chernistry/bernstein

v1.8.5

Orchestration cleanup and release-pipeline hygiene — the first patch of a multi-release audit sweep.

Orchestrator

• Idle recycling consolidated into a single agent_recycling module (previously forked across agents/ and orchestration/).
• Idle detection now also watches log growth, not just heartbeat timing — a stuck adapter with output still flowing no longer looks "alive."
• _detect_idle_reason folded to one implementation.

Reliability

• Orphaned task claims discovered on WAL recovery are re-queued instead of silently dropped (the previous behaviour lost work on crash during claim).
• The adapter kill path now escalates SIGTERM → SIGKILL after the grace window, so a wedged agent can't block shutdown indefinitely.

Dead-code removal

• Removed TickGuard, ConcurrencyGuard, orchestrator_tick, orchestrator_lifecycle, orchestrator_recovery, and the unbuilt heartbeat_v2 ping/pong protocol. None had production importers.

Docs

• Corrected the CLAUDE.md description of the bernstein.core back-compat shim after the sub-package reorg.

CI / release

• Release-notes generator: now emits human-readable categorised notes instead of a raw commit dump.
• Release-notes regexes tightened to eliminate a ReDoS warning.
• Stale CI runs on a branch are cancelled when a new commit is pushed.

Full changelog: https://github.com/chernistry/bernstein/compare/v1.8.4...v1.8.5