Knowledge Vault v0.2.5

Knowledge Vault 0.2.5 — the Powerhouse Knowledge Vault on your own computer.

What's new

• Ctrl K answers a question, not just its words. A moment after you stop typing, the palette lists the notes
  and maps closest in meaning, in the order the search page ranks them, so the note that answers is one click
  away. It runs on this computer, offline.
• Your vault keeps itself healthy. After each batch of sources, the pipeline writes the vault's health report,
  the one the Health view shows. Reweave notes then takes exactly what the report flags (notes nothing links to,
  notes with fewer than 2 links, notes in no topic) and links them, and the report is rewritten. On a test vault the
  report went from FAIL (7 orphans) to 1 orphan and 2.2 links per note in ten minutes, without anyone touching it.
• Fewer orphan notes from the start. A link can now run either way between a new note and the vault: when an
  existing note builds on a new one, the link goes into the new note.
• Local AI runs the whole pipeline. A model on this computer (llama.cpp, LM Studio, Ollama) no longer fails in
  Connect notes: a call may take longer than five minutes, the batches go one at a time, and the model is asked for
  low reasoning in the form it reads (gpt-oss on llama.cpp spent 2.5 times the tokens before).
• Pipelines update themselves. When an app update brings a newer pipeline, every vault's pipeline is brought up
  to date at start, its history kept. Nothing to click; a pipeline you switched off, or edited in Workflow Studio,
  is left as it is.
• Files you add in a vault wait for your review, also after the setup guide (they were filed at once).
• The setup guide remembers where you are. A card on its overview, Workflow Studio, or Settings from there: Back
  reads "← Setup guide" and returns you to the step you left, until you finish or skip it. The steps you explored are
  ticked, and Getting started leaves the front page once every step is done.
• A vault's name is in its settings (Vault settings shows it), and renaming the vault renames it there too.
• Readers of a shared vault can open every note. Notes and maps made by the processing pipeline now belong to
  their vault the way sources do, so someone you give read access can open them, not only the vault's sources.
• Notes stay current while open. A note's claim and description update when the note changes elsewhere — in
  another window, or when an agent or the pipeline edits it — without reloading.
• Connecting AI is three buttons. The chat's first screen offers Connect with OpenRouter, Add API key and
  Connect local AI. Someone who has just created an OpenRouter account and comes back unconnected is told so and
  signed in again in one click; while you sign in, the app names your browser and lets you cancel.
• The chat opens even when a vault's knowledge graph does not answer, instead of an error taking the vault down.
• An update on Linux replaces the installed AppImage, so the menu entry or shortcut you start it from opens the
  new version.
• The app says who makes it. On Linux the packages name the app, its developer (liberuum), its license (GNU
  AGPL v3.0) and what it does, for the software centres that read them.
• Signed downloads. The Linux AppImage carries a signature from the release key, SHA256SUMS lists every file's
  SHA-256 and is signed too, and the Linux files carry GitHub build provenance — see
  checking a download.
• Built on Powerhouse 6.2.3-dev.73 and the vault package 1.0.54-dev.47, with its embedding model now shipped
  as its own package (@powerhousedao/knowledge-vault-assets 1.0.0), still installed with the app.

Built from

• Powerhouse stack 6.2.3-dev.73
• @powerhousedao/knowledge-note 1.0.54-dev.47
• Node 24.21.0 (bundled)

Installing

Pick the file named for your system: …_Linux_x86-64, …_macOS_Apple-silicon or …_Windows_x64-setup.

• Linux (glibc 2.34+: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora, RHEL 9 and newer): the _Linux_x86-64.AppImage runs as is (chmod +x, then open it); the _Linux_x86-64.deb installs with sudo apt install ./<file>.deb.
• Windows 10/11 (64-bit): run the _Windows_x64-setup.exe. It is not signed yet: if SmartScreen warns you, choose More info › Run anyway.
• macOS 13.5+ (Apple silicon): these builds are ad-hoc signed, not notarised, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open the _macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg and drag the app to Applications, then open it. When macOS says it could not verify the app, choose Done — not Move to Bin, which deletes it. Then open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, choose Open Anyway next to Knowledge Vault and confirm with your password. From then on it opens normally. (Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Knowledge Vault.app".)

Your vaults live in the app's data folder and are kept across updates; a backup is made before a new version opens them.

Installers

File	Size
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.5_Linux_x86-64.AppImage	296 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.5_Linux_x86-64.deb	341 MB
Knowledge-Vault_0.2.5_macOS_Apple-silicon.dmg	391 MB