AuthorAware is a small desktop app. Once installed, it records and seals your writing process so anyone can verify it later — no server, no account, no platform lock-in.
AuthorAware ships as a small Python desktop app (the hap-proxy) that runs quietly in your system tray, plus a browser-rendered writing surface. The app handles GitHub auth, runs your AI keys locally if you provide them, and writes everything to your machine. Nothing leaves your computer until you choose to share a credential.
authoraware-provenance repo on first run.If you want to confirm the binary you have matches the one we released, compare the SHA-256 hash shown on each card to what you compute locally.
On macOS / Linux: shasum -a 256 AuthorAware-windows-exe.zip
On Windows (PowerShell): Get-FileHash AuthorAware-windows-exe.zip -Algorithm SHA256
All checksums are also published as a single file: SHA256SUMS
Windows. Unzip → double-click AuthorAware.exe → click through SmartScreen → AuthorAware tray icon appears in the bottom-right system tray → right-click the icon → GitHub Setup → "Connect GitHub →" → a browser window opens with an 8-character code; paste it into GitHub when prompted → your private authoraware-provenance repo is auto-created. That's it. The editor opens in your browser and every keystroke from here is sealed.
Optional AI assistant. Tray icon → AI Key Setup → paste a key from Anthropic, OpenAI, or another provider you choose. The assistant is yours and the conversation never leaves your machine.