[wheakerd]

Scope

Refs #219. CHANGELOG.md interleaved 49 ## Repository policy revision N entries with the 77 version entries, so a user looking for what changed for them had to skip repository-process entries. The policy ledger evidence/repository-policy-revisions-v1.json already records every revision. The changelog now keeps version entries only and states where revisions are recorded. A new docs/repository-policy-revisions.md renders the ledger as a table inside a managed marker region (newest first, with the source Issue, baseline commit, and summary) and preserves the 49 moved entries unchanged below it; their repository-relative links are adjusted for the new location. The runtime-identity validator renders and checks the region the way it checks docs/runtime-identity.md, scripts/render-release-facts.py --render rewrites it, and the Release pipeline's catalog handoff writes the page instead of inserting a changelog entry while still dating the version heading and appending the ledger revision.

This change is the first revision recorded under the new rule: revision 117 has its ledger row and this pull request, and no changelog entry. The plugin version and runtime contract digest are unchanged.

Affected files and surfaces

• Shared files: None
• Codex-specific files: None
• Claude Code-specific files: None
• Documentation or validation files: docs/repository-policy-revisions.md (new); CHANGELOG.md (49 entries moved out, header sentence); axiom_validation/runtime_identity.py (ledger rendering and surface check); axiom_validation/release_pipeline.py (handoff writes the page, no changelog entry); scripts/render-release-facts.py; docs/README.md, docs/repository-governance.md, docs/maintainers/release-documentation.md, docs/maintainers/documentation-policy.md; tests/test_release_pipeline.py, tests/test_runtime_identity.py, tests/test_release_facts.py, tests/test_documentation.py; evidence/repository-policy-revisions-v1.json, evidence/runtime-identity.json, evidence/release-status.json, docs/runtime-identity.md (revision 117)

Routing and authorization impact

• Route-selection impact: None. No skill text changes.
• Action-authorization impact: None. The catalog handoff writes one more documentation file in the same signed pull request; it gains no permission.
• New or changed stop conditions: None.

Documentation

docs/repository-policy-revisions.md is indexed from docs/README.md and linked from docs/repository-governance.md; the Changelog Contract in docs/maintainers/release-documentation.md and the ownership table in docs/maintainers/documentation-policy.md state the rule. Installation and hook commands are unchanged.

Validation

Command	Result
python3 -B scripts/check-publication.py	Passed on this exact tree: 153 required files, 169 Markdown files, 45 canonical release-fact surfaces, 30 immutable external action and image pins
python3 -B -m unittest discover -s tests -p 'test_*.py'	OK in a disposable clone of this tree: 312 tests
git diff --check	Passed
Additional targeted checks	python3 -B scripts/render-release-facts.py --check: passed with the policy ledger page included; the handoff test proves the rendered page gains the new revision row and the changelog gains no policy entry; a stale ledger rendering is rejected by the runtime-identity check. ASCII scan of the changed Markdown and JSON files: passed.

Cross-platform parity

• Shared skill changes were reviewed against Codex and Claude Code, or this change does not affect shared skills.
• Manifest, marketplace, and hook differences remain intentional and documented.
• Optional host-native validation results include the host/tool version, or are marked unavailable.

Unrelated work

• I reviewed the final diff and did not reset, hide, stage, or rewrite unrelated work.
• I did not add generated caches, disposable validation copies, local maintenance notes, or tool output.
• I called out every affected file and any routing, authorization, documentation, or parity impact above.