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Local-first open-source tools

Local-first is not the same as “just download it”. Focus on clear install paths, acceptable resource cost, and whether the project is still maintained.

134 published projects

llama.cppGitHub · ggml-org

A lightweight LLM inference engine implemented in C/C++, supporting various hardware backends and model quantization.

Active in the last 30 days · 125,609

hermes-agentGitHub · NousResearch

A personal AI agent that runs locally or on remote infrastructure with terminal, messaging, memory, skills, and scheduled automation.

Active in the last 30 days · 236,347

ollamaGitHub · ollama

A local model runner for Windows, macOS, and Linux with a REST API plus Python and JavaScript clients.

Active in the last 30 days · 179,429

claude-codeGitHub · anthropics

An agentic coding tool for the terminal that understands codebases, handles routine development tasks, explains code, and works with Git workflows.

Active in the last 30 days · 142,923

spec-kitGitHub · github

An open-source CLI toolkit for Spec-Driven Development that guides AI coding agents through structured specification, planning, and code generation steps.

Active in the last 30 days · 131,415

excalidrawGitHub · excalidraw

An open-source virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn style diagrams with real-time collaboration.

Active in the last 30 days · 130,533

codexGitHub · openai

OpenAI’s coding agent that runs locally, with terminal, IDE, and desktop-app entry points.

Active in the last 30 days · 118,463

supabaseGitHub · supabase

An open-source Postgres development platform offering auto-generated APIs, authentication, and real-time database subscriptions.

Active in the last 30 days · 108,407

puppeteerGitHub · puppeteer

A JavaScript library that provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Firefox over DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi.

Active in the last 30 days · 95,500

playwrightGitHub · microsoft

A cross-browser automation framework for testing and AI agent control, supporting Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

Active in the last 30 days · 95,152

ragflowGitHub · infiniflow

An open-source RAG engine fusing deep document understanding and agent capabilities to build grounded context layers for LLMs.

Active in the last 30 days · 89,284

grafanaGitHub · grafana

An open-source monitoring and observability platform for querying, visualizing, alerting on, and understanding metrics and logs.

Active in the last 30 days · 76,401

ClineGitHub · cline

An open-source coding agent for IDEs and terminals that can inspect projects, edit files, run commands, and gate actions through approval controls.

Active in the last 30 days · 66,804

docusaurusGitHub · facebook

An open-source static-site tool for documentation websites with docs, blogs, localization, and theme customization built in.

Active in the last 30 days · 66,085

prometheusGitHub · prometheus

A monitoring system that scrapes target metrics, queries them with PromQL, evaluates rules, and triggers alerts when configured conditions are met.

Active in the last 30 days · 65,807

astroGitHub · withastro

A web framework for content-driven sites that can integrate React, Vue, Svelte, and other UI components while keeping output lightweight.

Active in the last 30 days · 62,041

WSLGitHub · microsoft

Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to run Linux command-line tools and applications directly on Windows without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine.

Active in the last 30 days · 33,516

terraformGitHub · hashicorp

Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool that manages the lifecycle of cloud and local resources using declarative configuration files.

Active in the last 30 days · 49,544

containerGitHub · apple

Apple’s command-line tool for running OCI Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on Apple silicon Macs.

Active in the last 30 days · 49,401

CLI-AnythingGitHub · HKUDS

A toolkit for generating and managing agent-callable CLIs for existing software, with CLI-Hub, generation workflows, and skill/plugin integrations.

Active in the last 30 days · 48,245

codebase-memory-mcpGitHub · DeusData

A high-performance MCP server that builds local persistent knowledge graphs for millisecond-latency code intelligence and structural queries.

Active in the last 30 days · 40,634

whisperGitHub · openai

A general-purpose speech recognition model by OpenAI that supports multilingual transcription, translation, and language identification.

Active in the last 30 days · 107,922

composeGitHub · docker

Docker’s official CLI tool for defining and running multi-container applications from a Compose file.

Active in the last 30 days · 38,066

vaultGitHub · hashicorp

An open-source security platform for centralized management, encryption, and auditing of sensitive credentials like API keys, passwords, and certificates.

Active in the last 30 days · 36,170