; retain available observations. | Runtime failure; cancel remaining work, retain existing Audita diagnostic handling. |
-| Deadline, caller cancellation, capacity admission failure | Stop affected operation; no outer retry or fabricated output. | Runtime failure with distinct classified cause. |
-| Invalid settings/profile/schema setup | Fail before processing where detectable. | Configuration error for user input, runtime error for broken embedded assets. |
-
-Zero transient retries produces one ordinary provider failure, not
-`ErrRetriesExhausted`; the latter signals an exhausted **positive** budget.
-Provider failures retain a typed cause. Do not expose raw provider messages through
-user diagnostics: continue Audita's separate secret-redaction boundary. A failed
-logical call may return no result while its observations still record completed
-attempts or an earlier successful generation. Already completed domain results can
-remain in diagnostics; failure must not be presented as a fully corrected output.
-
-## Observation and Report Handoff
-
-The prototype maps library events into Audita-owned records under a short mutex.
-Records contain logical run/role/backend/profile identity, generation and attempt
-indices, dispatch state, queue/generation/retry/wall timing, classified outcomes,
-HTTP status, exhaustion, repair/retry counts, and each usage field's value,
-knownness, and completeness. It omits URLs, credentials, payloads, raw provider
-errors, and prompt text. Identifiers themselves are metadata, not a secret channel.
-
-Use terminal records once for logical totals; retain attempt records for diagnosis
-without adding them to terminal totals. A known zero is distinct from unknown;
-partial totals remain incomplete after unmetered failed attempts. These observations
-are not a billing ledger. Callback code must not wait on its own run's progress.
-
-Production report changes must distinguish logical calls from dispatched provider
-attempts. Replace scheduler utilization fields based on global/proposal/validation
-pools with per-backend admission/active timing. Preserve deterministic ledger and
-validator ordering. Map prompt definition/rendered hashes and selected profile/model
-into request metadata, but do not promise equality with legacy prompt hashes or
-serialize PromptKit's raw event struct as the stable report contract. Update the
-output integration reference, report mapper tests, and downstream migration guide
-when the production representation is implemented.
-
-## Verification and Remaining Handoff
-
-The focused matrix is implemented in the nested module:
-
-| Roadmap scenario | Evidence |
-| --- | --- |
-| Successful assembled path | `go run .`; `TestWorkflowBoundaries/repair_both_roles`; actual Audita domain helpers and both selected profiles. |
-| Presence, overrides, inheritance | `TestConfigurationContract`: omitted role/backend values, explicit zero, null/empty, version, unknown keys, and explicit overrides. |
-| Credentials | Missing/unset and empty references fail; optional null accepted; effective/profile inspection redacted; HTTP authorization verified; no secret/prompt text in observations. `TestProfilesRespectSharedBackendBoundary` rejects competing lookup and capacity bypass. |
-| Both roles repaired | `repair_both_roles`: four attempts, two repairs, one accepted correction. |
-| Repair exhausted | Proposal and assessment exhaustion subtests: bounded counts and selected warning/rejection outcomes. |
-| Semantic boundary | Missing span, missing/duplicate decision indices, negative assessment; no semantic repair loop. |
-| Retry/zero/exhaustion | 429 recovery, zero-budget 503, positive-budget exhaustion after completed proposal; typed error assertions. |
-| Combined budgets | 503 → invalid JSON → repair 503 → valid proposal → assessment: five attempts, two transient retries, one repair. |
-| Shared capacity | `TestSharedCapacityAndRecovery`: caps four and two, both roles, a retry and repair, queue rejection, measured peak equal to cap, later successful call. |
-| Waiting/cancellation/deadline | `TestQueuedCancellationAndDeadline`; `TestDeadlineStopsRetryAfter`: no queued dispatch after cancellation/deadline and a 60-second provider retry delay interrupted by the operation deadline. |
-| Failed-run observations | `TestPartialUsageOnFailedRun`: valid HTTP output with known-zero usage followed by repair failure; nil result, retained events, incomplete known aggregate, correct counts. |
-| Representative assets | `TestRealPromptRenderingParity` compares both rendered message pairs to Audita v1.1.0; `TestSchemaFixturesMatchAudita` compares schema bytes. |
-
-Commands executed from `examples/library-adoption` on Linux amd64 with Go 1.26.8:
-
-```sh
-GOWORK=off go mod download all
-GOWORK=off GOPROXY=off GOSUMDB=off go mod verify
-GOWORK=off GOPROXY=off GOSUMDB=off go run .
-GOWORK=off GOPROXY=off GOSUMDB=off go test -race ./...
-GOWORK=off GOPROXY=off GOSUMDB=off go vet ./...
-```
-
-All passed. The demonstration reports accepted=1, rejected=0, attempts=4,
-transient_retries=0, structural_repairs=2. Module verification reports all modules
-verified. Published tag availability was checked with `git ls-remote --tags` for
-ConfigKit v0.3.1 and PromptKit v0.11.0; successful module acquisition verifies this
-is not merely a local-checkout experiment. The module has no replacements.
-
-The minimum Go 1.25.5 toolchain was also exercised with offline tests and the same
-successful demonstration. The exact installed-toolchain invocation was:
-
-```sh
-GOTOOLCHAIN=local GOWORK=off GOPROXY=off GOSUMDB=off /home/eric/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.25.5.linux-amd64/bin/go test ./...
-GOTOOLCHAIN=local GOWORK=off GOPROXY=off GOSUMDB=off /home/eric/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.25.5.linux-amd64/bin/go run .
-```
-
-An initial attempt to select that cached toolchain through `GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.25.5`
-with checksum verification disabled was rejected by Go's toolchain verifier. Using
-the installed binary with `GOTOOLCHAIN=local` proved offline execution without
-weakening dependency checks. The portable README commands assume an installed
-sufficiently new Go executable on PATH and disable toolchain switching.
-
-From the Audita root, `go test ./...` and
-`go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita` passed. These check existing production code;
-they do not cover the nested module. Affected relative documentation links,
-inventory coverage, and `git diff --check` were checked separately.
-
-### Findings and Limits
-
-No adoption-blocking upstream API gap was found. Two integration details deserve
-explicit attention: PromptKit's profile GoDoc calls `timeout_seconds` a generation
-deadline, but its built-in HTTP path applies it separately to each attempt; the
-consumer therefore needs the selected total-operation deadline. Also,
-`APIKeyRequired` is an in-memory profile facility, not a profile-YAML field. The
-file-profile design uses the presence of ConfigKit's optional credential reference
-to require local secret resolution; it does not invent a new PromptKit YAML key.
-
-The chosen defaults are proposed operational policy, not measured model-quality or
-cost recommendations. Tests use controlled transport responses and synthetic data;
-they do not establish real provider compatibility, model quality, network behavior,
-throughput, cross-process coordination, complete billing, or release compliance.
-Only the representative LLM-facing subset is implemented in the prototype; the
-inventory specifies the remaining domain fields for the ConfigKit migration.
-Production file discovery, CLI parsing, full module chains, all nine prompts,
-filesystem diagnostics/redaction, and serialized report migration remain their
-assigned production tasks. Those are deliberate scope boundaries, not missing
-claims of completion for the prototype.
-
-The new profile/credential/capacity and deadline choices are explicit above; no
-unresolved upstream requirement prevents starting the ConfigKit implementation
-plan. Production report field names and final runtime wiring are selected in the
-[implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/cb405f6/docs/roadmap/implementation.md), following the outcome and observation
-contract here. The coordinated refactor targets both libraries directly; intermediate commits do not require a working legacy runtime.
-
-### Production Implementation Reference
-
-The [implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/cb405f6/docs/roadmap/implementation.md) owns ordered production work,
-component changes, tests, and acceptance criteria. The [combined roadmap](library-adoption.md)
-and [configuration roadmap](configkit.md) own the final target. This evidence does
-not require an interim runtime bridge or separately runnable configuration migration.
-
-Retained domain scope includes transcript/glossary schemas, normalization/chunking,
-output encoding, proposals and apply-time checks, deterministic validators, ordered
-modules, LLM-validator batching/cardinality, ledger ordering, and artifact lifecycle.
-The production integration replaces loading, provider execution, prompt rendering,
-and scheduler composition while preserving those responsibilities. Retention and
-timestamp changes remain separate work.
-
-### Distribution Follow-Up
-
-The pinned graph includes ConfigKit, PromptKit, both PromptKit backend catalogs,
-jsonschema/v6, yaml.v3, yaml.v4, x/text, and kr/text (including module/test dependency
-edges). Before distribution, review the actual production dependency graph and
-its license files, including PromptKit/catalog LGPL-3.0-or-later terms. Decide and
-verify the notices, license copies, corresponding library source/modifications,
-and rebuild/relink materials needed for Audita's Go binary/container distribution.
-This unit does not publish binaries or claim that release compliance is complete.
-No upstream relicensing request or library implementation change is required for
-this prototype.
-
-## Selected-Overlay Extension: 2026-09-24
-
-The isolated prototype now pins published ConfigKit v0.4.0. ConfigKit loads
-`overlays/testing.yml` relative to the selected main file; the overlay selects
-complete PromptKit execution profiles from the separate `profiles/` directory.
-The original v0.3.1 observations above are historical and do not prove this
-extension. No production Audita behavior changed.
-
-With Go 1.26.8 on linux/amd64, from `examples/library-adoption/`, these offline
-checks passed with `GOTOOLCHAIN=local GOWORK=off GOPROXY=off GOSUMDB=off`:
-
-```sh
-go test ./...
-go test -race ./...
-go vet ./...
-go run .
-go run . --overlay testing
-go run . --overlay testing --proposal-profile proposal
-```
-
-Each demonstration reported one accepted correction, four attempts, zero
-transient retries, and two structural repairs. The base run selected
-`synthetic-grammar`/`synthetic-review`; testing selected
-`synthetic-grammar-testing`/`synthetic-review-testing`; the explicit proposal
-override restored only `synthetic-grammar`. These are synthetic routing IDs,
-not price, latency, quality, or provider-compatibility measurements.
-
-| Requirement | Consumer evidence |
-| --- | --- |
-| Base, empty/default, testing selection, role overrides, final inheritance, and relative profile resolution | `TestSelectedOverlayConfiguration` loads temporary on-disk layouts and assembles both roles. |
-| Actual base/testing/override HTTP models and repairs | `TestDemonstrationSelectsOutboundModels` captures every request body and matches model IDs to the reported selections and domain outcome. |
-| Missing/invalid selection, version/directive rejection, and ordinary backend-setting validation | `TestOverlayFailuresAndApplicationValidation` checks ConfigKit diagnostic codes and effective backend limits. |
-| Surviving credential resolution, absent/empty failures, null unauthenticated use, and profile-only switching | `TestOverlayCredentialResolutionAndInspection` controls synthetic environment values and observes HTTP Authorization. |
-| Redacted effective output, explanation and metadata origin, profile inspection, and observations | `TestOverlayCredentialResolutionAndInspection` and `TestOverlaySelectionProvenance` inspect safe output and overlay/CLI origins. |
-| Existing retry, repair, domain, capacity, and concurrent-observation behavior | `TestWorkflowBoundaries`, `TestSharedCapacityAndRecovery`, `TestQueuedCancellationAndDeadline`, `TestDeadlineStopsRetryAfter`, and `TestPartialUsageOnFailedRun` pass, including under `-race`. |
-
-Changing a profile does not remove a backend credential reference from the
-effective configuration. ConfigKit validates a surviving reference when only
-profile selection changes. Replacing the reference in an
-overlay resolves only the replacement; explicit null allows unauthenticated use.
-This distinction is part of the selected configuration boundary, not an
-application fallback. Imports and secret-directory bootstrap remain disabled.
-
-The tests use a controlled built-in HTTP transport and synthetic credentials;
-there were no live provider calls. The prototype still covers one representative
-proposal/assessment pair, not all production modules, prompts, CLI paths, or
-diagnostic artifacts. Root `go test ./...` does not run this nested module. No
-upstream API gap appeared in this extension. The [production implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/cb405f6/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
-keeps implementation and release pending.

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@@ -1,269 +0,0 @@
-# Library Adoption: Shared Boundary and Prototype
-
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-24
-
-**Status:** Original boundary-design and offline-prototype unit completed;
-overlay extension and production-planning handoff completed, 2026-09-24.
-The work packages below retain the original scope;
-[decisions, evidence, limitations, and handoff](library-boundary-findings.md)
-record the outcome. The executable prototype was removed after production
-integration; Git history at `590604b` retains it. No publication or upstream
-changes were made in that historical unit.
-
-## Next Unit: Testing Overlays and Production Migration Plan
-
-**Status:** Complete. The [production implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/cb405f6/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
-owns subsequent work; the [overlay findings](library-boundary-findings.md#selected-overlay-extension-2026-09-24)
-record this unit's checks. The original work packages below remain
-historical scope for the completed first unit.
-
-Extend the existing prototype to prove the [selected-overlay contract](configkit.md#selected-overlays-for-testing)
-with ConfigKit v0.4.0, then turn the verified findings into a detailed production
-ConfigKit migration plan. Do not repeat the original inventory or redesign the
-established library boundary without new evidence.
-
-Required work:
-
-- Upgrade only the nested prototype module from ConfigKit v0.3.1 to v0.4.0.
-- Pass an explicit overlay selection through ConfigKit and add `overlays/testing.yml`
-  plus two PromptKit testing profiles. Select both roles and retain one shared
-  finite backend. Synthetic model names demonstrate routing; they do not benchmark
-  real model cost, speed, or quality.
-- Make the offline executable accept overlay and explicit role-profile selections,
-  and show the selected models alongside domain outcomes and retry/repair counts.
-- Verify base/overlay/CLI precedence, role inheritance, invalid selections,
-  surviving credential references, safe inspection, and overlay provenance.
-  Prove the actual HTTP request models for both roles; loading changed strings
-  alone is insufficient evidence.
-- Record new results separately from the historical v0.3.1 findings. Expand the
-  existing ConfigKit roadmap into a concrete production implementation handoff,
-  including final runtime integration and removal of legacy configuration.
-
-Target end state: reviewers can run the prototype with and without the testing
-selection and see both LLM roles switch models. The offline test suite establishes
-that selection, inspection, and execution agree, and the production ConfigKit work
-has bounded tasks with explicit acceptance criteria.
-
-Acceptance criteria:
-
-- The published v0.4.0 dependency is pinned without local replacements; the original
-  no-overlay path and existing integration tests continue to pass.
-- `testing` switches both roles, explicit profile flags override its selections,
-  and omission/empty/`default` retains base selection according to ConfigKit.
-- Invalid overlays fail clearly; inheritance and secret resolution use surviving
-  effective settings. Inspection records overlay origin without disclosing keys.
-- Both selected testing models reach the controlled HTTP transport; structural
-  repair, shared capacity, observations, and Audita domain checks remain active.
-- Updated examples, executable instructions, findings, and a detailed production
-  migration plan are reviewable. Exact verification commands and limitations are
-  recorded, including the fact that root tests do not cover the nested module.
-- Production code, root dependencies, and upstream libraries remain unchanged.
-  No release or live provider call is part of this unit.
-
-This unit ends with a production migration **plan**, not production implementation.
-The ConfigKit → PromptKit → combined release sequence remains unchanged. Imports
-and secret-directory bootstrap remain disabled; PromptKit execution profiles keep
-their existing names and meaning.
-
-## Objective
-
-Define and prove the boundary between Audita, ConfigKit, and PromptKit before
-replacing Audita's production configuration or LLM runtime. This unit covers the
-shared design and representative prototype supporting the
-[coordinated adoption roadmap](library-adoption.md). The
-[ConfigKit roadmap](configkit.md) continues to own the broader configuration scope.
-
-The deliverable is a concrete target contract supported by an offline executable
-prototype, sufficient to implement the ConfigKit migration without subsequently
-redesigning its LLM-facing settings. A successful prototype is not completion of
-either production migration.
-
-## Established Direction
-
-- This is an intentional breaking migration with a migration guide, not legacy
-  configuration support, aliases, or a permanent compatibility mode.
-- ConfigKit owns shared configuration mechanics; PromptKit owns shared prompt and
-  generation mechanics; Audita retains domain meaning and transcript correction.
-- Structural repair is enabled from the outset for proposal and LLM-validator calls.
-  Positive default repair budgets must be selected, not silently left at zero.
-- Transient retries and structural repair are separate. Explicit zero disables
-  transient retries; Audita must not add a second automatic retry loop.
-- One finite concurrency limit per backend protects local capacity and bounds paid
-  API activity. Calls from both roles share that limit. Fine-grained role budgets
-  and an additional global concurrency control are unnecessary.
-- Keep the sequence: boundary/prototype, ConfigKit migration, PromptKit migration,
-  then combined major release. No intermediate public release is planned.
-
-## Scope and Deliverables
-
-| Deliverable | Required result |
-| --- | --- |
-| Configuration inventory and migration map | Every existing setting and invocation option has a proposed destination, replacement, or removal, with rationale. |
-| Boundary specification | One authoritative source for each setting, explicit precedence/defaults, credential flow, runtime conversion, and failure handling. |
-| Representative executable prototype | New-style configuration drives one proposal and one assessment through released libraries and a controlled provider. |
-| Focused behavioral evidence | Retry, repair, capacity, credential, observation, and domain-boundary scenarios below are demonstrated. |
-| Decision and integration handoff | Concrete choices, measured limitations, affected components, removal plan, and next implementation tasks are recorded. |
-
-Do not switch the production CLI to the prototype, migrate every module/prompt,
-redesign transcript/glossary formats, change correction algorithms, modify retention
-or timestamp behavior, or publish a release in this unit. Do not reproduce the
-libraries' full test suites. Upstream changes require a separately scoped task if
-an actual gap is found.
-
-## Work Package 1: Inventory and Decide Ownership
-
-Read the current [configuration](../config.md), [CLI](../cli.md),
-[LLM runtime](../internal/llm-runtime.md), [prompts](../internal/prompts.md),
-[validators](../internal/validators.md), and [output contracts](../integrations/output-files.md).
-Use graph-first discovery to verify the relevant code and tests, especially
-configuration application, prompt construction, structured responses, scheduling,
-and report assembly.
-
-Build a migration table grouped by application/domain settings, invocation state,
-backend settings, execution profiles, output contracts, and inspection. Include
-current environment settings and aliases without treating their existence as a
-requirement to preserve them. Identify report fields whose meanings change when
-one logical generation contains multiple provider attempts.
-
-Resolve these design decisions explicitly:
-
-| Decision | Proposed direction to prove |
-| --- | --- |
-| File selection and version | Audita selects the main configuration and validates a new schema version; specify discovery and the treatment of old versions. |
-| Application versus invocation state | ConfigKit loads persistent settings; Audita parses invocation-only input/output paths and translates explicitly supplied setting flags into supported overrides. |
-| Backend identity | One registration represents the service capacity shared by proposal and validation calls. Avoid separate identities for the same service merely because roles differ. |
-| Endpoint and capacity ownership | Define them once per backend, with finite limits and an explicit policy for waiting capacity/exhaustion. Do not expose endpoint-only unlimited execution accidentally. |
-| Execution profiles | Prefer complete application-owned profiles using PromptKit conventions. Decide their source and selection without duplicating model/settings fields in application configuration. Catalog selection remains a deliberate option. |
-| Role selection and inheritance | Specify how proposal and validation choose profiles, including omission and any inheritance. Do not inherit old behavior solely for compatibility. |
-| Credentials | Prefer one ConfigKit-owned secret-resolution path passed through PromptKit's supported request credential field. Define backend/profile credential association and avoid competing environment lookups. Validate this against profile requirements. |
-| Retry, repair, and deadlines | Assign one owner and explicit defaults for each control. Use positive structural-repair defaults and document combined limits and total-operation scope. |
-| Optional library features | The original prototype omitted imports, selected configuration layers, and secret-directory bootstrap. Selected overlays are now planned for testing; see the [overlay plan](configkit.md#selected-overlays-for-testing). Imports and secret-directory bootstrap remain out. |
-| Inspection | Define effective configuration and selected-profile inspection without implying that one library's snapshot contains the other's complete state. |
-
-Choose concrete field names, example values, defaults, units, and omission/null/zero
-semantics for the prototype. In particular, decide what validation and inspection
-do when configured credentials are unavailable. Classify choices as proposed,
-selected, or unresolved; do not present candidates as implemented contracts.
-
-## Work Package 2: Specify Execution and Reporting Semantics
-
-Document the flow from selected configuration through backend/profile assembly,
-prompt inputs, generation, structural validation/repair, typed decoding, and Audita
-domain validation. Identify which values cross the boundary and which component
-owns each conversion. Keep library types out of unrelated domain code where a
-small existing domain value is sufficient.
-
-Use the current correction-set and validator-decision schemas as representative
-inputs. Reuse domain checks where practical. Select one real proposal/validator
-pair; account for prompt helpers, template variables, shared fragments, and schema
-references rather than testing only an unrelated hello-world prompt.
-
-Record the following distinctions:
-
-- Repair seeks output conforming to its structural contract. Success does not
-  establish semantic correctness or authorize applying a correction.
-- A schema-valid decision set still requires Audita's cardinality and proposal
-  identity checks. Semantic rejection is not automatically another repair request.
-- Exhausted structural repair yields failed content validation; provider failures,
-  retry exhaustion, cancellation, and capacity rejection have separate outcomes.
-- Specify each outcome's intended effect on an Audita section/batch and overall run,
-  including warnings, rejected work, partial domain results, and terminal failures.
-  Preserve domain intent without preserving obsolete transport behavior by accident.
-- For transient retry budget T and structural repair budget R, one logical call can
-  dispatch up to `(T + 1) * (R + 1)` provider attempts. For example, T=2 and R=2
-  permits nine attempts; these illustrative values do not select production defaults.
-- Choose the total-operation deadline scope for a logical proposal or assessment;
-  distinguish it from per-attempt timeouts and whole-process cancellation. Provider
-  retry timing may exceed local backoff, so deadline behavior must be explicit.
-
-Design the Audita observation record and aggregation rules. Include logical-call
-and attempt identity, role/backend correlation, queue/generation/retry timing,
-repair and retry counts, outcomes, and available usage. Preserve unknown/incomplete
-usage rather than inventing zeros or complete costs. Do not add terminal totals to
-attempt totals. Collect events safely across concurrent calls, without blocking
-callbacks on progress by the same run or persisting raw library events as a stable
-Audita schema. Transcript-bearing artifacts remain separately governed by Audita.
-
-## Work Package 3: Build the Bounded Offline Prototype
-
-Use ConfigKit v0.3.1 and PromptKit v0.11.0 as reviewed starting points; verify their
-published availability and APIs before pinning the prototype. Recheck the combined
-Go minimum (the reviewed PromptKit release requires Go 1.25.5). Do not depend on
-sibling checkouts, an active Go workspace, or committed local module replacements.
-
-A proposed home is `examples/library-adoption/` as an explicitly experimental,
-standalone Go module, isolating prototype dependencies from the production binary.
-Confirm this placement during execution. Its README must give exact offline run
-and test commands after dependency acquisition; root `go test ./...` must not be
-claimed to cover a nested module. Keep complete proposed configuration and prompt
-fixtures with it and clearly label them as prototype-only.
-
-The prototype should:
-
-1. Load representative application settings with ConfigKit, using synthetic secret
-   values supplied by the test environment and an application-owned version rule.
-2. Assemble shared backend registrations and proposal/validation profile selections.
-3. Supply representative transcript/proposal inputs to PromptKit definitions and
-   actual response schemas using supported sources.
-4. Use the built-in HTTP generation path with a controlled local endpoint or
-   transport. An injected LLM client alone cannot prove built-in HTTP retry behavior.
-5. Run proposal generation, decode and check candidates, run assessment, and perform
-   the selected Audita decision checks without modifying real transcript files.
-6. Collect selected safe observations and show a compact result understandable to a
-   reviewer, including repaired output and final domain acceptance/rejection.
-
-No paid calls, real credentials, host environment assumptions, persistent caches,
-or general-purpose test framework are needed. Make concurrency and cancellation
-checks deterministic through controlled synchronization. Keep delays bounded and
-use library-supported controls; do not patch library internals to make tests pass.
-
-## Focused Verification Matrix
-
-| Scenario | Evidence required |
-| --- | --- |
-| Successful assembled path | ConfigKit-loaded selections drive both real prompt roles through PromptKit and Audita checks. |
-| Presence, overrides, and inheritance | Representative omission, explicit values, and role selection follow the proposed contract; unknown fields and unsupported versions fail clearly. |
-| Credentials | Required missing/empty references fail as intended; controlled calls receive the chosen synthetic credential; inspection and observations do not expose it. |
-| Structural repair succeeds | Invalid proposal output and invalid assessment output are repaired in their respective workflows; positive budgets are actually exercised. |
-| Repair exhausted | Repeated invalid output produces the selected Audita outcome and accurate accounting, without an unbounded outer retry. |
-| Domain rejection | Structurally valid but unacceptable correction or decision is rejected by Audita, demonstrating the semantic boundary. |
-| Transient retry and explicit zero | An eligible temporary status recovers; zero makes one attempt. Exhaustion retains a useful classified cause. |
-| Combined repair and retry | A repaired generation encountering a transient failure respects both budgets and reports distinct counts. |
-| Shared capacity | Concurrent calls from both roles, including retry/repair activity, stay within one selected backend cap; test a representative local cap of four and a finite API cap. |
-| Waiting, cancellation, and deadline | Cancellation/deadline stops pending work and retry waits; capacity exhaustion has the intended application outcome and later calls can still proceed. |
-| Failed-run observations | Completed work remains observable after later failure; unknown usage, known zero, and aggregate counts are mapped correctly. |
-
-Tests should protect Audita's integration decisions and important assembled behavior.
-Rely on PromptKit's tests for exhaustive HTTP-status, backoff, and scheduler details;
-rely on ConfigKit's tests for its parser and presence machinery. Use race testing for
-new concurrent observation collection. Keep consumer checks offline and credential-free.
-
-## Completion Criteria and Handoff
-
-This unit is complete only when:
-
-- The settings/ownership table and migration inventory are concrete enough to start
-  the ConfigKit migration, including file/profile sources, CLI scope, credentials,
-  defaults, finite backend limits, positive repair budgets, and deadline policy.
-- The offline prototype and focused matrix demonstrate the selected boundary with
-  both libraries together, including both LLM roles and Audita domain checks.
-- Exact verification commands, results, limitations, and unresolved upstream gaps
-  are recorded. Missing evidence is not reported as successful integration.
-- No adoption-critical decision remains hidden in prototype code. If a gap prevents
-  settling the boundary, record it and revise the plan before declaring readiness.
-- The existing Audita production behavior remains intact in this unit. Temporary
-  code is clearly isolated and has a removal/integration destination during the
-  production migrations; no second supported runtime is introduced.
-- A component-level follow-up identifies code to replace, domain code to retain,
-  tests to update, documentation/migration-guide work, and direct integration of
-  the final configuration and PromptKit runtime.
-- Licensing/distribution follow-up for the selected dependency graph is identified
-  for the later release stage; this prototype does not claim release compliance.
-- Roadmap links and examples resolve, appropriate checks pass, and commits contain
-  only this unit's work. Significant settled architectural choices may be recorded
-  in an ADR under the [documentation policy](../policy/documentation.md), while
-  implementation status stays in the roadmaps.
-
-Retain the overall adoption order unless evidence or the other planned large changes
-justifies revising it. Completing this unit enables detailed production migration;
-it does not authorize an intermediate release or require unrelated runtime fixes.

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@@ -1,252 +0,0 @@
-# Standard Policy Alignment
-
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-28
-
-**Status:** Implemented. This roadmap replaces its earlier licensing-only scope
-and records the accepted end state. [implementation.md](implementation.md)
-records the ordered work and verification; the adopted policies are in
-`docs/policy/`.
-
-## Purpose and Review Revision
-
-Align Audita with [Standard Repository Policies](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy),
-using identical policy language except where a substantive, locally significant
-requirement or decision justifies a variation. Adopt upstream wording verbatim
-for non-substantive differences. Perform the required template customizations
-without inventing application contracts, restrictions, or guarantees.
-
-The accepted review compared Audita's current documents directly against upstream
-commit **`d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843`**, beginning with the
-[adoption and update guide at that revision](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/adoption.md).
-Use that revision for this adoption. Historical adoption baselines need not be
-reconstructed or assessed. A later upstream revision requires deliberate review,
-not an automatic substitution during implementation.
-
-The public upstream repository, discovery links, and copied-policy attribution
-are part of the accepted direction. This supersedes the earlier instruction to
-omit references to the policy repository.
-
-## Current Baseline
-
-- Audita has five adopted policies: agents 1.0, architecture 1.0, documentation
-  1.1, testing 1.0, and release 1.0. None has per-document `Upstream Source`
-  metadata. `meta.md` and `oss.md` are absent.
-- [AGENTS.md](../../AGENTS.md) routes readers to the contributor guide and agent
-  policy. [docs/development.md](../development.md) has component-specific reading
-  guidance, but lacks the upstream selective Policy Reading Guide and currently
-  directs all tasks to the architecture policy.
-- [COPYRIGHT](../../COPYRIGHT) and [LICENSE](../../LICENSE) already establish
-  Audita's GPL-3.0-or-later application grant and full GPLv3 text. The grant does
-  not yet identify the scope of separately licensed copied policy documents.
-- There is no canonical `docs/oss/attribution.md` or local dependency license-text
-  collection. Relevant component notices still require an evidence-based inventory.
-- The [README](../../README.md) lacks the prescribed final licensing statements.
-  The [release procedure](../release.md) lacks licensing-footer instructions, and
-  the [release workflow](../../.woodpecker/release.yml) does not explicitly reuse
-  checked-in release notes as hosted release bodies.
-- Audita already releases through one publication command with an atomic source
-  and tag push. Linux amd64 and arm64 are required; macOS arm64 is best-effort
-  development support. Successful publication completes the release without
-  waiting for CI or artifact delivery.
-
-## Targeted Policy Set and Justified Customizations
-
-All seven policy files belong under `docs/policy/`. The versions below are those
-at the selected upstream revision. No existing policy is wholly unchanged;
-existing architectural decisions and platform commitments need no substantive
-revision merely to align the text.
-
-| Policy | Target version | Required alignment and justified local treatment |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| `agents.md` | 1.3 | Adopt upstream substantive language verbatim. Retain Audita's graph-first Codebase Discovery section because it is an explicitly selected repository workflow. |
-| `architecture.md` | 1.3 | Adopt general ownership, boundary, and constraint guidance, then perform the template's required application-specific customization. Preserve Audita's ordered pipeline, ConfigKit/PromptKit responsibilities, deterministic processing, recovery, concurrency, and secret-handling decisions. These describe real project requirements rather than stylistic preferences. |
-| `documentation.md` | 1.11 | Adopt upstream prose and applicable ownership rows. Retain concrete output-contract ownership, contributor change recipes, and the decision to place operating/recovery guidance in operations instead of restoring troubleshooting documentation. Omit HTTP API and public Go API ownership rows because Audita has neither responsibility. |
-| `testing.md` | 1.3 | Adopt substantive text verbatim. Its distinction between established contracts and invented test requirements needs no local exception. |
-| `release.md` | 1.4 | Adopt upstream substantive language. Preserve Linux amd64/arm64 requirements, best-effort macOS arm64, unsupported Windows/macOS amd64, and Audita's explicit decision against human release gates. These are selected support and workflow commitments. |
-| `meta.md` | 1.0 | Adopt provenance, local authority, and public discovery guidance with accurate metadata and local attribution navigation. No additional substantive exception is needed. |
-| `oss.md` | 1.8 | Adopt the House Format and maintenance rules, with required project-specific facts and reference links. Preserve Audita's GPL-3.0-or-later application grant, Gitea host, and existing distribution channels. |
-
-Remove each `Base Policy Template` section after carrying out its instructions.
-Keep local customizations identifiable and explain their project-specific reason
-in the appropriate policy; do not maintain alternate paraphrases of shared rules.
-Architecture customization does not authorize a package redesign or additional
-threat-model guarantees. Supporting documents are warranted by existing
-responsibilities and substantive content, not by unused template examples.
-
-Successful-tag-push completion, asynchronous artifacts, minimal automated gates,
-and proportionate validation are now shared upstream rules. Replace Audita's
-parallel explanations with the upstream language rather than describing these
-as continuing exceptions. Keep concrete commands, remotes, build targets, and
-publication mechanics in the release procedure with appropriate policy links.
-
-## Provenance and Selective Reading
-
-For every adopted policy, retain the selected upstream `Base Policy Version`,
-set `Last Updated` to its actual local adoption date, and introduce `Upstream
-Source` linking to that exact file at the selected full commit. The URL pattern is:
-
-```text
-https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/docs/policy/<filename>.md
-```
-
-Substitute each of `agents`, `architecture`, `documentation`, `testing`, `release`,
-`meta`, and `oss`; a repository-root or shared generic source link is insufficient.
-These links describe the source actually incorporated, not a reconstructed claim
-about older local documents. Git and per-document metadata are sufficient; no
-separate synchronization registry or recurring check is required.
-
-In `meta.md`, retain these public discovery destinations:
-
-- [Standard Repository Policies](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy).
-- [Current adoption and update guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/branch/main/docs/adoption.md).
-
-Discovery links follow the current upstream project and guide. Adopted-source,
-notice, and example links remain commit-pinned. Preserve valid pinned example
-references supplied by the selected policy, or pin them to this review revision
-after checking the referenced assets; do not turn them into moving-branch links.
-
-Adapt upstream `agents/AGENTS.md` into Audita's root orientation, retaining its
-existing applicable instructions. Add the adoption guide's Policy Reading Guide
-to `docs/development.md` and retain the component-specific task guide. Route
-policy adoption and updates to `meta.md`, repository recommendations and changes
-to agents, application-code or structure work to architecture, validation choices
-to testing, documentation work to documentation, dependency/licensing work to
-OSS, and release/versioning work to release policy. Read applicable policies
-before their decisions, reuse unchanged context, and expand reading with scope.
-Do not require reading the entire suite for every task.
-
-## Copied Policy Licensing and Local Material
-
-Follow the selected revision's
-[canonical policy attribution entry](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/examples/licensing/policy-attribution.md)
-and [project grant](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/policy/src/commit/d84a38ebab26f048cafbe59a2246700c35d29843/COPYRIGHT).
-Insert the entry beneath the title in `docs/oss/attribution.md`, substitute the
-full review commit in all three URLs, and accurately identify copied/adapted
-material, including orientation or reading-guide text where copied. Preserve
-supplied creator, copyright, license, disclaimer notices, and modification
-indications. Keep the material statement concise.
-
-Copy `CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt` into `docs/oss/licenses/`. Add the adoption guide's scoped
-notice to `COPYRIGHT`, identifying the adapted policies as CC-BY-SA-4.0 and
-routing readers to attribution for the affected material. Account accurately for
-other copied guidance in that scope. Audita's application code remains
-GPL-3.0-or-later; unrelated documentation is not automatically relicensed.
-The root GPLv3 `LICENSE` needs no change.
-
-| Material | Destination or treatment |
-| --- | --- |
-| Applicable policies, including `meta.md` and `oss.md` | Copy and customize under `docs/policy/`, retaining provenance. |
-| Upstream `agents/AGENTS.md` | Adapt into root `AGENTS.md`. |
-| Selective reading guidance | Integrate into Audita's own `docs/development.md`. |
-| Upstream README, root AGENTS.md, developer guide, and adoption guide | Keep upstream and consult through links; do not copy as local guides. |
-| Licensing example collection | Keep upstream with commit-pinned references; use it to create actual notices. Original example formatting is CC0 and alone needs no policy attribution entry. |
-| Applicable standard and companion license texts | Copy complete, unmodified texts locally; no blanket collection. |
-
-## Component Attribution
-
-Complete the previously agreed inventory of relevant incorporated or distributed
-components: direct and transitive dependencies, copied code/documentation/assets,
-and applicable Go runtime notices. Determine inclusion from actual material and
-use, not simply presence in `go.mod`; tooling or consultation alone does not
-require an entry. Inspect selected sources directly rather than copying a
-dependency's attribution document wholesale.
-
-Use the exact House Format in OSS policy 1.8: the prescribed title followed by
-component entries, factual identification, applicable supplied copyrights and
-SPDX expressions, standard license/notice labels, and `[Source](COMMIT_URL).`
-links. Omit unavailable optional fields instead of adding explanatory filler.
-Preserve required upstream material, license alternatives, and exceptions.
-Keep research narratives, compliance conclusions, and exception reasoning out
-of attribution; place reasoning in the OSS policy or an appropriate decision
-record. This replaces the older roadmap's permission to put exception reasoning
-in a component entry.
-
-Upstream component and notice links identify exact imported commits. Local
-standard texts include directly reachable companions, such as GPLv3 for LGPLv3.
-Apply the adopted house interpretation of notice links without blanket extra
-local-copy requirements or repeated approval. Concrete obligations beyond notice
-reproduction receive their own applicable treatment; the format alone does not
-certify compatibility or resolve every distribution obligation.
-
-The reviewed dependency revisions remain useful starting evidence, subject to
-checking the dependencies selected when implementation occurs:
-
-| Component | Reviewed version | Source commit |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| ConfigKit | v0.4.1 | `0adb94f59e44827908eff401d4381a398fe17107` |
-| PromptKit | v0.11.1 | `15e40679546f2e21b6f51cc84b6f0a087a8486db` |
-| OpenRouter catalog | v2.20260926.0 | `4f731d217e0bc39151c010f50fb5912706e7b6b3` |
-| Rakestrawhome catalog | v2.20260926.0 | `48918a3ad39fd99843cda94a86133b1b3881d596` |
-
-These library patches changed licensing/documentation rather than library code
-or catalog profiles. ConfigKit and PromptKit identify LGPL-3.0-or-later; the
-selected catalogs identify MIT. Other relevant dependencies still need inventory.
-
-## Discoverability and Release Integration
-
-End README with the project-license and attribution statements prescribed by the
-OSS policy, using Audita's actual grant. `COPYRIGHT` owns the separately licensed
-policy scope; README links to that grant and the attribution document.
-
-Update `docs/release.md` to specify the final `COPYRIGHT | LICENSE | ATTRIBUTION`
-links in every new release note and hosted download page. Use absolute Gitea URLs
-at the release's immutable tag or source commit. Reuse the checked-in note as the
-hosted body where supported; verify the publication plugin's supported mechanism
-and make the necessary focused `.woodpecker/release.yml` change. Avoid separately
-maintained release prose or notice lists.
-
-Preserve the current atomic source/tag publication approach, supported targets,
-and completion point. Align procedure wording with upstream's preparation,
-ambiguous-push recovery, and asynchronous retry rules. Handle completed-roadmap
-retirement during preparation, preserving planned/deferred work and repairing
-links; this roadmap update does not authorize deleting other roadmaps now.
-
-Check intended future-tag paths against the candidate source without requiring
-the tag to resolve before publication. Apply the formatting convention
-prospectively; leave published tags, notes, artifacts, and checksums intact.
-Concrete historical omissions, if discovered, receive deliberate treatment under
-their applicable terms and release correction rules.
-
-## Work Required and Acceptance Criteria
-
-Implementation covers the seven policy documents, `AGENTS.md`,
-`docs/development.md`, `COPYRIGHT`, `docs/oss/attribution.md`, applicable files in
-`docs/oss/licenses/`, README, the release procedure, and focused hosted-body
-publication wiring. Update this roadmap's implementation status when appropriate.
-The [implementation plan](implementation.md) owns the editing sequence and
-verification steps.
-
-The work is complete when:
-
-- Shared policy language matches the selected upstream revision after required
-  template removal and customization; retained variations have substantive
-  Audita-specific reasons as identified above.
-- All seven policies have accurate versions, adoption dates, and file-specific
-  commit-pinned source links. Public discovery links and selective orientation
-  are in place, with no leftover template-only instructions or broken links.
-- Copied policy/guidance scope, modification status, credit, CC-BY-SA text, and
-  root grant notice follow the documented upstream arrangement while preserving
-  Audita's application license.
-- Relevant components have verified House Format entries, exact source/notice
-  commits, and complete applicable license texts, without editorial commentary.
-- README and future release documentation provide the required navigation, and
-  hosted release content comes from the checked-in note through a verified
-  publication mechanism.
-- Audita's application contracts, architectural decisions, platform commitments,
-  release completion semantics, and published history are preserved.
-- Affected text, links, license copies, metadata, and publication configuration
-  pass proportionate review and validation. No release is needed solely to test
-  adoption; behavioral workflow changes receive focused validation if required.
-
-## Scope Boundaries and Open Questions
-
-No policy decisions remain open for the agreed scope. Component-specific notices
-and the publication plugin's supported release-body mechanism require factual
-verification during implementation. Raise a decision only for a concrete
-unresolved obligation or material tradeoff uncovered by that work.
-
-This feature does not require application refactoring, dependency upgrades,
-mandatory scanners, a full SBOM, recurring legal approvals, synchronization
-checks, additional human release gates, publication-time network checks, or CI
-waiting. The documentation convention alone does not require downloadable
-license assets, source bundles, or a different binary package format.

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+# PromptKit v0.12.0 Adoption Roadmap
+
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-04
+
+**Status:** Complete. The implementation plan records the ordered work and
+verification details.
+
+## Purpose and Baseline
+
+Adopt PromptKit v0.12.0 now that the independent
+[ConfigKit v0.5.0 upgrade](configkit.md) is complete. Align Audita with the
+libraries' native configuration model while retaining Audita's domain rules,
+application-owned backend settings, and resilient processing workflow.
+
+At reviewed Audita revision `8cba751835ba9faad340e933a3cfbb59c03924fd`,
+[go.mod](../../go.mod) selects ConfigKit v0.5.0 and PromptKit v0.11.2, with
+OpenRouter and Rakestrawhome `/v2` catalogs at `v2.20260926.0`. Go 1.25.5
+remains the application minimum. The implemented contracts belong to
+[configuration](../config.md), the
+[LLM integration](../integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md), and the
+[LLM runtime](../internal/llm-runtime.md).
+
+`internal/framework/llm.NewRuntime` currently assembles one engine using the
+old prompt/profile filesystem options and programmatic backend registration.
+Audita embeds seven prompt definitions and separate response schemas. Operators
+select proposal and validation profiles from `profiles_dir`; the effective
+backend must be registered in application configuration, its endpoint must
+match, and its credential comes from Audita's ConfigKit-resolved settings.
+Successful profile reads are recorded to protect those sources from output
+collisions. Both roles share the same engine's backend admission controls.
+
+The reviewed upstream release is
+[PromptKit v0.12.0](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/releases/v0.12.0.md),
+commit `4b8169da286917fde7875425bb32b799b12c6af3`. It depends on ConfigKit
+v0.5.0 and both maintained `/v3` catalog modules at `v3.20260930.0`. This is an
+intentional incompatible pre-1.0 minor release: it replaces construction and
+configuration APIs, rather than simply updating provider data. PromptKit's
+[format reference](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/formats.md)
+and [consumer migration guide](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit/src/tag/v0.12.0/docs/consumers/pkg-promptkit.md#migrate-from-the-previous-configuration-api)
+own the upstream details.
+
+## Target End State
+
+- Audita imports released PromptKit v0.12.0 and its `/v3` catalogs, retaining
+  ConfigKit v0.5.0 and using no local dependency replacement.
+- The runtime uses `Config.Sources` and native ConfigKit source groups.
+  PromptKit owns composition, inheritance, presence, final-definition
+  validation, prompt capture, and execution. Audita does not translate old
+  profiles or implement a second YAML loader or inheritance resolver.
+- Embedded prompts and maintained operator profiles use keyed `prompts` and
+  `profiles` mappings. Existing prompt IDs, versions, role selections,
+  instructions, and response-schema associations remain the adoption baseline.
+  The application configuration schema, overlay selection, CLI interface, and
+  main-file-relative `profiles_dir` resolution remain in place.
+- Native profile `extends`, field-presence semantics, and source-relative
+  resource rules apply. Documents can contain multiple definitions, and IDs
+  come from mapping keys rather than filenames. The existing `profiles_dir`
+  accepts native unified PromptKit documents containing profiles, backends,
+  and prompts, including intentional operator prompt overrides.
+- Application backend endpoints, configured concurrency and queue capacity,
+  and credential ownership remain authoritative for selected roles. Preserve
+  the existing profile-selection and prepared-target checks; do not introduce
+  a second admission controller or implicit provider credential lookup.
+- A runtime uses one captured configuration snapshot for both roles. Each CLI
+  invocation constructs a new engine; hot reload is not part of this feature.
+  Existing inspection remains offline and safe, and consumed host sources
+  remain protected from output collisions.
+- PromptKit retains responsibility for transport retries, schema repair,
+  observation, and prepared execution. Preserve Audita's configured retry and
+  repair budgets, operation deadlines, cancellation, partial-success behavior,
+  error/recovery reporting, and debug selection.
+
+## Configuration Assembly and Ownership
+
+Replace removed `WithPromptFS`, `WithProfileFS`, and `WithBackend` usage with
+the released source API. Discover embedded YAML through `FilesystemInputs` and
+operator YAML through `DirectoryInputs`, with explicit caller tiers. Keep the
+retained schema filesystem integration and HTTP client configuration.
+Use the helpers' default-disabled imports; this adoption does not require new
+application source-selection flags or operator underlay tiers.
+
+PromptKit supplies catalog definitions first and its own defaults next. Caller
+tiers then overlay in their supplied order, followed by an optional highest
+priority main input. Files within one directory group compose strictly;
+alphabetical filenames do not establish override precedence. Use separate
+tiers for genuine priority differences rather than manufacturing file-order
+semantics.
+
+Represent application backend settings as a final programmatic source, using
+`BackendSource` or ConfigKit mappings where explicit null is needed. Preserve
+configured zero queue capacity as an explicit value. Suppress backend-derived
+credential environment lookup explicitly where catalog layering would otherwise
+introduce it; omission alone can retain a lower-tier value. Continue detecting
+competing effective profile credential lookups rather than silently clearing
+operator profile fields. A missing backend credential remains valid for an
+unauthenticated local service unless the selected profile requires a key.
+
+Catalog backend IDs are no longer reserved upstream. Audita should not invent a
+new reservation rule. Catalog selection alone must not bypass application
+registration, endpoint, capacity, or credential requirements. Catalog profile
+contents may evolve; this upgrade does not promise fixed model choices or live
+provider availability.
+
+The accepted caller order is embedded Audita prompts, operator definitions,
+then application backend settings. The existing `profiles_dir` accepts native
+unified PromptKit documents containing profiles, backends, and prompts. Keep
+the name and path setting for continuity, and document its broader accepted
+content. This follows the upstream source API without a parallel parser or
+top-level filtering. Profiles, provider defaults, and intentional prompt
+overrides use the same native composition model.
+
+Audita continues to ship its domain prompts, enforce its selected-backend
+requirements, and supply its per-call schemas. Operator prompt overrides are
+an accepted capability of this adoption; documentation, source accounting,
+and focused behavioral coverage should reflect them.
+
+## Work Required
+
+### Runtime Construction and Source Accounting
+
+Migrate `internal/framework/llm/runtime.go` to layered construction and retain
+the role-bound adapter boundary. Review startup inspection and failure
+classification because upstream now validates all final definitions, including
+unused ones, during engine construction. Distinguish invalid operator inputs
+from broken embedded assets under the existing
+[CLI exit contract](../cli.md); do not treat every construction failure as an
+operator error merely because validation moved earlier.
+
+Upstream permits partial profiles and defers endpoint/model completeness until
+request overrides are applied. Audita supplies no model override, so explicitly
+validate that both selected role profiles have a nonblank model and a complete
+effective endpoint during offline configuration validation and runtime setup.
+Retain the application-backend, endpoint-match, and credential checks. Do not
+rely on engine construction or profile inspection alone to establish selected
+profile completeness. Unselected partial profiles remain permitted if they
+satisfy upstream definition validation; they need not be runnable.
+
+Adapt source accounting to the new discovery/capture boundary. The existing
+recording filesystem wrapper may be replaceable with discovered inputs or
+upstream source metadata. Protect the host sources actually consumed by the
+runtime, including inherited and differently named definitions, without
+guessing filenames from selected profile IDs. Account for consumed operator
+message files as well. Keep this proportionate to the existing collision
+contract; do not add filesystem concurrency or power-loss guarantees.
+
+Keep the existing safe effective-profile summaries and application explanations.
+Use upstream metadata where useful, but do not expose the full
+`InspectConfiguration` snapshot as ordinary CLI or report output: prompt text
+and arbitrary provider fields are outside those summaries' current scope.
+
+### Prompt Assets, Profiles, and Presence Semantics
+
+Move each of the seven files in `internal/prompts/assets/prompts` to the keyed
+prompt/version format. Keep the shared instruction fragments and the complete
+per-call output contracts owned by Audita. This migration does not authorize
+another prompt-quality rewrite or changes to domain validators.
+
+The adapter supplies `HardeningPolicy`, `ProposalContract`, and
+`ValidationContract` as template variables. Embedded prompts retain their
+references to the applicable variables. Operator message overrides control
+whether those variables are rendered; supplying a variable does not inject its
+text into a template that omits it. Preserve this native override behavior and
+document the distinction. Per-call schemas and domain validation remain enforced
+regardless of those references. Unconditional shared-instruction injection is
+outside this adoption.
+
+Convert the six maintained profiles in `examples/profiles` and test-generated
+profile/prompt fixtures to the new format. Convert any old `base_profile`
+usage to `extends`, and remove embedded identities. Migrate tests that construct
+engines using removed options or old `Profile`/`Backend` values.
+
+Reorganize the maintained profiles into separately selected local and service
+directory roots. The current shared directory includes profiles referring to
+backends absent from each example's application configuration; eager validation
+would reject those unselected definitions after a format-only conversion.
+Update `profiles_dir` in `examples/minimal-config.yml`,
+`examples/production-config.yml`, and `examples/configkit-inheritance.yml` to
+select the appropriate root. Keep the service testing profiles in the service
+root so the testing overlay remains usable. Discovery is recursive: placing
+both groups beneath a common selected root does not isolate them. Update example
+links and validation recipes to match the final layout.
+
+Review presence deliberately rather than mechanically preserving old serialized
+values. In particular, explicit zero temperature, top-p, or max-tokens now means
+an outbound zero; zero timeout disables PromptKit's generation deadline while
+Audita's outer operation deadline still applies. Omission, blank values, and
+null have field-specific meanings. Empty provider maps do not erase inherited
+entries, and changing model/backend does not erase unrelated explicit settings.
+
+Use the native meanings without a compatibility shim. Retaining the examples'
+literal `temperature: 0` as an explicit provider setting is recommended; explain
+that omitting the field requests an unspecified value, and null suppresses an
+inherited control. Do not automatically turn every existing zero into omission
+or every omission into a zero. Demonstrate representative profile inheritance
+without requiring every maintained example to use it.
+
+### Documentation, Migration, and Attribution
+
+Update the profile section of `docs/config.md` and maintained examples when the
+implementation lands. Explain the broader accepted content of `profiles_dir`,
+operator prompt overrides, their precedence and optional use of shared instruction
+variables, keyed identities, composition versus precedence, profile inheritance,
+presence, eager final-definition validation, selected-root errors, and captured
+configuration. Link to the pinned
+upstream reference for generic field semantics rather than reproducing its
+entire contract.
+
+Include operator migration guidance for old profile documents and behaviorally
+significant zeros/nulls. This is a deliberate format migration, not an automatic
+upgrade of existing installation files. Preserve supported application overlays,
+including the cheaper/faster testing-profile workflow.
+
+Update the pinned consumer link in `docs/integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md`,
+construction/source-accounting descriptions in `docs/internal/llm-runtime.md`,
+and asset-format guidance in `docs/internal/prompts.md`. Update other affected
+references only where implemented behavior changes.
+
+Update `go.mod`, `go.sum`, and `docs/oss/attribution.md` for PromptKit and the two
+catalog modules. Verify exact selected source revisions and upstream notices
+under the [OSS policy](../policy/oss.md); retain the applicable LGPL/GPL and MIT
+texts rather than duplicating unchanged license documents. Dependency adoption
+does not change Audita's application license.
+
+Plan this adoption for an Audita major release under the
+[release policy](../policy/release.md#versioning-and-compatibility). The public
+profile format changes incompatibly and no compatibility loader is planned;
+PromptKit's own pre-1.0 minor version does not change Audita's classification.
+The exact version and publication timing remain deferred to release preparation.
+
+## Verification and Completion
+
+Use existing offline tests as the starting point. Update fixtures intentionally,
+and add focused behavioral coverage where the source migration creates a
+distinct risk. Completion means:
+
+- The released dependency set builds and the complete Audita test suite passes.
+- All registered embedded prompts load and render from keyed assets, retaining
+  their applicable shared-instruction references and established per-call schemas.
+- Offline configuration validation rejects incomplete selected profiles, including
+  a missing or blank model, while accepting valid unselected partial profiles.
+- Selected roles use final application backend settings and direct resolved
+  credentials; both roles still share configured capacity, including explicit
+  zero queue capacity. Catalog layering does not introduce a competing lookup.
+- Representative keyed profiles, native inheritance, and explicit presence work
+  through the real runtime. Directory conflicts and invalid final definitions
+  produce useful startup errors without filename-derived identity assumptions.
+- Operator prompt and backend contributions follow the accepted source order;
+  prompt overrides render, including when their messages omit shared-instruction
+  variables, while Audita retains its per-call schemas, domain validation, and
+  authoritative application backend settings.
+- Source collision protection, safe inspection, and operator-versus-asset error
+  classification remain effective at the changed construction boundary.
+- Representative prepared execution, schema repair, transient retry, and
+  partial-success tests retain their existing behavior. Reuse adequate coverage
+  rather than duplicating PromptKit's complete upstream test matrix.
+- Local, service, testing-overlay, and ConfigKit inheritance examples validate
+  offline using their separately selected profile roots. Canonical documentation
+  describes the migrated format, shared-instruction behavior, and major-release
+  migration; attribution identifies the selected library sources accurately.
+
+No live provider calls, new release gates, or CI-success dependency are needed
+to establish adoption. Guided domain recovery and the other work recorded in
+[future.md](future.md) remain separate features. Do not expand this upgrade into
+new report formats, pipeline scheduling, or general configuration-inspection
+commands. The [historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/418da456d75a68d3bb5a43ab823c5b2b434b90cc/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
+records that work's execution steps and verification.
+
+## Completion Record
+
+Implementation code is recorded through revision `5525fe8`; documentation was
+updated in `9bcf183`, and the final roadmap closure is documentation-only. At
+`9bcf183`, `go build -o ./bin/audita ./cmd/audita`, `go test ./...`, all six
+offline maintained-example commands in the implementation plan, `go mod
+verify`, and `git diff --check` passed. The selected dependency graph and
+commit-pinned attribution match PromptKit v0.12.0 and both `/v3` catalogs at
+`v3.20260930.0`.

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+# ReleaseKit Adoption Roadmap
+
+**Last updated:** 2026-10-07
+**Status:** Implementation complete; first adopting release and live delivery
+observation pending.
+
+## Purpose and Original Baseline
+
+Implement the decision in [ADR 0001](../adr/0001-releasekit.md): standardize
+Audita's release process on ReleaseKit to improve maintainability and reduce
+locally owned release-focused code. Those benefits outweigh the small advantages
+of retaining Audita's custom procedure. The workflow changes required by the
+shared standard are accepted.
+
+At Audita revision `6de470b53d185b10327ec4deba23f5a84e606e1f`, v3.0.0 is
+released. Audita owns `scripts/release.sh`, `scripts/build-release.sh`, and
+`scripts/release_test.go`, totaling 207 lines, plus the 26-line Woodpecker delivery
+workflow. Publication validates a clean candidate, cross-builds Linux binaries,
+and atomically pushes `main` and a lightweight tag. Woodpecker builds artifacts
+and uses a release plugin to publish the note, binaries, and checksums. Audita
+has no runtime version command.
+
+The adoption baseline is ReleaseKit v0.1.0, commit
+`5e60fe3113c69f95c42fbbe32a8ca4b51f5b83c1`. Its public library, executable,
+`buildinfo` package, and maintained Woodpecker integration cover the required
+mechanics. The upstream test suite passes; its documentation records live
+Woodpecker/Gitea verification as remaining deployment work.
+
+## Current Baseline
+
+The adoption implementation is now present: `go.mod` selects ReleaseKit
+v0.1.0, `releasekit.json` supplies Audita's product and delivery facts,
+`scripts/release.sh` builds and forwards arguments to its executable, and
+`.woodpecker/release.yml` invokes the same pinned version for tag delivery.
+The application exposes `audita version` through `buildinfo`; the custom
+release builder has been removed. The sections below retain the intended
+adoption scope rather than describing work that still needs implementation.
+
+The [adoption review](remediation.md) records focused CLI and wiring-test
+findings and their resolution status. Remaining implementation corrections
+belong there. First-release delivery observation remains deployment work,
+separate from source-release completion.
+
+## Target End State
+
+- ReleaseKit owns candidate validation, source publication, version injection,
+  selected-target builds, checksum generation, and hosted delivery. Audita owns
+  its product facts, compatibility decisions, release notes, and necessary
+  product-specific checks.
+- A small `releasekit.json` declares product `Audita`, remote `origin`, main
+  package `./cmd/audita`, binary name `audita`, and delivery targets
+  `linux/amd64` and `linux/arm64`. Its Gitea destination identifies
+  `https://gitea.maximumdirect.net`, owner `eric`, and repository `audita`.
+- Maintainers commit the candidate and publish it to authoritative `main`
+  before invoking ReleaseKit publication. ReleaseKit validates that candidate,
+  creates an annotated tag from the committed note, and pushes its exact tag
+  object. Confirmed source publication completes the release independently of
+  CI and artifact delivery.
+- One captured candidate receives ReleaseKit's standard offline test suite and
+  selected build verification. Audita's profile introduces no additional checks
+  without a concrete product need. The optional local check remains a diagnostic
+  operation rather than a prerequisite that duplicates publication validation.
+- `audita version` reports `audita <version>` through ReleaseKit's public
+  `buildinfo.Version()` accessor. Ordinary development builds use its native
+  fallback behavior, including `dev` when release information is unavailable.
+- Woodpecker invokes the pinned shared `ci-deliver` command. Hosted notes,
+  Linux assets, and `SHA256SUMS` retain their current identities; delivery
+  compares existing content, adds missing assets, and reports conflicts and
+  uncertainty separately from source publication.
+- Audita's release code consists of thin tool invocation and product wiring,
+  with focused integration coverage. Common mechanics and their repeated tests
+  reside upstream.
+
+## Accepted Standardization Choices
+
+Adopt ReleaseKit's main-first publication and annotated tags, replacing the
+atomic branch/tag push and lightweight tags for new releases. Existing released
+tags, notes, pages, and assets retain their historical contents.
+
+Adopt its standard build settings and mandatory native version smoke check.
+The check verifies that version injection reaches the executable. On a host
+outside the selected Linux targets, ReleaseKit can build a temporary native
+binary; publication from that host depends on that check succeeding. This is an
+accepted workflow change, including for macOS invocations. Linux remains the
+production delivery target, and macOS remains a best-effort development platform.
+Mac access and macOS artifact delivery are not release prerequisites.
+
+Use the shared managed build-and-deliver operation for ordinary CI delivery.
+ReleaseKit's retained-artifact workflow remains available when a delivery retry
+needs the original bytes. Follow its content-aware recovery behavior rather
+than reproducing that machinery in Audita.
+
+## Adoption Scope
+
+### Dependency, Profile, and Tool Entry Point
+
+Select the released v0.1.0 module in `go.mod` and `go.sum`. The application uses
+the lightweight `buildinfo` facade; release orchestration is exercised through
+the upstream executable. The sibling checkout is review material, not a
+production dependency replacement.
+
+Add the product profile described above. Leave additional checks empty and keep
+delivery tokens out of the profile. Use `RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN` as the token
+environment variable, supplied from the existing Woodpecker
+`GITEA_RELEASE_TOKEN` secret.
+
+Reduce `scripts/release.sh` to repository selection, building the CLI selected
+by Audita's module graph into ignored `bin/` output, and invoking it directly.
+Forward ReleaseKit's native commands and arguments and preserve its exit status,
+including uncertain publication status. Use the same released tool version in
+the module graph and CI pin. Dependency/tool preparation belongs before offline
+candidate validation.
+
+### Runtime Version Reporting
+
+Add `version` to the existing CLI dispatch and help, with output
+`audita <version>` followed by a newline and exit status zero. This operation
+works without loading application configuration, resolving LLM credentials, or
+contacting a provider. Use the public accessor and let ReleaseKit own injection
+mechanics. Keep the release orchestration dependency outside transcript
+processing.
+
+### Publication and Binary Delivery
+
+Replace the local publication and cross-build mechanics with ReleaseKit's
+commands and profile. Retire `scripts/build-release.sh` when its callers use
+the shared builder.
+
+Replace the current Woodpecker build/plugin sequence with the maintained
+tag-delivery integration, pinned to v0.1.0. Retain a compatible Go 1.25.5 image
+with Git, the existing secret, and only the selected Linux targets. Pass the
+workspace, event commit, and version to `ci-deliver`; the shared command owns
+tagged-checkout verification, dependency preparation, build, and delivery.
+
+The declared artifacts remain `audita-<version>-linux-amd64`,
+`audita-<version>-linux-arm64`, and `SHA256SUMS`. The committed release note
+supplies the hosted body and required licensing footer. Delivery status and
+recovery follow the upstream operation; source publication does not poll CI or
+wait for assets.
+
+### Tests and Removal of Duplicated Mechanics
+
+Replace the repeated release-mechanics matrix in `scripts/release_test.go`
+with proportionate coverage of Audita's wiring. Protect the new version command
+and wrapper/profile integration where these introduce distinct consumer risks.
+Verify actual version injection and the selected Linux builds through the real
+builder during adoption validation. Use local Git/HTTP fixtures and controlled
+command boundaries where needed; keep the default suite offline.
+
+Reuse ReleaseKit's coverage for common Git guards, push reconciliation,
+checksums, and delivery retries. Evaluate the reduction in local machinery from
+the resulting implementation rather than imposing a numerical deletion target.
+
+### Documentation and Attribution
+
+Update `docs/release.md` for main-first preparation, native ReleaseKit commands,
+annotated tags, dependency preparation, delivery status, and failure recovery.
+Align `docs/policy/release.md` where necessary to describe the deliberately
+accepted native-host check while retaining the existing production targets and
+independent source-completion rule.
+
+Update `docs/cli.md`, relevant internal CLI guidance, and the ADR index for the
+version command and accepted decision. Keep the ADR's decision content intact.
+Record the adoption and maintainer workflow change in the next release note
+when that release is prepared.
+
+Add ReleaseKit's selected source and LGPL-3.0-or-later notices to
+`docs/oss/attribution.md` under the existing OSS policy. Reuse applicable license
+texts already present. Incorporating `buildinfo` does not change Audita's
+application license.
+
+## Verification and Completion
+
+Adoption is complete when:
+
+- The released dependency and pinned tool are selected consistently, and the
+  application builds with its default offline test suite passing.
+- Version output works without LLM setup and reports the injected version from
+  a ReleaseKit-built executable.
+- The native profile and thin wrapper drive candidate checks and publication
+  without Audita retaining common publication or build mechanics.
+- Both required Linux targets build through ReleaseKit, and the CI workflow
+  declares the intended destination, artifacts, note body, and secret mapping.
+- Focused consumer coverage exercises the changed boundaries, and redundant
+  mechanics tests and the old builder have been retired.
+- Current documentation and attribution describe the adopted behavior.
+
+## Remaining Release and Deployment Work
+
+Prepare the first adopting release under the [release procedure](../release.md),
+including a release note explaining the maintainer workflow change. Resolve
+outstanding adoption-review findings through the linked remediation record.
+Version selection and publication timing remain release-preparation decisions.
+
+Offline integration evidence and live delivery observations are distinct.
+Observe the shared workflow during the first adopting release and address any
+deployment failures through ReleaseKit's delivery recovery. Check that the
+tagged commit, hosted note with its licensing footer, selected Linux assets,
+and checksums reach the intended destination. This observation is asynchronous;
+CI success or asset availability does not become a source-release completion
+gate or require the publication command to wait.
+
+The accepted ADR settles the architectural choice and standard workflow
+trade-offs. No significant feature decisions remain open. The next Audita
+version and publication timing belong to release preparation. The
+[implementation plan](implementation.md) owns the ordered execution steps and
+their verification; this roadmap owns the desired end state and adoption intent.
+
+Implementation completed 2026-10-07 at revision
+`5ac704c4c42fd23ed94b1f7351491ad580726db1`. The full Go suite and executable
+version path passed, and ReleaseKit built both selected Linux artifacts with
+its native version smoke check passing. The profile, dependency and CI pins,
+wrapper, and parsed workflow were verified together. Audita's local release
+builder and publication mechanics are retired. This completion record is a
+later documentation-only commit; live delivery remains to be observed during
+the first adopting release and is separate from source implementation.

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-# Maintainability Audit: Findings and Recommended Changes
+# ReleaseKit Adoption Review: Findings and Recommended Changes
 
-**Reviewed:** 2026-09-25, source commit `011b021`.
-**Scope:** Recent partial-decision reconciliation, validation context, prompt
-alignment, and request-local reference changes, including related existing code.
-**Status:** R27–R30 addressed; see the resolution record below. Previous findings and resolution records remain in Git
-history through `011b021`.
+**Reviewed:** 2026-10-07, source commit
+`3c405f0524ec6c098d00d4e371abbace7648d446`.
+**Scope:** ReleaseKit adoption commits after `721365e`, including CLI version
+reporting, local release wiring, CI delivery, tests, and documentation.
+**Status:** R1–R3 addressed. The findings below describe the reviewed
+baseline; completed work is recorded under Resolution Record.
 
 ## Architecture Assessment
 
-The recent changes fit Audita's existing boundaries. Proposal generation,
-validation, prompt assets, and outcome reporting already have suitable owners;
-this audit does not recommend a new common package or a broad refactor.
+The core adoption matches [ADR 0001](../adr/0001-releasekit.md) and the
+[feature roadmap](releasekit.md). Audita supplies product facts in
+`releasekit.json`, a thin executable wrapper, a configuration-free version
+command using the public `buildinfo` accessor, and a pinned Woodpecker
+`ci-deliver` invocation. ReleaseKit owns candidate validation, annotated-tag
+publication, version injection, Linux builds, checksums, and hosted delivery.
+The custom builder and local publication mechanics have been retired.
 
-The strongest opportunities are shared prompt instructions and request-scoped
-validation context preparation. Two smaller improvements concern recovery-reason
-classification and partial-result assembly; both predate the latest commits.
-These are bounded maintenance recommendations, not new release gates or changes
-to correction policy, response acceptance, or reporting semantics.
+No core ownership or delivery-target gap was found. The findings concern one
+CLI behavior defect, an ineffective target-selection assertion, and unnecessary
+test restrictions. Main-first publication and the native-host version smoke
+check are deliberately accepted workflow changes, not accidental strengthening.
 
-## R27 — P2: Consolidate Shared Prompt Instructions
+## R1 — P2: Simplify Version Help Handling and Correct Its Streams
 
-**Category:** Repeated behavioral-contract text; risk of future drift.
+**Category:** CLI behavior defect and unnecessary argument restriction.
 
-**Evidence:** The four [proposal prompts](../../internal/prompts/assets/prompts/modules.grammar.proposal.yaml)
-repeat literal source-span matching, request-local identity, replacement-text,
-source-based proposal, and confidence instructions. The three active
-[validator prompts](../../internal/prompts/assets/prompts/validators.editorial_review.yaml)
-repeat candidate-reference, supplemental-context, and verdict-confidence guidance.
-Recent contract changes required coordinated edits across these assets. The
-[prompt registry](../../internal/prompts/registry.go) already provides a shared
-hardening fragment supplied through the role-bound adapter.
+**Evidence:** [runVersion](../../internal/cli/run.go) handles standalone `-h`
+and `--help` before parsing, then rejects either spelling when combined with
+other arguments. This adds a special prohibition beyond the requested usual
+help behavior. For example, `audita version -h --help` returns status `2`.
 
-**Recommended change:** Extract genuinely common passages into embedded fragments
-under `internal/prompts/assets/shared`, following the existing fragment-supply
-approach. Keep the fragments owned by `internal/prompts` and use the existing
-PromptKit rendering path. Keep module-specific examples, replacement-policy
-instructions, protected-name exceptions, and semantic criteria in their individual
-prompt definitions. Do not merge similar-looking rules with different meanings.
+The parser's help path also writes usage twice: `FlagSet.Usage` writes to stderr,
+and the `flag.ErrHelp` branch writes it again to stdout. Reproduced with
+`audita version --h` and `audita version -help`: both return status `0` and emit
+the same usage on both streams. The standard library recognizes these help
+spellings, but the preliminary special cases do not handle them.
 
-**Acceptance:** Common instructions have one maintained source and appear in all
-intended rendered prompts. The existing module and validator distinctions remain
-intact, including glossary replace-all behavior and the spoken-word protected-name
-exception. Focused rendering checks cover fragment inclusion and representative
-module-specific guidance without requiring exact-prose snapshots or introducing
-a separate templating framework.
+**Recommended change:** Use one standard parsing path. Let help short-circuit
+according to the parser's ordinary behavior, and emit successful help once to
+stdout with empty stderr. Keep non-help unknown flags and unexpected positional
+arguments as usage errors. Remove the bespoke mixed-help prohibition and the
+test that promotes it into a requirement. Update the CLI wording if needed so
+it describes ordinary help handling without promising validation of trailing
+arguments after a help request.
 
-## R28 — P2: Prepare Validation Context Once Per Request
+**Acceptance:** Normal version output remains configuration-free and unchanged.
+Representative parser help paths produce status `0`, stdout usage, and empty
+stderr. Non-help invalid invocations still return status `2`. Tests protect
+streams and meaningful behavior without establishing a new argument-combination
+policy or a comprehensive help-alias contract.
 
-**Category:** Repeated computation and overlapping segment lookup.
+## R2 — P2: Make the Delivery-Target Check Compare Actual Membership
 
-**Evidence:** [BuildLLMValidationRequest](../../internal/framework/validators/llm_validators.go)
-already indexes transcript segments, but
-[validationContext](../../internal/framework/validators/llm_context.go) scans the
-transcript again for each candidate. It also calls
-[NewProtectedVocabulary](../../internal/framework/validators/protected_terms.go)
-for each candidate, rebuilding the same vocabulary and compiling its matching
-expression repeatedly. This is duplicated preparation rather than copied code.
+**Category:** Test correctness gap.
 
-**Recommended change:** Prepare a segment-position lookup and protected vocabulary
-once per validation request, then pass that prepared context into the existing
-context-selection helper. Keep the implementation within `framework/validators`.
-Continue selecting glossary evidence for each candidate individually because its
-proposed replacement can mention different terms. A process-wide cache or new
-context-management package is unnecessary for this cleanup.
+**Evidence:** [sameMembers](../../scripts/release_test.go) compares slice
+lengths and checks only that each observed item belongs to the expected slice.
+It never checks that every required target is present. Calling the actual helper
+with `got = [linux/amd64, linux/amd64]` and
+`want = [linux/amd64, linux/arm64]` returns true. A profile missing arm64 can
+therefore pass the selected-target assertion. ReleaseKit deduplicates repeated
+targets, so that configuration would build only amd64.
 
-**Acceptance:** Candidates in one validation request reuse the prepared lookup and
-vocabulary. Context still consists of the available immediate neighbors within the
-current chunk and relevant glossary entries in glossary order. Candidate-specific
-replacement text still participates in glossary selection. Existing optional-context
-trimming, token estimation, and oversized-input handling retain their behavior.
-Verify these outcomes with focused behavioral tests rather than assertions about
-private helper call counts or unmeasured performance guarantees.
+The reverse problem also occurs: a list containing both required targets plus
+a repeated amd64 entry returns false despite having the same effective target
+membership. The current committed profile is correct; the defect is in its
+regression protection.
 
-## R29 — P3: Share Execution-Recovery Classification
+**Recommended change:** Compare the sets of configured and required targets,
+including coverage of every required member and rejection of an unintended
+member. Reuse straightforward standard-library data structures. Duplicate
+normalization already belongs to ReleaseKit; Audita needs no duplicate ban or
+order requirement.
 
-**Category:** Duplicate reporting rule; predates the latest commits.
+**Acceptance:** A repeated single target cannot conceal an omitted production
+target. Either omitted required target and an additional unintended target fail
+the profile check. Reordered or repeated entries with the same effective target
+set remain equivalent. Focused coverage catches the demonstrated false positive.
 
-**Evidence:** [Proposal generation](../../internal/framework/proposal_generation/generate.go)
-and [LLM validation](../../internal/framework/validators/llm_validators.go)
-independently translate structural-repair and transient-retry counts into
-`output_repaired` and `service_recovered` reasons. The conversion is the same in
-both locations; the surrounding success and domain-outcome decisions differ.
+## R3 — P3: Remove Incidental Wiring-Test Requirements
 
-**Recommended change:** Place a small conversion helper in the existing
-`framework/outcomes` package and use it from both callers. Keep the decision to
-record recoveries at the call sites, along with domain-specific reasons such as
-filtered validator decisions. Do not combine proposal and validation orchestration
-or move domain-success classification into this helper.
+**Category:** Tests strengthen representation choices into contracts.
 
-**Acceptance:** Both callers use the same execution-count conversion. Existing
-reason ordering, successful-operation reporting, and domain-specific additions
-remain intact. A partially unavailable validation batch continues to record its
-failure and execution counts without acquiring recovery records merely because a
-repair or retry occurred. Existing outcome tests should continue to protect these
-distinctions.
+**Evidence:** [release wrapper/profile tests](../../scripts/release_test.go)
+require the exact output argument spelling `-o ./bin/releasekit` and reject the
+presence of a `checks` key regardless of its value. In disposable copies of the
+tests, changing the output path to the equivalent `bin/releasekit` fails the
+wrapper assertion even though execution still reaches the intended tool.
+Adding `"checks": []` fails the profile assertion despite configuring no
+additional commands.
 
-## R30 — P3: Centralize Partial Validator Result Assembly
+The accepted requirements concern the executable destination, native argument
+and status forwarding, and avoiding redundant additional checks. They do not
+require one path spelling or one serialization of an empty list. The plan's
+instruction to omit `checks` selects an initial file representation rather than
+an enduring prohibition on equivalent configuration.
 
-**Category:** Repeated early-return construction; predates the latest commits.
+**Recommended change:** Check the resolved output destination and observed
+wrapper behavior instead of the literal relative-path spelling. Check that the
+effective additional-check list is empty, accepting omission or an empty list.
+Keep the existing product, target, destination, argument-boundary, failure, and
+exit-status protection. Simplify fixture helpers where that reduces maintenance
+without adding another parser or test framework.
 
-**Evidence:** Several early returns in
-[LLMBackedValidator.Validate](../../internal/framework/validators/llm_validators.go)
-repeat nested slice appends to combine immediate decisions, oversized-input
-decisions, and decisions from completed model batches, together with accumulated
-operation outcomes. This makes it easier for a future failure path to omit facts
-already collected by the validator.
-
-**Recommended change:** Use a small local result-building helper to assemble the
-partial result consistently. Keep error handling, batching, success-path ordering,
-and cardinality enforcement explicit. A general-purpose result-aggregation package
-is not needed.
-
-**Acceptance:** Cancellation and failure paths retain the same previously collected
-decisions and operations. Result ordering and cardinality behavior remain unchanged;
-the helper does not enforce complete cardinality on interrupted work. Retain the
-existing partial-progress and fatal-failure coverage, adding tests only for a
-material gap exposed by the refactor.
-
-## Boundaries to Preserve
-
-- Keep proposal and validator reference mapping separate. Proposals can target the
-  same segment repeatedly; duplicate validator decisions make that candidate
-  unavailable. Similar indexing arithmetic alone does not justify a generic
-  reference-management abstraction.
-- Keep distinct protected-term policy checks separate. They already share the
-  vocabulary implementation and intentionally apply different policies.
-- Preserve exact source-span matching, request-local references, batching, and
-  partial-success behavior. Consolidation is not a reason to strengthen contracts
-  or broaden the accepted correction scope.
+**Acceptance:** The two demonstrated equivalent edits preserve passing wiring
+tests, while a wrong executable destination, changed product facts, nonempty
+additional checks, lost argument boundaries, or lost tool status still fail.
+The tests remain offline and do not duplicate ReleaseKit's release-mechanics
+matrix.
 
 ## Review Verification and Limits
 
-- This is a source-level maintainability audit, not a finding of demonstrated
-  production failures or a measured performance assessment.
-- No application tests were rerun for the original read-only audit; its roadmap
-  update used documentation link and whitespace checks. Implementation validation
-  is recorded below.
-- Future remediation should run focused behavioral tests and the broader suite
-  appropriate to the actual change, following the testing policy. No live-provider
-  evaluation or new evaluation framework is required by these recommendations.
-- The findings above describe the audited baseline. Implementation and validation
-  are recorded below; no release publication is included.
+- `go test ./...` passed on the reviewed source.
+- A normal application build succeeded. Direct executable invocations reproduced
+  the version-help stream defect and mixed-help rejection.
+- The actual membership helper reproduced the missing-target false positive.
+  Disposable test copies reproduced both equivalent-configuration failures;
+  the repository's code and tests were left unchanged.
+- The real ReleaseKit builder produced both configured Linux artifacts with
+  build-test identifier `v0.0.0` and passed its injected-version smoke check.
+  This used the available Go 1.26.8 Linux amd64 toolchain; CI remains configured
+  for Go 1.25.5. Temporary build artifacts were removed.
+- Module selection, source attribution, product profile, secret mapping, and
+  CI command match the intended integration. Live Woodpecker/Gitea delivery
+  remains unobserved, as already recorded in the feature roadmap; it is separate
+  deployment work rather than an implementation finding or source-release gate.
+- No tags, pushes, hosted uploads, or LLM calls were made. Remediation should
+  remain bounded to the findings above and add no new release gates.
 
 ## Resolution Record
 
-Implemented as focused changes within the existing packages. Proposal and validator
-reference mapping and distinct protected-term policies remain separate.
-
-| Finding | Resolution and evidence |
-| --- | --- |
-| R27 | Common proposal and validation instructions live in two embedded shared fragments, supplied through the existing role-bound PromptKit adapter. Individual YAML definitions retain policy differences and examples. Rendering tests check fragment inclusion once per applicable prompt and representative module-specific guidance. |
-| R28 | Validation request construction builds one segment-position lookup and protected vocabulary, reused by context selection for every candidate. A new test verifies that two replacements of the same source span receive their own relevant glossary entries. Existing neighbor, glossary-order, chunk-boundary, and budget tests pass. |
-| R29 | Both proposal generation and validation use `outcomes.ExecutionRecoveries`. Call sites still control success and domain-specific recovery reasons. Existing tests cover combined recoveries and failed validation with repair counts but no recovery record. |
-| R30 | A local result builder combines collected decisions and operation outcomes for partial returns and completed validation. Sorting and full cardinality checks remain outside it. Existing fatal-batch, partial-progress, runner, and reporting tests pass. |
-
-Validation: `go test ./...` passed, including PromptKit preparation, partial-decision
-reconciliation, subprocess reports, and fatal-progress coverage. Documentation
-links and whitespace checks passed. No live model evaluation or performance
-measurement was performed; the changes make no new model-quality or latency
-promise.
+- **R1:** The version command now uses one standard flag-parsing path. Successful
+  help is written once to stdout, with no stderr usage, and help can short-circuit
+  trailing arguments. Non-help usage errors retain status `2`. Regression tests
+  reproduced both defects before the fix; `go test ./internal/cli ./cmd/audita`
+  passed afterward. The CLI contract reflects ordinary help behavior.
+- **R2:** Delivery targets are compared as sets using the standard library.
+  Regression cases reject either missing Linux target concealed by duplicates
+  and an unintended target, while accepting equivalent reordered/repeated lists.
+  The cases reproduced the faulty membership behavior before the fix;
+  `go test ./scripts` passed afterward.
+- **R3:** Wrapper coverage now checks the executable's actual destination, and
+  profile coverage checks the effective additional-check list. Equivalent output
+  paths and an explicit empty list are accepted. Fixture helpers use standard
+  library operations where appropriate. Disposable mutation checks accepted
+  `-o bin/releasekit`, `-o=bin/releasekit`, and `"checks": []`, while detecting a
+  wrong executable destination, changed product, nonempty checks, lost argument
+  boundaries, and lost tool status. The complete `go test ./...` suite passed
+  with all three remediations in place. No new release gates were added.

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@@ -1,290 +0,0 @@
-# Resilient Processing and Focused Run Reports
-
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-24
-
-**Status:** Implemented. This document records the selected behavior and user
-intent. Concrete design decisions and completion evidence are in
-[historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/a83a518/docs/roadmap/implementation.md).
-
-## Purpose and User Intent
-
-Audita should reliably produce a useful transcript even when its LLM services
-cannot improve it. Exhausted retries or unusable model responses must not turn
-an otherwise processable transcript into a failed production run.
-
-> Failure of every LLM operation across every stage and chunk still produces a
-> successful output containing the deterministically normalized transcript, with
-> no LLM corrections applied. Partial success preserves as many fully validated,
-> applicable corrections as possible.
-
-Deterministic normalization remains intentional and may change segment layout,
-identifiers, and text before LLM work begins. Output uses the selected transcript
-encoder; byte-for-byte preservation of the original input and mapping corrections
-back to pre-normalization segmentation are not requirements.
-
-The overriding goal is to minimize how much useful processing is lost because of
-one problematic transcript segment. A stage/chunk work unit is an attribution
-boundary, not an all-or-nothing transaction.
-
-Existing reports contain useful information, but there are no compatibility
-obligations for reporting or debug output. Reuse existing machinery only when it
-makes the implementation simpler and clearer; preservation is not itself a goal.
-Internal structures and measurements must serve Audita's processing workflow.
-The reporting package adapts those outcomes to structured and human-facing
-presentations, rather than reshaping processing around a reporting convenience.
-
-## Historical Baseline and Implemented Change
-
-The [pipeline](../internal/pipeline.md), [LLM integration](../integrations/openai-compatible-llm.md),
-[report assembly](../internal/diagnostics-reporting.md), and
-[artifact lifecycle](../operations.md) describe current behavior.
-
-Before this work, exhausted structural repairs could become warnings and skipped
-proposals or rejected validation batches. Other model runtime failures canceled
-peer work, stopped subsequent modules, and prevented final transcript output.
-Successful repairs appeared in execution observations rather than a dedicated
-recovery classification. Detailed artifacts were written during ordinary runs
-and could later be removed by retention. The working transcript was re-chunked
-between modules.
-
-This feature changed those behaviors. It builds on the completed
-[library adoption](library-adoption.md) and [review remediation](remediation.md).
-Fatal cancellation remains necessary; unsuccessful model work must be separated
-from failures that actually require cancellation of the run.
-
-## Fixed Chunks and Ordered Stages
-
-Normalize first, then partition the transcript once. Preserve chunk boundaries,
-segment membership, segment identity, and ordering throughout LLM processing.
-Text evolves as accepted corrections are applied. Recombine chunks in original
-order after the LLM stages finish.
-
-A stage is a configured module instance. Repeated instances of the same module
-have distinct identities. Proposal generation and each validator are operations
-within a stage; validation may use multiple batches within a chunk. A work unit
-is one stage instance applied to one chunk.
-
-Preserve the overall stage sequence: finish a stage across its chunks before
-advancing to the next stage. Concurrent chunk work shares PromptKit's backend
-capacity. Failure in one unit does not prevent other chunks or later stages
-from executing.
-
-Retain operator control over chunk size and the current defaults. Production
-experience indicates that chunk size affects model latency nonlinearly and that
-useful settings are well below backend context limits. Tuning is an empirical
-operator decision. Do not add automatic headroom calculations, cross-profile
-sizing, adaptive repartitioning, or automatic tuning in this feature. A later
-operation that cannot process its input follows the same safe error handling;
-it does not silently alter chunk boundaries. Validation batching within a chunk
-remains supported.
-
-Independent whole-pipeline traversal by chunks and domain-aware response repair
-are explicitly deferred in [future work](future.md). Read-only neighboring
-context, cross-chunk edits, and transcript-wide restructuring are outside this
-unit, without becoming permanent prohibitions on future capabilities.
-
-## Partial Success and Failure Isolation
-
-- Keep bounded transport retries, structural repairs, operation deadlines, and
-  shared backend capacity. Completion comes from safe fallback, not unlimited
-  attempts or an outer retry loop around PromptKit.
-- Apply a correction only after it passes every required validator and the
-  application checks. Failed validation must never be treated as approval.
-- If a validation batch fails, exclude its affected candidates while allowing
-  other candidates to continue through the remaining validators. Preserve fully
-  validated, applicable corrections from successful batches in the same unit.
-- Track candidates by stable proposal identity. Batch membership can change
-  between validators; equal batch numbers do not establish candidate identity.
-- A failed proposal-generation operation leaves its chunk unchanged for that
-  stage because there are no reliable proposals to salvage. Failures later in
-  validation need not discard unrelated successful candidates.
-- Preserve earlier stages' corrections and other chunks' successful work.
-  Record partial success explicitly; a unit can apply corrections and have errors.
-- Continue despite model-operation failures, including exhausted repairs/retries,
-  unusable model decisions, provider/transport failures, local operation deadlines,
-  and admission failures. An operation need not exhaust its attempt budget to fail.
-- A valid empty proposal list or valid assessments rejecting all corrections is
-  successful processing. Correction count alone does not determine failure.
-- Keep safe filtering of defective proposals. Do not retry ordinary editorial
-  rejections. For now, an unusable validator decision set excludes the affected
-  candidates and records an error after existing permitted recovery. New bounded
-  feedback/regeneration for domain-invalid responses belongs to future work.
-- Retain fatal treatment for invalid input/configuration, internal defects,
-  explicit run cancellation, and inability to produce/write the transcript.
-  Caller cancellation is distinct from a local model-operation timeout.
-- Completed runs with model errors return success. Required report-write failures
-  are an additional fatal output condition when reporting is enabled, as below.
-
-PromptKit owns transport, transient retries, structural repair, and admission.
-Audita owns domain acceptance, partial outcomes, fallback, and classification.
-ConfigKit owns configuration resolution. Debug and reporting choices must not
-change correction decisions, retry budgets, or continuation.
-
-## Errors, Recoveries, and Debug
-
-Classify by eventual outcome and impact. These are three reporting categories;
-debug is evidence, not a failure severity. Whether execution continues is a
-separate property.
-
-| Category | Meaning | Representative cases |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| Errors | Intended work could not complete reliably, or a fatal run-level operation failed. Affected candidates are excluded; other corrections can succeed. | Exhausted repair; unavailable provider; unusable validation decisions; operation deadline. |
-| Recoveries | A problem was handled successfully through retries, repair, or safe filtering. No operator intervention is implied. | Invalid output repaired; transient service failure recovered; defective proposals safely discarded. |
-| Debug | Detailed evidence of processing and ordinary decisions. | Proposals, applied corrections, validator decisions, prompts/responses, individual attempts, execution traces. |
-
-Normal editorial disagreement belongs in debug. A validator correctly rejecting
-a meaning-changing edit is expected behavior. A proposal referring to nonexistent
-original text is defective; safely filtering it is a recovery. An unresolved
-missing/duplicate decision-index response is an error, not a recovery.
-
-Record an operation's eventual outcome once. Several failed attempts followed by
-success produce a consolidated recovery. Attempts ending in failure contribute
-to error details, not additional recoveries. Earlier operations that recovered
-remain recorded if a later operation introduces an error in the same unit.
-
-Separate output-quality recovery, defective-proposal filtering, and service
-recovery with structured reasons. Network instability must not look like a prompt
-defect. Do not introduce an arbitrary warning threshold or a fourth category.
-
-### Counting and Processing Volume
-
-- Count error-bearing work units once per stage/chunk, consolidating underlying
-  operation failures as details. A partially successful unit still counts once.
-- Count recoveries once per recovered operation. Aggregate defective-proposal
-  filtering per proposal response, retaining affected-proposal counts as detail.
-  Attempts and individual discarded proposals are not independent incidents.
-- Keep work-unit coverage separate from operation/recovery counts. Show processing
-  volume with explicitly labeled denominators; do not divide recovered-operation
-  counts by work-unit counts and call that a recovery rate.
-- Report fatal run-level errors separately from the stage/chunk grid when they
-  cannot be attributed to a work unit. Do not invent a chunk to accommodate them.
-- Derive YAML records, Markdown summaries, and CLI counts from actual processing
-  outcomes with deterministic ordering, rather than independently calculating them.
-
-## Production Outputs, Placement, and Lifecycle
-
-Reporting is enabled by default. The ordinary bundle is:
-
-- `errors.yml`: structured error-bearing units, their underlying failures, and
-  applicable run-level failures.
-- `recoveries.yml`: structured recovered operations and pertinent counts.
-- `report.md`: a concise human-facing summary of outcome, corrections, processing
-  volume, errors, recoveries, and their locations in the pipeline.
-
-Write all three documents, including empty event lists for uneventful completed
-runs. Use Audita-owned schemas with safe explanations and stable reason codes;
-retain run, stage-instance, chunk, operation, and validator/batch identities where
-applicable. The implementation plan specifies the versioned schemas; neither old
-report formats nor raw library structures define the new output contract.
-
-Place reports beside the output transcript. Retain transcript-to-stdout support
-with an explicit report-directory selection, defaulting to the invocation working
-directory. Preserve the existing overwrite convention: a new run can replace files
-at its selected destinations. Do not add a mandatory fresh-directory restriction
-or compatibility exports.
-
-Before model work, create initial versions of all three reports carrying a common
-run identifier and explicit `in_progress` status (rendered as prose in Markdown).
-Fail immediately if initialization fails. Also check the transcript destination;
-creating neighboring reports does not prove that an existing transcript file is
-writable. Preflight must not prematurely destroy an existing transcript.
-
-Finalize all required outputs and check every final write. Initial write success
-cannot guarantee later success if space or permissions change. Failure to write
-the transcript or finalize a required report returns nonzero and must not erase
-an already produced transcript. Where possible, finalize available reports with
-an explicit failed status on fatal termination. Abrupt termination may leave
-`in_progress`; elaborate crash-recovery machinery is not required.
-
-Provide an option to disable reporting entirely. It suppresses all three files
-(`errors.yml`, `recoveries.yml`, and `report.md`), including initialization and
-final writes, while retaining the brief CLI summary and independently selectable
-debug output. Disabled reporting must not create or require a writable report
-destination, and must not remove reports from earlier runs.
-Transcript output failures remain fatal regardless of reporting selection.
-
-Ordinary reports survive independently of debug cleanup. Reporting configuration
-and finalization must not depend on retaining a debug run directory.
-
-## Debug and Internal Boundaries
-
-Production issue records are compact. Full responses, transcript excerpts,
-correction lists, and complete validation decisions are opt-in debug evidence.
-Use a single ConfigKit-backed debug boolean with a `--debug` CLI override. Debug
-artifacts may use JSON where useful. Preserve configured-secret redaction in every
-presentation.
-
-Debug-off prevents detailed artifact persistence; writing and later deleting
-those files is insufficient. In-memory domain state needed to process candidates
-correctly is not debug output. Debug and ordinary reporting are independent
-selections and do not alter processing behavior.
-
-There is no obligation to retain `--report-json`, old artifact layouts, parallel
-exports, or old retention settings. Reuse code only where useful to the new
-workflow. Enabled debug output is retained on success or failure; disabled debug
-creates no debug directory. This supersedes the retention question in the
-[runtime follow-up](runtime-behavior.md). The legacy `never` behavior is not the
-meaning of the new reporting-disable option. Optional debug-write failures produce
-a safe stderr diagnostic without changing correction decisions or the run exit
-status; ordinary report and transcript-write failures retain their fatal semantics.
-
-## Deterministic Human-Facing Presentation
-
-Use the CLI style:
-
-> Completed: 18 corrections applied; 3 work units with errors; 7 recoveries.
-
-Do not say that all error-bearing units were skipped: some apply valid corrections.
-Include report locations when reporting is enabled and the files exist. Send the
-summary to stderr so stdout remains exclusively available for transcript output.
-Disabled reporting does not suppress the summary or fatal-error messages.
-
-Keep `report.md` concise and high-level. Use separate error and recovery matrices
-with stages as columns and chunks as rows. Include every chunk in fixed order;
-retain configured stage order and distinct labels for repeated module instances.
-No automatic width detection, thresholds, adaptive omission, or table splitting.
-A wide or long table is acceptable.
-
-The error matrix counts error-bearing work units: each attempted cell is 0 or 1.
-Recovery cells count recovered operations and can exceed 1. An error cell may
-coexist with recoveries and successfully applied corrections in the same unit.
-Distinguish completed work with zero events from unattempted work; do not portray
-canceled/unavailable processing as clean completion. Include totals, processing
-volume, and a short reason breakdown. Detailed inspection belongs in YAML or debug.
-
-## Target Acceptance Criteria
-
-- Total LLM failure still returns success and the encoded normalized transcript,
-  provided required output writes succeed.
-- Mixed-success runs preserve independently validated, applicable corrections
-  within the same stage/chunk as a failed batch. No candidate bypasses a required
-  validator; later validators handle survivors by stable proposal identity.
-- Subsequent stages and unaffected chunks execute after recoverable failures.
-  Fatal errors and explicit cancellation stop and join active work appropriately.
-- Chunk boundaries and identity remain fixed, with operator-selected sizing and
-  unchanged defaults; final recombination preserves ordering.
-- Valid no-change/editorial-rejection outcomes are successful. Repaired/filtered
-  output and unresolved failures receive distinct classifications and counts.
-- YAML, Markdown, and CLI agree on partial outcomes and totals; error matrices
-  count affected work units, recovery matrices count recovered operations.
-- With reporting enabled, all three reports are initialized before model work,
-  finalized and retained, including empty lists. Initial or final required-output
-  write failures produce nonzero exits without destroying completed transcript output.
-- Reporting can be disabled without requiring its destination. Debug can be enabled
-  independently; neither selection changes processing outcomes. Debug-off writes
-  no detailed debug artifacts, and stdout transcript output remains supported.
-- Reports use the fixed deterministic layout without adaptive presentation logic.
-- Meaningful controlled-provider tests cover exhausted recovery, failed validation
-  batches with successful survivors, total failure, fatal cancellation, output
-  failures, and reporting/debug selections. Preserve domain safeguards, capacity
-  limits, and redaction.
-- Canonical CLI, configuration, operations, integration, internal, and architecture
-  documentation describes the implemented final behavior.
-
-## Implementation Reference
-
-The product decisions are settled. The [historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/a83a518/docs/roadmap/implementation.md) defines
-the selected settings and precedence, YAML schemas, counts and ordering, interrupted
-work presentation, destination checks, and output finalization. It also owns the
-ordered implementation stages and validation work. This document remains the
-reference for the desired behavior and its acceptance criteria.

docs/roadmap/runtime-behavior.md

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-# Runtime Behavior Decisions
-
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-24
-
-The documentation migration identified existing behaviors for separate product
-consideration. The resilience implementation resolved the diagnostics-retention
-question; the input-timestamp question remains open.
-
-- Resolved: legacy `auto`/`always`/`never` retention settings were removed.
-  Debug is explicitly enabled with `diagnostics.debug` or `--debug`, creates no
-  directory when disabled, and retains its directory on every outcome when enabled.
-- Resolved: [configuration](../config.md) now treats explicit zero as disabling
-  transient retries or structural repair independently; PromptKit performs both.
-- Decide whether missing or null input timestamps should be rejected; current
-  decoding is documented in the [input contract](../integrations/transcript-glossary-files.md).
-
-These decisions are independent of the completed documentation migration and
-release workflow.

docs/roadmap/span-deletion.md

@@ -1,203 +0,0 @@
-# Consistent Span Deletion
-
-**Last updated:** 2026-09-25
-
-**Status:** Implemented. This document owns the desired behavior and user intent.
-The [historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/60e2fe7/docs/roadmap/implementation.md)
-records the concrete steps, selected implementation details, and completion
-evidence.
-
-## Purpose and User Intent
-
-Align proposal prompts, the LLM response schema, internal validation, and
-application behavior so legitimate text-span deletions can be considered and
-applied through the ordinary correction workflow. An empty replacement should
-not trigger structural repair merely because it is empty, nor invalidate other
-usable corrections returned alongside it.
-
-This is a consistency fix within Audita's current editing scope. It does not
-authorize whole-segment removal, broaden module responsibilities, or introduce
-new recovery machinery. The accepted [resilience behavior](resilience.md) remains
-in effect, including partial success, fixed chunks, and validation before mutation.
-
-## Historical Baseline (`0b6cd98`)
-
-The source reviewed at `0b6cd98` contains a mismatch:
-
-- The [spoken-word prompt](../../internal/prompts/assets/prompts/modules.spoken_word.proposal.yaml)
-  permits removing fillers and asks for the exact affected span and replacement,
-  without explaining how to represent deletion. Grammar permits punctuation and
-  spacing changes, which can also naturally involve deletion.
-- The shared [correction response schema](../../internal/framework/responseschema/assets/correction_set.v1.json)
-  requires `corrected_text` to have at least one character. Every built-in proposal
-  module uses that schema. An empty replacement invalidates the response before
-  Audita evaluates individual proposals.
-- PromptKit performs bounded structural repair. If repair does not produce a
-  valid response, the proposal operation fails and yields no candidates, including
-  otherwise valid proposals in the same response. The current resilience path
-  records the error and continues other work.
-- [CorrectionProposal](../../internal/framework/proposals/proposal.go) already
-  allows empty replacement text. The
-  [preview/application logic](../../internal/framework/proposals/preview.go)
-  supports literal span deletion when the resulting segment remains nonblank.
-- Domain shape checks currently reject whitespace-only original spans, although
-  the response schema permits them and grammar prompts permit spacing cleanup.
-  This is another restriction to align with the target contract below.
-- The validator named `non_empty_corrected_text` actually checks the resulting
-  segment, not the replacement string. Both this check and application prevent
-  a segment from becoming empty or whitespace-only. Application changes segment
-  text; it does not remove segment records.
-
-A temporary controlled-provider review reproduced whole-response rejection for
-an empty replacement alongside a valid correction, and immediate schema acceptance
-for a space-only replacement. Existing proposal tests confirm internal support for
-partial deletion and rejection of blank resulting segments. These observations
-explain a plausible production failure mechanism; they do not establish the cause
-of any particular historical incident without its payload and running version.
-
-## Target Correction Contract
-
-- `original_text` identifies an existing, nonempty literal span in the current
-  target segment. Whitespace-only spans are eligible; an empty string identifies
-  no source span and remains invalid. Matching and ambiguity checks still apply
-  under the module's replacement policy: `require_unique` for grammar, spoken-word,
-  and homophones; `replace_all` for glossary.
-- `corrected_text` remains a required string. An empty string means delete the
-  identified span; it does not mean remove the segment record or skip validation.
-  Missing fields and non-string values remain structurally invalid.
-- After applying a correction, the segment must contain non-whitespace text.
-  Enforce this using the source segment and replacement result in Audita, not a
-  minimum replacement length in the structural schema.
-- Every accepted deletion passes the same required validators as other edits in
-  its module, including confidence, protected terms, editorial review, and meaning
-  preservation where applicable. Empty replacement is neither automatic approval
-  nor an automatic rejection.
-- Application preserves segment identity, speaker, timing, membership, ordering,
-  and fixed chunk boundaries. Recheck applicability against text produced by
-  earlier accepted corrections, retaining existing conflict handling.
-- Preserve literal replacement behavior. Prompts should select spans and
-  replacements that handle adjacent whitespace and punctuation appropriately;
-  this feature does not add automatic trimming or a second normalization pass.
-  Neither side of a correction is rejected solely for containing only whitespace.
-  For example, reducing a uniquely identified run of two spaces to one space may
-  be appropriate; validity still depends on the resulting text and domain checks.
-
-Preserve the intended safeguards and outcomes, not every detail of the current
-implementation. Validator ordering, internal structure, and payload construction
-may change when needed to achieve this consistent contract. Existing behavior or
-a passing test does not justify retaining a conflicting restriction.
-
-Illustrative cases:
-
-| Segment | Original span | Replacement | Intended handling |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `uh hello` | `uh ` | empty string | Structurally valid; may produce `hello` after required validation. |
-| `uh hello` | `uh hello` | `hello` | Remains a valid representation of the same cleanup, subject to validation. |
-| `hello  world` | two spaces | one space | Eligible spacing correction, subject to unique matching and required validation. |
-| `uh` | `uh` | empty string | Structurally valid proposal, then filtered because the resulting segment would be blank. |
-| `hello world` | `hello world` | spaces only | Filtered because the resulting segment would be blank. |
-
-These examples describe eligibility and mechanical results, not unconditional
-editorial approval. An unchanged segment or valid empty correction list remains
-a successful no-change outcome.
-
-## Prompt and Module Alignment
-
-Review relevant prompt definitions for consistency and edit only those needing
-clarification. Where needed, explain empty-string deletion, whitespace-only spans,
-and the resulting-segment limit with a concise, module-appropriate example. The
-model should omit a correction that would leave a blank segment rather than invent
-padding or replacement content. Consistent guidance is the goal; adding deletion
-language to every prompt is not a requirement.
-
-Retain each module's existing scope:
-
-- Spoken-word cleanup can propose appropriate filler or dysfluency deletion while
-  preserving substantive content and intentional emphasis.
-- Grammar can propose permitted punctuation or spacing deletion; allowing an
-  empty replacement does not authorize word removal or spoken-word cleanup.
-- Glossary and homophone modules retain their existing correction purposes.
-  Shared deletion syntax does not grant them new editorial responsibilities.
-
-Review the active LLM-validator prompts and their input construction as well as
-proposal prompts. Validators must understand the before/after effect of deletion
-and assess it under their existing criteria. A correct negative editorial decision
-remains ordinary processing, not a defect that should be regenerated until approved.
-
-The resulting-segment validator's name and documented identity should describe
-that responsibility accurately, rather than imply that the replacement string
-itself must be nonempty. Preserve the existing blank-result failure reason and
-safeguard while making that deliberate identity change; current chain position
-and preview implementation are not independent product requirements.
-
-## Outcomes and Reporting
-
-A legitimate deletion is an ordinary correction. Empty replacement alone must
-produce neither structural repair nor a recovery classification. If another
-problem required successful repair or filtering, retain that actual recovery.
-
-A schema-valid proposal that would blank its stage-input segment is a defective
-proposal handled through existing safe filtering. Preserve the
-`empty_resulting_segment` reason
-and consolidated `proposals_filtered` recovery behavior; other usable proposals
-in the response continue through required validation. Ordinary editorial rejection
-remains debug evidence rather than a model error or filtering recovery.
-
-A stage can propose several edits to one segment in the same response. Each edit
-is evaluated against the stage input, then approved edits are applied sequentially.
-If a proposal was applicable to that input but an earlier accepted edit makes it
-unsafe, skip it as an apply-time conflict. Do not count that conflict as a defective
-proposal, model error, or filtering recovery. For example, in `"uh um"`, deleting
-`"uh "` and deleting `"um"` each leaves text individually; after the first deletion,
-the second must be skipped to prevent a blank result. Retain the skipped decision
-in debug evidence. The existing runner already distinguishes this situation.
-
-Debug evidence must accurately retain the empty replacement and the corresponding
-validation/application outcome. Ordinary reports retain their existing counts and
-purpose; no new report schema, incident category, or deletion-specific counter is
-needed. Unrelated structural defects may still exhaust PromptKit repair and produce
-an error for the operation, as today.
-
-## Acceptance Criteria
-
-- A controlled valid response containing an empty replacement reaches Audita's
-  domain validation without structural repair solely due to that empty string.
-- A permitted span deletion can pass the required validators and reach the final
-  transcript while preserving segment metadata and fixed chunk membership.
-- A mixed response can apply an approved deletion and another approved correction;
-  an empty replacement does not invalidate the whole response.
-- A proposal that would blank its stage-input segment is filtered independently,
-  retains the existing reason, and does not prevent unrelated valid candidates
-  from succeeding. A proposal made unsafe only by an earlier accepted edit is
-  skipped without adding an error or filtering recovery; a blank result is still
-  prevented and the conflict remains visible in debug evidence.
-- A uniquely matching whitespace-only original span can reach validation and
-  application. Empty originals remain invalid, ambiguous matches remain subject
-  to module policy, and whitespace-only resulting segments remain disallowed.
-- Protected-term and meaning-changing deletions remain subject to their normal
-  rejection rules. No candidate bypasses required validation.
-- A deletion needing no recovery counts as an ordinary applied correction; actual
-  repair/filtering and editorial rejection retain their existing classifications.
-  Debug evidence represents the empty replacement faithfully.
-- Schema and domain tests distinguish an empty string from missing/non-string
-  replacement values and distinguish empty replacement from blank resulting text.
-- Prompt guidance and validator naming express the same contract as the code.
-  Tests protect outcomes rather than exact prompt prose or incidental formatting.
-
-Use deterministic, offline controlled responses for behavioral integration tests;
-no live-provider or paid evaluation is a prerequisite. Representative production
-examples can inform prompt quality without expanding this into an evaluation
-framework or guaranteeing that models always follow the instructions.
-
-## Deferred Work
-
-[Whole-segment removal](future.md#whole-segment-removal) is only potential future
-work and first requires deciding whether its benefit warrants implementation.
-Domain-aware regeneration and independent whole-pipeline traversal also remain
-in [future.md](future.md). This feature changes neither retry budgets nor the
-Audita/PromptKit ownership boundary and requires no upstream library feature.
-
-Implementation sequencing and concrete names belong to the
-[historical implementation plan](https://gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/src/commit/60e2fe7/docs/roadmap/implementation.md).
-The target remains consistent deletion of spans within surviving segments, with
-no new operator controls or report types.

examples/configkit-inheritance.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+version: 2
+profiles_dir: profiles/local
+backends:
+  local-base:
+    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1
+    concurrency: 4
+    queue_capacity: 0
+  local:
+    extends: local-base
+    concurrency: 2
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: local-proposal
+  validation_profile: local-validation
+pipeline:
+  modules: [grammar]

examples/minimal-config.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 version: 2
+profiles_dir: profiles/local
 backends:
   local:
     endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1

examples/production-config.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 version: 2
+profiles_dir: profiles/service
 backends:
   service:
     endpoint: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1

examples/profiles/local-proposal.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-id: local-proposal
-backend: local
-model: replace-with-local-model
-temperature: 0
-max_tokens: 2048
-top_p: 1
-timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/local-validation.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-id: local-validation
-backend: local
-model: replace-with-local-model
-temperature: 0
-max_tokens: 1024
-top_p: 1
-timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/local/local-proposal.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  local-proposal:
+    backend: local
+    model: replace-with-local-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 2048
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/local/local-validation.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  local-validation:
+    backend: local
+    model: replace-with-local-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 1024
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service-proposal-testing.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-id: service-proposal-testing
-backend: service
-model: replace-with-testing-model
-temperature: 0
-max_tokens: 2048
-top_p: 1
-timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service-proposal.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-id: service-proposal
-backend: service
-model: replace-with-provider-model
-temperature: 0
-max_tokens: 2048
-top_p: 1
-timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service-validation-testing.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-id: service-validation-testing
-backend: service
-model: replace-with-testing-model
-temperature: 0
-max_tokens: 1024
-top_p: 1
-timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service-validation.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-id: service-validation
-backend: service
-model: replace-with-provider-model
-temperature: 0
-max_tokens: 1024
-top_p: 1
-timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-proposal-testing.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-proposal-testing:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-testing-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 2048
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-proposal.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-proposal:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-provider-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 2048
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-validation-testing.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-validation-testing:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-testing-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 1024
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

examples/profiles/service/service-validation.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+profiles:
+  service-validation:
+    backend: service
+    model: replace-with-provider-model
+    temperature: 0
+    max_tokens: 1024
+    top_p: 1
+    timeout_seconds: 120

go.mod

@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ module gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita
 go 1.25.5
 
 require (
-	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.4.2
-	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.11.2
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.5.0
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit v0.1.0
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.12.0
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 )
 
 require (
-	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v2 v2.20260926.0 // indirect
-	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v2 v2.20260926.0 // indirect
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v3 v3.20260930.0 // indirect
+	gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v3 v3.20260930.0 // indirect
 	github.com/kr/pretty v0.3.1 // indirect
 	github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.14.1 // indirect
 	github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6 v6.0.2 // indirect

go.sum

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.4.2 h1:ZMxmv8pOnLtAx2hFTf8Z+pHKUbR89xErkBhwjr4yK24=
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.4.2/go.mod h1:tYWpsrbLyu05r8+1MapWp5fN6ZrX9I8hU2xEPedYmYk=
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.11.2 h1:2RqI+KtflvSh7vLQaTAQCmMaFQscEA7EPwPazyvXRoY=
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.11.2/go.mod h1:onm/FBPUKQ8/NSPwTEk26Ut+dVX2iXcq8vEseB+g/0E=
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v2 v2.20260926.0 h1:wdab+R+lgMZxzYwhbAuCrW7zdSQ1cW9ovBR6UzLmZR4=
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v2 v2.20260926.0/go.mod h1:a3VBbh9oaGXD6ruxhtwHj+AWW6DY/SSyby1QtMmYSUo=
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v2 v2.20260926.0 h1:baCCIB6Ee5t0S4Zc++NTBIPcJEv5UPS6DlSrpZfykwg=
-gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v2 v2.20260926.0/go.mod h1:mtgD1E0SGm0e/I8Ffhz+AYX7GN7RKUWJXehNFIKHs4Y=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.5.0 h1:2KwG10+kApWM3avOoYA+p768xcbHUp7tQ2rqizBNpyg=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit v0.5.0/go.mod h1:tYWpsrbLyu05r8+1MapWp5fN6ZrX9I8hU2xEPedYmYk=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit v0.1.0 h1:Ejk85+9Of+A8M7Mod91iB3KxrrQYgnJcz9hPA6fL1a4=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit v0.1.0/go.mod h1:KmH607Vc/RK/zKrCB96cWh0QZYvkbxBFvtqV+BkKaxs=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.12.0 h1:oIFWEg6GPxtmX3Plqv0euP+FnK1LCk/t4xDy6oKCpP4=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit v0.12.0/go.mod h1:pFOOy5v1zH17stEi9rmHYmfbuLjnfVMcUhfmk+4VtJY=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v3 v3.20260930.0 h1:lzfCDbzJQRGzIlRPRprnAV9hVVL5zUQy80VMQ0kbYa0=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-openrouter/v3 v3.20260930.0/go.mod h1:HjS0f+3q0IdHCTEz+VVAEgIwIWJFAZUjuKdAtvtqKdg=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v3 v3.20260930.0 h1:h12ZTRldAmpLAomj0oQRGteFxHLN1LPE6XDl9zJNbm8=
+gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit-backend-rakestrawhome/v3 v3.20260930.0/go.mod h1:OEFBeKdjTsLzqJwLmXI2O5gG3r64FktcVJVb3mBrRfg=
 github.com/creack/pty v1.1.9/go.mod h1:oKZEueFk5CKHvIhNR5MUki03XCEU+Q6VDXinZuGJ33E=
 github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.11.0 h1:G/nrcoOa7ZXlpoa/91N3X7mM3r8eIlMBBJZvsz/mxKI=
 github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.11.0/go.mod h1:DHkYz0B9wPfa6wondMfaivmHpzrQ3v9q8cnmRbL6yW8=

internal/cli/config_input.go

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ type configInput struct {
 	TranscriptPath string
 	GlossaryPath   string
 	OutputPath     string
+	ReportDirSet   bool
 	Overrides      []ck.Override
 }
 
@@ -124,6 +125,9 @@ func parseConfigInput(command string, args []string, output io.Writer) (configIn
 		if f.Name == "config" {
 			input.ConfigPathSet = true
 		}
+		if f.Name == "report-dir" {
+			input.ReportDirSet = true
+		}
 		path, ok := settingPaths[f.Name]
 		if !ok {
 			return
@@ -208,15 +212,22 @@ func configInputError(err error) string {
 	return strings.Join(messages, "; ")
 }
 
-func selectedReportDir(cfg config.Config, outputPath string) (string, error) {
+func selectedReportDir(cfg config.Config, outputPath string, reportDirSet bool) (string, error) {
 	if !cfg.Reporting.Enabled {
 		return "", nil
 	}
+	var reportDir string
 	if outputPath != "" {
-		return filepath.Dir(outputPath), nil
+		if reportDirSet {
+			reportDir = cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir
+		} else {
+			reportDir = filepath.Dir(outputPath)
 		}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir) == "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("report directory is required when reporting is enabled and transcript output is stdout")
+	} else {
+		reportDir = cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir
 	}
-	return cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir, nil
+	if strings.TrimSpace(reportDir) == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("report directory is required when reporting is enabled for the selected destination")
+	}
+	return reportDir, nil
 }

internal/cli/config_input_test.go

@@ -215,22 +215,42 @@ func TestReportingAndDebugOverridesRemainIndependent(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatalf("%s did not honor explicit false: %+v", command, selected.Result.Config)
 		}
 	}
+	processInput, _, err := parseConfigInput("process", []string{"input.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml", "--config", main, "--overlay", "testing"}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	processConfig, err := loadConfigInput(processInput, "process")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(processConfig.Result.Config, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), processInput.ReportDirSet); err != nil || got != "out" {
+		t.Fatalf("overlay stdout directory redirected file output: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
 }
 
 func TestReportDirectorySelectionOnlyUsesActiveDestination(t *testing.T) {
 	cfg := config.Config{Reporting: config.Reporting{Enabled: true, StdoutDir: "reports"}}
-	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, ""); err != nil || got != "reports" {
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, "", false); err != nil || got != "reports" {
 		t.Fatalf("stdout destination: %q %v", got, err)
 	}
-	cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir = ""
-	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json")); err != nil || got != "out" {
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), false); err != nil || got != "out" {
 		t.Fatalf("file destination ignored stdout setting: %q %v", got, err)
 	}
-	if _, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, ""); err == nil {
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), true); err != nil || got != "reports" {
+		t.Fatalf("explicit file report directory: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+	cfg.Reporting.StdoutDir = ""
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), false); err != nil || got != "out" {
+		t.Fatalf("inactive blank configured report directory rejected for file output: %q %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), true); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("active explicit blank report directory accepted for file output")
+	}
+	if _, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, "", false); err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("enabled stdout reporting accepted blank destination")
 	}
 	cfg.Reporting.Enabled = false
-	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, ""); err != nil || got != "" {
+	if got, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, filepath.Join("out", "corrected.json"), true); err != nil || got != "" {
 		t.Fatalf("disabled reporting probed destination: %q %v", got, err)
 	}
 }
@@ -247,4 +267,14 @@ func TestBareBooleanFlagsAndReportDirectoryOverride(t *testing.T) {
 	if values[ck.Keys("reporting", "enabled").String()] != true || values[ck.Keys("diagnostics", "debug").String()] != true || values[ck.Keys("reporting", "stdout_dir").String()] != "reports" {
 		t.Fatalf("incorrect visited overrides: %+v", values)
 	}
+	if !input.ReportDirSet {
+		t.Fatal("explicit --report-dir presence was not recorded")
+	}
+	withoutReportDir, _, err := parseConfigInput("process", []string{"input.json", "--glossary", "glossary.yml"}, io.Discard)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if withoutReportDir.ReportDirSet {
+		t.Fatal("absent --report-dir was recorded as explicit")
+	}
 }

internal/cli/process.go

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ func runProcess(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) in
 		return 2
 	}
 	cfg := selected.Result.Config
-	reportDir, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, input.OutputPath)
+	reportDir, err := selectedReportDir(cfg, input.OutputPath, input.ReportDirSet)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita process: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, cfg))
 		return 2
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func runProcess(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) in
 			protected = append(protected, source.Path)
 		}
 	}
-	protected = append(protected, runtime.ProfilePaths...)
+	protected = append(protected, runtime.SourcePaths...)
 	session, err := diagnostics.PrepareOutput(diagnostics.OutputSelection{InputTranscriptPath: input.TranscriptPath, TranscriptPath: input.OutputPath,
 		ReportDir: reportDir, ReportingEnabled: cfg.Reporting.Enabled, ProtectedPaths: protected})
 	if err != nil {

internal/cli/run.go

@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ package cli
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/buildinfo"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/schema"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/llm"
 )
@@ -42,6 +44,9 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
 		case "config":
 			writeConfigUsage(stdout)
 			return 0
+		case "version":
+			writeVersionUsage(stdout)
+			return 0
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -56,12 +61,36 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
 	if args[0] == "config" {
 		return runConfig(ctx, args[1:], stdout, stderr)
 	}
+	if args[0] == "version" {
+		return runVersion(args[1:], stdout, stderr)
+	}
 
 	fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita: unknown command %q\n\n", args[0])
 	writeRootUsage(stderr)
 	return 2
 }
 
+func runVersion(args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
+	flags := flag.NewFlagSet("version", flag.ContinueOnError)
+	flags.SetOutput(stderr)
+	flags.Usage = func() {} // Route usage after parsing so help stays on stdout.
+	if err := flags.Parse(args); err != nil {
+		if err == flag.ErrHelp {
+			writeVersionUsage(stdout)
+			return 0
+		}
+		writeVersionUsage(stderr)
+		return 2
+	}
+	if positional := flags.Args(); len(positional) > 0 {
+		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita version: unexpected argument %q\n\n", positional[0])
+		writeVersionUsage(stderr)
+		return 2
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "audita %s\n", buildinfo.Version())
+	return 0
+}
+
 func runConfig(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
 	if len(args) == 0 || isHelpCommand(args) || args[0] == "--help" || args[0] == "-h" {
 		writeConfigUsage(stdout)
@@ -97,7 +126,7 @@ func runConfigValidate(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr io.Wri
 	}
 	if _, err := llm.NewRuntime(ctx, selected.Result.Config, selected.Path, nil); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config validate: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, selected.Result.Config))
-		if llm.IsAssetError(err) {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil || llm.IsAssetError(err) {
 			return 1
 		}
 		return 2
@@ -124,7 +153,7 @@ func runConfigPrintEffective(ctx context.Context, args []string, stdout, stderr
 	llmRuntime, err := llm.NewRuntime(ctx, selected.Result.Config, selected.Path, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "audita config print-effective: %s\n", llm.RedactError(err, selected.Result.Config))
-		if llm.IsAssetError(err) {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil || llm.IsAssetError(err) {
 			return 1
 		}
 		return 2
@@ -177,11 +206,19 @@ func writeRootUsage(w io.Writer) {
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Commands:")
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  process    Process a transcript JSON file")
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  config     Validate and inspect config")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  version    Print the Audita version")
 	fmt.Fprintln(w)
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Example:")
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita process transcript.json --glossary glossary.yaml --output corrected.json")
 }
 
+func writeVersionUsage(w io.Writer) {
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Print the Audita version.")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w)
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Usage:")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  audita version")
+}
+
 func writeConfigUsage(w io.Writer) {
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Validate and inspect Audita config.")
 	fmt.Fprintln(w)
@@ -225,7 +262,7 @@ func writeProcessUsage(w io.Writer) {
 		fmt.Fprintf(w, "  --%s\n", name)
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  --reporting[=true|false]  Write the three-file report bundle (default true)")
-	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  --report-dir DIR         Report directory for stdout output only; ignored with --output or --reporting=false")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  --report-dir DIR         Select the report directory (stdout setting for stdout; output parent by default for files)")
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "  --debug[=true|false]      Persist detailed diagnostics (default false)")
 	fmt.Fprintln(w)
 	fmt.Fprintln(w, "Example:")

internal/cli/runtime_errors_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func writeRuntimeErrorConfig(t *testing.T, operatorDocument string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	profiles := filepath.Join(dir, "profiles")
+	if err := os.Mkdir(profiles, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	configText := "version: 2\nprofiles_dir: profiles\nbackends:\n  offline:\n    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:1/v1\n    credential: AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: proposal\n"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(configText), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(profiles, "operator.yml"), []byte(operatorDocument), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return main
+}
+
+func TestConfigCommandsClassifyOperatorPromptErrorsAsInputErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY", "synthetic-cli-redaction-secret")
+	definitions := map[string]string{
+		"malformed operator YAML":           "profiles:\n  proposal: [\n",
+		"invalid operator template":         "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\nprompts:\n  modules.grammar.proposal:\n    v1:\n      messages:\n        - role: user\n          content: '{{'\n",
+		"missing operator message resource": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\nprompts:\n  modules.grammar.proposal:\n    v1:\n      messages:\n        - role: user\n          content_file: missing-instruction.md\n",
+	}
+	commands := []struct {
+		name string
+		args []string
+	}{
+		{name: "validate", args: []string{"config", "validate"}},
+		{name: "print effective", args: []string{"config", "print-effective", "--view", "profiles"}},
+	}
+	for definition, document := range definitions {
+		for _, command := range commands {
+			t.Run(definition+"/"+command.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+				main := writeRuntimeErrorConfig(t, document)
+				args := append(append([]string(nil), command.args...), "--config", main)
+				var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+				if code := Run(context.Background(), args, &stdout, &stderr); code != 2 {
+					t.Fatalf("exit=%d, stdout=%q, stderr=%q", code, stdout.String(), stderr.String())
+				}
+				if strings.Contains(stderr.String(), "synthetic-cli-redaction-secret") {
+					t.Fatalf("configured secret leaked: %q", stderr.String())
+				}
+			})
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConfigCommandsKeepCallerCancellationAsRuntimeExit(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("AUDITA_TEST_PROVIDER_KEY", "synthetic-cli-redaction-secret")
+	main := writeRuntimeErrorConfig(t, "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\n")
+	commands := [][]string{
+		{"config", "validate", "--config", main},
+		{"config", "print-effective", "--config", main, "--view", "profiles"},
+	}
+	for _, args := range commands {
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+		cancel()
+		var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+		if code := Run(ctx, args, &stdout, &stderr); code != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("args=%v exit=%d, stdout=%q, stderr=%q", args, code, stdout.String(), stderr.String())
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/cli/version_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/buildinfo"
+)
+
+func TestVersionCommandRunsWithoutApplicationSetup(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Chdir(t.TempDir())
+	var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+	if code := Run(context.Background(), []string{"version"}, &stdout, &stderr); code != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("exit=%d, stdout=%q, stderr=%q", code, stdout.String(), stderr.String())
+	}
+	if got, want := stdout.String(), fmt.Sprintf("audita %s\n", buildinfo.Version()); got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("stdout=%q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+	if got := stderr.String(); got != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("stderr=%q, want empty", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVersionCommandHelp(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, test := range []struct {
+		name string
+		args []string
+		want string
+	}{
+		{name: "root help", args: []string{"--help"}, want: "version    Print the Audita version"},
+		{name: "help version", args: []string{"help", "version"}, want: "audita version"},
+		{name: "short flag", args: []string{"version", "-h"}, want: "audita version"},
+		{name: "long flag", args: []string{"version", "--help"}, want: "audita version"},
+		{name: "parser help", args: []string{"version", "--h"}, want: "audita version"},
+		{name: "help short circuits", args: []string{"version", "-h", "--help", "extra"}, want: "audita version"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+			if code := Run(context.Background(), test.args, &stdout, &stderr); code != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("exit=%d, stdout=%q, stderr=%q", code, stdout.String(), stderr.String())
+			}
+			if !strings.Contains(stdout.String(), test.want) {
+				t.Fatalf("stdout=%q, want %q", stdout.String(), test.want)
+			}
+			if got := stderr.String(); got != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("stderr=%q, want empty", got)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestVersionCommandRejectsUnexpectedArguments(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, args := range [][]string{
+		{"version", "extra"},
+		{"version", "--unknown"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(strings.Join(args, " "), func(t *testing.T) {
+			var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+			if code := Run(context.Background(), args, &stdout, &stderr); code != 2 {
+				t.Fatalf("exit=%d, stdout=%q, stderr=%q", code, stdout.String(), stderr.String())
+			}
+			if got := stdout.String(); got != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("stdout=%q, want empty", got)
+			}
+			if got := stderr.String(); got == "" {
+				t.Fatal("expected usage error on stderr")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/core/config/config_test.go

@@ -137,9 +137,167 @@ func TestSurvivingCredentials(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil || loaded.Config.Backends["other"].Credential != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("null credential: %+v %v", loaded, err)
 	}
+
+	inherited := `version: 2
+backends:
+  parent:
+    endpoint: https://parent.invalid/v1
+    credential: BASE_SECRET
+  local:
+    extends: parent
+    credential: null
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`
+	if _, err := loadText(inherited, ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("null child credential removed the unselected parent's surviving reference")
+	}
+	t.Setenv("BASE_SECRET", "synthetic-parent-secret")
+	loaded, err = loadText(strings.Replace(inherited, "    credential: null\n", "", 1), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := loaded.Config.Backends["local"].Credential.Value(); got != "synthetic-parent-secret" {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited secret: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := loaded.Metadata().IsExplicit(ck.Keys("backends", "local", "credential")); !got {
+		t.Fatal("inherited credential is not explicit")
+	}
+	var inheritedEffective bytes.Buffer
+	if err := loaded.WriteEffective(&inheritedEffective); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(inheritedEffective.String(), "synthetic-parent-secret") {
+		t.Fatal("effective output leaked an inherited secret")
+	}
+	loaded, err = loadText(inherited, "")
+	if err != nil || loaded.Config.Backends["local"].Credential != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("child null credential: %+v %v", loaded, err)
+	}
+	if got := loaded.Config.Backends["parent"].Credential.Value(); got != "synthetic-parent-secret" {
+		t.Fatalf("parent credential after child null: %q", got)
+	}
+
 	t.Setenv("AUDITA_MODEL", "legacy-model")
 	loaded, err = loadText(base, "")
 	if err != nil || loaded.Config.LLM.ProposalProfile != "proposal" {
 		t.Fatalf("legacy environment affected loading: %+v %v", loaded, err)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestSiblingInheritancePreservesBackendSettings(t *testing.T) {
+	text := `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 3
+    queue_capacity: 0
+  local:
+    extends: base
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`
+	loaded, err := loadText(text, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	backend := loaded.Config.Backends["local"]
+	if backend.Endpoint != "https://base.invalid/v1" || backend.Concurrency != 3 || backend.QueueCapacity != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited backend settings: %+v", backend)
+	}
+	for _, path := range []ck.Path{
+		ck.Keys("backends", "local", "endpoint"),
+		ck.Keys("backends", "local", "concurrency"),
+		ck.Keys("backends", "local", "queue_capacity"),
+	} {
+		if !loaded.Metadata().IsExplicit(path) {
+			t.Errorf("inherited field %s is not explicit", path.String())
+		}
+	}
+
+	overridden, err := loadText(strings.Replace(text, "    extends: base\n", "    extends: base\n    concurrency: 2\n", 1), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := overridden.Config.Backends["local"].Concurrency; got != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("child concurrency override: %d", got)
+	}
+	if got := overridden.Config.Backends["local"].QueueCapacity; got != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited zero queue capacity: %d", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSiblingInheritanceUsesSelectedOverlay(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	if err := os.Mkdir(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays"), 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	text := `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 3
+    queue_capacity: 0
+  local:
+    extends: base
+    concurrency: 2
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(text), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "overlays", "testing.yml"), []byte("backends:\n  base:\n    endpoint: https://overlay.invalid/v1\n    concurrency: 4\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	loaded, err := Load(ck.File(main), "testing")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	child := loaded.Config.Backends["local"]
+	if child.Endpoint != "https://overlay.invalid/v1" || child.Concurrency != 2 || child.QueueCapacity != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("overlay inheritance and child override: %+v", child)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSiblingInheritanceDoesNotBypassBackendValidation(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		text string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "invalid inherited parent setting",
+			text: `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 0
+  local:
+    extends: base
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "invalid child override",
+			text: `version: 2
+backends:
+  base:
+    endpoint: https://base.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 3
+  local:
+    extends: base
+    concurrency: 0
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: proposal
+`,
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if _, err := loadText(tc.text, ""); err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("invalid backend concurrency accepted")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

internal/framework/llm/adapter_capacity_test.go

@@ -23,9 +23,14 @@ import (
 )
 
 func TestRolesShareBackendCapacityAndReleaseAfterCancellation(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("INHERITED_TEST_KEY", "synthetic-inherited-runtime-secret")
+	t.Setenv("OPERATOR_BACKEND_KEY", "synthetic-operator-backend-secret")
 	entered := make(chan struct{}, 3)
 	release := make(chan struct{})
 	server := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if got := r.Header.Get("Authorization"); got != "Bearer synthetic-inherited-runtime-secret" {
+			t.Errorf("inherited credential header: %q", got)
+		}
 		entered <- struct{}{}
 		<-release
 		content, _ := json.Marshal(`{"corrections":[]}`)
@@ -37,16 +42,26 @@ func TestRolesShareBackendCapacityAndReleaseAfterCancellation(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
-	body := fmt.Sprintf("version: 2\nbackends:\n  shared:\n    endpoint: %s/v1\n    concurrency: 1\n    queue_capacity: 0\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: proposal\n  validation_profile: validation\n  transient_retries: 0\n  repair_attempts: 0\n", server.URL)
+	body := fmt.Sprintf("version: 2\nbackends:\n  shared-base:\n    endpoint: %s/v1\n    credential: INHERITED_TEST_KEY\n    concurrency: 1\n    queue_capacity: 0\n  shared:\n    extends: shared-base\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: proposal\n  validation_profile: validation\n  transient_retries: 0\n  repair_attempts: 0\n", server.URL)
 	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(body), 0600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	for _, name := range []string{"proposal", "validation"} {
-		profile := "id: " + name + "\nbackend: shared\nmodel: local\n"
+		profile := "profiles:\n  " + name + ":\n    backend: shared\n    model: local\n"
 		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", name+".yaml"), []byte(profile), 0600); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 	}
+	operatorBackend := `backends:
+  shared:
+    endpoint: https://operator.invalid/v1
+    concurrency_limit: 77
+    queue_capacity: 88
+    api_key_env: OPERATOR_BACKEND_KEY
+`
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "backend-tuning.yaml"), []byte(operatorBackend), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(main), "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -171,7 +186,7 @@ func TestDistinctBackendsHaveIndependentCapacity(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	for name, backend := range map[string]string{"proposal": "first", "validation": "second"} {
-		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", name+".yaml"), []byte("id: "+name+"\nbackend: "+backend+"\nmodel: local\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", name+".yaml"), []byte("profiles:\n  "+name+":\n    backend: "+backend+"\n    model: local\n"), 0600); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 	}

internal/framework/llm/adapter_test.go

@@ -30,6 +30,22 @@ type reply struct {
 }
 
 func adapterFixture(t *testing.T, replies []reply, retries, repairs int, hook func(*http.Request)) (*Runtime, *atomic.Int32, string) {
+	return adapterFixtureWithDocuments(t, replies, retries, repairs, hook, "offline", map[string]string{
+		"definitions.yaml": "profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: full-model\n",
+	})
+}
+
+func adapterFixtureWithPrompt(t *testing.T, replies []reply, retries, repairs int, hook func(*http.Request), operatorPrompt string) (*Runtime, *atomic.Int32, string) {
+	documents := map[string]string{
+		"definitions.yaml": "profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: full-model\n",
+	}
+	if operatorPrompt != "" {
+		documents["operator-prompt.yaml"] = operatorPrompt
+	}
+	return adapterFixtureWithDocuments(t, replies, retries, repairs, hook, "offline", documents)
+}
+
+func adapterFixtureWithDocuments(t *testing.T, replies []reply, retries, repairs int, hook func(*http.Request), backendID string, documents map[string]string) (*Runtime, *atomic.Int32, string) {
 	t.Helper()
 	var count atomic.Int32
 	server := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -65,13 +81,21 @@ func adapterFixture(t *testing.T, replies []reply, retries, repairs int, hook fu
 	}))
 	t.Cleanup(server.Close)
 	t.Setenv("ADAPTER_KEY", "adapter-secret")
-	base := fmt.Sprintf("version: 2\nbackends:\n  offline:\n    endpoint: %s/v1\n    credential: ADAPTER_KEY\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: base\n  transient_retries: %d\n  repair_attempts: %d\n", server.URL, retries, repairs)
-	dir := profileLayout(t, base, "")
-	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
-	profile := "id: base\nbackend: offline\nmodel: full-model\n"
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "base.yaml"), []byte(profile), 0600); err != nil {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	profileDirectory := filepath.Join(dir, "profiles")
+	if err := os.Mkdir(profileDirectory, 0700); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	base := fmt.Sprintf("version: 2\nprofiles_dir: profiles\nbackends:\n  %s:\n    endpoint: %s/v1\n    credential: ADAPTER_KEY\n    concurrency: 1\n    queue_capacity: 0\nllm:\n  proposal_profile: base\n  transient_retries: %d\n  repair_attempts: %d\n", backendID, server.URL, retries, repairs)
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(base), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for name, content := range documents {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(profileDirectory, name), []byte(content), 0600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
 	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(main), "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -83,6 +107,10 @@ func adapterFixture(t *testing.T, replies []reply, retries, repairs int, hook fu
 	return runtime, &count, dir
 }
 
+func operatorPromptDocument(system, user string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("prompts:\n  %s:\n    v1:\n      messages:\n        - role: system\n          content: %q\n        - role: user\n          content: %q\n      output:\n        format: text\n        validation_mode: basic\n", prompts.PromptIDModuleGlossaryProposal, system, user)
+}
+
 func adapterRequest(schema responseschema.Key) structuredoutput.Request {
 	id := prompts.PromptIDModuleGlossaryProposal
 	vars := map[string]string{"TranscriptDescriptionBlock": "", "GlossaryJSON": "[]", "SectionJSON": "[]"}
@@ -286,10 +314,238 @@ func TestPreparedAdapterMetadataAndTargetGuard(t *testing.T) {
 	if !found {
 		t.Fatal("hardening policy missing")
 	}
+	backend := runtime.Config.Backends["offline"]
+	backend.Endpoint = "http://127.0.0.1:1/v1"
+	runtime.Config.Backends["offline"] = backend
+	if _, err := client.CompleteStructured(context.Background(), req, &out); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "target changed") || count.Load() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("changed application backend target dispatched: %v, %d", err, count.Load())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestOperatorPromptOverridesUsePerCallSchemaAndOptionalSharedText(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name       string
+		system     string
+		user       string
+		replies    []reply
+		repairs    int
+		wantSystem string
+		wantUser   string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:       "operator text without shared references",
+			system:     "Operator system instructions.",
+			user:       "Operator request without variables.",
+			replies:    []reply{{200, `{"wrong":true}`}, {200, `{"corrections":[]}`}},
+			repairs:    1,
+			wantSystem: "Operator system instructions.",
+			wantUser:   "Operator request without variables.",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "operator text with shared references",
+			system:     "Policy: {{.HardeningPolicy}}",
+			user:       "Section: {{.SectionJSON}}",
+			replies:    []reply{{200, `{"corrections":[]}`}},
+			wantSystem: "Policy: " + prompts.HardeningText(),
+			wantUser:   "Section: []",
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var posted []struct {
+				Messages []structuredoutput.Message `json:"messages"`
+			}
+			runtime, count, _ := adapterFixtureWithPrompt(t, tc.replies, 0, tc.repairs, func(r *http.Request) {
+				var envelope struct {
+					Messages []structuredoutput.Message `json:"messages"`
+				}
+				if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&envelope); err != nil {
+					t.Error(err)
+					return
+				}
+				posted = append(posted, envelope)
+			}, operatorPromptDocument(tc.system, tc.user))
+			client, err := runtime.NewRoleClient("proposal", CallHooks{})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			req := adapterRequest(responseschema.CorrectionSetKey)
+			if tc.name == "operator text with shared references" {
+				req.Variables["HardeningPolicy"] = "attacker-controlled"
+			}
+			var out map[string]any
+			response, err := client.CompleteStructured(context.Background(), req, &out)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if int(count.Load()) != len(tc.replies) || response.Execution.StructuralRepairs != tc.repairs {
+				t.Fatalf("schema/repair execution = %d calls, %+v; want %d calls and %d repair", count.Load(), response.Execution, len(tc.replies), tc.repairs)
+			}
+			if response.Prepared == nil || len(posted) == 0 || len(posted[0].Messages) != len(response.Prepared.Messages) {
+				t.Fatal("prepared operator prompt was not dispatched")
+			}
+			for i := range response.Prepared.Messages {
+				if response.Prepared.Messages[i] != posted[0].Messages[i] {
+					t.Fatal("prepared operator messages differ from the first dispatched request")
+				}
+			}
+			if len(response.Prepared.Messages) != 2 || response.Prepared.Messages[0].Content != tc.wantSystem || response.Prepared.Messages[1].Content != tc.wantUser {
+				t.Fatalf("prepared messages = %+v", response.Prepared.Messages)
+			}
+			if tc.name == "operator text with shared references" {
+				if strings.Contains(response.Prepared.Messages[0].Content, "attacker-controlled") || !strings.Contains(response.Prepared.Messages[0].Content, prompts.HardeningText()) {
+					t.Fatal("caller variables replaced the reserved shared value")
+				}
+			} else if strings.Contains(response.Prepared.Messages[0].Content+response.Prepared.Messages[1].Content, prompts.HardeningText()) {
+				t.Fatal("shared text was injected into operator messages that omit its reference")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestProfilePresenceBackendAuthorityAndProviderParametersReachWire(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("CATALOG_TRAP_KEY", "catalog-secret-must-not-be-used")
+	cases := []struct {
+		name              string
+		parentTemperature string
+		childTemperature  string
+		wantTemperature   bool
+	}{
+		{name: "explicit zero", parentTemperature: "    temperature: 0.8\n", childTemperature: "    temperature: 0\n", wantTemperature: true},
+		{name: "omitted", wantTemperature: false},
+		{name: "null clears inherited control", parentTemperature: "    temperature: 0.8\n", childTemperature: "    temperature: null\n", wantTemperature: false},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			profileDocument := "profiles:\n  \"parent~/partial\":\n    backend: openrouter\n    model: parent-model\n" + tc.parentTemperature +
+				"  base:\n    extends: \"parent~/partial\"\n    model: full-model\n    timeout_seconds: 0\n" + tc.childTemperature +
+				"    extra_params:\n      routing:\n        overridden: profile\n        profile_only: retained\n        cleared: null\n"
+			operatorBackend := `backends:
+  openrouter:
+    endpoint: https://operator.invalid/v1
+    concurrency_limit: 91
+    queue_capacity: 92
+    api_key_env: CATALOG_TRAP_KEY
+    extra_params:
+      routing:
+        inherited: backend
+        overridden: backend
+        cleared: remove-me
+`
+			documents := map[string]string{
+				"unrelated-profile-file.yml": profileDocument,
+				"provider-tuning.yaml":       operatorBackend,
+			}
+			var wire map[string]json.RawMessage
+			runtime, count, _ := adapterFixtureWithDocuments(t, []reply{{200, `{"corrections":[]}`}}, 0, 0, func(r *http.Request) {
+				if got := r.Header.Get("Authorization"); got != "Bearer adapter-secret" {
+					t.Errorf("application credential was not authoritative: %q", got)
+				}
+				if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&wire); err != nil {
+					t.Error(err)
+				}
+			}, "openrouter", documents)
+			profile := runtime.Profiles["proposal"]
+			if profile.EffectiveModelParams.APIKeyEnv != "" || profile.EffectiveModelParams.Endpoint == "https://operator.invalid/v1" || profile.EffectiveModelParams.TimeoutSeconds != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("application backend mapping or zero timeout lost: %+v", profile.EffectiveModelParams)
+			}
+			client, err := runtime.NewRoleClient("proposal", CallHooks{})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			var out map[string]any
+			response, err := client.CompleteStructured(context.Background(), adapterRequest(responseschema.CorrectionSetKey), &out)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if count.Load() != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("provider calls = %d, want 1", count.Load())
+			}
+			temperature, hasTemperature := wire["temperature"]
+			if hasTemperature != tc.wantTemperature {
+				t.Fatalf("temperature presence = %t, want %t: %s", hasTemperature, tc.wantTemperature, wire)
+			}
+			if tc.wantTemperature {
+				var value float64
+				if err := json.Unmarshal(temperature, &value); err != nil || value != 0 {
+					t.Fatalf("explicit zero temperature = %s (%v)", temperature, err)
+				}
+			}
+			var routing map[string]any
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(wire["routing"], &routing); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("provider routing fields missing: %s (%v)", wire, err)
+			}
+			if routing["inherited"] != "backend" || routing["overridden"] != "profile" || routing["profile_only"] != "retained" {
+				t.Fatalf("recursively overlaid provider fields = %#v", routing)
+			}
+			if value, exists := routing["cleared"]; !exists || value != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("null did not replace inherited provider field: %#v", routing)
+			}
+			if response.Model != "full-model" || response.Prepared == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("execution did not use selected profile: %+v", response)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPreparedAdapterUsesCapturedProfileAndPromptUntilReconstructed(t *testing.T) {
+	var posted []struct {
+		Model    string                     `json:"model"`
+		Messages []structuredoutput.Message `json:"messages"`
+	}
+	runtime, count, dir := adapterFixtureWithPrompt(t, []reply{{200, `{"corrections":[]}`}}, 0, 0, func(r *http.Request) {
+		var envelope struct {
+			Model    string                     `json:"model"`
+			Messages []structuredoutput.Message `json:"messages"`
+		}
+		if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&envelope); err != nil {
+			t.Error(err)
+			return
+		}
+		posted = append(posted, envelope)
+	}, operatorPromptDocument("Initial operator instructions.", "Initial payload."))
+	client, err := runtime.NewRoleClient("proposal", CallHooks{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	profile := "profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: edited-model\n"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "definitions.yaml"), []byte(profile), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	updatedPrompt := operatorPromptDocument("Edited operator instructions.", "Edited payload.")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "operator-prompt.yaml"), []byte(updatedPrompt), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	var out map[string]any
+	response, err := client.CompleteStructured(context.Background(), adapterRequest(responseschema.CorrectionSetKey), &out)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if response.Model != "full-model" || response.Prepared == nil || response.Prepared.Messages[0].Content != "Initial operator instructions." || posted[0].Model != "full-model" {
+		t.Fatalf("existing runtime did not retain its captured configuration: response=%+v request=%+v", response, posted[0])
+	}
+
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	newRuntime, err := NewRuntime(context.Background(), runtime.Config, main, http.DefaultClient)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	newClient, err := newRuntime.NewRoleClient("proposal", CallHooks{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	response, err = newClient.CompleteStructured(context.Background(), adapterRequest(responseschema.CorrectionSetKey), &out)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if int(count.Load()) != 2 || response.Model != "edited-model" || response.Prepared == nil || response.Prepared.Messages[0].Content != "Edited operator instructions." || posted[1].Model != "edited-model" {
+		t.Fatalf("new runtime did not capture edited configuration: response=%+v request=%+v", response, posted[1])
+	}
 }
 
 func TestPreparedAdapterRejectsTargetDriftAndPreparationErrors(t *testing.T) {
-	runtime, count, dir := adapterFixture(t, []reply{{200, `{"corrections":[]}`}}, 0, 0, nil)
+	runtime, count, _ := adapterFixture(t, []reply{{200, `{"corrections":[]}`}}, 0, 0, nil)
 	client, err := runtime.NewRoleClient("proposal", CallHooks{})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -300,15 +556,6 @@ func TestPreparedAdapterRejectsTargetDriftAndPreparationErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := client.CompleteStructured(context.Background(), req, &out); err == nil || count.Load() != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("preparation failure dispatched: %v, %d", err, count.Load())
 	}
-	// PrepareExecution reloads the profile, so a changed target must be blocked.
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "base.yaml"), []byte("id: base\nbackend: offline\nendpoint: http://127.0.0.1:1/v1\nmodel: full-model\n"), 0600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	req = adapterRequest(responseschema.CorrectionSetKey)
-	_, err = client.CompleteStructured(context.Background(), req, &out)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "target changed") || count.Load() != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("target drift dispatched: %v, %d", err, count.Load())
-	}
 }
 
 func TestPreparedAdapterCancellationStopsRetryWait(t *testing.T) {
@@ -333,7 +580,9 @@ func TestPreparedAdapterCancellationStopsRetryWait(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestPreparedAdapterDistinguishesOperationTimeoutFromParentCancellation(t *testing.T) {
 	blocking := func(*http.Request) { time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond) }
-	runtime, _, _ := adapterFixture(t, []reply{{200, `{"corrections":[]}`}}, 0, 0, blocking)
+	runtime, _, _ := adapterFixtureWithDocuments(t, []reply{{200, `{"corrections":[]}`}}, 0, 0, blocking, "offline", map[string]string{
+		"definitions.yaml": "profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: full-model\n    timeout_seconds: 0\n",
+	})
 	runtime.Config.LLM.OperationTimeout = 200 * time.Millisecond
 	client, err := runtime.NewRoleClient("proposal", CallHooks{})
 	if err != nil {

internal/framework/llm/runtime.go

@@ -6,13 +6,11 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/fs"
 	"net/http"
-	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"sort"
 	"strings"
-	"sync"
 	"sync/atomic"
 
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/config"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/redaction"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/responseschema"
@@ -26,8 +24,8 @@ type Runtime struct {
 	Config   config.Config
 	Engine   *pk.Engine
 	Profiles map[string]pk.ProfileInspection
-	// ProfilePaths contains filesystem sources actually read by PromptKit.
-	ProfilePaths []string
+	// SourcePaths contains host configuration and message files captured by PromptKit.
+	SourcePaths []string
 	nextCallID  atomic.Uint64
 }
 
@@ -39,32 +37,63 @@ func (e *AssetError) Error() string { return e.Err.Error() }
 func (e *AssetError) Unwrap() error { return e.Err }
 
 func NewRuntime(ctx context.Context, c config.Config, mainPath string, client *http.Client) (*Runtime, error) {
+	return newRuntimeWithPromptFS(ctx, c, mainPath, client, prompts.Filesystem())
+}
+
+func newRuntimeWithPromptFS(ctx context.Context, c config.Config, mainPath string, client *http.Client, promptFS fs.FS) (*Runtime, error) {
+	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	profileDir := c.ProfilesDir
 	if !filepath.IsAbs(profileDir) {
 		profileDir = filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(mainPath), profileDir)
 	}
-	profileFS := &profileSourceFS{FS: os.DirFS(profileDir), paths: make(map[string]struct{})}
-	options := []pk.Option{
-		pk.WithPromptFS(prompts.Filesystem(), prompts.AssetRoot),
-		pk.WithSchemaFS(responseschema.Filesystem(), responseschema.AssetRoot),
-		pk.WithProfileFS(profileFS, "."),
-	}
-	ids := make([]string, 0, len(c.Backends))
-	for id := range c.Backends {
-		ids = append(ids, id)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(ids)
-	for _, id := range ids {
-		backend := c.Backends[id]
-		options = append(options, pk.WithBackend(pk.Backend{ID: id, Endpoint: backend.Endpoint, ConcurrencyLimit: backend.Concurrency, QueueCapacity: &backend.QueueCapacity}))
-	}
-	engine, err := pk.NewEngine(pk.Config{HTTPClient: client, TransientRetries: &c.LLM.TransientRetries}, options...)
+	promptInputs, err := pk.FilesystemInputs("Audita embedded prompts", promptFS, prompts.AssetRoot)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("assemble LLM runtime: %w", err)
+		if ctxErr := ctx.Err(); ctxErr != nil {
+			return nil, ctxErr
+		}
+		return nil, &AssetError{Err: fmt.Errorf("discover embedded prompts: %w", err)}
+	}
+	profileInputs, err := pk.DirectoryInputs(profileDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		if ctxErr := ctx.Err(); ctxErr != nil {
+			return nil, ctxErr
+		}
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("discover operator definitions: %w", err)
+	}
+	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	applicationBackends := make(map[string]any, len(c.Backends))
+	for id := range c.Backends {
+		backend := c.Backends[id]
+		applicationBackends[id] = map[string]any{
+			"endpoint":          backend.Endpoint,
+			"concurrency_limit": backend.Concurrency,
+			"queue_capacity":    backend.QueueCapacity,
+			"api_key_env":       nil,
+		}
+	}
+	sources := pk.ConfigurationSources{
+		Underlays: []ck.Underlay{
+			{Inputs: promptInputs},
+			{Inputs: profileInputs},
+		},
+		Main: &ck.Input{Source: ck.Mapping("application backends", map[string]any{"backends": applicationBackends})},
+	}
+	engine, err := pk.NewEngine(pk.Config{
+		Sources:          sources,
+		HTTPClient:       client,
+		TransientRetries: &c.LLM.TransientRetries,
+	}, pk.WithSchemaFS(responseschema.Filesystem(), responseschema.AssetRoot))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, embeddedAssetOrInputError(ctx, promptInputs, fmt.Errorf("assemble LLM runtime: %w", err))
 	}
 	for _, meta := range prompts.RegisteredMetadata() {
 		if _, err := engine.InspectPrompt(ctx, meta.PromptID, meta.PromptVersion); err != nil {
-			return nil, &AssetError{Err: fmt.Errorf("inspect embedded prompt %s: %w", meta.PromptID, err)}
+			cause := fmt.Errorf("inspect prompt %s: %w", meta.PromptID, err)
+			return nil, embeddedAssetOrInputError(ctx, promptInputs, cause)
 		}
 	}
 	runtime := &Runtime{Config: c, Engine: engine, Profiles: make(map[string]pk.ProfileInspection, 2)}
@@ -78,6 +107,12 @@ func NewRuntime(ctx context.Context, c config.Config, mainPath string, client *h
 		if !ok {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s profile must select a registered application backend", selection.role)
 		}
+		if strings.TrimSpace(target.Model) == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s profile must select a nonblank model", selection.role)
+		}
+		if strings.TrimSpace(target.Endpoint) == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s profile must resolve to a nonblank endpoint", selection.role)
+		}
 		endpoint := func(value string) string { return strings.TrimRight(strings.TrimSpace(value), "/") }
 		if endpoint(target.Endpoint) != endpoint(backend.Endpoint) {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s profile endpoint must match its registered backend", selection.role)
@@ -90,15 +125,39 @@ func NewRuntime(ctx context.Context, c config.Config, mainPath string, client *h
 		}
 		runtime.Profiles[selection.role] = *profile
 	}
-	profileFS.mu.Lock()
-	for name := range profileFS.paths {
-		runtime.ProfilePaths = append(runtime.ProfilePaths, filepath.Join(profileDir, filepath.FromSlash(name)))
+	runtime.SourcePaths, err = capturedSourcePaths(engine)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("inspect captured LLM sources: %w", err)
 	}
-	profileFS.mu.Unlock()
-	sort.Strings(runtime.ProfilePaths)
 	return runtime, nil
 }
 
+func embeddedAssetOrInputError(ctx context.Context, promptInputs []ck.Input, cause error) error {
+	if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	embeddedSources := pk.ConfigurationSources{
+		Underlays: []ck.Underlay{{Inputs: promptInputs}},
+	}
+	diagnosticEngine, err := pk.NewEngine(pk.Config{Sources: embeddedSources},
+		pk.WithSchemaFS(responseschema.Filesystem(), responseschema.AssetRoot))
+	if err == nil {
+		for _, meta := range prompts.RegisteredMetadata() {
+			if _, inspectErr := diagnosticEngine.InspectPrompt(ctx, meta.PromptID, meta.PromptVersion); inspectErr != nil {
+				err = fmt.Errorf("inspect embedded prompt %s: %w", meta.PromptID, inspectErr)
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if ctxErr := ctx.Err(); ctxErr != nil {
+		return ctxErr
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return &AssetError{Err: fmt.Errorf("validate embedded prompt assets: %w", err)}
+	}
+	return cause
+}
+
 func IsAssetError(err error) bool { var target *AssetError; return errors.As(err, &target) }
 
 // RedactError replaces every configured resolved backend secret before a
@@ -109,21 +168,3 @@ func RedactError(err error, c config.Config) string {
 	}
 	return redaction.New(ConfiguredSecrets(&c)).String(err.Error())
 }
-
-// Record successful profile reads at the library boundary, including inherited
-// and differently named sources, without duplicating PromptKit's discovery rules.
-type profileSourceFS struct {
-	fs.FS
-	mu    sync.Mutex
-	paths map[string]struct{}
-}
-
-func (f *profileSourceFS) ReadFile(name string) ([]byte, error) {
-	data, err := fs.ReadFile(f.FS, name)
-	if err == nil {
-		f.mu.Lock()
-		f.paths[name] = struct{}{}
-		f.mu.Unlock()
-	}
-	return data, err
-}

internal/framework/llm/runtime_assembly_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+package llm
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"io/fs"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"path"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"testing/fstest"
+
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/config"
+	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/prompts"
+)
+
+func runtimeAssemblyFixture(t *testing.T, selections string, documents map[string]string) (config.Config, string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	profileDir := filepath.Join(dir, "profiles")
+	if err := os.Mkdir(profileDir, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
+	text := "version: 2\nprofiles_dir: profiles\nbackends:\n  offline:\n    endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:1/v1\n    concurrency: 1\n    queue_capacity: 0\nllm:\n" + selections
+	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(text), 0600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for name, content := range documents {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(profileDir, name), []byte(content), 0600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(main), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return loaded.Config, main
+}
+
+func copyEmbeddedPromptFilesystem(t *testing.T) fstest.MapFS {
+	t.Helper()
+	source := prompts.Filesystem()
+	files := make(fstest.MapFS)
+	err := fs.WalkDir(source, prompts.AssetRoot, func(name string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil || entry.IsDir() {
+			return err
+		}
+		data, err := fs.ReadFile(source, name)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		files[name] = &fstest.MapFile{Data: data}
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return files
+}
+
+func TestNewRuntimeRequiresCompleteSelectedProfiles(t *testing.T) {
+	validProposal := "    backend: offline\n    model: proposal-model\n"
+	cases := []struct {
+		name       string
+		selections string
+		profiles   string
+		role       string
+		field      string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:       "omitted proposal model with derived validation selection",
+			selections: "  proposal_profile: proposal\n",
+			profiles:   "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n",
+			role:       "proposal",
+			field:      "model",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "empty validation model",
+			selections: "  proposal_profile: proposal\n  validation_profile: validation\n",
+			profiles:   "profiles:\n  proposal:\n" + validProposal + "  validation:\n    backend: offline\n    model: \"\"\n",
+			role:       "validation",
+			field:      "model",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "null proposal model",
+			selections: "  proposal_profile: proposal\n",
+			profiles:   "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: null\n",
+			role:       "proposal",
+			field:      "model",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "cleared validation endpoint",
+			selections: "  proposal_profile: proposal\n  validation_profile: validation\n",
+			profiles:   "profiles:\n  proposal:\n" + validProposal + "  validation:\n    backend: offline\n    endpoint: null\n    model: validation-model\n",
+			role:       "validation",
+			field:      "endpoint",
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, tc.selections, map[string]string{"definitions.yml": tc.profiles})
+			_, err := NewRuntime(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{t}})
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tc.role) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tc.field) {
+				t.Fatalf("selected incomplete profile was not rejected for %s.%s: %v", tc.role, tc.field, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewRuntimeAllowsUnselectedPartialProfiles(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, "  proposal_profile: proposal\n", map[string]string{
+		"definitions.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: proposal-model\n  unfinished:\n    backend: offline\n",
+	})
+	runtime, err := NewRuntime(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{t}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if runtime.Profiles["proposal"].EffectiveModelParams.Model != "proposal-model" || runtime.Profiles["validation"].EffectiveModelParams.Model != "proposal-model" {
+		t.Fatalf("role profiles were not resolved: %+v", runtime.Profiles)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNativeProfileInheritancePreservesControlsAndMergesProviderValues(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, "  proposal_profile: \"child profile\"\n", map[string]string{
+		"unrelated-name.yaml": `profiles:
+  "parent~/shared":
+    backend: offline
+    temperature: 0.4
+    top_p: 0.7
+    extra_params:
+      routing:
+        retained: from-parent
+        overridden: parent
+        cleared: remove-me
+  "child profile":
+    extends: "parent~/shared"
+    model: child-model
+    extra_params:
+      routing:
+        overridden: child
+        child_only: present
+        cleared: null
+`,
+	})
+	runtime, err := NewRuntime(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	profile := runtime.Profiles["proposal"]
+	target := profile.EffectiveModelParams
+	if profile.ProfileID != "child profile" || target.Model != "child-model" || target.Temperature != 0.4 || target.TopP != 0.7 {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited profile target = %+v", target)
+	}
+	routing, ok := target.ExtraParams["routing"].(map[string]any)
+	if !ok || routing["retained"] != "from-parent" || routing["overridden"] != "child" || routing["child_only"] != "present" {
+		t.Fatalf("recursively inherited provider values = %#v", target.ExtraParams)
+	}
+	if value, exists := routing["cleared"]; !exists || value != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("null did not replace the inherited provider value: %#v", routing)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestMissingSelectedProfileDirectoryIsOperatorInputError(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, "  proposal_profile: proposal\n", map[string]string{
+		"definitions.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: proposal-model\n",
+	})
+	if err := os.RemoveAll(filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(main), cfg.ProfilesDir)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	_, err := NewRuntime(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{t}})
+	if err == nil || IsAssetError(err) {
+		t.Fatalf("missing operator profile directory classification: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNewRuntimeRejectsMalformedUnselectedProfilesAndConflicts(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name      string
+		document  map[string]string
+		selection string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:      "malformed unselected definition",
+			document:  map[string]string{"definitions.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: proposal-model\n  unused:\n    temperature: 9\n"},
+			selection: "  proposal_profile: proposal\n",
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "undefined selected backend",
+			document:  map[string]string{"definitions.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: missing\n    model: proposal-model\n"},
+			selection: "  proposal_profile: proposal\n",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "conflicting directory contributions",
+			document: map[string]string{
+				"a.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: first-model\n",
+				"b.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    model: second-model\n",
+			},
+			selection: "  proposal_profile: proposal\n",
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, tc.selection, tc.document)
+			_, err := NewRuntime(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{t}})
+			if err == nil || IsAssetError(err) {
+				t.Fatalf("operator definition classification: %v", err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRuntimeClassifiesEmbeddedAssetsAndHonorsCancellation(t *testing.T) {
+	_, err := newRuntimeWithPromptFS(context.Background(), config.Config{}, "config.yml", nil, fstest.MapFS{})
+	if err == nil || !IsAssetError(err) || !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
+		t.Fatalf("embedded discovery error was not preserved as an asset error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	cancel()
+	_, err = newRuntimeWithPromptFS(ctx, config.Config{}, "config.yml", nil, fstest.MapFS{})
+	if !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) || IsAssetError(err) {
+		t.Fatalf("caller cancellation classification: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBrokenEmbeddedPromptFailsEmbeddedOnlyConstruction(t *testing.T) {
+	promptFS := copyEmbeddedPromptFilesystem(t)
+	assetPath := path.Join(prompts.AssetRoot, prompts.PromptIDModuleGrammarProposal+".yaml")
+	promptFS[assetPath] = &fstest.MapFile{Data: []byte("prompts:\n  modules.grammar.proposal:\n    v1:\n      messages: []\n      output:\n        format: json\n        validation_mode: json_schema\n        schema_path: correction_set.v1.json\n")}
+	cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, "  proposal_profile: proposal\n", map[string]string{
+		"definitions.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: proposal-model\n",
+	})
+	_, err := newRuntimeWithPromptFS(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{t}}, promptFS)
+	if err == nil || !IsAssetError(err) {
+		t.Fatalf("broken embedded prompt was not classified as an asset error: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestOperatorPromptCanRepairInvalidEmbeddedPrompt(t *testing.T) {
+	promptFS := copyEmbeddedPromptFilesystem(t)
+	assetPath := path.Join(prompts.AssetRoot, prompts.PromptIDModuleGrammarProposal+".yaml")
+	promptFS[assetPath] = &fstest.MapFile{Data: []byte("prompts:\n  modules.grammar.proposal:\n    v1:\n      messages: []\n      output:\n        format: json\n        validation_mode: json_schema\n        schema_path: correction_set.v1.json\n")}
+	cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, "  proposal_profile: proposal\n", map[string]string{
+		"operator.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: proposal-model\nprompts:\n  modules.grammar.proposal:\n    v1:\n      messages:\n        - role: system\n          content: operator system\n        - role: user\n          content: operator user\n",
+	})
+	runtime, err := newRuntimeWithPromptFS(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{t}}, promptFS)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("valid final configuration was rejected with an invalid displaced embedded prompt: %v", err)
+	}
+	if runtime.Engine == nil {
+		t.Fatal("runtime engine was not retained")
+	}
+}

internal/framework/llm/runtime_inspection_test.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 
 	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/core/config"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
 )
 
 type rejectingTransport struct{ t *testing.T }
@@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ func profileLayout(t *testing.T, base, overlay string) string {
 		}
 	}
 	for name, content := range map[string]string{
-		"base":    "id: base\nbackend: offline\nmodel: full-model\ntemperature: 0.3\nmax_tokens: 500\ntop_p: 0.8\ntimeout_seconds: 12\nservice_tier: priority\nreasoning_effort: medium\n",
-		"testing": "id: testing\nbackend: offline\nmodel: economy-model\n",
+		"base":    "profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: full-model\n    temperature: 0.3\n    max_tokens: 500\n    top_p: 0.8\n    timeout_seconds: 12\n    service_tier: priority\n    reasoning_effort: medium\n",
+		"testing": "profiles:\n  testing:\n    backend: offline\n    model: economy-model\n",
 	} {
 		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", name+".yaml"), []byte(content), 0600); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
@@ -112,14 +113,111 @@ func TestOfflineProfileAssemblyAndSafeViews(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestSafeViewsOmitProviderAndPromptValues(t *testing.T) {
+	const providerValue = "private-provider-value"
+	const promptValue = "private-operator-prompt-text"
+	runtime, _, dir := adapterFixtureWithDocuments(t, nil, 0, 0, nil, "offline", map[string]string{
+		"definitions.yaml":     "profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: full-model\n    extra_params:\n      vendor_extension: " + providerValue + "\n",
+		"operator-prompt.yaml": operatorPromptDocument(promptValue, promptValue),
+	})
+	profiles, err := runtime.SelectedProfilesYAML()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	explain, err := ExplanationYAML(loaded)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	combined := string(profiles) + string(explain)
+	for _, value := range []string{providerValue, promptValue, "adapter-secret", "127.0.0.1"} {
+		if strings.Contains(combined, value) {
+			t.Fatalf("safe views exposed %q: %s", value, combined)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestExplanationYAMLIncludesSafeInheritanceEvidence(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("SYNTHETIC_KEY", "synthetic-inherited-secret-never-print")
+	text := `version: 2
+backends:
+  shared:
+    endpoint: https://shared.invalid/v1
+    concurrency: 3
+    queue_capacity: 0
+    credential: SYNTHETIC_KEY
+  offline:
+    extends: shared
+    concurrency: 1
+llm:
+  proposal_profile: base
+`
+	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.Bytes("config.yml", []byte(text)), "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	explanation, err := ExplanationYAML(loaded)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(string(explanation), "synthetic-inherited-secret-never-print") {
+		t.Fatal("explanation exposed a resolved inherited credential")
+	}
+	var records []struct {
+		Path        string `yaml:"path"`
+		Inheritance []struct {
+			From      string `yaml:"from"`
+			To        string `yaml:"to"`
+			Reference string `yaml:"reference"`
+		} `yaml:"inheritance"`
+	}
+	if err := yaml.Unmarshal(explanation, &records); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var endpoint, credential, concurrency *struct {
+		Path        string `yaml:"path"`
+		Inheritance []struct {
+			From      string `yaml:"from"`
+			To        string `yaml:"to"`
+			Reference string `yaml:"reference"`
+		} `yaml:"inheritance"`
+	}
+	for i := range records {
+		switch records[i].Path {
+		case "/backends/offline/endpoint":
+			endpoint = &records[i]
+		case "/backends/offline/credential":
+			credential = &records[i]
+		case "/backends/offline/concurrency":
+			concurrency = &records[i]
+		}
+	}
+	if endpoint == nil || len(endpoint.Inheritance) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited endpoint evidence missing: %s", explanation)
+	}
+	step := endpoint.Inheritance[0]
+	if step.From != "/backends/shared/endpoint" || step.To != "/backends/offline/endpoint" || step.Reference != "/backends/offline/extends" {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited endpoint evidence: %+v", step)
+	}
+	if credential == nil || len(credential.Inheritance) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("inherited credential evidence missing: %s", explanation)
+	}
+	if concurrency == nil || len(concurrency.Inheritance) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("direct child override reported parent inheritance: %+v", concurrency)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestProfileAssemblyRejectsUnsafeSelections(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv("SYNTHETIC_KEY", "synthetic-value-never-print")
 	dir := profileLayout(t, profileBase, "")
 	main := filepath.Join(dir, "config.yml")
 	for _, tc := range []struct{ name, profile string }{
-		{"endpoint only", "id: custom\nendpoint: https://offline.invalid/v1\nmodel: model\n"},
-		{"mismatched endpoint", "id: custom\nbackend: offline\nendpoint: https://elsewhere.invalid/v1\nmodel: model\n"},
-		{"profile credential", "id: custom\nbackend: offline\nmodel: model\napi_key_env: OTHER_KEY\n"},
+		{"endpoint only", "profiles:\n  custom:\n    endpoint: https://offline.invalid/v1\n    model: model\n"},
+		{"mismatched endpoint", "profiles:\n  custom:\n    backend: offline\n    endpoint: https://elsewhere.invalid/v1\n    model: model\n"},
+		{"profile credential", "profiles:\n  custom:\n    backend: offline\n    model: model\n    api_key_env: OTHER_KEY\n"},
 	} {
 		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
 			if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "custom.yaml"), []byte(tc.profile), 0600); err != nil {

internal/framework/llm/safe_view.go

@@ -61,11 +61,17 @@ type derivationView struct {
 	Reason       string        `yaml:"reason"`
 	Dependencies []string      `yaml:"dependencies,omitempty"`
 }
+type inheritanceStepView struct {
+	From      string `yaml:"from"`
+	To        string `yaml:"to"`
+	Reference string `yaml:"reference"`
+}
 type explanationView struct {
 	Path        string                `yaml:"path"`
 	Source      string                `yaml:"source"`
 	Layer       ck.Layer              `yaml:"layer"`
 	Derivations []derivationView      `yaml:"derivations,omitempty"`
+	Inheritance []inheritanceStepView `yaml:"inheritance,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // ExplanationYAML reports only origins and recorded resolution operations.
@@ -93,6 +99,11 @@ func ExplanationYAML(result *ck.Result[config.Config]) ([]byte, error) {
 			continue
 		}
 		record := explanationView{Path: path.String(), Layer: info.Origin.Layer, Source: string(info.Origin.Layer)}
+		for _, step := range info.Origin.Inheritance {
+			record.Inheritance = append(record.Inheritance, inheritanceStepView{
+				From: step.From.String(), To: step.To.String(), Reference: step.Reference.String(),
+			})
+		}
 		if len(info.Origin.Locations) > 0 {
 			if label := sources[info.Origin.Locations[0].SourceID]; label != "" {
 				record.Source = label

internal/framework/llm/source_paths.go

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package llm
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
+	pk "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
+)
+
+func capturedSourcePaths(engine *pk.Engine) ([]string, error) {
+	inspection, err := engine.InspectConfiguration()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("inspect configuration: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	sources := inspection.Sources()
+	byID := make(map[string]ck.SourceInfo, len(sources))
+	paths := make(map[string]struct{}, len(sources))
+	for _, source := range sources {
+		byID[source.ID] = source
+		if source.Kind == ck.SourceKindFile && source.Path != "" {
+			paths[source.Path] = struct{}{}
+		}
+	}
+
+	metadata := inspection.Metadata()
+	for _, path := range metadata.HistoricalPaths() {
+		segments := strings.Split(strings.TrimPrefix(path.String(), "/"), "/")
+		if len(segments) != 6 || segments[0] != "prompts" || segments[3] != "messages" || segments[5] != "content_file" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if messageIndex, err := strconv.Atoi(segments[4]); err != nil || messageIndex < 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		field, ok := metadata.Lookup(path)
+		if !ok || field.Null || len(field.Origin.Locations) != 1 {
+			continue
+		}
+		source, ok := byID[field.Origin.Locations[0].SourceID]
+		if !ok || source.Kind != ck.SourceKindFile || source.Path == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		explanation, ok := inspection.Explain(path)
+		if !ok || !explanation.Effective.Present || explanation.Effective.Redacted {
+			continue
+		}
+		var resource string
+		if err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(explanation.Effective.YAML), &resource); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("decode captured message resource at %s: %w", path.String(), err)
+		}
+		paths[filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(source.Path), filepath.FromSlash(resource))] = struct{}{}
+	}
+
+	result := make([]string, 0, len(paths))
+	for path := range paths {
+		result = append(result, path)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(result)
+	return result, nil
+}

internal/framework/llm/source_paths_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package llm
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
+	"sort"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestRuntimeTracksCapturedConfigurationAndInheritedMessageFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg, main := runtimeAssemblyFixture(t, "  proposal_profile: proposal\n  validation_profile: validation\n", map[string]string{
+		"selected.yml": "profiles:\n  proposal:\n    backend: offline\n    model: proposal\n  validation:\n    backend: offline\n    model: validation\n",
+	})
+	profiles := filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(main), cfg.ProfilesDir)
+	parentDir := filepath.Join(profiles, "catalog")
+	childDir := filepath.Join(profiles, "nested", "child")
+	for _, directory := range []string{parentDir, childDir} {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(directory, 0700); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	parent := filepath.Join(parentDir, "arbitrary-name.yaml")
+	child := filepath.Join(childDir, "override.yaml")
+	resource := filepath.Join(parentDir, "instruction.md")
+	parentDocument := "prompts:\n  source:\n    release/1~draft:\n      messages:\n        - role: user\n          content_file: ./instruction.md\n      output:\n        format: text\n        validation_mode: basic\n"
+	childDocument := "prompts:\n  literal/~child:\n    extends: source\n"
+	for path, content := range map[string]string{
+		parent:   parentDocument,
+		child:    childDocument,
+		resource: "Captured operator message.\n",
+	} {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(content), 0600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	runtime, err := NewRuntime(context.Background(), cfg, main, &http.Client{Transport: rejectingTransport{}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	want := []string{
+		filepath.Join(profiles, "nested", "child", "override.yaml"),
+		filepath.Join(profiles, "catalog", "arbitrary-name.yaml"),
+		filepath.Join(profiles, "selected.yml"),
+		resource,
+	}
+	// Runtime paths are canonical paths from PromptKit's captured sources.
+	for i := range want {
+		want[i], err = filepath.EvalSymlinks(want[i])
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(want)
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(runtime.SourcePaths, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("captured source paths = %#v, want %#v", runtime.SourcePaths, want)
+	}
+}

internal/framework/proposal_generation/adapter_integration_test.go

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func TestRepairedProposalStillFacesDomainChecks(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(content), 0600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "base.yaml"), []byte("id: base\nbackend: offline\nmodel: local-model\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "base.yaml"), []byte("profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\n"), 0600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(main), "")

internal/framework/runner/cancellation_test.go

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func TestValidatorFailureCancelsActiveAndPendingProviderWork(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(body), 0600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles/base.yaml"), []byte("id: base\nbackend: shared\nmodel: local\ntimeout_seconds: 30\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles/base.yaml"), []byte("profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: shared\n    model: local\n    timeout_seconds: 30\n"), 0600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(main), "")

internal/framework/validators/llm_integration_test.go

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func TestValidationRepairAndRuntimeFailuresThroughDomainBoundary(t *testing.T) {
 			if err := os.WriteFile(main, []byte(content), 0600); err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
-			if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "base.yaml"), []byte("id: base\nbackend: offline\nmodel: local-model\n"), 0600); err != nil {
+			if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "profiles", "base.yaml"), []byte("profiles:\n  base:\n    backend: offline\n    model: local-model\n"), 0600); err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
 			loaded, err := config.Load(ck.File(main), "")

internal/prompts/assets/prompts/modules.glossary.proposal.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-id: modules.glossary.proposal
-version: v1
+prompts:
+  modules.glossary.proposal:
+    v1:
       messages:
         - role: system
           content: |

internal/prompts/assets/prompts/modules.grammar.proposal.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-id: modules.grammar.proposal
-version: v1
+prompts:
+  modules.grammar.proposal:
+    v1:
       messages:
         - role: system
           content: |

internal/prompts/assets/prompts/modules.homophones.proposal.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-id: modules.homophones.proposal
-version: v1
+prompts:
+  modules.homophones.proposal:
+    v1:
       messages:
         - role: system
           content: |

internal/prompts/assets/prompts/modules.spoken_word.proposal.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-id: modules.spoken_word.proposal
-version: v1
+prompts:
+  modules.spoken_word.proposal:
+    v1:
       messages:
         - role: system
           content: |

internal/prompts/assets/prompts/validators.editorial_review.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-id: validators.editorial_review
-version: v1
+prompts:
+  validators.editorial_review:
+    v1:
       messages:
         - role: system
           content: |

internal/prompts/assets/prompts/validators.meaning_reversal_review.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-id: validators.meaning_reversal_review
-version: v1
+prompts:
+  validators.meaning_reversal_review:
+    v1:
       messages:
         - role: system
           content: |

internal/prompts/assets/prompts/validators.spoken_form_plausibility.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-id: validators.spoken_form_plausibility
-version: v1
+prompts:
+  validators.spoken_form_plausibility:
+    v1:
       messages:
         - role: system
           content: |

internal/prompts/registry_test.go

@@ -5,15 +5,28 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
+	ck "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ConfigKit"
 	"gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/audita/internal/framework/responseschema"
 	pk "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/promptkit"
 )
 
 func TestEmbeddedDefinitionsPrepareThroughPromptKit(t *testing.T) {
-	engine, err := pk.NewEngine(pk.Config{},
-		pk.WithPromptFS(Filesystem(), AssetRoot),
+	promptInputs, err := pk.FilesystemInputs("embedded prompts", Filesystem(), AssetRoot)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	endpoint := "https://example.invalid/v1"
+	model := "fixture-model"
+	sources := pk.ConfigurationSources{
+		Underlays: []ck.Underlay{
+			{Inputs: promptInputs},
+			{Inputs: []ck.Input{{Source: pk.ProfileSource("registry fixture profile", map[string]pk.ProfileConfig{
+				"fixture": {Endpoint: &endpoint, Model: &model},
+			})}}},
+		},
+	}
+	engine, err := pk.NewEngine(pk.Config{Sources: sources},
 		pk.WithSchemaFS(responseschema.Filesystem(), responseschema.AssetRoot),
-		pk.WithProfiles(pk.Profile{ID: "fixture", Endpoint: "https://example.invalid/v1", Model: "fixture-model"}),
 	)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)

releasekit.json

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+  "product": "Audita",
+  "remote": "origin",
+  "build": {
+    "main_package": "./cmd/audita",
+    "binary_name": "audita",
+    "targets": ["linux/amd64", "linux/arm64"]
+  },
+  "delivery": {
+    "base_url": "https://gitea.maximumdirect.net",
+    "owner": "eric",
+    "repository": "audita",
+    "token_env": "RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN"
+  }
+}

scripts/build-release.sh

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
-
-if [[ $# != 2 || ! $1 =~ ^v(0|[1-9][0-9]*)\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*)\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*)$ ]]; then
-  echo 'Usage: scripts/build-release.sh vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH OUTPUT_DIRECTORY' >&2
-  exit 2
-fi
-version=$1
-output=$2
-mkdir -p "$output"
-output=$(cd "$output" && pwd)
-cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
-for arch in amd64 arm64; do
-  CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=$arch GOWORK=off \
-    go build -mod=readonly -trimpath -ldflags '-s -w' \
-    -o "$output/audita-$version-linux-$arch" ./cmd/audita
-done

scripts/release.sh

@@ -1,48 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
-fail() { echo "Release stopped: $*" >&2; exit 1; }
-if [[ $# != 2 || ( $1 != --check && $1 != --publish ) || ! $2 =~ ^v(0|[1-9][0-9]*)\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*)\.(0|[1-9][0-9]*)$ ]]; then
-  echo 'Usage: scripts/release.sh --check|--publish vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH' >&2
-  exit 2
-fi
-mode=$1
-version=$2
-cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
-[[ $(git symbolic-ref --quiet --short HEAD) == main ]] || fail 'switch to main'
-[[ -z $(git status --porcelain) ]] || fail 'commit or remove outstanding changes first'
-candidate=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
-note="docs/releases/$version.md"
-[[ -s $note ]] || fail "missing release note: $note"
-IFS= read -r title < "$note" || true
-[[ $title == "# Audita $version" ]] || fail "note must begin with # Audita $version"
-git show-ref --verify --quiet "refs/tags/$version" && fail 'version already exists locally'
-
-# Check mode is local and never contacts a remote or creates a tag.
-if [[ $mode == --publish ]]; then
-  existing=$(git ls-remote --tags origin "refs/tags/$version")
-  [[ -z $existing ]] || fail 'version already exists on origin'
-fi
-build_dir=$(mktemp -d)
-trap 'rm -rf "$build_dir"' EXIT
-GOWORK=off go test -mod=readonly ./...
-bash scripts/build-release.sh "$version" "$build_dir"
-[[ $(git rev-parse HEAD) == "$candidate" ]] || fail 'HEAD changed during validation'
-[[ -z $(git status --porcelain) ]] || fail 'worktree changed during validation'
-[[ $(git symbolic-ref --quiet --short HEAD) == main ]] || fail 'branch changed during validation'
-if [[ $mode == --check ]]; then
-  echo "Validated $version at $candidate; nothing published."
-  exit 0
-fi
-# Fetch the authoritative branch before checking that this is a forward update.
-git fetch --no-tags origin refs/heads/main
-git merge-base --is-ancestor FETCH_HEAD "$candidate" || fail 'candidate does not include origin/main'
-existing=$(git ls-remote --tags origin "refs/tags/$version")
-[[ -z $existing ]] || fail 'version already exists on origin'
-git tag "$version" "$candidate"
-[[ $(git rev-parse "refs/tags/$version") == "$candidate" ]] || fail 'tag target changed'
-# Atomic publication prevents a rejected tag/branch update from publishing only half.
-if ! git push --atomic origin "$candidate:refs/heads/main" "refs/tags/$version:refs/tags/$version"; then
-  fail "push failed or its outcome is uncertain; inspect origin/main and refs/tags/$version before retrying (local tag retained)"
-fi
-echo "Released $version at $candidate. Binary publication runs asynchronously; CI is not awaited."
+script_dir=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+cd "$script_dir/.."
+mkdir -p bin
+GOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=local go build -mod=readonly \
+	-o ./bin/releasekit gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/cmd/releasekit
+exec ./bin/releasekit "$@"

scripts/release_test.go

@@ -1,142 +1,272 @@
 package scripts
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"maps"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
+	"slices"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// Real local Git repositories exercise publication; Go is stubbed at the slow
-// build/test boundary so these tests remain offline and cannot recurse.
-func TestReleaseWorkflow(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, scenario := range []string{"check", "publish", "dirty", "tests-fail", "build-fail", "existing-remote-tag", "remote-ahead", "rejected-push", "source-changed", "missing-note", "invalid-version", "existing-local-tag", "wrong-branch", "head-changed"} {
-		t.Run(scenario, func(t *testing.T) {
-			root := t.TempDir()
-			repo, remote := filepath.Join(root, "repo"), filepath.Join(root, "remote.git")
-			if err := os.MkdirAll(repo, 0755); err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
+const goStub = `#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+printf '%s\0' "$PWD" "GOWORK=$GOWORK" "GOTOOLCHAIN=$GOTOOLCHAIN" "$@" > "$RELEASEKIT_BUILD_LOG"
+if [[ ${RELEASEKIT_BOOTSTRAP_STATUS:-0} != 0 ]]; then
+	exit "$RELEASEKIT_BOOTSTRAP_STATUS"
+fi
+output=
+while (($#)); do
+	case $1 in
+	-o)
+		shift
+		output=${1:?missing output path}
+		;;
+	-o=*) output=${1#-o=} ;;
+	esac
+	shift
+done
+[[ -n $output ]]
+cat > "$output" <<'RELEASEKIT_TOOL'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+printf '%s\0' "$PWD" "$@" > "$RELEASEKIT_ARGS_LOG"
+exit "${RELEASEKIT_TOOL_STATUS:-0}"
+RELEASEKIT_TOOL
+chmod +x "$output"
+`
+
+func TestReleaseWrapperForwardsNativeArgumentsAndStatus(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, toolStatus := range []int{0, 3} {
+		t.Run("status "+strconv.Itoa(toolStatus), func(t *testing.T) {
+			layout := newReleaseTestLayout(t)
+			args := []string{"publish", "v4.2.0", "argument with spaces"}
+			cmd := exec.Command("bash", append([]string{layout.wrapper}, args...)...)
+			cmd.Dir = layout.caller
+			cmd.Env = layout.environment(map[string]string{
+				"RELEASEKIT_ARGS_LOG":    layout.argsLog,
+				"RELEASEKIT_BUILD_LOG":   layout.buildLog,
+				"RELEASEKIT_TOOL_STATUS": strconv.Itoa(toolStatus),
+			})
+			output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+			if got := commandStatus(err); got != toolStatus {
+				t.Fatalf("exit=%d, want %d; output=%q, error=%v", got, toolStatus, output, err)
 			}
-			env := append(os.Environ(), "GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1", "GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL="+os.DevNull, "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=Release Test", "GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=test@example.invalid", "GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=Release Test", "GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=test@example.invalid", "GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0")
-			run := func(dir string, args ...string) string {
-				t.Helper()
-				c := exec.Command("git", args...)
-				c.Dir = dir
-				c.Env = env
-				b, e := c.CombinedOutput()
-				if e != nil {
-					t.Fatalf("git %v: %v\n%s", args, e, b)
+			if len(output) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("unexpected output: %q", output)
 			}
-				return strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
+
+			buildInvocation := readNULArguments(t, layout.buildLog)
+			if len(buildInvocation) < 4 || buildInvocation[0] != layout.repo {
+				t.Fatalf("build invocation=%q, want repository %q", buildInvocation, layout.repo)
 			}
-			write := func(path, data string, mode os.FileMode) {
-				t.Helper()
-				if e := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0755); e != nil {
-					t.Fatal(e)
+			if buildInvocation[1] != "GOWORK=off" || buildInvocation[2] != "GOTOOLCHAIN=local" {
+				t.Fatalf("build environment=%q", buildInvocation[1:3])
 			}
-				if e := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(data), mode); e != nil {
-					t.Fatal(e)
+			buildArgs := buildInvocation[3:]
+			if buildArgs[0] != "build" || !slices.Contains(buildArgs, "-mod=readonly") || !slices.Contains(buildArgs, "gitea.maximumdirect.net/eric/ReleaseKit/cmd/releasekit") {
+				t.Fatalf("unexpected build arguments: %q", buildArgs)
 			}
+			if info, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(layout.repo, "bin", "releasekit")); err != nil || !info.Mode().IsRegular() {
+				t.Fatalf("ReleaseKit executable was not built in bin: %v", err)
 			}
-			run(root, "init", "--bare", "--initial-branch=main", remote)
-			run(repo, "init", "--initial-branch=main")
-			for _, name := range []string{"release.sh", "build-release.sh"} {
-				b, e := os.ReadFile(name)
-				if e != nil {
-					t.Fatal(e)
-				}
-				write(filepath.Join(repo, "scripts", name), string(b), 0755)
-			}
-			write(filepath.Join(repo, "docs/releases/v1.2.3.md"), "# Audita v1.2.3\n\nA test release.\n", 0644)
-			run(repo, "add", ".")
-			run(repo, "commit", "-m", "Initial fixture")
-			run(repo, "remote", "add", "origin", remote)
-			run(repo, "push", "origin", "main")
-			write(filepath.Join(repo, "change.txt"), "candidate\n", 0644)
-			run(repo, "add", ".")
-			run(repo, "commit", "-m", "Candidate fixture")
-			candidate := run(repo, "rev-parse", "HEAD")
-			log := filepath.Join(root, "go.log")
-			stub := "#!/bin/sh\necho \"$* GOOS=$GOOS GOARCH=$GOARCH CGO_ENABLED=$CGO_ENABLED GOWORK=$GOWORK\" >> \"$GO_LOG\"\n"
-			switch scenario {
-			case "existing-local-tag":
-				run(repo, "tag", "v1.2.3")
-			case "wrong-branch":
-				run(repo, "checkout", "-b", "feature")
-			case "head-changed":
-				stub += "if [ \"$1\" = test ]; then echo changed > change.txt; git add change.txt; git commit -m Changed; fi\n"
-			case "dirty":
-				write(filepath.Join(repo, "untracked"), "dirty", 0644)
-			case "tests-fail":
-				stub += "[ \"$1\" != test ] || exit 1\n"
-			case "build-fail":
-				stub += "[ \"$GOARCH\" != arm64 ] || exit 1\n"
-			case "existing-remote-tag":
-				run(remote, "tag", "v1.2.3", "main")
-			case "remote-ahead":
-				other := filepath.Join(root, "other")
-				run(root, "clone", remote, other)
-				write(filepath.Join(other, "other.txt"), "new remote commit", 0644)
-				run(other, "add", ".")
-				run(other, "commit", "-m", "Remote fixture")
-				run(other, "push", "origin", "main")
-			case "rejected-push":
-				write(filepath.Join(remote, "hooks/pre-receive"), "#!/bin/sh\nexit 1\n", 0755)
-			case "source-changed":
-				stub += "[ \"$1\" != test ] || echo changed > change.txt\n"
-			case "missing-note":
-				run(repo, "rm", "docs/releases/v1.2.3.md")
-				run(repo, "commit", "-m", "Remove fixture note")
-			}
-			stub += "exit 0\n"
-			write(filepath.Join(root, "bin/go"), stub, 0755)
-			mode, version := "--publish", "v1.2.3"
-			if scenario == "check" {
-				mode = "--check"
-				run(repo, "remote", "remove", "origin")
-			}
-			if scenario == "invalid-version" {
-				version = "v01.2.3"
-			}
-			c := exec.Command("bash", "scripts/release.sh", mode, version)
-			c.Dir = repo
-			c.Env = append(env, "PATH="+filepath.Join(root, "bin")+":"+os.Getenv("PATH"), "GO_LOG="+log)
-			b, e := c.CombinedOutput()
-			success := scenario == "check" || scenario == "publish"
-			if (e == nil) != success {
-				t.Fatalf("success=%v: %v\n%s", success, e, b)
-			}
-			tags := run(remote, "tag", "--list")
-			if scenario == "publish" {
-				if run(remote, "rev-parse", "refs/tags/v1.2.3") != candidate || run(remote, "rev-parse", "main") != candidate {
-					t.Fatal("wrong source published")
-				}
-				if !strings.Contains(string(b), "CI is not awaited") {
-					t.Fatal("missing asynchronous completion message")
-				}
-			} else if scenario != "existing-remote-tag" && tags != "" {
-				t.Fatalf("unexpected remote tags: %s", tags)
-			}
-			if scenario == "rejected-push" && run(remote, "rev-parse", "main") == candidate {
-				t.Fatal("rejected push published candidate")
-			}
-			if scenario == "check" && run(repo, "tag", "--list") != "" {
-				t.Fatal("check created a tag")
-			}
-			if success {
-				calls, e := os.ReadFile(log)
-				if e != nil {
-					t.Fatal(e)
-				}
-				lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(string(calls)), "\n")
-				if len(lines) != 3 {
-					t.Fatalf("expected one test and two builds: %s", calls)
-				}
-				if !strings.HasPrefix(lines[0], "test -mod=readonly ./...") || !strings.Contains(lines[1], "GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 GOWORK=off") || !strings.Contains(lines[2], "GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 CGO_ENABLED=0 GOWORK=off") {
-					t.Fatalf("unexpected validation: %s", calls)
-				}
+
+			toolInvocation := readNULArguments(t, layout.argsLog)
+			wantToolInvocation := append([]string{layout.repo}, args...)
+			if !reflect.DeepEqual(toolInvocation, wantToolInvocation) {
+				t.Fatalf("tool invocation=%q, want %q", toolInvocation, wantToolInvocation)
 			}
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestReleaseWrapperStopsWhenBootstrapFails(t *testing.T) {
+	layout := newReleaseTestLayout(t)
+	cmd := exec.Command("bash", layout.wrapper, "publish", "v4.2.0")
+	cmd.Dir = layout.caller
+	cmd.Env = layout.environment(map[string]string{
+		"RELEASEKIT_ARGS_LOG":         layout.argsLog,
+		"RELEASEKIT_BUILD_LOG":        layout.buildLog,
+		"RELEASEKIT_BOOTSTRAP_STATUS": "42",
+	})
+	output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	if got := commandStatus(err); got != 42 {
+		t.Fatalf("exit=%d, want 42; output=%q, error=%v", got, output, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(layout.argsLog); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Fatalf("ReleaseKit executed after failed bootstrap; stat error=%v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReleaseKitProfileDeclaresProductAndDeliverySettings(t *testing.T) {
+	data, err := os.ReadFile("../releasekit.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var raw map[string]json.RawMessage
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &raw); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var deliveryFields map[string]json.RawMessage
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw["delivery"], &deliveryFields); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, exists := deliveryFields["token"]; exists {
+		t.Fatal("profile must not contain a credential value")
+	}
+	var profile struct {
+		Product string            `json:"product"`
+		Remote  string            `json:"remote"`
+		Checks  []json.RawMessage `json:"checks"`
+		Build   struct {
+			MainPackage string   `json:"main_package"`
+			BinaryName  string   `json:"binary_name"`
+			Targets     []string `json:"targets"`
+		} `json:"build"`
+		Delivery struct {
+			BaseURL    string `json:"base_url"`
+			Owner      string `json:"owner"`
+			Repository string `json:"repository"`
+			TokenEnv   string `json:"token_env"`
+		} `json:"delivery"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &profile); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(profile.Checks) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("profile must not define additional checks")
+	}
+	if profile.Product != "Audita" || profile.Remote != "origin" {
+		t.Fatalf("product=%q remote=%q", profile.Product, profile.Remote)
+	}
+	if profile.Build.MainPackage != "./cmd/audita" || profile.Build.BinaryName != "audita" {
+		t.Fatalf("build=%+v", profile.Build)
+	}
+	if !sameMembers(profile.Build.Targets, []string{"linux/amd64", "linux/arm64"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("build targets=%q", profile.Build.Targets)
+	}
+	if profile.Delivery.BaseURL != "https://gitea.maximumdirect.net" || profile.Delivery.Owner != "eric" || profile.Delivery.Repository != "audita" || profile.Delivery.TokenEnv != "RELEASEKIT_GITEA_TOKEN" {
+		t.Fatalf("delivery=%+v", profile.Delivery)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestReleaseKitTargetMembership(t *testing.T) {
+	want := []string{"linux/amd64", "linux/arm64"}
+	for _, test := range []struct {
+		name    string
+		targets []string
+		match   bool
+	}{
+		{"missing amd64", []string{"linux/arm64", "linux/arm64"}, false},
+		{"missing arm64", []string{"linux/amd64", "linux/amd64"}, false},
+		{"additional target", []string{"linux/amd64", "linux/arm64", "darwin/arm64"}, false},
+		{"reordered", []string{"linux/arm64", "linux/amd64"}, true},
+		{"repeated", []string{"linux/amd64", "linux/arm64", "linux/amd64"}, true},
+	} {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if got := sameMembers(test.targets, want); got != test.match {
+				t.Fatalf("target membership for %q = %t, want %t", test.targets, got, test.match)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+type releaseTestLayout struct {
+	repo     string
+	caller   string
+	wrapper  string
+	argsLog  string
+	buildLog string
+	path     string
+}
+
+func newReleaseTestLayout(t *testing.T) releaseTestLayout {
+	t.Helper()
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	layout := releaseTestLayout{
+		repo:     filepath.Join(root, "repository"),
+		caller:   filepath.Join(root, "caller"),
+		argsLog:  filepath.Join(root, "tool-arguments"),
+		buildLog: filepath.Join(root, "build-arguments"),
+		path:     filepath.Join(root, "bin"),
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(layout.repo, "scripts"), 0755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(layout.caller, 0755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(layout.path, 0755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	wrapper, err := os.ReadFile("release.sh")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	layout.wrapper = filepath.Join(layout.repo, "scripts", "release.sh")
+	writeReleaseTestFile(t, layout.wrapper, wrapper, 0755)
+	writeReleaseTestFile(t, filepath.Join(layout.path, "go"), []byte(goStub), 0755)
+	return layout
+}
+
+func (layout releaseTestLayout) environment(values map[string]string) []string {
+	filtered := make([]string, 0, len(os.Environ())+len(values)+1)
+	for _, value := range os.Environ() {
+		key, _, _ := strings.Cut(value, "=")
+		if _, overridden := values[key]; key == "PATH" || overridden {
+			continue
+		}
+		filtered = append(filtered, value)
+	}
+	filtered = append(filtered, "PATH="+layout.path+string(os.PathListSeparator)+os.Getenv("PATH"))
+	for key, value := range values {
+		filtered = append(filtered, key+"="+value)
+	}
+	return filtered
+}
+
+func writeReleaseTestFile(t *testing.T, path string, data []byte, mode os.FileMode) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, data, mode); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func readNULArguments(t *testing.T, path string) []string {
+	t.Helper()
+	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	parts := strings.Split(string(data), "\x00")
+	if len(parts) > 0 && parts[len(parts)-1] == "" {
+		parts = parts[:len(parts)-1]
+	}
+	return parts
+}
+
+func commandStatus(err error) int {
+	if err == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	if exitErr, ok := err.(*exec.ExitError); ok {
+		return exitErr.ExitCode()
+	}
+	return -1
+}
+
+func sameMembers(got, want []string) bool {
+	gotSet := make(map[string]struct{}, len(got))
+	for _, value := range got {
+		gotSet[value] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	wantSet := make(map[string]struct{}, len(want))
+	for _, value := range want {
+		wantSet[value] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	return maps.Equal(gotSet, wantSet)
+}