release: promote COLM citation and contact details to main

[BobbyZhouZijian]

Motivation

Promote the reviewed COLM 2026 citation and contact updates from dev to the production main branch. This is a maintainer release-promotion PR; ordinary contribution PRs continue to target dev.

This release contains #245.

Merge method: Create a merge commit. Do not squash or rebase this dev to main promotion; preserving branch ancestry is required for the promotion workflow to verify and tag the exact promoted dev commit.

Changes

• Update the official BibTeX entry to cite CORAL as a COLM 2026 conference paper.
• Link the citation prompt to the CORAL paper on arXiv.
• Add contact channels for technical questions, feature requests, collaborations, and partnerships.
• Hide the embedded Star History section.

Test plan

Upstream validation completed successfully:

• docs: update COLM citation and contact information #245 passed Ruff and the Python 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13 CI matrix.
• docs: update COLM citation and contact information #245 passed the Vercel preview checks for the docs and web deployments.
• git diff --check origin/main...origin/dev -- README.md passed locally.
• Verify this release PR's CI, source guard, promotion workflow, and deployment checks before merging.

Affected areas

• coral/agent/ (runtime, manager, heartbeat, warmstart)
• coral/grader/ (daemon, TaskGrader, subprocess grader, loader)
• coral/hub/ (attempts, notes, skills, checkpoint)
• coral/workspace/ (project setup, worktrees, grader env)
• coral/cli/ (commands, helpers)
• coral/hooks/ (post_commit / submit_eval)
• coral/template/ (CORAL.md, bundled skills/agents)
• coral/gateway/ (LiteLLM gateway)
• coral/web/ (dashboard)
• examples/ (new or modified task)
• docs/ (docs site)
• CI / tooling / packaging
• Other: README documentation and release promotion

Checklist

• This is the explicitly requested dev to main release promotion.
• Changes are already integrated on dev.
• Upstream required CI passed for the included changes.
• Release PR CI, source guard, promotion workflow, and deployment checks pass.
• Merge with Create a merge commit; do not squash or rebase.
• AI-assisted PR: a human author has reviewed the complete dev → main diff and can defend the included changes. See AGENTS.md.

Authored with assistance from Codex. Human review of the complete promotion diff is required before merge.

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
coral-docs	Ready	Preview	Aug 20, 2026 4:48pm
coral-web	Ready	Preview	Aug 20, 2026 4:48pm