devswha/patina v9.1.0

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9.1.0 — 2026-09-26

Dead-feature sweep: page preview, XLIFF, --jargon, Pro packs, the kimi-cli backend and playground analytics are gone; detection is unchanged.

Semver rationale: minor by owner decision. Strict semver would make this 10.0.0, because it removes public surfaces that 9.0.0 shipped: the CLI flags --preview, --ocr, --serve, --xliff, --dry-run, --max-segments and --jargon, the patina pack subcommand and its /api/packs endpoint, the kimi-cli backend (including the --model kimi-* route to it), and the PATINA_RHETORIC_POLICY=legacy switch. 9.0.0 shipped earlier the same day, and the owner chose not to spend another major number on a same-day cleanup release. Every removed flag and command fails with exit 2 instead of being reinterpreted; the one exception is --model kimi-*, which now runs on the HTTP default. Detection and the benchmark are unchanged; the default rewrite prompt differs from 9.0.0 only in the terminology section's header and bullet label.

• Breaking — page preview and XLIFF are removed from the CLI (#951). --preview, --ocr, --serve, --xliff, --dry-run and --max-segments are now unknown options (exit 2); 9.0.0 is the last release that carries them. --register takes exactly one value, so a comma list is an input error. The OCR-only image plumbing left the backends.
• Breaking — --jargon and the legacy rhetoric switch are removed (#952). Rewrites still keep Latin-letter terms as-is through a fixed prompt section; only its (--jargon keep) label is gone. PATINA_RHETORIC_POLICY=legacy no longer exists, so the H-RHETORIC text is the only rhetoric guidance. The skill drops the Sentence Zoom rule, which the CLI never implemented, and .patina.default.yaml drops keys nothing read (stylometry.sentence_zoom.*, stylometry.skip.*, lexicon.skip.*).
• Breaking — Pro pack delivery is removed (#953). The pack repository has published no packs since 2026-07-12. patina pack … exits 2 with a removal message. /api/packs, docs/PRO-PACKS.md, the CLI variables PATINA_LICENSE_KEY and PATINA_PACKS_URL, and the server variables PATINA_PACKS_* are gone; the license-key and packs-url config keys are ignored. Hosted Pro license validation is unchanged.
• Breaking — the kimi-cli backend is removed (#954). Kimi Code received the text as a --prompt argument visible in the process list, which is why the skill helper already refused it. --backend kimi-cli exits 2 and --model kimi-* stays on the HTTP default; --provider kimi and --provider moonshot are unchanged.
• The playground no longer sends analytics (#956). The funnel events and the internal /api/funnel endpoint are removed. Pro monitoring, checkout links and audit receipts are unchanged.
• Repository tooling (#955): removed the retired KatFish calibration runner, qa/pattern-overlap, npm run qa:mdx, npm run badge (patina-action publishes the same badge) and the parked quality:rewrite-ab harness with iterative-rewrite-baseline. None of these shipped in the npm package.
• Dependencies (#933, #934): actions/checkout 7 and the eslint devtools group.