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From: "LocalAI [bot]" <139863280+localai-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 09:32:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add Table of Contents to README.md (#8846)

docs: add Table of Contents to README.md for easier navigation

- Add collapsible TOC with anchor links to all major sections
- Include H2 sections and important H3 subsections
- Place TOC after main description, before Local Stack Family
- Use proper markdown anchor link format

Signed-off-by: localai-bot <localai-bot@noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: localai-bot <localai-bot@noreply.github.com>
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 **LocalAI** is the free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. LocalAI act as a drop-in replacement REST API that's compatible with OpenAI (Elevenlabs, Anthropic... ) API specifications for local AI inferencing. It allows you to run LLMs, generate images, audio (and not only) locally or on-prem with consumer grade hardware, supporting multiple model families. Does not require GPU. It is created and maintained by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler).
 
+<details>
+<summary><strong>Table of Contents</strong></summary>
+
+- [Local Stack Family](#local-stack-family)
+- [Screenshots / Video](#screenshots--video)
+- [Quickstart](#-quickstart)
+  - [macOS Download](#macos-download)
+  - [Containers (Docker, podman, ...)](#containers-docker-podman-)
+- [Latest project news](#-latest-project-news)
+- [Features](#-features)
+- [Supported Backends & Acceleration](#-supported-backends--acceleration)
+  - [Text Generation & Language Models](#text-generation--language-models)
+  - [Audio & Speech Processing](#audio--speech-processing)
+  - [Image & Video Generation](#image--video-generation)
+  - [Specialized AI Tasks](#specialized-ai-tasks)
+  - [Hardware Acceleration Matrix](#hardware-acceleration-matrix)
+  - [Community and integrations](#-community-and-integrations)
+  - [Resources](#-resources)
+- [Media, Blogs, Social](#book--media-blogs-social)
+- [Autonomous Development Team](#-autonomous-development-team)
+- [Citation](#citation)
+- [Sponsors](#️-sponsors)
+  - [Individual sponsors](#individual-sponsors)
+- [Star history](#-star-history)
+- [License](#-license)
+- [Acknowledgements](#-acknowledgements)
+- [Contributors](#-contributors)
+
+</details>
 
 ## Local Stack Family