The Stake Was Governance Outside the Schema. MICA v0.1.5 Pulled It In

Glossary: terms used in this article 🔸 MICA (Memory Invocation & Context Archive): A governance schema for AI context management. Defines how context should be structured, trusted, scored, and handed off across sessions. 🔸 Provenance Registry: A structured, hash-anchored record of where each context item came from. Requires uri, sha256, kind, created_at, and trust_class. Formalized as a required field in v0.1.5. 🔸 Deviation Log: An auditable record of every change to a governed archive. Each entry requires before_hash, after_hash, gate, approved_by, and rollback_ready. Formalized in v0.1.5. 🔸 Semantic Validation Policy: A machine-evaluable rule set applied to context items. Each rule requires id, expression, severity, and on_fail. Replaces string invariants in v0.1.5. 🔸 Semantic Collapse: The pattern in which a JSON Schema specification is applied to an LLM as a runtime contract rather than as a validator. The LLM executes the schema semantically and produces a contract-compli