Architectural evolution
Assistant Prototype Era Historical
Earlier JARVIS, Lyra and Fenryr names describe historical assistant and interface experiments. Their surviving contribution is context for later work; they do not establish current mobile, overlay or service capability.
Modular Organ Era
Specialist services and machine-facing components made a single assistant framing insufficient. The surviving concept is bounded capability, not a claim of an autonomous workforce.
Governed Workshop Era
Explicit objectives, evidence return, review and promotion boundaries emerged alongside Workshop interface work. The transition was driven by the need to separate capability from authority.
Linux-Native Runtime Era
Bounded runtime and Core Shard prototypes tested interaction, restoration and accessible state presentation without claiming a completed desktop.
Evidence and Observatory Era
Project-state records, handovers, telemetry and local analysis made interruption recovery and live-versus-historical distinction explicit engineering concerns.
Specialist Model Research Era
Factory and dataset qualification work established research controls. The current candidate remains research only and below its frozen qualification thresholds.
Current governed programme Current
Koda is a local-first operating-environment programme composed of bounded systems, evidence and human governance. It is not a completed operating system.
Surviving and superseded concepts
Surviving concepts include local-first inspection, bounded specialised components, recovery-oriented state and human approval. Superseded concepts include historical public identities, ungoverned conversational memory, taskbar-like interface readings and an embedded Observatory shell that failed its cleanup gate.
See superseded approaches, engineering revisions, current systems and the public evidence index.
Sources and limits
Sources: pre-existing legacy-archeology crosswalk and contradiction register; canonical 2026 implementation and result records. Exact dates are omitted where the source period is not reliable. No personal narrative or private archive material is published.