Hey Folks 👋

Follow-up to yesterday's v3.2 post — a lot landed in 24 hours. Here's the full rundown:

📺 Free Streaming — no subscription needed

The configurator splash screen now has two free-tier buttons:

• 📺 Free Streaming — sets up HTTP-based addons (WebStreamR, Nuvio Streams, Flix-Streams). No debrid account, no torrents, no API keys. Click → done • 🔗 Free P2P — the existing torrent-only path (Torrentio, Knaben, etc.)

Both skip the full questionnaire and land on the finish step immediately. Good for anyone who wants to try Stremio before committing to a subscription.

⚡ Configurator v2.10

• Direct API install — the configurator now tries to create your config directly on the AIOStreams host instead of just handing you an import URL. If the host supports it, you skip the copy-paste step entirely • Paste-back flow — if direct install isn't available, the generated URL is auto-copied and you get a one-click button to open the host's configure page • Template collection — operators can now add one URL to TEMPLATE_URLS and all Core Builds synced URLs (ESEs, ISEs, PSEs, ranked regex) are auto-whitelisted. No more manual URL-by-URL allowlisting

🌐 Foreign Language Kill

New ESE on all 35 non-Anime templates: streams with only non-English audio and no English subtitles are now excluded. If a stream has English audio or English subs, it stays — this only removes streams you genuinely can't watch in English.

Anime templates are fully exempt (Japanese audio with English subs is the expected format).

🔀 Sort criteria rebuilt

Every template's sort order was audited and rebuilt:

• 16-key stable sort across all templates (17 for Hybrid) — position 1 is primary, each key only breaks ties from prior • Per-type overrides — movies, series, cached, uncached, and anime each get tuned key orders • Uncached sort promotes seeders — seeders now rank higher than audio tags for uncached torrents (you need seeds before you care about audio quality) • Anime sort promotes SeaDex — seadex jumps to position 2 (right after cached) on anime queries

🎯 Regex scoring overhaul

The release-group scoring database got a full cleanup:

Removed 49 dead-weight entries: • 35 patterns with score 0 — Vidhin05's synced file already delivers these at score 0, so our inline copies were overriding nothing • 14 patterns incompatible with fortheweak — removed to ensure cross-host imports work

Added 7 new scored patterns: • Anime BD T1/T2/T3 (+100/+60/+40) — elite anime BD groups (Moxie, smol, SoM, DemiHuman, FLE, etc.) were silently getting score 0 because only sub-variant patterns were scored. The main group lists were missing • v0 (−25) — pre-release penalty • DV (Disk) (+40) — FraMeSToR Dolby Vision disk provenance • x266 (+20) — VVC next-gen codec recognition • Uncensored (+20) — Uncut/Unrated editions

Result: 149 → 107 patterns. Leaner, every entry actually does something. 4K templates carry 107 inline overrides, 1080p carry 103.

→ Re-import your template to get all of this.

🔗 Links

• Configurator: Configurator

• Templates: Directory

• Docs & Guides: Docs & Guides

• Changelog: Changelog

• Ko-fi: ko-fi

• TorBox (referral): Referral

Questions, feedback, or template requests — drop them below. 🙌

Hey Folks 👋

Biggest update since launch — the configurator got a full novice-friendly overhaul and the templates got a major ranking fix. Here's what's new:

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⚡ Easy Setup — configurator v2.8

Setting up used to mean understanding import URLs, UUIDs, and manifest links. Not anymore:

• 3 quick questions — service, device, resolution. Each tap advances automatically
• One-click finish — 🚀 Create & Install in Stremio. Password auto-generated, config created on a public AIOStreams host, install button appears instantly
• Presets are back — ⚡ 4K · Lossless and ⚡ 1080p · DD+ now pre-answer the resolution question but still ask your device (so Samsung / Fire Stick profiles actually apply)
• Test buttons on API keys — verify your TorBox / RD / AD key is valid before you generate
• Wrong-field detection — paste a TorBox key into the RD field and it tells you as you type
• Custom Setup keeps every knob for power users

Also under the hood: share links no longer contain API keys, QR codes are generated locally in your browser, full light-theme support, browser Back button works, and every device option got a plain-English "?" explainer.

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🎯 Templates v3.2 — the ranking layer is back

Honest one: the release-group scoring layer (FraMeSToR remux above random encode) has been silently dead in every template since the v2.8.x slimming. The synced regex list carries all-zero scores and the scored copies never made it back after slimming.

v3.2.0 restores it properly — 100 scored patterns on 4K templates, 96 on 1080p, every pattern verified against Vidhin05's current list so elfhosted and fortheweak imports both work.

→ Re-import your template to get this. Every template got a version bump.

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📦 Season packs: hard kill, with a brain

Asking for an episode now never returns a season pack when single episodes exist. No more 45 GB pack sitting above the 2 GB episode you wanted.

The exception that makes it safe — the Older-Show Pack Pass:

• Current show with 1+ single episodes → packs gone
• Any show with 3+ singles → packs gone
• Show that ended 2+ years ago with under 3 singles → packs stay (old shows keep working)
• Anime templates fully exempt — batches stay untouched

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🧪 Labs — biggest drop yet

For nightly testers (graduates to stable if testing goes well):

• Pattern-verified elite tiers — Remux T1 / UHD Bluray T1 matches get their own tier above generic remuxes
• Adaptive Seeder Guard — kills bottom-quartile-seeded uncached torrents on fresh titles; catalog titles exempt (a 2009 show with 4 seeders is normal, not suspicious)
• p10–p90 fences — deeper remux pools earn stricter bitrate windows
• Animation-aware bitrate floors — animation compresses ~50% smaller; the floors now know that
• Unknown-tag cleanup — untagged streams dropped only when 5+ properly-tagged alternatives exist

Also fixed: the Samsung RU7100 template's protection guards referenced regex names that don't exist in our sync, so its kills fired unconditionally — if 4K BluRay results looked thin there, that was why.

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🔗 Links

• Configurator → https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/
• Templates → https://core-builds.mintlify.app/template-directory
• Docs & Guides → https://core-builds.mintlify.app
• Changelog → https://core-builds.mintlify.app/changelog
• Ko-fi → https://ko-fi.com/brevity
• TorBox (referral) → https://torbox.app/subscription?referral=d1ccddb0-f094-45ca-b52b-942a2635855e

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Questions, feedback, or template requests — drop them below. 🙌

Hey Everyone 👋

Here's what's new:

• You can pick more than one debrid service at a time now. Mix and match—TorBox with Real-Debrid, or AllDebrid with EasyNews—whatever works for your setup. Each service gets its own API key spot when you move to the next step.

• All the extra services like P2P Free, HTTP Streams, NZBGeek, and Debrid.io are tucked away in a dropdown menu. Just click it open and check what you want, so the main screen isn’t cluttered.

• The review step now walks you through “Download → Import → Install”—a simple guide to help new folks figure out what to do with that JSON file.

• There's a new reset button too. Hit it, and your session clears instantly—no confirmation pop-up, just straight back to the beginning.

• Finally, we fixed that annoying TorBox bug. Now, if you pick TorBox along with another service, the API key field shows up like it should.

If you want to try it, check out the configurator: Core-Builds Configurer

Hey folks 👋

Now that v3.0.0 is out in the wild and the new Template Configurator is live, I want to make sure the next round of updates is all about what you actually need.

Right now, there’s the basic 8-step builder and the Advanced section, so you can tweak sound and video priorities. That’s just the starting point—my plan is to open this up for more setups, devices, and all those little filtering preferences you’ve got.

🛠️ What should we add or improve?

Jump in with your thoughts! I want to hear about:

• New Device Profiles: Got certain TVs, devices, or players you want tuned profiles for? Tell me which ones.
• Advanced Options: Do you always add the same regex rules, scrapers, or indexer caps manually? Let me know, so we can make those built-in.
• Configurator Features: Anything missing in the 8-step flow or Quick Start that’d just make things smoother?
• Template Tweaks: Any weird sorting, behaviors, or features you wish were part of the main features? I’m all ears.

If something’s breaking your setup, acting up, or you’ve got a wild feature idea, don’t hold back.

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🔗 Try the new builder here: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/

📚 Full Directory & Docs: https://core-builds.mintlify.app

💻 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds

Huge thanks for all the feedback and bug reports so far. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next! 🚀

Hey folks 👋

Big news today: I just dropped a major update to Core Builds, and the big highlight is the shiny new Template Configurator! 🛠️

Not sure which template fits your setup? Or maybe you just want one that nails every little detail for you. Either way, this tool whips up a ready-to-import AIOStreams configuration in seconds—no hand-editing JSON, and no fiddling with raw URLs.

🔗 Check it out here: https://brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/

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How it works

Use the Quick Start to have it automatically choose the best defaults for you, or walk through the 8-step builder to dial in your exact setup. There is also an Advanced section where you can precisely dial in your formatter's sound and video priorities.

Boom, you get a complete, production-ready template. You get the full package too:

• perGroup() deduplication
• Score IQR Guard & Indexer Diversity
• Bad Dual Audio filter & Elite group pins
• Tamtaro formatter & synced regex URLs

No installs, no sign-ups, and everything runs right in your browser. If you want, just save the HTML file and use it offline.

Supports: TorBox Pro/Essential, AllDebrid, Real-Debrid, Premiumize, Debrid-Link, and hybrids like TorBox + RD.

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📚 More links for you

• Template Directory (30+ hand-tuned templates): https://core-builds.mintlify.app/template-directory
• Full Docs & Setup Guides: https://core-builds.mintlify.app

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🔄 How to Import

At the end of the 8 steps, it generates a custom URL. Just click it to auto-import your template directly into the AIOStreams host of your choice!

Heads up—API credentials are blank by default for privacy, so remember to set those after importing.

Run into trouble or want a new device profile? Just let me know. Have fun! 🚀

Hey everyone,

Dropped a new update to Core Builds — the big addition is a browser-based Template Configurator that builds a ready-to-import AIOStreams JSON template based on your setup. No manual JSON editing, no copying raw URLs.

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🛠️ Template Configurator

→ Core Builds Configurator

Answer 5 questions — debrid service, device, resolution, audio, content type — and download a fully wired template. Works offline too (save the HTML and open it locally).

Supports: TorBox Pro / Essential, AllDebrid, Real-Debrid, Premiumize, Debrid-Link, and Hybrid (TorBox + RD).

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📋 Template Directory

If you'd rather grab a hand-tuned template directly, the full directory has 30+ templates covering:

• 4K Apex — flagship 4K with IQR Tukey fence PSEs, Score IQR Guard, elite group pins
• Stream / Essential / Flash / Speed — 1080p and 4K variants for different use cases
• Samsung TV, Windows Ultrawide — device-specific codec and audio profiles
• Anime — SeaDex + AnimeTosho with Best-Only mode
• Hybrid — TorBox primary with Real-Debrid fallback and priority fetching
• AllDebrid — full 4K and 1080p stack

→ Browse the Template Directory

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📖 Full Docs

→ Core Builds Documentation

Includes setup guides, device profiles, expression layer reference, formatter gallery, and changelog.

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🔄 How to Import

In AIOStreams — Templates → Import → paste the raw GitHub URL or upload the JSON file.

Note: Set your API credentials after import — templates ship with blank credentials.

Let me know if you run into any issues or have requests for new device profiles.

Core Builds doesn’t replace TamTaro’s framework—it actually builds on top of it.

Think of TamTaro as handling the foundation, the expression layer, while Core Builds slides right in with a bunch of pre-tuned templates you can just import.

The big difference? Core Builds hands you over 30 templates covering all sorts of debrid services like TorBox, AllDebrid, Hybrid RD+TorBox, plus device profiles for Samsung, Apple TV, and Fire Stick.

It covers use cases like speed, essentials, anime, 4K—really, almost anything you’d need. Scoring, release group rankings, IQR-based quality gating, flood guards, provider priority—it’s all pre-set, so you don’t have to mess around writing your own expressions.

Want full control over everything in the SEL layer? You’d be better off sticking with TamTaro’s raw setup.

But if you just want something that works right away, Core Builds is a much quicker option.

The Labs templates are experimental builds testing features that aren't in stable yet — dynamic addon fetching thresholds, optional scraper toggles, and template directives you can configure at import time.

They're not stable. That's fine. What I need right now is import data — specifically what errors AIOStreams throws when you try to load them, so I can work out what's breaking and in what order.

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What I need from you

1. Try importing any Labs template (links below)
2. Screenshot or copy the exact error text AIOStreams shows
3. Drop it in the comments — which host (elfhosted, fortheweak, self-hosted) and which template

Even "it loaded fine" is useful. Even partial loads with warnings count. All data points help.

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Labs templates

• 4K Apex Labs
• Stream Labs
• 4K Essential Labs
• Essential Labs

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What these are testing

• Template directives — inputs you set once at import (exit threshold, max wait, optional scrapers). No config editing after import.
• dynamicAddonFetching — stops querying addons once you have enough cached streams or time runs out. Faster results, fewer redundant scraper calls.
• Optional presets — MediaFusion, HdHub, SeaDex toggled on/off at import via input fields rather than hardcoded.

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Note: Do not use these as your main template. Import alongside your existing config to test, then dismiss after.

Core Builds Labs: New Experimental Nightly Builds

We've launched Core Builds Labs—a set of experimental Nightly builds where new ideas are tested before being promoted to stable templates. Two are available right now.

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🧪 What's in Labs right now

Both builds are currently running three simultaneous experiments:

1. Hybrid Regex + SEL Architecture

Stable templates use regex score patterns to rank elite release groups (e.g., FraMeSToR, FLUX, SiC). Labs replaces these with native SEL functions:

• releaseGroup() + pin(): Instead of a "+100" score, elite releases get physically pinned to the top.
• visualTag(streams, 'IMAX'): Uses native field lookup instead of regex patterns for cleaner execution.
• encode(streams, 'x264'): Hard-exclude available for testing (currently disabled by default).

2. dynamicAddonFetching (Early Exit)

Normally, all addons (Comet, MediaFusion, Meteor, Knaben) run in parallel, regardless of what TorBox has already returned. Labs introduces an exit condition:

• 4K Apex Labs: Exits when you have 5+ cached 4K streams, or after 6 seconds.
• Stream Labs: Exits when you have 5+ cached 1080p streams, or after 5 seconds.

For popular content with a full TorBox cache, scrapers won't finish their full round-trip, dropping response time from ~5s to ~1–2s. For niche content where TorBox comes up short, all scrapers run normally.

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📥 Import URLs

4K Apex Labs 🧪 (4K + 1080p) core-nexus-4k-apex-labs.json

Stream Labs 🧪 (1080p) core-nexus-stream-labs.json

Note: These are Nightly builds—they update frequently and may have rough edges. They are best used as a second install alongside your stable build.

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📣 Feedback Needed

Drop your findings in this thread; all feedback feeds directly into the next stable release:

• Does response time feel faster on mainstream content?
• Are you getting fewer results than the stable build for any specific titles?
• Are pinned elite groups (FraMeSToR, FLUX, SiC) consistently appearing first?
• Is anything unexpected making it through the filters?

CoreBuilds v2.8.2 Update

We just released a new update to make templates lighter and fix some major playback bugs.

WHAT'S NEW & FIXED:

• Smaller, Faster Templates: All templates are now under 100 KB. We cleaned up the background code and fixed scoring conflicts to make them run smoother.

• Samsung TV Playback Fixes: Fixed an issue where streams would silently fail to play on older Samsung TVs (2018-2022). The templates will no longer try to play unsupported AV1/VC-1 video formats.

• Anime Bug Fixed (4K Apex): Fixed a bug in the Apex template that was accidentally hiding non-SeaDex Anime streams.

• Better Audio & Video Filtering: Added support for Stereo (2.0) audio, removed junk low-resolutions (144p-360p), and removed fake "AI Upscale" HDR tags.

• Standardized Results: Templates now consistently return a maximum of 20 results overall (up to 8 per resolution).

Core Builds Update — Apex Transition, Expanded Expression Layer, and Template Audit

A few things landed this week worth knowing about.

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🛑 Core Nexus 4K Pro is Deprecated

Pro is gone from the active template list. Core Nexus 4K Apex is the direct replacement — it features an identical ESE stack, identical sort criteria, identical dedup config, and adds the adaptive IQR bitrate PSEs that Pro never had. If you are on Pro, import Apex; there is nothing in Pro that Apex does better. Pro files are kept in Deprecated/ for reference but will not receive further updates.

Apex import link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brevityA/Core-Builds/refs/heads/main/Templates/Torbox/Single/core-nexus-4k-apex.json

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🧠 The Expression Layer is Expanding

We have been running 4 custom SEL expressions in trial on Stream v2.7.10. The full planned suite is now mapped out, totaling 7 expressions.

In Trial (Stream Only)

• REPACK/PROPER Passthrough: Pins REPACK and PROPER releases ahead of the excluded and limit stages so they always surface.
• Per-Addon Flood Guard: Caps results per scraper (Meteor ≤5, Comet ≤5, MediaFusion ≤4, Torrent Galaxy / EZTV / Knaben / HdHub ≤3) so no single addon floods the list.
• Usenet Propagation Guard: Holds back NZBs younger than 2 hours when propagated alternatives exist to eliminate corrupt early-propagation grabs.
• Codec Efficiency Booster: Surfaces HEVC and AV1 encodes ahead of AVC at 1080p and 720p for better bandwidth efficiency.

Planned (Post-Trial)

• Audio Pinnacle: Promotes lossless and object-based audio (Atmos/TrueHD → DTS-HD MA/DTS-X → EAC3/DD+).
• HDR / DV Priority: Surfaces DV and HDR variants ahead of SDR within 4K results.
• AI Upscale Exclusion: Excludes streams containing AI upscaling keywords (topaz, ai-upscale, upscaled, neural, enhancedai).

Note: All 7 are inline and work on every AIOStreams instance.

Full reference doc: https://github.com/brevityA/Core-Builds/blob/main/Expressions/core-builds-expression-layer.pdf

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🔍 Tam-Taro Audit Findings

While Tam-Taro handles tiering, bitrate floors, seeder intelligence, SeaDex passthrough, result limiting, and file type exclusion well, it does not touch audio quality ordering, HDR/DV separation within 4K, codec preference, or AI upscale detection. Core Builds is not replacing Tam-Taro; the expression layer sits on top of it.

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🛠️ Template Audit

All 31 active templates were checked. Every template now has consistent dedup keys, tiebreakers, per-addon timeouts, Zilean + Meteor resources fix, HdHub preset, and hasChapters formatter. Apex-TorBox and 4K Hybrid were version-bumped to 2.7.5.

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Feedback is welcome, especially on expressions 5, 6, and 7 before they roll out. If you are running Stream v2.7.10 on the trial branch, please share your results.

AIOStreams is one of the best tools in the debrid streaming space. The problem is the setup.

Out of the box you get a blank configuration. To make it work properly you need to:

- Choose and configure a scraper stack (Comet, Zilean, Torrentio, Knaben, etc.)

- Write or import stream expressions to kill bad releases (CAM, low bitrate, upscaled 4K, etc.)

- Set up scoring so good release groups rank above random encodes

- Configure deduplication so you don't get 40 results for the same file

- Tune sort order so cached streams always come first

- Pick a formatter so the results are actually readable

- Wire up TMDB, RPDB, SeaDex if you want proper metadata and anime support

Most people either skip most of this (and get mediocre results) or spend a weekend getting it right. And when AIOStreams updates, configs break and you start over.

Core Builds handles all of it. The templates are versioned, they support in-app update notifications, and they're built around the Tamtaro SEL framework which keeps filter expressions synced automatically.

The goal isn't to be the only way to use AIOStreams — it's to give people a solid starting point that actually works, and a reference to learn from if they want to go deeper.

Hey r/CoreBuilds,

Quick update on what's been going on with the repo this week.

What got done:

• RB3 Clean v4 formatter is now documented with a Stremio-style preview and listed in the Formatters directory alongside everything else. Both RB3 formatters moved to the main Formatters/ folder.
• Template directory got a full overhaul — new banner, quick reference table, cross-links to the setup guide, and a disclaimer. Every subfolder now has its own README.
• Samsung TV nightly templates are now documented — explains the DV-only kill ESE for anyone confused why DV streams disappear on Samsung.
• Repo cleanup — 18 outdated README files removed, deprecated folders consolidated, RB3 filenames cleaned up, readme casing standardised.
• CI now checks that every raw GitHub URL in a markdown file points to a real file. Catches broken import links automatically.
• Formatters README has a new quick comparison table across all 16 formatters.

What's coming:

• v2.6.4 template update — filter stack tuning pass
• Apex v2 as the new default formatter in templates
• Possible Fire TV / Android TV nightly variant
• Community templates always welcome — open a PR to Community-Templates/

Import URLs haven't changed. Drop a comment if anything breaks.

— Brevity