# ACE 0.8.1 Intelligence Builder product-experience release candidate

Status: **candidate — publication and public-index reproduction pending**

## Promise

ACE 0.8.1 makes the released Intelligence Operating System easier to experience without changing
its architecture or granting new authority. A user can enter Atrium, see durable onboarding
progress, understand which intelligence needs a decision, inspect the exact underlying resources,
and reproduce the paired World AI Command Center demonstration.

## Candidate coordinates

- base release: `ace-core==0.8.0` at tag `v0.8.0`;
- release branch: `codex/v0.8.1-product-experience-closeout`;
- candidate distribution: `ace-core==0.8.1`;
- paired domain candidate: `ace-domain-world-intelligence==0.11.0`;
- schema head: v177;
- public MCP surface: exactly eleven tools;
- reference action adapter: unchanged distribution 0.4.0 with `ace-core>=0.8.0,<0.9`.

## Included product changes

1. Atrium projects an inert onboarding profile and the exact append-only Builder session history
   through the existing authenticated Intelligence resource plane.
2. Atrium renders proposed, working, blocked, retrying, and complete states from durable records
   and opens the first Brief only after `first_briefing_ready`.
3. Intelligence, Opportunities, Agents, Connections, and Strategy are first-class product
   destinations; Work remains downstream.
4. Opportunities are evidence-backed decision openings represented by Cases, material Shifts, and
   early Signals. They are not sales leads, tasks, or autonomous recommendations.
5. ACE uses its own blue-led design system. Customer identity remains a replaceable deployment
   overlay rather than the Core or public-domain identity.
6. A local-only immutable resource replay supports the paired World AI Command Center demo without
   becoming a new durable store or authority path.
7. The shared resource-detail sheet forwards its overlay ref through the Radix boundary, keeping
   cited Brief inspection free of React runtime warnings at desktop and mobile breakpoints.
8. Atrium turns canonical Brief sections into visual What / Why / How / When blocks and applies
   the same truthful display grammar to every decision-facing Signal, Shift, Case, Decision,
   Action, Outcome, and Feedback record. Missing materiality or event time stays visibly missing;
   unknowns, limitations, receipts, and lineage remain in the governed resource detail.

## Required acceptance before publication

- Core lint, fast tests, naked-kernel, Canvas, security, and Docker gates pass at the exact
  candidate head.
- Package identity, roadmap, evidence-index, and build-backend gates pass.
- The Core wheel builds reproducibly, passes strict Twine validation, installs outside the
  checkout, reports version 0.8.1, and preserves the 24-kind resource plane and eleven-tool MCP
  boundary.
- The paired World 0.11.0 wheel installs with public Core 0.8.1 and reproduces
  Connect → Map → Watch → Brief plus the Atrium AI Command Center resource page.
- Browser acceptance covers desktop and mobile command-center states without horizontal overflow
  or uncaught console errors.

## Boundaries

This patch does not claim collaborative multi-tenancy, hostile-code isolation, distributed
operation, autonomous source authorization, arbitrary web access, autonomous publication,
general real-world causal accuracy, or general beneficial impact. Domain Packs remain inert;
source and effect access remain separately reviewed and authorized.

After publication, a separate immutable closeout will bind the tagged commit, trusted workflow,
artifact hashes, public-index reproduction, paired World release, and any observed limitations.
