V4 ships today. V5 is the runtime. Local-first. Offline verification is first-class.V4 ships today · V5 is the runtime
Product · KNOLO
The differentiation is not better vector search. The moat is one portable artifact that binds knowledge + policy + retrieval + memory + execution into a reproducible, authority-scoped state machine.
Evidence query
What does the 2024 MSA say about indemnification for subcontractors?
Answer · strict
lexical first · rerank off
Indemnification for subcontractors is in §8.3 of the 2024 MSA. The contractor remains liable for subcontractor acts as if they were its own, with a written flow-down required before any subcontract is effective.
North star
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What did the agent know?
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What evidence did it use?
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What was it authorized to do?
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What did it change?
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Can another machine reproduce and verify the result?
V4 · ships today
Portable .knolo files. Deterministic lexical-first retrieval. Evidence spans, plan hashes, and read receipts. TrustBench Phase 5 is the public contract in knolo-core. TypeScript @knolo/core is the v4 reference.
What ships today →V5 · the upgrade
A unified ledger for knowledge, memory, policy, authority, and run events. Durable, resumable agent runs. EQL. Read, write, and run receipts. Rust as the reference kernel. Not shipping as the public contract yet.
Read the V5 architecture →Positioning
Not a replacement for SQL. Not a generic vector database. Not a hosted control plane. Local-first. Offline verification is first-class.
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Durable agent runs: tools, budgets, approvals, resume, audit.
V5 destination
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Embedded transactional knowledge database inside the runtime.
V5 destination
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One mountable file: knowledge + state + policy + proofs.
V4 ships the file today; V5 extends the contract
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Evidence Query Language. Canonical evidence packages.
V5 destination
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Agent memory on the same ledger.
V4: overlay log. V5: ledger-backed views
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Read / write / run evidence.
V4: read receipts. V5: read + write + run
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Open one artifact. Inspect roots, timelines, plans, runs.
V5 destination
The artifact
A .knolo Knowledge Image is something counsel, SIU, or an operator can inspect. V4 ships that file today: knowledge you can retrieve, permissions that travel with it, hashes you can recompute, read receipts you can verify. V5 extends the same artifact into state, policy, authority, and runs.
Public V4 contract: github.com/HiveForensics-AI/knolo-core. HIVE owns the commercial product story on this domain.
V4 capabilities →What Knolo is not
Determinism contract · V5
Same state root + same EQL plan + same authority + same runtime contract = the same canonical evidence package.
If another machine cannot reproduce and verify the result, it is not Knolo. It is theater with citations.
V5 architecture →Bootcamp is how a corpus becomes an image and a workflow. Hive Forensics AI Inc. deploys and operates the system.