Arcaeon™A quiet guard for your AI's memory
IN THE APP

version 0.1.4

How it works

It watches. It seals. It tells you.

Arcaeon is a small desktop app. You point it at the folder where your AI keeps what it remembers. After that it watches in the background, and it seals what is there, so it can tell when a later change was not yours.

LookOne file changed and you did not OK it. (Sample)

What happens

Four steps, and only one of them needs you.

  1. You choose your AI's memory folder once. Setup seals what is in it as your starting point.
  2. The app watches. Each sealed change is chained to the one before it, so a later edit, removal or reordering shows.
  3. When something changes that you did not OK, the icon by your clock turns red, and you get one alert naming the file.
  4. You look. If it was you, press This was me. The change is OKed and the light goes back to green.

If the app is closed, it cannot see changes during that time. When it opens again it checks the folder, and anything that changed while it was closed shows red until you say it was you.

Hash chain · change n closes through change n−1SAMPLE
An edited change cannot close. The app names the file, and the light turns red.

Read the light

Green means nothing changed behind your back. Red means look.

  • Green: all clear

    Nothing changed behind your back. Every file is as it was when it was last sealed or OKed.

  • Red: look

    Something changed that you did not OK. The app names the file and shows what changed.

  • Amber: could not confirm

    It could not confirm your record right now, for example a check that is late or could not run. Never a pass.

  • Grey: not checking

    You paused checking, or it is not set up yet.

It tells you about changes. It does not undo them, and it does not judge whether a change was good.

IN THE APP

The first-run tour

Five steps. You see red and green on your own screen.

  1. What the app does. It watches one folder: the place your AI keeps what it remembers.
  2. Names and the folder. What you call your AI, what it should call you, and where a backup copy goes. The names stay on your computer. Then the app builds the folder.
  3. The folder is ready. A short checklist, and a green check by your clock means all clear.
  4. Watch it work. The app changes one word in a practice file, not your real memory. The light turns red. Press This was me and it turns green.
  5. Good to know. What amber and grey mean, connecting your AI so it reads this folder when it wakes, and starting the app with your computer.
IN THE APP

in an earlier release

Built to say no

Some things it will not let slide.

  • A planted instruction file cannot sneak in at setup. If someone drops a file of instructions for your AI into the folder, setup will not seal it as part of your starting point.
  • A weak witness key turns the light red, and the app says that is why.
  • A row the app cannot read turns the light red, named for what it is.
  • An unsafe zip, one built to write where it should not, turns the light red, named for what it is.

A red with a name means you know where to look.

The outside witness

For proof that does not rest on your computer alone.

The app seals on your own computer. That catches a change to one file. It cannot, on its own, catch someone who wipes or rewinds the whole folder. An outside witness can: the record's fingerprint is pinned with a witness that keeps a time anyone can check.

The app carries its own witness client: one switch in the app, Pin to our witness, turns pinning on. The witness receives only the record's name, its row count and a fingerprint, never your notes.

Where it runs

This release, plainly.

  • The desktop app is version 0.1.4.
  • The Linux download is 0.1.2.
  • The build is not code-signed, so your computer may warn you before it runs.

The download is on the invite link you were given.