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How Archipel Desktop connects to SouverainCode

Outgoing connection, only one possible request, capped answers, nothing written on the server: how the connector works.

Archipel Desktop and SouverainCode talk through a connector designed so your documents stay with you.

An outgoing connection

Archipel, on your computer, opens the connection to SouverainCode over HTTPS. No port to open, no firewall rule to change: the connector works behind a home or office router.

Only one possible request: a search

The server can ask your device for only one thing: to find passages that answer a question. Archipel refuses any other request. It returns only the document name, the page and the passage text: eight passages at most, 1,600 characters each at most.

Nothing is written on the server

The passages received live only in memory, for the time the model takes to write its answer. The server keeps only your device token, in hashed form. The conversation history keeps the agent’s final answer, which may quote your documents.

Transparency

Archipel keeps a local journal of every question received: you see exactly what was asked of your device.

Device off or revoked

If your device is off, the agent says so and doesn’t answer from memory. To cut the link, revoke the device in Settings › Document base.

And on a SouverainBox?

On a SouverainBox, Archipel is already installed in the box, and SouverainCode queries it directly on your network: nothing leaves your walls.