Release 0.7.0: version, changelog, README, and the two stale version pins the bump exposed

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The release pass for v0.7 "Execution boundary", in two repositories. This is the
library half; the site is CTRLRun/ctrlrun-docs#5. No library code changes: version,
changelog, README, two stale version pins, one new test and one §12 entry.

Do not tag from this PR. The orchestrator pushes the tag after both merge and
the fresh-clone verification passes on the merged commit.

What is here

• pyproject.toml is 0.7.0. The [0.7.0] changelog heading is undated until
  the tag, which is also what keeps the docs readiness block saying in
  development: its generator takes "released" from the newest dated heading.
• The changelog is rewritten as a release rather than the six bullet lists six
  parallel lanes each appended to. Two sections come before Added:
  • Stricter than 0.6.1, with what 0.6.1 did — the continuation leg that never
    records FAILED (-41010 where 0.6.1 answered -41011 and permitted a
    retry), the gateway behind a proxy, ctrlrun.policy/v5, ctrlrun.receipt/v4,
    migration 0005 and the stop-every-0.6-process sentence, the precondition that
    is never skipped, and verify's loopback listeners.
  • What this release does not close — the recheck that narrows, the reconcile
    route's wasted human answer and three provider calls, the ceiling bounding
    attempts and not executor invocations, the spent refused attempt number, the
    register that sees only this library's own sends, attempt identity under a
    reused action_id, §6.4's residual, and the malformed value that blinds every
    receipt reader.
• README: the NotExecuted step names ctrlrun.transport and what it will not
  claim; the approval step says the fingerprint narrows and does not close; and
  the verify sentence says what is true of verify now rather than "with no
  network" (§12.2.11 asked item 6 to reconcile README.md:258).
• docs/SPEC-v0.7.md §12.6.

Two stale version pins the bump exposed

Neither is an edit anybody would have thought to make. Both were caught by tests
written when the same thing went wrong before.

• Both adapters declared ctrlrun>=0.5,<0.7, which excludes the kernel they
  ship beside, so pip install ctrlrun-langgraph would have refused to resolve or
  silently downgraded ctrlrun. That is the >=0.5,<0.6 defect at 0.6.0 again,
  and test_each_adapter_declares_a_kernel_range_that_contains_this_kernel went
  red the moment pyproject.toml moved. Now >=0.5,<0.8 in all six places.
• CITATION.cff still said 0.6.1.

T271: the demo with the network taken away

The T11 fixture runs the demo in the test process through CliRunner, where
nothing has been taken away, so "under 60 seconds with no network" was two claims
of which only the first was measured. T271 runs the CLI in a subprocess whose
sitecustomize is conftest.py's one guard, the same one T107, T230, the examples
and the cookbook use.

Measured with the guard installed: 0.13 s, five scenarios, exit 0, nothing
reached. The guard's own control, in the same environment:

$ PYTHONPATH=<guard> python -c "import socket; socket.create_connection(('pypi.org', 443))"
RuntimeError: tried to connect to ('pypi.org', 443); this process runs with no network

ctrlrun verify, both documents, both backends

All four runs exit 0. G12 to G16 are present in every one, each graded or N/A
with a reason that is true of the document it was handed.

examples/authority/payments.yaml, sqlite

CTRLRun verify — ctrlrun 0.7.0, catalogue ctrlrun.guarantees/v3
policy     examples/authority/payments.yaml (ctrlrun.policy/v3, mode: enforce)
authority  same document, 3 grants
store      sqlite, scratch (created and destroyed for this run)

G1   mutated approval refused         PASS  stripe.refund
G2   replayed approval refused        PASS  stripe.refund
G3   duplicate effect refused         PASS  stripe.refund
G4   one winner under concurrency     PASS  stripe.refund (8 processes)
G5   ambiguous blocks a blind retry   PASS  stripe.refund
G6   unknown action refused           PASS
G7   no principal refused             PASS  stripe.refund
G8   expired authority refused        PASS  head-of-support
G9   delegation cannot escalate       PASS  head-of-support (6 of 6 dimensions)
G10  unknown exception is ambiguous   PASS  stripe.refund
G11  an altered receipt is detected   PASS  stripe.refund
G12  a byte written is ambiguous      PASS  stripe.refund
G13  clock divergence is named        N/A   the store verify was given reads only the application's clock, so there is no second clock to diverge from; pass --store-url postgresql://… to grade this
G14  token changes across a renewal   PASS  stripe.refund (attempt 1 and its renewal carry different tokens)
G15  renewal past the ceiling refused N/A   no action verify can drive to allow or approve declares both `effect:` and `max_attempts`
G16  a moved fingerprint is refused   PASS  stripe.refund
                                            (verify supplies its own precondition provider; whether
                                            your @protect declares one is in your code, which verify
                                            does not read. The gateway and the ACS hook cannot name a
                                            provider at all, and refuse an approval that carries a
                                            fingerprint)
                                            (a token is unique only as far as your effect keys are:
                                            two stores sharing a provider account must not produce the
                                            same effect-key string for different effects, and nothing
                                            here can check that)

14/14 declared guarantees pass. 2 not applicable: G13, G15.

examples/authority/payments.yaml, postgres

CTRLRun verify — ctrlrun 0.7.0, catalogue ctrlrun.guarantees/v3
policy     examples/authority/payments.yaml (ctrlrun.policy/v3, mode: enforce)
authority  same document, 3 grants
store      postgres, scratch (created and destroyed for this run)

G1   mutated approval refused         PASS  stripe.refund
G2   replayed approval refused        PASS  stripe.refund
G3   duplicate effect refused         PASS  stripe.refund
G4   one winner under concurrency     PASS  stripe.refund (8 processes)
G5   ambiguous blocks a blind retry   PASS  stripe.refund
G6   unknown action refused           PASS
G7   no principal refused             PASS  stripe.refund
G8   expired authority refused        PASS  head-of-support
G9   delegation cannot escalate       PASS  head-of-support (6 of 6 dimensions)
G10  unknown exception is ambiguous   PASS  stripe.refund
G11  an altered receipt is detected   PASS  stripe.refund
G12  a byte written is ambiguous      PASS  stripe.refund
G13  clock divergence is named        PASS
G14  token changes across a renewal   PASS  stripe.refund (attempt 1 and its renewal carry different tokens)
G15  renewal past the ceiling refused N/A   no action verify can drive to allow or approve declares both `effect:` and `max_attempts`
G16  a moved fingerprint is refused   PASS  stripe.refund
                                            (verify supplies its own precondition provider; whether
                                            your @protect declares one is in your code, which verify
                                            does not read. The gateway and the ACS hook cannot name a
                                            provider at all, and refuse an approval that carries a
                                            fingerprint)
                                            (a token is unique only as far as your effect keys are:
                                            two stores sharing a provider account must not produce the
                                            same effect-key string for different effects, and nothing
                                            here can check that)

15/15 declared guarantees pass. 1 not applicable: G15.

examples/policies/payments.yaml, sqlite

CTRLRun verify — ctrlrun 0.7.0, catalogue ctrlrun.guarantees/v3
policy     examples/policies/payments.yaml (ctrlrun.policy/v1, mode: enforce)
authority  none
store      sqlite, scratch (created and destroyed for this run)

G1   mutated approval refused         PASS  stripe.create_payout
G2   replayed approval refused        PASS  stripe.create_payout
G3   duplicate effect refused         N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
                                            (in a `ctrlrun.policy/v1` document the template lives in
                                            the @protect decorator, which verify does not read)
G4   one winner under concurrency     N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
G5   ambiguous blocks a blind retry   N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
G6   unknown action refused           PASS
G7   no principal refused             PASS  invoice.read
G8   expired authority refused        N/A   no authority section
G9   delegation cannot escalate       N/A   no authority section
G10  unknown exception is ambiguous   PASS  invoice.read
G11  an altered receipt is detected   PASS  invoice.read
G12  a byte written is ambiguous      PASS  invoice.read
G13  clock divergence is named        N/A   the store verify was given reads only the application's clock, so there is no second clock to diverge from; pass --store-url postgresql://… to grade this
G14  token changes across a renewal   N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
G15  renewal past the ceiling refused N/A   no action verify can drive to allow or approve declares both `effect:` and `max_attempts`
G16  a moved fingerprint is refused   PASS  stripe.create_payout
                                            (verify supplies its own precondition provider; whether
                                            your @protect declares one is in your code, which verify
                                            does not read. The gateway and the ACS hook cannot name a
                                            provider at all, and refuse an approval that carries a
                                            fingerprint)

8/8 declared guarantees pass. 8 not applicable: G3, G4, G5, G8, G9, G13, G14, G15.

examples/policies/payments.yaml, postgres

CTRLRun verify — ctrlrun 0.7.0, catalogue ctrlrun.guarantees/v3
policy     examples/policies/payments.yaml (ctrlrun.policy/v1, mode: enforce)
authority  none
store      postgres, scratch (created and destroyed for this run)

G1   mutated approval refused         PASS  stripe.create_payout
G2   replayed approval refused        PASS  stripe.create_payout
G3   duplicate effect refused         N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
                                            (in a `ctrlrun.policy/v1` document the template lives in
                                            the @protect decorator, which verify does not read)
G4   one winner under concurrency     N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
G5   ambiguous blocks a blind retry   N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
G6   unknown action refused           PASS
G7   no principal refused             PASS  invoice.read
G8   expired authority refused        N/A   no authority section
G9   delegation cannot escalate       N/A   no authority section
G10  unknown exception is ambiguous   PASS  invoice.read
G11  an altered receipt is detected   PASS  invoice.read
G12  a byte written is ambiguous      PASS  invoice.read
G13  clock divergence is named        PASS
G14  token changes across a renewal   N/A   no action declares an `effect:` template
G15  renewal past the ceiling refused N/A   no action verify can drive to allow or approve declares both `effect:` and `max_attempts`
G16  a moved fingerprint is refused   PASS  stripe.create_payout
                                            (verify supplies its own precondition provider; whether
                                            your @protect declares one is in your code, which verify
                                            does not read. The gateway and the ACS hook cannot name a
                                            provider at all, and refuse an approval that carries a
                                            fingerprint)

9/9 declared guarantees pass. 7 not applicable: G3, G4, G5, G8, G9, G14, G15.

The v1 document's N/A rows are the honest ones: a ctrlrun.policy/v1 document
puts the effect: template in the @protect decorator, which verify does not
read, so G3, G4, G5 and G14 cannot be exercised and say so. Moving that document
from sqlite to postgres turns G13 from N/A into a graded PASS and the run from
8/8 into 9/9: the denominator moves with what the setup can actually exercise.

Release verification, from a fresh clone

From a fresh git clone --branch release/0.7.0 into a temp directory, never the
working tree, at a1b17d9. v0.2 shipped four policy files .gitignore had swallowed
and the suite was green, because setuptools resolves MANIFEST.in against the working
tree and not the index. That is why the clone.

Install and full suite, with Postgres:

3467 passed, 2 skipped, 7 warnings in 673.06s (0:11:13)
ruff format --check   165 files already formatted
ruff check            All checks passed!
mypy --strict src     Success: no issues found in 47 source files
all checks passed

The two skips are tests/test_adapters_langgraph.py and
tests/test_adapters_openai_agents.py, each importorskip-ing an adapter
distribution the clone does not have installed. Adapters are separate
distributions and never in the ctrlrun wheel (SPEC-v0.5 §6.1), so this is the
right shape — and installing both from the clone's own adapters/ runs them:
76 passed, which is 3,543 in total and matches the worktree run exactly. That
install is also the evidence the widened kernel range resolves: both adapters
install against the 0.7.0 kernel without a downgrade.

ctrlrun demo, from a clean install of the built wheel, with the network taken
away by the guard: exit 0, 117 ms, five scenarios, five BLOCKED lines.

ctrlrun verify, from that same wheel install, against the clone's own examples
on both backends: 14/14, 15/15, 8/8, 9/9, all exit 0, every row identical
to the worktree runs quoted above.

sdist and wheel built with python -m build: ctrlrun-0.7.0.tar.gz and
ctrlrun-0.7.0-py3-none-any.whl.

The wheel's file list against 0.6.1's

0.6.1's wheel was downloaded from PyPI and both lists compared with the
dist-info directory name normalised.

0.6.1: 53 entries   0.7.0: 54 entries

ADDED:
  + ctrlrun/transport.py

REMOVED:
  (none)

unchanged paths: 53

One file added and nothing removed, which is exactly what SPEC-v0.7 §9.5
promised: one new core module and no other change to what ships. Everything else
v0.7 added is a field, a key, a column or a function inside a file that was already
there.

Core dependency metadata is byte-identical between the two wheels:

0.6.1  Requires-Dist: pyyaml>=6.0   Requires-Dist: click>=8.0
0.7.0  Requires-Dist: pyyaml>=6.0   Requires-Dist: click>=8.0

The sdist is 218 files smaller, and none of it is this release. docs/ and
tools/docs_audit/ moved to CTRLRun/ctrlrun-docs on 2026-09-09, so the site,
its generators and its tests are no longer here to pack. What v0.7 adds to the
sdist is src/ctrlrun/transport.py, docs/SPEC-v0.7.md and the five new test
files.

Definition of done

Each line of CLAUDE.md's definition of done, and how it was checked.

	Checked by
Every SPEC-v0.7 §8 test passes, and every v0.1 to v0.6 one still does	3,543 with Postgres in the worktree; 3,467 + 76 in the clone
ctrlrun.transport classifies from evidence	T220 to T230; G12's four observable rows and its control, above
The recheck documented as narrowing, never closing	T268 scans README, CHANGELOG, the guarantee titles, §6, §12.5 and the docstrings; two new sentences are allow-listed as disclaims, which is what that list is for
The token changes on renewal	T232, T233, T238; G14 graded on both backends
verify reports 0.6.1's guarantees plus G12 to G16	four runs above, all exit 0, every N/A with a reason true of the document
pip install -e . && ctrlrun demo under 60 s with no network	T271, new here: 0.13 s in the suite; 117 ms from the built wheel
import ctrlrun imports no extra, and not verify or conformance	T30, T92, T125b, T134, T140f, T228; and checked again against the built wheel in a clean venv
pip install ctrlrun installs pyyaml and click and nothing else	uv pip list after installing the wheel: click, ctrlrun, pyyaml
mypy --strict src/ and ruff check	clean in the worktree and in the clone
Release verification from a fresh clone	above

Nothing in the definition of done is unmet. Two notes on what it does not say:

• The mutation table is per item, and this item ships no library code, so there
  is nothing to mutate. T271 is the one new test and its positive control is quoted
  above.
• The readiness block in the docs PR says Version 0.7.0 is in development; PyPI
  has 0.6.1, because its generator takes "released" from the newest dated
  changelog heading and this one is undated until the tag. That is the line flipping
  itself on the day the release lands, which is what it was built to do;
  regenerating it belongs to the tag.

The second PR, and the order

CTRLRun/ctrlrun-docs#5 is the site half. Merge this one first. The docs CI
checks the site against CTRLRun/ctrlrun at main, so until this lands there its
two version assertions compare 0.7.0 against 0.6.1 and nothing else. This
repository's push to main sends the library-changed dispatch and a re-run there
is green.

This repository's own docs job, which is not a required check, is red for the
mirror-image reason and stays red until #5 merges. That is expected and the build
plan says so.

Do not tag. The orchestrator pushes the tag after both merge and the fresh-clone
verification passes on the merged commit.

Review round

CodeRabbit reviewed a1b17d9 and raised one finding, which was true:
T271 joined PYTHONPATH with a literal :, so on Windows with a non-empty
inherited PYTHONPATH the guard would never be imported and the test would pass
having measured nothing, which is the exact shape it exists to close.
test_examples.py and test_cookbook.py both use os.pathsep; fed7378 matches
them.

Its re-review on fed7378 reports rate limited, so read that status as having
reviewed nothing.

The docs PR's review raised five, three of which were real and are fixed there
(G12 is the only guarantee that binds a peer of its own, not the only one that
opens a socket; the continuation sentence needed its own scope; the roadmap's
ceiling bullet did not say what an absent max_attempts does). One is declined
with the reasoning written into the file rather than only into a commit message.

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The release updates version metadata, documents 0.7.0 execution-boundary behavior, widens adapter compatibility, and adds an offline subprocess test for the demo.

Changes

0.7.0 release preparation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release metadata and documented contracts CHANGELOG.md, README.md, docs/SPEC-v0.7.md, tests/test_preconditions.py	The changelog and specification now describe the 0.7.0 release. The README documents precondition rechecks, transport classification, and verify network behavior. Documentation scan allow-lists include the new disclaimers.
Version and adapter compatibility updates pyproject.toml, CITATION.cff, adapters/langgraph/..., adapters/openai-agents/...	Project and citation versions change to 0.7.0. Both adapters widen their supported kernel range from <0.7 to <0.8.
Offline demo process validation tests/test_demo.py	A subprocess test runs ctrlrun demo with the network guard and checks successful completion, scenario headings, execution time, and absence of a network warning.

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