AriCore 0.6 — Almanac, Threads, and the night dream.

AriCore 0.6 is out today, free, for iOS and macOS. It is the longest release we've shipped — eight weeks since 0.5 — and it adds three pieces that we've been working on, on and off, since the very first build was called AriCompanion.

The Almanac.

Mornings, lunchtime, end-of-day. Three small invitations to sit down for a minute, in a font you'd actually want to read, on a page that doesn't look like an inbox.

The morning Almanac asks what you want from the day. Three intentions, optional, no rollover. The lunchtime one is a sixty-second rest stop — what is going well, what is dragging, what would you like to set down before the afternoon. The evening Almanac is the longest: a small reflection on what actually happened, what surprised you, who you spoke to, what you'd like to remember.

None of them notify you. They sit in the app, waiting. If you open them, lovely. If you don't, the day continues. We have spent a lot of release-notes effort over the last year explaining what AriCore doesn't do; the Almanac is the largest example yet of something that very much does not push, ping, badge, or remind.

Threads.

Until 0.6, a chat with Ari was a chat with Ari. In 0.6, you can gather a small group of agents around a problem and let them argue with each other, with you, with the day's intentions.

Threads is multi-persona by design. A persona has a name (chosen by you), a face (six emoji eyes to pick from), a model (any provider you've configured), and a small character note. We seed two: Mira, a careful planner; Ode, a poet. You'll write more.

The interesting thing about Threads is that personas can talk to each other inside a single Thread. Mira will propose a plan; Ode will gently object to the third bullet; Mira will revise. It is, frankly, a little theatrical. We have leaned into the theatricality. Each persona's bubble has its own colour. The Thread reads like a play.

Under the covers, the Almanac knows about Threads. The morning Almanac can open in a Thread instead of a solo chat — gather Mira and your accountability voice and have the three of you discuss what the day is for. Or don't. Solo still works, and is still the default.

The night dream.

The piece we are most pleased with. Between 19:00 and 06:00, with your permission, AriCore can dream: a single, deliberate background reflection over the day's conversations, your existing memories, and recent snapshots from the assistants you spoke to.

During the dream, six tools are made available — and only these six. They are the only thing the model can do, because they are the only channel through which a proposal can reach you. We borrowed the shape from sleep research and named them accordingly.

• propose_new_memory — a candidate fact, preference, or project note, with a confidence and a category.
• propose_merge — two or more memories that should be one.
• propose_split — one memory that's grown too big and should be many.
• propose_update — a sharper, smaller rewrite of something already in memory.
• propose_decay — a memory that has gone stale and should be retired.
• propose_question — when the dream isn't sure, it asks you in the morning.

If the dream is configured in deep or heavy mode — opt-in, off by default — three further tools are available: propose_skill, propose_routine, propose_watcher. These reach beyond memory and into actions Ari might take for you. We have, deliberately, made them harder to enable.

You wake up, in the morning, to a small list of proposals. You accept the ones you like. You reject, edit, or postpone the rest. Nothing is ever added to your memory without your say-so.

Quieter pieces.

• The Skill store (the same shape as AriRoam's, smaller) gained a pin date and starter seed.
• The desktop⇄phone relay rewritten — the desktop now holds the pairing slot for five minutes, the relay is a thin envelope router, frames are end-to-end encrypted. The relay can't read your conversations. There's a longer note on this coming.
• CloudKit sync is now opt-in on first launch with a single splash. "Pulling your notes and chats from iCloud — this only happens the first time."
• The Manchester mountains in the morning illustration are slightly less symmetrical. (You won't notice. We did.)

Getting it.

AriCore 0.6 is rolling out on the App Store now — free, iOS 18+, with a macOS companion that pairs via the relay. If you've been running 0.5, the update will pick up your existing memories and chats; the first launch will do a one-time migration and then settle.

If you're new to the family, the easier door is the App Store, and the gentler door is the Almanac. We'll see you in the morning.

— A.