# CommitBrief v1.17.1

> README.md is cut down to a front door page — commitbrief.com/docs is now the documentation source of truth — and docs-check gained a leak-lint pass that fails the build on internal maintainer traces or stray version references.

Released September 23, 2026

Canonical URL: https://commitbrief.com/changelog/v1.17.1/

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## Changed

- **README.md cut from 1250 lines to a front door** (tagline, Why, Install,
  Quick start, provider list, docs map, Stability, Contributing, License).
  commitbrief.com is now the documentation source of truth; reference
  material that used to live in the README — command surface, configuration,
  filtering, MCP server, policy gate, credential audit, and more — has a home
  under [commitbrief.com/docs](/docs/1.x/getting-started/).
- `docs-check` is re-scoped to two layers: the existing code -> generated
  surface-inventory drift check, plus a new README.md leak-lint pass that
  fails the build on internal maintainer traces and prose version traces
  such as "Since v1.17.0" or "(v1.7.0)".

## Removed

- The Markdown-rendering engine that used to splice the surface inventory
  into README's generated regions, and the tests that exercised it.
  `--gen-surface` and the underlying surface inventory are unchanged.