release: CoalBoard v1.0.9 — CoalTipple is OPTIONAL (standalone) + Step 1 announced once

HetCreep · claude · HetCreep · commit 3f38dc2f4c3a · 2026-06-20T04:14:00.000+07:00
Dogfood -- two issues:
- the SKILL leaned on CoalTipple as if always present, but CoalBoard is standalone (a user may
  install only it). Now explicit: the board tiers on the CC alias floor (haiku&lt;sonnet&lt;opus) it
  knows DIRECTLY + introspection + lensTiers; CoalTipple's richer availability ranking is
  inherited as a BONUS only IF installed (no-external-assumption). Fixed in Tiers, Bounds, and
  the grade-rubric reference.
- a run announced "Step 1" twice (pre-spawn prep, then the spawn). The target enumeration + the
  report version/commit/timestamp stamp are the Step-0 pre-flight (the checkpoint), NOT a second
  Step 1; Step 1 is purely the spawn, announced once.

Gate: build + verify PASS (v1.0.9) + 22 tests. SKILL-only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
diff --git a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "coalboard",
-  "version": "1.0.8",
+  "version": "1.0.9",
   "description": "CoalBoard — a diverse-lens consensus & debate board. Its primary auto-trigger is the error-not-allowed slice (security/crypto, migrations, high-precision math); convened manually it generalizes to any hard problem worth several perspectives. On a critical task, with consent, it spawns diverse epistemic lenses in parallel — empirical (live source-grounding), formal (logic), and a show-me skeptic — a judge synthesizes on VERIFIED inputs, an independent out-of-frame solver breaks ties, and the human signs off. Guarantees bounded cost (no whack-a-mole) and zero-breakage (staging); improves correctness without claiming a reliability number. Cross-agent (any subagent platform; Claude Code adds cost-optimized tiering). Zero-dependency, offline, no API keys.",
   "author": { "name": "HetCreep" },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/TheColliery/CoalBoard",
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 
 All notable changes to CoalBoard are documented here. Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/); versions follow SemVer (the canonical version lives in `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`).
 
+## [1.0.9] — 2026-06-20
+
+Dogfood — two issues: the SKILL leaned on CoalTipple as if always present (CoalBoard is standalone — a user may install only it), and a run announced "Step 1" twice (the pre-spawn prep, then the actual spawn).
+
+### Fixed
+- **CoalTipple is now explicitly OPTIONAL (no-external-assumption).** The board tiers models on the Claude Code alias floor (`haiku < sonnet < opus`) it knows directly, plus its own introspection + `lensTiers`; if CoalTipple is ALSO installed, its richer availability ranking is inherited as a BONUS. CoalBoard installed alone no longer reads as broken. (Fixed in Tiers, Bounds, and the grade-rubric reference.)
+- **Step 1 is announced ONCE.** The target enumeration (file-list for the scope count) + the report's version/commit/timestamp stamp are the Step-0 pre-flight (the checkpoint), NOT a second "Step 1"; Step 1 is purely the spawn.
+
+Deferred: sub4 per-rigor doc · heading-order check · language re-flag · CONTRIBUTING emoji-strip.
+
 ## [1.0.8] — 2026-06-20
 
 Dogfood — the per-lens model display regressed: a run condensed it to a bare slash-list ("haiku/sonnet/sonnet/opus") in the narration, and the spawn chips showed only "empirical lens" etc., so you could not tell which model each lens was running on.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 > A *coal board* governs operations and resolves disputes for the mines. This one is the **consensus & debate board** of [TheColliery](https://github.com/TheColliery) — for the work where a single mistake is catastrophic.
 
-**Status: `v1.0.8` — stable.** Functional, tested, and benchmarked (see [Benchmark](#benchmark)).
+**Status: `v1.0.9` — stable.** Functional, tested, and benchmarked (see [Benchmark](#benchmark)).
 
 ## What it is
 
diff --git a/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "coalboard",
-  "version": "1.0.8",
+  "version": "1.0.9",
   "description": "CoalBoard — a diverse-lens consensus & debate board. Its primary auto-trigger is the error-not-allowed slice (security/crypto, migrations, high-precision math); convened manually it generalizes to any hard problem worth several perspectives. On a critical task, with consent, it spawns diverse epistemic lenses in parallel — empirical (live source-grounding), formal (logic), and a show-me skeptic — a judge synthesizes on VERIFIED inputs, an independent out-of-frame solver breaks ties, and the human signs off. Guarantees bounded cost (no whack-a-mole) and zero-breakage (staging); improves correctness without claiming a reliability number. Cross-agent (any subagent platform; Claude Code adds cost-optimized tiering). Zero-dependency, offline, no API keys.",
   "author": { "name": "HetCreep" },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/TheColliery/CoalBoard",
diff --git a/plugin/skills/coalboard/SKILL.md b/plugin/skills/coalboard/SKILL.md
diff --git a/skills/coalboard/SKILL.md b/skills/coalboard/SKILL.md

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