Meronq Project Closes Sprint 1 with Core Engineering Model Integrated

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The Meronq open-source project has completed its first development sprint, focused on establishing the Canonical Engineering Model (CEM) — a shared vocabulary of language primitives for all runtime and translation components. Key deliverables include Entity, Relation, Evidence, Event, Action, and Result models within the core package, along with factory functions, type guards, and branded IDs. The sprint also produced a test suite, a minimal graph linking example, and a first core domain API export from @meronq/core. Seven review gaps were addressed before closing, covering areas such as handshake integration, documentation alignment, portable project paths, and a Git write gate requiring an explicit environment variable. The local MCP server has been updated to version 1.10.0, and a scanner plus CLI prototype is now in place.

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