Release Checklist

Before release:

• confirm pyproject.toml metadata and version;

• run pytest tests -v -ra;

• run ruff check core_sg tests benchmarking;

• build docs with sphinx-build -W -b html docs/source docs/build/html;

• regenerate documentation figures;

• build distributions with python -m build;

• validate distributions with python -m twine check dist/*;

• confirm README links point to the published documentation;

• confirm GitHub Pages is configured to use GitHub Actions.