The Story So Far
The version history, and the Civilization Decks built into Cursiv as reference material.
This is a development history. Earlier versions had features that have since been removed or renamed (the 14-agent council, FunForge, the Guardian firewall, automatic web search and others). For what Cursiv does today, see the home page and the changelog.
Version History
Every version here represents a different understanding of what this system could be.
Some of them were wrong. That was the point.
v3.14-U14
The Bootstrap Actually Runs, the App Actually Opens
Fixed the auto-install bootstrap silently stalling behind unattended "press a key" prompts, fixed the terminal chat (and the background services) failing to find their own scripts in the installed bundle, and fixed Create Account getting stuck on Login after a reinstall.
v3.14-U08
Zero-Setup First Run — Works Without Keys or Config
Fixed a crash on first install caused by missing data files not being bundled. No API keys, no secrets.bat, no manual setup needed to launch.
v3.14-U04 — Live Demo, Family Welcome & Stability Fixes
Live demo chat on the website. Family member welcome dialog. Terminal chat crash fix. Civilization Decks section. Babel Letters guide.
v3.14-U03
Fleet Dashboard & Substrate Layer
Fleet Dashboard — see every Cursiv install online from one window, live status dots, owner-gated access management. Launcher rebuilt with auto-sizing and Ollama detection. Unified login — one password across all interfaces. Password reset and account recovery from the login screen.
v3.14-U02
Group Discovery, Web Search & Babel
Real-time worldwide web search (DuckDuckGo + Brave). Babel Agent — any language to English via UTF-8 binary. Group Discovery — four providers build on each other's answers toward a structured synthesis. FunForge bounded creative spike timer. Offline routing fixed. Winkler-Codex offline code council.
v3.14.0
Ollama Ready — Offline Edition
The first truly offline release. Ollama + llama3.1 integrated as the primary local runtime. Council deliberation parallelised via ThreadPoolExecutor. System prompt condensed from 12,000 to 4,400 tokens without losing a single functional instruction. Binary-fragment authentication. PyInstaller one-dir bundle.
v2.1.5 LEGACY
Complete Rebuild
Complete ground-up reimagination. The 14-agent council took real shape here — each agent producing genuine LLM responses, 10 advising internally, 4 synthesizing outward. Identity drift abort at 3% deviation. The system started having a real set of guiding rules, not just a config file. Streamlit UI.
v2.x LEGACY
The Council Takes Shape
Early multi-agent experiments. Agents existed but didn't yet deliberate in any real sense — responses were sequential, not parallel. The idea of a synthesizing layer above the advisors began forming here. Lots of things were broken. That was still useful.
v1.x LEGACY
First Contact
The original concept — a personal AI workspace that didn't report to a cloud. Single agent, no council, no constitution. Just the question: what would it look like if this ran on your machine, followed your rules, and grew with your thinking? Everything since has been the answer to that question.
Human Frontier Academy
8 hand-built decks. 200+ cards. One guide per deck. A structured walk through 5,000 years of human civilization, built into Cursiv as reference material you can draw on and build from.
DECK 01
Mesopotamia
~3500 BCE – 500 BCE
The first cities. The first writing. The first laws. The Tigris and Euphrates gave birth to a model of civilization that everything since has been built on — or reacting against.
DECK 02
Egypt
~3100 BCE – 30 BCE
A civilization built on the certainty of death and the refusal to accept it. The Nile as spine. The pyramid as statement. Over 3,000 years of unbroken continuity that most modern nations can't come close to.
DECK 03
Rome
~753 BCE – 476 CE
How a city on seven hills became the model for every republic and empire since. Its fall is more instructive than its rise — a lesson in what happens when institutions hollow out from the inside.
DECK 04
China
~2100 BCE – 1912 CE
The oldest continuous civilization on earth. Four thousand years of dynasties, philosophy, invention, and a scale of social organization the West didn't encounter anything like until much later.
DECK 05
Renaissance
~1300 – 1600 CE
Europe wakes up. The rediscovery of Greek and Roman thought, married to new money and a changed church, produced an explosion of art, science, and selfhood that we still live inside.
DECK 06
Industrial Revolution
~1760 – 1840 CE
The moment human civilization went from muscle power to machine power. Everything accelerated. Not all of it in the right direction. The gains were enormous; the cost was paid by people who had no say in the matter.
DECK 07
Tech Age
~1970 – 2020 CE
The transistor gave us computing. Computing gave us the internet. The internet gave everyone a voice — and then a microphone, an audience, an algorithm. We are still figuring out what we made.
DECK 08
The Future
2020 CE → ?
Not a prediction. A framework. What are the forces already in motion? What does a civilization that has learned from the previous seven actually look like? This is the deck we are building in real time.
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