A workspace should keep more than the conversation.
A follow-up needs the data and code behind the answer. Why VARIANT-1 gives each chat a live Python environment.
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JOURNAL / LAB NOTEBOOK
Notes from
a work in progress.
Why the workspace keeps working state, how its tools can change, and a dated log of what has changed in the app so far.
- Field notes
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- Log entries
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- Latest entry
- 08 OCT 2026
An animation drawn in text characters: spots in a round dish grow and split in two, like cells dividing. Seed a colony adds a new one.
FIELD NOTES
The thinking
behind the work.
What changes when a method changes?
From a small Python helper to a revised tool: what changes, what stays, and how to tell whether the result is better.
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LAB LOG
What changed,
and when.
VARIANT-1’s source is public, so every change happens in the open. These are the milestones so far, newest first.
Every change on GitHubPreview 3 is out.
New installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS, all built from one commit, with every change listed below. On a Mac it needs macOS 14 or newer.
Download pageGoals stay in their chat.
A Goal now runs in the chat you start it from, keeping its conversation, model, and Python session, and you watch it work right there. Your chats can also ask each other for help.
GoalsOverview, redesigned.
A new Python tab lists every live session with what it is running and the CPU and memory it uses, and lets you interrupt, restart, or release one. The Log monitor got a searchable feed too.
The live Python sessionSession context instead of saved facts.
The app no longer keeps a list of facts it has inferred. The model looks back through the chat’s own history when it needs to, and Settings lets you browse, search, and export it.
Looking back with session contextA clearer Review pane.
Review was rebuilt around changes you can open file by file, with a history you can narrow to one branch or to the commits you pick.
See what happenedThree platforms.
Preview 2 added installers for macOS on Apple silicon and for Linux, all three built from the same code.
Download pageThe source goes public.
VARIANT-1’s code was published on GitHub under the MIT License, for anyone to read, build, or improve.
The code on GitHub