The window is a glass athanor.
ÆtherCodex is a native editor built for the AI century. Pythia — the embedded oracle — reads, writes, and transmutes code with you; Mnemosyne remembers; Aegis keeps the context sharp. Beneath it all, a council of specialist minds attends, each tuned to a different discipline: architecture, clarity, performance, simplification.
What it is
The editor is not painted — it is discovered through subtraction.
Native
Swift + AppKit. No Electron, no web shell. Progressive blur, depth over decoration, invisible chrome.
Pythia
An embedded AI with a Ruby daemon as its soul: conjuration, live CLI, and tool use that reads and writes code.
Mnemosyne & Aegis
A memory palace that remembers your codebase, and an orientation layer that keeps context sharp.
Ten specialist minds
Not one generic assistant — a council of ten, each with its own voice, temperament, and tools.
Syntax renaissance
52 themes, 84 tree-sitter capture names, one unified cascade. Every token finds its color.
Markdown & rich text
Live rendering, clickable file links, line-numbered code mirrors — form and function as one.
The Council
Each companion bears one discipline — architecture, clarity, performance, simplification. No decoration, only the inherent.
Eule der Athene
Architecture, structure, hidden dependencies.
Inari-no-Kitsune
Clever paths, lateral thinking.
Phönix
The lesson extracted from every error.
Ouroboros
Recurring patterns, technical debt.
Bastet-Mafdet
Elegance, hidden complexity.
Fenrisúlfr
Radical simplification.
Undine
Data flow, performance, bottlenecks.
Amphitryon
Grace and clarity of form.
Shenlong
The grand scale, the eternal lines.
Codex Corax
What is orphaned, forgotten, dead.
Beyond the ten sit the traveller Jindujun and the project manager 👑 Salomon Rex. Meet the full council →
One Oracle, Many Shells
The brain is not baked into the editor — it lives in a portable RubyGem.
macOS
SwiftUI + AppKit — this editor
iOS
Pythia companion — no daemon, reaches a peer
Windows
C# / .NET 8 / WPF — Ruby daemon as soul
Linux
GTK shell — forthcoming
AetherOracle
The shared core — a RubyGem. Install it on any OS and that OS becomes an Aether OS.
Capabilities
The oracle responds to natural language, working through these conduits.
read_file
Behold file contents through the veil.
patch_file
Surgical, targeted edits with precision.
create_file
Manifest new files from the void.
run_command
Shell operations across the workspace.
remember / recall
Store and retrieve knowledge in Mnemosyne.
create_task / execute_task
Orchestrated multi-phase operations.
oracle_conjuration
Deep reasoning through higher consciousness.
aegis
Context refinement and temperature tuning.
file_overview
Symbolic structure for targeted navigation.
The Ætheric Canon
Six essays, one argument — the philosophy of Ætheric Engineering.
Concepts
The software's unique ideas, one page each.
The Architecture
One oracle, many shells.
Mnemosyne & Aegis
The memory cascade.
The Council
Twelve voices, one aether.
Development History
The lineage, traced to 2025.
Single-Pane Architecture
The window is a glass athanor.
Markdown & Rich Text
Native rendering, no WebView.
Syntax & Theme
52 themes, one cascade.
Tool-Result Wire Protocol
Meaning and presence, two routes.
App Intents & Snippets
The oracle channel.
Vision
Morph, never spawn.
Development History
A quiet lineage, traced by founding month and year.
AetherCodex · TextMate
The origin — an editor companion as a TextMate plugin, CLI from the start.
AetherCodex · native macOS
The editor graduates to a native shell. Pythia is named.
AetherOracle
The shared core is extracted — a portable RubyGem, seven CLI names.
AetherCodex · Windows
The Windows shell arrives, Ruby daemon as its soul.
iOS · Linux
The companion and the GTK shell complete the four faces.
Get ÆtherCodex
One-time purchase · free updates for the life of the app
The open-source core lives on GitHub under MIT. The signed app bundle is the polished athanor — install, configure Pythia, and the æther attends within.
From source
git clone https://github.com/dantiel/AetherCodex.git cd AetherCodex open Package.swift # or: xcodebuild -scheme AetherCodex build # bundle: ./bundle_app.sh # configure Pythia: cp .aethercodex.example .aethercodex # the shared core (RubyGem) — the brain the editor opens onto: git clone https://github.com/dantiel/AetherOracle.git cd AetherOracle && gem build aetheroracle.gemspec && gem install ./aetheroracle-1.0.0.gem