TheOrc v1.13.0
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What's new in v1.13.0
Context Fabric closes its benchmark gate at GO — honestly. The CF-7 gate reached GO on cf-expanded-book-v1, a 128-segment un-marked corpus with 120 real held-out questions: Qwen3.5-9B answered 104/120 at 97.1% citation precision with 128/128 segments read, versus a best competing baseline of 52/120. Critically, this run replaces an earlier 2026-07-03 GO that was found to have scored against a corpus containing marked/leaked evidence lines — that result was retracted, the corpus rebuilt clean, and the gate re-run from scratch. Two independent bugs surfaced during live validation and were fixed to reach the honest verdict: the open-extraction reader was silently dropping facts on dense filler-heavy segments (now backed by a completeness-repair pass), and the exhaustive-leaf-coverage gate was checking a stale whole-corpus assumption left over from the old 16-segment fixture (now scoped to each question's own segment set).
A stricter NoKvSlot admission fix underneath the gate. The §7e prompt-overflow fix (exact-token admission) closed a class of Qwen3.5 KV-cache exhaustion crashes that had been corrupting benchmark scores — runs are now checked for NoKvSlot before their numbers are trusted, and Qwen3.5-Q8_0 is the new best-performing configuration on the gate.
Cost-tiered external code review. The grok-review tooling was reworked into four explicit modes — quick (default, cheap, latest commit), diff (pre-commit uncommitted check), full (PR-scope with repo reads and project conventions), and adversary (a red-team pass that hunts what the prior reviewer missed) — with a real -PR <n> flag, corrected tool-policy enforcement, and a verdict parser hardened against both narration-glued findings and fail-open false-CLEAN results. The tool proved itself during its own review, catching three real regressions in its own pull request before merge.
🪟 Windows — one-click install (recommended)
- Download OrchestratorSetup.exe below
- Run it — the wizard detects your GPU, downloads the right runtime and model, configures everything
- Launch from the Desktop shortcut or Start Menu
Portable: download TheOrc-1.13.0-win-x64-portable.zip instead — contains both OrchestratorIDE.exe and OrchestratorSetup.exe, extract both to the same folder, run OrchestratorIDE.exe.
🍎 macOS (Apple Silicon)
- Download OrchestratorSetup below (no extension)
- In Terminal:
chmod +x OrchestratorSetup && ./OrchestratorSetup - First launch will show a Gatekeeper warning ("cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified") — this build isn't code-signed yet. Right-click the file → Open, or run
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine OrchestratorSetupfirst. - The wizard detects your hardware, downloads the right runtime and model, configures everything
Portable: download TheOrc-1.13.0-osx-arm64-portable.tar.gz instead — tar -xzf it, both binaries are already executable.
Intel Macs (osx-x64) aren't built yet — only Apple Silicon.
🐝 Warband (headless HIVE node, no GUI)
Deploy theorc-warband on any machine you want to join your HIVE without opening the
full app — a cloud box, a home-lab server, a Raspberry Pi. Download the binary for your
OS below, chmod +x theorc-warband, then either run it directly or set it up as a
systemd service (Linux) / launchd agent (macOS) so it survives reboots. See
--show-identity and --pair --target <host> --expect-fingerprint "<phrase>" for
joining an existing HIVE headlessly.
🖥️ System requirements
| OS | Windows 10/11 (x64) · macOS (Apple Silicon) |
| .NET | Not required — fully self-contained |
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX (CUDA 12) · AMD (Vulkan) · Apple Silicon (Metal) · CPU-only (AVX2 / baseline) |
| RAM | 8 GB minimum · 16 GB recommended |
Full changelog: v1.12.0...v1.13.0
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