Why Early Access?

“She lives on your desktop, and how people actually live with something
like this cannot be designed on paper. Her personality, her memory and
the relationship she builds with you only take their real shape after
weeks of daily use — and different people want very different things
from her. Some want a quiet presence in the corner. Some want someone
to talk to at night. Some want an assistant that remembers their work.

Early Access is where those differences show up. During this period we
plan to keep changing the product in response to them:

- Reworking the memory system around how conversations actually
accumulate and get recalled over months, not days
- Adding interaction and desktop-integration features that users ask for
- Expanding language support
- Continuing to improve her voice and expressions

We treat Early Access as the period when the product is shaped by the
people using it, not as a final bug-testing phase.”

Approximately how long will this software be in Early Access?

“An estimated 6 to 12 months, depending on how the remaining features progress and on your feedback.

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How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“· Local vision model so she can actually understand what is in a picture (right now she can only read text inside images)
· Video understanding: frame sampling plus audio transcription
· Richer expressions and animations, more ways to interact
· Continued work on memory retrieval and personality consistency
· Performance and startup speed

The core (local conversation, memory, character art, voice) will not change, and is already working.
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What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“It is stable and usable for everyday conversation. Currently available:

· Fully offline local conversation (bundled language model, no key, no internet)
· Four-layer memory: permanent raw transcript, summaries for retrieval, long-term memory, resident persona
· Live2D character with expressions and moods
· Chinese voice playback
· Relationship and affection system — she remembers what has happened between you
· Desktop pet mode, Chinese and English interface

Not yet available: understanding image content (only text inside images for now), video understanding, some extra interactions.

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Will this software be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“No. The price during Early Access will remain the same at full release.

If anything ever changes, we will announce it on the store page in advance — there will be no surprise price increase.
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How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“· Every update gets a post explaining what changed and why, including the calls we got wrong
· A pinned feedback thread in the discussions, where the community votes on priorities — the most-voted items get built first
· Personality feedback is the most valuable kind: "she wouldn't say that", "that reaction feels mechanical", "she shouldn't have remembered that". I could never find these problems on a development machine, and I read every one
· Known issues are listed publicly; we won't pretend they don't exist
· I can't promise to reply to every post, but I do read them all — and each update post will say which suggestions we took, which we didn't, and why
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