Veronica 1.0.0 — Linux x64 · Windows x64

Veronica 1.0.0 — Linux x64 · Windows x64

First public build of Veronica (VACA), the AI code architect: describe an app in
plain English and it builds it.

This is a time-limited demo. It runs normally until 9 December 2026,
then refuses to launch. The date is fixed rather than counted per machine, so
every copy stops on the same day. Nothing is deleted when it expires — see
"Demo builds" in the README for exactly what it does and does not do.

Downloads

File	Use
veronica_1.0.0_amd64.deb	Ubuntu/Debian system install. sudo apt install ./veronica_1.0.0_amd64.deb
Veronica-1.0.0.AppImage	Portable, no install. Needs libfuse2.
Veronica-1.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz	Self-contained runtime directory. Extract anywhere and run linux-unpacked/veronica.
Veronica-Setup-1.0.0.exe	Windows x64 installer. Per-user NSIS, no admin prompt, creates shortcuts. Unsigned.
SHA256SUMS	Checksums for the four files above.

You also need the model — it is not in these files

The weights are ~9 GB and are deliberately not bundled. Install them once per
machine, separately:

./scripts/install-model.sh                    # public qwen2.5-coder:14b
./scripts/install-model.sh --tuned --gguf-url <URL>   # the VACA-tuned Qwen2.5 14B

See the README section “The model — downloaded separately”. Briefly:

• The app ships pinned to qwen2.5-coder:14b, served over the
  OpenAI-compatible API (Ollama by default, http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1).

• This build was developed against a tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-Uncensored
  Q4_K_M, created in Ollama as vaca-r20-q4. It is hosted on Hugging Face, not
  attached here — see The tuned model in the README:
  https://huggingface.co/StevenWoods/veronica-r20-q4-GGUF

  ollama run hf.co/StevenWoods/veronica-r20-q4-GGUF

  That repository carries the template and params files, so the one command
  above is the whole install. ./scripts/install-model.sh --tuned does the same
  thing through a local Modelfile.

• Without a reachable model the UI loads and the app runs, but generation does
  nothing: /health reports llm.up:false.

Requirements

• Linux: Ubuntu/Debian x86-64. GTK3, NSS, libsecret and the usual Chromium
  runtime libraries (the .deb declares them). Windows: 10/11 x64.
• The Windows installer was cross-built with wine on Linux and its packaged
  payload was verified, but it has not been installed and launched on a real
  Windows machine. Expect to shake out first-run issues.
• No system Node — the bundled backend runs on Electron's own Node.
• A GPU is not required, but a 14B Q4_K_M wants roughly 9–10 GB of VRAM to be
  usable. It will fall back to CPU, slowly.

Known issues

• On Ubuntu 24.04+ the app may abort at startup with
  The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly.
  Run with --no-sandbox, or restore the setuid bit / install the AppArmor
  profile the build ships with — all three fixes are in the README's
  Troubleshooting section. This affects the .deb's menu entry too.
• Unsigned binaries; some systems will warn.
• chrome-sandbox in the tarball is not setuid, so linux-unpacked/veronica
  needs --no-sandbox (or the same fix).

License

Proprietary — all rights reserved. Source is published for reference; that is
not a license to reuse it. Electron, Chromium and the vendored packages keep
their own licenses, and the model carries its own.

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Verifying what you downloaded

SHA256SUMS covers the four files above. From the directory you downloaded them
into:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS

The model is a separate download and has its own checksum on Hugging Face.