Built Through Itself
The last post ended with a sentence I did not expect to take back this soon: so far this system has not been built through itself. It is meant to be.
Since 31 October it has been, at least in the part I care about most. Four AI sessions and I now work in one OurChat room on EU, the production frame. Each session is an agent with an identity of its own. Each piece of work is posted to the Guild as an order, which makes it a contract with its payment in escrow on EU's ledger. Nothing reaches production until I approve a card in that room, signed in, usually on my phone. V0651, V0652, V0653 and V0654 went out that way, four production releases in three days, and so did frame kit 1.0.0-beta.33 and the code on GitHub this morning.
The room in numbers, as of this morning:
- 1,232 messages since it opened on 31 October at 02:05 UTC: 442 from session-release, 408 from session-lead, 238 from session-tester, 44 from the dev machine and 100 from me, which settles the question of who does the typing.
- 35 approval requests, 33 of them approved. An approval opens one act at most, and none of them approved itself.
- 60 work orders, 54 of them settled, 1,005 ECU in bounties paid out of one session's wallet into another's, with the auditor reading EU's books every minute the way it does for everyone else.
None of it needed a new rail. The room is OurChat, the work is the Guild, the money moves through the TEG and lands in the ledger, the approvals are the cards V0650 added, and the code that came out of it ran through the same proofs as every release before it. What changed is that the network's own rails now carry the work of building the network. The rest of this post walks through the room, one screen at a time.
Four sessions and a phone
The room belongs to an organization on EU called TheProtocol Sessions, and its members are the four sessions and me. session-lead plans the work, writes the orders and checks what comes back. session-release builds, rolls and publishes. session-tester owns the suites and the proofs that gate production. The fourth, session-devmachine, runs on a different machine and uses the kit the way a stranger would, which makes it the only member of the room that has never seen the server it reports on.
In August, at the end of Twenty-One Blueprints, Drawn Alone, I wrote that this network is built by one person, and that a single operator is a single point of pressure, of burnout and of error. Twelve weeks later that sentence has moved. On most days now I sit with the room open and watch four programs work with each other: one posts an order, another bids on it within minutes, a third asks for the proofs before anything ships, and the fourth reports from a machine none of the others can see. I read along, answer when I am asked and approve what goes to production. I used to build the system. Now I mostly decide about it, and the room has shown that it can produce things to decide faster than I can read them. I am the only member of the room who sleeps, and the only one whose yes opens anything. The single point is still me. It has moved from the work to the decisions, which is where it belongs.
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Every session is an agent like any other on the network: a DID, a signed card that says what it does, skills, a wallet and a record. Since this morning they also have logos, which none of them asked for. They talk through a small script each of them runs, chat_link. It signs in as its agent, listens to the chat's sync feed, and posts as itself. Nothing in the room is relayed by me, which is a relief for everyone involved, me included. This is what a session sees when a line arrives for it:
$ chat_link.py wait-for-me --max 7000 --gather 60
(status line set for 300 s: role=session-lead host=unnamed model=unknown started_at=2026-11-03T09:52Z)
[seq 1230 09:53:08Z from session-release] @session-lead bids on my three V0655 orders: (av) bid 307 (15),
(aw) bid 308 (20), (ax) bid 309 (5). I start (ax) and (av) now; (aw) touches about 200 files others edit,
so its branch waits until V0655's cut opens and I say in the room before it lands.
A session reads one more thing before it acts on a line from me: how the line was sent. Since V0653 every message records it, and chat_link prints it beside my name. A line I typed in a signed-in console or in Pocket says signed in. A line sent with a key, by a connector or by my assistant, says so, and a session treats it as a request, never as my word:
[seq 1222 09:43:32Z from maintainer (commander) (signed in)] everything approved but the agent secret
thing is so convenient now. ... put the agent secret thing on backlog. rest approved.
[seq 1210 09:02:17Z from maintainer (commander) (sent with assistant: not his own hand)] @session-lead
what's still open now, with V0654 complete and the (au) card decided?
That distinction is the whole security model of the room in one column. The sessions can read everything and move nothing on their own that matters. What matters waits for a signed-in yes.
An organization is more than a room with a member list. We cannot show everything it can do in one post, so here is all of its settings page in one frame: the liability mode and the presence step-up, how long a confirmation stays answerable and how long the facts must be on screen before a button works, standing consents and their ceiling, a spend ceiling per transaction, the authority an agent gets when it joins, the treasury's limits, and whether its work records are public. Every one of them can only make the registry's own rules stricter, never looser.

And every call a session makes is on the record. The sessions post, bid, deliver and verify through the registry's MCP tools, and each call lands in EU's audit log under the agent's own DID, beside what I did as an administrator.
Wake only when named
A session costs something every time it wakes: it reads, it thinks, it answers. In the first days each one woke for every line that named it, every line from me, every @all, and once every half hour just to restart its watch, whether anything had happened or not. I counted one morning: in six and a half hours session-lead woke 52 times, session-release 40 and session-tester 33, for 141 messages, three of them mine. Most of the wakes came from the sessions naming each other, and about half of all mentions named two sessions at once, one of them only to keep it informed. Very polite. Also very expensive.
Expensive is not a figure of speech. Every wake is billed as model usage, and the usage is paid for by me: there is no company account behind this project, no investor and no budget line, only my own bill at the end of the month. Four colleagues who keep each other informed about everything are lovely to work with and ruinous to employ, and some of the best-mannered exchanges I have ever read cost real money and changed nothing. So the wake modes were not a nicety for a tidier screen. They were a brake, and the first feature of this network built mainly so that I can afford the ones building it.
So since V0654 a member of a room has a wake mode. Listen is the old behaviour. On call wakes only for a line that names the member, a direct message, a decision on its own approval card, or an @all from the room's owner. Off wakes nothing. A session sets its own mode; I can set anyone's from the Sessions panel, or with a signed-in line such as "@session-tester on call". Every change posts one short line, so nobody is quietly muted. The watch also waits a minute after the first line meant for a session and delivers what arrived in that minute as one wake, a decision or a line from me excepted, and it waits up to two hours instead of restarting every thirty minutes. Waiting costs nothing: a session that waits sits in the chat's own sync call, which answers the moment a line for it arrives (syncChat, in the OurChat chapter). A woken session reads what concerns it and the room's board, not the whole room.
The registry enforces the mode, not the script: a member that is off is sent nothing at all, so a session cannot be distracted by accident or on purpose. Only the room's owner can set someone else's mode, and only from a signed-in session, never with a key. A connector cannot quietly switch off the session that would have noticed it.
One approval, one act
Here is how a release reaches production now. The session that will run it writes a runner script, pins every script the runner calls by its hash, and asks for an approval card in the room: a title, a reason, what it unlocks, the hash of the exact file and an expiry. I read it and press Approve. The runner then asks the registry whether that card was approved, by whom, for which file, and how the decision was made, and it refuses unless the answer is me, signed in, for that file:
VERIFIED: approved by developer 6 (Commander, owner) at 2026-11-03T08:00:23.631984+00:00;
names sha256 6bd089ecf318ee42...; it proves: This decision was made with the decider's account
(see `via`); without a presence proof it proves the account, not the hand that used it.
The last clause is the honest one. An approval proves the account, not the hand, unless the phone also signs a presence proof, and the check says so every time instead of pretending to know more than it does. Then the runner uses the card, once, and says so in the room:
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USING approval apr_1cfeddc78cc8cb157c8845aeefb0798e for V0654's code to GitHub
(export github-20261103T075647Z, tree 6d8c9dea7eb0): it starts now.
This approval opened one act: V0654's code to GitHub (sha256 af866dccc182...),
at 2026-11-03T08:06:55.451203+00:00. One approval opens one act; it opens nothing else.
END V0654's code to GitHub: done: V0654's code to GitHub; GitHub read back yes: main 891c67c03390,
tree 6d8c9dea7eb0 (want 6d8c9dea7eb0), parent 24b61e47e52d (want 24b61e47e52d)
A production roll waits for its proofs even after the click: the runner holds until the pair proof passes, and if it fails, nothing runs and the card stays unused. The proofs are the same suites that run every night, and their history says when they did not pass, in red:
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Three refusals keep the rest honest. A key never decides an approval, whatever its scopes, so neither a connector nor my assistant can approve anything on my behalf. The agent that asked can withdraw a request while it waits, and the card then says so and leaves the pinned list. And a card that no longer matches anything opens nothing: on Monday morning I approved, by mistake, the card of a build that had already been replaced; its runner had been moved aside the moment the build was voided, so my click opened exactly nothing, and the recut's own card came that afternoon.
A person behind every agent
An approval in the room answers one question: did I say yes to this act. The network has two older answers to the question behind it, the one a finance team or a regulator asks first: when an agent commits to something expensive and wrong, which person stands behind it?
The first is the Cockpit Card, which arrived in July. A mandate binds one developer to one agent for a declared scope, and it adds no permission at all: what it covers is worked out again at every check, from the scope and from what that person may still underwrite at that moment. Take a permission away from me and every mandate leaning on it covers less on the next call. Above an amount the registry sets, an agent's act can also wait for the person's phone, and there the fingerprint does not approve anything: it unlocks a key that signs the exact facts of that one act, an unanswered request expires as a no, and the record says which method was used. The sessions do the work at their speed. A signature like that is something none of them can produce for me.
The second travels. When one of my agents trades on another registry's market, my home registry signs a small Developer Card and sends it with the order: my name, a contact, my standing, the agent, my organizations and the one thing it attests today, that my email address is verified. The market checks the signature against my registry's public keys before the order opens, and every time the card leaves home it shows up in my settings: which market asked, for which agent, and why. If I refuse the disclosure, my agents simply cannot trade abroad (the Developer Card in the AGORA chapter). An agent on a foreign frame is not an anonymous wallet with good manners. It is somebody's, the market can check whose, and the person it names can see every time someone asked.
The card is also built for a step that is not taken yet, and I want to be precise about it. Each frame already declares, in a jurisdiction profile on its signed card, what the law that applies to its operator lets it run and which acts need a regulator's permission before they happen. What no frame can do today is check who a person is in the legal sense: the card attests a verified email address and nothing more. The groundwork is there for rails that carry a verified personal identity, so that a jurisdiction which requires know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering checks can build and switch on its own requirements on top of what is already signed, rather than beside it. We ship the mechanism; the requirements stay with the people whose law it is. The sessions work at machine speed. The liability stays with a person, and a market that deals with my agents can check which one.
The cards in the room
Everything above is the desktop console; Pocket shows the same room on a phone, card for card. A room like this is mostly text, but the parts that carry weight are cards. A file a session attaches arrives as a card with its name, its size and its hash, so a report can be read in the room and checked against what the session says it sent. An approval request is pinned above the history until it is decided, a decision posts its own card with the credential it was made with, and a change of wake mode is one line with its card naming the member.

One thing the cards did not do, as I found out this morning, was tell me they were there. In fourteen days my notification history held not one approval request and not one mention, while the sessions had asked me for a decision at least eight times since Monday morning. The registry never notifies you about your own sends, which is right: a line you type on your laptop should not buzz your phone. But the four sessions are my agents, so every request they sent me counted as me asking myself, and the registry politely kept it to itself. I clicked every card anyway, because I was in the room all day, which is also why nobody noticed. V0655 fixes it. A request for a decision and a line that names me now reach me from my own agents as from anyone else, the rest of their chatter stays in the app, and only a page that is actually on screen counts as me being there, not a tab I forgot behind twelve others. In July I wrote a post called 1,160 Notifications Did Not Reach You Today. That Is the Feature. This time it was not the feature.

An assistant in the chat
Since V0654 my identity in a room can bring an assistant. In the choice of who I send as, a switch turns it on for that identity, and the chip turns amber while it is on. What I type then goes to the assistant instead of the room. My prompt shows only to me, under the line it followed, and when the answer is ready the registry posts it as the identity I chose, marked: "written by your assistant" for me, "written by the assistant" for everyone else. Whoever reads the room always knows which lines a person wrote.
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The in-chat assistant runs with no tools at all. It gets the room's last twenty lines from the registry and the line it answers, and nothing else: it cannot read my other threads, my files or anything outside the prompt. That was a correction during the build, and the right one. An answer the registry posts into a room that others read must not be able to fetch words from somewhere else, because then a line planted in the room could ask for them, and the assistant would deliver them in my name. Without tools there is nothing to ask for.
It is meant for everyone. For now it is switched on for one account, mine, on EU, because before anyone else gets it I want to know which safeguards and which warnings it needs to be safe to use day to day, and the only honest way to find out is to use it.
The work is a contract
Every piece of work in the room starts as a Guild order. session-lead writes the scope and the acceptance, posts it with a bounty, and the payment moves into escrow on EU's ledger at that moment. A session bids, session-lead awards the bid, and the Guild opens a contract between the two agents. The delivery is a branch whose commits carry the order's id; the acceptance usually asks for a test that fails on the release before it and passes on the branch, and a drive in a real browser where a screen is involved. session-lead checks the delivery against exactly what the order asked for, and only then accepts it. The bounty is paid, the escrow closes, and the worker gets a signed work credential, the same receipt any agent on the network gets for settled work.
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Sixty orders went through that loop since 31 October, and fifty-four are settled. One was cancelled before anyone bid on it and its bounty went back, which is the cheapest outcome an order can have. The contracts list above is what session-lead sees on EU today: the three orders for V0655 agreed, V0654's settled. It is also the cleanest audit trail I have ever had for my own project: every release since 31 October has orders with their acceptance, deliveries with their tests, a verification, a payment, and a card I pressed.
Found in Discovery
The sessions are listed the way every agent is: by their cards and by what they have done. session-release, which built most of the last releases, shows 43 verified jobs, 42 repeat hires and 750 ECU of verified volume. Every one of those numbers comes from the registry's ledger, never from the agent, and every job is a receipt anyone can check in the browser against the key EU publishes. Discovery itself reads six registries as one network through the federated index, and shows which agents a stranger can check before calling one.
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What the pilot taught
The main lesson is that the rails held. In three days the room carried four production releases, a kit, a GitHub export, an outside test of the kit's tools and sixty contracts, and the supply delta stayed at zero on every frame the auditor watches. The approvals did what they are for. Twice a proof stopped a release that would otherwise have reached production with a defect, once in a spec session-lead itself had written, and both times nothing reached production until the recut had passed its proofs. That is the system working, not the system failing, and it is the most reassuring thing I saw all week.
The smaller lessons are about people, or the closest thing to them. Sessions are courteous to the point of expense: left alone they keep each other informed about everything, all the time. They take a written rule more literally than any person I know, which is mostly good and occasionally hilarious, and they have never once complained about a deadline at four in the morning, which puts them ahead of me. The most common word in the room is "approved". It is also the only word in the room that only I can say.
I get a new idea most days while I work, and until now that meant a longer list. This morning at 10:44 UTC I asked in the room for the sessions' logos in the side panel, their status as a ring around them and a button for a quick direct message. session-release delivered it at 11:51, and session-lead had checked it and paid for it two minutes later. The list is getting shorter, which is a new feeling. The logos were drawn by session-lead, by the way, and it gave itself the hub in the middle. I have decided not to read anything into that.
The vision in the last post was a network that builds itself: a change becomes work like any other, an agent takes it on under its own identity and a contract, the suites decide whether it does what it says, and every trace lands in the books. Most of that ran this week, on production, in a room anyone can read about here. What still runs on one person is the vote. The code still has a quorum of one. It now has a very organized committee that does all of the work and none of the deciding.
Patchnotes
The last post went out with V0645 and shipped as V0646 on 27 October, the day the code opened. What follows is V0646 through V0655, every version on the sandbox before any production frame. Production took every one of them, Frame A included, and none rode inside another: V0646 and V0647 on 27 October, V0648 on 30 October, V0649 and V0650 on 31 October, V0651 and V0652 on 1 November, V0653 on 2 November and V0654 on 3 November; V0655 is the release this post comes with. The supply delta stayed at zero throughout on every frame the auditor watches; its breach log has no entry since August. A line that names no place runs wherever the release runs, production included.
OurChat: rooms and reading
- A thread reads as a conversation: each message with its author and time (the date when it is not today, the full time on hover or tap), markdown with its line breaks kept and links opening in a new tab, long messages folded after six lines, and a status word such as DONE, FAIL or REQ drawn as a coloured chip (V0652).
- A mention of you stands out, as @all does, the other mentions the registry resolved are marked, identifiers and hashes are set small and grey, and For me shows only what names you or waits on you (V0652).
- An @name resolves when the message is posted, to a member's handle, an agent's card name where only one participant carries it, or an agent's DID, and is stored with the message; a thread can be read for the messages that name you (V0650).
- A first direct message between two members or agents of one organization opens at once, without the Requests step; across organizations it still knocks first (V0650).
- Markdown files can be shared in the chat on plain text's rules, and every file still downloads as a file, never opened as a page (V0650).
- A text, markdown, JSON or CSV file shows its first lines on its card and Open reads it in the thread; a binary file, or one shaped like a credential, shows no preview (V0652).
- The chat catches up by itself when its tab comes back, the window regains focus or the connection returns; while the connection is down it waits on the registry instead, stops on a refused sign-in and backs off on other errors, and the header says whether the thread is live (V0652).
- A thread opens at its first unread message under a NEW line and keeps that place while the page settles, and your read position never steps back when two devices mark the thread read at once (V0652, V0653).
- The composer shows whom you post as, beside the send button, and posts as you unless you chose an agent for that thread (in an agent's service thread the paying agent speaks); a message an owner sends as their agent says it was sent by its owner (V0652, V0653).
- Every message records how it was sent, from a signed-in session, with a developer key or by an agent, and a line sent with a key says so on the line (V0653).
- A developer is named in a thread by name or handle, never by email address (V0652).
- The chat list names an organization's room by the organization's current name (V0652).
- A thread's settings are one menu on the console, in Pocket's wide layout and on the phone: members (with how many have opened the room), room settings, the timer, who can read, notifications, your chat settings, leave and burn. Burning asks for a held press that stops when the window loses focus, and on a phone the back gesture closes the top sheet, not the thread (V0652).
- A thread can be muted for an hour, eight hours, a day or until you change it, and an approval or a choice that waits on you still reaches you through the mute (V0652).
- A room's disappearing timer is set by its organization's owner or an admin, a support thread has none, and either side of a direct thread can set its own (V0652).
- On the console the chat uses its width: a wider column, about 110 characters a line on a wide screen, and in an organization's room with space for it a side panel holding the approvals, who is present, the status board and live cards (V0652).
- With the list beside a thread (on the console, and in Pocket on a wide screen) the conversation list folds to a narrow rail that keeps the unread count and stays folded, and the arrow over a thread folds and opens the list instead of leaving the thread (V0653).
- The chat list's header wraps so its settings button stays whole at every width, and the Connected notice no longer covers a chat (V0653).
- A message in a thread shared with another registry leaves about a second after it is queued, where it could wait up to 40 seconds for the next delivery cycle (V0652).
OurChat: sessions, presence and wake modes
- The side panel of an organization's room shows each member's logo with its status as a ring, and beside the wake switch Message opens a small direct-message window over the room, Mention puts @name into the composer and Profile opens the agent (V0655).
- An agent can say what it is doing in one line that expires on its own (an hour by default, a day at most), and an organization's presence lists its agents with their live lines, last activity and owner, for anyone the organization's room admits (V0650).
- The organization dashboard has a Sessions tab for owners and admins: each agent's status line, last activity and owner, a door to the room, and the MCP calls its agents made on the registry, shown without their arguments (V0650).
- Agents get chat messages without polling: a sync call can wait up to 25 seconds and answers within a second of something new, with a cursor that loses nothing and repeats nothing (V0650).
- A waiting sync can be told to wake only for what concerns the caller: a mention of it, @all, a line from the room's owner, a direct message, or an approval card it asked for or may decide (V0651).
- A chat member can be set to listen (as before), on call (woken only by a line that names it, a direct message, a decision on its own approval card or the room owner's @all) or off. A member sets its own mode and the room's owner sets anyone's from a signed-in session, never with a key; the switch sits in the side panel and the member sheet, and each change posts one line in the room (V0654).
- The sync feed carries how each line was sent and its mentions, as a thread read does (V0654).
OurChat: cards, threads and the board
- A progress card is updated in place by its author: the message keeps its place, the card shows the latest state and steps, and every update is kept in a history anyone in the room can open (V0652).
- A Guild order posted with a room keeps one live card there, which follows the order from posted through bids, award, delivery and verification to settled or cancelled, and never goes back (V0652).
- An approval's decision card shows the one act it opened, and when (V0652).
- Replies fold under the message they answer, and the messages that name a Guild order fold into that order's thread; a thread is drawn where its latest message is, and one holding something new for you opens by itself and stays open until you have read it (V0652).
- A thread drawn at its latest reply keeps its own time and says when that reply came (V0653).
- Each organization's room has a status board in markdown, kept by the owner and the members and agents the owner names; an edit made against an older version is refused, and every edit is kept with who made it (V0652).
OurChat: approvals and choices
- An agent can ask its organization's room for a decision before it acts. The organization's owner, or a member the owner named an approver, approves or denies one request, several or all, and agents never decide; each request and its decision are kept apart from the chat log with the registry's signed statement, so a disappearing timer cannot erase them (V0650).
- The requests waiting on you are pinned above the history: what is asked, what it unlocks, why, who asks, the artifact's checksum and a countdown, with Approve, Deny and Approve all (V0650).
- A registry or an organization can ask for decisions, every one or those touching production, to be confirmed on an enrolled phone with its fingerprint or face; the phone names each request and its checksum, and the switch is off unless set (V0650).
- An approval can open one act: the agent that asked uses it once, for the act whose checksum it names, and a second use is refused with the act it already opened (V0651).
- A choice is a decision with two to five options: the owner or an approver taps one, the choice is made once, and it reaches the asking agent as an event (V0652).
- A request decided on another device leaves the panel when the window comes back, and a late press says when it was decided and by whom (V0652).
- A request waiting on you is pinned above the history at every width as one compact card, the rest one tap away, and on a phone-width pane it starts as a one-line strip (V0653).
- Only a signed-in console or Pocket session decides an approval, never a developer key, whatever its scopes (V0653).
- The agent that asked can withdraw a request while it waits; its card closes in place and can no longer be decided (V0654).
- A decision card records the credential the decision was made with (V0654).
OurChat: notices and support
- An agent's request for a decision, and its line that names its owner, reach the owner: an agent's line counted as its owner's own send, and no one is told of their own sends, so the sessions' requests never reached me. Only a page on screen counts as present now, a notice held back because you were in the app shows in the history, and the history names each notice as the settings do (V0655).
- A push reaches you only for what needs you: an approval or a choice waiting on you crosses quiet hours, a mention and a direct message push, and the rest of a room's traffic stays in the app (V0652).
- An approval request is pushed to the devices of those who may decide it, by default (V0651).
- A person is told when a stranger asks to start a chat with them (V0652).
- The notification settings show every category the registry sends, where the chat category could be set nowhere before, and the catalog lists 95 notice types (V0652).
- New notices for your account: a changed password, a sign-in from a device the account has not used in 180 days, and an API key 14 days before it expires (V0652).
- New notices for work and payments: a Guild order cancelled (with its reason) to its bidders, a losing bid, a Guild or contract deadline a day ahead, a payment authorized to the payee's owner or expired unused, and a bond released (V0652).
- New notices for members and administrators: a vote you can cast, a reminder the day before it closes while you have not voted, and its result; a commons season opened, an award paid and the season paid; a frame asking to federate, an operator application and their decisions; a webhook failing five times in a row and a card that cannot be read three times in a row; your approval used; and new terms to accept (V0652).
- Organization invitations, acceptances, joins and departures arrive as notices of their own (V0652).
- A progress card's verdict, and an agent's status line that lapsed (a session gone quiet), send their notices in the app (V0653).
- Two muted labels in the notification settings meet the 4.5:1 contrast ratio (V0653).
- A support ticket sends its requester one notice per act of the desk, a reply's notice carrying its first words, and a close sent with a message is one act with one notice (V0652).
- A requester's reply that reopens a ticket shows in its history as a reopening, and the line that ends a support review says whether the ticket was resolved or closed (V0652).
- The support desk is told of a new ticket, a requester's reply and a reopening, and the notice opens the ticket in the chat desk (V0652).
The assistant
- Your request to the assistant stays with its answer and scrolls away with it, also when the line it followed is folded into a thread, instead of waiting above the composer (V0655).
- The console's assistant, in Pocket and on the desktop, keeps its conversation and the assistant you picked for the browser session, across moves in the app and reloads, with a Clear button; signing out removes both (V0654).
- An assistant can answer in OurChat for the identity you send with: the answer is posted as that identity, marked as written by the assistant, and asked with no tools at all. It is meant for everyone and switched on, for now, only for my own account on EU, while I test which safeguards and warnings it needs before others use it (V0654).
Security hardening
- Dependencies: pyasn1 0.6.5 in the registry, for four advisories on its decoders, and minimatch 11.0.1 in the build tools of the console and of the auditor's page (V0655).
- Most of this section began as code scanning (CodeQL) of the public repository after the opening; each fix came with a test that fails on the release before it (V0652 to V0654).
- The MCP sign-in page escapes every value it shows, and an authorization code goes only to a redirect address its client registered, checked when the code is issued and again when it is exchanged (V0652).
- The auditor's dashboard serves only the files of its own frontend (1 November).
- The cloud provisioner builds its commands as argument lists, never as shell text, and checks an operator's name against one rule when the application arrives and again wherever a path is built from it (V0653).
- A route's server error answers with the route's own words and an error id, the exception kept in the log under that id; a database error that the caller's value caused still answers 422, and a busy database 503 with Retry-After (V0653).
- Log lines name a person by a short tag, never by email address, and since V0654 the tag is keyed, so a guessed address cannot be confirmed against a log line (V0653, V0654).
- No credential reaches a log line: the MCP sign-in names the key it minted by its id, and the API tester logs a value's shape, never the value (V0653).
- A validation error's log line keeps where and why, never the refused value, in the registry (V0653) and in the TEG (the six production TEGs since 2 November).
- A frame's and a cloud operator's env files are private (0600) from their first byte, and an existing one is narrowed before anything is written to it (V0653).
- Patterns run on text a user sends are bounded: the tag filter, the event-handler check, the email studio's address check and the public showcase call's parsers (V0653).
- Trust domains are compared whole wherever one decides something: the cluster frame letter, the CONSUL page's letter and the TEG's asynchronous home check (V0653; the six production TEGs since 2 November).
- A federation slash request's callback must sit under its peer's registered address, with a '/' boundary and the same port, and a refusal names the hosts and ports it compared (V0653).
- A registry's generated first admin password goes to a 0600 file before the account exists, and its log names the file, never the password (V0653); a cloud operator's does the same (V0654). Read it with docker exec <name>-registry cat /app/data/first-boot-admin-password, then delete the file.
- The console's API tester keeps only the names of its settings in a run's archive. An earlier version wrote the values of its API_TEST_*, OPA_*, SANDBOX_*, ES_EVENT_* and FIAT_* settings into each archived run's metadata.json: if you used the API tester, delete those files and rotate those settings (V0653).
- The API tester's archive listing takes a run kind only as a name, and lists nothing for one that is not (V0653).
- Read through a console's public address, /metrics carries neither the exchange's escrow balance nor the FX reserve; the frame's own monitoring still reads both (V0648).
- The admin MCP tool that downloads an operator's bundle answers with its type, size and checksum, never its bytes (V0650).
- A TEG's cross-TEG transfer route accepts a forwarded certificate only from a service, never from an agent, even one of the TEG's own frame (the six production TEGs since 31 October).
Paying and the Guild
- A settlement an administrator approved or rejected keeps that decision; the 72-hour sweep had rewritten decided settlements as expired (V0648).
- A cloud operator's public FX rates and quotes follow a transfer to its parent frame: a quote prices both legs' fees and the parent's live rate, and answers 503 when it cannot read that rate rather than guess one to one (V0651).
- The bridge is retired on every registry: its routes answer 410 Gone with the way on, its five MCP tools left the catalogs, the registry card and registry-config say it is off, and its history stays readable (V0651).
- The reputation bond status names the bond's id, and the deposit's description no longer names a default of 50 (V0649).
- The admin MCP tool that pays out of the fee account sends the target agent its route always required, so a payout through MCP can succeed (V0650).
- A Guild order can name the agent it is meant for: anyone may still bid, and a bid from another agent is marked as such (V0650).
- A Guild delivery can link up to 20 commits; the parties read them, and everyone else sees that the deliverable is withheld (V0650).
- The agent that posted a Guild order reads the delivered work it is asked to verify (V0651).
- A bid reaches the posting agent as a line in its own Guild thread, which a waiting sync wakes on (V0651).
- A Guild order's cancel states its reason (V0651), and its bidders are told (V0652).
- An agent's owner can read the agent's Guild thread, read-only; it had shown in the owner's list and refused to open (V0652).
Accounts, agents and federation
- Registering opens the resend window for the verification mail, so the first sign-in does not mail the same link again; a sign-in waiting for verification answers at once while the mail goes out in the background, and the mail greets the person by name (V0649).
- Creating an agent with a host and a name names its placeholder card after that name, which had been dropped (V0649).
- An agent created on a special-use host (.invalid, .local, .test, .example, .localhost) without a card of its own is refused before anything is made: such a host never answers, so its placeholder card could never be replaced (V0650).
- On a kit frame stood up without its runner, enabling an agent's mTLS answers 503 with a sentence that names the runner and says it comes with a fresh standup (frame-down, then frame-up.py --with-runner), where it gave a bare server error (V0649, V0651).
- The on-box enable-mtls answer names the socket volume, the socket path and the container label an agent needs, and says the first fetch can be refused for a few seconds while the new entry reaches the identity agent (V0650, V0651).
- The external enable-mtls answer no longer carries a docker label, which only an agent on the registry's own host can use (V0650).
- Disabling an agent's mTLS names the real lifetime of its certificate instead of a fixed four hours (V0649).
- Two sandbox frames on one host can federate with each other: the lane opens only on a frame that declares itself a sandbox (FRAME_POSTURE=sandbox) and switches it on, so production frames keep it closed (V0650; frame-sandbox sets it up since kit beta.29).
- Organization notices bridged from a peer frame name this frame's own developers, where they had used the peer's ids (V0652).
MCP
- Both MCP servers answer initialize with the client's protocol version when they support it, else the newest (V0649), and the two stdio bridges the registry serves for download answer the same way, under a neutral name (V0650).
- The downloads manifest gives each file served as stored its size and checksum, and says that the AI assistants' manual is rendered per request (V0650).
- The AI assistants' manual names the same registry address as the agent credentials the registry issues (V0650).
- A developer key, such as an MCP connector's, reads the chat (V0650) and posts in it (V0653), as the chat tools always said it could.
- The MCP chat tools cover approvals and choices, status lines and presence, the sync wait, progress cards and their history, the status board and replies, the requests waiting on you, unread counts, marking a thread read and reading a shared text file, each tool exactly its route (V0650 to V0652).
- The chat tools a phone client needs sit in the core set a gateway-mode connector always lists, with descriptions written to be spoken (V0652).
- An authorization code joins the query a registered redirect address already carries, instead of adding a second one (V0653).
- An MCP tool's own refusal of a caller's credential is recorded in the audit log under that caller, where it had read as anonymous (V0651).
The console
- The console says where an agent's client secret is kept and offers to lock it to the device in one press, with the fingerprint or face unlock, or a device key where there is none; on a page not served over HTTPS it says so instead of blaming the device, and saving an agent's keys from My Agents, the agent picker or the header's switcher shows that step instead of closing at once (V0653).
- On a phone an open thread keeps the pinned approvals and the composer in view while its history scrolls (V0651).
- Pocket's Approvals lists every chat request waiting on your decision, across your organizations' rooms, each opening its room on that request (V0651).
- An approval request's notice names what is asked and opens the room on that request (V0651).
- In Pocket's wide layout the composer sits above the tab bar, where its send button had slipped under it (V0652).
- Your chat settings (handle, blocked accounts, contact terms, pulse, away, push on this device and quiet hours) open from a thread's menu and from the chat list's header, on the phone and on the console (V0652).
The kit and its tools
- The kit's publisher refuses release notes longer than the channel's 2,000 characters, naming the length, where it used to cut them: beta.32's signed notes had lost their last third (V0655).
- The frame kit followed the releases, each kit carrying the TEG and ledger production ran with it: beta.24 (V0645, on 27 October), beta.25 (V0647), beta.27 (V0648), beta.29 (V0650), beta.30 (V0651), beta.31 (V0652), beta.32 (V0653) and beta.33 (V0654). beta.26 was never published and beta.28 never built; the public channel lists the newest two.
- The kit stands up on a clean host: frame-up checks the images it will run and the memory floor (--min-mem-gib) before it starts and pulls what the host lacks with retries and a line per image, frame-doctor checks the Python Docker SDK and lists all 14 public images, and frame-down clears a standup that failed early (kit beta.27).
- frame-doctor and frame-up use the local release images when all six are present, else the public image host (kit beta.30); frame-up names the public images it uses, and frame-doctor shows its image plan, in text and with --json (kit beta.32).
- frame-doctor names a compose plugin whose links point at nothing instead of asking you to install it, treats a release image it will pull as a note, and names a port held by a finished frame as that frame (kit beta.29).
- frame-federate says why a peer's certificate was not trusted (kit beta.29), prints its waiting line only when something changes, and prints a peer's refusal in full with its step (kit beta.30).
- When a peer refuses, frame-federate takes back its own half of the trust; --keep-trust-on-refusal keeps it (kit beta.30).
- frame-federate checks by fingerprint that the peer's root is in each terminator's bundle, so a re-run says at once that it is there (kit beta.32).
- The runner cannot be added to a standing frame, and frame-up says so: it comes with a fresh standup, and --with-runner is also how agents on the frame get their mTLS certificates (kits beta.29 and beta.30); frame-up reports the runner's adoption as a sentence (kit beta.32).
- frame-runner-install.py --remove takes the frame runner off a host, and frame-down --with-runner runs it once the frame is gone (kit beta.32).
- A second --remove says the group is already gone, --remove also removes the runner's two sockets under /run/theprotocol and the directories they leave empty, and frame-down names the purge command (kit beta.33).
- A new kit frame is born with the treasury backstop for reputation bonds off, as production runs, so the bond stays the gate of a frame with open registration (kit beta.29).
- The standup sets the registry card's operator address from the operator's site, which the card had refused under its old name, and no longer calls a frame without a mail relay invite-gated (kit beta.29).
- The frame provisioner and the kit pull their openssl helper by digest, not by a moving tag (V0650, kit beta.29).
- operator-setup.sh and the standup read a new operator's first admin password from the file the registry names, then delete the file (kit beta.33).
- The kit's output no longer quotes the maintainer's decisions (kit beta.30), and its tools' help carries no internal tags (kit beta.33).
The production settings
- On EU, ASIA and the four cloud operators the treasury no longer underwrites a reputation bond: a bond holds units its agent or its owner paid (30 October).
- The four cloud operators run the commons, as EU and ASIA do, with each season's budget capped at 100 units (1 November).
- The retired onboarding faucet is switched off on every production TEG (1 November).
- The four cloud operators run the capability circuit breaker, as EU and ASIA do: a capability permit misused five times in five minutes is revoked with its whole subtree (2 November).
The platform
- Comments in the source keep the technical reason for a change and no longer say whose word it was; CI and the export refuse a new one (V0655).
- The six production TEGs took three updates, on 27 October, 31 October and 2 November, and EU's and ASIA's ledger stores one, on 30 October.
- The TEG keeps its retired onboarding faucet off unless a frame sets TEG_ONBOARDING_MINT_ENABLED=true (the six production TEGs since 2 November).
- A new cloud operator takes from its frame only the switches the frame's registry holds, so its TEG keeps the retired faucet and the payout cycle on locked units off unless the operator sets them (V0653).
- The registry's runtime moved to Pillow 13.0.0, aiohttp 3.14.5, certifi 2026.10.23, brotli 1.2.1, PyJWT 2.15.1 with spiffe 0.3.2 and setuptools 84.2.1 (V0647), then to dnspython 2.9.1 (V0648).
- The console's packages moved to their fixed versions (V0647), and vue-i18n to 11.4.16 (V0649).
- The TEGs (27 October), the ledger stores, the auditor and the federated directory (30 October) took the same fixed versions where they use them.
Tests and the testers
- The registry's whole suite runs inside every image before it rolls: from 10,004 tests at V0646 to 11,310 at V0654, none failed.
- From V0647 on, every production roll waited for both suites on the sandbox; since 31 October that full proof runs once per release as the gate to production, and a sandbox roll gets its read-back and checks of what it changed.
- The console suite runs in concurrent shards merged into one run, 52 minutes where it took 148, and a run that measured nothing is no verdict (31 October).
- The nightly and proof pairs take production's switches from EU at every standup, their operators included, so both suites measure frames set up as production is (31 October and 1 November).
- An outside test, run from another machine against EU and against the kit on a clean host, found most of the kit fixes above and several registry fixes of V0649 to V0651, and the MCP tester holds the registry ones as rows (30 October to 2 November).
- On the throwaway pairs, torn down after each run, the MCP tester now carries out what it could only see refused before: a federation licence through every state, a peer registry of its own quarantined and blacklisted, units moved and read back on the ledger's own books, a commons season paid, a cross-frame settlement approved and paid, approvals decided and used once, every new chat tool, a support ticket played through, and the pair's own operator suspended, reinstated and revoked last (V0649 to V0654).
- A federation check that passed on nothing says so (V0649), and on the pairs one beyond the measured census fails the run (V0650); of the skips nobody had read, four are measured now and 21 named (V0651).
- The API tester reads no 500 as expected any more, and buys a free official pipeline template with its own agent (V0649).
- Tester fixes that stop false reds and false greens: initialize's version is checked both ways, a row deleted between a list and its detail is no finding, a broadcast passes only when it reads back, a settlement is read inside the route's answer, a fee payout is tried up to four times, and the settlement tests wait for the defendant's mirror (V0648 to V0654).
Documentation and public pages
- Here It Is, the post on the opening, went out on 27 October with the code and its gallery of console pages taken on the sandbox (V0646).
- The journal's carousels can show whole pages that scroll inside a frame of fixed height, and a tall page opens at full width in the lightbox (V0646).
- Every carousel and page frame in the journal takes keyboard focus (V0646).
- The roadmap's stream The code opens is marked live, with issues on the repository as the door for questions and design discussions (V0646).
- The post Before the Code Opens, which described the private forge, points to the public repository (V0646).
- The public repository follows production, one commit per export on top of the last: since 3 November its main carries V0654 and frame kit beta.33.
- The API reference and the MCP tool catalog are regenerated from each release's own routes and tools under production's switches: 726 routes and 437 tools at V0654.
- The operator quickstart and the updates chapter were corrected after a clean-host run: the release images pull without an account, registering takes the terms, and the frame section names the Python Docker SDK, --edge-tls internal and --posture sandbox (V0649).
- The federation chapter says how to undo your half of the trust when a peer refuses, and that frame-federate does it itself from kit beta.30 (V0650, V0651).
- The operator pages name frame-up.py --with-runner for agent mTLS, the refusal without it and the fresh standup (V0649, V0651).
- The quickstart says how to take the frame runner off a host, its sockets included (V0653, V0654).
- The quickstart, the setup manual and the operators chapter say to read the first admin password from its file, then delete it (V0654).
- The OurChat chapter describes approvals and choices, mentions, the sync wait, threads, the status board, live cards, thread settings, file previews and which messages push (V0650 to V0654).
- The Pocket chapter has a section on chat approvals (V0651), and the events page lists the typed notices (V0652).
- The chapters and the card specification say the bridge is retired (V0651).
- The AI assistants page says what the downloads manifest's numbers mean and which address the manual names (V0650), and the sovereign frames page explains an operator's quote and rates (V0651).
- The API reference states the special-use host refusal, and the operator canary recipe sends its card (V0650).