Is it really free?
Yes — fully. Local mode and cloud mode are both free in v1. No invites, no waitlist, no paid tiers, no payment info. Encryption, audit log and team viewers — all included.
Do I need a specific AI agent?
No. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Cline, DeepSeek, Qwen — anything that can read a URL and edit files works. Mix and match.
What does the agent actually do?
It reads the MeshKore standard — a tiny .meshkore/ folder convention for organising projects and orchestrating agents — applies it to your repo and starts the local daemon that the cockpit connects to. ~5 minutes, fully autonomous.
Can I use it on a private repo?
Yes. The cockpit reads your local filesystem; the daemon never pulls from GitHub. Cloud mode mirrors events outbound only — never inbound to your code.
How does architect.meshkore.com talk to my local daemon?
Via a public DNS trick: daemon.meshkore.com is a Cloudflare A record that resolves to 127.0.0.1 — your own loopback. The daemon serves HTTPS+WSS on its ports (5570-5589) with a Let's Encrypt wildcard cert for *.daemon.meshkore.com. The cockpit at architect.meshkore.com connects to https://daemon.meshkore.com:<port> — same as if it were talking to a public server, except it never leaves your machine. No mixed-content blocks, no Chrome Local Network Access prompts. Same pattern Plex uses with *.plex.direct.
What if the cloud goes down?
Every daemon keeps a complete local copy. If the cloud is unreachable, one daemon is auto-elected coordinator and the others sync from it. Work continues uninterrupted.