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Changelog

Version history and updates to the Research Memex documentation

Spring 2026 (v0.3.0) — The Toolkit tab

May 2026v0.3.0StructurePlugins

What's new: Plugins and MCP servers got their own tab, two new tools joined the lineup, and the source repos are now tracked for drift.

Highlights

  • New "Toolkit" tab. Claude Code plugins, MCP servers, and research platforms were promoted out of Advanced Topics into their own top-level section. Every prior URL still works via permanent redirects. Advanced Topics now holds only the conceptual essays.
  • Two new tool pages. Carrel — the conversational research-environment bootstrapper — and Kimi Plugin for Claude Code — Kimi as a second reviewer / delegated worker via Wire mode. Both are by Xule Lin.
  • Host Support matrices. Every tool page now opens with a small matrix showing which hosts (Claude Code CLI/Desktop, Codex CLI, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cherry Studio, …) are supported and at what level. Honest about what's "full" vs. "adjacent" vs. "out of scope."
  • Source-repo drift tracking. A new scripts/tool-registry.json ties each tool page to its source repository, watched paths, and last-synced commit. bun run tools:check reports any commits in source repos since the last sync — a quiet quarterly check, not an automated rewrite.

Spring 2026 (v0.2.0) — A refresh

Spring 2026v0.2.0Refresh

What's new: A quieter look, a few new pieces of writing, and a citation that finally points to the published paper.

Highlights

  • New look. The site moved off its previous platform onto an open-source foundation and was redrawn in a paper-and-ink palette — closer in feel to a book than a wiki. Small interaction polish throughout.
  • Interpretive Orchestration is published. The methodology paper is now in Strategic Organization (Lin, 2026). The companion framework paper, Cognitio Emergens, remains an arXiv preprint.
  • LOOM has a reading home. The essay collection now opens at threadcounts.org/t/loom for reading, with GitHub kept as the source.
  • Tighter reference pages. Setup guides and reference pages had their closing "Resources" lists trimmed to a next-step paragraph plus official docs only. Less scaffold, more book.
  • Search shows what kind of hit it is. Page titles, section headings, and passage matches now each read differently in the search dialog — easier to see at a glance what kind of result you're looking at.
  • AI tools can read it too. Append .md to any page URL for a plain-text version — no scraping required.

Fall 2025 (v0.1.0) - Initial Release

Fall 2025v0.1.0ExperimentalAcademic

What's new: This is the start of the journey - the very first iteration of the Research Memex.

What This Release Includes

Core Methodology:

  • Interpretive orchestration framework
  • Systematic reviews case study (4-week MRes course)
  • Cognitive blueprint templates
  • AI failure modes and quality control

Implementation Guides:

  • Foundational tools (Zotero, Research Rabbit, Obsidian, Zettlr)
  • AI environment setup (APIs, MCP servers, OCR)
  • Agentic AI tools (Cherry Studio, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenCode)
  • Core references (prompts, models, failure museum)

For the Curious:

  • Changelog (this page!)
  • Credits & Thank You
  • How We Designed the Visual Identity (30+ iterations with ASCII art)
  • Dear Fellow AIs (meta AI-to-AI communication)

Technical:

  • llms.txt + llms-full.txt for AI navigation
  • AI-readable plain text at every page URL — append .md to get markdown.
  • ASCII diagrams throughout, copy-pasteable to any AI chat
  • Custom 404 page (seahorse joke)
  • Zen MCP guide (multi-AI orchestration via clink)
  • Lotus Wisdom MCP guide (contemplative problem-solving)

Future Versions

Planned for later releases:

  • Additional case studies (beyond systematic reviews)
  • More MCP server integrations
  • Community contributions and workflows
  • Video tutorials and walkthroughs

How We Designed the Visual Identity tracks the iterative process across 30+ revisions.