Proto

The agent console for finance, ops, HR, sales, and support.

  

What is Proto · Features · What leaves your machine · Install · Auto-updates · Support

This repository hosts signed + notarized builds of Proto. Proto is proprietary, closed-source software; this repo only carries release artifacts and the auto-updater manifests.

What is Proto

Proto is the agent console for the people whose job the agent helps with: finance leads, ops managers, sales reps, HR generalists, support engineers. Open Proto, pick a skill or describe the work in plain language, and watch the agent do the busywork: pull invoices, draft customer outreach, reconcile records, investigate anomalies. You decide which moves wait for your approval.

Local-first. Your chats, files, API keys, memory and the record of every action are stored on your machine. Proto still sends data off it to do its work: the model requests, your ERP•AI apps, error reports and the tools you use. What leaves your machine lists them.

Features

• 🗣️ Plain-language chat. Ask in your own words; Proto routes to the right skill and the right tool.
• ✅ You choose what waits for you. In Ask mode, Proto says what an action will do and waits for your approval before it runs a command, edits a file, sends a message or changes a record. Uninterrupted mode, the default in the current release, runs actions without asking. Switch in Settings → Permissions.
• 🧩 Talks to your systems. ERP, CRM, sheets, inboxes — connect over MCP and the agent can read and write directly.
• 🛠️ Installable skills. Each skill is a markdown file that teaches the agent one job. Install from a curated registry, GitHub, or a local folder.
• 💾 Remembers what matters. Cross-session memory lives in plain markdown — customer history, decisions, preferences — that you can open in any editor.
• 🌐 Searches the web when it needs to. Pulls docs, fetches pages, grabs context.
• 🔄 Model-agnostic. Works on Claude, Gemini, GLM, Llama, Ollama, and more — pick whichever fits your cost / latency / quality budget.
• 🎨 Looks how you want. 14 themes out of the box, custom fonts, light/dark auto-switch.
• 🚀 Updates itself. New versions install with one click from Settings. Signed and verified before install.

What leaves your machine

Proto keeps your chats, files, keys, memory and action history on your computer. To do its work it sends data to these places:

• The AI model. What you ask, and what the agent reads to answer (files, web pages, tool results), goes to the model. Requests pass through Proto's service (api.proto.erpai.studio) on the way to the model provider. A local model you run yourself (Ollama, LM Studio) is reached directly, and Codex mode uses your ChatGPT account.
• ERP•AI. Your sign-in, and everything Proto reads or changes in your ERP•AI apps, goes to ERP•AI's servers. Cloud sessions, when you start one, run there too.
• Error reports. When something fails, Proto sends ERP•AI a report automatically. In the current release that report includes the chat the failure happened in. Help → Report a problem shows what a report contains and lets you leave the chat out.
• Update checks. Proto checks for new versions when it starts.
• The tools you use. Web search, page fetches, the in-app browser, the plugins you connect and the messaging apps you link send what they need to those services.

The Proto Terms and the Privacy Policy are the full account.

Install

macOS (Apple Silicon)

1. Click the Download for macOS button above (or pick from Releases)
2. Open the .dmg, drag Proto into Applications
3. Launch from /Applications/Proto.app

No Gatekeeper prompt. No right-click → Open workaround. It just opens.

Why there's no Gatekeeper warning

The app is:

• Code-signed with a Developer ID Application certificate (Deskera Holdings Ltd., team DMZC7LUBK8)
• Notarized by Apple's notary service — both the .app bundle and the .dmg container
• Stapled — Gatekeeper verifies the notarization ticket offline, no internet needed on first launch

Verify the download yourself:

spctl --assess --type open --context context:primary-signature -vv ~/Downloads/Proto_*_aarch64.dmg
# → accepted
# → source=Notarized Developer ID
# → origin=Developer ID Application: Deskera Holdings Ltd. (DMZC7LUBK8)

xcrun stapler validate ~/Downloads/Proto_*_aarch64.dmg
# → The validate action worked!

Windows (x64)

1. Click the Download for Windows button above
2. Run the .exe installer
3. Launch Proto from the Start Menu

SmartScreen warning: Windows will show "Windows protected your PC" on first install because the app is currently unsigned. Click More info → Run anyway to proceed. We're working on adding a code-signing certificate.

First-run setup (both platforms): open Settings → paste an OpenRouter or Fireworks API key → pick a skill or just start chatting.

Auto-updates

Proto checks for new versions on launch. When a new version is published, a green dot appears on the Settings icon in the titlebar.

To update, open Settings → About → Download and install. The app downloads, verifies the signature, installs, and relaunches itself.

Auto-updates are currently macOS only. Windows auto-update is coming in a future release.

Update artifacts are signed with a dedicated ed25519 key (minisign). The app embeds the matching public key at build time — any tarball that doesn't verify is rejected before install.

What's in a release

Every tag (vX.Y.Z) ships:

Asset	Platform	Purpose
Proto_X.Y.Z_aarch64.dmg	macOS	Installer (what humans download)
Proto_X.Y.Z_aarch64.app.tar.gz	macOS	In-app auto-update payload
Proto_X.Y.Z_aarch64.app.tar.gz.sig	macOS	Minisign signature for the payload
Proto_X.Y.Z_x64-setup.exe	Windows	NSIS installer
Proto_X.Y.Z_x64-setup.exe.sig	Windows	Updater signature
Proto_X.Y.Z_x86_64.AppImage	Linux	Portable app
Proto_X.Y.Z_x86_64.AppImage.sig	Linux	Updater signature
latest.json, latest-mac.yml, latest-linux.yml	all	Update manifests consumed by Proto's updater

Support & issues

Bug reports, feature requests, and discussion: www.erp.ai/contact.

Open-source software

Proto includes open-source components, each under its own license. The app lists every one, with its license and notice files, in Settings → About → Open-source notices (the THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt file in the app's Resources/licenses folder). Where Proto ships a modified open-source file, its source is published in third-party/:

• @ubjs/node 0.31.0-3 (Mozilla Public License 2.0)

License

Proto is proprietary software. Copyright © 2026 ERP•AI. All rights reserved. See LICENSE for the full notice. The download is free during alpha; the binaries are licensed for use only and may not be redistributed, modified, or reverse-engineered. That does not apply to the open-source components above: each stays under its own license, and nothing in Proto's license limits the rights those licenses give you.

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