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RedMirror Reflection reviews AI-written code entirely on your own machines, and the verify step makes no external calls, so your source and findings never leave your network. It runs no model and uses no tokens to check code, and it does not train on your code. RedMirror ships no compliance certification; it gives you a local, no-egress architecture you map to your own regime.
Reflection is a single binary that runs on your own hardware. Your coding agent drives it as an MCP server: the agent proposes a suspected bug, and a compiled kernel either returns a concrete, replayable attack path or proves, within a bound, that none exists. That kernel reads and checks your code locally. It calls no service and uses no model or tokens to do the checking, so there is nothing to upload for the verification step. Being honest about egress is the point of this page, so here is exactly what does and does not cross your network boundary:
| Item | Leaves your network? | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Source code under review | No | The kernel reads and checks it on your machine. |
| Findings and counterexamples | No | Produced and stored locally; a finding is a replayable path, not a report shipped to a vendor. |
| Model inference for the check | No | There is no model in the verification step; it uses no tokens. |
| Your coding agent's model calls | Depends on your model | A hosted model API sends prompts out; a self-hosted model keeps them inside. This is a property of the model you chose, not of RedMirror. |
| Licence check-in | Periodically, token only | The subscription binary confirms it is active about once a week; it sends the signed licence token, never your code. An offline enterprise licence removes it. |
No, and it is worth being blunt: RedMirror does not provide a compliance certification or attestation of any kind. It is a tool, not an audited service. What it gives a regulated team is a set of architecture facts you can verify yourself and map onto the controls your regime requires. The mapping is yours to make, because only your compliance team knows how your framework treats a locally run, no-egress tool.
| What a control often asks for | RedMirror architecture fact | What you still own |
|---|---|---|
| No third-party processing of source; data residency | Source and findings stay on hardware you control; the verify step makes no external calls | You audit the host and network, and you choose the model your agent uses |
| No vendor training on customer data | The check runs no model and RedMirror does not train on your code | You confirm the agent and model you pair it with match your policy |
| Network egress controls and air-gap | Verification needs no network; only a periodic licence-token check-in, removable with an offline enterprise licence | You set the firewall rules and decide whether to use offline licensing |
| Auditability of a finding | Every finding is a concrete replayable counterexample or a bounded proof, not a model opinion | You or your auditor replay the path to confirm it independently |
| Certification or attestation | RedMirror provides none; it provides these architecture facts | Your compliance team maps the facts to SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, ITAR, or your own regime |
Reflection itself never egresses the code it checks, so the review layer is already inside your walls. Two things still deserve attention on a strict network. First, the model your coding agent runs on: if that agent calls a hosted model API, its prompts leave your network like any other API call, independent of RedMirror. Point the agent at a self-hosted model such as Ollama, vLLM, or LM Studio running Qwen, DeepSeek, or Llama, and the whole find-and-prove loop stays local. Because the kernel decides what counts as a finding, a smaller local model cannot flood you with false positives. Second, the subscription licence check-in: it carries only the signed licence token and never your source, but a network that cannot permit even that can ask about an offline enterprise licence, where the binary verifies a signed licence locally with no check-in at all. The deeper walkthroughs are in scanning without sending code to a vendor and the air-gapped self-hosted-model setup.
Use it when a regulated stack needs an on-prem review layer for the reachable logic and state bugs that AI writes: broken authorization and IDOR, value-conservation errors, lifecycle and ordering mistakes, unbounded growth, and integer under- and overflow. It is a strong fit anywhere source cannot leave the building and every finding must be independently replayable. It is not a compliance product, a secrets scanner, or a dependency-CVE scanner, and it does not issue certifications; pair it with the tools and auditors built for those. It also needs a coding agent to drive it, because the agent is what proposes the claim the kernel then proves.
Install the binary on the machine that reviews code, activate your licence, and wire it into your coding agent. For a fully local loop, point that agent at a self-hosted model before you start.
curl -fsSL https://dist.redmirror.io/install.sh | sh # macOS / Linux redmirror-reflect license activate <your-key> redmirror-reflect init claude # or cursor, codex, gemini, pi, dsh, ci
On Windows, install with irm https://dist.redmirror.io/install.ps1 | iex. Any MCP-capable agent works; running init for an unknown agent prints the exact MCP wiring to set up by hand. Full per-editor setup, and offline-licensing options for isolated networks, are in the docs.
No. The binary runs on your own machines and the verify kernel makes no external calls to analyze code, so your source and the findings it produces never leave your network. The only outbound contact from the subscription binary is a periodic licence check-in that transmits the signed licence token, not your source.
No. RedMirror does not provide a compliance certification of any kind. What it provides is an architecture your team can audit and map to its own regime: the tool runs on hardware you control, makes no external calls to verify code, uses no model or tokens for the check, and does not train on your code. Your compliance team decides how those facts satisfy each control.
No. RedMirror does not train on your code, and there is no model in the verification step at all. The compiled kernel checks the code deterministically on your machine, so there is nothing to fine-tune and nothing to retain.
That depends on the model you point your agent at, not on RedMirror. If your agent calls a hosted model API, its prompts leave your network like any other API call. Run the agent against a self-hosted model such as Ollama, vLLM, or LM Studio and the whole find-and-prove loop stays local. RedMirror adds no model calls of its own.
The verification loop needs no network. The subscription licence normally checks in about once a week, carrying only the licence token; for an isolated network that cannot allow even that, an offline enterprise licence lets the binary verify a signed licence locally with no check-in. Ask us about offline licensing for air-gapped deployments.
There is a free 7-day trial, no card, then it is $4.99 per seat per month. It is not open source; it ships as a licensed binary, and your code and your model stay yours.