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Product Brief

Product Summary

Alice is a pre-1.0 continuity platform for AI agents and agent-assisted workflows. It provides typed memory, provenance, correction-aware recall, open-loop tracking, resumable context, provider/runtime portability, and integration paths for external agent runtimes.

Shipped Baseline

  • Phase 9 shipped the continuity core, CLI, MCP, importers, approvals, and evaluation foundation.
  • Phase 10 shipped the hosted/product layer, identity/workspace model, and channel surfaces.
  • Phase 11 shipped provider runtime foundations, initial provider adapters, and model-pack primitives.
  • Bridge B1 through B4 shipped Hermes lifecycle hooks, auto-capture, review flow, explainability, packaging docs, smoke validation, and demo path.
  • Phase 12 shipped hybrid retrieval and reranking, explicit memory mutation operations, contradiction/trust handling, the public eval harness, and task-adaptive briefing.
  • Phase 13 shipped one-call continuity, Alice Lite, and memory hygiene / conversation health visibility.
  • Phase 14 shipped provider adapters, model packs, reference integrations, and design-partner launch/admin surfaces.
  • HF-001 shipped logging safety and disk guardrails for local/Lite runtime behavior.
  • v0.5.1 is the latest stable pre-1.0 release tag.
  • v0.5.1-vnext-preview is the vNext public-preview pre-release target.

Current Repo Posture

  • Phase 14 is shipped.
  • HF-001 is shipped.
  • Alice vNext Sprint 1 through Sprint 12 preview scope is implemented.
  • Alice vNext live capture connectors are implemented for allowlisted Telegram, local folders/Obsidian notes, browser clips, and agent outputs while preserving review-only trust boundaries.
  • Alice vNext dogfood hardening is implemented for connector settings/state persistence, local secret references, cursor reliability, doctor checks, live /vnext connector configuration, and daily local-alpha runbooks.
  • Alice vNext public preview release gate is active.

Latest Completed Phase

Phase 14: Provider Adapters + Design Partner Launch

Phase 14 turned Alice from a strong continuity system into a practical integration platform for local runtimes, self-hosted inference servers, enterprise-curious teams, and early design partners.

Latest Hardening Sprint

HF-001: Logging Safety And Disk Guardrails

HF-001 removed the local/Lite operational defect where logging could grow without bound and exhaust disk.

Primary Users

  • builders who want to plug Alice into their own agents or workflows
  • self-hosters running local or private model stacks through Ollama, llama.cpp, or vLLM
  • enterprise-curious teams evaluating Alice with Azure or OpenAI-compatible infrastructure
  • design partners using Alice in production-like environments and generating adoption proof

Shipped Scope Through v0.5.1

  • stable provider abstraction and workspace-scoped provider management
  • first-class adapters for OpenAI-compatible, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and Azure-backed paths
  • declarative, versioned model packs with workspace binding and sensible defaults
  • reference integrations for Hermes, OpenClaw, generic Python agents, and generic TypeScript agents
  • design-partner onboarding, tracking, instrumentation, and structured feedback capture
  • logging safety defaults for local/Lite runtime plus bounded opt-in file logging

Non-Goals

  • v1.0.0 compatibility or support guarantees
  • managed cloud/SLA commitments
  • new channels
  • marketplace work
  • enterprise governance/compliance expansion
  • major vertical-agent work
  • deep browser/action automation

Success Criteria Reached In v0.5.1

  • Alice runs cleanly with OpenAI-compatible providers, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, and Azure-backed paths
  • users can bind a model pack and get sensible continuity defaults without hand tuning
  • Hermes and OpenClaw have polished, documented, and tested Alice paths
  • generic Python and TypeScript examples exist and are reproducible
  • design-partner onboarding, usage summaries, and structured feedback are part of the shipped admin surface
  • local/Lite logging defaults no longer create unbounded disk growth

Immediate Product Posture

  • v0.5.1 is the current public release boundary.
  • v0.5.1-vnext-preview is the vNext public-preview release target on top of the shipped Phase 14 + HF-001 baseline.
  • The next product decision after dogfood hardening is whether to prioritize broader live-backed /vnext workflows, managed connector OAuth, production scheduling, or model-backed evaluation.