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+# Meeting Assistant — First functional alpha
+
+Version: `0.1.0a1`
+Tag: `v0.1.0-alpha.1`
+
+This paired Meeting Lab revision supports the first functional end-to-end
+Meeting Assistant alpha: reusable transcription and optional diarization,
+explicit speaker mapping and regeneration, German and English protocol
+generation, glossary provenance without transcript mutation, configurable
+protocol thread profiles, generation history with atomic publication, and the
+GTM-Hub qualitative regression case.
+
+Validated candidate revisions:
+
+- Assistant: `b50b87c32b3941310c719f459fd45faa87658b68`
+- Meeting Lab: `d2e3636b949280402728308022c99bdee6ea1066`
+
+The immutable release revisions are the commits targeted by the paired
+`v0.1.0-alpha.1` tags in the two repositories.
+
+Accepted limitations are documented in the Assistant release notes, including
+the requirement for local runtime/model/container setup, human review of
+generated protocols, imperfect diarization, context limits, local POSIX
+publication assumptions, and the historical ignored fixtures needed by some
+old experiment tests.
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 [project]
 name = "meeting-lab"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.0a1"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
   "PyYAML>=6.0",