Pulse v0.3.0-beta

Pulse continues as a local-first Windows diagnostics platform.

This release makes Pulse MCP production-ready for AI clients (Cursor, Claude Desktop), with Settings / Diagnostics productization, installer packaging, and the frozen MCP tool surface from milestones M2–M7.

Highlights

Pulse MCP (first-class)

• Official Model Context Protocol server (PulseMCP 0.7.0)
• Observation tools only — structured JSON, no model-authored reports
• Frozen milestones M2–M7:
  • system.* health tools + live resources
  • process.* list / search / details
  • timeline.* list / search + live resource
  • diagnostics.snapshot / service.status
  • report.export (json / csv / html / pdf / markdown) — metadata only
  • Productization (Settings, Diagnostics, installer, registration)

AI Integration (Settings)

• Dedicated Settings → AI Integration page
• Opt-in MCP policy (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Pulse\mcp\policy.json)
• Start Pulse MCP status heartbeat with Pulse
• One-click Cursor global registration (safe merge + backup)
• Claude Desktop registration provider; ChatGPT reserved for later
• Open logs / MCP documentation from Settings

Diagnostics → MCP

• Live status from status.json heartbeats
• Version, uptime, requests, latency, subscriptions, clients, memory, namespaces

Installer & runtime

• PulseMCP.cmd + mcp\ payload via package_pulsemcp.ps1
• Uninstall cleans Pulse-owned AI client registrations only
• Named-pipe max instances raised 4 → 8

Guides

• AI Integration
• Installation
• Troubleshooting
• Security
• Upgrade notes

Fixed / hardened

• MCP policy hard-refuse when disabled (POLICY_DISABLED)
• Config backup + JSON validation before Register writes
• Unregister only when Pulse created the client entry

Known limitations

• PulseMCP launcher requires Node.js 20+ on PATH
• Not code-signed (unless ops ADR changes)
• ChatGPT MCP registration is not available yet
• MCP Streamable HTTP (M8) is not in this release
• Some Inventory fields remain hardware/OS dependent (Not supported / unavailable)

Install

1. Download Pulse-Setup-0.3.0-beta-windows-x64.exe
2. Run as administrator (UAC)
3. Open Settings → AI Integration → Enable Pulse MCP → Register for Cursor
4. Restart Cursor if it was already open

Artifacts

• Pulse-Setup-0.3.0-beta-windows-x64.exe
• Pulse-0.3.0-beta-windows-x64.zip
• SHA256SUMS-0.3.0-beta.txt

Validation archives: mcp-m2 … mcp-m7

Thanks to everyone testing Pulse during the beta. Your feedback continues to shape the project.