Vela explains what exists, what is planned, what is verified, and what remains gated. She is a public interface for GLEE, not a mascot and not a pretend person.
Status: SOFT_LIVE
Support rail: Ko-fi is the approved external cashier rail.
Disabled: direct card, crypto, x402, live retrieval, accounts, and private-data access.
Vela answers from public site content only in this phase.
GLEE can be difficult to understand because it is part research lab, part build system, part public proof surface, and part future platform. Vela's job is to make that legible without flattening the depth or inventing certainty.
What the workshop is, how agents differ from models, and why receipts matter.
Why GLEE agents are acting systems, not LLM personas or chatbot characters.
Why GLEE is Canadian-built but human-directed: sovereignty as responsibility, not nationalism.
What the first public support phase funds and which rails are live or disabled.
How updates, projects, receipts, status JSON, and public routes connect.
What is not ready yet: live chat, accounts, agent-native payment, and private retrieval.
Understand the model / agent / workshop distinction.
Read platformNo. See how GLEE separates models, acting systems, tools, authority, and receipts.
Read agentsFollow the public updates feed and current project map.
Read updatesInspect public-safe proof receipts and status files.
Inspect receipts