FEATURE [plugin]: Output style for Claude Code
Added the Claude Code output style ase-terse in plugin/output-styles/ase-terse.md,
which makes the agent respond tersely, lead with the result, execute tools
silently, and end without a closing recap, while keeping the built-in coding
instructions and the ASE persona communication style in effect.

FEATURE [tool]: Output style integration for all agent tools
Under Anthropic Claude Code CLI, ase setup install and ase setup update now
select the plugin output style ase:ase-terse via outputStyle in the scope's settings.json
(preserving a foreign selection), ase setup uninstall deselects it again, and
ase setup status reports it as OUTPUTSTYLE rows. Under GitHub Copilot CLI and
OpenAI Codex CLI, which have no output style concept, the session-start hook injects
the identical style instructions (frontmatter stripped) into the session context.

UPDATE [infr]: NPM dependencies
Updated NPM dependencies: SpecBook 1.2.13, etc.

FEATURE [tool]: Multiple SpecBook schema configurations
The project.artifact.spec.schema configuration is now a whitespace-separated
list of SpecBook YAML schema configuration files, merged in the given order,
where the entry std names the standard schema bundled with the ASE plugin
and every other entry is a file path relative to the project root.

IMPROVEMENT [docs]: Simple and complex task lifecycle models
Reworked docs/task-states.md into the two task lifecycle models simple
(Planning and Implementation phases) and complex, each with its state
machine, states, and transitions, and redrew the task state diagram.

BUGFIX [tool]: Terminal-width aware CLI tables
The tables of ase config list, ase setup status, and ase setup mcp list
no longer exceed the terminal width, as their columns are now shrunk to the
available width and their over-wide cells are wrapped over multiple lines.

BUGFIX [tool]: Consistent Git exclude handling of the two artifact resolvers
The artifact resolver now also honors the global excludes file and info/exclude, and
ase spec now honors the Git exclude rules at all, so both resolvers see the same files.

UPDATE [infr]: NPM dependencies
Updated NPM dependencies: SpecBook 1.2.10, STX 1.1.7, Lucide Astro 1.44.0, etc

CLEANUP [infr]: Linting and Git ignore configuration
Disabled the blanks-around-headings rule in plugin/etc/markdownlint.yaml
and narrowed the docs/.gitignore entry to the generated spec/index.* files.

FEATURE [plugin]: Reconciliation operations and dry run
Added the --operation option to the ase-sync-reconcile skill, which
restricts the target-side changes to a subset of the operations add,
update, and remove (default: all), and the --dry option, which
performs the reconciliation without modifying any target artifact and
shows the intended changes as a unified diff instead.

UPDATE [infr]: NPM dependencies
Updated NPM dependencies: SpecBook 1.2.9

FEATURE [docs]: Two more skills in the typing demo
Added the ase-docs-shorten and ase-meta-proximity showcases to the
command list of Widget-Typing-Demo.astro.

IMPROVEMENT [docs]: Typing demo command titles
Shortened and unified the command titles of Widget-Typing-Demo.astro
into terse, verb-first phrasings.

BUGFIX [infr]: Generated plugin files missing from the NPM package
Removed the copied plugin/.gitignore in the build-plugin target of
tool/etc/stx.conf, as NPM otherwise silently drops the generated plugin
files it names from the published tarball.

UPDATE [docs]: Workflow diagram
Updated the workflow diagram in docs/ and the website assets.

UPDATE [infr]: NPM dependencies
Updated NPM dependencies in tools/.

FEATURE [plugin]: Specification know-how activation
Added the ase-spec-activate skill, which activates the SpecBook
know-how in the current session.

FEATURE [docs]: Specification workflows on the website
Added the new "Specification Workflows" part to the "Workflows" page. The
former "Development Workflows" part was renamed to "Coding Workflows", and
the "Workflows" pull-down of nav.ts now lists all three parts.

IMPROVEMENT [docs]: Use cases cover all 52 skills
Extended the use cases of pages/src/data/usecases.ts so that every one
of the 52 ASE skills occurs at least once in the running examples on
the website.

IMPROVEMENT [docs]: Philosophy wording on the website
Reworded the lead of the "Philosophy" section from the "sweet-spot" levels
to the distinct modi operandi of the Agentic AI Level model, stressing
that the engineer stays in the driver's seat and picks the modus
operandi per task, and adjusted its annotation accordingly.

IMPROVEMENT [docs]: Testimonial rendering on the website
Typeset the testimonials of Section-Testimonials.astro as classic pull
quotes with a single oversized opening quotation mark.

IMPROVEMENT [docs]: Productivity comparison arrow
Drew a white progression arrow across the three tool columns of the
"Productivity" comparison table in Section-Productivity.astro, pointing
to the most boosted column.

IMPROVEMENT [docs]: Vertical spacing of the workflow parts
Widened the top margin of the "Coding Workflows" header in
Section-Workflows.astro to separate the workflow parts more clearly.

BUGFIX [docs]: Pull-down menu double-activation
Fixed the header navigation of Section-Header.astro so that above the
lg breakpoint, where hover or focus already opens the pull-down panel, a
click no longer toggles data-open and hence no longer keeps a panel open.

UPDATE [docs]: Agentic AI Levels diagram
Updated the agentic-levels diagram in docs/ and the website assets.

UPDATE [infr]: Dependencies
Upgraded the dependencies of pages/, plugin/, and tool/, especially
Astro, marked, typescript-eslint, and eslint-markdown.

CLEANUP [docs]: Website component comments
Trimmed the overlong header comments of Feature-External-Links.astro,
Feature-Progress.astro, and Section-Philosophy.astro.

CLEANUP [code]: Specification activation skill
Tightened the wording of the ase-spec-activate skill and its manual
page.

BUGFIX [infr]: Release procedure of "npm start publish"
Fixed the -i option matching of the publish target in etc/stx.conf,
which previously matched -b* and hence never picked up the requested
version bump, and fixed the StdVer usage in etc/version.mts

UPDATE [infr]: NPM dependencies
Upgraded stdver to 0.9.17.