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Pull requests added read-only fleet posture reports and CLI commands for denials, SLO, lag, supply and lanes. Sonar cleanups and contract fixes also landed in multiple projects.
The Phantom Secrets pull request adds phantom fleet-status. It produces a read-only report of every vault entry name, expiry state, last stored validation result and rotation-schedule state plus a sorted overdue rotations list.
The Locus pull request adds locus fleet-denials. It emits a value-free JSON feed of recent scope freezes and refused commands from the audit log with cursor-based paging.
Ashlr Stack pull requests add fleet-slo, fleet-lag, fleet-supply and fleet-lanes commands. Each command registers in CLI help and site reference and produces local read-only reports.
ashlr-plugin pull requests add fleet snapshot, fleet direction, fleet browser view, mobile actions, fleet ghosts and fleet dirty triage scripts. All are read-only JSON tools that reuse existing graph and audit data.
Lexicon, Ashlr MD and additional ashlr-plugin pull requests fix Sonar findings. They update comparators, promise handling, path validation and bundled dependency patches without adding suppressions.
Further Locus and Phantom Secrets pull requests restore expired-pin handling, add audit feeds and preflight checks. All changes stay within existing read-only contracts.
New fleet commands provide local JSON reports that can be consumed by scripts without network calls or writes.
The updates improve visibility into fleet posture and recent denials through existing CLI surfaces.
Run the new fleet status and denial commands against local workspaces. Review the updated CLI reference for argument details.
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Multiple pull requests added regression tests and clarified documentation across Ashlr Stack, Locus, Ashlr MD, Lexicon, Phantom Secrets, and ashlr-plugin.
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