Version 1 of Paper Kernel C++ will be entirely offline. It won't connect to the internet for any reason. I'm not even giving it the ability to download the latest papers, nor to check for a software update.

I've downloaded 9000 or so papers and put them in a Tar archive, and that archive is embedded in a GUI program that can display the papers on screen as well as search through them.

Perhaps a future version of Paper Kernel C++ will allow the downloading of new papers, or even allow AI to answer questions about the papers, but we can argue about these things later when there's a possibility of them becoming a reality. Right now they're just hypotheticals. Be assured though that I will take people's feelings and opinions into account when making future decisions on these things.

For now, Version 1 will be a bog standard offline program that uses WebView to display papers and uses Xapian to search through papers (which by the way is freakishly fast). Released free-of-charge and open-source.