Deterministic SemVer Changelog

[v1.3.6] - 2026-09-10

Release v1.3.6: NCode Cognitive Substrate public architecture blueprint, Sovereign Compute Spectrum GSI decision framework, Head-to-Head Scorecard reorganization, and substrate fault-tolerance hardening.

🚀 Major Features & Architectural Milestones

• NCode Cognitive Upgrades: Reproducer Gate, Dynamic Temperature, and Multi-Hypothesis Guidance (NOM-654): Implement cognitive upgrades in NCode including TDD reproducer gating, dynamic temperature annealing, 1M token context scaling for Gemini, substrate replacement validation guards, and file mode normalization in benchmark runners.
• Explore Multi-Hypothesis AST Branch Exploration and Expanded Turn Budgets in SWE-bench Harness (NOM-648): Resolve observation thrashing, memory compaction amnesia, and provider context scaling bottlenecks across local and cloud SLMs in the NCode benchmark and autonomous task execution harness.
• Publish LiveCodeBench Contamination-Free Benchmark Dispatch to Public Portal (SOP-119): Publish LiveCodeBench Contamination-Free Benchmark Dispatch to Public Portal
• Execute NCode LiveCodeBench Baseline Evaluation & Generate Scorecard Report (NOM-653): - LiveCodeBench tests autonomous problem solving against contamination-free competitive programming problems. Wiring SolveLiveCodeProblem through NCode's native Go ToolBackend substrate enables deterministic execution of test runners and self-repair loops with zero host workspace pollution.

🛡️ Substrate Reliability & System Hardening

• Sync Vault SSoT and remove circular node_modules symlink (SOP-130): Sync Vault SSoT and remove circular node_modules symlink
• Bounded normalized replacement and 45 turn benchmark limit (NOM-655): Implement line-normalized string matching fallback for bounded file replacements and expand default SWE-bench reasoning runway to 45 turns.
• Lead with scorecard in shootout and draft NCode blueprint (SOP-129): Lead with scorecard in shootout and draft NCode blueprint
• Consolidate Vault into strict public and private dual-folder topology (VAU-4): Consolidate Vault into strict public and private dual-folder topology
• Upgrade Changelog Notification with Version Tracking and Item Badges (SOP-128): Upgrade Changelog Notification with Version Tracking and Item Badges
• Remove accidental tracked web/node_modules symlink from git index (SOP-127): Remove accidental tracked web/node_modules symlink from git index
• Fix unread expression in Navbar mobile drawer (SOP-126): Fix unread expression in Navbar mobile drawer
• Implement Granular Item-Level Notification Highlighting for Handbooks and Dispatches (SOP-125): Implement Granular Item-Level Notification Highlighting for Handbooks and Dispatches
• Run live Aider Polyglot benchmark and publish portal dispatch (SOP-124): Publish Aider Polyglot Multi-Language Benchmark research dispatch to the public SophiaLabs portal and Living Vault SSoT following 100% Pass@1 empirical resolution on local RTX 4080 GPU silicon.
• Refactor persona and RAG grounding to DRY SSoT (SOP-123): Refactor persona and RAG grounding to DRY SSoT
• Fix knowledge route resolution and dispatch citations (SOP-122): Fix knowledge route resolution and dispatch citations
• Fix markdown LaTeX math symbols and relative link URLs in dispatches (SOP-121): Fix markdown LaTeX math symbols and relative link URLs in dispatches
• Update LiveCodeBench dispatch with live GPU benchmark metrics (SOP-120): Update LiveCodeBench public dispatch and Living Vault SSoT with live GPU benchmark metrics from local RTX 4080 execution on Qwen 3.8 27B.