Istor project log.
What has shipped, newest first. Every entry is dated work in the public repository, and the download lives at the releases page.
2026-09-02
The website grew past one page: comparisons with NotebookLM, AnythingLLM and GPT4All, three question pages on privacy and hardware, a dated project log, an entity graph for search engines, explicit AI-crawler permissions in robots.txt, and an llms.txt summary. istor.fyi was pinned to GitHub Pages with a working certificate. The app repository's README now links to this site.
2026-09-01
The logo system was baked: application icons at every size, the Greek ἵστωρ wordmark set in GFS Didot, and brand master files. A cold-start splash now shows the witnessed page and the written mark while the WebView boots.
2026-08-31
A pre-ship pass landed three workstreams: the citation repair loop that re-checks answers whose citations failed, a signed auto-updater, and a round of honesty fixes. Notes now open in reading view, with editing as a toggle.
2026-08-28
Live calibration on the GTX 1650 rig: the relevance gate was measured against real runs, the ship margin was tuned on that data, and a seven-workstream fix pass followed it.
2026-08-27
The release-readiness pass closed every stub. Local sufficiency checking routes repeated questions straight to the library, and web fetches run in paced bursts so no source host is hammered.
2026-08-26
An agentic fetch pre-pass lets the model pull up to three pages directly before composing, yield actions wire the research retries, and the citation refusal bug was fixed by framing fetched context as what it is.
2026-08-23
The interface was remade around the design philosophy: the decorum overlay, citations as first-class objects, streaming answers, and the thoughts timeline. Live-run fixes followed in rounds.
2026-08-18
The spine: SQLite library and hybrid retrieval, ingestion with seven extractors and SHA-256 deduplication, the model backend and roster, chunking and embeddings, and the grounding gate that fails open to asking rather than inventing.
2026-08-17
The project began: a Tauri 2 scaffold on Windows with the GPU exclusivity law in the configuration from day one.