**Pi-shaped scenario hardening** keeps schema-evolution simulations from persisting empty mutation plans and improves recovery from Pi-style JSON wrappers.
**Budgeted Pi/Pi-RPC role calls** now report effective bounded timeouts and clean up one-shot persistent clients after use.
**RLM convergence guards** capture explicit final-answer tags, cautious closure cues, and repeated silent no-progress cases without stealing normal inspection turns.
**Rubric drift monitoring** now catches within-generation mean-versus-best compression and slower dimension decline.
**Task-like solve lifecycle metadata** separates persisted generations from improvement rounds for hook consumers.
**Pi extension release alignment** keeps `pi-autocontext` one package behind `autoctx` while publishing the next extension patch.
