Run git on a machine you own

• One command turns a machine you own into a git server. aura node serve on any box — a spare laptop, a VM, a server in your office — and your projects live there. It speaks git itself, so anyone can clone from it with the git they already have: no plugin, no account, no Aura required on the other end.
• And it can follow a repo that lives somewhere else. Point it at a GitHub or GitLab project and it keeps a live copy on your box, refreshed on a timer. Agents that clone the same project fifty times a day stop hammering the forge and stop running into its limits, and the copy is still there on the day the forge is not.
• Every branch that moves on your box is signed as it moves. Each change is written into a running record that carries its own proof, so the record cannot be quietly rewritten later — and if a copy you already have is ever replaced by a shorter history, the next clone says so instead of silently accepting it.
• One box can follow another box. Aim a copy at another Aura machine and you have the same project in two places, each keeping its own signed record — a second copy in another building, another region, or another country, without anyone else holding it.
• It is free, in every tier, and it always will be. It runs on hardware you already pay for, so there is nothing for us to meter. Your code never touches our servers to make any of this work.
• A fix that mattered more than it looked: cloning a project of any real size from your own box failed outright. Git compresses a large request and Aura was reading it as though it had not been, so anything past a handful of branches died mid-clone. Only tiny test projects had ever been served, which is why it went unseen.
• The web console has Chat. app.auravcs.com now opens on the same conversation with Aura that the desktop has — same history, same reply, still running on your machine — with a Home/Chat switch in the sidebar and the sessions you have open beside it.
• “Online now” stops reading zero. The desktop tells your team it is there, so the people working alongside you show up as working, and the roster says what each of them is on rather than linking away to find out.
• What your team spends finally shows up. The cost screen had a server, a table and a page, and nothing that ever sent it a number — so it read $0 for everyone, on every plan, no matter how much had been spent. Every machine now reports what its models cost, and the history that was already on disk is sent up the first time.
• The real Aura mark, everywhere. The old flower was still standing in for the logo in about half the product — the tab icon in your browser, the app icon on your phone, and several screens inside the app.