v0.4.0

Alice v0.4.0 makes the system easier to adopt without changing its core continuity model.

This release adds a single continuity entrypoint for external agents, a lighter local startup path, and clearer visibility into memory quality and conversation health.

What is included

• One-call continuity across API, CLI, and MCP
• Alice Lite for a faster local first run
• Memory hygiene visibility for duplicates, stale facts, contradictions, weak trust, and review pressure
• Conversation health visibility for recent, stale, and risky threads

Why this matters

• External agents can integrate through one main continuity call instead of stitching together multiple surfaces
• Solo users and builders can get Alice running locally with less setup friction
• Operators can see quality and risk posture more clearly without weakening Alice's continuity semantics

Baseline included in this release

• Phase 12 retrieval, mutation, trust calibration, eval, and briefing stack
• Hermes bridge support
• Provider runtime and model-pack support

Verification

• 1279 Python tests passed
• 200 web tests passed
• Alice Lite smoke passed
• Hermes provider, MCP, and bridge demo smoke passed
• Public eval harness passed 12/12 cases

Release boundary
This is the public pre-1.0 release for the completed Phase 13 surface.