This plan implements the accepted product, workspace and Harness specifications. A checked item requires recorded evidence; fixture tests alone do not establish live provider compatibility.
This is the retained first-application iteration ledger. Current task dependencies and acceptance contracts are in ROADMAP; current outcomes and blockers are in STATUS. The v0.0.1 release remains foundation-only.
- Preserve the accepted workspace/Harness design through a checked and merged PR.
- Implement the platform archive and generic Harness: typed contracts, SQLite transactions, immutable artifact revisions, validated interactions, idempotent commands, cancellation, supervised execution and restart reconciliation. Exercise native Windows paths and substitute implementations.
- Add provider and retrieval adapters, pinned skill installation, protected credentials, an authenticated loopback API, replay and AG-UI projection. Validate with controlled HTTP services and record live retrieval separately.
- Build the React workspace with assistant-ui, project/history navigation, settings, decisions, artifacts and sources. Check desktop, drawers, keyboard operation, English and Chinese.
- Complete the economics/humanities acceptance matrix, archive portability, limits and failure cases. Record live model compatibility only with configured user credentials. Update the documentation and release identity after the release gates pass.
Each iteration uses a short-lived branch, local checks, a PR, passing required CI and squash merge. Update this file and the verification record with delivered scope and unresolved gates before proceeding. Later roadmap phases (compute, multiple agents, institutional deployment and ecosystem infrastructure) are outside the first application release.
| Iteration | Result |
|---|---|
| Design baseline | PR #6 merged; Windows/Linux required CI passed |
| Platform and Harness | PR #7 merged; 28 tests, type checking, Gitleaks and Windows/Linux CI passed; live DeepSeek streaming/tool calls passed |
| Services and adapters | PR #8 merged; 38 native Windows tests and required Windows/Linux CI passed; two live metadata research/export/import tasks passed |
| Research workspace | PR #9 merged after required Windows/Linux/browser CI; 42 native tests, two desktop/mobile browser scenarios and exercised axe A/AA checks passed; a real browser/DeepSeek/Crossref loop passed |
| Application acceptance, 2026-10-24 | Evidence matrix covers the first preview; 45 native tests and three browser scenarios passed, including direct tool selection and revision preservation; real pinned skill execution and direct Crossref query passed; PR checks were pending at that stage |
| Approved workspace redesign, 2026-10-24 | 45 native tests and five browser scenarios passed locally; retained in verification |
| Daily research workflow, 2026-10-24 | 51 native tests and eight browser scenarios passed locally; first batch in the root ledger |
| Plugin documents and ENG-01 preflight, 2026-10-24/25 | 57 tests and 12 browser scenarios passed locally on Windows; 2026-10-25 reused the BusyTeX cache, with no live model calls |
| PR #11 initial CI, historical 2026-10-25 | Head 1574645b8b8bc4da9b7559d7794540e75775724c; Windows/Linux repository jobs, actionlint and Gitleaks passed; browser acceptance passed 11/12 and required-checks failed. See exact tested revision and failure |
| ENG-03 repair and ENG-04 audit, 2026-10-25 | PR #11 and #12 passed all required CI before merge; local 57 Node / 13 browser scenarios and 30 focused data/permission tests passed |
| ENG-05/06 source preview, 2026-10-25 | PR #13 passed exact-head CI after fixing font mirror preparation and concurrent selections; main 0e6f348 passed push CI and dry-run, then v0.1.0-alpha.1 was published as a prerelease |
The approved root execution ledger extends the delivered preview incrementally: authenticated launch recovery, searchable/renameable conversations, continuous history, frozen follow-up context, per-run material choices and editable providers. The black/white/gray UI specification remains authoritative, including the 24px composer and absence of a caption underneath it. Historical iteration counts above remain evidence for their original revisions; current suite counts and local results are in verification.
This batch was implemented in commit 22d6db524c08abfd4976bded081cf415b25919c1 and submitted in PR #11. It was still unmerged at the ENG-02 inspection; ENG-03 subsequently passed CI and merged it as c9a96f3. The source-preview release followed only after ENG-04/05/06. No installer or multi-agent capability is included.
The approved root ledger records completed plugin contracts and document records, editors and revision management, real TeX/PDF validation, workspace interaction and integrated local checks. The plugin SDK defines the current static-registration boundary. This implemented iteration adds default Markdown/LaTeX editors, revision comparison, browser-side compilation and PDF preview, included in the same PR #11 implementation commit. External plugin installation, additional scholarly services, arbitrary execution, multiple agents and publishing remain outside this batch.
ENG-02 aligned these records; ENG-03 separated compiler preparation and added failure evidence and a document comparison repair. ENG-04 verified the data and permission gates. ENG-05 repaired a demonstrated font certificate failure and concurrent selection overwrite before candidate acceptance. ENG-06 published only after exact main push CI and dry-run succeeded. The original timeout log still does not establish a cold-cache root cause; its historical uncertainty does not replace the subsequent successful checks.