Kai v1.0 Release Gates

Status: creator checklist for the public-beta path

Kai should not call itself 1.0 merely because a file says 1.0. A usable language earns that number by surviving people who need it for things more interesting than filling out a spreadsheet.

Beta baseline: present in this repository

accessible Roman-facing editor.

• pre-beta source material is retained privately and migration data identifies mechanically generated forms.
• a versioned v1 dictionary schema and one-to-one migration ledger exist.
• corpus rows carry source and rights provenance.
• a 250-case grammar stress suite exists.
• Lumin PUA-1 has a documented map, a generated font, LA-1 fallback, and an
• synthetic reference audio is labeled as synthetic and tied to source text.
• licensing, beta feedback, and creator-only canonical decision rules are public.

Final v1.0 gates

Lexicon

definitions, real frames, and three natural contexts each.

meaning has become necessary.

• At least 1,200 independently reviewed high-utility lexemes have bounded
• Productive forms remain derivable unless evidence shows that a distinct lexical
• Core vocabulary has a measured frequency list from the reviewed corpus.
• Deprecated forms have migration notes and no silent teaching contradictions.

Grammar and corpus

every failed or revised case.

Kai words across dialogue, narrative, technical, casual, poetic, and repair contexts.

without lore-only explanations.

decision.

• The grammar stress suite has 250 reviewed cases, with source decisions for
• A rights-cleared, provenance-tagged corpus reaches at least 60,000 running
• At least three independent beta readers can complete ordinary task scenarios
• Negative examples and repair notes exist for every high-frequency grammar

Sound and writing

pair inventory.

public reason why a remaining synthetic track is still provisional.

Lumin Text font on a clean device.

• A phonetically trained human review confirms the published IPA and minimal
• Core teaching material has human-recorded reference audio or an explicit,
• Lumin PUA-1 round-trips all 487 assignments through LA-1 and the released
• Roman fallback remains available anywhere Lumin appears.

Community and maintenance

reports to expose recurring usability issues.

• The beta feedback email has received, categorized, and answered enough real
• Every canonical decision since beta has a decision record.
• The creator has reviewed license boundaries and release notes.
• A clean clone can run make kai-v1-check and build the local Kai site.

Explicit non-gates

Kai does not need a social network, a proprietary app, Unicode approval, or a fictional claim of universal adoption to be useful. It needs clear source text, careful maintenance, speakers, and an honest account of what it can currently do.