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 {
-  ".": "0.0.0"
+  ".": "0.1.0"
 }
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+# Changelog
+
+## 0.1.0 (2026-10-15)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* a separable client label for sink writes; cap deliveries at 5 per tick (<= 1 write/s) ([5e3758c](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/5e3758c552abebfe8923358b48c7b1e6b350008a))
+* add scheduled failure-family alerts and retained leases ([#17](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/issues/17)) ([60964ee](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/60964ee22a0c3bfacc4266b2979a4e1fb4000444))
+* **consumer:** consume committed transaction streams with durable bounded delivery ([#15](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/issues/15)) ([89e1f89](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/89e1f89b8c7019e5041d500929091b11159304a0))
+* generalize emitters to any verdict pair; catch a same-verdict re-transition ([b10b4a0](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/b10b4a09fd305770d52276f9e08ee73c2375d922))
+* graph sink — deliver emitter events as aegis:ReactionFiring in quipu ([a8e3f8b](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/a8e3f8b4b34bfd30d92164bb1d508dc7f14d5e75))
+* graph sink — deliver emitter events as aegis:ReactionFiring in quipu ([ee12ba0](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/ee12ba08d445f0e94deab3f358b98751cf25b2a9))
+* **graph_sink:** the read-back accepts eventId under the legacy or the quechua term (aegis-9dpcta.1) ([#4](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/issues/4)) ([3f1d6a2](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/3f1d6a23960e15ab14fcfb2d9cf45534b1e89da6))
+* keeper label on chaski_rule_firing (the rule owner) ([71df07d](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/71df07dd8f5823f7ee52de1f43ad8ad2bdd1de6a))
+* stage 1 read-only reactor (event tail, schedule rules, metrics, canary) ([4b309df](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/4b309dfecd1592fcc5fec1f7124a2b970ffe2fd8))
+* stage 2 emitters — verdict transitions to an outbox, delivered at least once ([68d2f85](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/68d2f850f397eec422bfd8758eab0304212a43d4))
+* stage 2 emitters — verdict transitions to an outbox, delivered at least once ([543bc75](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/543bc75faf4640669a688dbefa0a72cb17e8a9bf))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* bind emitter for the load_emitters annotation (ruff F821) ([3ee30d5](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/3ee30d59c97736c4c146cb7a8b59e37d3dd5daff))
+* owner review — scope delivery per emitter, snapshot metrics, scrape ([88842e5](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/88842e53c40adc77a48d2343c86a16263d3a3884))
+* refuse concurrent cursor and inbox consumers (aegis-byan1v) ([#18](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/issues/18)) ([d68da48](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/d68da488b16d81647af0c12c02e58f9230cdc606))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* the absent-item known limit (sattler's review of 88842e53) ([43c7dc4](https://github.com/scbrown/chaski/commit/43c7dc41835786d65811365574df14cb00961d5d))