🚀 Release 0.4.0

Drop the leaf-task exception in AGENTS.md: a task without subtasks was implemented on the current branch, bypassing create:branch / create:finish. Every task now opens and closes a branch, so the clean-tree / current-main / green-baseline preconditions and the post-merge verify always apply.

AGENTS.md

@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ Never start a long-lived / blocking process such as `npm run watch`. It runs unt
 
 ### Working on tasks
 
-- **Task with subtasks** (a task that has indented children): create the branch with `npm run create:branch -- <prefix>/<desc>`, inferring the prefix from the task content (`feature/…` / `fix/…` / `chore/…`) — do not hand-write `git switch -c`, the command enforces the clean-tree / current-`main` / green-baseline precondition. Work on each subtask with commits, then present a concise handover for the user to review. Use this fixed shape:
+Every task — with or without subtasks — goes through the complete branching model:
+
+- Create the branch with `npm run create:branch -- <prefix>/<desc>`, inferring the prefix from the task content (`feature/…` / `fix/…` / `chore/…`) — do not hand-write `git switch -c`, the command enforces the clean-tree / current-`main` / green-baseline precondition. Work with commits (each subtask gets one or more), then present a concise handover for the user to review. Use this fixed shape:
 
     ```md
     ## Handover — <branch>
@@ -54,9 +56,7 @@ Never start a long-lived / blocking process such as `npm run watch`. It runs unt
 
     Once the user has no further objections, merge back: `npm run create:finish` (on the branch — it merges `--no-ff`, runs `npm run verify`, and deletes the branch). The branching model is documented in [CONTRIBUTING.md § Branching model](./CONTRIBUTING.md#branching-model).
 
-- **Leaf task** (no indented children): implement on the current branch and commit.
-
-In both cases, follow [CONTRIBUTING.md § Testing discipline (type-driven)](./CONTRIBUTING.md#testing-discipline-type-driven). Each subtask gets one or more commits.
+Follow [CONTRIBUTING.md § Testing discipline (type-driven)](./CONTRIBUTING.md#testing-discipline-type-driven) throughout.
 
 ## Read these
 

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-- move the `_` fallback to a second argument typed `Exclude<T, keyof handlers>`, so it receives only the unhandled keys, and infer handler returns from short, unannotated handlers
+## [0.4.0] - 2026-09-20
+
+- move the `_` fallback out of handlers
 
 ## [0.3.0] - 2026-09-18
 
@@ -61,7 +63,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - basic setup
 
-[Unreleased]: https://gitea.e1nsnull.de/tmu/tiny-pattern-ts/compare/0.3.0...main
+[Unreleased]: https://gitea.e1nsnull.de/tmu/tiny-pattern-ts/compare/0.4.0...main
+[0.4.0]: https://gitea.e1nsnull.de/tmu/tiny-pattern-ts/compare/0.3.0...0.4.0
 [0.3.0]: https://gitea.e1nsnull.de/tmu/tiny-pattern-ts/compare/0.2.0...0.3.0
 [0.2.0]: https://gitea.e1nsnull.de/tmu/tiny-pattern-ts/compare/0.1.8...0.2.0
 [0.1.8]: https://gitea.e1nsnull.de/tmu/tiny-pattern-ts/compare/0.1.7...0.1.8

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
     "name": "tiny-pattern-ts",
-    "version": "0.3.0",
+    "version": "0.4.0",
     "lockfileVersion": 3,
     "requires": true,
     "packages": {
         "": {
             "name": "tiny-pattern-ts",
-            "version": "0.3.0",
+            "version": "0.4.0",
             "license": "MIT",
             "dependencies": {
                 "type-fest": "^5.9.0"

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "name": "tiny-pattern-ts",
-    "version": "0.3.0",
+    "version": "0.4.0",
     "description": "Pattern matching for TypeScript/ESM environments (F#-style, not regex)",
     "keywords": [
         "adt",