# Talking Stick 0.14.1

Date: 2026-08-25

## Fixed

- **Portable release verification.** CI path tests explicitly isolate environment overrides such as `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, so a runner's own configuration cannot change their expected fake-home paths.
- **Readiness-based listener test.** The registered-listener integration test now polls the public health result until the foreground receiver is active instead of relying on a fixed 200 ms startup delay. This keeps the release gate reliable on slower Linux/macOS and Node 22/24 jobs without weakening the assertion.

Talking Stick's runtime behavior is unchanged from 0.14.0. This patch release exists because the first full CI matrix correctly rejected the 0.14.0 release candidate after its GitHub tag was published but before npm publication.

## Verification

```bash
npm run typecheck
npm test
npm run build
node dist/cli.js --help
git diff --check
npm pack --dry-run
```