NOVA v1.5.0 (RTM Gold Master)

[94BILLY]

NOVA v1.5 🌎

The Executive Desktop Assistant

"The performance & durability of the past with the intelligence of the future."

This is the official v1.5 release of Nova, a high-performance, bare-metal desktop orchestrator built in native Win32 C++17—utilizing the same architecture that powered the most legendary applications of the Windows XP era. Engineered for zero-bloat execution, Nova eliminates the massive overhead of modern web wrappers to reserve 100% of system resources for local intelligence and hardware-accelerated performance.

Nova features a unified 17-provider AI backend, a custom EXEC engine for automated Windows task management, deep multimodal attachment analysis, real-time internet access, and the proprietary EvolvingPersonality® system that grows with you entirely on-device.

Due to the strong popularity of v1.0.0 (over 400+ clones since its initial release), I'm shipping v1.5 with significant stability and usability upgrades while staying true to the original bare-metal philosophy.

🚀 Key Improvements in v1.5

• Bare-Metal Core: 100% Native C++ execution with zero bloat, native DPI Awareness for crisp 4K displays, and a sleek centered 600px 7-button dashboard layout.
• Unified 17-Provider Backend: Seamless switching between local (llama-server, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, KoboldCpp, Jan, GPT4All) and cloud endpoints (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Mistral, Together AI, OpenRouter, xAI, Google Gemini, and custom).
• Hardware Kill-Switch: Dedicated Stop button with thread-safe inference termination to safely abort execution loops.
• Automated Orchestration: Custom EXEC engine with single-line command chaining and strict anti-hallucination safeguards for PowerShell/CMD task management.
• Universal Pathing: Native support for %USERPROFILE% environment variables for reliable cross-machine execution.
• Multimodal Attachment Analysis: Native GDI+ image analysis, WAV audio parsing, video metadata via ffprobe, and full source file ingestion.
• EvolvingPersonality®: Persistent identity and memory growth between sessions, stored entirely on-device.

🛠 Installation Details

This release follows a strictly sequenced process. Choose your path:

Option A — Pre-built Binary (Recommended)

1. Download and run Install_Nova.bat — it handles everything (engine + model + shortcut).

Option B — Build from Source

1. Step 1 - Setup_Nova.bat — Downloads the local engine and model weights (~4.66 GB).
2. Step 2 - Compile_Nova.bat — Locates MSVC (auto-detects VS2019/VS2022) and compiles nova.cpp into Nova.exe.
3. Step 3 - Run_Nova.bat — Launches Nova.
4. Step 4 - Create_Shortcut.bat — Creates the desktop shortcut (optional).

🔒 Privacy & Sovereignty

Nova operates with Total Data Sovereignty. No telemetry, no cloud logging, and no external guardrails. Your intelligence remains entirely on your hardware.

Technical Requirement: Requires Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools (MSVC) for source compilation (2019 or 2022).

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Official Repository: https://github.com/94BILLY/NOVA
Author: 94BILLY

"Anything is possible.".

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This discussion was created from the release NOVA v1.5.0 (RTM Gold Master).

[beautifulcn]

Nowadays, bloated wrapper programs are everywhere, so seeing such a pure and concise C++ project is a breath of fresh air in the tech world! It perfectly returns to the ultimate hardware performance, and this dedication to low-level efficiency is truly admirable.

[94BILLY]

Thank you man! That was exactly the goal for 1.5.0. Modern bloat is real, so I wanted to keep NOVA as close to the hardware as possible.

It's actually the only C++ Win32 AI software in the whole world (that I know of currently).