diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f264855..69c6615 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.14.5] — 2026-09-25
+
+From the round-4 trials on 0.14.4 (an ESS retrofit of a stock-reservation service and worktree
+onboarding, both isolated). The skills were checked against ess 0.31.0, the newest release, which
+changes nothing they describe.
+
+**`ess`**
+
+- `ess:retrofitting`: a command the code silently ignores in some state gets no `wrong_state:`
+  outcome and no error. `synthesize` then reports `ESS-SYNTH-012` for that state and still writes
+  a scenario requiring that nothing happened, which is the code's behaviour; report it, and do not
+  add an error the code never raises. The view that invariants need is structural: mark it as such.
+
+**`worktree`**
+
+- `worktree:init`: the profile download creates its directory (`curl --create-dirs`) instead of a
+  separate `mkdir`; any local file works as the profile although `--help` says "committed"; a
+  headless run uses the directory that holds the current repository as the workspace root and
+  says so.
+- `worktree:managing-worktrees`: always pass `--id` to `gc`.
+
 ## [0.14.4] — 2026-09-25
 
 From the round-3 trials on 0.14.3, the first product fix they led to (worktree 0.7.1), and eight
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 39734cf..13eb26d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version = 4
 
 [[package]]
 name = "agentplugins-check"
-version = "0.14.4"
+version = "0.14.5"
 dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "serde",
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "b10x"
-version = "0.14.4"
+version = "0.14.5"
 dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "serde",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2a56285..7fb7640 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ resolver = "2"
 members = ["crates/agentplugins-check", "crates/b10x"]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.14.4"
+version = "0.14.5"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.85"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/plugins/aep/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/aep/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 0268df6..8fa7a2f 100644
--- a/plugins/aep/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/aep/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "aep",
   "displayName": "AEP",
   "description": "Plan governed work in the AEP artifact store and deliver it in reviewed waves: decomposition, plan critique, reverse engineering, story scoping, implementation and adversarial review.",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
   },
diff --git a/plugins/aep/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/aep/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
index 59cc3b2..d121b98 100644
--- a/plugins/aep/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/aep/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "aep",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "description": "Plan governed work in the AEP artifact store and deliver it in reviewed waves.",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
diff --git a/plugins/b10x/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/b10x/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 3f19079..e092d87 100644
--- a/plugins/b10x/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/b10x/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "b10x",
   "displayName": "Beyond10x",
   "description": "Set up, upgrade and check the Beyond10x plugins and binaries, route work to them, and create portable plugins.",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
   },
diff --git a/plugins/b10x/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/b10x/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
index 1e166eb..47428f8 100644
--- a/plugins/b10x/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/b10x/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "b10x",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "description": "Set up, upgrade and check the Beyond10x plugins and binaries, route work to them, and create portable plugins.",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
diff --git a/plugins/connectors/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/connectors/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 58491a2..17bd38c 100644
--- a/plugins/connectors/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/connectors/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "connectors",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "description": "Set up, inspect, and invoke governed integrations through the connectors CLI.",
   "author": { "name": "Beyond10x" },
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
diff --git a/plugins/connectors/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/connectors/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
index 3c2521f..f18966b 100644
--- a/plugins/connectors/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/connectors/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "connectors",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "description": "Set up, inspect, and invoke governed integrations through the connectors CLI.",
   "author": { "name": "Beyond10x" },
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
diff --git a/plugins/ess/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/ess/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index 39a3a04..9902ba6 100644
--- a/plugins/ess/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/ess/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "ess",
   "displayName": "ESS",
   "description": "Write, retrofit, validate and project Executable System Specifications, and hold implementations to them with conformance suites.",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
   },
diff --git a/plugins/ess/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/ess/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
index 483834a..9102278 100644
--- a/plugins/ess/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/ess/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ess",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "description": "Write, retrofit, validate and project Executable System Specifications, and hold implementations to them with conformance suites.",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
diff --git a/plugins/ess/skills/retrofitting/SKILL.md b/plugins/ess/skills/retrofitting/SKILL.md
index 96f2363..cb948bb 100644
--- a/plugins/ess/skills/retrofitting/SKILL.md
+++ b/plugins/ess/skills/retrofitting/SKILL.md
@@ -56,7 +56,13 @@ Retrofit-specific rules:
   does in the code today. No delete path found: `UNMAPPED:`.
 - **Views follow reads.** One view per read operation clients use; its fields are the fields the
   response carries. An entity with `invariants` also needs a view holding every state, or the suite
-  refuses the invariant checks (`ess:specifying`, conformance section).
+  refuses the invariant checks (`ess:specifying`, conformance section). That view is structural,
+  not a read the code has: say so in a comment. It is the one view a retrofit may add.
+- **A command the code ignores in some state is a synthesis refusal, and that is correct.** When
+  the code does nothing (no error) for a command in a state its transition does not start from,
+  declare no `wrong_state:` outcome and no error. `synthesize` then reports `ESS-SYNTH-012` for
+  that state and still writes the scenario, which requires that nothing happened: the code's
+  behaviour. Report the refusals; do not add an error the code never raises.
 - **A service that publishes no events still needs one per success outcome.** `validate` refuses an
   outcome that neither emits nor names an error (`empty_change`); a view does not count. Declare an
   event for the fact the outcome produces (`OrderPaid`), leave it out of the component's
diff --git a/plugins/worktree/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/worktree/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
index e6632b1..e51a4e8 100644
--- a/plugins/worktree/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/worktree/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "worktree",
   "displayName": "Worktree",
   "description": "Create, lease, finish, audit and safely clean isolated Git worktrees through the worktree CLI.",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
   },
diff --git a/plugins/worktree/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/plugins/worktree/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
index bf37015..68ada72 100644
--- a/plugins/worktree/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
+++ b/plugins/worktree/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "worktree",
-  "version": "0.14.4",
+  "version": "0.14.5",
   "description": "Create, lease, finish, audit and safely clean isolated Git worktrees through the worktree CLI.",
   "author": {
     "name": "Beyond10x"
diff --git a/plugins/worktree/skills/init/SKILL.md b/plugins/worktree/skills/init/SKILL.md
index 5060007..92d6036 100644
--- a/plugins/worktree/skills/init/SKILL.md
+++ b/plugins/worktree/skills/init/SKILL.md
@@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ Activate a workspace profile once, then check the setup. The profile is a small
 worktree repository publishes a default one:
 
 ```bash
-mkdir -p ~/.config/worktree
-curl -fsSL -o ~/.config/worktree/default.toml \
+curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o ~/.config/worktree/default.toml \
   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beyond10x/worktree/main/profiles/default.toml
 worktree activate --profile ~/.config/worktree/default.toml --workspace <workspace-root>
 worktree doctor --check
 ```
 
 `activate` copies the profile into `~/.config/worktree/config.toml`, so the template file may stay
-where it is or be committed into a repository the user shares with others. Ask the user for the
-workspace root (an absolute path to the directory that holds their repositories) rather than
-guessing it.
+where it is or be committed into a repository the user shares with others; `--help` calls it a
+"committed" template, but any local file works. Ask the user for the workspace root (an absolute
+path to the directory that holds their repositories) rather than guessing it. With nobody to ask
+(a headless run), use the directory that holds the current repository and say so in the report.
 
 `worktree doctor --check` fails with `no active profile` until `activate` has run.
 
diff --git a/plugins/worktree/skills/managing-worktrees/SKILL.md b/plugins/worktree/skills/managing-worktrees/SKILL.md
index a34a3d0..84ec6bc 100644
--- a/plugins/worktree/skills/managing-worktrees/SKILL.md
+++ b/plugins/worktree/skills/managing-worktrees/SKILL.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ After verification, preserve the small logs, reports, or deliverables needed for
 
 1. Commit and publish every wanted change. A local-only commit is deliberately not cleanup-safe. Work merged as rebased or cherry-picked copies also qualifies when an advertised ref carries every unique commit's exact patch; GC reports that proof as `patch-equivalent`.
 2. Preserve required evidence and remove this task's disposable output as described above. Release your own lease, then run `worktree finish <tree>`. It refuses dirty, locked, unmanaged, live, or mid-operation Git worktrees.
-3. Run `worktree gc --repo <primary> --dry-run --id <id>` and inspect every result. Without exact ids, `--repo` selects the activated workspace profile, not just the repository: the assessment covers records under that profile's `workspace_root`, including other repositories.
+3. Run `worktree gc --repo <primary> --dry-run --id <id>` and inspect every result. Always pass `--id`. Without exact ids, `--repo` selects the activated workspace profile, not just the repository: the assessment covers records under that profile's `workspace_root`, including other repositories.
 4. Run `worktree gc --repo <primary> --apply --id <reviewed-id>` with repeated `--id` values only for the exact results intended for removal. The command refreshes remote advertisements, fetches required objects, and revalidates immediately before non-forced removal. Check the result before reporting storage reclaimed.
 5. End with either verified cleanup or an explicit handoff: tree id and path, published branch/commit, related work-item references, retained evidence, remaining blockers, next owner and next action. Never leave a tree silently active or label work complete merely from its age or Git state.