Keating Blog
Release notes, engineering essays, and field notes from Keating's teaching system.
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v2.9.0 - Keating in the Room with You
Keating 2.9 adds a live multimodal teaching surface: full-duplex voice over OpenAI Realtime and Gemini Live, camera or screen-share vision with frame dedup, microphone capture on the audio thread, and streaming progressive image and animation renders — all seeded with the real conversation and system prompt so voice continues the lesson.
v2.7.0 - Questions, Context, and Learning Evidence
Keating 2.7 gives the model a complete question vocabulary, streams only finished interactions, links genuinely nested study plans, starts from complete learner evidence, removes tool ceremony, and makes quiz results durable and honest.
v2.8.0 - A Tutor That Can Look Before It Guesses
Keating 2.8 tells the tutor when and how to inspect its own live code, connects NodePod workspace reads to the mounted source tree, and gives learners separate control over reasoning visibility and whether it starts expanded.
v2.6.0 - Learning Paths You Can See, Expand, and Retry
Keating 2.6 replaces the Dio hosted-model bridge with Not Organic's provider-owned account flow, turns lesson plans into nested and resumable learning paths, makes dependency diagrams genuinely inspectable, and gives interrupted prompts an obvious way back.
v2.5.0 - Multimodal Runtime, Mobile, and Calmer Artifacts
Keating 2.5 ships the multimodal runtime release line: realtime voice, provider-native search, durable UI documents, a native Android client, Canadian localization, Markdown-rendered reasoning, and calmer artifact previews that keep the chat surface under control.
v2.4.0 - A Streamable Interface for Understanding
Keating 2.4 moves teaching into streamed OpenUI documents, adds mobile voice and a separate OpenTUI host, makes providers, storage, and learning history more legible, improves interrupted-session recovery, and turns training export into a documented evidence package.
v2.2.0 - Learning Evidence That Remembers What Happened
Keating 2.2 makes the learning loop more accountable: feedback now points at the exact response a learner reacted to, quizzes, diagnostics, and spaced reviews build a cautious learner profile over time, and the browser agent gains safer local execution, stronger OAuth paths, and better session naming.
v2.0.0 - Desktop, P2P Storage, and a Bigger App Surface
Keating 2.0 starts the desktop/P2P release line: an Electron workspace now hosts the app as a local-first client, shared Hypercore storage moves into @keating/p2p-core, settings and session management are calmer, public download/legal pages are live, and deployed web users get safer stale-build recovery.
v1.4.1 - Production Analytics, Mermaid Diagrams, and Release Guardrails
Keating 1.4.1 is a patch release for the browser app: production PostHog analytics now initialize and proxy correctly, Mermaid diagrams render again after SVG validation, chat markdown handles Mermaid fences directly, open-ended quizzes get model-judged grading, fine-tune datasets can be imported, and the repo's release/version guardrails are documented in the public update trail.
v1.3.0 - An Interactive Hero, Readable Chat, and a Wider Polish Pass
Keating 1.3 puts a living machine on the front page: an interactive 3D CRT that boots a real terminal and hands you a session. Inside the app, Keating's replies now render on a panel that is actually readable in both themes, the conversation column is wider, and a broad retro and mobile polish pass reaches the landing page, navigation, session cards, usage charts, and settings. Underneath, the browser runtime gained portable session data and snapshot export, and every version string now flows from a single source of truth.
v1.2.0 - Observable Self-Evolution, Timed Quizzes, and Release Hygiene
Keating 1.2 makes the self-improvement loop much easier to inspect, adds timed quiz sessions and stronger quiz result cards, quiets the browser persistence warning path, and cleans up release metadata so the CLI, package shim, web app, and generated sandbox boot files stay aligned.
v1.1.0 - Image Generation, Interactive Quizzes, and Cleaner Learning Artifacts
Keating 1.1 turns the web app into a more complete learning workspace: image generation joins the tool set, lesson-plan artifacts gain an interactive quiz taker, chat output is easier to copy and inspect, MiniMax M3 is selectable, and benchmark/runtime correctness issues are fixed across CLI and browser paths.
v0.3.13 — Source-Edit CLI, Safer Auto-Improve, and Persistent MAP-Elites
New `keating edit` command for search/replace source edits. Auto-improve gets a 30-min cooldown and rolls back regressions. MAP-Elites grids now persist between runs. Resizable session sidebar and year-by-year activity heatmap on the web.
v0.3.12 — Portable Session Sharing, Short Links, and UI Settings
Share chat sessions with short links (server-backed, compressed snapshots, or local-only). New UI settings for share-link mode and app-wide font family. OpenCode Entire plugin hook for session lifecycle tracking.
v0.3.10 — Google Search Grounding for Gemini
Gemini and Google chat requests can now include real-time web search grounding. URL-heavy prompts automatically suggest enabling it.
v0.3.11 — Session Sidebar, Fork Trees, and Profile Images
Persistent session sidebar on large screens with search, load, fork, rename, and nested fork navigation. Forked sessions now appear as a session tree. User profile images and animation-renderer settings.
v0.3.9 — Streaming Replies and Live Reasoning Panels
Assistant replies now render live from the in-flight stream instead of appearing all at once at the end. When a reasoning-capable model emits thinking chunks, Keating now shows them in a live collapsible Reasoning panel while the answer is still being written.
v0.3.6 — Ink Setup Flow, Package Rename, and Provider Defaults
Interactive onboarding with Ink. Package renamed to keating. Default shell provider is now Google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview. --list-models passes through to Pi runtime.
v0.3.4 — Markdown Tables and LaTeX Math in Chat
Chat now renders GitHub-flavored markdown tables and LaTeX math expressions. Inline math via $...$ and block math via $$...$$ are properly typeset with KaTeX.
v0.3.2 — Chat Rewrite Stabilizes: Forks, Feedback, and Mobile
The Assistant UI rewrite from Lit to React has stabilized with mobile layout refinements, artifact chips in messages, CLI theme parity, React #310 crash fix, and per-message fork/feedback actions.
v0.3.3 — Interactive Quizzes, Scene Storyboards, and Dark Mode Fixes
Quizzes render as live forms inside chat. Animation storyboards become navigable scene cards. Dark mode contrast fixed across retro pages. Chat viewport no longer overflows.
v0.3.1 — Sessions, Artifacts, Tool Schemas, and Provider Proxying
Web reliability release with persistent sessions, artifact browsing from chat, real tool JSON schemas for all 19 tools, and a same-origin backend proxy eliminating CORS failures.
v0.3.0 — Pedagogical Engines, a Sharper Logo, and Recorded Workflows
Flashcards, quizzes, mastery tracking, and long-horizon projects. Brand polish with rebuilt ASCII logo. VHS workflow tapes for demos.
v0.2.0 — Ax Optimization, MAP-Elites, and Complete Rebrand
Multi-objective policy and prompt learning via @ax-llm/ax (GEPA/ACE). MAP-Elites for quality-diversity search. Temporal engagement policies. Full rebrand from Feynman to Keating. Retro aesthetic finalized.
From Stubs to Reality: AI-Powered Pedagogical Verification
Moved from deterministic stubs to AI-powered verification: real-time animation generation, realistic teaching simulations, dynamic learner profiles, and a dedicated PAPER section.
v0.1.3 — Synthetic Provider Support and Mobile UI Polish
Synthetic added as a first-class custom provider. Mobile touch targets and spacing improved across homepage, selector, settings, and install tabs.
v0.1.4 — CLI Fixes, React Migration, and Nitro+Vite Stack
CLI works globally via npm/bun. Web app rewritten in React with Keating browser tools. Server migrated to Nitro + Vite for universal deployment.
v0.1.2 — Initial Public Release
First public release of Keating. Pi-powered hyperteacher shell with lesson plans, concept maps, animations, verification, benchmarks, policy evolution, and self-improvement proposals.
v0.1.0 — Initial Public Release
First public release. Socratic AI tutor built on Pi agent framework with multi-provider support, local persistence, and dark mode.