Changelog

v0.1.0 - The Autonomous Foundation (2026-04-20)

This is the initial MVP release of the opencortex. It establishes a secure, auditable Lisp kernel for a personal operating system.

Unified Envelope Architecture: Actuator-agnostic protocol that decouples routing metadata from cognitive payloads, ensuring all clients (TUI, Emacs, CLI, Matrix) are treated as equal citizens.
Metabolic Pipeline: Robust Perceive-Reason-Act loop with selective memory rollbacks and graceful shutdown handling.
Verification Lock: Mandatory skill enforcement via environment configuration. System halts if security policies or bouncers fail to load.
Foveal-Peripheral Context: High-resolution focus on active tasks with low-resolution skeletal awareness of the rest of the Memex.
The Bouncer: Last-mile deterministic security gate with Deep Packet Inspection for secrets and network exfiltration.
Autonomous Scribe: Background distillation worker that turns daily journal entries into evergreen Zettelkasten notes. Verified to distill atomic concepts autonomously.
Autonomous Gardener: Heartbeat-driven worker that repairs broken links and identifies orphaned nodes in the Memex graph.
Unified Onboarding: Single-command installation (opencortex.sh) with Docker support, OS detection, and automated dependency resolution.
Channel-Aware TUI: Interactive Croatoan-based terminal client with clean, human-readable formatting for tool results and system logs.
CLI Gateway: Local TCP socket server for pipe-friendly interaction and frictionless first contact.

AGPLv3 License: OpenCortex is now officially licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
Contributor License Agreement: Implemented a broad CLA (CLA.org) for long-term project sustainability.

Transitioned to Literate Granularity: Every function and invariant is now formally documented in its own Org block.
Provider Agnosticism: Implemented a dynamic LLM cascade (OpenRouter, Ollama, etc.) removing all hardcoded backend dependencies.
Thin Harness Philosophy: Decoupled the kernel from specific editors or third-party gateways.