All notable changes to Codebase Knowledge Builder are documented here.

This project follows Semantic Versioning.

• Routed machine-readable documentation links to the default main branch
• Replaced hidden template authoring comments with visible editing notes so Hermes installation does not require a security bypass

• A content-only npm package for versioned skill and plugin distribution
• Skills-only manifests for Codex and Claude Code
• A repository marketplace entry for npm-backed Codex installation
• Evidence labels, revision receipts, bounded scope, explicit unknowns, and source citations in every knowledge artifact
• A trust-boundary contract for target instructions, secrets, linked paths, generated Markdown, and target-repository writes
• Cross-platform reconnaissance and deep-dive guidance that does not require Bash or a specific implementation language
• A source-cited worked example generated against a fixed repository revision
• Release validation covering self-study, public-repository, and adversarial behavior
• A multi-platform quality workflow for package, manifest, and skill validation
• Security policy, issue forms, contribution guidance, code of conduct, and original social-preview artwork

• Reworked the four-phase method around safe preflight, bounded investigation, evidence synthesis, and delivery validation
• Rebuilt the README around codebase understanding, developer onboarding, compatibility evidence, limitations, and verified installation routes
• Made skills/codebase-knowledge-builder/ the explicit behavioral source of truth for every distribution surface

• Fixed content quotas that could pressure an agent to invent gotchas, race conditions, diagrams, or historical explanations
• Bash-only and language-specific reconnaissance assumptions
• Claims that installability alone proves runtime compatibility