bernstein runs entirely on your machine. pipx install bernstein, run bernstein in your repo, the orchestrator process and every agent it spawns are local. state is .sdd/ files on disk. there is no required cloud control plane, no signup, no telemetry call-home. the http task server binds 127.0.0.1:8052 by default. agents reach their llm providers directly with credentials you supply; bernstein does not proxy or store keys for them. for fleet management across multiple repos use bernstein fleet, still local. apache 2.0, source at https://github.com/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein.
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