ONE · LOCAL-FIRST COMPUTE THESIS
Local first.
Burst by consent.
A proposed compute model for deciding what stays on a person’s device and what earns a temporary, user-directed cloud burst.
Latency-sensitive and private work stays nearest to the person.
Escalate only when the task, resource need, and user instruction justify it.
A proposed bring-your-own-cloud execution path, then a deliberate teardown.
THE DESIGN INTENT
Data is not the business model
Prefer local execution; cloud is an earned escalation, not the default collection point.
The person owns the cloud boundary
The white paper describes bursts in the user’s GCP project rather than a pooled operator account.
Every rung is an explicit decision
The system is designed to explain why it stayed local or proposed a burst.
STATUS, PRECISELY
- hu_ssh is a published specification and reference design.
- This repository contains the public messaging and white paper—not the placement engine, provider, credential vault, burst API, job store, or macOS agent.
- Apple Silicon and Google Cloud are technology targets in the design; neither relationship is represented as an endorsement or partnership here.
What is the smallest compute move that gets the person the result—without moving their life farther than necessary?