Offline licensing

Sleev accounts approved for offline licensing can run the local gateway almost entirely offline. After Sleev is installed and the license is applied, day-to-day use does not require browser sign-in, online account checks, tracking uploads, or usage-pattern sharing with Sleev.

Note: offline licensing is currently only supported for enterprise customers. To request access, contact support.

When to use it

Use offline licensing for licensed machines that cannot rely on browser sign-in or regular online account checks. It is useful for restricted networks, lab machines, jump boxes, and other limited-internet environments where Sleev should not share tracking data or usage patterns.

Offline licensing does not make your model provider offline. Your harness still needs whatever access and credentials its upstream provider requires, unless that provider is also reachable inside your environment. Installing or updating Sleev, creating a license, and renewing a license also require online access from whichever machine or browser performs those steps.

Create a license

  1. On the machine that will run Sleev, install the sleev CLI and run:
  1. Sign in to the website with the licensed account and open Dashboard, then Licenses.
  2. Paste the slv_act_... request, add an optional label, and create the offline license.
  3. Copy the returned slv_lic_... license and paste it back into the waiting CLI prompt. If you closed the prompt, apply it on the same machine with:

Renew

Offline licenses expire. Renew before the expiration shown by the CLI or dashboard.

When the license is inside its renewal window, generate a renewal request on the same licensed machine:

Paste the generated slv_renew_... request into the matching license in the dashboard, then apply the returned slv_lic_... replacement on the same installation.

Limits and recovery

  • One offline license is bound to one local Sleev installation.
  • For multiple machines, generate one activation request per machine.
  • Copying only the slv_lic_... string to another machine will not activate it there.
  • If a machine is lost or needs to be rehosted, contact support.
  • Keep Sleev updated so it includes the current offline-license public keys.

To remove the active offline license from a machine while preserving its local offline identity for future requests, run:

If applying a license succeeds but the gateway does not restart cleanly, restart the gateway manually:

Privacy

During licensed offline use, the gateway verifies the signed license locally. Request metrics used by the local UI are recorded locally on the machine. Sleev does not receive telemetry, tracking data, request metrics, usage events, or usage patterns from licensed day-to-day gateway use. This is our zero collection policy.