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Get Armore Edge.

Pick your platform, install it, then open the console in a browser on the same machine.

01

Get the app

Apple silicon · M1 and later

Disk image ·

Download

Intel Mac

Disk image ·

Download
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Signed, notarised and stapled by Apple — no Gatekeeper prompt. Intel is the same build, but untested on Intel hardware.

Windows 10 / 11 · x64

Installer ·

Download
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Not code-signed — SmartScreen will warn you. Windows cannot tell who built this file. To continue, More info → Run anyway, or check the bytes below. x64 only. Updates are manual on Windows — the same missing signature means you install each new version the way you installed this one.

Debian / Ubuntu · amd64

Package ·

Download

Any distro · portable

AppImage ·

Download
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Neither Linux build is code-signed. chmod +x the AppImage before running it. x64 only, and untested by a human.
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First run downloads a model — about 4.9 GB, after asking you. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Q4_K_M), third-party open weights we package — Armore did not train it. There is no resume, so it needs one unbroken stretch; ours took about 46 minutes. After that it is local and works offline.
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Auto-update is not proven end to end — update by hand, including for a security fix.

Check what you downloaded

Each installer's SHA-512 is in a signed manifest beside it:

BASE=https://github.com/uniQ-Ventures/armore-edge-public/releases/download/v1.0.10
curl -fLO "$BASE/latest-linux.yml"   # or latest-mac.yml / latest.yml (Windows)
openssl dgst -sha512 -binary <your-file> | openssl base64 -A; echo
grep -A2 <your-filename> latest-linux.yml
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Match your own filename in the files: list — the top-level sha512 names a different artifact. For the attestations use cosign verify-blob --bundle <file>.sigstore.json; gh attestation verify returns 404 on these.

Every file on the release

02

Then open it in a browser

The console is served by the app on your own machine.

●  Needs step 01 installed and running

  1. Install and launch it once

    Let the first run finish, including the model prompt.

  2. Quit it, then relaunch from a terminal

    The browser console is off by default, switched on by an environment variable rather than a setting:

    # macOS
ARMORE_LITE_WEB=1 "/Applications/Armore Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Armore Edge"
    # Windows PowerShell
$env:ARMORE_LITE_WEB=1; & "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\Armore Edge\Armore Edge.exe"

    Linux takes the same variable, untested.

  3. Read the address out of the terminal

    Startup prints one line — the only place the address and token exist:

    [lite-web] worker on http://127.0.0.1:<port>/?k=<token> — …
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    It prints to that terminal and nowhere else — no dialog, menu, tray icon or copy button. Double-click the icon and you cannot get the address at all. The port changes every launch.

  4. Open that URL

    Paste the whole thing, ?k= and all, into any browser on that machine.

    If you get a token screen, paste the 43-character token from that same line. Its own wording says the token is in the app — that is a copy bug.

  5. What the browser can and cannot do

    Works in the browser

    • Asking, with or without your files
    • Web search and adding URLs
    • Reading, renaming, deleting conversations
    • Documents, memory, mesh peers, egress ledger

    Desktop only

    • Watching the answer type — it lands at once, after a thinking state
    • Saving a new exchange into a conversation
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    Two things leave, and only if you ask: web search sends your query in plain text to an engine we do not run, and a connector moves the content you point it at once you create one. Neither happens on its own.

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