Release IX-HapticSight v0.2.0 safety authority upgrade

[BryceWDesign]

IX-HapticSight v0.2.0

This release upgrades IX-HapticSight into a substantially more complete perception-to-contact safety authority for AI-controlled robotics.

Major additions

• RGB-D perception pipeline
• Deterministic reference segmentation models
• Vision-derived GREEN / YELLOW / RED hazard maps
• Two-model perception quorum and disagreement detection
• Model-agnostic agent safety broker
• Independent ALLOW / MODIFY / DENY physical-action authority
• Dynamic force and velocity envelopes
• Multimodal safety fusion across perception, force/torque, tactile, proximity, and thermal state
• Runtime invariant monitoring
• Deterministic recovery and safe-hold behavior
• ROS2 bridge, tactile transport, and trajectory adapter
• Contact-world simulation
• WebXR observability
• HIL harness with explicit hardware-evidence requirements
• Tamper-evident execution evidence and hash chaining
• Adversarial safety-authority benchmark
• Cross-platform deterministic reference-model generation

Validation

Windows 11 / Python 3.13.2 release verification:

• 183 / 183 tests passed
• SAFETY_OK: True
• perception pipeline: PASS
• evidence-chain verification: PASS
• safety-authority benchmark: 8 / 8 scenarios passed
• reference models reproduce byte-for-byte
• full release verifier: PASS
• git diff --check: clean

Evidence boundary

This release does not claim measured physical robot execution or hardware-in-the-loop validation where physical hardware was not available. Hardware-dependent claims remain explicitly separated from software-verified capabilities.