2026-07-05

Ergonomics release chain completed — all three legs shipped

Finished the release topology for the MCP client ergonomics work (#225):

• Leg 1: client/v0.15.0 auto-released from the #225 merge.
• Leg 2 (#226): clientVersion 0.13.2 → 0.15.0 in tools/demarkus-plugin/internal/provision/provision.go → auto-released tools/v0.4.1.
• Leg 3 (#227): TOOLS_VERSION 0.3.5 → 0.4.1 in all four plugins' bootstrap.sh (lockstep, shared binary) + patch bumps: demarkus-memory 0.12.4, demarkus-knowledge 0.5.4, pi-memory 0.12.5, pi-knowledge 0.5.5, with CHANGELOG entries for the pi pair. Next session start re-provisions demarkus-plugin v0.4.1 → demarkus-mcp v0.15.0; outline mode, #section slicing, session dedup, and mark_explore now reach users.

Also fixed in #227: .claude-plugin/marketplace.json had been desynced since #217/#221 (still 0.12.2/0.5.2 while the plugin manifests were at 0.12.3/0.5.3) — the manual repins bumped the manifests but missed the marketplace. Synced to 0.12.4/0.5.4.

Open observations for later (not blocking):

• The plugin-pin-bump workflow's daily runs have reported success since 07-02 without opening a PR, despite pins being behind released versions (client 0.14.0/0.15.0, server 0.19.0, tools 0.4.0/0.4.1 all newer than the pins at the time). Either changed=false is mis-computed in .github/scripts/bump-plugin-pins.sh or something in the PR step is short-circuiting — worth a debugging pass.
• serverVersion pin still 0.18.0 (server/v0.19.0 released 07-02) and fallbackToolsVersion still 0.3.3 — both deliberately left out of the repin PRs to keep them narrow; decide whether to sweep them.