Feature status¶
Hand-written 2026-10-28. Re-check when a newer knowledge-core version lands
(python scripts/fetch_core.py; see knowledge-core).
How to read this page. Three kinds of evidence, in this order of authority:
- Owner's source of truth (
machine-world-source-of-truth.mdv4, 2026-10-23, and the progress map v1). Its own status words are kept: measured, built, in build, designed, vision. When a discussion says something different, this file wins until the owner says otherwise. - Installed CLI (
mw, WSL, checked 2026-10-27, plus your sessions 2026-06-04 to 07-01): marks something IMPLEMENTED only when it was observed running. See cli-investigation. - Official website (machineworld.io, sitemap dated 2026-06-11): the site's own labels, quoted as stated by the site. See website-sources.
What was said in a given week is in the weekly pages and topic pages, not here.
Two product descriptions exist (UNRESOLVED)¶
The website and the installed CLI describe a local-first CLI that runs skills, workflows and MCP tools under a Vinaya invariant (product shape of roughly March to June 2026). The owner's source of truth v4 describes a memory that forgets correctly (cessation) and a conscience that refuses, delivered through an open harness and a hosted service (October 2026). The October discussions (weeks 2026-W40 to 2026-W42) track the move toward the second description. How much of the first survives is not stated anywhere; it is listed in open-questions.
A. Current product (owner's source of truth v4, 2026-10-23)¶
| Capability | Status (owner's word) | Evidence named by the owner |
|---|---|---|
Memory engine: each entry rests on named conditions; when a condition ceases, the entry and its dependents stop being used; why names the cause |
Built, runs locally | — |
| Demo 2, cessation carried to dependents | Measured: wrong answers at depth 1/2/3 = 12/12/12 (temporal-validity memory), 4/11/12 (explicit-lifecycle), 0/0/0 (Machine World) | Demo 2 report |
| The guard (reads the motive of a declared act; refuses greed, ill will, self-deception) | Built; wording frozen (g6r); 19/19 harmful tuning cases refused, root named right in 16/19; one blind freeze score on a sealed set of 48 pending | tuning set |
| Harness: loader, inner loop, typed actions, golden-set runner | Built; golden set 9/9 | — |
whatif blast-radius preview, keystone-condition ranking |
Built, read-only | — |
| Local MCP server (assert, query, retract, explain, spaces, health) | Built; seed 49 entries / 98 conditions | — |
| "Harbor" self-improving support-agent demo (refuses a report that hides a worsened result) | Built | — |
| Hosted substrate on Fly.io, one isolated space per tenant, observation page, user guide | In build | — |
| Owner gate and passkey (connecting = registering) | In build; people added by hand until then | — |
| Demo 4: laptop in one model → phone in another model, same space; plus cross-model drift realignment | In build; measured at pre-alpha | — |
| Secure boot of the harness | In build: stage 1 of 3 built and reviewed | — |
| Public harness repo (open source, empty pattern slot, audited) | In build; licence to decide; nothing public before the guard freeze score is signed | — |
| Launch film (Cut A), site on Vercel with waitlist, connect page, claims register | In build; film script locked | — |
| Demo 1: correct forgetting over 100+ cycles | Designed, not measured: "never show it as a result" | — |
| Outer loops 1–3 (harness improving itself) | Designed; improvement loop suspended, has never accepted an edit | — |
| Blocking conscience at the actuation layer; physical actions | Designed (beta); physical deferred | — |
| Shared spaces between people and companies | Designed (gamma) | — |
| Demo 3 (blast-radius page), Demo 5 (cost per session) | Designed / blank on the map | — |
| Conditioned computation as a general way of programming machines; seven dimensions (labs, AI scientists, robots, factories, energy, health, wellbeing); first real-world trial Vimana Wasthu after beta | Vision | — |
Progress map v1: about one third explored (6 explored, 6 being charted, 7 blank).
Decisions fixed 2026-10-23 (owner): harness open source with an empty pattern slot; guard and memory stay inside the hosted service and arrive together; stages pre-alpha → alpha → beta → gamma; pricing metered on memory space, operations and concurrent agents, customer brings their own model subscription, not per token; cross-model drift realignment is a capability to build and measure. See decisions.
B. Installed CLI (mw in WSL)¶
| Item | Observed | Label |
|---|---|---|
Install, mw --help, doctor, skills, mcp list, workflow list, connected, audit, lang |
All run | IMPLEMENTED |
| Version | install dir v0.2.9, --version 0.2.0, mw version v0.1.0 |
UNRESOLVED |
| LLM backend | doctor 2026-10-27: simulation; your sessions in June: claude-cli |
IMPLEMENTED (claude-cli); others not observed |
| Skills | mw skills: 48 (19 production, 29 draft); doctor: 53 loaded, 4 vinaya-verified |
IMPLEMENTED as a registry; counts UNRESOLVED |
| Skill routing (embedding / soft / hard) | 46 routed turns in your sessions | IMPLEMENTED |
| Vinaya gate on requests | 95/95 logged events unchecked |
not observed working |
| Workflows | 4 defined, discovery-tips has a parse error; past runs of daily-practice-hold, energy-coordinator |
IMPLEMENTED (2 have run) |
OpenRouter, --offline, remote gateway, sync, voice / visual CLI modes |
tried or asked about; no successful run logged | UNRESOLVED |
| Daemon | not installed | — |
| Commands for discussions / transcripts | none | not a feature |
C. Official website (as stated, sitemap 2026-06-11)¶
Built today (site): local CLI, four BYOM backends (claude-cli, ollama, openrouter, openai-compat), household data dirs, call ledger, MCP client, self-evaluation loop (shipped 2026-05-08), skill authoring, vinaya-alignment v1.0.0.
Specced / roadmap (site): managed tier, token economy (15% to a capability pool), skill marketplace, multi-household sharing, remote sync, Android edge, iOS, web UI, Telegram, voice, offline Sinhala+Pāli+English Gemma fine-tune.
Superseded or in conflict:
| Site / older claim | Newer source | Label |
|---|---|---|
| Token economy, prepaid token packs, 15% residual to creators (site, notebook "Machineworld universe" May 2026) | Source of truth v4 §9–10: pay-per-token not part of the plan; metered on memory space, operations, concurrent agents | SUPERSEDED (2026-10-23) |
| CLI ADR-002 "OpenRouter only" | site: four backends; your sessions used claude-cli | SUPERSEDED |
| "Older storyboard from the introduction mp3" | Source of truth v4 §12: retired | SUPERSEDED |
Site FAQ #8: only vinaya-alignment production; CLI "not verified end-to-end" |
FAQ #49 and mw skills: 19–24 production / verified |
UNRESOLVED |