Valence v1.0.0

Valence v1.0.0 — First Stable Release

The substrate that lets agents build genuine understanding of their humans.

What is Valence?

Infrastructure for how agents should actually understand and align with their humans. Not just memory — understanding. Beliefs with confidence, temporal validity, trust relationships, the whole epistemic stack.

Highlights

🧠 Beliefs, not facts — 6D confidence dimensions + extensible schemas
🤝 Trust is multi-dimensional — competence, integrity, judgment, and beyond
👁️ Watch ≠ Trust — attention is free, endorsement is earned
🔐 Privacy by default — your beliefs are yours unless you share them
🌐 Real P2P — Kademlia DHT, GossipSub, NAT traversal via py-libp2p
🆔 Multi-DID identity — each node has its own DID, no master key SPOF
📊 Contribution-based QoS — contributors get priority under load
🔄 Federation — nonce replay protection, key rotation, cursor pagination, peer exchange

Principles

1. Privacy by default
2. Reputation from rigor, not popularity
3. Exit rights — you can always leave with your data
4. No central censor
5. Transparency

Install

pip install valence
# For P2P networking:
pip install valence[p2p]

What's Next

• rust-libp2p when scale demands it
• Auto-ingestion from conversations
• Valence skill for other agents
• Network governance transition

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list of changes since v0.3.0.