chore(release): 10.4.0-rc.1

CHANGELOG.md

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 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.
 
+### [10.4.0-rc.1](https://source.soulcraft.com/soulcraft/brainy/compare/v10.3.1...v10.4.0-rc.1) (2026-08-24)
+
+- ci(publish): the home dist-tag follows the version — a prerelease publishes under 'rc' and never moves 'latest' (a1376e4a)
+- chore(release): --source-only — a home-only prerelease mode (The Source, never the storefront) (dcbad176)
+- test(fold-checkpoint): the ARM-AT-FLIP pin arms its crash instead of racing the pending-flush timer (4176439b)
+- fix(health): one contract for a throwing probe — heal is none, serving is not withheld; repair report gains missing/rebuilt/reason (116550eb)
+- feat(storage): the canonical count ledger — ALL-visibility scalars, unclamped totals, suspect-on-unprovable-delete (7c8c8be3)
+- fix(delete): the null-metadata skip closes — index legs run id-keyed or narrate, never silently strand postings (607e9f54)
+- feat(repair): repairIndex returns the per-family receipt and narrates its summary (8d45f964)
+- fix(reads): the readiness gate guards every index read surface — serving empty from a not-ready provider is unrepresentable (40e7119b)
+- ci(gate): the machine-health preflight and the truncation verdict guard (1e046aa1)
+
+
 ### [10.3.1](https://source.soulcraft.com/soulcraft/brainy/compare/v10.3.0...v10.3.1) (2026-08-18)
 
 - docs(releases): the 10.3.1 consumer entry — the fold that behaves (900cc895)

package-lock.json

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 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "10.3.1",
+  "version": "10.4.0-rc.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-      "version": "10.3.1",
+      "version": "10.4.0-rc.1",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@msgpack/msgpack": "^3.1.2",

package.json

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 {
   "name": "@soulcraft/brainy",
-  "version": "10.3.1",
+  "version": "10.4.0-rc.1",
   "description": "Universal Knowledge Protocol™ - World's first Triple Intelligence database unifying vector, graph, and document search in one API. Stage 3 CANONICAL: 42 nouns × 127 verbs covering 96-97% of all human knowledge.",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
   "module": "dist/index.js",