Updates

What's new in CANON

CANON ships continuously. This is the running record of what's changed — new features, improvements, and fixes in reverse chronological order.

FeatureS130–S133June 2026

Social Identity, AI Depth & Website Upgrade

  • →◈ Oracle Champion badge on profiles — gold chip for season prediction winners, linked to /discover/oracle-champions
  • →"You and @username share: …" viewer cross-thread — personalized banner on profiles when visitor has taste overlap with the profile owner
  • →⚔ Faction Rivalry card on compare pages — shows faction names, member counts, and an ideological lean bar for clashing factions
  • →Taste Compatibility Narrative — Haiku 2-sentence story on compare pages (archetype pair + shared tags, 24h symmetric cache)
  • →Discovery Brief History Archive — past 12 weeks of AI discovery briefs in an accordion; shimmer skeleton for CLS fix
  • →Oracle Champions Seasons — season filter tabs (2025/2026), win%, dynamic metadata, empty CTA → /capsule/predictions
  • →Profile Archetype Hero — cover art row (top-3 items), Taste DNA dimension mini-bars, radial-gradient background
  • →Cross-Category Completion Meter — 0–27 progress bar with milestone chips at 5/10/15/20/25/27, OMNIVORE at 27
  • →Taste DNA Natural Language — Haiku 3-4 sentence DNA explanation, 24h cache, ↺ Regenerate button
  • →Weekly Discovery Personalization Depth — 6-branch tone synthesis from last-3 feedback signals
  • →Taste DNA OG dimension labels — pentagon vertex axis labels on OG cards; &dims= param forwarded from page metadata
  • →Compare page OG card — mode=compare block (URL-param driven, no DB, CDN-cacheable) with resonance score and archetype columns
  • →Haiku system prompt caching — ephemeral cache_control on dna-explain and taste-prediction routes
  • →Website: New Canon C+◈ composite logo, favicon, mobile nav (scrollable 100dvh drawer), dark/light theme toggle
  • →CANON-048: /agents.json and /.well-known/llms.txt for AI-navigable discovery
FeatureS34April 30, 2026

Taste Circles & Quest Analytics

  • →Social → Circles tab: generate a private Taste Circle from your compatibility graph and issue Canon duel challenges to matched members
  • →Web Settings → Analytics: live dashboard showing quest completions, product-event counts, AI usage rollups, and cache-hit rates
  • →Studio Ops local dispatcher restored (blocker-preflight, doctor, genius-list)
FeatureS33April 29, 2026

Experience Intelligence: Questlines, Timelines & Telemetry

  • →Questline Engine v1: home screen now shows ranked quests (build, breadth, identity, social, ritual, feedback) based on your live Canon state
  • →Taste DNA Timeline: see how your identity has shifted across archetype generations — dimension changes, emerging tags, fading tags
  • →Milestone Auto-Capsules: CANON automatically seals snapshot capsules when you hit 25/50/100/250 items so the Capsule tab is never empty
  • →Product telemetry foundation: quest opens, view events, and capsule triggers now feed the analytics loop
  • →AI usage ledger: Anthropic and Voyage token usage tracked per Taste DNA generation
  • →Streak ceremony dedupe repair: item and streak milestones no longer suppress each other
FeatureS31–32April 24, 2026

Ceremonies, Drift & Canon Maps

  • →Streak Ceremony Modal: full-screen animated overlay with haptic feedback fires at streak (3/7/14/30/60/90 days) and item milestones (25/50/100/250)
  • →Daily streak reminder notifications at 6 PM once streak ≥ 3
  • →Weekly Taste Prompt: 26-prompt rotating pool on home (mobile) and dashboard (web)
  • →Canon Drift Score: see whether your taste is stable, evolving, expanding, or focusing — with rising/fading category trends
  • →Taste Map on public profiles: 25-category visual grid showing your claimed categories
  • →Canon Momentum widget on web dashboard: streak, progress bar, next unlock
  • →Capsule Evolution Report: after revealing a capsule, compare sealed Canon vs. today — added, dropped, rating shifts
  • →PWA service worker: offline-capable web app with stale-while-revalidate for Supabase REST
FeatureS30April 23, 2026

Taste Time Capsules, Ghost Mode & AI Efficiency

  • →Taste Time Capsule: seal a snapshot of your Canon with a future unlock date — reveal it months later to see how your taste has changed
  • →Ghost Mode: toggle 👁/🔒 visibility on individual items or your whole profile
  • →Quick Rate: long-press any item in library for a 1–10 rating bottom sheet
  • →Taste Gap detection: "Blind Spots" section in Discovery shows categories underrepresented given your taste profile
  • →Echo Chamber Warning: Shannon entropy score flags if your Canon is becoming too narrow
  • →Prompt caching: Anthropic API calls now use cache_control markers — 60–80% token savings on Taste DNA regeneration
  • →CI workflow: GitHub Actions running typecheck, web build, and security audit on every push
  • →Migration ledger repair helper: diagnoses and fixes Supabase migration history drift
FoundationS25–29April 22–23, 2026

Persistent State, Recommendations & Security Hardening

  • →Persistent progression state: server-backed streaks, unlock ceremonies, and ritual state via user_progression_state
  • →Persistent recommendation state: queue fingerprints, reuse metadata, and adaptation signals via recommendation_state
  • →Discovery ritual: daily recommendation stack with confidence bands, strategy labels, and "why now" context
  • →Recommendation refresh policy: freshness gates, feedback pressure weighting, queue reuse logic
  • →Security pass 3: rate limiting extended to data-export, delete-account, import-parser, notify Edge Functions
  • →Security score: 98.2/100 across all 11 Edge Functions
  • →Founder proof bundle: single-command proof artifact covering build, security, performance, and capability state
PlatformS10–24April 7–22, 2026

Web Platform, Auth, Social & Production Deploy

  • →Full web app: dashboard, library, Taste DNA, discover, public profiles, settings — dark-gold design system throughout
  • →Supabase SSR auth: login, signup, server-side session management
  • →Real-time activity feed: Supabase Realtime subscription on the dashboard
  • →Canon Match badge: compatibility % between you and any public profile
  • →EAS build eb68d524 (APK) succeeded: Android beta available for download
  • →Migrations 14–17 deployed: RLS hardening, rate limits, dashboard_activity RPC, user activation milestones, progression state
  • →All 11 Edge Functions deployed with full auth helper coverage and rate limiting

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