Recover minimal catalog and Dolt lifecycle integration - #12

Status

Conflict-free; architecture corrected; CI running on the current head.

This branch integrates the catalog/Dolt lifecycle work with the conditional SPSS transformation work already on current main.

Included scope

• explicit catalog initialization and fail-closed no-auto-create gates
• exact Dolt identity/declaration binding and read-only working-set evidence
• adapter-owned Dolt declaration, evidence-hash, exact-version, and effective-limit validation
• Dolt operational writes rejected before mutation while the adapter-owned concrete declaration set is empty
• catalog shape/bijection verification, bounded cleanup, and export audit recovery
• conditional Transformation Plan 0.2 and bounded SPSS syntax frontend support from merged Python PR Add conditional SPSS transformations for Python v0.5 #10
• full normative Transformation Plan 0.2 manifest coverage, including success hashes and fail-closed diagnostics

Specification boundary

• OpenStatSpec/specification remains language-neutral and is not a Python package
• Python has no openstatspec-specification runtime dependency
• CI and release automation check out specification commit f2fdf687d8cb32b944ca55a3e9e7215ffc603019 only for normative JSON contracts and fixtures
• executable Dolt validation and concrete adapter declarations/evidence belong to this adapter repository

Invariants

• the same logical dataset and physical wide table remain in place
• no persistent staging, copy, snapshot, rollback, or parallel history layer
• Dolt remains the sole history/versioning layer
• core code does not call DOLT_ADD, DOLT_COMMIT, checkout, or reset
• v0.4 catalog/Dolt and conditional transformation CLI/API surfaces remain present together

Current evidence

• current head: 68cf61cf967f21e4dff3b618942707c58ab966e0
• local suite against exact specification fixtures: 335 passed, 43 skipped
• focused Dolt/capability suite: green
• wheel and sdist build: green
• clean wheel install and openstatspec capabilities: green
• built wheel metadata contains no specification Python dependency

Remaining gate

Wait for the current GitHub Actions push and pull-request runs to complete. There is no PyPI publication gate for the language-neutral specification repository.