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Honest progress — 0.0.28

This page is for operators and reviewers who need the truth, not a launch brochure. QualiaDB is the semantic engine; Webizen is the habitat product shell. Where we are not yet good enough for life-critical sole reliance, we say so.

What 0.0.28 is for

Make the desktop understandable and observable: guided setup for ordinary use, an Advanced Technical mode, visible background work, exportable diagnostics, restored communications, and a Hypermedia library that acts as the semantic home for documents, ontologies, models, and graph-derived artefacts. The same release also aligns every workspace crate and web package to 0.0.28.

This is an integration release, not a claim that every deep engine capability is now equally discoverable.

Not good enough yet (as sole system)

Desktop installers / signed updater CI is still hardening — do not treat a failed Actions run as a silent success.
Local LLM decode on large models is not yet competitive with specialised CUDA stacks for latency-critical use.
Do not use free-form generation alone for high-stakes legal, medical, or safety decisions.
Native mobile apps are out of product scope; phone = installable remote controller PWA only.
GPU capability profiling is diagnostic-only; runtime feature negotiation is not yet wired into all render paths.
Mixed-quant “Q4_K_M” browser models remain gated: native decode is coherent and the browser Q5_0 GEMM oracle passes exactly, but the specialised fused Q5 FFN path is still under end-to-end certification.

What is real in 0.0.28

Job Centre and debug mode — long-running downloads, model loads, anatomy assets, parsing, conversion, and inference are represented as jobs with state, progress, cancellation, retry, and failure details. Desktop logs are structured and exportable for agent-assisted diagnosis.
Setup and operating modes — the first-run flow captures local storage, identity, model provider, privacy, networking, ontology packs, accessibility, and optional social services. General mode uses task language; Advanced Technical mode exposes backends, graph details, hashes, manifests, and diagnostics.
Hypermedia semantic explorer — documents, ontologies, model packages, graph records, provenance, and derived artefacts share a navigable library. Ingest jobs expose parse, classify, map-to-ontology, validate, and graph-write stages.
Communications, Chora, and anatomy — chat, contacts, and social-web reception return to desktop navigation; Chora links are actionable; anatomy asset acquisition is a visible background job rather than an indefinitely waiting screen.
Agent-callable quant diagnostics — the browser harness runs a deterministic WebGPU-to-CPU projection check. The tested SmolLM2 Q5_0 projection passed with maxAbs=0 and maxRel=0; the SOA package remains gated after failing this oracle.
WASM feature profile fixes — portal, wasm-logic, wasm-scientific, and wasm-llm all compile and link under wasm32-unknown-unknown. The portal slim bundle and the full playground bundle are both green in CI.
Native shader emitters — WGSL Forge now emits typed kernel/schedule IR with Naga validation, CPU oracle, and real GPU timing. Adapter-keyed cache for deterministic generation/certification/tuning.
Knowledge universe surface — universe.html renders the bundled corpus as galaxies (Schema.org, FIBO, W3C, GeoNames, CODATA constants) with a Chora Yale bright-star celestial layer. Drag, zoom, click.
GPU capability profiling — shared wgpu 30 device with capability-intersected f16/subgroup/timing features. Tensor10D projector, depth/bloom/mesh/picking, caller-buffered RGBA8.
Workspace crate bump — all workspace crates bumped to 0.0.28; portal package.json version aligned across pages.yml and release-wasm.yml.
Engine base (carried forward) — 48-byte NQuin, 42 MB Sentinel, modalities (deontic, epistemic, LTL, ASP, …), native GGUF/P64 + wgpu inference, SPARQL/N3/SHACL paths, vision/audio crates, privacy BFV/DP.

Life domains (product language)

Memory

Lived Memory — meaning shelf, spatialize, shared entity session.

Relations

People, chat, mail, reception — humans and bonds, not SaaS capture.

Care

Health, rights, sanctuary vault, welfare under principal control.

Practice

Projects, work board, labour artefacts → optional Memory.

World

Browser + Chora commons; pages project into the same session.

Instruments

Vision, Listen, tools, models — Partial honesty; never social peers.

Release & CI (operator notes)

Release tag line: v0.0.28 · working branch 0.0.28.
Release-faithful local WASM build uses the CI 8 MiB stack and 4 GiB max-memory linker contract.
Portal package.json version aligned to 0.0.28 across pages.yml and release-wasm.yml.
P64 model release workflow branch trigger updated to 0.0.28.
Actions: Node 24-native majors for checkout/cache/setup-node/artifacts.
Release consistency test verifies all 20 workspace crates and generated web package identifiers are 0.0.28.

Prior honesty pages

0.0.26 progress and 0.0.24 progress remain available for historical comparison. Prefer this 0.0.28 page for current product language.

Updated 2026-07-29 · QualiaDB / Webizen · principal-directed engineering record · no personal circumstances