v1.0.0
NilCore v1.0.0 — the agent its constitution describes
NilCore is a tiny, robust, sandboxed coding and research agent: the harness is small, the model is the engine, and trust comes from three disciplines only — the verifier, the sandbox, and the append-only audit log. v1.0.0 accumulates Phases 7–12 + the deferred items D1–D4 + the external-review fixes R1–R3 on top of the [v0.1.0] core (Phases 0–6).
What it does
- One task or a whole project — a native loop, or an agentic supervisor that spawns role-specialized subagents, integrates their parallel worktrees into one verifier-green tree, and re-plans to convergence. Plus delegated Codex / Claude Code behind one frozen contract.
- Verified swarm mode (
nilcore swarm) — fan hundreds of agents into a bounded in-process pool where every unit produces a typed artifact judged by a verify-pack; only verifier-green shards ship, failed shards requeue until clean. Five presets, a tiered provider pool, a live scoreboard. - Code is one verifiable artifact among many — reports · matrices · audits · benchmarks · dossiers, each claim re-checked in the sandbox (
nilcore reportrenders the trust story and refuses green over a broken chain). - Sees the running app through a sandboxed headless browser (drives a flow, then folds a behavioral check into the verdict).
- Understands four languages structurally and semantically (Go · Python · TS/JS · Rust; AST · graph · repo-map · LSP · pure-Go HNSW · impact).
- Runs unattended and reacts — metered budgets, durable crash-resume, webhook + cron triggers, gated draft PRs (the agent never merges).
- Conversational front door (
nilcore chat, Telegram/Slack) with live streaming + queue/steer.
The receipts
- 7 / 7 invariants hold · 2 core deps in the default binary (pure-Go SQLite +
golang.org/x/sys) ·CGO_ENABLED=0· the Charm TUI links only undermake tui. make verifygreen ·golangci-lint0 issues · ~46.5k lines of agent (~89.3k incl. tests, 206 test files) · 84 packages.- Cross-compiled binaries attached for darwin/linux × amd64/arm64.
What's next
The only remaining roadmap is the gated external-infrastructure tier (EXT-01..08) — deliberately not eligible work, fully blueprinted in docs/EXT-EXECUTION-PLANS.md but blocked behind a recorded human thesis decision. Phase-13+ candidates are scanned in docs/HORIZON.md.
Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md.