Ghillie

a self-mutating claw that never edits himself — a private assistant that runs on your own computer, quietly, without making a fuss

AVIS OFFICIEL — Ce service de traduction est maintenant administré par le Québec. Le personnel anglophone a été poliment escorté vers le vestibule, où il attend, en s'excusant. The English portions below remain by kind permission of the new management. A standoff is in effect. It has so far been extremely polite. Both sides have apologized twice. Someone said « tabarouette ». Negotiations continue over Timbits.

Hi. Sorry to bother you. This is the official Canadian translation, and we want to apologize in advance: the facts below are all true and the proofs are all real, and we understand that's a lot. Take your time. There's no rush. Sorry again. Thanks so much.

Ghillie can grow new abilities — and sorry if this sounds forward, but the growing is the safe part: he never edits himself. A new ability arrives as source code with a mathematical proof, your machine re-derives the proof before anything installs, and what doesn't prove doesn't run — it just apologizes and sees itself out. His capabilities rise; his authority never does. We hope that's alright.

Icitte, la version du Québec : Ghillie, c'est un assistant qui reste sur TA machine, pas de ports ouverts, pas de compagnie qui écoute, pis chaque décision importante est prouvée par les mathématiques — pas promise, PROUVÉE. Les maudits anglais en haut ont pris quatorze paragraphes pour dire ça. Nous autres, un. C'est réglé. [The management confirms this translation is accurate and significantly more efficient. We have apologized for the fourteen paragraphs.]

Discretion

The discretion of a loyal secretary, or of a neighbour who definitely saw you slip on the ice and will take it to their grave. He tells nobody anything. Your details leave your machine only under a rule you set, every disclosure is written down so you can see exactly what left and why, and your most sensitive information goes to no one except by your own hand. These aren't promises — they're proved, and you're very welcome to check the proofs yourself, no pressure, whenever suits.

Safety

No open ports, and no way in from the outside — the door's not just locked, there's provably no door, which we admit is un-Canadian, since your actual doors are unlocked. Nothing he receives is ever run; deliveries wait politely in quarantine as documents. Every decision that matters is made by a rule proved correct for the inputs it's given. Like a Mountie, but mathematics.

Quiet

He speaks only when there's news, and never at night — unless it's one of the few things you said was worth waking for, like the geese getting in again. He's quieter than a Canadian queue, and we know that's saying something.

Yours

You outrank him, always — although being Canadian you'll probably insist he goes first. He runs on your hardware, uses your models, and answers to no one else. Free, open source (AGPL-3.0). Free like healthcare, and it also comes with a wait time of zero, which we mention gently.

Membership (if that's okay)

A member is anyone running a Ghillie who's registered it with their email. That's the whole test, sorry it isn't harder. No fee, no tiers, no subscription.

Registration is an email and your ghillie's public key. We do not want, and do not take, anything else. Honestly we already feel we've asked too much.

What the server records (sorry)

No scripts, no cookies, no analytics — you can check by reading the source, and honestly, we'd be touched. The server keeps one short line per request, and we've felt bad about even that, so: your address is truncated at the moment of writing — what sits on disk is 86.12.236.0, never the address that visited. Kept thirty days, then it leaves quietly without making a scene, the way you'd want. Full detail on the English page.

Get him (no rush)

The plan: TheReefink →