# Changelog - venturalitica-sdk

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

## [0.5.0-starlight] - 2026-02-18

### Astro Starlight Documentation Migration

Migrated all documentation from MkDocs → Mintlify → **Astro Starlight** (open-source) with bilingual support (EN/ES) and automatic `llms.txt` generation via the `starlight-llms-txt` plugin.

#### New Documentation Platform (`starlight/`)
- **Astro Starlight**: Open-source documentation framework with first-class i18n, search, and static site generation
- **`astro.config.mjs`**: Full configuration with i18n (root EN, `es` locale), 5-group sidebar, `starlight-llms-txt` plugin
- **18 English `.mdx` pages**: Complete content in `src/content/docs/`
- **18 Spanish `.mdx` pages**: Complete Spanish mirror in `src/content/docs/es/` with accent fixes and translated prose
- **`src/content/i18n/es.json`**: Spanish UI string overrides for sidebar groups and labels
- **`src/styles/custom.css`**: Custom theme styling
- **`public/images/`**: Consolidated image assets (logo.svg, favicon.svg, 5 PNGs)
- **Pagefind search**: Indexed 36 pages across 2 languages, 4781 words

#### Syntax Conversions Applied (Mintlify → Starlight)
- Admonitions: `<Note>` → `:::note`, `<Warning>` → `:::caution`, `<Tip>` → `:::tip`, `<Danger>` → `:::danger`
- Tabbed content: `<Tabs><Tab>` → separate labeled code blocks (no imports needed)
- Card groups: `<CardGroup><Card>` → plain markdown link lists
- Frontmatter: `sidebarTitle` → `sidebar: { label: "..." }`
- Internal links: removed `/es/` prefix (Starlight handles i18n routing), added trailing slashes
- Spanish accent fixes applied throughout all prose text

#### `llms.txt` Generation
- **`starlight-llms-txt`** plugin auto-generates during build:
  - `dist/llms.txt` (586B) — index with links to full/small versions
  - `dist/llms-full.txt` (149KB) — complete documentation for LLM consumption
  - `dist/llms-small.txt` (128KB) — abridged version with non-essential content removed

#### Key Benefits
- **Open-source**: No vendor lock-in or subscription costs (Mintlify requires paid plan)
- **Native `llms.txt`**: Auto-generated by `starlight-llms-txt` plugin during build
- **i18n**: Root locale (EN) + `es` locale with automatic language routing
- **Search**: Pagefind-powered full-text search across both languages
- **Zero-error build**: 37 pages built in ~10s with zero warnings

#### Cleanup
- Removed `mintlify/` directory (superseded by `starlight/`)
- Removed `mkdocs.yml` configuration file
- Removed MkDocs dependencies from `pyproject.toml` (`mkdocs`, `mkdocs-material`, `mkdocs-macros-plugin`, `mkdocs-static-i18n`, `pymdown-extensions`, `mkdocs-llmstxt`)
- Updated Documentation URL in `pyproject.toml` to `https://venturalitica.github.io/venturalitica-sdk`
- MkDocs `docs/` source directory preserved for reference

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## [0.5.0-docs] - 2026-02-18

### Documentation Overhaul

Comprehensive documentation rewrite addressing all gaps identified in the strategic audit.

#### New Documentation (8 pages)
- **docs/metrics.md**: Complete metrics reference (35+ metrics, 7 categories, formulas, thresholds)
- **docs/dashboard.md**: Glass Box Dashboard user guide (4 phases, 7 views, session management)
- **docs/policy-authoring.md**: OSCAL policy authoring guide (assessment-plan format, props reference, two-policy pattern)
- **docs/column-binding.md**: Column binding documentation (synonym table, resolution algorithm, multilingual support)
- **docs/experimental.md**: Experimental features page (CLI login/pull/push, SaaS status, feature matrix)
- **docs/probes.md**: Probes reference (7 probes, EU AI Act article mapping, evidence structure)
- **docs/full-lifecycle.md**: Zero to Annex IV single-page walkthrough (copy-paste ready)
- **docs/multiclass-fairness.md**: Multiclass fairness metrics deep dive (7 metrics, strategies, intersectional analysis)
- **docs/compliance-mapping.md**: ISO 42001 / EU AI Act mapping (article-by-article SDK capability mapping)

#### Fixed Documentation (4 pages)
- **docs/api.md**: Fully rewritten with correct `enforce()` and `monitor()` signatures from source code
- **docs/quickstart.md**: Fixed install command from `pip install git+...` to `pip install venturalitica`
- **docs/index.md**: Rewritten with correct install, new doc links, removed stale references
- **docs/es/quickstart.md**: Fixed install command in Spanish mirror

#### Updated Documentation (4 pages)
- **docs/academy/level1_policy.md**: Expanded with real data_policy.oscal.yaml (3 controls), expected output, prop reference table
- **docs/academy/level2_integrator.md**: Fixed commands, added cross-references to new docs
- **docs/academy/level3_auditor.md**: Fixed duplicate heading, updated code to use `load_sample()`, added references
- **docs/academy/level4_annex_iv.md**: Fixed commands, updated code, replaced stale links with new doc references

#### Spanish Mirror (`docs/es/`) — Full Update
- Rewrote `es/api.md` and `es/index.md` to match new English sources
- Rewrote all 4 academy levels (`es/academy/level1–level4`) with updated code, outputs, and cross-references
- Created 8 new Spanish pages: `es/metrics.md`, `es/dashboard.md`, `es/policy-authoring.md`, `es/column-binding.md`, `es/experimental.md`, `es/probes.md`, `es/full-lifecycle.md`, `es/multiclass-fairness.md`, `es/compliance-mapping.md`
- Updated `es/quickstart.md` "What's next" links to point to all new documentation pages
- Verified `es/academy/index.md` and `es/tutorials/01_writing_policy.md` (no changes needed)

#### Housekeeping
- Deleted 15 empty `gov_*.md` placeholder files from project root
- Updated `mkdocs.yml` navigation to include all new documentation pages
- Removed references to nonexistent pages (training.md, integrations.md, compliance-dashboard.md, compliance-gap.md)
- Unified OSCAL format references to `assessment-plan` as canonical throughout docs
- Moved 8 stale English docs and 7 stale Spanish docs to `docs/.archive/` and `docs/es/.archive/` respectively
- Removed `mkdocs-llmstxt` plugin: incompatible with `mkdocs-static-i18n` (i18n sub-build resets plugin state, producing empty `llms.txt`); build now runs with zero warnings

#### Known Issues / Technical Debt
- **Platform migration tracked:** `mkdocs-llmstxt` 0.5.0 is unmaintained and broken with the i18n plugin. Agent-friendly docs (`llms.txt`, content negotiation, per-page `.md` serving) require migrating to a platform with native support — **Mintlify** (recommended for AI compliance SDK) or **Docusaurus** (open-source, community `docusaurus-plugin-llms` plugin). Migration is a separate workstream.

## [0.5.0] - 2026-02-12

### "Marie Kondo" Release - Code Quality & Release Finalization

This release represents the completion of the v0.5.0 "Marie Kondo" code cleanup initiative, comprising four major phases:

#### Phase A: Linting & Version Fixes ✅
- Fixed version inconsistency: 0.4.2 → 0.5.0 in `src/venturalitica/__init__.py`
- Updated mkdocs version: v0.4.1 → v0.5.0 in `mkdocs.yml`
- Added comprehensive ruff linter configuration to `pyproject.toml`
  - Python 3.11 target
  - Line-length: 120
  - Rule sets: E (errors), F (pyflakes), I (import sorting)
- Fixed 24 linting issues across 8 test files:
  - E712: Explicit == True/False comparisons (4 occurrences)
  - E741: Ambiguous variable naming (1 occurrence)
  - F841: Unused variable assignments (16 occurrences)
  - E402: Import ordering (2 occurrences)
  - I001: Import sorting (auto-applied via ruff)
- Updated .gitignore to exclude build artifacts and test outputs

#### Phase B: Smoke Tests for Core API ✅
Created comprehensive smoke tests (`tests/test_smoke_core_api.py`) validating core vl.monitor() and vl.enforce() functionality:
- **vl.monitor() tests (4)**:
  - Session creation and context manager behavior
  - Yield control and cleanup verification
  - Custom parameter handling
  - Error recovery
- **vl.enforce() tests (10)**:
  - Metrics evaluation against policies
  - Dataframe processing and validation
  - Results caching mechanisms
  - Multiple policy execution
  - Error handling and edge cases
- **Integration test (1)**:
  - Combined monitor() and enforce() workflow
- Fixtures: Realistic sample policies, dataframes, and temporary directories

#### Phase C: Coverage Improvement Tests ✅
Created targeted coverage tests (`tests/test_coverage_improvements.py`) achieving edge-case coverage for 90%+ target:
- **Error handling paths (6 tests)**:
  - Invalid control specifications
  - Strict mode violations
  - Dataframe edge cases (empty, NaN values)
- **Telemetry robustness (3 tests)**:
  - Import failure recovery
  - Exception handling in metric reporting
- **Integration coverage (3 tests)**:
  - MLflow/W&B fallback mechanisms
  - Session lifecycle edge cases
- **API boundary conditions (3 tests)**:
  - Numeric edge cases (NaN, negative values, large ranges)
  - Results caching edge cases
  - Metrics computation boundary conditions

#### Phase D: Scenario Verification for v0.5.0 ✅
Complete verification of all 5 scenarios in `venturalitica-sdk-samples`:
- **loan-credit-scoring**: ✅ Fully production-ready (OSCAL policies, 4 notebooks, Academy L1-L4 coverage)
- **medical-spine-segmentation**: ✅ Fully production-ready (DICOM processing, compliance testing)
- **financial**: ✅ Ready (demonstrates modular before/after approach)
- **vision-fairness**: ✅ Ready (fairness metrics, data governance)
- **test-inference**: ✅ Minimal/testing-focused (intentional minimal scope)
- Verified all scenarios already use v0.5.0-compatible imports (no migration needed)
- Distribution model confirmed: consolidated in `venturalitica-sdk-samples` (not separate repos)
- Created comprehensive verification report: `docs/engineering/SCENARIO_VERIFICATION_v0.5.0.md`

### Summary of Changes

#### Code Quality Improvements
- **Total tests**: 529 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed
- **New tests added**: 30 (15 smoke tests + 15 coverage tests)
- **Code coverage**: 73% baseline (targeting 90%+ with new tests)
- **Linting status**: 100% clean (ruff-verified)
- **Regressions**: 0

#### Modules & Architecture
- No breaking changes to core API
- All public APIs remain backward compatible
- Deprecated import shim modules removed (see Breaking Changes)

#### Documentation
- Updated RELEASE_NOTES.md with comprehensive v0.5.0 details
- Added SCENARIO_VERIFICATION_v0.5.0.md for release verification
- Updated pyproject.toml with ruff configuration

### Breaking Changes

**Removed Deprecated Shim Modules**

The following deprecated import paths have been removed in v0.5.0:

| Old Import (Removed) | New Import (Use This) |
|---|---|
| `from venturalitica import causal` | `from venturalitica.assurance.causal import ...` |
| `from venturalitica import fairness` | `from venturalitica.assurance.fairness import ...` |
| `from venturalitica import performance` | `from venturalitica.assurance.performance import ...` |
| `from venturalitica import privacy` | `from venturalitica.assurance.privacy import ...` |
| `from venturalitica import quality` | `from venturalitica.assurance.quality import ...` |

**Migration required if you use deprecated imports:**
```python
# Old (no longer works):
from venturalitica import quality

# New (use this):
from venturalitica.assurance.quality import QualityMetrics
```

**No migration needed** if you use the `venturalitica.assurance.*` namespace directly.

### Commits in This Release

- `c231c52` - chore: v0.5.0 release preparation (Phase A: linting & version fixes)
- `084ba37` - test: add smoke tests for core API (vl.monitor & vl.enforce)
- `1319f24` - test: add coverage improvement tests targeting 90%+ (Phase C)
- `d676888` - docs: add scenario verification report for v0.5.0 release (Phase D)

### Dependencies

- Python >= 3.11 (unchanged)
- Build system: Hatchling + UV (unchanged)
- All runtime dependencies unchanged

### Known Issues

None at this time.

### Future Work

- Implement medical-spine-segmentation modular split (base_medical/venturalitica_medical)
- Add OSCAL policies to financial and vision-fairness scenarios
- Scenario CI/CD validation in SDK test suite
- Performance optimization pass (Phase 5)
- Documentation enhancement (Phase 6)

### Verification Checklist

- [x] All unit tests pass (529/529)
- [x] All integration tests pass
- [x] Linting clean (ruff)
- [x] No regressions detected
- [x] All scenarios verified for v0.5.0 compatibility
- [x] RELEASE_NOTES.md complete and accurate
- [x] CHANGELOG.md created and comprehensive

### Download

Available on PyPI:
```bash
pip install venturalitica==0.5.0
```

Or with UV:
```bash
uv add venturalitica==0.5.0
```

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## Previous Releases

For releases prior to v0.5.0, see the git log or RELEASE_NOTES.md for historical information.
