ancilla-live 0.0.1

Status client for the Ancilla platform. Fetches and renders the current project status from ancilla.live. Installs as the `ancilla` command. Not the Ancilla platform itself.

ancilla — status client

A small command-line client that fetches the current development status of the Ancilla platform from https://ancilla.live/.well-known/ancilla-status.json and prints it.

This is not the Ancilla platform itself. The Ancilla platform is in active development; no code has been released yet. This client exists so people who hear about Ancilla can run ancilla and see the current status without checking the website.

Install

pip install ancilla-live

(The PyPI distribution is ancilla-live because ancilla is taken by an unrelated quantitative-finance library. The installed CLI is still ancilla. Also available as cargo install ancilla and npm i -g ancilla — see ancilla.live for all channels.)

Usage

$ ancilla
Ancilla — In active development
Phase: active-development  ·  Last updated: 2026-05-27

Ancilla is in active development. No code has been released yet.

Six-pillar local-first personal AI platform (Mission Control, Bastion, Nexus,
Aegis, Beacon, Lens). Specification phase complete; implementation pending.
The maintainer will release code only when satisfied with quality and security.

⚠ Pre-release code, when shared privately, is sandbox-only — never run with
  real personal data. Expect compromise, leakage, or corruption.

  Home:    https://ancilla.live
  GitHub:  https://github.com/ancilla-live
  Reddit:  https://reddit.com/r/ancilla_live
  X:       https://x.com/ancilla_live
  Email:   [e-mail]

(Run `ancilla --json` for raw status. `ancilla --version` for client version.)

• ancilla — human-readable status
• ancilla --json — raw status JSON
• ancilla --version — client version
• ancilla --help — help

Behaviour

• Fetches https://ancilla.live/.well-known/ancilla-status.json with a 5-second timeout
• Caches the last successful response at $XDG_CACHE_HOME/ancilla/last-status.json (or ~/.cache/ancilla/)
• If the fetch fails, falls back to the cached response and exits 2 to signal stale data
• If no cache exists, exits 1 and points the user at the website

Dependencies

Minimal by design:

• ureq — pure-Rust HTTP, no async runtime
• serde + serde_json — parsing

Source

This repo: github.com/ancilla-live/ancilla-status-client

The full Ancilla platform repo (currently a placeholder): github.com/ancilla-live/ancilla

Status

Pre-release. The Ancilla platform itself is not published. Visit ancilla.live for current status.