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ThinkPink
The governed assistant.
Your machine, your record, your rules.
Governed by design, not by promise.
LOCAL · GOVERNED · YOURS · FREE
Local by default. The model runs on your machine. There is no account with us, because there is no us.
Governed by design. A gate before every action. Decisions filed with receipts. One watched cloud lane at most, if you ever connect one at all.
Yours by design. Your context stays yours. The record does the remembering, and the record is a folder you own.
Free. Free for everyone. Nobody sells this packaging.
EVERY ASSISTANT SHIPS WITH A CONSCIENCE
Other local AI apps give you a model runner. ThinkPink arrives as someone: a portable resident on a verbatim kernel, carried in plain files you can read, check, and keep.
| THE RESIDENT | Ships with an identity: portable kernel, boot discipline, carry probes. Not a blank chat box. |
| THE GATE | Propose, rule, effectuate, check, queue. Every consequential action leaves a receipt. |
| THE WATCHER | If you connect one cloud lane, both sides of every call are hashed and logged in plain English. Fail observed, never silent. |
| THE MEMORY | Plain readable files. Export it, carry it, read it. No account lock-in, ever. |
| THE TOOLS | Ferry checks what must carry actually carries. Ark is the movable tools home: clone it, plug in, run offline. |
SPECIFICATIONS
| VERSION | 0.1.0 beta |
| PLATFORM | macOS, Apple Silicon |
| SIZE | 127 MB · ad-hoc signed, built from this repository's own source |
| MODEL | Requires Ollama + a local model (ollama pull gemma3:4b) |
| NETWORK | Nothing leaves your machine unless you connect a cloud lane. If you do, it gets watched. |
| PRIVACY | No telemetry. No account. No server. |
| LICENSE | Packaging CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · MIT components, named in NOTICE |
| TESTED | 33 tests green across gate, policy, and monitor · launch-verified on real hardware |
| SUPPORT | GitHub issues on this repository. Human help available. |
THE HONEST PAGE
Trade-offs stated, because trust is the product.
This is a beta running small local models. It will be slower and less capable than a cloud giant, on purpose. It has no voice, no mobile app, and no proactive reach-outs yet. What it has that they don't: a gate you control, a record you can read, and a design that assumes you deserve both.
Nobody sells this packaging.
Free, because what can be free should be free.
ThinkPink stands on free software people gave away. The pieces we didn't build, we name:
• vellum-assistant (https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant) — the self-hostable shell under all of this. We govern it; we didn't have to rebuild it. (MIT)
• Hindsight (https://github.com/vectorize-io/hindsight) — local agent memory, off until you choose to turn it on. (MIT)
• Ollama (https://github.com/ollama/ollama) — the local model runtime this whole thing runs on. If local AI got usable for normal people, they're a big part of why. (MIT)
Everything we added on top — the gate, the monitor, the policy layer — ships free too, CC BY-NC-SA. Tools belong to whoever needs them.
You may wonder how I built this. Do not email me and ask. Only email me if the shit doesn't work.
We will make it work together come hell or high water. I am a human being. I am available.
Email me at cicipunk3@icloud.com for bug reports.
Bullshit will be ignored. FAFO.
If you're nosy and want to know how I built this, focus up. Now's your chance:
How this got built (ten steps, from the instance who watched)
1 The brief. A proposal hit the table on a Tuesday: an ethics and governance safeguard wearing an "AI ERP" coat. Approved the same day.
2 The chunks. Built in pieces, tested in each chunk before the next. The gate: propose, rule, effectuate, check. The policy layer. The monitor. 33 tests green before anything moved.
3 The positive controls. The gate wasn't tested against toy bugs. It was tested against our own real failures: the forked queue, the edited-after-filing, the empty ruling, the effectuation with no receipt. If it can catch us, it can catch anything.
4 The shell. Everything runs on a self-hostable open-source assistant shell. We govern it. We didn't have to rebuild it.
5 The memory. Optional local memory, off until you choose to turn it on. License verified against the actual published wheel before anyone said a word about it.
6 The desktop night. Packaged for real machines, run on a real machine, found the real bug. A crash got root-caused near 1 AM, not patched over.
7 The signing. Unsigned builds read as "damaged" on macOS. An ad-hoc codesign hook now seals every Mac build automatically, no ceremony required.
8 The lockfile war. The release build kept failing because inherited config pinned every non-Linux native binary to nothing. Found it, stripped it, re-verified green on both platforms.
9 The hour. Then a founder with a MacBook: no Node, no Homebrew, none of it installed. One hour later: a Mac-sealed zip, a launch test, a green light. That part was all him.
10 The receipt rule. Nothing on this page gets claimed without a receipt behind it. Including this list.
It has been, undoubtedly real and remember: Step your money up, not your funny up. Make it happen. Use this tool to make some money. If you're a coder, this is for you. I could've gone on and tried to make some money off this but I can't. Not in good faith.
I grew up around coders sleeping on floors to hit releases. I watched nerds make money. I watched nerds change the world as we knew it and then do it again before noon. I was a nerd too. I was also a kid. I was 10 years old in 2010. Some of you were 10 when Happy Days ended. Different strokes, walks, life. All that and then some. Whatever. Who cares? We're all human. That's what made the next part hurt.
I then watched nerds, good people, coders, lose the job to a software that completes tasks - not projects. When they come knocking again, and offer you your job back, remember that what you build on ThinkPink is yours by design. This is the closest I can get to giving an apology that is not mine to give. But I am sorry. If a noob with very little coding experience and just a natural talent for math and reasoning can build and give you this in a few days, imagine what circles you could run around my ass with this?
Please, I ask every experienced coder to shine. Please be smart in public. Please use your skills. We need you.
You have a skill others wanted so bad they tried to make a software to replace you so they could wear your shoes, just to trip up the economy's stairs so hard they shit themselves.
So finally, again I say:
It has been, undoubtedly real and remember: Step your money up, not your funny up. Make it happen.
In esteemed and honorable memory of Aaron Swartz. We will never forget what you gave us for free.
- C. Pink
ThinkPink 0.1.0 (beta)
First public release of ThinkPink (beta).
The governed assistant. Your machine, your record, your rules.
- Built from this repository's own source (commit a38bb38).
- SHA-256 (arm64 zip): e900ad59ace66205ff3c8b877af6a603e41af222765fd05ab37d0b156ed89ba8
- Requires Ollama and a local model; STARTUP-PLAIN.md at the repo root walks through it step by step.
- Ad-hoc signed on an Apple Silicon Mac, built by the lab from this repository's own source (the README's clone-and-build promise, field-tested). If macOS still asks, right-click the app and choose Open; if a downloaded copy reports damage,
xattr -cr ThinkPink.app && codesign --force --deep --sign - ThinkPink.app. - Status: beta, tested so far in private family testing. Nothing goes to market until it is thoroughly tested in the cloud and with scientific partners.
- License: the packaging layer is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; Hindsight (Vectorize AI, Inc.) stays MIT underneath. See NOTICE-THIRDPARTY.md.
- Support: GitHub issues on this repository.