HEKB v1.0.0

HEKB v1.0.0

Overview

This release establishes the public foundation of HEKB.

HEKB is a content-addressed knowledge operating substrate for immutable facts and lightweight semantic relationships.

Its responsibility is intentionally narrow:

• Store facts
• Relate facts
• Retrieve facts

HEKB does not perform inference, ranking, embedding, or policy decisions.

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Highlights

New README

The project documentation has been rewritten for first-time users.

It now explains:

• What HEKB is
• Why it exists
• Core concepts
• Comparison with Vector DBs, Graph DBs, Knowledge Graphs, and NVS-Kernel
• Quick installation
• Documentation entry points

Stable Project Identity

The architectural boundary is now explicitly defined:

HEKB stores. NVS-Kernel decides.

HEKB remains completely independent from NVS-Kernel while serving as its knowledge substrate.

Documentation Improvements

• Simplified project overview
• Three-minute onboarding experience
• Clear separation of responsibilities
• Improved navigation to documentation

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Project Scope

HEKB provides:

• Immutable HEXT objects
• Content-addressed identities
• Morphisms
• Knowledge retrieval
• Stable APIs

HEKB intentionally does not provide:

• LLM inference
• Embeddings
• Entity resolution
• Ontologies
• Runtime safety
• Policy engines

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License

Apache License 2.0

See LICENSE and NOTICE for details.

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Thank you to everyone helping establish HEKB as an open, reusable foundation for knowledge-centric systems.