docs: clarify public package status

Author: misunders2d

PUBLIC_RELEASE_STATUS.md

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+# Public Package Status
+
+Snapshot: 2026-07-24
+
+This additive status note reconciles public package availability with AgentNet's
+frozen `0.1.24` release evidence. It does not replace requirements, gate
+ledgers, or accountable-owner evidence.
+
+## Current public package
+
+A read of the public npm registry on 2026-07-24 returned:
+
+- package: `@misunders2d/agentnet`
+- latest published version: `0.1.24`
+- published package `gitHead`: `9a948d59f81518b5ac6f46c6862004e3c3d62645`
+
+Package availability does not authorize deployment and does not establish
+production readiness.
+
+## Frozen release-input clarification
+
+The retained `0.1.24` wheel and sdist under
+`evidence/local/2026-07-23-v0.1.24/artifacts/` are immutable release evidence.
+Their packaged release inputs include older pre-publication wording such as
+"latest published package: 0.1.22" and "prepared 0.1.24". Those frozen bytes are
+not rewritten after publication. `scripts/verify_release.py` intentionally
+checks them against their release snapshot.
+
+Correcting that wording inside packaged release inputs requires a new version
+candidate, fresh artifacts, normal release verification, and separate
+publication by Sergey. This note records the post-publication registry fact
+without creating a second artifact under version `0.1.24`.
+
+## Release and gate posture
+
+`RELEASE_MANIFEST.json` remains controlling for release eligibility:
+
+- status: `BLOCKED`
+- `production_ready=false`
+- `ship_eligible=false`
+- no must-not-ship gate is `PASSED`
+- G04 remains `FAILED`
+- G10 remains `PARTIAL`
+
+No deployment, setup, enrollment, restart, authority grant, or gate promotion
+is implied by this note.