augmented-cognition-engine · eamirian · Aug 13, 2026 · Aug 13, 2026
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
       tag:
         description: Git tag to publish
         required: true
-        default: v0.8.1
+        default: v0.8.2
 
 permissions:
   contents: read

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 Notable user- and contributor-visible changes are recorded here.
 
+## 0.8.2
+
+### Intelligence Catalog and outcome-led onboarding
+
+- Discover all admitted Intelligence onboarding profiles through the existing authenticated
+  resource plane and deduplicate them by durable profile identity.
+- Open Atrium by asking what intelligence the user wants, with domain-provided starter questions
+  and source groups plus a Core-owned Custom Intelligence path.
+- Keep domain vocabulary and selection metadata in inert Domain Packs; catalog discovery grants no
+  source, monitor, installation, or activation authority.
+- Preserve schema head v177, the 24-kind resource plane, exactly eleven MCP tools, and the 0.8
+  compatibility line.
+
 ## 0.8.1
 
 ### Intelligence Builder product experience

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 FROM python:3.12-slim
 
-ARG ACE_VERSION=0.8.1
+ARG ACE_VERSION=0.8.2
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="ace-core" \
       org.opencontainers.image.version="${ACE_VERSION}" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/augmented-cognition-engine/core"

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ monitors, and an intelligence system that improves with governed feedback. ACE i
 provenance, authority, durable state, and exact receipts stay built into the result instead of
 becoming infrastructure every product team must recreate.
 
-![version 0.8.1](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.8.1-blue)
+![version 0.8.2 candidate](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.8.2--candidate-blue)
 ![Python 3.12](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.12-blue)
 ![License Apache-2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-green)
 ![status: developer preview](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-developer%20preview-orange)
@@ -386,7 +386,20 @@ transforms only), `ace.intelligence.personas/v1alpha1` (personas plus signal-rou
 
 ---
 
-## What 0.8.1 adds
+## What 0.8.2 adds
+
+0.8.2 makes first use start with the outcome a person wants rather than ACE's internal
+architecture. Atrium discovers every admitted onboarding profile from the governed Intelligence
+resource plane, presents each domain as a selectable Intelligence experience, and always offers a
+Core-owned Custom Intelligence path. Domain labels, starter questions, and source groups remain
+declarative pack metadata; selection grants no source, monitoring, or activation authority.
+
+World and Market supply their own profiles from independent repositories. Core remains
+domain-neutral and names neither vertical. This is backward-compatible product-experience
+hardening of the 0.8 Intelligence OS promise, not completion of the 0.9 Collaborative Intelligence
+gate.
+
+### What 0.8.1 added
 
 0.8.1 turns the Intelligence OS foundation into a clearer first-run product experience without
 changing the 0.8 public architecture or widening authority.
@@ -845,7 +858,8 @@ stay host-free, and host adapters are the only `core.engine` edge into the publi
 
 ## Maturity and limitations
 
-**0.8.1 is a published developer-preview release.** Its Intelligence OS claim is bounded to
+**0.8.2 is a release candidate over the published 0.8.1 developer preview.** Its Intelligence OS
+claim is bounded to
 the provider-free and installed-artifact journeys recorded in the evidence archive and the
 single-node topology below. Read this section before you build on it.
 

diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ Roadmap outcome states are used strictly:
 
 The latest published release is `ace-core` 0.8.1 on PyPI and GitHub.
 
+The current 0.8.2 release candidate packages the Atrium Intelligence Catalog as backward-compatible
+hardening of that published promise. It does not advance or rename the 0.9 Collaborative
+Intelligence milestone.
+
 The 0.8 release makes the existing Builder, composition, memory, authority, action, and outcome
 capabilities coherent as one **Intelligence Operating System**. One governed point-in-time resource
 plane exposes the complete evidence → orientation → decision/action → outcome → feedback loop to
@@ -110,7 +114,7 @@ defines the Opportunity experience, introduces the ACE-owned design system, and
 visual What / Why / How / When grammar across Briefs and decision-facing intelligence. It does not change the 0.9
 Collaborative Intelligence promise.
 
-Current post-0.8.1 candidate work adds the Atrium Intelligence Catalog as an experience entry
+The 0.8.2 candidate adds the Atrium Intelligence Catalog as an experience entry
 slice: the generic resource consumer enumerates all admitted onboarding profiles in product scope,
 deduplicates them by profile identity, and always offers the Core-owned Custom Intelligence path.
 World and Marketing contribute their own declarative profiles from their independent repositories;

diff --git a/ace/__init__.py b/ace/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Public Python package identity for ACE."""
 
-__version__ = "0.8.1"
+__version__ = "0.8.2"
diff --git a/ace_mcp_client/__init__.py b/ace_mcp_client/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # ace_mcp_client — standalone MCP thin client for ACE
 # Zero engine imports. Pure HTTP calls to the ACE API.
 
-__version__ = "0.8.1"
+__version__ = "0.8.2"
diff --git a/core/engine/version.py b/core/engine/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Single source of truth for the ACE distribution version."""
 
-VERSION = "0.8.1"
+VERSION = "0.8.2"
diff --git a/docs/capability-maturity.md b/docs/capability-maturity.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-# ACE 0.8.1 capability maturity
+# ACE 0.8.2 candidate capability maturity
 
-ACE 0.8.1 is a developer preview. This page distinguishes the public contract from implemented
+ACE 0.8.2 is a release candidate over the published 0.8.1 developer preview. This page
+distinguishes the public contract from implemented
 surfaces that remain experimental.
 
 ## Preview contract
@@ -12,13 +13,13 @@ install ace-core → configure SurrealDB and an optional provider → start ACE
 → connect → map → watch → receive a cited brief → activate → inspect resources → stop cleanly
 ```
 
-The 0.8.1 public identities are:
+The 0.8.2 candidate identities are:
 
 - Python distribution: `ace-core`
 - Python import: `ace`
 - CLI command: `ace`
 - thin MCP command: `ace-mcp-client`
-- version: `0.8.1`
+- version: `0.8.2`
 
 The thin MCP surface contains exactly eleven tools:
 

diff --git a/docs/evidence/README.md b/docs/evidence/README.md
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ superseded by later work and is kept for audit trail only.
 - [ace-core 0.8.0 Intelligence OS release closeout](intelligence-os-v0.8.0-release-closeout-v1.md)
 - [ace-core 0.8.1 Intelligence Builder product-experience release candidate](intelligence-os-v0.8.1-release-candidate-v1.md)
   — public, passed; exact tag, trusted publication, hashes, and checkout-free install
+- [ace-core 0.8.2 Intelligence Catalog release candidate](intelligence-catalog-v0.8.2-release-candidate-v1.md)
+  — candidate; artifact, paired-domain, publication, and public-index gates pending
 - [ace-core 0.8.0 Intelligence OS release candidate](intelligence-os-v0.8.0-release-candidate-v1.md)
   — historical pre-publication candidate; cumulative Core, Atrium, World, Market, and package gate
 

diff --git a/docs/evidence/intelligence-catalog-v0.8.2-release-candidate-v1.md b/docs/evidence/intelligence-catalog-v0.8.2-release-candidate-v1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# ACE 0.8.2 Intelligence Catalog release candidate
+
+Status: **candidate — artifact, public-domain, and publication gates pending**
+
+## Promise
+
+ACE 0.8.2 makes first use outcome-led. Atrium asks what intelligence a person wants, discovers
+every admitted onboarding profile through the governed Intelligence resource plane, and carries the
+selection into the existing Connect → Map → Watch → Brief → Activate Builder flow. The catalog is
+presentation over durable resources, not a new registry, state store, or authority path.
+
+## Candidate coordinates
+
+- source base: Core main merge `7dd98c09b2285cc5577226a8f7384ba4a5b9021a`;
+- release branch: `codex/v0.8.2-intelligence-catalog-release`;
+- candidate distribution: `ace-core==0.8.2`;
+- paired domain candidates: World Intelligence 0.12.0 and Market Intelligence 0.7.0;
+- schema head: v177;
+- public MCP surface: exactly eleven tools;
+- reference action adapter: unchanged distribution 0.4.0 with `ace-core>=0.8.0,<0.9`.
+
+## Included changes
+
+1. The generic resource plane can project multiple admitted onboarding profiles in product scope.
+2. Atrium deduplicates profiles by durable identity and always adds the Core-owned Custom
+   Intelligence path.
+3. Profiles can declare display labels, starter questions, and grouped source choices without
+   adding domain nouns to Core or imperative code to a pack.
+4. World and Market provide their own declarative profiles from independent repositories.
+5. Selecting a profile grants no installation, connection, monitoring, or activation authority;
+   all effects remain on the existing reviewed Builder boundaries.
+
+## Required acceptance before publication
+
+- Core lint, fast tests, naked-kernel, Canvas, security, and Docker gates pass at the exact
+  candidate head.
+- Package identity, roadmap positioning, evidence-index, and build-backend gates pass.
+- The wheel and sdist build reproducibly, pass strict Twine validation, install outside the
+  checkout, report 0.8.2, preserve the 24-kind resource plane, and expose exactly eleven MCP tools.
+- Atrium desktop and mobile acceptance proves World, Market, and Custom catalog choices without
+  overflow, uncaught console errors, hidden authority, or domain naming in Core contracts.
+- Independently built World 0.12.0 and Market 0.7.0 candidates install against the exact Core 0.8.2
+  artifact and admit their profiles through the unchanged public resource plane.
+
+## Boundaries
+
+This patch does not claim collaborative multi-tenancy, hostile-code isolation, distributed
+operation, autonomous source authorization, arbitrary web access, autonomous publication,
+general real-world causal accuracy, or general beneficial impact. It does not advance the 0.9
+Collaborative Intelligence or 1.0 stable-contract gates.
+
+Publication, tags, hashes, public-index reproduction, and final limitations require a separate
+immutable closeout after all three independently versioned artifacts exist.
diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ This FAQ answers the operational questions that tend to appear after the archite
 what happens when part of a committee fails, how conflicting claims are handled, what confidence
 means, and how multiple products share SurrealDB without becoming one undifferentiated memory.
 
-ACE 0.8.1 is a developer preview. Answers below distinguish the supported Intelligence OS contract
+ACE 0.8.2 is a release candidate over the published 0.8.1 developer preview. Answers below
+distinguish the supported Intelligence OS contract
 from broader engine capabilities whose APIs and end-to-end journeys remain experimental. See
 [capability maturity](capability-maturity.md) for the authoritative boundary and
 [architecture](architecture.md) for the as-built system map.
@@ -369,7 +370,7 @@ end-to-end operating journeys remain experimental in 0.8.
 
 ### What is the stable public contract today?
 
-ACE 0.8.1 is a developer-preview contract: the self-hosted CLI, exactly eleven thin MCP tools,
+ACE 0.8.2 is a developer-preview release candidate: the self-hosted CLI, exactly eleven thin MCP tools,
 documented provider routes, schema migrations, public Core/Intelligence/Application packages,
 inert Domain Pack boundary, and authorized Intelligence resource plane. Atrium is a supported,
 optional repository-delivered preview over that same plane; it is not included in the Python

diff --git a/extensions/reference/extension.py b/extensions/reference/extension.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class ProductExtension:
     """The open `product` extension — copy this file to start your own."""
 
     name = "product"
-    version = "0.8.1"
+    version = "0.8.2"
 
     def register(self, reg: "Registry") -> None:
         # This must remain the first operation. A current reference extension

diff --git a/infra/docker-compose.yml b/infra/docker-compose.yml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ services:
       context: ..
       dockerfile: Dockerfile
       args:
-        ACE_VERSION: "0.8.1"
+        ACE_VERSION: "0.8.2"
     depends_on:
       surrealdb:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ services:
       context: ..
       dockerfile: Dockerfile
       args:
-        ACE_VERSION: "0.8.1"
+        ACE_VERSION: "0.8.2"
     labels:
-      org.opencontainers.image.version: "0.8.1"
+      org.opencontainers.image.version: "0.8.2"
     depends_on:
       surrealdb:
         condition: service_healthy
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ services:
       context: ..
       dockerfile: Dockerfile
       args:
-        ACE_VERSION: "0.8.1"
+        ACE_VERSION: "0.8.2"
     labels:
-      org.opencontainers.image.version: "0.8.1"
+      org.opencontainers.image.version: "0.8.2"
     depends_on:
       surrealdb:
         condition: service_healthy

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "ace-core"
-version = "0.8.1"
+version = "0.8.2"
 description = "Open Intelligence Operating System with a guided Intelligence Builder"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"

diff --git a/tests/test_package_identity.py b/tests/test_package_identity.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ def test_distribution_import_cli_and_version_identities() -> None:
     project = tomllib.loads((ROOT / "pyproject.toml").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))["project"]
 
     assert project["name"] == "ace-core"
-    assert project["version"] == ace.__version__ == ace_mcp_client.__version__ == VERSION == "0.8.1"
+    assert project["version"] == ace.__version__ == ace_mcp_client.__version__ == VERSION == "0.8.2"
     assert ProductExtension.version == project["version"]
     assert project["scripts"]["ace"] == "core.engine.cli.main:cli"
     assert "aiohttp>=3.14.3" in project["dependencies"]
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def test_package_copy_and_public_links_are_release_ready() -> None:
 def test_release_workflow_defaults_to_and_guards_current_version() -> None:
     workflow = (ROOT / ".github" / "workflows" / "publish.yml").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
 
-    assert "default: v0.8.1" in workflow
+    assert "default: v0.8.2" in workflow
     assert "Validate release tag matches package version" in workflow
     assert 'if [ "$RELEASE_TAG" != "v$package_version" ]' in workflow
     assert "ace-core-python-distributions" in workflow
@@ -58,13 +58,13 @@ def test_release_workflow_defaults_to_and_guards_current_version() -> None:
 def test_docker_image_includes_public_cli_package() -> None:
     dockerfile = (ROOT / "Dockerfile").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
     assert "COPY ace/ ace/" in dockerfile
-    assert "ARG ACE_VERSION=0.8.1" in dockerfile
+    assert "ARG ACE_VERSION=0.8.2" in dockerfile
     assert 'org.opencontainers.image.version="${ACE_VERSION}"' in dockerfile
     assert "uv sync --frozen --no-dev --no-editable --no-cache" in dockerfile
 
     compose = (ROOT / "infra" / "docker-compose.yml").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-    assert compose.count('ACE_VERSION: "0.8.1"') == 3
-    assert compose.count('org.opencontainers.image.version: "0.8.1"') == 2
+    assert compose.count('ACE_VERSION: "0.8.2"') == 3
+    assert compose.count('org.opencontainers.image.version: "0.8.2"') == 2
 
 
 def test_lock_tracks_the_distribution_identity() -> None:

diff --git a/tests/test_public_roadmap_positioning.py b/tests/test_public_roadmap_positioning.py
@@ -5,21 +5,23 @@
 ROADMAP = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "ROADMAP.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
 ROADMAP_ONE_LINE = " ".join(ROADMAP.split())
 
-# The current-release assertions are the coordinated 0.8.1 patch closeout gate. Historical 0.4.1 GI2,
+# The current-release assertions preserve published 0.8.1 while admitting the bounded 0.8.2
+# candidate. Historical 0.4.1 GI2,
 # 0.4.2 builder-surface, 0.4.4 GC1, 0.5.0 T1/B1, and P1/P2 identities remain exact point-in-time
 # evidence. Keep these aligned with test_evidence_index_integrity.py.
 
 
 def test_current_release_and_passed_milestone_are_not_conflated() -> None:
     assert "latest published release is `ace-core` 0.8.1 on PyPI and GitHub" in ROADMAP
+    assert "current 0.8.2 release candidate" in ROADMAP
     assert ROADMAP.count("| 0.4.x | Governed Cognition | **Passed** |") == 1
     assert "| 0.4.0 | Governed Cognition | **Delivered** |" not in ROADMAP
     assert "| 0.4.0 | Governed Cognition | **Now** |" not in ROADMAP
     assert "| 0.5.0 | Reasoning into Action | **Passed** |" in ROADMAP
     assert "| 0.6.0 | Measured Intelligence | **Passed** |" in ROADMAP
     assert "| 0.7.0 | Intelligence Builder Foundation | **Passed** |" in ROADMAP
     readme = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "README.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-    assert "0.8.1 is a published developer-preview release" in " ".join(readme.split())
+    assert "0.8.2 is a release candidate over the published 0.8.1 developer preview" in " ".join(readme.split())
     assert "| 0.8.0 | Intelligence OS Realignment | **Passed** |" in ROADMAP
     assert "| 0.9.0 | Collaborative Intelligence | **Now** |" in ROADMAP
     assert "| 1.0.0 | Intelligence Operating System | **Later** |" in ROADMAP

diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock