Holographic Eye 1.3.0 — clearer labels and staged memory editing

Holographic Eye 1.3.0

A local cockpit for Hermes memory, with clearer labels and a friendlier editor.

Area	1.2	1.3
Labels	Could sit beside or above unrelated nodes	Below-node captions with stems and quiet overview
Preview content	Content snippets	Progressive content, entity and tag previews
Colors	Key buried in the manual	Visible renderer-backed Color key
Editing	Scattered prompts and immediate trust slider	Unified staged editor with explicit saves
Capacity warning	Native tooltip	Persistent explanation and Copy prompt
Native frame	GTK/system decoration	Undecorated window with draft-safe WM close
Provider/API	1.1.0	Unchanged 1.1.0

Screenshots and the full gallery are in README.md in the repository and source archive.

Highlights

• Find Color key beside Text in the Field.
• Use Inspect → Edit memory for content, category, tags and separately staged Fact trust.
• Open SNR for the persistent capacity explanation. Copy prompt copies text for Hermes; it does not send or modify anything.
• Reload and native-close guards keep dirty, kept, busy and uncertain drafts from disappearing without a decision.

The exact DEB passed 54 native WebKit/Openbox checks in a private synthetic network/display. Full UI 1,788, high-DPI/high-contrast 344, legacy GUI 107 and transport 194 checks passed. Existing backend and Zig contracts also passed. Installed binary/assets and unchanged provider files were independently verified.

Removed, honestly

The immediate trust-slider write and native metadata prompts are replaced by staged controls. Ordinary labels are intentionally omitted at the overview and in crowded areas; full content is not forced onto every node. Native title-bar buttons are removed; use your window manager’s close/move/resize actions.

No retrieval or mutation feature was silently removed. Persistent engine settings, raw vectors and derived fields remain read-only here. Quarantine/UMAP and live restore remain unbuilt. Drafts are page-local, not crash-persistent. Preflight is not a server lock; detail and absolute-trust actions are separate, not an atomic Save-all.

Exact pixel/hit checks passed, but synchronous draw medians increased 5.3 → 5.8ms in the longer component comparison. Warm label layouts were fast; one first-use layout reached 22.7ms. No speedup or universal 8ms cold bound is claimed. Detailed receipts are included in docs/dev/label-editor-pass.

Install

System	Command
Debian / Ubuntu / Mint	sudo apt install ./holographic-eye_1.3.0_amd64.deb
Fedora / RHEL	sudo dnf install ./holographic-eye-1.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Source	Extract holographic-eye-1.3.0-source.tar.gz; follow README’s pinned Zig and native build instructions

Packages install the shell, desktop entry, icons and man page. Existing installations also need the frontend-only update described in README. Provider/API remains 1.1.0; no gateway restart is needed. Native builds require WebKitGTK 4.1 version 2.40 or newer. Linux Mint is tested; RPM payload validation is not a Fedora runtime claim.

Verify:

holographic-eye version --json
holographic-eye status --json

Expected shell version: 1.3.0. Launch a fresh Eye window for the new code.

Checksums

Download all desired assets and SHA256SUMS, then run sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS. Keep the prior frontend backup until verification succeeds.

GPLv3. System-resolved fonts. Original implementation: Claude (Fable 5). Refinement: Prime and GPT workers, built with Ben.

Repository visibility remains private; use your existing GitHub access to download.

Holographic Eye 1.2.0 — responsive exploration

Holographic Eye 1.2.0

A local cockpit for Hermes holographic memory, with clearer exploration on both narrow and wide windows.

Area	1.1	1.2
Narrow windows	Desktop-width layout	Explore/Evidence/Inspect modes down to 640×480
Floating dialogs	Headers could scroll away	Fixed header and close control, scrolling body
Field text	Points and tooltips	Bounded content snippets when space permits
Browsing	Field and evidence lists	Exact Categories and UTC metadata Timeline
Memory provider/API	1.1.0	Unchanged 1.1.0

Highlights

• Preserve selection, history, focus and scroll while changing views.
• Browse Stored or Last updated metadata. Invalid or missing dates remain Unknown.
• Keep Zig picking and its JavaScript fallback. Labels never move facts or change hit targets.
• Keep ten themes, four text sizes, mutation safeguards and dirty rendering.

981 responsive checks and all 107 existing GUI checks passed. Native WebKit/Openbox checks passed against the exact DEB in a private synthetic network/display. The installed binary and served assets were independently hash-verified. No gateway restart or database writes were performed by this update.

Removed, honestly

No core retrieval or mutation feature was removed. Dense areas may omit labels; snippets are bounded, not full documents. Timeline is stored metadata, not event history. Coverage is the loaded set. Quarantine and UMAP remain unbuilt, and live database restore remains unsupported.

A longer warmed comparison preserved exact pixels and hits, with median draw time 4.7ms baseline versus 4.6ms candidate. Tail variability remains. This is a component/canvas-command measurement with labels off, not native frame presentation. At 20,000 facts, cold label layout can exceed the 8ms target. Both favorable and unfavorable measurements are retained in the source ledger.

Install

Download the matching asset from this release.

System	Command
Debian / Ubuntu / Mint	sudo apt install ./holographic-eye_1.2.0_amd64.deb
Fedora / RHEL	sudo dnf install ./holographic-eye-1.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Source	Extract holographic-eye-1.2.0-source.tar.gz; follow the pinned Zig and native build instructions in README.md

The packages install the native shell, desktop entry, icons and man page. Linux Mint is the tested host; the RPM is payload-validated, not a claimed Fedora runtime installation.

Existing 1.1 users must also update the frontend assets. The provider/API remains 1.1.0 and does not need a restart. Save Eye drafts, close only Eye, build the frontend from the source archive, and use the README's backed-up frontend-only copy instructions. First installations use the separate provider setup instructions.

Verify:

holographic-eye version --json
holographic-eye status --json

Expected shell version: 1.2.0. Reopen Eye to load the new interface; existing windows were not forcibly reloaded.

Checksums

Download SHA256SUMS beside the assets and run sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS. Keep the prior frontend backup until verification succeeds.

GPLv3. System-resolved fonts. Original implementation: Claude (Fable 5). Responsive exploration: Prime and GPT workers, built with Ben.

v1.1.0 — a faster, safer memory cockpit

Holographic Eye 1.1.0

A local memory cockpit with a Field-first interface and a Zig/WebAssembly selection engine.

Surface	1.0.3	1.1.0
Inspect	Fixed empty pane	Compact empty rail, fact history, clearer evidence bands
Journal	Rebuilt rows on each event	Batched, keyed rows and a compact latest-event glance
Field hit testing	Repeated layout reads	One viewport read and a 319-byte Zig/WASM kernel
Disconnection	Could miss intervening changes	Projection, entities, stats, and recent journal catch up
Undo	Could overwrite a newer edit	State and later-resource checks reject stale or ABA undo
Invalid mutation input	Coercions could reach the store	Typed, finite validation before store calls
Failed acknowledgment	Could look successful	Unknown outcomes stay explicit and are not retried
Native shell	Version switch only	Structured help, schema, status, errors, and recovery screen

Highlights

• Ten themes and four text scales remain. The Field keeps its actual HRR/PCA geometry.
• Inspect keeps up to 50 single- and multi-selection snapshots.
• Zig handles pointer hit testing with strict float64 behavior. A JavaScript fallback stays available.
• The journal treats stored content as text, not executable HTML.
• Missing tokens and denied browser storage no longer trap the interface in a retry loop.
• Modals manage focus, remove listeners, reject stale responses, and guard duplicate submissions.
• The unchanged NumPy SVD uses a scoped two-thread BLAS cap when threadpoolctl is available.

Synthetic benchmarks on the development host show about 17× faster live journal bursts in the final run.
The optimized JavaScript versus Zig benchmark shows about 3× faster hit testing at 3,000 facts.
The combined old-layout-loop versus current kernel gain is larger; it must not be attributed to Zig alone.
All compared Field pixels and hit IDs matched. These are not native WebKitGTK performance measurements.

Removed, honestly

No core memory capability was removed. Unsafe stale undo and malformed mutation coercions are now rejected.
Quarantine, UMAP, and live database restore remain unbuilt.
Memory and journal are separate SQLite files. Cross-process and crash-atomic updates are not claimed.
Agent writes remain best-effort journaled if the journal fails; Eye controls report incomplete journaling explicitly.

Install

Platform	Command
Debian / Ubuntu / Mint	sudo apt install ./holographic-eye_1.1.0_amd64.deb
Fedora / RHEL	sudo dnf install ./holographic-eye-1.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Source	Follow the pinned Zig, frontend, and Tauri build steps in README.md

The package installs the native shell, desktop entry, icons, man page, and GPL text.
The user-level provider and served interface still require the separate deployment step.
Provider upgrades must preserve active conversations. Frontend-only updates need no gateway restart.
RPM is payload/test-transaction verified on Mint, not runtime-tested on Fedora.

Verify: holographic-eye version --json reports 1.1.0; holographic-eye status --json checks attachment.
The local installation and full activation status are recorded in HANDOFF.md.

Verification and checksums

The release includes SHA256SUMS for DEB, RPM, and source assets.
The test matrix covers synthetic databases, browser edge cases, strict mutation acknowledgments,
Zig equivalence and fallback, native CLI behavior, and read-only installed-app checks.
Screenshots use synthetic data, not personal memories.

Built with Ben. Original implementation: Claude (Fable 5). Refinement: Prime and GPT workers, including Astra.

v1.0.3 — legible settings dropdowns

The Holographic Eye v1.0.3 — legible dropdowns

A one-line-of-CSS legibility fix, from Ben's hands-on pass.

Fixed

• The settings text-size box was hard to read. The native <select>
  dropdowns (⚙ → text size, and the ask-the-agent target picker) rendered
  with the WebKitGTK GTK widget skin — a light box with faint grey text
  that ignored the themed --ink-surface / --ink-text, so the current
  value was barely legible in the dark rooms. Now the native appearance is
  dropped so the theme tokens apply (crisp --ink-text on the room's
  surface), with a themed caret and a themed option popup. Every one of the
  10 rooms styles the dropdowns like the rest of the panel.

Removed, honestly

Nothing — one CSS fix, frontend-only. The desktop shell (.deb/.rpm) is
a pane of glass onto the control plane and is byte-identical in behavior to
v1.0.2; it's rebuilt only to keep the version aligned. If you already run
v1.0.2, the fix is in the provider's served frontend — git pull && ./build/deploy.sh and reload the window; no gateway restart needed.

Install

sudo apt install ./holographic-eye_1.0.3_amd64.deb      # deb systems
sudo dnf install ./holographic-eye-1.0.3-1.x86_64.rpm   # rpm systems
holographic-eye --version                                # → holographic-eye 1.0.3

SHA256SUMS covers every asset.

Receipts

• Fix verified in the actual Tauri/WebKitGTK app (off-screen): the text-size
  box shows crisp themed text + a caret; the open dropdown lists all four
  sizes legibly; both <select>s (text size + ask target) covered.
• p1 (15/15) + p2 (25/25) + test_bootwarm.py (14/14) ALL-PASS.
• Gateway restart → :8770 boot-warms at 1.0.3 in ~1 s (D-0015 holds).
  --version and /health both answer 1.0.3.

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⊙ Compiled from PLAN.md by Claude (Opus 4.8) with Ben — the rooms read
clearly now.

v1.0.2 — the plane wakes with the gateway

The Holographic Eye v1.0.2 — the plane wakes with the gateway

A reliability fix: the desktop app connects after every gateway restart,
instead of showing its connect error until an agent message happened to
arrive.

Fixed

• The control plane went dormant after every gateway restart. :8770
  was down — yet memory worked and the journal was live; nothing errored.
  Root cause: Hermes moved TUI/slash agent turns into
  tui_gateway.slash_worker subprocesses. The plane starts lazily and
  only inside the process whose argv carries the exact token gateway
  (the always-on hermes gateway run), so the workers' initialize()
  hit the skip_cp branch and never bound the port. And the wrapper is an
  exclusive memory plugin, loaded lazily — nothing in it runs at gateway
  boot either. Net: under a TUI-only workflow, :8770 could stay dark
  forever. (This is not the v1.0.0/D-0012 port-theft [Errno 98],
  which is a bind collision — this was pure dormancy, no error at all.)

How it's fixed (D-0015 — still zero Hermes core changes)

• The plane boot-warms at gateway start. A dedicated provider is warmed
  on a daemon thread when the gateway boots, binding :8770 ~1 s in — no
  agent message needed. The bind retries briefly so a socket lingering from
  the outgoing gateway across a restart self-heals.
• The plane keeps that provider as a persistent fallback. Reads resolve
  to the live per-session provider when one is attached, else the boot
  provider (attach_boot + active_provider()), so a session attaching
  then ending can never leave :8770 dark. Both read the same WAL DBs, so
  a fallback read is byte-identical to a live-session read.
• Triggered by the /holo companion, which is loaded at boot: in the
  gateway only, it force-loads the exclusive provider so its register()
  runs the boot-warm.

Removed, honestly

Nothing. One bug fixed; no features removed. The old manual wake (an
api_server :8642 message) still works as a fallback. Kill-switches
unchanged (accel: false, control_plane: never).

Install

sudo apt install ./holographic-eye_1.0.2_amd64.deb      # deb systems
sudo dnf install ./holographic-eye-1.0.2-1.x86_64.rpm   # rpm systems
holographic-eye --version                                # → holographic-eye 1.0.2

Provider update (this fix is server-side): git pull && ./build/deploy.sh && hermes gateway restart. After the restart, :8770 comes up on its own.
SHA256SUMS covers every asset.

Receipts

• New regression harness build/verify/test_bootwarm.py (14/14): boot
  provider serves the store as fallback with no session; a live session
  attaches over it then detaches → the plane falls back, /health stays
  attached, /stats keeps serving.
• p1 (15/15) + p2 (25/25) acceptance harnesses ALL-PASS with the
  active_provider() refactor.
• Live: gateway restart → :8770 self-starts in ~1 s with no message sent;
  the journal shows initialize · gateway-boot; the installed app connects.
  --version and /health both answer 1.0.2. GUI bundle unchanged from
  v1.0.1 (server-side fix only).

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⊙ Compiled from PLAN.md by Claude (Opus 4.8) with Ben — the plane wakes
when the gateway does.

v1.0.1 — the eye looks back

The Holographic Eye v1.0.1 — feedback round 3

Same-day polish on v1.0.0, from Ben's hands-on pass.

Fixed

• Garden glitched on theme switch. Root cause: the bed canvas was
  sized from getBoundingClientRect(), which returns the
  transform-scaled box — a theme switch landing mid-bloom (the
  sprout animation scales from 0) resized the canvas to 1 px tall
  and it stayed smeared. Now measured with layout boxes
  (offsetWidth/Height, transform-immune), theme switches repaint
  without re-blooming, and the double-draw path (settings chip +
  store listener both regrowing) is gone. Receipt: a 6-theme storm at
  60 ms intervals keeps the bed at 720×11 with all 696 flower pixels,
  every time (it collapsed to 720×1 before). The lane's ground color
  reads the theme's base token — cream under Paper, wine under
  Blossom Dark.
• The eye gazed downward. The almond's lids are asymmetric, so
  its visual aperture center sits above the geometric center — and
  iris + pupil were parked at the geometric one. They now sit at the
  aperture center: the eye looks at you.

Improved

• A more potent eye (Ben: "stitch multiple waveforms…"): the eye
  figures are double-exposed (each beam snapshot screen-blended
  twice), and two new scope-drawn figures joined — a spectral
  Cyan Tube inner iris ring and a hot White pupil core, the
  catch-light. The eye now out-glows its garden at every size.
• New README section: Multiple sessions & windows — is the
  database safe? One provider instance inside the gateway serves
  every session at once; any number of Eye windows can watch;
  mutations serialize through the provider's store API and are
  journaled/undoable; both DBs are WAL. The only forbidden move
  remains hot-restoring a backup (restore stays cold).

Removed, honestly

Nothing. This is fixes + additions only.

Install

sudo apt install ./holographic-eye_1.0.1_amd64.deb      # deb systems
sudo dnf install ./holographic-eye-1.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm   # rpm systems
holographic-eye --version                                # → holographic-eye 1.0.1

Provider update (if coming from 1.0.0): git pull && ./build/deploy.sh && hermes gateway restart. SHA256SUMS covers every asset.

Receipts

• 34/34 GUI break-test checks (now including the theme-storm garden
  gate) · p1 + p2 acceptance harnesses ALL-PASS · installed locally,
  --version answers 1.0.1, control plane /health answers 1.0.1.

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⊙ Compiled from PLAN.md by Claude (Fable 5) with Ben — the eye now
looks back.

v1.0.0 — the Eye, packaged

The Holographic Eye v1.0.0 — first packaged release

Glass cockpit for the Hermes holographic memory provider: the
agent's memory drawn as its real HRR geometry, every write
journaled with before/after images, everything undoable, and the
agent itself on the other end of an ask. Zero Hermes core changes.

Since the last deployed build (2026-07-03)

	before	v1.0.0
entity probe / Reason Workbench	~4.2 s per click (measured)	~40 ms — runtime encoder memoization in the wrapper; zero upstream diffs, byte-identical results (equivalence harness re-proven)
chrome	one hardcoded true-black look	10 palette rows in the sysmon/Phosphor token system — Blossom Dark default; the old look preserved verbatim as Blossom AMOLED
pixel garden	tiled → visibly symmetrical; overlaid the stream and pane scrollbars	seeded-RNG planting in a layout-reserved lane + vines/cottage behind the Field canvas — coverage is impossible by construction
app icon	static SVG rings	drawn by the Phosphor engine: closed parametric curves synthesized as stereo WAVs, traced by the CRT beam in XY mode, snapshotted per color layer
find (F)	the opening keystroke leaked into the input — every search silently became F… (shipped since v3)	fixed, plus the click-away dismiss no longer disarms itself
Inspect click cost	full-journal scan per click for recall counts	incremental (append-only journal ⇒ exact)
port hygiene	any long-lived hermes process could steal :8770 and serve stale code across upgrades (it happened — a dashboard held it)	control plane binds only inside hermes gateway run; failed binds retry
packaging	hand-built .deb only	.deb + .rpm + source tarball + SHA256SUMS, rebuilt every release

Removed, honestly

• The "no dark/light toggle" anti-goal — retired by Ben's
  direction (PLAN D-0011). Ten themes now, all equal-care.
• The repeat-x flowerbed tile and edge-vine overlays — replaced
  wholesale (D-0013); the stream's padding-bottom hack died with them.
• Nothing else was removed. Quarantine mode (Q5) and the UMAP
  projector remain deliberately unbuilt — see the README ledger.

Install

The Eye watches a living gateway: Hermes installed, the wrapper
provider deployed + selected, gateway booted (see README §Install).

# Debian / Ubuntu / Mint — or double-click the .deb
sudo apt install ./holographic-eye_1.0.0_amd64.deb

# Fedora / RHEL
sudo dnf install ./holographic-eye-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm

# from source
tar xf holographic-eye-1.0.0.tar.gz && cd holographic-eye-1.0.0
cd build/eye_frontend && npm install && npm run build && cd ../..
./build/deploy.sh
cd build/eye_shell/src-tauri && cargo tauri build --bundles deb,rpm

# verify
holographic-eye --version              # → holographic-eye 1.0.0
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8770/health   # → {"ok": true, …, "version": "1.0.0"}

Built on Linux Mint 22; .deb installed and relaunch-verified there.
.rpm requires exactly libwebkit2gtk-4.1 + libgtk-3 (structure
rpm --test verified on the build box) — Fedora reports welcome.

SHA256SUMS covers every asset: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

Receipts

• 40/40 offline acceptance checks (p1 equivalence, p2 control plane)
  with the accelerator installed — agent-visible behavior stays
  bit-identical to stock.
• 31/31 Playwright GUI checks: 10-theme sweep, garden-lane geometry,
  dirty-flag 0 idle draws, entity storm, typed-ID delete guard,
  Workbench 143 ms through the full UI, zero console errors.
• Live: probe(hermes) 4.18 s → 0.09 s cold / 0.04 s warm on 541 facts.

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⊙ Compiled from PLAN.md by Claude (Fable 5) with Ben — the beams in
the icon were traced by [Phosphor], Ben's CRT oscilloscope, because
the eye deserved to be drawn by an instrument, not a paintbrush.