v0.86.0 Release Recap

v0.86.0 is a non-breaking documentation release that adds a GitHub Actions workflow recipe for ranking baseline manifest verification artifacts and annotations.

What's New

Area	New in v0.86.0	Why it matters
CI recipe	Ranking baseline verification GitHub Actions snippet	Shows how to keep JSON, Markdown, and annotation artifacts from one verifier run
Annotation replay	cat ranking-baseline-manifest-annotations.txt	Lets CI surface saved annotation lines while preserving the verifier exit status
Artifact upload	actions/upload-artifact@v4 path list	Keeps release evidence available after pass or fail
Feature metadata	ranking-baseline-annotation-fixture-docs	Lets deployments advertise the documented CI annotation workflow

Operator Flow

- name: Verify ranking baseline manifest
  run: |
    set +e
    contextdb eval ranking baseline manifest verify \
      --manifest ranking-baseline-manifest.json \
      --report \
      --markdown-out ranking-baseline-manifest-verification.md \
      --annotations-out ranking-baseline-manifest-annotations.txt
    status=$?
    cat ranking-baseline-manifest-annotations.txt
    exit "$status"

The full recipe also uploads the manifest, Markdown recap, and annotation output as release artifacts.

Compatibility

This release is intentionally non-breaking. It changes documentation and feature metadata only.

Verification

Release verification included:

go test -count=1 ./cmd/contextdb
go test -count=1 ./...
npm run docs:build
git diff --check

Read the full workflow in the Ranking Baseline Retention Cookbook.