Public Beta v0.6.14 is the production 0.6.x line. Wolfi Enterprise image is free until Sober 1.0. Get the offer
Sober Public Beta Source

Official Public Beta · v0.6.14

You don't rent a code reviewer.
You own the repo.

Greptile and CodeRabbit charge monthly subscriptions to review your code on their cloud. Sober reviews it on your machine, posts evidence to your forge, and keeps merge authority with humans. Free for Community. Forever.

Install Sober — Free Free Wolfi until 1.0
Public Beta No subscription Local-first Open source Your models Forgejo + GitLab
Sober Raccoon daemon operating a dark repository control room with local routes, evidence, gates, and owner rules on terminal screens. 
$ sober version
sober v0.6.14

$ sober status --base HEAD
repo: sovereign-society/sober
route: frontier
preflight: pass
queue: 0 idle

$ sober preflight --base HEAD
preflight OK

How Sober works

Two jobs, one product. Local mode is the second thought at the keyboard. Raccoon is the forge-side gatekeeper that reviews MRs and PRs without taking merge authority away from humans.

Local tool

At the keyboard

Run status, preflight, and review before commit or push. State lives under .sober/. Nothing is published unless you run an explicit write command. 

sober status
sober preflight --base main
sober review --base main
sober forge post --merge-request 42
Raccoon daemon

Beside the forge

Webhooks from Forgejo or GitLab enqueue jobs. Raccoon reviews the MR worktree, stores evidence, posts append-only notes, and can set advisory labels. Humans still merge. 

sober raccoon forge serve-webhook \
  --config /etc/sober/raccoon.kdl \
  --listen 0.0.0.0:8787

sober raccoon forge catchup --once
01

Status

Read real repo state before any model call.

sober status
02

Preflight

Secrets, private metadata, shell danger, prompt injection.

sober preflight
03

Review

Route to local or approved remote models under your policy.

sober review
04

Evidence

SQLite store keeps runs, findings, jobs, memory, resume packs.

sober plan evidence
05

Forge post

Optional write: one append-only note, optional advisory labels.

sober forge post

What ships in Public Beta

The 0.6.x line is the boring production cut: honest MR reviews, forge ops you can run at 3am, and distribution for Community and Enterprise.

Honest MR worktrees

Mentions and catchup review the MR source tip, not a false-clean default branch. Empty diffs skip forge noise.

Opt-in push auto-review

review_on_push defaults off. Open, reopen, and @sober always work. Code-push reviews only when you ask for them.

Junior teaching continuity

Junior and mentor styles load prior runs on the same branch so re-reviews mentor against history instead of restarting cold.

Dead-hook doctor

sober raccoon forge doctor --probe-hooks finds silent webhooks after secret rotate. sync-hooks rewrites them.

Mention aliases

Built-in sober and sober-raccoon, plus KDL aliases for GitLab bot autocomplete. Mentions always fire.

BYOK model routes

Local Ollama by default. Frontier routes are opt-in with provider fallback chains. Your keys, your privacy policy, your budget.

Stop paying rent on your own code

Cloud AI reviewers charge per seat to hold your diff on their infrastructure. Sober runs under your policy, on your hardware, with evidence you can inspect.

Greptile
  • $20–50/month
  • Your code on their servers
  • Closed source
  • Their models, their rules
  • Vendor lock-in
CodeRabbit
  • $12–40/month
  • Cloud-only
  • Closed source
  • Limited customization
  • Per-seat pricing
Sober
  • Free Community forever
  • Runs on your machine
  • Open source (LSL-1.0)
  • Your models, your rules
  • Sovereign. No lock-in.

Meet the Sober Raccoon

The raccoon is the daemon: a quiet background worker that drains webhook queues, reviews allowlisted repos, stores evidence, and posts advisory forge notes. It does not auto-merge, close MRs, or delete branches.

Forgejo + GitLab
Signed webhooks, mention aliases, catchup for missed events.
Advisory labels
Sober clean, Sober findings, or Sober error.
Podman-ready
Wolfi enterprise image or Debian community image; scp + load, no public registry required.
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/sober raccoon run \
  --repo /srv/repo \
  --profile background
Restart=on-failure
Nice=10
IOSchedulingClass=idle
podman load -i sober_v0.6.14_image.tar
podman run --rm \
  -e SOBER_SECRETS_BACKEND=env \
  --env-file /etc/sober/secrets.env \
  -v /etc/sober/raccoon.kdl:/etc/sober/raccoon.kdl:ro \
  -v /var/lib/sober:/var/lib/sober \
  localhost/sober:v0.6.14 \
  raccoon forge catchup --once
*/5 * * * * cd /srv/repo && \
  sober raccoon run --once --json \
  >> .sober/raccoon.log 2>&1
time=12:41:02 level=info msg="raccoon started" time=12:41:03 level=info msg="claimed review job" time=12:41:18 level=info msg="evidence stored" time=12:41:20 level=info msg="waiting idle"
Banger offer · Public Beta only

Wolfi Enterprise is free until Sober 1.0

During Public Beta the hardened Wolfi OCI image ships as a public release asset. Same enterprise container we run on production forges. No Stripe gate. No seat tax. When Sober leaves Public Beta for 1.0 stable, Wolfi Enterprise returns to paid distribution. Grab it now.

What you get free in beta

  • Wolfi OCI image — Chainguard base, ~77 MB, non-root, production-proven on sovereign-forge
  • linux/amd64 binary — CGO tree-sitter, signed tags, SHA256SUMS
  • Debian community image — bookworm-slim for labs and homelabs
  • AUR sober-bin — Arch/CachyOS install path
  • No public registry lock-in — scp the tar, podman load, tag localhost

Community (binary, Debian image, source) stays free forever under LSL-1.0. The beta deal is specifically the Wolfi enterprise image: free now, commercial after 1.0.

Download Wolfi free (Public Beta)

Official release assets for v0.6.14. Verify checksums. Load with Podman or Docker.

curl -LO https://git.sovereign-society.org/Sober/sober/releases/download/v0.6.14/sober_v0.6.14_image.tar
podman load -i sober_v0.6.14_image.tar && podman tag localhost/sober:v0.6.14 localhost/sober:latest
curl -LO https://git.sovereign-society.org/Sober/sober/releases/download/v0.6.14/SHA256SUMS && sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing
v0.6.14 release Debian community image Editions policy
Want to fund the forge? Optional contribution

The image is free in Public Beta. If you still want to throw money at hard problems (hardening, dogfood forges, docs), use the contribution path. It does not unlock extra features during beta; the download above already has everything.

$

Optional. Free Wolfi download above works without payment until 1.0.

Install Sober (Public Beta)

Pick a path. Binary and AUR track stable tags. Images load offline. Source install is for contributors who want tip of main.

Arch Linux (AUR)

paru -S sober-bin # or: yay -S sober-bin

Linux binary (amd64)

curl -LO https://git.sovereign-society.org/Sober/sober/releases/download/v0.6.14/sober_v0.6.14_linux_amd64 chmod +x sober_v0.6.14_linux_amd64 sudo install -m 0755 sober_v0.6.14_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/sober sober version

From source (Go 1.25+)

go install git.sovereign-society.org/Sober/sober/cmd/sober@v0.6.14
Read README Browse docs v0.6.14 assets Changelog

Public Beta is open. Delete the rent.

You already run models locally. You already own hardware and a forge. Sober is the sobriety layer: preflight, review, evidence, and a raccoon that keeps agent swarms from flooding the shared brain.

Install Sober — Free Free Wolfi until 1.0