release: v1.6.1

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Cuts v1.6.1 from the 24 commits on main since the v1.6.0 tag.

The number

Numbered a patch by explicit decision at ship time. Recorded plainly in the changelog lede,
CLAUDE.md and the status doc that output did move — Go elision (§61) and the debtScore fix
(§64) both change what the same command emits for the same input, which is normally this project's
threshold for a minor (DECISIONS §53). The patch digit is not evidence of byte stability, and the
notes say so where a reader deciding whether to upgrade will see it. §53's rule is unchanged for
the next release.

What ships

§62	--trace-output / TOKENDAMPER_TRACE_OUTPUT withdrawn, and explain rejected from --mode / TOKENDAMPER_APP_MODE / the config file. Nominally breaking: neither was ever read, so nothing that took effect stops taking effect — but a wrapper passing --trace-output stderr now exits non-zero. A config file still carrying traceOutput keeps loading.
§59–§61	Go elides. Four languages reduce, not three — 27.46% application Go, 19.42% stdlib at target 0.3. Main 287-file corpus 574/574 byte-identical; every Go path is gated on the language.
§64	debtScore was a constant pinned at the 35.00 clamp on 317/317 rows carrying debt. Now tracks the byte cut at correlation 1.0000, with all 578 rows byte-identical.
§65	One content: null message no longer zeroes a whole request's Gateway saving (8,685 sent / 8,685 forwarded before).
§66	The Gateway no longer truncates streaming responses after 30s — the budget is time-to-first-byte.
§67	Within-payload dedup works on the first turn.
§68	Pricing a candidate region no longer registers it with the block store.
§58	--keep-docstrings, opt-in, plus a CLI warning when the knapsack drops whole files.
§63, §69	The float pool and the OX LOW table, closed against their own lists.

A changelog defect fixed in passing

Nine post-v1.6.0 entries had been written into the already-released ## [v1.6.0] section instead
of [Unreleased] — §62's whole ### Removed block plus the OX-H1/H3/M2/M3/M10/M11/M12/M14 fixes.
Found by diffing that section against the v1.6.0 tag. Left alone, this release's notes would have
silently omitted the breaking change and eight user-visible fixes, while v1.6.0's notes kept
claiming it removed --trace-output — which the published 1.6.0 tarball still accepts.

The [v1.6.0] section is now byte-identical to what the tag shipped, verified by the same
diff, and the entries sit under the release that contains them.

Verification

• npm run typecheck, npm run lint, npm run build — clean
• npm test — 91 files, 826 tests passing
• Built artifact reports 1.6.1 all three ways the release skill requires: dist/src/version.js, package.json, and MCP serverInfo.version
• CRLF preserved on every edited file (src/version.ts was flattened by sed -i and repaired; the diff is one line)

npm publish is deliberately not run here — it needs the maintainer's 2FA.

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