Local hosting
Local hosting means the assistant runs on your Linux machine. Data stays on your disk. You hatch it yourself and name it. There is no seeded house persona, and there is no Aevum-hosted cloud home in 0.1.
Download the signed AppImage or deb from the home page. Apt install is documented there too.
What you get in 0.1
- Packed Linux desktop. Electron AppImage, or a
.debthat installscadence-assistant. - Local hatch. Instance directory under
~/.local/share/cadence/assistants/. Workspace files are plain text. See The workspace. - CLI on PATH. First launch installs
~/.local/bin/cadence. Open a new terminal, thencadence --help. - Your model. Hive (OpenAI-compatible, on your network) or a BYO provider key. See Model profiles.
Cloud hosting is not offered. There is no Cadence Cloud signup, no WorkOS login for this product, and no metered hosted-runtime SKU.
Native process
The packed app starts the assistant as a local process. No container
required. Fastest setup, lowest latency, full access to this machine
under permissions
(sandbox bash vs confirm-gated host_bash).
The tradeoff is isolation: it is your user session. Confirm host writes. Do not treat a hatch as unattended admin on a shared server.
Docker
The open-source tree can run the assistant in Docker (separate volumes for gateway security and CES). That is a power-user path, not the 0.1 download. The AppImage/deb sit is native.
Comparison
| Packed Linux (0.1) | Cadence Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your computer | Not offered |
| Data | On disk in the hatch directory | Not offered |
| Model | Hive or BYO OpenAI-compat | Not offered |
| Availability | While this machine is awake and the app is running | Not offered |
When local is the right choice
- You want files and memory on hardware you control.
- You want the assistant to reach local files and a host shell, with confirmation.
- You already run (or will run) an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or you have your own provider key.
- You are fine with “off when the laptop sleeps.”
The availability tradeoff
Schedules, watchers, and heartbeats run only while the assistant process is up. Sleep or shut down, and they pause. Missed one-shots fire on next start; recurring jobs resume from now. See Scheduling.
If you need 24/7 without keeping a box awake, that is not a Cadence Cloud SKU today. Run the packed app on a machine you leave on, or wait for a later hosting option. Do not assume Aevum will host it for you in 0.1.
Updates
Packaged Linux uses the linux-electron feed. In the app: Help → Check for Updates. Or install the newer AppImage / deb from the home page.
Privacy of a local hatch: Privacy and data.