Alice v0.5.1: Provider Adapters + Design Partner Launch

Alice v0.5.1 is the Phase 14 platform release for Alice.

This release makes Alice easier to plug into local, self-hosted, enterprise-curious, and external-agent workflows without changing its core continuity semantics.

Highlights

• Provider/runtime portability across OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and Azure-backed paths.
• First-party model packs for llama, qwen, gemma, and gpt-oss with provider-aware bindings and pack-aware defaults.
• Reference integration paths for Hermes, OpenClaw, and generic Python and TypeScript agents.
• Design-partner onboarding, workspace linkage, usage summaries, feedback intake, and launch evidence.
• Logging-safety hardening from HF-001: stdout-by-default local/Lite logging, disabled local/Lite access logs by default, and bounded opt-in file logging.

What shipped in this boundary

• P14-S1: Provider abstraction cleanup + OpenAI-compatible adapter
• P14-S2: Ollama + llama.cpp + vLLM adapters
• P14-S3: Model packs
• P14-S4: Reference integrations
• P14-S5: Design partner launch
• HF-001: Logging safety and disk guardrails

Release posture

• Pre-1.0 public release
• Version boundary: v0.5.1
• Main focus: platform compatibility, adoption, and operational safety

For release verification and operational details, see the repo changelog and release docs in docs/release/.

v0.4.0

Alice v0.4.0 makes the system easier to adopt without changing its core continuity model.

This release adds a single continuity entrypoint for external agents, a lighter local startup path, and clearer visibility into memory quality and conversation health.

What is included

• One-call continuity across API, CLI, and MCP
• Alice Lite for a faster local first run
• Memory hygiene visibility for duplicates, stale facts, contradictions, weak trust, and review pressure
• Conversation health visibility for recent, stale, and risky threads

Why this matters

• External agents can integrate through one main continuity call instead of stitching together multiple surfaces
• Solo users and builders can get Alice running locally with less setup friction
• Operators can see quality and risk posture more clearly without weakening Alice's continuity semantics

Baseline included in this release

• Phase 12 retrieval, mutation, trust calibration, eval, and briefing stack
• Hermes bridge support
• Provider runtime and model-pack support

Verification

• 1279 Python tests passed
• 200 web tests passed
• Alice Lite smoke passed
• Hermes provider, MCP, and bridge demo smoke passed
• Public eval harness passed 12/12 cases

Release boundary
This is the public pre-1.0 release for the completed Phase 13 surface.

v0.3.2

Alice v0.3.2 ships the completed Phase 12 boundary. This release adds hybrid retrieval and reranking, explicit memory mutation operations, contradiction detection and trust calibration, a public eval harness with checked-in baseline reporting, and task-adaptive briefing for user recall, resume, worker subtask, and agent handoff. It also includes the release-readiness pass and Phase 12 closeout documentation for the pre-1.0 public boundary.

Alice v0.2.0

Alice v0.2.0 is the next public pre-1.0 release of Alice, covering the shipped platform through Phase 11 and Bridge B1-B4.

What ships in this release:

• Alice continuity core: typed memory, provenance, correction-aware recall, open loops, recall/resume/explain flows
• CLI and MCP surfaces
• Hosted/product layer shipped in Phase 10
• Phase 11 provider runtime: workspace-scoped provider registration, adapters, and model packs
• Hermes bridge: lifecycle hooks, prefetch, auto-capture, review queue, explainability, operator docs, smoke validation, and one-command demo path

Verification evidence:

• control-doc truth: PASS
• Python tests: 1191 passed
• web tests: 199 passed
• Hermes memory provider smoke: PASS
• Hermes MCP smoke: PASS
• Hermes bridge demo: PASS

Release notes:

• recommended deployment path: provider_plus_mcp
• fallback path: mcp_only
• this remains a pre-1.0 release and is not a 1.0 compatibility or support guarantee