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Waxwing
Local-first gardening assistant. Grow schedules, plant tracking, tree and graft registry — no cloud required.
Part of the Circuit Forge LLC menagerie — AI for the tasks the system made hard on purpose.
Status: Backlog — not yet started. See the roadmap for priority order.
What it does
Waxwing tracks your plants, trees, and grafts from planting to harvest: timed care reminders, multi-year growth logs, variety registries, and LLM-assisted diagnosis when something looks wrong.
The Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) roams in tight flocks that arrive at a berry source at exactly the moment of peak ripeness — not a day early, not a day late. That precision timing is the entire point of the product. Your tomatoes don't care that you forgot to check them.
Why it is hard
Home gardening fails quietly:
- Planting windows are narrow and easy to miss without a record of last year's dates
- Graft take and tree health degrade slowly, so problems are invisible until they are not
- Variety tracking across multiple beds and seasons requires memory most people do not have
- Commercial apps are either too simple (reminders only) or too complex (farm management software designed for acres)
Core pipeline
Add plants and trees to your registry (species, variety, planting date, location)
→ Generate care schedule (watering, feeding, pruning, spraying)
→ Timed reminders → Human confirms action
→ Log observation (photo, note, measurement)
→ LLM-assisted diagnosis from photo or symptom description
→ Build multi-year growth and harvest history
Feature areas
- Plant registry: common name, Latin binomial, variety, rootstock, grafting date and scion source
- Grow calendar: planting windows, last frost integration, days-to-maturity countdowns
- Graft tracker: union success rate, scion-rootstock compatibility notes, photo log
- Diagnosis: photo upload or symptom description; visual model suggests deficiencies, pests, or disease
- Harvest log: yield by variety and season; searchable history
- Offline-first: all data stays local; no account required for core features
Privacy · Safety · Accessibility
Privacy: Your grow data stays on your device. No account required for core use. Cloud sync (Paid tier) is opt-in and encrypted in transit.
Safety: Diagnosis suggestions are starting points, not prescriptions. Pesticide and treatment recommendations always link to label instructions and require user confirmation before logging.
Accessibility: Plant names displayed in both common and Latin. Care reminders support multiple notification modes. High-contrast and large-text modes follow system preferences.
Tiers
| Tier | What you get |
|---|---|
| Free | Full plant registry, grow calendar, harvest log, local LLM diagnosis |
| Paid | Cloud sync across devices, photo backup, community variety library |
| Premium | Fine-tuned visual model for your specific varieties, multi-site support |
Product code
License key format: CFG-WXWG-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
Get involved
Waxwing is pre-development. The best thing you can do right now is open an issue with:
- A specific pain point you hit with existing garden tracking apps
- A plant type or growing style (tropical houseplants, fruit trees, food forest, etc.) you want supported
- Features you have tried in other tools and found lacking
Early issues shape what gets built first. Star the repo to follow progress.
Tech notes
- Built on the shared circuitforge-core scaffold
- Visual model: local vision LLM for leaf and fruit diagnosis
- Calendar integration: iCal export for reminders
- Data format: SQLite local store, JSON export for portability
- Graft registry: tracks rootstock, scion, union date, take confirmation, and annual vigor notes
License
Business Source License 1.1 — free for personal non-commercial self-hosting. Converts to MIT after four years. Commercial use requires a paid license.