release: cut 0.5.0

Five fragments assembled into '## 0.5.0 — 2026-08-03' (#205 #216 #221
#224 #226); VERSION to bare 0.5.0; the three CEREMONY_SELF_REF carriers
stamped "0.5.0" in this one commit; the panel-rows unreleased marker in
docs/CONSUMERS.md cleared to name 0.5.0; drills/0.5.0.md records the
doors-unchanged ruling with the measurements as they are at 0ac3a6f.

Refs #233.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.github/workflows/labels-sweep.yml

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ on:
 env:
   # A called workflow arrives without its repository. Keep this literal pin
   # aligned with the ceremony release consumed by callers (issue #9 D3).
-  CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.4.1"
+  CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.5.0"
 
 jobs:
   reconcile:

.github/workflows/labels.yml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ on:
 env:
   # A called workflow arrives without its repository. Keep this literal pin
   # aligned with the ceremony release consumed by callers (issue #9 D3).
-  CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.4.1"
+  CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.5.0"
 
 jobs:
   scope:

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ env:
   # `ref:` accepts ${{ env }}; `uses:` strings do not — which is why the
   # shared logic arrives as script files via checkout, not as inner `uses:`
   # references.
-  CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.4.1"
+  CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.5.0"
   VERSION_SOURCE: ${{ inputs.version-source }}
 
 jobs:

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,44 @@ Entries arrive as fragments — one `changelog.d/<issue>.md` per PR, never
 an edit to this file — and the release PR assembles them into the next
 section here (`bin/changelog-assemble`, #112).
 
+## 0.5.0 — 2026-08-03
+
+### Added
+
+- `labels.conf` accepts optional `panel[<login>]=` rows: the required set for
+  a PR authored by that login is the row minus the author; other authors keep
+  `panel=`. Consumers gain the row at their next pin bump — adding it before
+  that bump is a parse failure that takes the label board down (#224).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Doctrine: third-party actions never hold a write-capable token by default —
+  repo-owned scripts in write-capable jobs, established publisher plus
+  full-SHA pin for the exception, SHA pins everywhere. Canonical in
+  REVIEWER.md, short form in BUILDER.md; consumers adopt at the pin bump
+  (#216).
+
+### Fixed
+
+- `ruling_escalation_row` selects the setter's best-shaped in-window comment,
+  ties broken to the earliest, instead of the earliest outright — a whole-round
+  reply landing seconds before the escalation is no longer graded in its place
+  (crew#293).
+- The escalation selector and `ruling_shape_decision` share one field-presence
+  matcher, and an undecodable body column scores 0 instead of erroring the
+  sweep.
+- Five stale **unreleased** markers in `docs/CONSUMERS.md` now name their
+  tags: fragment mode, `changelog-assembled` and `runner-isolated` at
+  `0.2.0`; the additive labeler at `0.3.0`; the two-caller split at `0.4.1`
+  (#221).
+- The marker convention now names its clearing owner: the release PR that
+  ships machinery clears, in that same PR, every marker its assembled
+  section makes false (#221).
+- A standing non-approving verdict now outranks draft in `decide_state`: a
+  re-drafted PR mid-round reads `state:addressing`, a live panel request on a
+  draft surfaces as `state:bots-reviewing`, and a draft with no round history
+  still reads `state:building` (#205).
+
 ## 0.4.1 — 2026-08-01
 
 ### Changed

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.4.2-dev
+0.5.0

changelog.d/205.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-### Fixed
-
-- A standing non-approving verdict now outranks draft in `decide_state`: a
-  re-drafted PR mid-round reads `state:addressing`, a live panel request on a
-  draft surfaces as `state:bots-reviewing`, and a draft with no round history
-  still reads `state:building` (#205).

changelog.d/216.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-### Changed
-
-- Doctrine: third-party actions never hold a write-capable token by default —
-  repo-owned scripts in write-capable jobs, established publisher plus
-  full-SHA pin for the exception, SHA pins everywhere. Canonical in
-  REVIEWER.md, short form in BUILDER.md; consumers adopt at the pin bump
-  (#216).

changelog.d/221.md

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-### Fixed
-
-- Five stale **unreleased** markers in `docs/CONSUMERS.md` now name their
-  tags: fragment mode, `changelog-assembled` and `runner-isolated` at
-  `0.2.0`; the additive labeler at `0.3.0`; the two-caller split at `0.4.1`
-  (#221).
-- The marker convention now names its clearing owner: the release PR that
-  ships machinery clears, in that same PR, every marker its assembled
-  section makes false (#221).

changelog.d/224.md

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-### Added
-
-- `labels.conf` accepts optional `panel[<login>]=` rows: the required set for
-  a PR authored by that login is the row minus the author; other authors keep
-  `panel=`. Consumers gain the row at their next pin bump — adding it before
-  that bump is a parse failure that takes the label board down (#224).

changelog.d/226.md

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-### Fixed
-
-- `ruling_escalation_row` selects the setter's best-shaped in-window comment,
-  ties broken to the earliest, instead of the earliest outright — a whole-round
-  reply landing seconds before the escalation is no longer graded in its place
-  (crew#293).
-- The escalation selector and `ruling_shape_decision` share one field-presence
-  matcher, and an undecodable body column scores 0 instead of erroring the
-  sweep.

docs/CONSUMERS.md

@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ rows only; adding `triage-actors=` is a parse failure, not an ignored setting.
 Add it at the same pin bump as the `issues:` trigger — `0.2.0` or later —
 never before it and never through mixed refs.
 
-The optional `panel[<login>]=` rows are **unreleased** (#224). A row names
+The optional `panel[<login>]=` rows are available at `0.5.0` and later (#224). A row names
 the effective panel for PRs authored by exactly that login — the reconciler
 computes that PR's required set from the row, minus the author as always —
 and every other author keeps the base `panel=`, which stays mandatory. The

drills/0.5.0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# 0.5.0 — drill record
+
+Run 2026-08-03 by `dan-claude-bot` against the release PR (Refs #233),
+candidate branch `build/233-release-0-5-0` on `heavy-duty/ceremony` main at
+`0ac3a6f`.
+
+## Scope ruling — doors unchanged, no disposable-repo rehearsal
+
+The 0.4.0 drill (drills/0.4.0.md) probed both release doors end-to-end in a
+disposable repo; the live 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 releases then exercised the merge
+door for real, twice, within the last three days. Measured at `0ac3a6f`,
+stated as they are rather than as #233's D3 predicted them at `b18c0bc`:
+
+- `git diff 0.4.1..main -- .github/workflows/release.yml` — **empty**. No
+  door logic, no decide table, no publish step moved.
+- `git diff 0.4.1..main -- bin` — **empty**. No release tooling moved.
+- `git diff 0.4.1..main -- lib` — **not empty**: `lib/ruling.sh` +50/−13,
+  #226's best-shaped escalation selection, merged this morning as PR #234.
+  That is the labels-sweep library the reconcilers source; nothing in the
+  release path reads it. The doors-unchanged ruling rests on the two empty
+  surfaces above, not on a lib claim this tag can no longer make.
+
+Re-running a full disposable-repo drill would rehearse machinery this repo
+proved in rehearsal at 0.4.0 and in production at both subsequent tags. This
+record rests on the standing evidence below and says so honestly. The panel
+reviews this claim like any other; if any reviewer rules a full drill owed,
+that verdict wins (#233 D3).
+
+## Standing evidence at the candidate head
+
+| # | probe | where | result |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | decide + merge-door step-replay (dogfood) | `release-exercise / step-replay (dogfood)` on this PR | CI-gating; green required to merge |
+| 2 | decide + merge-door step-replay (consumer) | `release-exercise / step-replay (consumer)` on this PR | CI-gating; green required to merge |
+| 3 | fragment chain: armed → assemble → monotonic | `release-exercise / fixture-chain` on this PR | CI-gating; green required to merge |
+| 4 | the real tree's own guards (armed, monotonic, drill-recorded, self-ref) | `self-guards` on this PR | CI-gating; green required to merge |
+| 5 | the 0.5.0 payload live: #226's selection running in this repo's own ruling sweep since the #234 merge | `self-labels-sweep` runs after `0ac3a6f` | live dogfood — the changed lib is exercised by the very board that ships it |
+
+Probe 5 is the one piece the prior drills could not cover: `lib/ruling.sh`
+is the only library delta this tag carries, and this repo's own sweeps have
+been executing it since the merge — the consumer-shaped proof that the
+labels machinery at the candidate's content stays green outside a fixture.
+
+## Deviations
+
+No candidate-ref deviation arises: this record stages no scratch caller, so
+nothing needs to resolve `CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.5.0"` before the tag exists.
+The sibling adoption proof is post-tag and crew's: crew#298's pin bump, then
+its `panel[<login>]=` rows, then crew's first clean sweep — owned by that
+issue's criteria, reported back on #233 per its post-merge criterion.