AI Stays Local

DocumentationHow it behaves

Local documents

You point the runtime at folders you choose. It builds a local index and answers from it, citing what it read.

  1. Grant access to selected folders

    Explicitly, folder by folder. Nothing is read until you say so, and nothing outside what you granted is read at all.

  2. Ask questions in ordinary language

    No query syntax, no prompt engineering. The question is the question.

  3. Verify the cited file and page

    Every document answer names where it came from, so checking it is a click rather than an act of faith.

  4. Remove the local collection when the work is complete

    The index is yours and lives on your machine. Removing a collection removes the index; your original documents are never modified.

What it does not do yet

  • Retrieval matches words rather than meaning, so a question phrased in vocabulary the document does not use can miss.
  • There is no OCR: a scanned page with no text layer is not searchable.
  • Symbolic links are not followed, and system directories are refused.
  • The local index is not encrypted at rest today.
  • One question is answered at a time.

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These pages describe the contract: ports, endpoints, volumes, the permission model and the behaviour you can expect. The command reference for the CLI is published with the build each tester receives, so that it matches the binary in their hands rather than a page written ahead of it.

Available through a controlled private beta. Larger model profiles are added as they complete hardware validation.