Growther.ai C5

A self‑hosted, single‑binary AI agent platform. Autonomous multi‑agent orchestration, harness driven, safe tool use, and a self‑improving workflow — running entirely on your machine, with encrypted local storage and zero required external dependencies. Optionally supercharged by Mothership, the Growther.ai cloud.

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Growther.ai Comprehensive Platform Suite 

  

What is Growther.ai C5?

Growther.ai C5 is a complete AI‑agent runtime that ships as one self‑contained executable — no Node, no Docker, no dependency chase. Drop the binary on macOS, Windows, or Linux and you have:

• Multi‑agent orchestration — a planner plus specialized coordinators and workers that decompose and execute real tasks, with per‑coordinator model routing.
• Tool use, safely — native tools, computer use & system control, and MCP integrations with industry-standard guardrails behind a human‑in‑the‑loop permission ladder, per‑tool circuit breakers, and egress DLP.
• Chat, scheduling, and workspaces — streaming chat that understands your imports, scheduled/recurring requests, and a kanban + library UI for attachments and deliverables.
• Private by default — everything lives in ~/.growther, encrypted at rest with SQLCipher. Your prompts, data, and keys never leave the machine. Or decrypt your data at the touch of a button; you always own your data.
• Self‑improving — a built‑in flywheel that learns from your usage and gets better over time. Sparring loops automatically evaluate and improve the system doing your work.
• Self-healing - Don't worry if your browser, server, or LLM go down, or even if the power goes out. C5 keeps track of its work and will resume where it left off.
• Peace of mind - Rest easy: C5's databases auto-heal, auto-backup, and auto-recover. Configurable enterprise grade backup strategies for your data and configurations.
• Total visibility - See what C5 is doing, why it's doing it, and how it's doing it. Charts, graphs, and visualizations of budgets, data, productivity, and more.

The CLI is growther. One binary, batteries included.

Install

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://growther.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://growther.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

brew install growther/tap/growther-c5

The installer detects your OS/arch, downloads the matching binary, verifies its SHA‑256, puts growther on your PATH, and seeds ~/.growther with the signed build manifest (which the app verifies at runtime). Then:

growther --help
growther activate        # first‑run license / device activation

Updating

growther update          # self‑update to the latest signed release (verifies the hash)
growther update --check  # just check whether a newer version exists

Or update the way you installed:

• Homebrew — brew upgrade growther-c5 (the formula auto‑bumps the moment a release lands, so brew always has the newest version).
• Install script — re‑run the curl … | bash / irm … | iex one‑liner above.

Growther.ai C5 alone vs. C5 + Mothership

C5 is fully functional on its own — a private, powerful agent platform you own end to end. Mothership is the Growther cloud that turns a collection of private installs into a compounding, self‑improving network.

	C5 standalone	C5 + Mothership
Agents · Harnesses · Orchestration · Recipes · Skills · Tool use · And more	✅ Full	✅ Full
Fault tolerant requests & storage	✅	✅
Kill‑switch	✅	✅
Local encrypted storage	✅	✅
Managed updates	✅	✅
Works fully offline	✅	✅ Purely additive
Accelerate quality & throughput	Local only	✅ Dual-flyweel effect
Analytics + performance insight	Local only	✅ Aggregate dashboards
Shared instructions / skills / rules / defect-detection	Local only	✅ The flywheel — patterns proven across the network propagate to you
Self-learning	Local only	✅ Exponential gains
Community bolstered self-improvement	—	✅ Force-multiplied; privacy assured

The case for Mothership — network effects. A single C5 gets better from your usage. A fleet on Mothership gets better from everyone's: the flywheel measures which prompts, skills, and rules actually win (Wilson‑dominance adoption) and propagates them, so each install rides the collective's learning curve — not just its own. Layer on managed operations — fleet control, signed updates, telemetry‑driven fixes, billing — and Mothership is the difference between running an agent and operating an ever‑improving agent platform at scale.

Start standalone today; connect to Mothership with growther activate whenever you want the network.

Verify what you run

Every binary is published with a .sha256 and a signed build_manifest.json. The installer checks the SHA‑256 before installing, and C5 verifies the manifest's Ed25519 signature at runtime (SOC 2 change management). Nothing runs that wasn't built and signed by the release pipeline.

Links

• 🌐 growther.ai — home
• 📦 Release archive — every published version, with digests
• 🧾 releases.json — the machine‑readable catalog the installer and the in‑app auto‑updater read

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The Growther.ai platform is built around best-practices in software architecture and development with enterprise-grade security and reliability standards, and automated deployment & quality control. The status block at the top is written automatically by the C5 Release pipeline; everything else here is hand‑maintained.

_{Shift-Left Quality Assurance: Static analysis catches syntax, type, and security flaws before execution, unit tests verify isolated logic correctness, and integration tests guarantee components work together seamlessly—ensuring end-to-end platform reliability and rapid, confident releases.}

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Patent Notice

Growther.ai C5 and Mothership mechanisms are covered by U.S. Patent Application No. 64/130,388.