fix(rulestead): replace core-inherited changelog with the package's own - #86
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`packages/crosswake_rulestead/CHANGELOG.md` was core's changelog, verbatim. It documented the route policy DSL, the bounded bridge contract, commerce corridors, SwiftPM/Maven shell-core publishing, the RevenueCat seam, and the v9.0 brandbook — none of which are rulestead. Its compare links pointed at core's `v0.1.0`/`v0.1.2` tags rather than any `crosswake_rulestead-v*` tag, and it asserted "the current published Hex release is 0.1.2" for a package that has never published at all. `CHANGELOG.md` is in that package's `files:` allowlist, so this file ships in the tarball and renders as rulestead's changelog on hex.pm. Hex publishes are irreversible — had `crosswake_rulestead` gone out, core's release history would be permanently public under the companion's name. Replaced with a clean companion changelog mirroring the `crosswake_rindle` precedent (independent-versioning note + a single `[Unreleased]` extraction entry), and stated plainly that the package is not yet on Hex. This was flagged but never fixed when rindle was given its clean skeleton — see `.planning/STATE.md`, which notes rindle got "a clean [Unreleased] skeleton, not core-inherited rulestead history." No gate asserted on this file, which is why it survived. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What was wrong
packages/crosswake_rulestead/CHANGELOG.mdwas core's changelog, verbatim. It documented:None of which are rulestead. Its compare links pointed at core's
v0.1.0/v0.1.2tags rather than anycrosswake_rulestead-v*tag, and it asserted "The current published Hex release is0.1.2" — for a package that has never published at all.Why it matters
CHANGELOG.mdis in that package'sfiles:allowlist:So this file ships in the tarball and renders as rulestead's changelog on hex.pm. Hex publishes are irreversible. Had
crosswake_rulesteadgone out — and its Release PR #39 is open right now — core's entire release history would be permanently public under the companion's name.This is the blocker I flagged on #84 as must-fix-before-any-future-publish. Fixing it now, while it's still cheap.
The fix
Replaced with a clean companion changelog mirroring the
crosswake_rindleprecedent: independent-versioning note + a single[Unreleased]extraction entry, plus a plain statement that the package is not yet on Hex.Worth noting this was known:
.planning/STATE.mdrecords that rindle was deliberately given "a clean[Unreleased]skeleton, not core-inherited rulestead history" — rulestead's was simply never gone back and fixed.Why it survived
No gate asserted on this file.
grepacrosstest/,script/,lib/,.github/finds zero references to any per-packageCHANGELOG.mdcontent. Worth considering a publish-readiness check that a companion's changelog doesn't mention core-only surfaces — noted, not done here.Tests
phase42_rulestead_companion+phase43_rulestead_advisory+phase130_extraction_guards+phase52_operator_truth→ 22 tests, 0 failures.🤖 Generated with Claude Code