BrainLayer/BrainBar 1.4.2

BrainBar 1.4.2 — daemon socket lifetime fix, signed + notarized (Developer ID: Etan Heyman PPN23G925Y) + stapled, AppIcon bundled. Notarized via notary-layers.

BrainBar v1.4.1

BrainBar release version: 1.4.1
Signing status: unsigned - Developer ID signing secrets were missing
Notarization status: skipped - signing was skipped

What's Changed

• feat: sandboxed-test-BrainLayer DB primitive (gen-19 T10/P0-a, cross-lead blocker) by @EtanHey in #541
• feat: macOS Swift CI keystone — brain-bar build+test as required check (gen-19 T8) by @EtanHey in #542
• fix: make brain_store snappy under writer contention by @EtanHey in #543
• feat: sandbox DB PID-lease + active-DB guard hardening (follow-up to #541) by @EtanHey in #544
• fix: add drain liveness loud-fail probe by @EtanHey in #545
• feat: add verified launchd bootstrap primitive by @EtanHey in #547
• feat: add loud persistent alarm primitive by @EtanHey in #548
• feat: add BrainBar release workflow by @EtanHey in #546
• fix(enrichment): yield supervisor writer between cycles by @EtanHey in #551
• fix: return full content from expansion paths by @EtanHey in #550
• feat: detect stale BrainLayer daemon deploys by @EtanHey in #553
• fix: harden launchd plist paths and maintenance resume by @EtanHey in #552
• fix: add BrainBar app icon by @EtanHey in #554
• Release BrainLayer 1.4.1 truth-green fixes by @EtanHey in #555

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.4.1

BrainBar 1.4.0

Current BrainBar dashboard + fixes

v1.3.0

What's Changed

• chore: ignore generated local artifacts by @EtanHey in #509
• feat: add db shrink tooling by @EtanHey in #510
• fix(brainbar): report live agent and write signals by @EtanHey in #474
• feat(eval): restore braintrust ingest tooling by @EtanHey in #511
• fix: drain BrainLayer embeddings and recover FTS search by @EtanHey in #512
• chore: add BrainLayer stability health check by @EtanHey in #513
• feat: add BrainBar signal coverage observability by @EtanHey in #514
• fix: preserve owner/tool names in redaction by @EtanHey in #515
• fix: honor explicit redaction names by @EtanHey in #517
• feat: add origin ordering to brain search by @EtanHey in #518
• fix: bound brain_store busy deferral by @EtanHey in #516
• feat: BrainBar V1 dashboard — progressive-disclosure signal coverage by @EtanHey in #520
• fix: throttle health-check self-heal by @EtanHey in #521
• fix: fall back to FTS when search embeddings stall by @EtanHey in #523
• fix: stop drain after schema contention by @EtanHey in #519
• feat: V1 signal bars side-by-side (horizontal) by @EtanHey in #522
• fix: durable JSONL-watcher reliability (never-starve + resilient + self-heal) by @EtanHey in #525
• feat: Aldante-grade BrainBar graphs (gradient fill, point-anchored hover, hero cards) by @EtanHey in #526
• fix(brainbar): daemon resolves brainlayer venv python, not bare python3.14 (M1 #7b) by @EtanHey in #528
• fix(drain): default BRAINLAYER_DRAIN_EMBED=0 in launchd template (write-throughput) by @EtanHey in #529
• fix(brainbar): clamp Vector popover within window so it pops over, not clipped by @EtanHey in #530
• feat(brainbar): 3-line always-visible menu-bar status icon by @EtanHey in #531
• feat(brainbar): dashboard redesign — stacked separated graphs, shared timeframe, responsive hero by @EtanHey in #532
• test(brainbar): deterministic full-dashboard render-verification infra by @EtanHey in #533
• chore: release 1.3.0 by @EtanHey in #534

Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v1.3.0

BrainBar v1.2.1 (gen16 tool-surface)

gen16 fixes: chunk_id exposure #505, brain_store prompt-queue #506, brain_digest scope+KG #507, hybrid-search empty-fallback #508

v1.0.0 — Initial Release

BrainLayer v1.0.0

Persistent memory and knowledge graph for AI agents — 7 MCP tools to search, store, recall, digest, and explore entities across every conversation.

Highlights

• 7 MCP tools (+ 14 backward-compatible aliases) for Claude Code, Cursor, Zed, VS Code
• Hybrid search — semantic (bge-large-en-v1.5) + keyword (FTS5), merged with Reciprocal Rank Fusion
• Local-first — SQLite + sqlite-vec, single .db file, no cloud, no Docker
• 10-field enrichment — local LLM via Ollama or MLX
• Knowledge graph — entities, relations, person lookup, time-decay scoring
• Multi-source indexing — Claude Code, WhatsApp, YouTube, Markdown, Claude Desktop
• 268,000+ chunks indexed in production use

Install

pip install brainlayer
brainlayer init
brainlayer index

Full Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md