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Painted Wolf LLC builds open-source AI coding tools that run where you do. Its flagship product, Painted Wolf Code, is an AI coding agent that runs on your hardware, connects to the model providers you already pay for, and keeps your code local. Open source, top to bottom.
Facts
| Company | Painted Wolf LLC |
| Product | Painted Wolf Code — local-first, multi-agent AI coding app |
| Architecture | Built from scratch, not a fork of an existing editor: a Rust desktop shell over a local Go engine |
| Agents | A coordinator delegating to specialists — implementer, path explorer, code reviewer, plan writer, skeptic, test writer, web researcher — in parallel, each capped to the tools its role allows |
| Containment | On macOS, every command runs as program plus arguments, never a shell string, inside its own Seatbelt sandbox |
| Extensibility | Agents, workflows, prompts, and policy rules ship as 14 YAML extension packs; further packs install from a git URL |
| Standards | Enforces Open Agent Rules, an open guardrail standard with published schemas and a conformance corpus |
| License | Application code Apache-2.0; bundled workflow and rule YAML CC-BY-4.0; bundled scanners keep their upstream licenses. Source on GitHub |
| Platform | macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, Apple Silicon; build from source on Linux |
| Pricing | Free and open source — no subscription, no account; you pay your model providers directly |
| Telemetry | None — no analytics, crash reporting, or usage beacons |
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A note on real painted wolves
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