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Development status

Evidence, scope, and what comes next.

NightFall reports validated work separately from active development and long-term architectural objectives.

Current milestones

Mimetic Cognitive Fabric

Validated
July 2026

Phase 5 completed and sealed

  • Phase 5 implementation completed
  • Validation completed before sealing
  • The accepted state was committed and preserved
  • Previously sealed Phase 0–4 states remain preserved
  • Phase reporting remains scoped to its defined acceptance boundary

Mimetic Cognitive Fabric

Validated
July 2026

Phase 4 completed and sealed

  • 36 of 36 acceptance scenarios passed
  • 137 all-feature and 128 no-default-feature tests passed
  • 20,000 fuzz runs with zero crashes or sanitizer findings
  • Expanded recovery soak passed with zero failures or duplicate effects
  • Security, dependency, centralization, licensing, formatting, and Clippy audits passed

NightFall OS

Validated
Preserved milestone

Phase 45 release-candidate validation

  • Virtual Boots 1–7 passed
  • Native six-partition layout exercised
  • Restart and manual recovery validated
  • S3 suspend/wake and failed-update rollback passed
  • Recorded acceptance runtime: 7,706.545 seconds

NightFall Continuum

Validated
Preserved milestone

Phase 1B acceptance

  • 20 of 20 scenarios passed
  • 7,200-second soak with zero recorded failures or leaks
  • 28 role processes and 64 active circuits
  • 231.693 MiB/s aggregate throughput
  • Zero observed cross-circuit key reuse

NightFall Atlas

In development
Active development

Unified desktop architecture

  • One coherent desktop product boundary
  • Lawful public and properly authorized source model
  • Human control over consequential conclusions
  • Life-safety governance as the highest priority
  • Reversible protective automation only

Reporting standard

A passed phase proves its defined acceptance boundary.

It does not imply that every future capability is complete, that a controlled test equals worldwide deployment, or that independent security review is unnecessary. NightFall preserves scope, limitations, and evidence so progress remains meaningful.