An AI agent that refuses to make things up.

The gap in every AI agent

Today's agents curate memory and call tools — but nothing checks whether the answer is actually true before it reaches you. A confident, wrong answer ships anyway. In code, in research, in support, that's the failure that costs you.

OSCAR adds the missing layer: an answer-level verification gate — a Critic that catches unsupported claims and says "I can't determine that" instead of inventing one.

How OSCAR works

• Local brain. Runs on an open model on your own machine — zero paid API at runtime, your data stays home.
• Plan → act → verify. A planner/executor does the work; a Critic reviews the output for grounding before you see it.
• Refuse-to-fabricate. On lookups and high-stakes asks, OSCAR returns "unidentified / cannot determine" rather than bluffing.
• Memory + skills. It remembers what matters to you and loads new skills as it learns — getting more capable the longer it runs.

We don't claim it — we measure it

OSCAR's verification runs on a small, reproducible benchmark anyone can run. Honest scope: it proves the pattern, not production-scale robustness — and it gets the same numbers on a free local model and on a frontier model.

To be precise: this is application-level verification — a trust gate over an agent's output. It is not a foundation-model claim (that's the work of the labs). It's the piece that decides whether you can trust what the agent just told you.

Why "OSCAR"?

OSCAR is named after a Great Pyrenees — a breed bred for one job: to guard the flock and never raise a false alarm. That's exactly what this agent does. It watches, it works, and when it isn't sure, it doesn't bark at shadows — it tells you the truth. A guardian you can trust is the whole idea.

Built by hand, in the open

OSCAR was designed and built by a self-taught builder — a registered nurse, not a career engineer — directing the architecture while an AI partner wrote the code. The conviction behind it: AI shouldn't replace people; it should make them capable of more than they thought possible. OSCAR is the proof.