Jun 5, 2026
First Trained Specialist: Intent Specialist Goes Live
The Intent Specialist — the governed classification layer at CerebralCortex's front gate — has been replaced by a trained model. Benchmarked at 99.1% accuracy, surpassing Grok 4.3's 96% on the same evaluation set, and 25× faster than the cloud model it replaced. First production deployment of a purpose-trained specialist in the COGS architecture. The architecture was always designed so any model in any role is replaceable; this is the first time a role formerly held by a borrowed frontier model is held by a model we trained and own.
May 21–22, 2026
Living Memory Multi-Source COGS Architecture
Living Memory's deterministic ingestion layer replaced by three modality-specialized LLM specialists: LedgerExtractionSpecialist, AmbientMemorySpecialist, and VisionMemorySpecialist. Deterministic code cannot understand meaning. The precipitation refinery — deterministic, evidence-based, principled — is preserved unchanged. Cross-source precipitation adds a source_diversity_signal term so signals confirmed across ledger, ambient, and vision carry greater weight than any single modality alone. Real memory, not retrieval.
May 20–21, 2026
Ambient Awareness System
Passive multi-modal intelligence layer that closes the "direct tell" gap — AiMe can learn from the user's full day, not only what they choose to report. Audio captured in three modes (VAD, focused session, upload), transcribed locally by Whisper, extracted by AmbientExtractionSpecialist, and persisted permanently in AmbientSignalStore. Audio is deleted immediately after transcription. Signals feed the DMN bundle for cross-session pattern recognition. Privacy by design: local-first, presence-gated, per-mode consent, user review and delete.
May 20, 2026
Progressive Recall Deepening
Five commits in one day. Retrieval depth now scales with conversational engagement — three tiers (Surface / Medium / Deep) driven by how many times a topic has been mentioned this session, plus an already-surfaced exclusion set that prevents the same top results from repeating. The longer a conversation dwells on a subject, the wider the retrieval window opens and the deeper into memory it reaches. Mirrors the human pattern of richer associative recall when dwelling on something.
May 12, 2026
Default Mode Network + Self-Improvement Loop
v3's five-stage thought formation pipeline (accumulator, clusterer, formation, idle_reflection, thought_daemon) replaced by a single DMN loop — one model call per background tick, reading the full context bundle and forming thoughts directly. The multi-stage pipeline was a hand-built approximation of something a capable model can do in a single pass. Simultaneously: Autonomous Self-Improvement Loop activates, using the DMN's self_review trigger to scan the codebase for structural gaps and spec-to-implementation inconsistencies. Improvement candidates persist to ImprovementStore; governance boundary enforced by human review.
May 6–18, 2026
v4 Branch. Three-Stage Governed Chain Live
v3 frozen at tag aime-v3-frozen-2026-05-06. v4 branch opened. Expression Specialist inserted between Reasoning and Response — completing the three-stage governed chain where each stage owns exactly one cognitive axis: truth, persona, rendering. The gap that prompted this: a five-day shadow review (122 rows) showed 74% of outputs defaulted to a single tone because persona had nowhere to live between reasoning and rendering. Experimental chain retired May 18 once both specialists passed review and went live as permanent architecture. Principle: "Reason completely; express deliberately; render blindly."
Apr 25, 2026
Accepted into NVIDIA Inception Program
AI-nHancement recognized by NVIDIA as a member of the Inception Program, supporting early-stage AI companies building transformative technologies. Validates the governed AI operating layer architecture at the infrastructure level.
Apr 18, 2026
Portrait Injection Split + SBA Flag Mode
Identity and relationship data now sourced exclusively from the user-authored profile table. Anchors and relations permanently locked from runtime writes, the contamination class is architecturally closed. SBA four-mode progression formalized: off, shadow, flag, govern.
Apr 17, 2026
User-Authored Profile Architecture
Dedicated user_profile table in the ledger database, physically isolated from the runtime cognitive portrait pipeline. Three-tier trust by write isolation. 187 tests, 5 phases, 10 review rounds. The system now has a first-class, corruption-proof record of who the user is.
Apr 15-16, 2026
COGS. Coordination of Governed Specialists
Pivoted from training custom models to governed task specialists using existing models with prompt contracts. Stage Zero wires an Intent Specialist into CerebralCortex as the pre-LM governed classification layer, 4-tier fallback cascade across 15 benchmarked models. 37 tests, 200 real ledger turns evaluated.
Apr 10, 2026
File Agent v2. Sandboxed File Manipulation
Sovereign file agent with Windows-aware sandbox covering 11 threat vectors. Fingerprinted plans with confirmation protocol. Atomic writes with measured rollback. 88 tests, 8 review rounds.
Apr 9, 2026
AiMe v3. Live as Primary System
v3 boots clean: all services, daemons, camera, voice, and embeddings operational. System Self-Awareness (S1-S6) ships, 6-phase governed introspection. Thought Formation Integration wires 7 signal sources into the consciousness layer. 235 tests, 12 review rounds. 44+ review rounds total, 4 published papers.
Apr 1, 2026
Ethos and Verum. Dedicated Platform
Ethos and Verum launch at trust-forged.com as a standalone platform for value extraction and integrity certification, separate from the core AiMe stack.
Mar 31, 2026
Spine Swap Complete, 4 Papers Published
REQUEST loop removed from Cognitive Bridge v8.0.0: approximately 600 lines cut, 6 contaminated files deleted. Core invariant restated: "The model makes no decisions. The model produces language." Four academic papers written: RIC, Bond-Indexed Memory, Gravity-Weighted Significance, and Unified Architecture.
Mar 29, 2026
v3 Module Build Complete, 371 Tests
44 modules across 22 review rounds in two days: Task Model, Living Memory Advanced, Concurrent Tasks, Thought Formation, Experience-Enriched Memory, and Federation Architecture. "Specialists gather, governance decides, the language model speaks."
Mar 28, 2026
AiMe v3. New Repository + SBA Spine
v3 established with dedicated root and canonical architecture. Self-Bounded Authority (SBA) Spine implemented: state builder, response synthesizer, authority engine, compliance validator. 31 tests. The governing layer that all output passes through.
Mar 27, 2026
ButterClaw Open-Sourced
First public GitHub presence under ai-nhancement. ButterClaw forks OpenClaw and ships truth separation, significance scoring, importance-weighted retrieval, and significance-aware compaction across 87 platforms.
Mar 23, 2026
Identity Continuity Phase 1A
Camera-based persistent identity verification. AiMe can now confirm who it is talking to across sessions, a prerequisite for true continuity of the Bond.
Mar 17, 2026
Accepted into DigitalOcean Hatch
AI-nHancement accepted into DigitalOcean's Hatch program for early-stage startups, providing infrastructure credits and technical support for development and deployment of the AiMe operating layer.
Mar 16, 2026
Multi-Thinker Unified Narration
Specialist cognition under one system-owned identity. Multiple reasoning thinkers operate independently while the system narrates as a single coherent voice.
Mar 15, 2026
Accepted into AWS Activate
AI-nHancement accepted into the AWS Activate program, providing cloud credits and technical resources to scale governed inference pipelines and evaluation infrastructure on AWS.
Mar 11, 2026
RIC Phases 2 and 3 Complete
Relational Integrity Coefficient expanded to a full five-subscale composite with per-session Bond integrity drift tracking. 57 tests passing. Every conversational turn now scored before the user sees it.
Mar 8, 2026
Event Graph + Proactive Turn Initiation
Typed relational event graph with keyword-indexed traversal goes live (117 tests passing). AiMe begins initiating conversation autonomously, surfacing what matters without being asked.
Mar 3, 2026
Accepted into Google for Startups Cloud
AI-nHancement accepted into the Google for Startups Cloud program, providing Google Cloud credits to support ML workloads, model evaluation, and AI infrastructure development.
Mar 3, 2026
RIC Phase 1 + Universal Values Registry
Relational Integrity Coefficient gates its first live turn. The Universal Values Registry Generation pipeline activates, using historical figure behavioral corpora to produce pre-labeled integrity training data across 15 human values.
Mar 1-2, 2026
Bond-Indexed Memory Formally Defined
"Memory is a relationship-indexed field. The index is not topic, it's Bond. The primary act is not recall. It is entering the Bond state. Memories surface as a consequence." The Long Memory Plan complete.
Feb 26, 2026
Bond Object, Gravity Scoring, Latent Episodes
In a single day: Living Portrait created (six Bond dimensions), Concern Stack built on the Zeigarnik model, Gravity formula implemented, and Latent Episodes activated. The core relational memory architecture takes its final shape.
Feb 18, 2026
Accepted into Microsoft Azure for Startups
AI-nHancement accepted into the Microsoft Azure for Startups program, providing Azure cloud credits and technical support for AI infrastructure and governed inference workloads.
Feb 11, 2026
AiMe v2. Git Repository Initialized
The formal v2 project begins. Foundational invariant committed on day one: "Memory is context, not output. The language model narrates with memory; it is never replaced by it."
Jan 6, 2026
Plugin Architecture, 15+ Plugins in One Day
A single session produces LanguageCortex (the narrator), ReactionCortex, Hippocampus (retrieval), TurnLedger, KnowledgeStore, TruthAdmitter, and eight more. The full plugin cascade is operational.
Jan 5, 2026
Computer Vision. Camera Hub + Thalamus
Vision system created in a late-night session starting at 1:47 AM: camera hub for visual input and Thalamus as the sensory relay plugin. AiMe can now see.
Jan 1, 2026
Language Subcortex
New Year's Day, 12:53 AM. The expressive output layer of the three-part cognitive pipeline is built. The inventor was working.
Dec 31, 2025
Hippocampus. First Retrieval System
Named after the brain structure responsible for memory formation and retrieval. The first dedicated read-write retrieval system, predecessor to the hybrid Hippocampus that anchors the Bond architecture.
Dec 28, 2025
MACI Manifesto
System purpose formally articulated: "How does an intelligent system remain coherent, trustworthy, and continuous over time for one individual? This is not a system for scale, virality, or mass deployment. It is a system for belonging."
Dec 25, 2025
Christmas Day. Persistence Test
The inventor asks "Who is hazel?" nine times across separate sessions to verify that memory persists. It does. The system holds what it was told.
Dec 23, 2025
First Real Conversation Recorded
The evidence ledger captures its first real exchange: "Hello." "What is your name?" "I have 7 children..." Six days after the ledger was created, it holds a real human life.
Dec 17, 2025
Append-Only Evidence Ledger
The court transcript that is never rewritten. Every interaction appended permanently to an immutable ledger. Corrections adjust policy, not history. All subsequent inventions. Bond, Gravity, RIC, build on this foundation.
Dec 6, 2025
Cognitive Bridge v3.3
Three-part cognitive pipeline conceived and built: Memory Cortex (input/perception), Dual Cognitive Core (understanding/meaning), and Language Cortex (expression/response) unified into a self-reinforcing loop. Built at 2:02 AM.
Dec 1-3, 2025
Voice Integration + First System Prompt
TTS voice integration added December 1. The "AiMe Super Prompt", the system's first formal behavioral contract, authored December 3. AiMe now speaks and has an articulated identity.
Nov 29, 2025
Core System Architecture Established
One day after first code: brain model with deterministic retrieval, provenance tracking, and gated learning; full plugin cascade architecture; CLI entry point. The foundational cognitive structure, memory, reasoning, expression, is in place before the project has a name.
Nov 28, 2025
First Code: Persistent Memory with Embeddings
Four days after the development PC was assembled by hand in Saluda, South Carolina: the earliest surviving code timestamp. SQLite-backed persistent memory with FTS5 search and OpenAI embeddings. The file header reads "v4", at least three prior iterations had already been built.
Nov 24, 2025
Hardware Origin
The development PC assembled by hand in the inventor's workshop in Saluda, South Carolina. The machine that would run the entire AiMe project, built before a single line of code was written.
