Evidence bundle for 'Files as Memory, Modes as Principals: Lessons from Building a Local-First Personal Agent Without a Framework'

Public evidence backing the Verification Ledger of the systems/experience report on Cipher, a framework-free, local-first, voice-first personal assistant. Contents: the synthetic-vault scaling benchmark (standalone seeded generator, measurement harness, raw p50/p95 results at 19/100/500/1,000 notes), a verbatim extract of the ledger-cited per-phase metrics-snapshot rows (latencies, prompt-cache tokens, costs, test counts), the committed development-tooling permission configuration behind the paper's security case study, and the paper's full Verification Ledger as a standalone file. All scaling numbers are from synthetic schema-matched vaults and are labeled as such; the measurement harness imports the private cipher package and is published for audit rather than execution. Browsable latest version: https://github.com/AryanJ129/cipher-paper-evidence