Move the pinned version in the README to 0.9.4

.ledger/entries/0195-prepare-v0-9-4.md

@@ -12,13 +12,17 @@ files:
   - "package-lock.json"
   - ".ledger/releases/v0.9.4.md"
   - "docs/HANDOFF.md"
+  - "README.md"
+  - "assets/readme/adopt.svg"
 docs:
   - "docs/HANDOFF.md"
+  - "README.md"
 docsImpact:
   status: "updated"
-  reason: "The handoff records the prepared release, what the stale fix changes for adopters, and the Kore pin bump and record cleanup that follow it."
+  reason: "The handoff records the prepared release and what follows it, and the README's pinned npx commands, action version, and adopt card move to the new version."
   docs:
     - "docs/HANDOFF.md"
+    - "README.md"
 commits: []
 related:
   - "0192"
@@ -56,6 +60,16 @@ pin moves, so the slice is prepared for the tag-driven workflow.
 - On conflict: The tag must match the package version or the release workflow
   fails its version check.
 
+### Pinned version in the README
+
+- Files: `README.md`, `assets/readme/adopt.svg`
+- Changed: the quick start's pinned `npx` commands, the global install line,
+  the action reference, and the version the adopt card shows, which
+  `scripts/readme-assets.mjs` takes from `package.json`.
+- Anchor: `In any other repository`
+- On conflict: The README's pinned version and the card must match
+  `package.json`, which the `readme:check` job enforces.
+
 ### Handoff
 
 - Files: `docs/HANDOFF.md`

README.md

@@ -224,12 +224,12 @@ Run the published package through npx, pinned to a version, so an agent never
 reaches a different program named `ledger` on its `PATH`:
 
 ```bash
-npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3 adopt
-npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3 hooks install --host claude-code \
-  --command "npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3" --import-agents
-npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3 hooks install --host codex --launcher
-npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3 skills install
-npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3 agents --write
+npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4 adopt
+npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4 hooks install --host claude-code \
+  --command "npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4" --import-agents
+npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4 hooks install --host codex --launcher
+npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4 skills install
+npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4 agents --write
 ```
 
 `adopt` reads the tracked tree and writes a configuration that fits it: which
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Starting the pinned package through npx costs about 0.3 seconds per hook. On
 an Apple silicon Mac, a PostToolUse hook took 0.47 seconds through npx and
 0.17 seconds from an installed copy. The first call after a version change
 also downloads the package. On a machine where no other program is named
-`ledger`, `npm install --global @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3` and
+`ledger`, `npm install --global @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4` and
 `--command ledger` save that time. The hooks are committed, though, so every
 contributor then needs the same install. The npx pin works on any machine
 with Node.
@@ -306,9 +306,9 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - uses: kylebegeman/ledger@v0.9.3
+      - uses: kylebegeman/ledger@v0.9.4
         with:
-          command: npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.3
+          command: npx --yes @kylebegeman/ledger@0.9.4
 ```
 
 The action runs the latest published CLI unless `command` pins it. Set

docs/HANDOFF.md

@@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ fixes. "Next slices" lists what is left.
   scratch repository, passed a SessionStart payload through it, and passed
   doctor's hooks check. Receipt 0192 is unreleased.
   `@kylebegeman/dossier` (0.7.2) publishes the same way from its own repo.
-- Prepared, not published: 0.9.4 on branch `stale-patterns`,
-  kylebegeman/ledger#35, gate green and checks passing. It carries receipts
-  0193 and 0194, which stop `ledger stale` from reading a record as drift when
-  it points at files by pattern, by directory, or by path, plus 0192 and the
-  prepare receipt 0195. Publishing waits on Kyle: merge, then
-  `git tag v0.9.4 && git push origin v0.9.4`.
+- Merged, not published: 0.9.4 is on `master` from kylebegeman/ledger#35. It
+  carries receipts 0193 and 0194, which stop `ledger stale` from reading a
+  record as drift when it points at files by pattern, by directory, or by
+  path, plus 0192 and the prepare receipt 0195. Publishing waits on Kyle:
+  `git tag v0.9.4 && git push origin v0.9.4` on the merged `master`. The
+  README's pinned version and the adopt card follow `package.json`, so they
+  move in the same slice; kylebegeman/ledger#36 carries that move and the
+  `readme:check` job is red on `master` until it lands.
 - First outside adopter: Kore runs Ledger 0.9.3 with Claude Code and Codex
   hooks since kylebegeman/forge#33 (Kore receipt 0011). Before that it ran
   0.9.2 from kylebegeman/forge#32, 0.9.1 from #31, 0.9.0 from #30, 0.8.2