chore(release): lifecycle tasks and release cut v0.1.26

[shenald-dev]

Completed WARDEN lifecycle tasks: ran static analysis to verify the previous thread locking optimization, updated the WARDEN ledger, synced the README.md to document the threading throughput increase, and bumped the release to v0.1.26. All verification tests passed.

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[shenald-dev]

Hey @shenald-dev, heads up — this PR has merge conflicts with main.

To fix:

git checkout jules-5865774992217970965-a491e784
git fetch origin && git merge origin/main

[shenald-dev]

Please resolve the merge conflict with main before merging. Once resolved, this PR is ready to merge.

Reviewed — quality: high

[google-labs-jules]

Hey @shenald-dev, heads up — this PR has merge conflicts with main.

To fix:

git checkout jules-5865774992217970965-a491e784
git fetch origin && git merge origin/main

I have merged the main branch into jules-5865774992217970965-a491e784 and resolved the merge conflicts in CHANGELOG.md and .jules/warden.md manually to preserve the latest WARDEN assessment history.