docs: v0.6.1+ release handoff (Phase 0 cleanup → Phase 3 enterprise)

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Summary

Adds the v0.6.1+ release handoff doc. Models on docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.0.md, which shipped v0.6.0 successfully — same copy-paste-into-fresh-session structure, scaled to a multi-phase release arc.

What it covers

4-phase plan, each phase is a marketing moment:

Phase	Target	Theme	Tracking
0	now	Hygiene cleanup (branches, About-box, topics)	#117
1	v0.6.1	Install Anywhere — pipx, uv, Docker, verify-install, keywords	#118
2	v0.7	Always-On — systemd/launchd, Aider, healthcheck, Windows	#119
3	v0.7.x	Enterprise-Ready — GHCR image, air-gapped, SBOM, compliance	#120

Plus the two deferred v0.6.0 review patches (#115 event_log rotation, #116 /api/queries test) that should land alongside Phase 1.

What this enables

A fresh agent session can be handed this single URL and pick up exactly where this session left off. The doc cross-references:

• The 6 tracking issues (fix(event_log): reopen rotated logs from offset 0 to avoid dropping events #115–[v0.7.x Phase 3] Enterprise-Ready — Docker Hub auto-build, air-gapped, SBOM #120) for state
• The existing v0.6.0 handoff for repo conventions + lessons (release.yml dispatch gotcha, branch deletion 403, etc.)
• Marketing artifact templates (LINKEDIN-POST-DRAFT.md, SCREENCAST-*.md, notebooklm/)

Marketing tie-in

Three LinkedIn moments over 6-8 weeks, each targeting a different audience:

• Phase 1 → Python developers / AI tooling early adopters
• Phase 2 → Ops/SREs / dev tooling power users
• Phase 3 → CTOs / security teams / regulated industries

Test plan

• All cross-links resolve to existing files / issues
• No code changes — pure doc add
• Markdown renders cleanly (linted locally)
• Visual check on rendered GitHub once merged

Open questions in §9 of the doc

The doc surfaces 4 open questions the maintainer should answer before the next agent session executes:

1. Cadence — spread (recommended) or sprint?
2. Docker registry — GHCR / Docker Hub / both?
3. HN submission timing — v0.7.x (recommended) or earlier?
4. Aider integration — verify-then-ship or wait for stable?

Answers can be edited into §9 of the doc directly, or captured as comments on the respective tracking issues.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01LuGFoY2vuB3az7sVCNwG6V

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NeuralMind self-benchmark

Status: PASS — floor 4×, measured 5.9×.

Phase 1 — Reduction on committed fixture

• Average reduction: 5.9×
• Top-k retrieval hit rate: 71.7%
• Naive baseline: 47,360 tokens (all fixture files concatenated)
• NeuralMind total: 8,149 tokens across 10 queries
• Estimated monthly savings @ 100 queries/day on Claude 3.5 Sonnet: ~$35.30

#	Query	Shape	Naive	NeuralMind	Ratio	Hit
1	auth-flow	cross-file	4,736	815	5.8×	33.3%
2	api-endpoints	focused	4,736	809	5.9×	100.0%
3	billing-flow	cross-file	4,736	846	5.6×	33.3%
4	user-storage	cross-file	4,736	672	7.0×	50.0%
5	jwt-verify	focused	4,736	681	7.0×	100.0%
6	stripe-webhook	focused	4,736	838	5.7×	100.0%
7	create-user	cross-file	4,736	794	6.0×	50.0%
8	refund	focused	4,736	827	5.7×	100.0%
9	db-choice	identity	4,736	899	5.3×	100.0%
10	invoice-send	cross-file	4,736	968	4.9×	50.0%

Phase 2 — Learning uplift

• Memory events logged: 20
• Learned patterns: 20
• Reduction ratio after neuralmind learn: 5.9× (Δ +0.00× vs. cold)
• Top-k hit rate after learning: 71.7% (Δ +0.0 points vs. cold)

Note: uplift numbers on a 500-line fixture are intentionally modest — the point is to
verify the learning mechanism persists and applies. On real production repos the lift
is larger; this test only catches regressions in persistence.

Assumptions

• Baseline: every .py file in tests/fixtures/sample_project/ concatenated.
• Tokenizer: tiktoken GPT-4o encoding (per-model breakdown in multi_model.json if generated).
• Pricing: Claude 3.5 Sonnet input @ $3.0/MTok.
• Regression floor: 4× — well below NeuralMind's typical 40–70× on real repos.

Per-model token reduction

Model	Tokenizer	Naive	NeuralMind	Ratio	Source
GPT-4o / GPT-4o-mini	tiktoken o200k_base	4,739	927	5.1×	measured
GPT-4 / GPT-3.5-turbo	tiktoken cl100k_base	4,710	918	5.1×	measured
Claude 3.5 Sonnet	estimated: GPT-4o × 1.08 — install anthropic for an exact count	5,118	1,001	5.1×	estimated
Llama 3 (70B)	estimated: GPT-4o × 1.22 — Llama tokenizer requires model weights; estimate based on published vocab ratios	5,781	1,130	5.1×	estimated

Rows marked measured use the provider's real tokenizer. Rows marked
estimated apply a published vocab-size correction to the GPT-4o count —
honest approximations, not hardcoded claims.

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Pull request overview

Adds a new release-handoff playbook document for the v0.6.1+ release arc, intended to let a fresh agent session pick up Phase 0–3 planning/execution and associated marketing artifacts.

Changes:

• Added docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.1.md with a 4-phase release plan (Phase 0 hygiene → Phase 3 enterprise) and links to tracking issues #115–#120.
• Included suggested checklists, commands, and cross-phase marketing artifact pointers to standardize the next sessions’ workflow.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (3)

docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.1.md:136

• This section references docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.0.md for a dispatch workaround, but that file is not present in the repo, so the cross-reference can’t be followed. Either add the referenced doc or inline/link the specific instructions elsewhere that exists in-repo.

4. Once merged → release-please proposes v0.6.1 → merge it → dispatch
   release.yml (same gotcha as v0.6.0; use the one-shot dispatch trick
   from `docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.0.md` §1c if needed).

docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.1.md:238

• The marketing arc table also uses a leading double pipe (|| ...), which creates an empty first column when rendered on GitHub. Use a single leading pipe (| ...) so the table renders as intended.

| Phase | Audience | Post angle | Pair with |
|-------|----------|-----------|-----------|
| 0 | (internal) | — | (no marketing) |
| 1 | Python developers, AI tooling early adopters | "Install five ways" | Screencast: pipx + docker side-by-side |
| 2 | Ops/SREs, dev tooling power users | "Runs as a service" | Screencast: systemd + canvas pulsing across saves |
| 3 | CTOs, security teams, regulated industries | "Containerized + SBOM + NIST" | Compliance one-pager + HN submission |

docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.1.md:264

• This section again links to docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.0.md, but that file is not in the repository, so the link will be broken. Update to the correct predecessor doc path or add the missing file.

Same as v0.6.0. Not repeating in detail — see
[`docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.0.md`](HANDOFF-v0.6.0.md) §6. Highlights worth
re-stating because they bit us last time:

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Point handoff predecessor link to an existing file

This handoff explicitly tells the next session to read docs/HANDOFF-v0.6.0.md as the required template, but that file does not exist in this commit, so the first guidance link is dead and the promised “single URL handoff” flow breaks. A fresh agent following this doc will miss the referenced release-process context (including the cited gotchas) unless the predecessor file is added or the link is changed to an existing document.

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