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One App Can Be Preparing While the Processor Stays Ready

KDCube now prepares every app under its own supervised lifecycle. A slow checkout, hook, index, or UI build makes that app temporarily unavailable without making an otherwise healthy processor look dead.

app lifecyclereadinesshealth checkssupervised preparationservice.readiness
2026-08-18

Ordered Delivery You Can Stop and Add To

KDCube's ordered conversation lane now reaches agents that own their own loop. Followups and stop take effect at boundaries each runtime can safely expose, while anything not read remains ordered for the next turn.

ordered deliveryresident agentsfollowupstopReAct
2026-08-17

Every search embeds its query. The repeats land on another worker.

A vector is a pure function of query, model and dimension — so every repeated search re-pays for an answer the system already has. The obvious fix is to remember it on the index object, and in a runtime where turns hop between workers it catches the one repeat that rarely happens. What the shared cache needs instead: a key that carries the model, a value ...

query embeddinghybrid searchshared cachedistributed runtimecache kind
2026-08-15

The instruction your agent gets is computed from what it has

Switch a tool off and every trace of it leaves the agent's instruction — teaching blocks, protocol channels, catalog sections. One authority decides: the effective tool roster.

roster conditioningtool cataloginstruction compositioncapability teachingeffective roster
2026-07-26

One Agent, Three Instruction Sizes — Same Signals

The KDCube ReAct agent's full instruction body is ~24,800 tokens of battle-proven prose. It now has two distilled siblings — a moderate set at 40% and an extra-lite set at 30% — built by one discipline: enumerate every hard signal, then cut only the prose around it. The signal table is executable: it lives in tests that fail if a distillation loses a sing...

instruction laddersignal paritydistillationfull / lite / extra-litehard signal
2026-07-19

A local model as your agent's brain

Point a KDCube agent at a model on your own machine — served by Ollama — and let a user pick it for a single conversation. A small models gateway translates the existing provider: custom path; a reserved descriptor property turns it on.

local modelsOllamamodels gatewayinstruction profilesprovider custom
2026-07-17

Instruction profiles: a pickable brain-style for your agent

An agent's instructions compose from blocks, so it can offer named profiles a user picks per conversation — including a distilled set for local models.

instruction profilesagent capabilitiescomposable instructionsmodel pickid-based contract
2026-07-17

Style What You Publish: Catalogs Get A Presentation Contract

The platform renders catalog pages; until now an application could recolor exactly three things. This entry records the presentation contract that ends that: every visual decision in the renderer reads a --kdcpub-* design token, and an application overrides tokens or loads its own stylesheets — declared in its config, per alias and per fold. The platform ...

public-contentcatalogsstylingdesign-tokenspresentation
2026-07-14

Define an Accounted Service, and It Pays Its Way

KDCube counts LLM calls, embeddings, and web searches as usage — recorded, priced, and settled against a user's budget. Your application's own paid work can join them. A decorator, four small extractors, and one usage object turn a metered API call into first-class usage the economics model can charge.

accountingtracked serviceeconomicsServiceUsagecost_usd
2026-07-13
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