Aura Wire covers every IDE, CLI, SDK, and executable. All AI providers and models.
Aura Wire AI Command Center
Aura Wire observes the AI traffic of the tools you choose, privately and on your own machine. Live Traffic shows provider, model, tokens, and estimated spend — metadata, not prompt text. Guard, Router, and Compress are controlled by you and apply globally to every client.
A standard Windows installer sets up the command center and a small local service that lets your tools share one pipeline. Windows asks for administrator approval once during install, and Wire asks you separately before it looks inside HTTPS traffic — nothing is inspected until you say so. Everything stays on this PC and uninstalls cleanly. What gets installed, and how to remove it
Six stages. Only the first one is on by default.
Know what every turn costs
Live Traffic shows provider mix, token flow, and model mix for whatever is running — an IDE, a CLI, an SDK, or several at once.
Visx, if you want it
Visx is the optional editor satellite for VS Code and Cursor. Download the .zip from this site, or let the Windows installer add it. It offers the same major features as the command center, within the scope of the editor. Unlike the Windows command center, Mac is supported by Visx.
Your prompts stay yours
- Runs on loopback on your machine — there is no cloud service in the path.
- Keeps provider, model, tokens, latency, and cost locally. Prompt text, responses, and API keys are not written to Wire’s records.
- Privacy Audit in the app shows you what is on disk. Providers you choose still receive what you send under their policies.
One-time pricing
Every install gets the whole product free for 14 days — no card. Then pay once and keep everything. No tiers, no add-ons, no subscription.
Aura Wire AI Command Center
$89
The whole product for every IDE, CLI, SDK, and app — Observe, Guard, Router, Compress, Terran bridge, Advise. Commercial use, 1 device activation.
Questions
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Every new install starts with a 14-day trial of the whole product — Observe, Guard+, Aura Router, Aura Compress, Terran RAG injection, and Advise Inject — with no card required. When the trial ends, one one-time purchase keeps everything: $89. Installs from before September 2026 keep perpetual Observe access at no charge.
Does Aura Wire send my prompts to Bitfield Creek Labs or any cloud service?
No. Aura Wire runs locally on loopback. Sanitized telemetry — provider, model, tokens, latency, cost — stays in a local SQLite database on your machine. By design, prompt and response bodies are not written to those records, and Bitfield Creek Labs does not receive them. When you chat with a provider you configure (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and so on), that provider receives the request under their own terms.
What do I install?
On Windows, download the Aura Wire AI Command Center installer from bitfieldcreek.com. That is the product. It installs the desktop app, the local Host, and the wire CLI, and registers Capture’s redirect service (one administrator prompt). You approve the local certificate in the app before HTTPS is inspected. The installer can also add the editor extension to VS Code, Cursor, or Windsurf; you can skip it. The command center already covers those editors. On a Mac, the extension is the install until the desktop app is signed: Marketplace, or the .zip from the download page (extract it, then Extensions → Install from VSIX).
Which editors work with Aura Wire?
Any IDE, CLI, SDK, or executable, and any provider or model — including combinations of them. Guard, Router, Compress, Advise, and cost estimates apply to every combination. You do not configure them separately for each tool. Clients that can use a local OpenAI-compatible /v1 door (SDKs, the wire CLI, the optional editor extension) talk to the Host directly. On Windows, Capture also routes programs you switch on, including Cursor’s own chat, Windsurf, and custom executables, without those programs pointing at /v1.
What platforms are supported?
The command center and Capture run on Windows. That is the product. The optional editor extension and the local Host also run on Mac (Apple silicon). The Mac desktop app is not offered until it is signed. Linux is not supported yet.
What providers does Aura Wire support?
OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI-compatible APIs, Anthropic, Google Gemini, local Ollama, and Cursor backend hosts when configured. Aura Router can translate requests and responses between providers automatically, including streaming and tool calls.
Is Aura Wire a subscription?
No. Every install starts with a 14-day trial of the whole product. When the trial ends, the command center, boards, and the pipeline turn off until you buy the one-time license — $89 — for the current major version. Future major upgrades may be paid, with discounts for existing paid customers. Installs from before September 2026 that still hold a grandfather Observe key keep that access.
Do I need Aura Terran?
No. Observe, Guard, Router, Compress, and Advise work without it. Wire’s Terran pipeline stage is a bridge to Aura Terran, which remains a separate product you install locally. The Wire bridge entitlement is included with any paid Terran license and with the Aura Wire AI Command Center license — it is not sold separately. Enable the bridge when Terran is running Direct RAG REST (default http://127.0.0.1:41800) and you want ranked corpus chunks injected into Wire chat. You can also point Guard at a Terran exclusion namespace for concept protection.
More in the setup guide and on the pricing page.