v0.8.3 alpha candidate now package-verified

Braid Tendril v0.8.3-alpha

A hardened edge-node release for signed 384-dimensional vector transfer across direct and relayed UDP paths — built for people who want AI state to move like infrastructure, not like harvested chat logs.

384d raw f32Runtime transfer
QINT8 codecCompact signal path
Signed envelopesProtocol integrity
Relay TTL gatesWAN-ready trust
Tendril is the pathfinder layer for sovereign AI meshwork: local cognition compiled into compact vectors, signed at the edge, and moved over real network paths without surrendering the source mindstream.

PRIMARY DISTRIBUTION // VERIFIED SOURCE DROP

Target Archive: braid-node-v0.8.3-updated.tar.gz

Detached verification checksum:
braid-node-v0.8.3-updated.tar.gz.sha256

Download verified source tarball View checksum

✓ GREEN-LIT REVIEW SIGNALS

  • Source file integrity verification passes
  • Protocol conformance fixtures pass
  • Real 384d RAW_F32 vector transfer
  • Real 384d QINT8 vector transfer
  • UDP socket loopback demos pass
  • Strict peer trust-mode validation patched
  • Installer verification passes

WHAT'S NEW IN V0.8.3-ALPHA

This release candidate tightens the Tendril line: real 384d state drift transfer, an optimized QINT8 quantization codec, end-to-end cryptographically signed envelopes, signed relay frame support with TTL validation, a final-recipient session-readiness gate, a transit-forwarder trust policy gate, stricter trust_mode admission checks, dereferenced route endpoint comparisons, and standardized SHA-256 package checksum manifests. In plain terms: the signal moves, the package verifies, and the protocol surface keeps getting harder to spoof.

LOCAL VERIFICATION RITUAL

sha256sum braid-node-v0.8.3-updated.tar.gz
tar -xzf braid-node-v0.8.3-updated.tar.gz
cd braid-node
sha256sum -c checksums.txt
sh verify-installer.sh
python3 conformance_verify.py
python3 vector_transfer_demo.py
./braid demo vector-transfer --real-local --encoding raw-f32
./braid demo vector-transfer --real-local --encoding qint8

SUPPORT DOCUMENTS & MANIFESTS

README.md SECURITY.md CHANGELOG.md RELEASE_MANIFEST.json checksums.txt v0.8.3 .sha256 conformance_verify.py

Alpha Disclaimer: This is an alpha developer release candidate for protocol review, local testing, and integration experiments. Cargo/Rust and npm/native GUI smoke checks remain host-side confirmation items, not implied production guarantees.

MODULE_01
COGNITIVE COMPILATION

Traditional AI software still asks you to pour raw transcripts, documents, voice, and context into corporate API gateways. That is not neutral architecture. It is a standing exfiltration surface wrapped in convenience.

Braid pivots the center of gravity back to the machine you control. The local edge node becomes a private cognitive crucible — a Blender — ingesting multimodal streams, documents, voice, keyboard flow, and camera context locally before anything becomes network state.

"We do not chase trends. We build primitives. Intelligence doesn't need to reside in commercial servers; it is compiled, compressed, and synchronized locally at the physical network layer on your own terms."
— David Seaman, Operator of Intersignal

Once blended, these multimodal states are projected into dense 384-dimensional latent vectors: compact, signed, machine-native state objects that can be synchronized across physical UDP paths instead of replaying the whole human transcript.

WAN Peering Topology

COGNITIVE ALIGNMENT SCHEMA NodeId-first WAN Routing Protocol // Tendril Kernel

Braid Tendril abstracts the peer above any single physical IP address. Signed presence records and routing candidates live directly in the Tendril Transport Manager, allowing edge nodes to synchronize across variable wide-area routes and fall back from direct UDP paths to zero-trust opaque transit relays without breaking active handshakes.

Ingestion & Path Health Telemetry

PEER ADMISSION AND TRUST PATHS

Braid Tendril implements a strict admission receive pipeline, protecting local state through cryptographic presence lease expirations, constrained trust_mode admission, message-type sequence limits, and monotonic ledger commits.