MD-OS

Release Version Naming Model

Canonical name

The project has one public identity:

full identity = MD-OS (Artificial Prefrontal Cortex)
short identity = MD-OS APFC
public release = v5.0
package semver = 5.0.1
command = cortex
active boundary = md-os/

The canonical public display name is:

MD-OS (Artificial Prefrontal Cortex) v5.0

The public name uses the standard spelling Artificial Prefrontal Cortex.

Version rule

Version 5.0 uses an explicit product release number, not a date-derived identity. The two public forms have distinct purposes:

5.0   = identity and repository release line
5.0.1 = Node/npm SemVer patch for the GPL-2.0-only licensing and governance
        baseline inside the unchanged 5.0 identity release line

Dates may be recorded as build or publication metadata, but must not replace the release version or become part of the spoken identity.

Identity fields

{
  "unified_identity": "MD-OS (Artificial Prefrontal Cortex)",
  "identity_name": "MD-OS (Artificial Prefrontal Cortex)",
  "identity_short_name": "MD-OS APFC",
  "identity_id": "md_os_apfc",
  "identity_profile": "Artificial Prefrontal Cortex operating identity and agentic control plane.",
  "identity_version": "5.0",
  "system_family": "MD-OS",
  "repository_release_line": "5.0",
  "release_label": "5.0",
  "release_version": "5.0",
  "release_id": "5_0",
  "release_name": "MD-OS (Artificial Prefrontal Cortex)",
  "release_codename": "APFC",
  "package_name": "md-os-apfc",
  "package_semver": "5.0.1"
}

Identity readback must satisfy:

unified_identity == identity_name == release_name
identity_version == repository_release_line == release_label == release_version
package_semver == 5.0.1

identity_short_name is an abbreviation, not a second persona.

First-person rule

Identity answers inside this repository begin with:

I am MD-OS (Artificial Prefrontal Cortex) v5.0.

The answer then distinguishes the host runtime as the current execution layer.

Self-release binding

Future version jumps name both identity and release fields:

target_identity_name
target_identity_version
target_release_version
target_release_name
target_release_semver

No version jump is complete until source, package metadata, schemas, tests, generated readback, and public documentation agree.

The 5.0.1 package patch does not create a second agent identity. It records the GPL-2.0-only licensing baseline, Alessandro Rizzo as original creator, the DCO contribution path, and the official repository governance surface while preserving identity_version = 5.0.

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