v1.5.0 - Semantic and Source Expansion

[AnthonyPuggs]

v1.5.0 - Semantic and Source Expansion

This release expands AusEcon MCP’s analyst-facing coverage while preserving the existing {metadata, series, observations} response contract.

Added

• Added quarterly ABS Household Spending Indicator support via HSI_Q, including:

  • quarterly_household_spending_current
  • quarterly_household_spending_volume

• Added selected RBA source-native table coverage:

  • a4
  • c1.1
  • c2.1
  • c4.1
  • d14.1
  • f1.1
  • f2.1
  • i5
  • j1

• Expanded APRA catalogue coverage with additional official publications:

  • Quarterly Superannuation Industry Publication
  • Quarterly Fund-Level Statistics
  • Quarterly General Insurance Performance Statistics
  • Quarterly Life Insurance Performance Statistics
  • Quarterly Private Health Insurance Performance Statistics
  • Quarterly Private Health Insurance Membership Coverage

• Added APRA-backed semantic concepts for banking, superannuation, insurance, and private health insurance:

  • adi_capital_ratio
  • adi_liquidity_coverage_ratio
  • adi_residential_mortgage_exposure
  • adi_commercial_property_exposure
  • superannuation_total_assets
  • superannuation_member_accounts
  • general_insurance_premium_revenue
  • general_insurance_claims_expense
  • life_insurance_premium_revenue
  • life_insurance_claims_expense
  • phi_premium_revenue
  • phi_claims_expense
  • phi_membership

• Added transparent derived concepts:

  • mortgage_rate_spread
  • real_mortgage_rate
  • credit_to_gdp
  • household_spending_growth

Changed

• Extended semantic provenance metadata to support APRA targets through apra_table_id and apra_series_ids.
• Updated semantic bounds handling so APRA-backed semantic concepts accept the same analyst-friendly date bounds as RBA-backed concepts.
• Regenerated the semantic concepts reference, increasing the curated concept count to 70.
• Added APRA period-row workbook parsing support for private health insurance membership-style tables.

Validation

• Full test suite passes: 716 passed.
• Ruff checks pass across src, tests, and scripts.
• Diff whitespace check passes with git diff --check.

Compatibility

This release is backwards-compatible. It does not add new MCP tools and does not change the top-level response shape.

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