augmented-cognition-engine · eamirian · Aug 13, 2026 · Aug 13, 2026
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 0.8.2 candidate](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.8.2--candidate-blue)
+![version 0.8.2](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.8.2-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)
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ stay host-free, and host adapters are the only `core.engine` edge into the publi
 
 ## Maturity and limitations
 
-**0.8.2 is a release candidate over the published 0.8.1 developer preview.** Its Intelligence OS
+**0.8.2 is the current published 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
@@ -77,11 +77,10 @@ Roadmap outcome states are used strictly:
 
 ## Current release checkpoint
 
-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 latest published release is [`ace-core` 0.8.2](https://github.com/augmented-cognition-engine/core/releases/tag/v0.8.2)
+on PyPI and GitHub. It packages the Atrium Intelligence Catalog as backward-compatible hardening
+of the released 0.8 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
@@ -92,9 +91,9 @@ thin MCP surface remains exactly eleven tools. The exact pre-publication source,
 proof, verification, and limitations are bound by the
 [Intelligence OS release closeout](docs/evidence/intelligence-os-v0.8.0-release-closeout-v1.md).
 
-The [0.8.1 GitHub Release](https://github.com/augmented-cognition-engine/core/releases/tag/v0.8.1)
-and public [`ace-core==0.8.1`](https://pypi.org/project/ace-core/0.8.1/) package are the current
-developer-preview release line. The patch binds live onboarding state into Atrium, defines
+The [0.8.2 GitHub Release](https://github.com/augmented-cognition-engine/core/releases/tag/v0.8.2)
+and public [`ace-core==0.8.2`](https://pypi.org/project/ace-core/0.8.2/) package are the current
+developer-preview release line. The 0.8.1 foundation binds live onboarding state into Atrium, defines
 Opportunities as evidence-backed decision openings, establishes the ACE design system, and adds a
 reproducible World AI resource replay. Atrium remains a repository-delivered optional workspace
 rather than a second state or authority path.
@@ -114,7 +113,7 @@ 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.
 
-The 0.8.2 candidate adds the Atrium Intelligence Catalog as an experience entry
+The passed 0.8.2 patch 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/docs/evidence/intelligence-catalog-v0.8.2-release-candidate-v1.md b/docs/evidence/intelligence-catalog-v0.8.2-release-candidate-v1.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# ACE 0.8.2 Intelligence Catalog release candidate
+# ACE 0.8.2 Intelligence Catalog release closeout
 
-Status: **candidate — artifact, public-domain, and publication gates pending**
+Status: **passed — published and reproduced from public artifacts**
 
 ## Promise
 
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ every admitted onboarding profile through the governed Intelligence resource pla
 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
+## Release 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;
+- release commit: `36bb938a2070cf4cc26b0e05bfe55773ed9c4d5c`;
+- release: [`v0.8.2`](https://github.com/augmented-cognition-engine/core/releases/tag/v0.8.2);
+- public distribution: [`ace-core==0.8.2`](https://pypi.org/project/ace-core/0.8.2/);
+- paired public domains: 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`.
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ presentation over durable resources, not a new registry, state store, or authori
 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
+## Acceptance
 
 - Core lint, fast tests, naked-kernel, Canvas, security, and Docker gates pass at the exact
   candidate head.
@@ -49,5 +50,14 @@ operation, autonomous source authorization, arbitrary web access, autonomous pub
 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.
+## Immutable public artifacts
+
+- `ace_core-0.8.2-py3-none-any.whl` — SHA-256
+  `de936efc9aafa0f2e365abeb0bfe9fcf592ba7506bca4d2411ce7c340ca7a4a9`;
+- `ace_core-0.8.2.tar.gz` — SHA-256
+  `b4714c97dd290a93b7b26c9f36236d9e089dcf4cc3b3b30b3e9f07178752617a`.
+
+Trusted publication completed in
+[workflow 31740809332](https://github.com/augmented-cognition-engine/core/actions/runs/31740809332).
+A fresh Python 3.12 environment installed Core 0.8.2, World 0.12.0, and Market 0.7.0 from PyPI only;
+both domain profiles resolved and neither separately packaged connector was installed.
diff --git a/tests/test_public_roadmap_positioning.py b/tests/test_public_roadmap_positioning.py
@@ -5,23 +5,22 @@
 ROADMAP = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "ROADMAP.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
 ROADMAP_ONE_LINE = " ".join(ROADMAP.split())
 
-# The current-release assertions preserve published 0.8.1 while admitting the bounded 0.8.2
-# candidate. Historical 0.4.1 GI2,
+# The current-release assertions preserve the bounded published 0.8.2 patch. 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 "latest published release is [`ace-core` 0.8.2]" in ROADMAP
+    assert "passed 0.8.2 patch adds the Atrium Intelligence Catalog" 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 "0.8.2 is a release candidate over the published 0.8.1 developer preview" in " ".join(readme.split())
+    assert "0.8.2 is the current published 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