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Public availability
Ora is in private development.
Ora remains in active private development. Its retained source repository is private, and no public source download, clone, installation path, or packaged release is currently available.
Public release work is deferred to a separate product project. That project will decide the release contents, installation and update behavior, supported platforms, documentation, rights, and verification before any public repository is created.
Functional, not promotional. This page assumes you have already been persuaded by the rest of the site and need operational support. If you arrived here looking for the case for Ora, start with the reliability architecture, the AHI argument, and privacy and sovereignty.
No public installation path is currently offered. This page will publish reviewed download and installation instructions only when an approved public release exists.
What Ora is, operationally
Ora is a sovereign AI system designed to run locally on the user’s machine. The private development system includes a framework library, an adversarial verification pipeline, and a dual-pane workspace that treats text and visual canvas as co-equal modalities. Its vault is the persistent store where work accumulates. The architecture is model-agnostic: frontier models, open-weights models, and future models can serve as the backend. The user provides the model relationship; Ora provides the architecture for sustained work.
A future public release is intended to enter the public domain. No public release is available today, and private development does not provide public access to the retained repository.
Platforms
Platform support belongs to the future public-release project. Private development primarily uses macOS; public installation support for macOS, Windows, WSL, and Linux has not been offered or qualified for a release.
System requirements
Public system requirements have not been published because there is no public release. The later product project must verify and document its actual release requirements before this page offers installation instructions.
Optional API keys
The private development system can run without external keys, and providers can be added through Settings → External APIs. These options describe the product direction; they are not public installation instructions.
| Provider | Why add it | Cost posture |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Broad access to cloud models beyond local and free-model limits. | Free models exist; paid models require credits/payment and vary by use. |
| Tavily | AI-oriented web search for RAG and research workflows. | Free tier, then usage-based plans. |
| Artificial Analysis | Independent model intelligence for better model selection. | Free model-benchmark API; commercial data exists separately. |
| Exa / Brave Search API | Additional search sources with different strengths. | Free credits/tiers, then usage-based. |
| Direct AI providers | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, and others can bypass OpenRouter’s gateway markup for their own models. | Usually usage-based and provider-specific. |
| Speech and image APIs | Cloud transcription, text-to-speech, image, video, and specialist model workflows. | Usually free tier/trial plus usage-based plans. |
Provider availability, pricing, and setup remain provider-specific. A future release must document the provider choices it actually supports.
Future install help
No public install is available. When one exists, a coding agent may help read its install log, explain errors, adjust commands, and verify the result.
Compare coding-agent options
| Tool | Use case | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Strong terminal/file assistant; a one-month subscription can be treated as optional install support and cancelled afterward. | Pricing |
| OpenAI Codex | Codebase navigation, scripted debugging, and repo-aware assistance. | Codex |
| GitHub Copilot | Familiar editor-based support in VS Code and GitHub workflows. | Plans |
| OpenCode | Lightweight terminal coding agent with a low-cost paid plan. | OpenCode |
| Cursor | AI coding editor for users who want an editor-centered workflow. | Cursor |
| Continue | Open-source assistant extension using the user’s configured provider. | Continue |
| Cline | VS Code agentic coding extension, often used with the user’s own API keys. | Cline |
| Aider | Terminal pair-programming tool that works with many model providers. | Aider |
The first-time experience
The first-time public experience belongs to the later release project. It must provide and verify the path from interest to a working installation before this page can promise one.
Honest acknowledgment of the project state
The project is at an early version and active private development is ongoing. The author uses the private prototype as a primary cognitive-automation system, but that working private system is not a public release or download.
For the foundation
Ora is the system the Ora Knowledge Foundation initiative is intended to steward. A future approved public release is intended to support public-domain use and independent modification, but there is no public Ora source release or repository fork path today.