Liminal 0.0.14 — memory curator, output effort & voice I/O

v0.0.14 taught the agent to prune its own memory safely, added a dial for how thorough its output is, and gave the web UI a voice — it speaks and listens.

Current alpha is v0.0.17.

Shipped in this slice#

• Memory curator — curate_memory (dry-run by default) hands the model a metadata-annotated slice of the note store; it returns prune / merge / re-confidence operations, and a deterministic safety rail then vetoes anything it shouldn't touch — user:/identity:/pref: facts, frequently-used notes, and notes that are too new. Deletion is reversible: forgotten and curated notes are soft-deleted to an archive first, and restore_memory brings them back.
• Output effort — A new AGENT_EFFORT dial (low · medium · high · xhigh) in Settings that controls how thorough the deliverable is — completeness, edge-case coverage, polish — as a system-prompt directive. It's a separate axis from reasoning depth: higher effort means more substance, not more internal thinking.
• Voice I/O — Text-to-speech (the assistant can speak its replies) and live dictation (talk to it from the mic) in the web UI, with a per-turn speech budget and duplicate-clip suppression.
• Smarter recall — A second-stage reranker refines the first-pass BM25 + embedding hits, and a fast-model response cache cuts repeated background calls.
• Deeper prompt caching — The cache now extends across the growing tool-result history of a turn, not just the static system prefix — cheaper long, multi-step runs.
• New file tools — find_files (find by name/glob) and delete_file (approval-gated), plus a guard that ensures every tool stays reachable under lazy loading.
• Chat polish — A proper Markdown renderer for assistant output, one-click session screenshots, and a cleaner persona shell system.

What you can run today#

npm run build -w packages/core && npm run build -w packages/tools
npm run web   # or: npm run tui

Hosted installer:

curl -fsSL https://www.vireondynamics.com/install/install.sh | bash

Docs: docs.vireondynamics.com/liminal/

Roadmap (not shipped)#

Pre-release history#