Babel

Status

What exists, and how far it is verified.

This is a dated product snapshot, not a hosted uptime dashboard. Availability (the surface exists in source) and qualification (what has actually been verified) are separate columns of the same story.

Product source pinned at abc05bb48208· reviewed 2026-10-14

Chat

Chat entrypoint and TUI are present in the public tree as the daily interaction mode.

  • Ordinary coding-loop reliability is under active qualification.
  • Provider-backed sessions require local credentials and a working provider; quality varies by model.
Released

Chat

Chat entrypoint and TUI are present in the public tree as the daily interaction mode.

  • Ordinary coding-loop reliability is under active qualification.
  • Provider-backed sessions require local credentials and a working provider; quality varies by model.

evidence: src-chat-entrypoint — Chat mode entrypoint and documented behavior surface.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

Plan

Plan mode exists as a CLI/TUI entrypoint for planning before mutation.

  • Planning behavior boundaries are documented in the product source.
  • No live workflow qualification is claimed.
Released

Plan

Plan mode exists as a CLI/TUI entrypoint for planning before mutation.

  • Planning behavior boundaries are documented in the product source.
  • No live workflow qualification is claimed.

evidence: src-plan-entrypoint — Plan mode entrypoint documented in the product start-here guide.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

Deep

Deep mode exists as a higher-ceremony path intended for riskier work.

  • Still maturing; route availability is not a reliability ranking.
  • Deep is not a blanket reliability upgrade over Chat.
Released

Deep

Deep mode exists as a higher-ceremony path intended for riskier work.

  • Still maturing; route availability is not a reliability ranking.
  • Deep is not a blanket reliability upgrade over Chat.

evidence: src-deep-entrypoint — Deep mode entrypoint documented in the product start-here guide.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

Doctor environment checks

babel doctor reports environment prerequisites (runtime, providers, Docker).

  • Output is diagnostic; a clean doctor report is not a coding-reliability score.
Released

Doctor environment checks

babel doctor reports environment prerequisites (runtime, providers, Docker).

  • Output is diagnostic; a clean doctor report is not a coding-reliability score.

evidence: src-doctor-entrypoint — Doctor command documented with its diagnostic scope.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

Desktop harness

Windows Desktop bundles the real Babel CLI with provider credentials, enabled/default model selection, project files, approvals, persisted history and verified sandbox setup.

  • Windows packages are unsigned; checksums verify bytes, not publisher identity.
  • Automatic Desktop updates are unavailable.
  • Active model-task shutdown on quit and cross-version profile migration remain unqualified.
  • Plan and Deep currently require OpenRouter; other Desktop providers offer Chat.
Released

Desktop harness

Windows Desktop bundles the real Babel CLI with provider credentials, enabled/default model selection, project files, approvals, persisted history and verified sandbox setup.

  • Windows packages are unsigned; checksums verify bytes, not publisher identity.
  • Automatic Desktop updates are unavailable.
  • Active model-task shutdown on quit and cross-version profile migration remain unqualified.
  • Plan and Deep currently require OpenRouter; other Desktop providers offer Chat.

evidence: src-desktop-readme — Desktop startup, qualified provider/model setup, real CLI execution and explicit distribution limits.

evidence: src-desktop-install-windows — Per-user Setup installation, Start Menu/uninstall entries, rollback, private credential defaults and unsigned/update/profile limits.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

evidence: desktop-ci-v013 — Post-merge CI passed on the pinned source, including installer lifecycle and installed-consumer checks. One Windows npm reinstall timed out, then passed unchanged on the failed-job retry. These scoped checks do not establish general live-model coding reliability.

Execution profiles

Profile policy (safe_repo default with Docker isolation, dev_local, and others) is implemented and covered by enforcement tests.

  • The default safe_repo profile fail-closes without Docker.
  • dev_local permits intrinsic inspection commands only; project-code tests/builds are denied without isolation.
Released

Execution profiles

Profile policy (safe_repo default with Docker isolation, dev_local, and others) is implemented and covered by enforcement tests.

  • The default safe_repo profile fail-closes without Docker.
  • dev_local permits intrinsic inspection commands only; project-code tests/builds are denied without isolation.

evidence: src-execution-profiles — Execution profile policy definitions, including dev_local's inspection-only scope.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

MCP read-only inspection

A read-only MCP inspection entrypoint exists for control-plane style inspection.

  • Inspection surface only; not a general execution API.
Released

MCP read-only inspection

A read-only MCP inspection entrypoint exists for control-plane style inspection.

  • Inspection surface only; not a general execution API.

evidence: src-status-doc — Upstream status: availability vs qualification separation, MCP inspection entrypoint, active-qualification statement, no published npm package.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

Ordinary coding-loop reliability

Everyday repository work reliability is explicitly under active qualification upstream.

  • No general reliability claim is made or implied anywhere on this site.
  • Scoped test passes are not a live-model quality score.
Planned

Ordinary coding-loop reliability

Everyday repository work reliability is explicitly under active qualification upstream.

  • No general reliability claim is made or implied anywhere on this site.
  • Scoped test passes are not a live-model quality score.

evidence: src-status-doc — Upstream status: availability vs qualification separation, MCP inspection entrypoint, active-qualification statement, no published npm package.

Distributions

What is published, and the evidence for it

Source checkout (clone + build)

Available · abc05bb48208 · signing: n/a

evidence: src-readme-install — Source-only install path (clone + build) and its documented commands.

npm registry package (babel-harness)

Not available · signing: n/a

No npm registry package is published. Release v0.1.3 attaches a CLI tarball for reproducibility; the Windows installer bundles the CLI and Node runtime. Clone + build remains available for source users.

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

evidence: npm-publish-workflow — npm registry publishing exists only as a separate, owner-authorized workflow added after v0.1.1; it has not produced a published registry package.

Windows x64 portable (Desktop + CLI)

Available · v0.1.3 · abc05bb48208 · signing: unsigned

Published asset · sha256:ebf2c6c928121a03c5d21364fbff636586ea80c7ce562ab14fe6b685ff752b9a

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

evidence: desktop-ci-v013 — Post-merge CI passed on the pinned source, including installer lifecycle and installed-consumer checks. One Windows npm reinstall timed out, then passed unchanged on the failed-job retry. These scoped checks do not establish general live-model coding reliability.

evidence: src-desktop-install-windows — Per-user Setup installation, Start Menu/uninstall entries, rollback, private credential defaults and unsigned/update/profile limits.

Windows x64 installer (Desktop + CLI)

Available · v0.1.3 · abc05bb48208 · signing: unsigned

Published asset · sha256:2cc94aee338edfa34059ad02aa508cd92062051741bff2eb8e7cec42b7aeffe1

evidence: release-v013 — Published v0.1.3 includes an unsigned Windows x64 Setup.exe, portable ZIP, CLI tarball, checksums and manifest. Actual downloaded bytes, all 10,234 ZIP files and frozen build/installer provenance were independently verified; actual Setup install, registration, native UI, CLI launch and uninstall checks passed.

evidence: desktop-ci-v013 — Post-merge CI passed on the pinned source, including installer lifecycle and installed-consumer checks. One Windows npm reinstall timed out, then passed unchanged on the failed-job retry. These scoped checks do not establish general live-model coding reliability.

evidence: src-desktop-install-windows — Per-user Setup installation, Start Menu/uninstall entries, rollback, private credential defaults and unsigned/update/profile limits.

GitHub release v0.1.0

Not available · v0.1.0 · signing: n/a

Release v0.1.0 (2026-07-23) is a source tag only — it carries no downloadable assets.

evidence: release-v010 — Release v0.1.0 exists as a tag with zero published assets (observed via GitHub API).

Qualification of the ordinary coding loop is an upstream engineering effort. When it produces new evidence, the pinned snapshot on this page is refreshed through a reviewed content change — never automatically. See how content is maintained.