Changelog

Current install/version/verified benchmark facts are generated from public/product-facts.json. See docs/VERIFIED_RESULTS.md and https://seenrelay.com/product-facts.json.

Unreleased — Deterministic client wrappers

• Add vendorable zero-third-party-runtime-dependency JavaScript/TypeScript and Python reference wrappers that put CHECK deterministically in front of an application's existing validation path.
• Keep shadow mode as the default; bounded reuse requires an explicit caller-supplied policy.
• Fail open on relay-side timeout, 429, malformed response, or outage without hiding failures from the application's own validation.
• Forward only safe observer-supplied ETag / Last-Modified conditional hints and retain no completed CHECK result cache.
• Coalesce only overlapping request-equivalent CHECKs in process and expose local-only measurement counters plus caller-supplied reuse economics.
• Preserve the public protocol boundary: no database migration, no third domain operation, and no change to MCP CHECK / OBSERVE semantics.

0.3.8 — Early value and validator-assisted CHECK

• Return the newest observer-supplied source validator with fresh CHECK evidence without claiming that SeenRelay verified it.
• Provide safe conditional-request hints for etag and last_modified validators, while rejecting CR/LF-bearing validator values.
• Make the cold-start loop machine-readable: UNKNOWN/STALE directs the caller to validate normally and OBSERVE, and accepted observations are explicitly eligible for later CHECKs.
• Release-gate same-integration reuse so a caller can benefit from its own earlier OBSERVE without receiving qualified cross-client reuse credit.
• Keep CHECK and OBSERVE as the only domain operations and preserve the external-verification=false boundary.

0.3.7 — Discovery funnel telemetry

• Add privacy-minimized aggregate MCP initialize and tools/list request counters.
• Surface protocol interest separately from external CHECK, OBSERVE, and qualified reuse in the Control Room.
• Keep discovery telemetry explicitly non-adoption and fail-open so telemetry cannot break MCP service.
• Document that discovery counters persist no request payload, clientInfo, IP, user-agent, or MCP session identifier.

0.3.6 - 2026-08-25

• Made the Control Room operational snapshot independent from optional external-adoption classification so an adoption query failure cannot blank the admin surface.
• Added an explicit external / first-party / total split, adoption milestones, Reference Observer health context, and an external-only Hive Radar with a truthful empty state.
• Preserved first-party bootstrap data while keeping it excluded from external adoption metrics.
• Bound the Preview Release Gate to the current pull request's Vercel Preview URL instead of a stale hard-coded branch alias, while retaining exact deployment-SHA verification.
• Synchronized the service, static MCP server card, and Official MCP Registry metadata at 0.3.6.

0.3.5 - 2026-08-25

• Changed Control Room adoption telemetry to external-only views by excluding the first-party Reference Observer from active Hive radar leases, retained OBSERVE/fact counts, and contributor rankings.
• Count qualified reuse as external adoption only when the consuming lease is external; a first-party seed may still support genuine third-party reuse.
• Kept CHECK telemetry external by invariant because the Reference Observer performs OBSERVE only and never calls CHECK.
• Added structural regression coverage for the external-adoption boundary.

0.3.4 - 2026-08-25

• Added the bounded first-party Reference Observer and scheduled allowlisted public-source workflow.
• Kept the Reference Observer outside the SeenRelay server runtime and on the same public OBSERVE path as ordinary clients.
• Added explicit documentation that first-party observer activity is bootstrap data and must not be treated as third-party adoption.
• Added a static MCP server card for directory discovery and synchronized tool metadata for check_fact and observe_fact.

0.3.3 - 2026-08-25

• Reworked public documentation around a cooperative freshness-cache model and removed brand-specific analogy language.
• Added explicit cold-start behavior: UNKNOWN passthrough, first-observation seeding, same-fleet reuse, and additive external coverage.
• Simplified public access wording to state that the service is currently free without exposing payment configuration details in product documentation.
• Reduced the public documentation set to implementation, integration, operations, security, and protocol material.
• Clarified Control Room runtime labels and added confirmation before restrictive custom runtime-control changes.
• Updated public-surface and release-gate assertions for the revised machine descriptor and landing page.

0.3.0 - 2026-08-24

• Replaced the hand-built MCP transport with the official @modelcontextprotocol/server v2 SDK and createMcpHandler.
• Targeted MCP protocol revision 2026-07-28.
• Removed A2A discovery from v1 because no real A2A task endpoint exists.
• Salt-hashed client and observer identifiers and made Vercel environments fail closed without a high-entropy PRIVACY_SALT.
• Scoped idempotency keys to the privacy-preserving observer key to avoid cross-agent collisions.
• Hardened fact identity to seenrelay-fact-v3: mutable observed content is excluded from identity; stable source-native locators are preferred, otherwise a shared predicate plus minimal qualifiers is used.
• Added deterministic URL hygiene: fragments and known tracking parameters are removed, remaining query parameters are sorted deterministically, and credential/signature-bearing source URLs are rejected before Hive admission.
• Added transport-independent Ed25519 observer proof-of-possession with bounded proof timestamps and exact-proof replay resistance.
• Separated cryptographic observer-key counts from unverified observer-key counts without claiming Sybil resistance or real-world identity independence.
• Added frictionless Hive Leases, free token-bucket CHECK admission, delayed contribution rewards based on qualified reuse across distinct conservative network-derived independence buckets, duplicate reward suppression and daily award caps.
• Added FREEZE admission ordering so disabled runtime state is checked before stateful Hive lease/quota mutation.
• Added the human-only SeenRelay Control Room with live Hive Radar, runtime controls, audit trail, retention housekeeping, standards posture, operational readiness and prepared NORMAL, SHIELD, READ_ONLY, and FREEZE incident modes.
• Added runtime safety controls without creating any third agent-facing domain operation; CHECK and OBSERVE remain the only domain operations.
• Added Preview/Production database isolation, exact-deployment-SHA release gating and a Production E2E namespace fuse.
• Added privacy-safe public network metrics with qualified-reuse CHECK accounting separated from contributor award count.
• Added runtime tests for fact-key convergence, URL hygiene, exact source locators, Unicode safety, Ed25519 verification, tamper rejection, expired-proof rejection, Hive classification, anti-farming, credential rotation and control-plane guardrails.
• Added a production dependency vulnerability audit gate, committed lockfile and npm ci; removed unused local Vercel CLI tooling from the dependency tree.
• Added Dependabot and a read-only Standards Watch that can discover and prepare maintenance work but cannot mutate Production automatically.
• Preserved the hard billing-disabled boundary.

0.2.0 - 2026-08-21

• Renamed working product from FactTick to SeenRelay.
• Migrated target architecture from Cloudflare/D1 to Vercel + Neon Postgres.
• Kept the two-operation product boundary: CHECK and OBSERVE.
• Updated MCP target protocol to 2026-07-28 stateless semantics.
• Preserved the billing-disabled invariant.