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title: V1 Intelligence Foundation and Knowledge Compiler Hardening
published_at: 2026-08-08T22:00:00Z
version: v2026.08.08
slug: v2026-08-08
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# Version 2026.08.08 - V1 Intelligence Foundation

### Knowledge Compiler hardening

- Connected compilation now uses a dedicated server-owned task contract while local model modes retain local compilation.
- Compiled output is schema-checked and every model-supplied source ID is validated against Basalt's bounded source manifest before local persistence.
- Recompilation creates retained, linked versions. Unchanged source fingerprints reuse the current version without another model request.
- Newly compiled domains stay inactive until reviewed and enabled.
- Compilation now allocates one 58K source budget adaptively: short notes are included whole and longer notes use representative excerpts across the document.
- Full source fingerprints detect changes outside an excerpt, while source deltas record additions, changes, and removals for future reconciliation.
- Connected compilation validates and preserves explicit Basalt source IDs, including adversarial delimiter-injection defenses.

### Shared compiled-first retrieval

- Intelligence Chat and Agent Studio now share one active-domain selector.
- Matched concepts, decision rules, terminology, and bounded raw evidence can reach the model context.
- Disabled and superseded domains are consistently excluded.
- Aggregate retrieval diagnostics expose the mix of compiled and raw context without sending note content or titles as analytics parameters.

### Research Studio clarity

- Compiled domains show their version, compiled-source coverage, partial status, and provenance-warning count.
- The recompile action reports when the current fingerprint is unchanged.
- Knowledge Compiler documentation no longer makes unsupported numerical efficiency or perfect-provenance claims.
- Research Studio reports compilation character coverage, representative excerpts, and source deltas.
- Paid users can retain the Basalt Skill JSON format or export a real Portable Agent Skill ZIP with safe paths and collision-resistant filenames.

### Prompt Recipes and Personal AI Memory

- Paid plans can create, edit, duplicate, export, import, disable, and delete reusable Prompt Recipes stored in the active local workspace.
- Recipes are available from Intelligence Chat, Agent Studio's shared execution path, the editor, Capture Inbox, Meeting Memory, and installed Feature Packs.
- Connected recipe execution uses a dedicated server-owned prompt policy and a server-side plan gate; user recipe text remains untrusted input to that policy.
- Personal AI Memory is visible, editable, scoped, disableable, and removable. Inferred entries remain disabled until explicitly confirmed.
- Connected chats that include Personal AI Memory use a separate server-gated task contract instead of relying only on a client-side plan check.
- Recipe results never mutate notes directly. They remain read-only, use explicit editor actions, or enter Forge as reviewable proposals.