chore(release): 0.44.0

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Release 0.44.0 — Quorum reliability & provider resolution hardening

Stable release prepared manually (CHANGELOG required reconstruction — ~26 PRs merged since 0.43.1, only 4 previously logged).

Verified locally before push

• package.json bumped to 0.44.0
• package-lock.json synced (npm install --package-lock-only) — version matches
• CHANGELOG ## [0.44.0] entry — full reconstruction across Added/Changed/Fixed/Removed
• terminal.svg regenerated (embeds v0.44.0)
• npm ci --ignore-scripts — lockfile integrity OK
• build:hooks && build:machines
• check:assets
• lint:isolation
• test:ci — 1668/1668 pass, 0 fail

Highlights

• /nf:pr-resolve skill — bot-thread evaluation + autonomous merge (feat(pr-resolve): intelligent bot thread evaluation #160, feat(skills): worktree cleanliness pre-flight + nf:pr-resolve skill #181)
• Quorum thin-consensus safety: min_live_voters floor (feat(quorum): add min_live_voters floor for thin-consensus safety #192), empirical score-delta calibration (Scoreboard score deltas (+5/-3) hand-tuned, drift from empirical signal-to-noise #175)
• Provider/CLI resolution hardening: mainTool fallback across call-quorum-slot, unified-mcp-server, probe-quorum-slots (fix(mcp/install): resolve CLI from mainTool when cli is null; self-heal mainTool #161, fix(quorum): resolve CLI from mainTool when cli is null (call-quorum-slot) #164, fix(quorum): backport CLI fallback to probe-quorum-slots #180, fix(quorum): replace truthy gate in detectInstalledProviders #183, fix(mcp): guard unified-mcp-server spawn target against null CLI #193)
• providers.json path consolidation onto canonical ~/.claude/nf-bin/ (fix: consolidate providers.json to nf-bin/ path (closes #167) #186, closes Consolidate nf-bin/ and nf/bin/ providers.json paths #167)
• Provider-concurrency semaphore stale-lock self-healing (fix(quorum): self-heal stale provider-concurrency semaphore locks (#176) #187), correlated-failure modeling in the early-escalation gate (fix(quorum): model correlated provider failures in early-escalation gate #190)

After merge

CI (release.yml) will: test → tag v0.44.0 → create GitHub Release → publish to npm @latest → align @next dist-tag to 0.44.0 (both tags land on 0.44.0).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

Release v0.44.0

• New Features

  • New skills and quorum reliability/scoring capabilities
  • JSON checkpoint mechanism for enhanced validation
  • Auto-installation of uv for simplified setup

• Improvements

  • Enhanced reliability across provider resolution and quorum dispatch
  • Consolidated provider configuration path
  • Better autopilot merge-state handling

• Bug Fixes

  • CLI resolution and MCP status path corrections
  • Provider concurrency and lifetime handling fixes
  • Daintree linking behavior improvements
  • Statusline color semantics update

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Walkthrough

This PR bumps the package version from 0.43.1 to 0.44.0 and adds a comprehensive changelog entry documenting the new release, including new skills, quorum reliability features, auto-install improvements for uv, checkpoint gating enhancements, provider configuration path consolidation, and a broader set of reliability fixes across MCP resolution, provider dispatch, and CLI fallback handling.

Changes

Version 0.44.0 Release Documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release version and changelog package.json, CHANGELOG.md	Version field incremented to 0.44.0 and changelog updated with complete 0.44.0 release section documenting added skills and quorum capabilities, uv auto-install, JSON checkpoint gating, providers.json path consolidation, and fixes for CLI resolution, provider concurrency, MCP status paths, and autopilot merge-state trust.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• nForma-AI/nForma#154: Prior release PR with similar package.json version bump pattern for version 0.43.0→0.43.1.
• nForma-AI/nForma#151: Related to install/CLI resolution and providers.json population changes documented in this release.
• nForma-AI/nForma#155: Related to nf-statusline color logic and uv auto-install behavior changes recorded in this release.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The PR description references issue #167 regarding providers.json path consolidation and lists it as a highlight; however, the raw changeset only updates documentation (CHANGELOG and package.json) with no evidence of the coding changes required by #167.	Verify whether the actual code changes implementing #167 requirements (consolidation to canonical path, symlink migration, and path updates across install.js, link-daintree, call-quorum-slot, etc.) are included in the full commit; the summary suggests this is a comprehensive release but the provided changeset shows only version documentation changes.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'chore(release): 0.44.0' clearly and concisely summarizes the primary change: releasing version 0.44.0.
Description check	✅ Passed	The PR description exceeds template requirements with detailed release notes, local verifications, and highlights; all template sections are addressed substantively.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The provided changeset (CHANGELOG and package.json updates) is narrowly scoped to release documentation and versioning, both in-scope for a release PR.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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In `@package.json`:
- Line 3: Update the milestone semver in package.json by changing the "version"
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Pull request overview

Prepares the 0.44.0 stable release by bumping published package versions and updating release artifacts/notes to reflect the “Quorum reliability & provider resolution hardening” work that landed since 0.43.1.

Changes:

• Bump @nforma.ai/nforma version to 0.44.0 in package.json and package-lock.json.
• Add a reconstructed ## [0.44.0] release entry to CHANGELOG.md.
• Regenerate docs/assets/terminal.svg to embed v0.44.0.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
package.json	Updates published package version to 0.44.0.
package-lock.json	Syncs lockfile version metadata to 0.44.0.
docs/assets/terminal.svg	Updates embedded terminal banner version text to v0.44.0.
CHANGELOG.md	Adds reconstructed 0.44.0 release notes and reconciles prior references.

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