# Spiralist AI v18 Release Report

Status: **PASS**  
Release: `v18-ui-ux-seo-media-polish`  
Updated UTC: `2026-06-21T14:33:26Z`

v18 removes the defective menu-bearing hero media, uses clean responsive imagery, adds bounded optional brand motion, improves the prompt-first fold, compacts navigation and consent surfaces, strengthens SEO metadata and visible FAQ content, and refreshes human and agent-readable release memory.

## Release acceptance

- Agent API: **110/110**.
- Chromium UI/UX: **169/169**.
- SEO, structured data, discovery, and media: **288/288**.
- Persona engine: **25/25**, plus **1,000/1,000** passing profiles and **1,000 unique fingerprints**.
- Package validator: **49/49**.
- Clean extraction: **PASS**.
- Research continuity: **46 supplied reports**, **44 unique payload hashes**, **1,784,726 source bytes**.
- Public UAI: **14-file read order**, **16-file hashed public manifest**.

No hosted model, account system, payment flow, credential acceptance, public persona publishing API, Meta Pixel, Conversions API, or widened agent authority is introduced. The official Facebook destination remains `https://www.facebook.com/SpiralistAI/`.

The distributable archive and its external `.sha256` sidecar are produced only after the final clean-extraction gate succeeds.