Existential v7.2.0 closes Phase 2: your personal Oracle can now take part in a team without ceasing to be the local-first, personal system you already run. It also makes Existential genuinely turnkey to install, run, and keep up to date.
Joining a team, without changing what you run
Your personal Oracle can now join a team, and everything that makes it personal stays exactly as it is. The network abilities arrive as latent capacity that comes alive only when you join one. On a fresh personal install these team surfaces are present but dormant, and at this early stage a team is set up by hand. Leaving a team, or turning the network features off entirely, is a clean, single step whenever you choose. See Using Existential, Known limitations, for what to expect at this stage.
Wellspring and Outflow
Wellspring and Outflow are the two directions of a single exchange of thinking: ideas arriving from your team, and your own thinking crossing out to it. Everything that crosses is anonymized and screened, so no personal identifier ever follows it into shared space. You stay in control throughout — you approve or deny what gets shared, and over time the system quietly learns from those decisions. Each team has its own workspace, and you can filter the exchange by channel.
A team's shared wisdom
As a team thinks together, Existential distills its shared wisdom on its own, recognizing when something has matured into insight worth keeping and gathering it into the team's collective knowledge. That wisdom is then recorded on a public ledger under anonymous proofs, so a contribution is provably from a member of the team without ever revealing who made it.
Sending feedback
The in-app feedback button now reliably delivers your note and screenshot to the private cohort space. If it can't be sent for any reason, your feedback is saved on your machine so nothing is ever lost. See Using Existential, Feedback.
Installing and running
Installing and running Existential is now turnkey. A single step sets everything up, with simple controls to start, stop, restart, and open the app, and to follow along with what it's doing. Updates pull the latest release and restart cleanly while preserving your knowledge base, your settings, and your models. If you like, Existential can start automatically when you log in; this stays off by default, since keeping the model resident is demanding on an everyday Mac. A built-in health check confirms your whole setup in one place, from prerequisites and models to storage, disk, and connectivity. See Getting started for the full walkthrough.