Air-Gapped & Security

AI Where Nothing
Else Can Operate

8 million developers work in restricted environments where cloud AI is impossible. Caro is the only AI shell assistant that works with zero network connectivity— bundled model, single binary, designed for security audit.

0 Network calls
1 Binary file
100% Open source
Get the Binary Security Documentation

Built for These Environments

Where cloud AI isn't an option

SCIFs

Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities

Government classified development environments

  • ✓ No external network
  • ✓ Auditable binary
  • ✓ No telemetry

Financial Trading

Trading Floor Systems

Systems where millisecond latency matters

  • ✓ Air-gapped networks
  • ✓ Audit trails
  • ✓ No cloud dependencies

Healthcare

HIPAA Compliant Environments

Patient data systems with strict compliance

  • ✓ No data exfiltration
  • ✓ Audit logging
  • ✓ Offline operation

Industrial

OT/SCADA Networks

Critical infrastructure control systems

  • ✓ Complete isolation
  • ✓ No network calls
  • ✓ Deterministic behavior

Defense Contractors

ITAR/EAR Controlled

Export-controlled development environments

  • ✓ US-person only access
  • ✓ No foreign servers
  • ✓ Full audit

Research Labs

Isolated Research Networks

IP-sensitive research environments

  • ✓ Data isolation
  • ✓ No cloud sync
  • ✓ Self-contained

Jobs Caro Does in Secure Environments

What you hire Caro to do when offline

Offline AI Assistance

Pain: 5/5 Daily

Get AI-powered command generation where no other AI tool can operate.

Trigger: Working in air-gapped environment

Compliance-Ready Tool Approval

Pain: 4/5 Monthly

Single binary, zero telemetry, open source—designed for security audit.

Trigger: Getting new tool approved for secure environment

Organization-Wide Safety

Pain: 4/5 Monthly

Deploy custom safety patterns across your team without network dependency.

Trigger: Standardizing tooling in restricted environment

Offline AI in Action

Real scenarios where Caro shines

Network Is Down

Scenario: The datacenter network is the problem you're debugging.

Air-Gapped Terminal
$ caro "show all network interfaces and their status"
Caro: ip -br addr show && ip -br link show
Running fully offline - no network required

Why it matters: Works when nothing else does—doesn't need the network to help you fix the network.

Classified Development

Scenario: You're in a SCIF writing scripts for a classified system.

Air-Gapped Terminal
$ caro "find all python files that import requests library"
Caro: grep -rl "import requests" --include="*.py" .
Running fully offline - no network required

Why it matters: Same AI assistance as your unclassified colleagues, with zero data risk.

Secure Data Center

Scenario: Physical servers in a cage, no internet connection by design.

Air-Gapped Terminal
$ caro "check disk health on all drives"
Caro: for disk in /dev/sd?; do smartctl -H $disk 2>/dev/null; done
Running fully offline - no network required

Why it matters: The model runs locally—no waiting for cloud timeouts that will never resolve.

Traveling Without Internet

Scenario: On a plane, in a remote location, or just in a dead zone.

Air-Gapped Terminal
$ caro "compress this directory for transfer"
Caro: tar -czvf archive.tar.gz ./directory
Running fully offline - no network required

Why it matters: Your productivity doesn't depend on hotel wifi.

Designed for Security Audit

Every feature built with compliance in mind

📦

Single Binary

One file, no dependencies. Copy it to any machine.

Audit: Hash verifiable, no supply chain complexity.

🔇

Zero Telemetry

No analytics, no usage tracking, no phone home—ever.

Audit: Verify with strace: zero network syscalls.

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Open Source

AGPL-3.0 licensed. Read every line of code.

Audit: Full source audit available on GitHub.

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Bundled Model

AI model embedded in binary. No download required.

Audit: No external model fetching, no model injection risk.

✅

SHA256 Verified

Every release includes cryptographic checksums.

Audit: Verify binary integrity before deployment.

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Audit Logging

Log every command generated and validated.

Audit: Meet compliance requirements with full command history.

Getting Caro Approved

Answers to common security review questions

"AI tools need internet access"
Caro bundles a quantized Qwen2.5-Coder model. Zero network calls after install. Verify with: strace -e network ./caro
"We can't audit closed-source AI"
Caro is 100% open source (AGPL-3.0). Audit every line: github.com/wildcard/caro
"AI tools collect usage data"
Caro has zero telemetry. Not "opt-out"—literally no telemetry code exists. Verify the source.
"We need a software supply chain review"
Single binary, Rust-based, all dependencies audited via cargo-audit. SBOM available.
"What if it makes network calls we don't know about?"
Run it under strace -e network. You'll see zero network syscalls. We designed it this way.
"It's an AI—how can it be deterministic?"
The safety layer is deterministic regex patterns, not AI. The AI generates, the patterns validate.

Security Documentation

Security Policy License (AGPL-3.0) Full Source Code Releases + Checksums

Deployment Options

How to get Caro into your secure environment

USB Transfer

  1. Download caro binary on internet-connected machine
  2. Verify SHA256 checksum
  3. Transfer to USB drive through approved process
  4. Copy to air-gapped machine: chmod +x ./caro
  5. Run immediately—no additional setup needed

Build from Source

  1. Clone repository to transfer machine
  2. Transfer source code through approved process
  3. Build: cargo build --release
  4. Binary at: target/release/caro
  5. Full audit trail of what you're running

Internal Mirror

  1. Host binary on internal package mirror
  2. Security team verifies once
  3. All engineers install from trusted internal source
  4. Centralized update management

Verify It Yourself

Don't trust us—verify these claims

Verify Zero Network Calls

strace -e network ./caro "list files"

Run under strace. You'll see zero network-related syscalls.

Verify Binary Integrity

sha256sum caro && cat caro.sha256

Compare against published checksums on GitHub releases.

Verify No DNS Lookups

ltrace -e '*dns*' ./caro "list files"

No DNS resolution functions called.

Verify Open Ports

ss -tlnp | grep caro

Caro opens no listening sockets.

Try Caro in 30 Seconds

No account. No API key. No data collection. Just safer shell commands.

bash <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL https://setup.caro.sh)

Then run:

caro "find files modified in the last 7 days"
Installs to ~/.cargo/bin
Single binary, no dependencies
Uninstall anytime: cargo uninstall caro

Prefer to build from source? See all installation options →