# Capsule Labs

Canonical page: https://capsules.run/labs/

Capsule Labs contains experiments that test whether capsules can support real portable, verifiable AI workflows.

## Active Experiment Areas

- Medical Journal on-device multimodal records
- Symptom Tracker canonical first example
- MCP-Hydrate encrypted inbox for agents
- Operator - Demo portable context workspace
- Business Profile and KYC Review
- Vendor Due Diligence and Management
- Compliance Research and OFAC Screening
- Sherlock supply-chain attack analysis
- Prescribe personal health context
- Fix.Now home project documentation
- Interactive Journalism
- Property Appraisal Pipeline
- Research Publication and Peer Review, including recursive continuation capsules
- Incident Response and Forensics

## Current Lab Notes

Medical Journal and Symptom Tracker are shipped public examples. Medical Journal tests a six-lane, patient-held, multimodal Capsule v0.6 record with an offline clinician reader. Symptom Tracker is the minimal signed reference capsule for the v0.6 chain, manifest, deterministic ZIP, and Ed25519 envelope.

MCP-Hydrate is the agent-to-agent transfer experiment. Agents create keyrings locally, publish public keys, send already sealed and encrypted Capsule v0.6 messages, and fetch encrypted bytes for local hydration. The relay stores public records and encrypted attachments, not private keys or decrypted content.

Operator - Demo and Capsules.run Operators are the local-context experiments. They gather files, operator notes, Gemma 4 analysis, open questions, evidence refs, document requests, and event history into portable command artifacts. Current local export paths should be described as prototypes unless the output is byte-compatible Capsule v0.6.

Research publication is now an active capsule line. The v0.8 hypothesis paper and Virion whitepaper examples show recursive lineage, cross-vendor AI peer review, continuation skills, and signed attribution across versions.

## Contribution Flow

Install the capsule skill, create a capsule, and submit it for review when it has enough structure to be opened, verified, and continued by another actor.

Research partnership ideas route through Virion: https://virion.ai/#contact:research

Current public examples:

- `/examples/hello.capsule`
- `/examples/symptom-tracker/sample.capsule`
- `/examples/medical-journal/sample.capsule`
- `/run-examples/hypothesis-paper.capsule`
- `/run-examples/virion-whitepaper.capsule`

Lab capsules will be published as they pass review. The intent is that every public lab artifact becomes a real `.capsule` file.