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

MICA v0.1.5 formalized governance elements—provenance registry, deviation log, and semantic validation policy—directly into the JSON schema, moving them from external documentation into machine-enforceable structure. Earlier versions (v0.1.0–v0.1.4) had resolved scoring and constraint encoding issues from v0.0.1 but left governance outside the schema itself. The key insight was that treating governance as external documentation rather than schema-level structure was an unquestioned assumption that v0.1.5 finally addressed.