Distillation

Date: Sep 10, 2026

• 🟡 (17:39) User asked to continue the ongoing work.
• 🟡 (17:39) Assistant reported that main advanced while the server was down and began checking whether the new commits overlap the current PR and whether the local branch retains a clean ancestry path before finishing the cardinality patch.
• 🟡 (17:39) Git state: origin/main and origin/HEAD point to 979bfd369 (chore: regenerate docs), preceded by 8fa60afde (meta: Bump new development version), merge commit 559d4e649 for remotes/origin/release/0.45.0, release tag 0.45.0 at 03f636f8d, f2ab686ec (release: 0.45.0), and d21717b1f (feat(cli): add toolkit upgrade bridge (#1569)).
• 🟡 (17:39) Current branch is fix/agent-conversation-reference-root-cause at ac72db51b (fix(docs): preserve public positional semantics), with preceding commits c55566af4 (fix(docs): derive command references from metadata) and c0b071f81 (fix(docs): correct agent conversation argument syntax).
• 🟡 (17:39) Branches origin/feat/toolkit-bridge-upgrade and feat/toolkit-bridge-upgrade point to 9525f72c7 (fix(cli): harden upgrade metadata validation); preceding commits are a84012184 (fix(cli): validate upgrade response bodies), cea7b2afb (fix(cli): validate release response shapes), 7d62ffa83 (fix(cli): preserve paginated request cancellation), 878459c49 (fix(cli): fail closed on upgrade metadata), e22f0eba6 (fix(cli): preserve source and cancellation provenance), dcf671999 (test(cli): validate GitHub request origin), f1c10a6cb (fix(cli): preserve pinned upgrade contracts), e565b1afb (fix(cli): validate stable upgrade metadata), 4a1d5bad1 (test(cli): update pinned version fixture), and 2f9b5d0d2 (fix(cli): isolate pinned upgrade resolution).