Aoi

Tides · Harbor · 6 min

The harbor stays on the machine

Aoi is a local runtime with a face on it. Memory does not leave unless you carry it.

Kohei Marsh

Kohei Marsh

Harbor engineer · Aug 12, 2026

Cloud agents are convenient because they forget whose desk they are sitting on. Aoi is inconvenient on purpose. The harbor is this machine.

Why local is a design, not a slogan

If the weights, the memory, and the unsigned drafts live somewhere else, the face is decoration. You are renting a voice. You do not keep the call.

We built the template as if the runtime never leaves the room. Buyers will connect their own sidecar, llama.cpp host, or desktop daemon. The interface already assumes the work is here.

What "here" means

Here is the laptop with the ice-glass nameplate on it. Here is not a region. Here is not a workspace ID. If you need a team, you add named faces — you do not open a bucket.

Carry what you must

Backups exist. They are files you move. Aoi will not sync a thread because a toggle looked friendly. Unsigned work stays closed. Signed exports are yours to hold.

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