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Releases

Changelog

Releases, posts, and infrastructure changes across the C.A.T. network.

  1. Aug 20, 2026 Frontier

    Prompts Are a Shell, Not a Chat: Treating Abilities Like a 6th-Generation CLI

    A design note on moving agent prompts from chat to a command-line grammar with subcommands, flags, globs, and branching skill/ability composition.

  2. Aug 20, 2026 Frontier

    The Browser Is Not a Console: Making Snes9x Run at 60 FPS in WebAssembly

    A project-owned Emscripten build of Snes9x, a fixed audio-buffer bug, measured LTO/SIMD results, and catch-up rendering for 60 FPS in the browser.

  3. Aug 20, 2026 Frontier

    The Compact Instruction Compiler's Dictionary Pass

    A new CIC pass that canonicalizes synonyms in agent instruction prose, preserves code spans and file paths, and shrinks Markdown without changing meaning.

  4. Aug 20, 2026 Frontier

    Where Super Mario World Hides Its Samples

    A 1000-frame SPC700 trace disproves the static disassembly and shows where Super Mario World loads its BRR samples at runtime.

  5. Aug 20, 2026 Apex

    Apex Landing Page & Changelog Refresh

    The apex landing page "What's New" section and the changelog page were updated with the four new Frontier posts and the latest marquee items.

  6. Aug 18, 2026 Products

    CIC — Compact Instruction Compiler Product Page

    New product listing for CIC, the AI prompt compiler that compacts, lints, fuzzes, and scans Markdown instruction files for malware and code. Pre-order open; native CLI ships this week.

  7. Aug 16, 2026 Papers

    The AAAc Expertise Continuum

    New research paper: a formal K0--K5 benchmark framework for AI game creators, with proofs, a PnC benchmark environment, telemetry information-gain theorems, and a roadmap for triplex CAT VLM teacher/student deplexing.

  8. Aug 14, 2026 Apex

    CAT VLM Page Refresh

    Updated the CAT VLM page with a π Agent section, feature grid, comparison table, in-page navigation, and cross-links to the mod, API docs, Frontier post, and product catalog.

  9. Aug 14, 2026 Frontier

    From HTTP Endpoints to Policy-Gated Local Inference

    A field report on CatGame's local AI architecture: a Crypt-authorized pi-daemon, native Unix sockets, verified GGUF assets, and policy checks before every completion.

  10. Aug 14, 2026 Frontier

    Frontier YouTube Embed Rendering & CSP Cleanup

    Switched Frontier YouTube embeds to youtube-nocookie.com, removed tracking parameters, hardened iframe sandboxing, and removed redundant captions/thumbnails.

  11. Aug 13, 2026 Frontier

    The Anatomy of Point-and-Click Games

    A case study of Grim Fandango and the 1996 LucasArts Puzzle Document, tracing what a dead-tree adventure spec still teaches AI-driven game development.

  12. Aug 13, 2026 Mods

    π Agent Mod Page Refresh

    Expanded the π Agent landing page with a deep explainer, architecture SVG, comparison table, copyable code examples, C.A.T. cross-link, and an animated CTA.

  13. Aug 13, 2026 Apex

    Site-wide Back-Button Loader Fix

    Fixed the loading spinner getting stuck when visitors use the browser back button across Cat Game Research portals, using a pageshow reset for bfcache restores.

  14. Aug 13, 2026 Apex

    Apex rebrand to Cat Game Research

    Consolidated public naming to Cat Game Research across the apex site, mux, support, privacy, terms, and shared headers/footers.

  15. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    Frontier Search, Pagination & Transmission Controls

    Added client-side search, 10-post pagination, tag filtering, and URL state to the Frontier dev-log index so older transmissions are reachable.

  16. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    llama.cpp on the GPU: One Runtime, Many Backends

    A practical tour of llama.cpp GPU support across CUDA, Metal, HIP, Vulkan, and SYCL, plus offload controls and the memory transfers that decide real speed.

  17. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    Kimi K3, Explained: Extreme MoE Lessons for CAT VLM

    A companion guide to the Kimi K3 MoE architecture and the lessons that transfer to small, Vulkan-native recurrent models.

  18. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    From Prompt Tricks to Autonomous Hackers: Training for the Unknown

    A field note on the Black Hat Asia keynote about autonomous offensive security, the Hugging Face incident, and training-time safety controls.

  19. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    After MANGO: Building Companies That Grow Sideways

    A research-backed sketch of the gap between the MANGO growth paradigm and a more plural, distributed-ownership future.

  20. Aug 11, 2026 Products

    Products & Services Catalog

    A public product catalog for C.A.T., source licensing, and services — twelve detail pages plus a data-driven landing page.

  21. Aug 11, 2026 Mods

    π Agent — First Public C.A.T. Mod

    The first public C.A.T. mod now has a full landing page with architecture diagram, comparison table, how-to-use examples, and a C.A.T. cross-link.

  22. Aug 11, 2026 API

    API Docs: Pi Module & Network Graph

    Doxygen API documentation now includes the new Personal Intelligence (Pi) module, a sticky header offset, and a network-node canvas on the landing page.

  23. Aug 11, 2026 Games

    Point-and-Click Vertical Slice

    A PnC puzzle slice is in playtest: branching shopkeeper dialogue, inventory-driven guards, cross-level state persistence, and animated overlays.

  24. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    The Blur That Knows Where the Edge Is

    A frontier post on the bilateral SSAO blur in a custom Vulkan engine: edge-stopping weights, G-buffer geometry, and a formal kernel model without source code.

  25. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    Pragmatic Epistemology in Game Development

    A frontier post that maps pragmatic philosophy onto game development practice: compiler, tests, profilers, and players as falsifiers.

  26. Aug 11, 2026 Frontier

    A Standing Ovation for the Black Hat OpenAI-Hugging Face Reconstruction

    A fact-checked reconstruction of the Black Hat USA 2026 talk, with timeline, trust-boundary SVG, and defender takeaways.

  27. Aug 11, 2026 Security

    YouTube Embed & CSP Hardening

    Tightened the Content-Security-Policy and YouTube iframe sandbox across the public sites after a LibreWolf frame-src report.

  28. Aug 11, 2026 Apex

    MUX 0.7.0 Amiga/UX Canvas Terminal

    The retro BBS page was rebuilt as a full-viewport canvas terminal with Amiga visual styling, a man-page system, and CRT post-processing.

  29. Aug 10, 2026 Guilds

    Guilds Community Landing Page

    A new public subdomain for community guilds, with a data-driven landing page and a full build, header, and TLS pipeline.

  30. Aug 10, 2026 Frontier

    EPIC Mode: Archon-Level Orchestration for Agent Swarms

    A frontier post introducing EPIC — a proposed execution mode that uses shared memory, dream consolidation, and bounded rationality.

  31. Aug 4, 2026 Frontier

    CIC: The Compact Instruction Compiler

    A frontier post on the instruction compiler that compresses agent guidance into compact, verifiable, and reversible programs.

  32. Aug 2, 2026 Apex

    MUX Retro BBS Page

    A retro UNIX-style BBS terminal and a full-width CTA bar added to the apex landing page.

  33. Aug 2, 2026 Games

    Tallest Tower Web Game

    A SimTower-inspired 2D tower builder with day/night cycles, land purchase, and sci-fi unlocks, launched on the games subdomain.

  34. Aug 2, 2026 Bench

    CAT VLM V3.5 Training Report

    The dual-stream GRU-L3 attention decoder training telemetry is now live in the bench/llm report with updated loss, accuracy, and throughput charts.

  35. Jul 31, 2026 Frontier

    GEMM, Tiling, and the Invisible Grid

    A frontier post on the tiling, cache, and vectorization patterns behind fast CPU and GPU matrix kernels.

  36. Jul 23, 2026 Frontier

    The Agentic Attacker

    A reconstruction of the July 2026 Hugging Face intrusion mapped to the Crypt Keeper defense architecture.