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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, with a Rust decision engine beside it |
| Agents | A coordinator delegating to specialists — implementer, path explorer, repo researcher, code reviewer, security reviewer, plan writer, plan reviewer, skeptic, web researcher — in parallel, each capped to the tools its role allows |
| Decision model | Ships with Bialy, our tuned engine built on Laya, Convai Innovations’ open decision model, built in from 1.0 and run natively on Apple’s MLX. On the user’s Mac it loads the tools and skills each request needs, prunes the tools, guidance, and skills it doesn’t, and reranks code so the most relevant comes first, before the frontier model sees anything; it chooses among allowed options and never widens them |
| Containment | On macOS, every command starts inside a Seatbelt sandbox; reaching past it, up to running outside it entirely, takes the user’s approval |
| Credentials | Outbound requests are screened for credentials before they leave; a marked value reaches the model as a reference and is substituted only inside the command that needs it |
| Detections | More than 300 Sigma rules in 50-plus bundled packs recognize consequential operations — cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, release, and shell — by the operation itself, before it runs |
| Extensibility | Agents, workflows, prompts, and policy rules ship as 13 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 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple Silicon; build from source on Linux |
| Pricing | 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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