QECTOR Decoder Workbench Windows v1.0.0: The Standalone Offline Release

QECTOR Decoder Workbench Windows v1.0.0: The Standalone Offline Release

Today marks a major architectural milestone for the platform. QECTOR Decoder Workbench Windows (v1.0.0) is officially live.

This release focuses on total environmental isolation and operational stability. We have completely detached the workbench from external dependencies, delivering the strictly proprietary qector-decoder-v3 1.0.0 backend inside a fully offline, zero-configuration portable executable.

There is no installer, no internet requirement, and no need for administrator rights. You drop the .exe into your directory, and the environment is entirely self-contained.

Here is the technical breakdown of what is shipping in v1.0.0.

The Portable Engine

• Fully Offline Activation: The 95 MB QectorWorkbench-Portable.exe bundles its own Python runtime, the scientific stack, and the platform-specific qector_decoder_v3-1.0.0 wheel. It automatically activates into a per-user managed site on first boot.
• Version Control: The system now automatically purges outdated managed decoders from older releases to prevent version collision.
• Data Routing: Runtime data, logs, and exported documents are written to %LOCALAPPDATA%\QectorWorkbench by default, which can be cleanly overridden via the QECTOR_DATA_DIR environment variable.

Expanded QEC Capabilities

The analytical scope has been significantly expanded to support 17 distinct decoders across 10 code families.

• New Architectures: Full integration for qLDPC (bicycle / bivariate bicycle), color codes, heavy-hex, and hypergraph products, alongside standard surface codes.
• Enterprise Scaling: The distance slider now supports an extended range from $d=3$ up to $d=63$.
• Verification Guarantee: The auto-debug chain operates with a resilient multi-decoder fallback, rigorously verifying the syndrome equation $H \cdot c \equiv s \pmod 2$ at every step, complete with full attempt tracing.

Programmatic Control & MCP

For environments requiring headless execution and algorithmic orchestration:

• 82-Tool MCP Server: The --mcp flag boots a headless stdio JSON-RPC 2.0 server. It is heavily hardened for programmatic interaction, featuring per-tool 60-second timeouts, strict busy guards, and 1 MB result limits.
• Complete CLI Infrastructure: 12 new subcommands (compare, batch, stream, train, export, import, matrix, serve, doctor, completions) with native shell auto-completion for bash, zsh, and PowerShell.

Hardware, Benchmarking, & Security

• Hardware-Driven Benchmarks: As always, algorithmic benchmarks generated in the suite are strictly dependent on the physical hardware specifications of the host machine.
• Hardware Dashboard: Auto-detects CUDA, OpenCL, and CPU capabilities. We’ve added honest OpenCL status reporting and a functional QECTOR_DISABLE_OPENCL=1 probe-skip escape hatch for edge-case hardware conflicts.
• Security Hardening: Export paths are deeply sanitized to prevent path traversal. License keys are now encrypted at rest using machine-derived Fernet keys.
• Cryptographic Verification: Every single data export (including .md, .html, .json, .tex, .pdf, .svg), benchmark report, and deposit sidecar (such as .zenodo.json and CITATION.cff) now generates with an accompanying SHA-256 sidecar manifest to ensure data integrity for formal research summaries.

Getting Started

Download and extract QectorWorkbench-v1.0.0-Portable-Windows-x64.zip. Double-click QectorWorkbench-Portable.exe to launch the GUI, or execute it via command line for the CLI and MCP infrastructure.

The full documentation suite (API Reference, MCP Integration Guide, Windows User Manual, Extended Reference Manual, and QECTOR_LLM_Manual.json) is included in the /manuals directory within the release package.

Security Note: Always verify your download using the SHA-256 checksums provided in the RELEASE_MANIFEST.txt.
PowerShell: (Get-FileHash QectorWorkbench-v1.0.0-Portable-Windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256).Hash.ToLower()