Progress you can see. Know-how we keep protected.

SideQuesto now turns privacy-safe work outcomes into selective lessons that strengthen one shared narration policy without making human ratings the engine of improvement.

• Verified outcomes are evaluated against evidence, timing, and audience fit, then distilled into categorical lessons that contain no prompt, code, path, log, transcript, or narration text.
• Relevant lessons are selected for the current task instead of replaying complete histories or treating every past event as equally useful.
• Dex keeps a compact expert contract while Pip can recognize a topic-level foundation question and explain it without permanently labeling the person.
• Human feedback remains an optional calibration signal for subjective qualities; it is no longer the only route to measurable learning evidence.
• One compiled narration policy remains active. Derived lessons are encrypted, versioned, reversible, and unable to bypass privacy, attention, or promotion gates.
• Mastery Lab now separates raw benchmark quality from verified evidence scope with a layered radar profile, visible future-suite rings, axis scores, safety status, and weighted L100 target rails.
• The release adds contextual-learning, audience-boundary, encrypted-persistence, selective-retrieval, and policy-regression coverage to the complete Swift suite.

SideQuesto improves its local context policy; it does not train or modify the underlying foundation model.

SideQuesto now strengthens one shared narration system while giving progress updates more useful intent, consequence, and next-step context.

• Every useful lesson now strengthens the same shared narration system, keeping behavior consistent over time.
• Progress updates explain the purpose and scope of consequential work instead of repeatedly announcing mechanical activity.
• Dex and Pip keep their distinct delivery while sharing the same verified facts, privacy boundary, and final-answer source.
• Public repository and website content were reduced to keep internal product and operational detail private.
• Production web dependencies were patched and the public website was rebuilt from the same reviewed source revision.
• The release passed 224 Swift tests across 33 suites plus security, web-build, signing, notarization, disk-image, and private-download integrity checks.

Apple sign-in is not enabled in build 6; verified email and Google sign-in remain available.

Dex and Pip now follow the story across failed attempts and changed approaches, while Focus mode stays quiet until the answer is ready.

• Work mode can explain a meaningful retry, a disproved route, or a deliberate change of approach without reading every routine event.
• Dex adds perspective only when the evidence earns it; Pip keeps the same facts approachable and explains technical cause and effect.
• Focus mode remains silent during active work and still presents and reads the complete final answer.
• Hidden filenames now take their dependent grammar with them, preventing fragments such as an empty Updated label from appearing or being spoken.
• Dex keeps the coffee character detail without the distracting low-fidelity steam overlay.
• Every late delivery decision now records a privacy-safe categorical reason, and six interaction scenarios join the full 214-test release suite.

The new delivery metrics retain no prompt, code, path, command, log, audio, or spoken message content.

The macOS release now connects plan choice, verified account, checkout, private download, and one-Mac activation.

• SideQuesto is signed, notarized by Apple, and packaged as a private DMG for the Mac beta.
• Dex and Pip can follow simultaneous projects while keeping project context separate and repository access read-only.
• Free members receive the download after email verification; paid members receive it after Stripe confirms payment or an eligible annual trial.
• The founder dashboard now shows six calm onboarding milestones, so help can arrive at a stalled step without bombarding a new member.
• The release passed 183 automated Swift tests plus signing, integrity, privacy-boundary, and Gatekeeper checks.

Annual-trial eligibility is checked across account, customer, payment method, and prior-trial history; every plan activates one Mac at a time.

SideQuesto moved from simply reporting activity toward explaining consequence, context, and the most useful next step.

• Dex and Pip now produce clearer context cards for important answers, failures, approvals, and completed work.
• The Research Lab separates narration from final answers and only accepts material from a deliberately consented session.
• Participants can review, export, or delete contributed research material without sharing source code, prompts, commands, or project archives.
• SideQuesto passed its local 100-case L2 preflight across context, consequence, coaching, safety, and access.

L2 is an internal product benchmark, not an independent certification or a score about any member.

The new website explains the product, companions, onboarding, plans, and privacy boundaries in one place.

• A new product story shows how SideQuesto keeps people connected to work happening in Codex and Claude.
• Plan comparisons now explain local voice, hosted voice allowances, annual savings, and the private-beta path.
• Privacy, Terms, Billing, refund, and cookie information are published as readable first-class pages.
• Website analytics remain off until a visitor grants permission, with consent choices available again from the footer.

The companion experience now prioritizes meaning over mechanical status narration.

• Smart narration focuses on consequential progress, blockers, approvals, and finished answers instead of reading every event.
• Focus and mute controls keep text available even when speech is paused, and hosted voice falls back safely to on-device Apple voice.
• Companion movement, reset behavior, narration history, and explicit voice previews are more predictable.
• Keyboard-first controls and reduced-motion behavior improve access for people who do not rely on a pointer or animation.

The first private-beta foundation established a distinct product, release boundary, and companion identity.

• SideQuesto launched with Dex and Pip as visible, audible companions for supported Codex and Claude activity on macOS.
• The event boundary was minimized so companions can explain work without collecting prompts, source code, command history, or tool results.
• A private-beta acceptance runbook introduced stop-ship rules for privacy failures, signing problems, unexpected permissions, speech control, and updater integrity.
• Onboarding began adapting detail, tone, and coding experience to the person using the app.