OpenRAE · Brad-Edwards · Jul 6, 2026 · Jul 6, 2026 · Jul 6, 2026 · Jul 6, 2026
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
 # Dependabot keeps the SHA-pinned GitHub Actions (and Python deps) patched, so
 # the pins in .github/workflows/*.yml do not silently rot (#684 release hardening).
+#
+# All updates target `dev` (not the default `main`): bumps should flow through the
+# integration branch and the normal dev->main promotion, not land on `main` where
+# a release is being cut. NOTE: dependabot reads this file from the DEFAULT branch
+# (`main`), so `target-branch` only takes effect once this change is on `main`.
 version: 2
 updates:
   # GitHub Actions used across all workflows (release.yml pins are publishing-
   # critical: they run in a job with id-token: write). Grouped so a batch of pin
   # bumps arrives as one reviewable PR.
   - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
     directory: "/"
+    target-branch: "dev"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
     open-pull-requests-limit: 5
@@ -17,6 +23,7 @@ updates:
   # Python package dependencies for the aces-sdl distribution.
   - package-ecosystem: "pip"
     directory: "/implementations/python"
+    target-branch: "dev"
     schedule:
       interval: "weekly"
     open-pull-requests-limit: 5

diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.19.0"
+  ".": "0.19.1"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 PRs do **not** edit this file directly. release-please maintains it from the
 Conventional Commit history on `main` (#684).
 
+## [0.19.1](https://github.com/Brad-Edwards/aces/compare/v0.19.0...v0.19.1) (2026-07-06)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* publish the project README as the PyPI description ([#701](https://github.com/Brad-Edwards/aces/issues/701)) ([6a56f93](https://github.com/Brad-Edwards/aces/commit/6a56f93d35e50a2362c13a81700f332f8a2709ca))
+
 ## [0.19.0](https://github.com/Brad-Edwards/aces/compare/v0.18.0...v0.19.0) (2026-07-06)
 
 

diff --git a/changelog.d/682.changed.md b/changelog.d/682.changed.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Narrow SDL objective success to observable state (ADR-073, SEM-206):
+`objectives.success` now references `conditions` only. ADR-002's objective-success
+clause is amended accordingly, and the published `sdl-authoring-input-v1` and
+`instantiated-scenario-v1` schemas are updated with change-ledger entries.
diff --git a/changelog.d/682.removed.md b/changelog.d/682.removed.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Remove the OCR-inherited scoring/reward surfaces from the SDL (ADR-073, SEM-206):
+the `metrics`, `evaluations`, `tlos`, and `goals` sections, the
+`agents.reward_calculator` label, `entities.tlos`, `injects.tlos`, and the
+scoring references on workflow predicates. Scenarios using any of these now fail
+parsing with a migration pointer. Graded scoring, reward, and evaluation outputs
+live in the experiment/evaluator plane (ADR-055/064/069), not the SDL.
diff --git a/contracts/concept-authority/controlled-vocabularies-v1.json b/contracts/concept-authority/controlled-vocabularies-v1.json
@@ -724,22 +724,6 @@
           "title": "Conditions",
           "description": "Condition section support."
         },
-        "metrics": {
-          "title": "Metrics",
-          "description": "Metric section support."
-        },
-        "evaluations": {
-          "title": "Evaluations",
-          "description": "Evaluation section support."
-        },
-        "tlos": {
-          "title": "TLOs",
-          "description": "TLO section support."
-        },
-        "goals": {
-          "title": "Goals",
-          "description": "Goal section support."
-        },
         "objectives": {
           "title": "Objectives",
           "description": "Objective section support."

diff --git a/contracts/fixtures/backend-manifest/backend-manifest-v2/valid/feature-support-bounded.json b/contracts/fixtures/backend-manifest/backend-manifest-v2/valid/feature-support-bounded.json
@@ -159,11 +159,7 @@
       "name": "stub-evaluator",
       "supported_sections": [
         "conditions",
-        "evaluations",
-        "goals",
-        "metrics",
-        "objectives",
-        "tlos"
+        "objectives"
       ],
       "supports_scoring": true,
       "supports_objectives": true,

diff --git a/contracts/fixtures/backend-manifest/backend-manifest-v2/valid/stub.json b/contracts/fixtures/backend-manifest/backend-manifest-v2/valid/stub.json
@@ -175,11 +175,7 @@
       "name": "stub-evaluator",
       "supported_sections": [
         "conditions",
-        "evaluations",
-        "goals",
-        "metrics",
-        "objectives",
-        "tlos"
+        "objectives"
       ],
       "supports_scoring": true,
       "supports_objectives": true,

diff --git a/contracts/fixtures/concept-authority/controlled-vocabularies-v1/valid/reference.json b/contracts/fixtures/concept-authority/controlled-vocabularies-v1/valid/reference.json
@@ -724,22 +724,6 @@
           "title": "Conditions",
           "description": "Condition section support."
         },
-        "metrics": {
-          "title": "Metrics",
-          "description": "Metric section support."
-        },
-        "evaluations": {
-          "title": "Evaluations",
-          "description": "Evaluation section support."
-        },
-        "tlos": {
-          "title": "TLOs",
-          "description": "TLO section support."
-        },
-        "goals": {
-          "title": "Goals",
-          "description": "Goal section support."
-        },
         "objectives": {
           "title": "Objectives",
           "description": "Objective section support."

diff --git a/contracts/schema-publication-manifest.json b/contracts/schema-publication-manifest.json
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@
       "contract_id": "instantiated-scenario-v1",
       "schema_path": "contracts/schemas/sdl/instantiated-scenario-v1.json",
       "stability": "draft",
-      "content_hash": "21b5882778f3db00ee6ac4c7825e12b52ddbc9e7c14230bcf0fd4dc70b0303da",
+      "content_hash": "e0a28239e30855be948b4c3718ae34811de231b3f8d8e146d149d862af0b7cc5",
       "last_change": {
-        "summary": "Constrained instantiated SDL variable map keys to the declared variable-name grammar.",
-        "content_hash": "21b5882778f3db00ee6ac4c7825e12b52ddbc9e7c14230bcf0fd4dc70b0303da"
+        "summary": "Removed the OCR scoring pipeline (metrics/evaluations/tlos/goals), agents.reward_calculator, entities.tlos, injects.tlos, and workflow-predicate/objective-success scoring references; narrowed objectives.success to conditions (observable state) per ADR-073.",
+        "content_hash": "e0a28239e30855be948b4c3718ae34811de231b3f8d8e146d149d862af0b7cc5"
       }
     },
     {
@@ -352,10 +352,10 @@
       "contract_id": "sdl-authoring-input-v1",
       "schema_path": "contracts/schemas/sdl/sdl-authoring-input-v1.json",
       "stability": "draft",
-      "content_hash": "1cf332317657cc3dee87f98b42c02f8fb98400396de0119e0a6d2c9e93700668",
+      "content_hash": "820fbd6619a100e382d722890edcdde01da977158fd86f958f4928a9d32ad51a",
       "last_change": {
-        "summary": "Constrained authored SDL variable map keys to the declared variable-name grammar.",
-        "content_hash": "1cf332317657cc3dee87f98b42c02f8fb98400396de0119e0a6d2c9e93700668"
+        "summary": "Removed the OCR scoring pipeline (metrics/evaluations/tlos/goals), agents.reward_calculator, entities.tlos, injects.tlos, and workflow-predicate/objective-success scoring references; narrowed objectives.success to conditions (observable state) per ADR-073.",
+        "content_hash": "820fbd6619a100e382d722890edcdde01da977158fd86f958f4928a9d32ad51a"
       }
     },
     {