v0.16.0 — Notes as memory: evidence notes, auto-capture, and the curator

Highlights

• Chat saves its own conclusions. After an answer that synthesizes across sources, Alchemy may save an evidence note — the claim, quoted passages with their sources, confidence, counter-evidence, open questions. It's conservative by design (most exchanges save nothing), dedupes by claim so records accumulate evidence instead of siblings, and an auto badge marks what it created. Editing an auto note makes it yours.
• Notes are searchable memory now. Notes are embedded into the same retrieval index as sources, as a clearly labeled tier: chat can cite your notes (with a note badge — click opens the note), ⌘K finds passages inside them, meta-chat returns them across notebooks, and MCP search reports noteId so agents can recall prior conclusions. Existing notes are indexed automatically on first launch.
• A curator keeps auto notes tidy. Unused auto notes go stale after ~30 app-open days (dimmed) and archive at ~90 (out of retrieval, never deleted — an Archived section keeps them a click away, and any use revives them). Once a week, while you're away, it also merges auto records that state the same claim (Settings → General to turn off). Every action lands in a per-notebook "Curator report" note.
• Evidence Log generator. A new Studio tile distills a notebook's major claims into auditable records; agents can create evidence notes over MCP with kind: "evidence".
• Reports collapsed to living notes. Each scheduled report now maintains one note — stable title, newest content, run stamp inside — instead of piling up timestamped copies. Existing piles collapse on first launch.

Fixes

• Auto-evidence parsing survives real model output (markdown-decorated markers, reasoning preambles) instead of silently skipping.
• Dev builds bind the MCP server one port above the configured one, so a dev instance and the installed app no longer collide.
• Dev builds show a DEV chip in the title bar and the commit sha in Settings → About.
• The home title bar drops the non-actionable provider-status chip.

Notes

• First launch migrates the notes table (new origin/status columns) and backfills the retrieval index with existing notes — a brief one-time cost.
• Weekly auto-note consolidation is on by default; it's idle-gated, capped, and fully reversible. Settings → General → "Consolidate auto notes weekly" to disable.
• Audio Overview scripts are deliberately excluded from retrieval.

Full Changelog: v0.15.0...v0.16.0