# hotato 0.5.0 - 2026-07-09

This release turns Hotato from a set of scoring commands into a passive regression
loop: connect a stack once, sweep recent real calls for candidate turn-taking
moments, promote the confirmed ones into fixtures, and prove a fix without an
unsafe threshold bandaid.

## Added

- `hotato sweep --demo` runs the full sweep over two bundled real calls with no
  stack, no credentials, and no network, so the first sweep works before anything
  is connected.
- `hotato fixture promote FILE#N --expect yield|hold` turns one sweep or analyze
  candidate into a permanent regression fixture. The analyze and sweep HTML
  reports now carry per-candidate copy-command promote and hold actions.
- `hotato init webhook --stack vapi|retell|twilio` scaffolds a self-hostable
  ingestion worker that verifies the webhook, fetches the recording read-only,
  runs `hotato ingest`, and optionally posts a Slack or GitHub notification. By
  construction it never mutates platform config and never labels intent.
- `hotato issue create` and `hotato pr create` render a GitHub issue or a
  fixtures PR from a sweep run. Both default to a dry run that prints the body and
  the exact commands they would run, and touch a repo only with `--repo` and
  `--yes`. `pr create` always uses a feature branch and never force-pushes.
- `hotato verify --out verify.html` writes a self-contained before and after proof
  page, and `--policy hotato.verify.yaml` enforces guardrails as hard fail
  conditions. A run cannot pass by improving one axis while regressing the other,
  and a battery missing a hold or yield fixture fails the opposite-risk check.
- `hotato apply PATCH_JSON --clone` applies a patch only to a fresh staging
  assistant, never the production source. It refuses a threshold funnel outright
  and recommends engagement-control instead. There is no production-apply path.
- `hotato trust --stereo call.wav` reports whether a recording is even scorable
  before you score it (channel swap, mono, sample rate, clipping, silence,
  crosstalk, scorability), so a bad export is caught up front.

## Fixed

- `hotato.__version__` and the `describe` and `--version` banners are now covered
  by a lockstep test, so a stale version string cannot ship again.
- `llms-full.txt` is built from the top-level docs only and is byte-reproducible
  across a git checkout and an extracted sdist.

See the full entry list in `CHANGELOG.md`.
