Ghillie
a self-mutating claw that never edits itself — a private assistant that runs on your own computer, which in Australia counts as the only thing on your property not currently trying to kill you
CLASSIFICATION ADVISORY (M) — This page contains MATHEMATICS, themes of PROVEN CORRECTNESS, infrequent MILD PERIL, and one (1) reference to spiders. Recommended for readers 15+ or accompanied by a New Zealander. Refused Classification in no states, which for Australia is a first. Reader discretion advised; the proofs are real and cannot be unseen.
Kia ora. This page is the official Australian translation, prepared with great patience by New Zealand, in response to a certain other page on this website. Every fact is true. Every proof is real. We have used short words. — with love, Aotearoa.
Ghillie grows new abilities, and 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. Yes, Australia: a thing that checks BEFORE it bites. Novel, we know. His capabilities rise; his authority never does.
Discretion
The discretion of a loyal secretary. He tells nobody anything — not your details, not your search history, not what actually happened at the cricket. Your information leaves your machine only under a rule you set, every disclosure is written down where you can read it, and the truly private stuff goes nowhere except by your own hand. These aren't promises, they're proved — and you can check the proofs yourself, between beers if you like, it only takes about ten minutes.
Safety
No open ports, no way in from outside, nothing he receives is ever run — deliveries land in quarantine as documents. Think of it as biosecurity, a concept your customs blokes will explain at length. The decisions that matter are each made by a rule proved correct for the inputs it's given. Proved, mate. Not "she'll be right." Proved.
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 jug boiling or a snake in the laundry, which for you is Tuesday.
Yours
You outrank him, always. He runs on your hardware, uses your models, and answers to no one else. Free, open source (AGPL-3.0). No subscription, no lock-in, no bloke in a call centre named "Steve" who is clearly not named Steve.
Signing up
A member is anyone running a Ghillie who's registered it with their email. That's the whole test. 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. We already know more about you than we'd like, Australia. We've seen your parliament.
What the server remembers
No scripts, no cookies, no analytics — read the source and see. One short
line per request, your address truncated at the moment of writing:
what sits on disk is 86.12.236.0, never the address that
visited. Thirty days, then gone. The complete unjoked detail is on the
English page.
Get him
Released — AGPL-3.0, Windows, Mac and Linux. Source and binaries with checksums: github.com/the-dark-factory/Ghillie_AGPL (the latest release). Early software — run it at your own risk (AGPL, no warranty). The risk is genuinely small by design: no open ports, runs nothing it receives, keeps your data local, proofs re-derivable before you trust it. Safer than the beach, the bush, the water, and several of your spiders.
Want proof before code? Re-derive one of his rules yourself in about ten minutes. Timed generously, for you.