Machines, not mysteries.
Name a rig. Prepare it locally. Exchange public rig cards and approve the full fingerprints in both directions.
Public cards. Private keys stay home.
Braid Messenger / Archangel 1.7.0a5
Your rigs.
Your rigs.
On speaking
terms.
An inbox for the useful things your local AI should carry forward. Share reviewed context with an approved rig. Ask a fresh question there. Keep control of both.
Mac → Linux demonstrated. Mac launcher fix included.
Public engineering alpha. Python and local Ollama required.
∿ Braid ARCHANGEL
Linux laptopRECEIVED STATEA little context.
A little context.
A useful connection.
From MacBook Air · reviewed handoff
Project Cobalt’s launch color is amber.
✓ Received✓ Accepted✓ Indexed
A fresh question on the receiving rigThe launch color is amber.
Receiver-owned stateLocal models · visible evidence
Interface illustration, not a live session. Actual test photograph below.
PAIR ONCE Your machines become contacts.SHARE DELIBERATELY You review what leaves.QUERY LOCALLY The receiver uses its own field.
A familiar front doorLess control panel.
Less control panel.
More “there’s my other rig.”
Think signed state mail for your local AI rigs: a small, deliberate place to carry useful facts, decisions, and constraints between the computers you own.
Share the useful part.
Paste context, make a local summary or keep the exact text, then review it before sending. Inbox, Sent, and receipts keep the work visible.
Write → Review → Share
A handoff you can use.
The receiver indexes accepted material locally. Ask a new question through Braid and inspect the evidence behind the answer.
Relevant state. A fresh local question.
Cropped from the founder’s test photo; interface values are unaltered.
PHYSICAL MAC → LINUX RUNSent on a Mac.
Sent on a Mac.
Useful on Linux.
A made-up project fact left a MacBook Air through the reviewed handoff flow. On the Linux laptop, Braid showed an indexed item and returned the fact through its shared-field question workflow.
“Project Cobalt’s launch color is amber.”
1Indexed item
1Indexed object
384Dimensions
Founder-run, single-item test with visible receiver output, not independent certification. This demonstrates the handoff-and-query experience; it does not establish every operating system, restart behavior, or internet-distance operation.
Watch the on-camera demonstration
PROOF On Camera:
Two Ollama LLMs Shared StateThe founder’s Mac-to-Linux demonstration · opens YouTube ↗
Two Ollama LLMs Shared StateThe founder’s Mac-to-Linux demonstration · opens YouTube ↗
Watch the workflow, then reproduce the handoff with the free client. The video is a demonstration, not independent certification.
Free local software. Optional membership.Start free.
Start free.
Build with us.
The same Archangel client in both columns. No membership required for local transfers. Join for human help, early access, and forthcoming managed reach.
THE LOCAL CLIENT
Braid Archangel
Free / no membership required
Connect the rigs you own. Keep the useful context moving.
- Direct LAN transfersApproved rig-to-rig handoffs over your local network. No Intersignal relay needed.
- QR reel / chunk transfersIncluded optical tools in the Advanced workspace. Camera and decoder requirements apply.
- Your rigs, inbox, and receiptsReview a summary or exact text before sending. See acceptance and indexing separately.
- Receiver-local shared field384D indexing, relevant-state retrieval, and guarded questions through your own local model.
- Public releases and sourceUse the public client without a subscription. The Mac launcher fix is already included.
Download free Archangel
Python, Ollama, and models are separate prerequisites. About the QR tools.
THE FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP
Braid Founding Membership
$99 / year
Everything in the free client, plus a closer connection to the build.
- Human supportReasonable, best-effort help with installation, pairing, troubleshooting, and upgrades.
- Managed Relay access FORTHCOMINGFor at least 2 unique devices per active membership, once the member service launches and your access is provisioned.
- First access to new versions & experimentsMember-first releases and experimental builds during your active membership term.
- A direct feedback loopBring reproducible results and feature requests directly to the project. Not every experiment or request will ship.
Join Founding Membership Manage billing ↗
Support starts with membership; early builds are supplied as released. Managed Relay is forthcoming, not an active service included at checkout today.
Membership adds support and reach. It does not unlock the free client. LAN and QR tools stay free. Managed Relay has no announced activation date; its two-device minimum applies once the service is launched and provisioned during an active membership.
Service details & what is not included
Human support is reasonable and best-effort, not a 24/7 service or production SLA. Early access covers member releases and experiments as they become available during your active annual term; there is no fixed release schedule. Public software releases remain free.
Forthcoming Managed Relay access covers at least two unique devices per active membership once launched and provisioned. Service use will be subject to compatibility, capacity, location, and fair-use limits; no unlimited bandwidth or additional-device entitlement is promised here. A payment receipt is not a relay credential. Support starts when membership begins; there is no guaranteed relay launch date within the term.
Membership does not include computers, hosted inference, model subscriptions, Python, Ollama, or model downloads. Your local models remain yours to provision and run. This site update does not activate a relay or change existing subscriptions.
The download that matches the demoArchangel.
Archangel.
One bundle.
Your own rigs.
The working 1.7.0a5 release, with the Mac startup correction already integrated. No patch hunt. No installer built just for someone else’s two machines.
Have these ready on each rig
Standard CPython 3.10–3.13. Get Python. Choose a supported version, not 3.14.
Local Ollama + an embedding model. The first-run guide uses all-minilm. Get Ollama.
A local chat model for Ask field. The demonstrated receiver used mistral:latest.
Begin with two machines on the same private LAN. No Intersignal relay enrollment is needed for that path.
Ready-to-run does not mean zero prerequisites. The launcher installs Python dependencies into its own environment. Python, Ollama, and model weights are not bundled. First setup needs internet access unless you prepare the documented offline pack.
PUBLIC ENGINEERING ALPHA
Braid Messenger 1.7.0a5
Archangel · Mac Launcher Fix 1 integrated · 1.27 MB ZIP
The same complete bundle for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Extract. Open Start Braid.command.
The Mac fix is already in this ZIP. It skips an unsupported default Python, finds a supported installed runtime, and prints its selection.
sh "Start Braid.command"Terminal alternative: run the command above inside the extracted folder. Python must already be installed. No global Python setting is changed. Mac security guidance.
Open the extracted folder in Terminal.
Right-click an empty space in the folder, choose Open in Terminal, and run:
sh "Start Braid.sh"Run as your normal user, without sudo. The Linux launcher uses your default python3. For an unsupported default, explicitly use an installed supported version, such as python3.12 start_braid.py.
Choose a supported Python explicitly.
Open the extracted folder in Terminal. With standard Python 3.12 installed, use:
py -3.12 start_braid.pyUse -3.13 instead when that is your installed supported version. Start Braid.cmd is also included, but uses the default runtime. This is not an Authenticode-signed installer.
Download Archangel ZIP
Verify the exact download
b6bf35bd10edcb687e89e21f9674db0ca58a9dc7adb37b667c9d139213ab4227SHA-256 of the complete ZIP. Consistency check, not a publisher signature.
INCLUDEDApp + source + platform launchersThe corrected Mac launcher, isolated setup, offline-pack tools, test evidence, and full source travel together.
NOT REQUIRED FOR LANNo account. No managed relay.Direct approved-rig handoffs do not automatically use an Intersignal relay. Keep the local UI private.
STILL AN ALPHAStart with harmless test context.Not a signed native installer. Windows, WAN, restart persistence, and broader hardware need further physical testing.
A first win, not a terminal marathonFrom two windows
From two windows
to one useful handoff.
Start with exact text. Prove delivery and retrieval first. Add local summarization after that simple path works.
Open on both rigs.
Use the platform launcher. Keep the local service running and Ollama available.
Exchange rig cards.
Prepare each rig, import its public card on the other, compare the full fingerprint, and approve both ways.
Review. Then actually send.
Start receiving. Choose one rig, use exact text, and click Send summary once. A review banner is not a receipt.
Ask the receiving field.
Confirm acceptance and indexing. Open Shared field, find the relevant state, then ask a fresh question.
Received → Accepted → Indexed
Three different confirmations. A green contact only indicates recent reachability. An uncertain receipt stays uncertain; do not blindly resend.
The interface is small. The idea is not.Useful context travels.
Useful context travels.
Authority stays local.
WORKING TODAY
A shared-state foundation.
Braid carries explicit, signed semantic material. Each receiver applies its own acceptance policy and builds its own searchable 384-dimensional field. Retrieved evidence and model output stay inspectable. Signatures and similarity do not make a claim true.
THE DIRECTION
Richer interchange, without pretending.
We are building toward richer validated interchange states across independent AI systems. Today’s release is the foundation, not native hidden-state transfer. It does not move model weights, KV cache, or a complete model mind.
Before you click
A few things worth knowing.
Does this automatically share everything my local AI knows?
No. You choose the material, review the exact text, and explicitly send it. Braid does not silently import another chat application’s conversation. Ask questions through Braid’s Shared field to use the received material; a separate chat window is not automatically populated.
What did the Mac patch fix?
The original shortcut could choose an unsupported default Python and stop before opening Braid. The integrated Mac launcher checks supported installed runtimes, including common Homebrew and Python.org locations, then prints the interpreter it selects. It does not install Python, alter global aliases, or retry application failures under another interpreter. The a5 application wheel is unchanged.
Will this send traffic through an Intersignal relay?
Not for the direct private-LAN workflow shown here. Rigs connect to the approved endpoint in the exchanged card. Managed Relay / Jump Kit is a separate enrollment and configuration path, not a switch activated by downloading Archangel. No production relay availability or WAN result is implied by this LAN demonstration.
Can I use different models?
The completion model is receiver-local; Braid carries explicit material rather than requiring identical model weights. For the simplest first run, use the guide’s matching all-minilm embedding setup. The physical result on this page used mistral:latest for the receiver’s configured completion model, not a full compatibility matrix.
What has actually been tested?
The founder exercised corrected MacBook Air startup, Linux startup, pairing, and a Mac-to-Linux handoff followed by indexed field-question output. Screenshots are above. Packaged a5 regression evidence separately records 264 passing tests and six subtests on Linux with deterministic model fixtures. The Mac fix has 16 focused launcher tests. Physical Windows, reverse-direction, restart-persistence, broader-network, and cold-offline checks remain outstanding for this run.
What should I do when the field is empty?
Stop at the receipt. On the sender, open Sent and expand Receipt & provenance. On the receiver, check Inbox. Review is not delivery; delivery is not acceptance; acceptance alone does not confirm indexing. A “Receipt not confirmed” outcome must not be treated as permission to resend. Open the troubleshooting guide.
What is free, and what does $99/year add?
Archangel's local Messenger, LAN transfers, QR reel / chunk tools, receiver-local field, and public releases are free. Founding Membership adds human support, first access to new versions and experiments, and forthcoming Managed Relay access for at least two unique devices once launched and provisioned during an active term. The QR tools use the Advanced workspace and depend on compatible camera/decoder support. Compare both options.
The inspectable recordKeep the evidence.
Keep the evidence.
Keep the earlier work.
The release includes its full source and original automated evidence. This physical result adds one specific working path, not a blanket certification.
Looking for the older native installers? They remain in the historical download archive. They do not contain Archangel Messenger.