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Notes from the forest

Engineering notes on navigation, ingestion, agent memory and honest benchmarking, written by the people who ran the experiments.

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Your Forest Is a Vault
The series closer: a self-hosted forest, scoped keys, one row per person, and a locked gate. Twenty days of measured claims and published failures, recapped in three sentences.
September 12, 20263 min read
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Apache and AGPL: What It Means for You
The engine is Apache-2.0, the apps are AGPL. What each side lets you do, why the split exists, and why the boundary never reaches into your code.
September 7, 20263 min read
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Reproducibility Is a Feature
Corpus, question sets and harness are committed, and every table regenerates with one command. When the headline is 0/11 versus 11/11 for the same model, the only honest answer to suspicion is a rerun.
September 2, 20264 min read
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Our benchmark has a failure section. On purpose.
The trail-learning convergence criterion was not met, and it is in the report anyway. A benchmark you can only pass is not a benchmark.
August 21, 20263 min read

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