Judge Testing Guide

Supported platform

Windows 11 x64
Windows WebView2 runtime (included with current Windows 11 installations)
No Thinkloom account required

The current hackathon build is unsigned. Windows may show an unknown-publisher or SmartScreen warning. Signing is not required to inspect the source or use the portable release executable, but a judge should follow their organization's security policy.

Install without rebuilding

Download the Windows installers from the public Thinkloom v0.1.0 release:

Public v0.1.0 release
Thinkloom_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe (NSIS installer)
Thinkloom_0.1.0_x64_en-US.msi (MSI installer)

Current local artifact checksums:

E70F700C04E995685160DDA70FD811912A55DD362A28F63DFBE297040C6A0BE0  Thinkloom_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe
5B2F5072E8A0BB24E34E2AB3FB0EE81574E74D67FCEDB4BC03D0FD4DAEB918C3  Thinkloom_0.1.0_x64_en-US.msi

These checksums must be regenerated if either installer is rebuilt.

Five-minute test path

Launch Thinkloom. The bundled sample project, The Attention Commons, opens without a login.
In Ideation, review the conversation and idea provenance. Accept, reject, edit, archive, or create a variant of a suggested idea.
Open Drafting. Select an idea, edit the structured manuscript directly, and save a named version.
Open Finalization. Inspect the release checklist and preview-first editorial actions.
Open History and Provenance to inspect the hash-linked creative-process record and contribution relationships.
Open Export to inspect publication, backup, and sanitized evidence-package options.

Model-backed features

The sample project and direct editing/history/export surfaces can be inspected without a model credential. To exercise live generation, use one of these entrant-configured options:

local Ollama at http://127.0.0.1:11434 (default model llama3.2);
OpenAI with a credential stored in the operating-system vault; or
an authorized OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

The first cloud request for a project requires explicit in-app approval. Credentials are not included in the repository, project files, logs, or judge build.

Known limitations

The build is currently unsigned.
Windows is the verified hackathon platform; macOS and Linux have not been release-tested.
Voice input uses an ephemeral system/webview fallback. The planned bundled faster-whisper and Silero VAD pipeline is not included.
Richer PDF typography, signed clean-install testing, and extended 20,000-word profiling remain release-hardening items.

These limitations do not affect the demonstrated typed ideation, structured drafting, provenance, versioning, or export workflow.

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