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Changelog & roadmap

What shipped, what's next, and dated commitments through the public MVP launch on July 20, 2026.

v0.1.0 — beta (current)

Released: internal beta, May 2026. Founder dogfood only; production host https://mcp.cortex.jakeselby.com/mcp reserved but not yet serving.

Tools

  • 17 tools live in code: memory.* (4), rules.* (4), trust.* (2), action.communicate / schedule / remind / log, briefing.generate, entity.resolve, entity.relationships.
  • memory.recall wired to real hybrid retrieval. memory.* remainder, rules.*, trust.*, briefing.generate, and action.log wired to real handlers.
  • action.communicate / schedule / remind structurally registered as Phase 0 stubs (return pending_approval with a stub decision_id) — engine wiring follows in Story 7-31.
  • entity.resolve / entity.relationships registered, return feature_not_available until the consolidation pipeline ships.

Transport

  • Streamable HTTP at /mcp; SSE on GET; session via mcp-session-id header.
  • Health probe at /health (unauthenticated).
  • Permissive CORS for dev; production CORS scopes per (user × client) once OAuth lands.

Auth & limits

  • Shared static bearer token from AWS Secrets Manager.
  • Rate limits: 20/min, 1000/day, daily inference budget per bearer.
  • 429 returns Retry-After in seconds.

v0.2.0 — action approval (Story 7-33)

Target: July 20, 2026 (public MVP launch).

  • Add action.pending — pull the queue of decisions awaiting approval.
  • Add action.approve — resolve a pending decision and let the engine execute the side effect.
  • Add action.reject — resolve a pending decision and discard the side effect.
  • Replace stub action.communicate / action.schedule / action.remind with real action-engine dispatch (Story 7-31).
  • Add server-initiated notifications/decisions/created on the SSE channel.
  • Add the ApprovalCeremonyPayload shape to the public surface contract (already documented in Concepts).

Net effect: the public surface goes from 17 live + 3 stub tools to 20 live tools.

v0.3.0 — substrate surface expansion (ADR-0021 + ADR-0022, 2026-05-27 evening)

Target: July 20, 2026 (alongside v0.2.0 and the trigger dispatch release; public MVP launch). Stacked on top of the cognitive-infrastructure pivot SCP.

  • Accept ADR-0021 (Substrate Public API Surface — Read Depth & Learning Channels) and ADR-0022 (Extension Action Class Registration Protocol). ADR-0019 amended additively with an executed_modified outcome on trigger.complete (no breaking change to dispatch path).
  • Promote to public the meta.* explainability tools (meta.why_this_action, meta.why_this_notification, meta.what_rules_fired) plus new decision.inspect / decision.history. Per-tool boundary clarification per ADR-0021 + ADR-0020. See Concept: Explainability.
  • Add counterparty depth read surface — counterparty.profile, counterparty.list, counterparty.activity, counterparty.classify, trust.posture. Entity-type parameterized per ADR-0018. See Concept: Counterparty depth.
  • Add commitments primitive — commitments.list / create / resolve / snooze. Auto-extracted from consolidation Phase 2; writes route through the action engine. commitments.delegate ships feature_not_available — V2 (Trusted Delegate). See Concept: Commitments.
  • Add extension action class registration — action_classes.register / list / deregister per ADR-0022. Customers register {client_namespace}.{action_class} for their vertical without internal enum migrations. Per-tenant quota enforced; namespace ownership locked to client_id within tenant. See Concept: Extension action classes.
  • Add subscriptions / watchlists / alerts — subscriptions.*, watchlists.add, alerts.set. Inbound interest declaration; evaluator polled at 5-min cadence (event-hooked V1.1+). See Concept: Subscriptions.
  • Add routing read-preview — routing.handlers live MVP; routing.preview + routing.policy ship feature_not_available (V1.x+ depends on the cross-app routing engine). See Concept: Cross-app routing.
  • Add feedback learning channel — feedback.signal (live for signal_kind="modification_delta"; other kinds stub V1.1+) plus the additive executed_modified outcome on trigger.complete. Modification-delta classifier splits substantive vs cosmetic; only substantive deltas demote per-counterparty trust. See Concept: Feedback learning.
  • Add patterns / insights, identity / availability, agent capability discovery families. Subset live MVP; rest ship feature_not_available with documented forward pointers. agent.capabilities() is the canonical runtime self-description.
  • Add a third metering dimension Substrate Read Calls (Postgres-only, separate from action calls). Plus a per-tenant action_classes.register quota. See Rate limits & quotas.
  • Add three error codes: namespace_owned, too_many_classes, not_found. Existing feature_not_available envelope extended with details.adr + details.section + details.shipping forward-pointers. Full catalog at /pitch/docs/errors.

Net effect: the public surface grows from 20 baseline tools to ~48 tools across 11 families — substrate-grounded cognitive infrastructure callable from any MCP client.

v0.3.0 (companion) — cognitive substrate trigger dispatch (ADR-0019, 2026-05-27 morning)

Target: July 20, 2026 (alongside v0.2.0; public MVP launch).

  • Accept ADR-0019 (Cognitive Substrate Trigger Dispatch Protocol). Supersedes ADR-0017 §2 (two-layer proactivity model). The Claude-specific framing drops; Claude Code Routines becomes one of many recipe-level handler implementations.
  • Accept ADR-0020 (Internal vs Public MCP Surface Boundary). The Cortex chat app's /api/mcp route is internal-only; the public reference architecture is the minimal example handler repo plus the recipe library.
  • Add the handler.* tool family — handler.register, handler.list, handler.update, handler.delete, handler.rotate_secret, handler.test.
  • Add the trigger.* introspection family — trigger.history, trigger.inspect, trigger.replay.
  • Add the REST callback endpoints POST /v1/triggers/{trigger_id}/complete and POST /v1/triggers/{trigger_id}/reverse.
  • Add outbound HMAC-SHA256-signed webhook dispatch with idempotency keys, exponential retry, and a Postgres-backed DLQ. Spec at /pitch/docs/dispatch.
  • Add three error codes: signature_invalid, handler_disabled, idempotency_conflict. Full catalog at /pitch/docs/errors.
  • Add outbound trigger dispatch metering as a separate quota dimension (distinct from inbound MCP tool calls).
  • Publish the TypeScript handler SDK (@cortex/sdk-ts) and the minimal example handler repo (examples/handler-minimal/).
  • Publish recipes for Trigger.dev, n8n, Zapier, custom-webhook at /pitch/docs/recipes.

Net effect: the public surface grows from 20 tools (v0.2.0) to 29 live tools spanning pull (memory / rules / trust / action / briefing / entity) and push (handler / trigger).

v0.4.0 — entity consolidation

Target: Phase 0 follow-up to v0.3.0.

  • Wire entity.resolve against the consolidation pipeline.
  • Wire entity.relationships against the consolidated knowledge graph.
  • Add optional entity_type parameter to memory.* / entity.* tools (default person) per ADR-0018.

v0.5.0 — cross-app routing (V1.1 preview)

Target: V1.1, post-MVP. Lights up once founder beta data shows the multi-app-per-user cohort exists.

  • Add the routing.* tool family — routing.set_default_handler, routing.get_default_handler, routing.list_app_registrations. Records and resolves the user's preference when multiple AI products on Cortex register handlers for the same action class.
  • Add the MCP-executor handler tier (ADR-0019 Tier 2): Cortex as MCP client to the customer's MCP server. Same envelope; transport via tools/call instead of HTTP POST.
  • Add multi-handler fan-out per (user × action class), opt-in.

v1.0.0 — OAuth + production GA

Target: Phase 1.

  • Replace shared bearer auth with per-(user × client) OAuth tokens minted by the operator dashboard.
  • Add configurable per-client rate limits and inference budgets.
  • Add X-RateLimit-* response headers.
  • Scope CORS per registered client.
  • SOC 2 Type II in flight; HIPAA posture documented for regulated deployments.