Foundation
Foundation is the always-on baseline shipped with every Midcore tier. You can’t turn it off — it’s the engine every other product builds on.
Note
Included in: Starter, Pro, Team, Enterprise. Surfaces in every app (Midcore Shell, Midcore Code, CLI, VS Code extension, Zed extension).
What’s in Foundation
- Engine deck — the unified runtime that hosts every product surface. Local-first compute, sandboxed workers, hash-chained audit on every action.
- Vibe Coding — the editor-grade agent. Multi-file refactors, contract-aware completion, evidence-grounded suggestions.
- Brain — local knowledge index. Embeddings + vector search + structured memory, all running on your hardware by default.
- Project Vault — AES-256-GCM encrypted snapshots per project, capsule export, tamper-evident audit chain.
Why it’s the baseline
Every other product (Conscience, Mind, Council, Research, Robotics, …) reads and writes against Foundation’s runtime + audit chain. If you turn Foundation off, you lose the platform contract; that’s why it’s mandatory.
Read more
- Outcome compiler — the big idea.
- Compute model — how Foundation routes work.
- Tiers & products — what else you get.