CaoGen 3D Agent control room showing real tasks, approvals, and workspace state
CaoGen 1.0 product vision · Formal acceptance remains open

CaoGen 1.0 Vision

Turn a conversation into complete work that can recover, be reviewed, and be accepted.

Assistant and Studio are two experiences over the same Project, Goal, WorkItem, Run, Artifact, Evidence, and Approval state. This page defines 1.0 completion; it is not a capability promise for the current Beta.

Current v0.1.8 Beta · 26 of 64 P0s formally verified

Start with two experiences

One kernel, two experiences

Keep simple work simple. Expand complex projects at any time.

Assistant and Studio target shared project, session, and run state. Current continuity remains limited to the capabilities verified on the status page.

Assistant Partially complete

Focus on the goal, progress, and result

A lighter task view for developers and AI power users, with provider, token, terminal, and DAG details hidden by default.

  • One input for files, images, and sources
  • Execution-resource selection within configured boundaries
  • Approvals, citations, and artifacts stay visible
Studio Partially complete

Expand the full delivery control plane

For product, engineering, solo-company, and complex project work, with Goals, WorkItems, digital workers, cost, diffs, evidence, and approvals.

  • Review plans, permissions, and budget
  • Inspect routing, tools, and workspaces
  • Handle repair, retest, and delivery

24 end-state capabilities · 6 system surfaces

Not a feature pile. An operating system that owns work state.

These six groups cover the complete 1.0 capability system. They describe the end state, while status labels remain tied to formal acceptance evidence.

01 Partially complete

Experience and work objects

The 1.0 target gives developers and AI power users the same Project, Goal, WorkItem, Run, Artifact, and approval state across Assistant and Studio.

  • Assistant mode
  • Studio mode
  • Shared-state Assistant / Studio switching target
  • Unified ProjectWorkspace
  • Goals and lightweight project management
02 Partially complete

Digital workers and compute routing

The 1.0 target defines digital workers as internal CaoGen role instances and models as replaceable compute used by ModelAttempts.

  • Internal digital workers
  • Team formation and assignment within the target scope
  • Cross-provider routing within configured boundaries
  • A recovery ladder verified capability by capability
03 Partially complete

Native runtime and persistent ledgers

The 1.0 target has CaoGen own execution semantics, context, and state while routing protocol adapters through permissions and the effect ledger. Current coverage remains bounded by the status page.

  • CaoGen Native Runtime
  • OpenAI and Anthropic protocol adapters
  • Canonical Context Ledger
  • Workflow Ledger
  • Local Supervisor
04 Partially complete

Tools, artifacts, and trusted delivery

The 1.0 target does not rely on an Agent completion claim alone. Within integrated registry paths, it preserves effects, artifacts, evidence, and acceptance state for inspection, reconciliation, and recovery.

  • Tools and workbench
  • Artifact Graph
  • Evidence and Acceptance
  • Trust Kernel and Effect Ledger
  • Permissions and credential security
05 Partially complete

Learning, automation, and truthful visualization

The 1.0 target requires automation, memory, Skills, and the 3D digital team to display registered real work state rather than present random animation as actual execution.

  • Routines, memory, and Skill learning
  • Watercolor light-anime 3D digital team
  • Observability and cost
06 Building for 1.0

Data lifecycle and release engineering

The 1.0 target gives migration, export, deletion, upgrades, and formal release assets reversible, verifiable, credential-safe processes.

  • Data migration, export, and deletion
  • Signing, notarization, SBOM, upgrades, and release asset verification

CaoGen 1.0 target workflow

From a Goal to a Diff, PR, and delivery package.

These ten stages define the complete 1.0 delivery state machine. The current release contains several foundations but does not yet persist and formally accept the entire chain.

  1. 01

    Goal

    Persist the objective, boundaries, budget, approvals, risks, and Acceptance criteria.

  2. 02

    Research and sources

    Collect traceable sources, facts, constraints, unknowns, and research evidence.

  3. 03

    Requirements

    Turn research into scope, priority, contracts, and requirements that can be accepted.

  4. 04

    Design artifacts

    Create architecture, interaction, visual, data, and decision artifacts with version relationships.

  5. 05

    Implementation plan

    Split WorkItems, dependencies, owners, resources, risks, and verification gates.

  6. 06

    Isolated development

    Execute tools in controlled directories or worktrees, record Effects, and produce artifacts continuously.

  7. 07

    Independent review

    An independent role inspects scope, sources, diffs, permissions, cost, risk, and effects.

  8. 08

    Repair

    A failed review creates a repair WorkItem while preserving the failure reason and original evidence.

  9. 09

    Testing and Acceptance

    Tests, screenshots, remote state, or user approval become Evidence. Completion follows only after retest passes.

  10. 10

    Diff / Commit / PR / delivery package

    Bundle changes, artifacts, evidence, cost, risks, remaining work, and verifiable release assets.

Product truth

The end-state requirements are not the current completion state.

CaoGen 1.0 has not reached stable release criteria. The formal status remains 26 completed P0s, 34 partially complete items, and 3 project targets. Local dirty-worktree evidence is not promoted into website completion counts before release binding.

Formal status: 2026-08-17
Formally complete

26 completed P0s

Only P0s that pass formal acceptance with traceable evidence enter the completed count. The public release remains v0.1.8 Beta.

Partially complete

34 partially complete

Code, UI, or targeted evidence exists, but complete contracts, recovery, cross-provider continuity, release binding, or human workflows remain open.

Project targets

3 project targets

The end-state capability system defines 1.0 completion. It does not mean the current product already closes Native Runtime, Context, Artifact, Acceptance, and Supervisor loops.

After 1.0

Remote, cross-device, and multi-user work

Remote Supervisors, cloud Runners, desktop-closed execution, cross-device takeover, multi-user and organization policy, business connectors, Portfolio/Gantt, template markets, SSO/SCIM, and private deployment are end-state extensions.

Explicitly excluded

No external Agent launcher or universal collaboration suite

CaoGen does not treat Codex, Claude Code, or Gemini CLI as digital workers, build foundation models, replace complete Jira, HR, CRM, ERP, Office, chat, or meeting products, fabricate work with random animation, or claim transactional exactly-once for arbitrary external systems.

Real work state in the CaoGen 3D Agent control room

Real state visualization

Not decorative animation,
but a work control plane.

The current 3D control room already reads real session, task, approval, cost, provider, worktree, and Git state. The watercolor digital team is a clearly labeled 1.0 target.

Return to the current product

A verifiable definition of done

Vision must resolve into requirements, evidence, and acceptance.

The status page records the project-maintained acceptance snapshot, while the formal Release defines the published installer boundary. Implementation without bound evidence is never promoted into the verified count.