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Changes

Main CI exposed a Windows write-contention failure after the learning-loop PR passed. Publication of the 1.14.0 draft was cancelled before any assets or cask update were published.

• Share a fair in-process write gate between independent handles for the same canonical database path. Acquire the gate before a pool connection so waiting writers cannot occupy every read connection.
• Queue memory, learning, and passive usage transactions. Keep SQLite arbitration and the existing timeout between processes.
• Retain weak references in the queue registry and remove dead entries when handles open. Add no worker, timer, or polling.
• Keep the original stress test, extend it to independently opened handles, and verify reads remain available while the writer lock is held. Repeat both contention tests three times on Windows CI after the full suite.
• Advance desktop/core to 1.14.1; leave 1.14.0 as an unpublished draft.

Verification

• Full core suite: 565 passed. No-default-features check and strict all-target clippy passed.
• Desktop build and 26 tests passed. Formatting and diff checks passed.
• Learning/MCP integration: 27 learning and 11 protocol tests passed.
• Rebuilt optimized CLI and saturated-ledger benchmark for 1.14.1: recall plus drift p95 3.62 ms, feedback p95 0.46 ms, confirmation p95 0.61 ms, 21.95 MiB peak RSS. Eight-second idle sample: unchanged CPU time/database files, 14.3 MiB RSS. Final platform CI and release artifacts are the remaining gates.