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* feat(distributed): add configurable NATS backend install/upgrade timeouts Adds BackendInstallTimeout and BackendUpgradeTimeout to DistributedConfig with 15m defaults, following the existing MCPToolTimeout / WorkerWaitTimeout pattern. These will replace the hardcoded literals in RemoteUnloaderAdapter so admin-driven backend installs across the cluster survive long OCI image pulls that previously timed out at 3m. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(distributed): gofmt alignment after timeout fields Re-aligns the Validate() negative-duration map and the Default* const block so the new BackendInstall/UpgradeTimeout entries do not leave the surrounding columns mis-padded. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(cli): surface LOCALAI_NATS_BACKEND_INSTALL_TIMEOUT and _UPGRADE_TIMEOUT Parses the two new env vars on the run CLI and threads them through the existing AppOption builder so DistributedConfig picks them up. Invalid duration strings now fail loudly at startup rather than silently falling back to the default. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): inject NATS install/upgrade timeouts into RemoteUnloaderAdapter Removes the hardcoded 3m / 15m literals from RemoteUnloaderAdapter and threads in DistributedConfig.BackendInstallTimeoutOrDefault() and BackendUpgradeTimeoutOrDefault() at construction. Install now defaults to 15m (was 3m); cold OCI image pulls on Jetson Wi-Fi routinely blew past the old ceiling. Scripted messaging client captures the timeout so tests can assert the configured value actually reaches the NATS request. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): introduce galleryop.ErrWorkerStillInstalling sentinel When the NATS request-reply for backend.install (or .upgrade) times out the worker is almost always still pulling the OCI image. Wrap the timeout in a typed sentinel so the manager above can distinguish "worker hung" from "worker still working" and leave the pending_backend_ops row in place for the reconciler to confirm via backend.list. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): treat NATS install timeout as in-progress, not failure When a worker times out replying to backend.install but the install is still running on the worker, enqueueAndDrainBackendOp now reports a running_on_worker status and pushes NextRetryAt out by the install timeout so the reconciler does not immediately re-fire another install while the worker is still pulling the image. The pending_backend_ops row stays in place for the next reconciler pass to confirm via backend.list. InstallBackend wraps the result in galleryop.ErrWorkerStillInstalling so callers can branch (galleryop renders yellow in-progress instead of red error). UpgradeBackend uses the same wrap. Adds RemoteUnloaderAdapter.InstallTimeout() so the manager can push NextRetryAt by the configured timeout without reaching into a private field, and NodeRegistry.RecordPendingBackendOpInFlight as the soft cousin of RecordPendingBackendOpFailure. Also includes incidental gofmt-driven struct-field alignment in registry.go on lines unrelated to the change (touched files are re-formatted to canonical form per project policy). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): don't increment Attempts on in-flight install timeout An in-flight timeout (worker still pulling the OCI image) is not a failed attempt, it's a delayed one. Incrementing Attempts let genuinely-progressing slow installs (e.g. 30 GB CUDA images on Wi-Fi) trip the reconciler's maxPendingBackendOpAttempts cap and dead-letter the queue row while the worker was still legitimately working. RecordPendingBackendOpInFlight now only updates LastError and NextRetryAt. Also documents "running_on_worker" in the NodeOpStatus.Status enum comment so Task 6 implementers see the full surface. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(galleryop): surface ErrWorkerStillInstalling as non-error OpStatus When the distributed backend manager returns an error that wraps ErrWorkerStillInstalling, backendHandler now completes the op with a "still installing in background" message rather than marking it as a red failure. Admin UI sees a yellow in-progress state; reconciler confirms completion on its next pass. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(distributed): end-to-end install-timeout-then-reconcile Wires Task 1-6 end-to-end so any seam mismatch surfaces in CI rather than during a real cluster install. NATS times out, the queue row stays alive with running_on_worker status, the worker eventually reports the backend installed via backend.list, the manager surfaces it via ListBackends. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document LOCALAI_NATS_BACKEND_INSTALL_TIMEOUT / _UPGRADE_TIMEOUT Add the two new operator-tunable env vars to the Frontend Configuration table in the distributed-mode docs. Explains the 15m default, when to raise it (slow links pulling multi-GB OCI images), and the new "still installing in background" admin-UI state when the round-trip times out but the worker is still working. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): clear pending install rows when backend.list confirms DistributedBackendManager.ListBackends now proactively clears pending_backend_ops install rows whose (nodeID, backend) is reported installed by backend.list. Operator UI updates immediately instead of waiting up to installTimeout (default 15m) for the next reconciler tick after NextRetryAt. Only install rows are cleared; upgrade and delete intents are not satisfied by presence in backend.list and continue to drain through their normal reconciler paths. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(messaging): add BackendInstallProgressEvent wire type and subject New NATS subject nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress lets the worker publish transient progress events (file, current/total bytes, percentage, phase) while a long-running install pulls its OCI image. BackendInstallRequest gains an optional OpID field so the worker knows which subject to publish on. Transient pub/sub (not JetStream): the install reply remains ground truth for success/failure; dropped progress events are tolerable. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(messaging): drop em-dash from BackendInstallProgress test comment Per project convention (no em-dashes anywhere). Comment substance is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): worker publishes debounced install progress over NATS When BackendInstallRequest.OpID is set, the worker's backend.install handler wires a debounced publisher (250ms window) into the gallery download callback. Each tick becomes a BackendInstallProgressEvent on nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress; the publisher always emits a final event on Flush so the UI sees the terminal percentage. Old masters that do not set OpID continue to run silent installs: no behavior change for them. Lock ordering: the publisher releases its mutex before calling messaging.Publish so a slow network never stalls the install loop. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): RemoteUnloaderAdapter subscribes to install progress InstallBackend gains opID + onProgress parameters. When both are set, the adapter subscribes to nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress BEFORE publishing the install request, decodes each message into the caller's onProgress callback in a goroutine (so a slow callback never stalls the NATS reader thread), and unsubscribes after RequestJSON returns. When onProgress is nil OR opID is empty (the reconciler retry path), subscription is skipped entirely - silent installs cost nothing extra. Subscribe failure is logged at Warn and the install proceeds without progress streaming; the NATS round-trip still owns terminal status. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): forward backend install progress into galleryop OpStatus DistributedBackendManager.InstallBackend now passes the gallery op ID and a progress bridge into the adapter call. Each BackendInstallProgressEvent from the worker becomes a galleryop.ProgressCallback tick - which the existing backendHandler already turns into OpStatus.UpdateStatus, so the admin UI/SSE polling sees per-byte progress for distributed installs without any UI-side change. UpgradeBackend is intentionally left silent for now: its wire request (BackendUpgradeRequest) does not carry OpID, and rolling-update fallback is the rarer path. Will be picked up in a follow-up if the worker upgrade path also gets a progress channel. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(distributed): InstallBackend tolerates silent (pre-Phase-2) workers A worker on pre-Phase-2 code never publishes progress events. The new master subscribes optimistically; this spec pins that a silent worker still produces a green install with no progressCb ticks. The install reply is the source of truth for terminal state; the progress stream is a best-effort UX enrichment. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document install progress streaming Note the new nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress subject and the silent-worker compatibility behavior so operators know to expect real-time progress and what happens on a mixed-version cluster. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): note progress-event ordering trade-off in InstallBackend Document near the goroutine dispatch why ordering at the consumer is best-effort, why it rarely matters in practice (worker debounce >> goroutine jitter), and what a future hardening pass would look like (Seq field + stale-by-seq drop). Stops the next reader from accidentally "fixing" the goroutine pool away. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(galleryop): add NodeProgress + OpStatus.Nodes for per-node breakdown Adds the data model the UI needs to render an expandable per-node breakdown of a fanned-out backend install. NodeProgress carries node identity (ID + name), per-node status (queued / running_on_worker / success / error / downloading), the current file + bytes + percentage from the Phase 2 progress stream, and any per-node error. OpStatus.Nodes is the slice the /api/operations handler will surface in a follow-up. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(galleryop): UpdateNodeProgress merges per-node ticks by NodeID GalleryService.UpdateNodeProgress(opID, nodeID, np) merges a NodeProgress into OpStatus.Nodes (keyed by NodeID, no duplicates) and mirrors the latest tick into the aggregate Progress / FileName / DownloadedFileSize / TotalFileSize fields so the legacy single-bar OperationsBar view keeps working unchanged alongside the new per-node breakdown. Concurrent-safe via the existing g.Mutex. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(distributed): write per-node OpStatus entries during install fan-out DistributedBackendManager now accepts a nodeProgressSink and feeds it two streams: 1. enqueueAndDrainBackendOp emits a per-node terminal entry on each status it appends to BackendOpResult (queued, success, error, running_on_worker). The opID is threaded through the function so the sink gets the right gallery op identity. 2. The install apply closure fans each BackendInstallProgressEvent into the sink as a downloading entry, alongside the legacy progressCb path so the aggregate single-bar view stays correct. Production wiring passes the GalleryService (which implements UpdateNodeProgress via Task 2) as the sink. Single-node tests pass nil. DeleteBackend and UpgradeBackend pass an empty opID so the sink path no-ops for ops that aren't gallery-tracked the same way as Install. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(operations): expose per-node breakdown on /api/operations When an operation's OpStatus has Nodes entries (populated by the Phase 4 progress sink wiring), surface them as a "nodes" array on the /api/operations response, sorted by node_name for stable rendering. Backward compatible: legacy clients ignore the field; ops without any node entries (single-node mode, model installs) omit the array entirely thanks to the empty-slice guard. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): per-node breakdown in OperationsBar When an install op fans out to more than one worker, the operations bar now shows a "N nodes" chevron that expands into a per-node list. Each row carries the node's status (color-coded pill), the current file being downloaded, byte counts, percentage, and a thin per-node progress bar. Yellow "Worker busy" pill marks running_on_worker status with a tooltip explaining the NATS round-trip timed out but the worker is still installing in the background. Backward compatible: ops without a nodes field (legacy or single-node mode) render as before. State for expand/collapse is local to the component, keyed by jobID/id - reload starts collapsed. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): document per-node breakdown in the operations bar Adds a short subsection covering the expandable "N nodes" chevron in the OperationsBar admin UI, the meaning of each status pill, and how it relates to the /api/operations nodes array. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(galleryop): UpdateStatus preserves Nodes when caller sends none Real-world bug surfaced by the Phase 4 multi-worker smoke test: the nodes[] array in /api/operations flickered between a single node at a time on a 2-worker install. Root cause: the Phase 2 progress bridge also calls the legacy progressCb -> UpdateStatus(&OpStatus{...}) on every tick. UpdateStatus then overwrote the entire status pointer, wiping the Nodes slice that UpdateNodeProgress had just merged in. Fix: in UpdateStatus, if the incoming op has an empty Nodes slice, carry forward the previous status's Nodes before storing. Callers that explicitly populate Nodes still win (their slice replaces the prior one, no merge across the two code paths). Two regression specs added pinning both directions of the contract. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(distributed): strip implementation details from user-facing docs Trim the new install/upgrade timeout rows and the install-progress sections to focus on what the operator sees and tunes. Drops: - the NATS subject names and pub/sub mechanics - "round-trip" / reconciler / backend.list jargon - /api/operations polling cadence - "pre-2026-05-22" version references Reframes the breakdown text around the admin UI (Operations Bar, chevron, status pills, "Worker busy" tooltip). Implementation context lives in the agent notes and code comments. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(config): move DistributedConfig.Validate flag names to constants The negative-duration check map was a wall of literal kebab-case strings that had to stay in sync with the kong-derived CLI flag names manually. Move them to a Flag* const block alongside the existing Default* block so a rename of either the Go field or the CLI naming convention forces a compile error rather than silent drift. Sole consumer today is Validate; the constants are exported so future operator-facing surfaces (e.g. error messages on other validation paths) can reference them by name instead of repeating the literals. Tests pin both the literal values (so a future "let's just rename this" doesn't accidentally regress the CLI flag) and the negative- duration error message for the new BackendInstall / BackendUpgrade fields. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(distributed): extract NodeStatus and Phase enums to constants Sweep for the same literal-string-as-identifier pattern called out on the Validate flag names: the per-node install status enum ("queued" | "downloading" | "running_on_worker" | "success" | "error") appeared as raw literals across managers_distributed.go (10+ sites, including 3 separate `n.Status == "running_on_worker"` checks), operation.go, and the test suite. Same shape for the Phase enum ("resolving" | "downloading" | "extracting" | "starting") in the worker-side progress publisher. Promote both to exported const blocks: - galleryop.NodeStatus{Queued,Downloading,RunningOnWorker,Success,Error} shared between galleryop.NodeProgress.Status (the wire field) and nodes.NodeOpStatus.Status (the in-process per-node summary) - messaging.Phase{Resolving,Downloading,Extracting,Starting} shared between the worker publisher and any future consumer that needs to switch on phase Tests pin both the literal values (so a future "let's just rename" doesn't silently change the JSON wire) and use the constants in setup (so the producer side stays drift-protected). Wire-format assertions on the /api/operations JSON output keep their literals deliberately, so the constant value can never silently diverge from what the UI receives. Out of scope for this PR (separate cleanup): the finetune and quantization job-status enums have the same anti-pattern with 14+ literal sites each, but predate this PR's work. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
- Drop-in API compatibility — OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs APIs
- 36+ backends — llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper, diffusers, MLX...
- Any hardware — NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple Silicon, Vulkan, or CPU-only
- Multi-user ready — API key auth, user quotas, role-based access
- Built-in AI agents — autonomous agents with tool use, RAG, MCP, and skills
- Privacy-first — your data never leaves your infrastructure
Created by Ettore Di Giacinto and maintained by the LocalAI team.
📖 Documentation | 💬 Discord | 💻 Quickstart | 🖼️ Models | ❓FAQ
Guided tour
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08cbb692-57da-48f7-963d-2e7b43883c18
Click to see more!
User and auth
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/228fa9ad-81a3-4d43-bfb9-31557e14a36c
Agents
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6270b331-e21d-4087-a540-6290006b381a
Usage metrics per user
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbb03379-23b4-4e3d-bd26-d152f057007f
Fine-tuning and Quantization
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ba4ace9-d3df-4795-b7d4-b0b404ea71ee
WebRTC
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ed88e34c-fed3-4b83-8a67-4716a9feeb7b
Quickstart
macOS
Note: The DMG is not signed by Apple. After installing, run:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LocalAI.app. See #6268 for details.
Containers (Docker, podman, ...)
Already ran LocalAI before? Use
docker start -i local-aito restart an existing container.
CPU only:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest
NVIDIA GPU:
# CUDA 13
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13
# CUDA 12
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 12, for AGX Orin and similar)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 13, for DGX Spark)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64-cuda-13
AMD GPU (ROCm):
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add=video localai/localai:latest-gpu-hipblas
Intel GPU (oneAPI):
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/dri/card1 --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel
Vulkan GPU:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-gpu-vulkan
Loading models
# From the model gallery (see available models with `local-ai models list` or at https://models.localai.io)
local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
# From Huggingface
local-ai run huggingface://TheBloke/phi-2-GGUF/phi-2.Q8_0.gguf
# From the Ollama OCI registry
local-ai run ollama://gemma:2b
# From a YAML config
local-ai run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/.../phi-2.yaml
# From a standard OCI registry (e.g., Docker Hub)
local-ai run oci://localai/phi-2:latest
Automatic Backend Detection: LocalAI automatically detects your GPU capabilities and downloads the appropriate backend. For advanced options, see GPU Acceleration.
For more details, see the Getting Started guide.
Latest News
- April 2026: Voice recognition, Face recognition, identification & liveness detection, Ollama API compatibility, Video generation in stable-diffusion.ggml, Backend versioning with auto-upgrade, Pin models & load-on-demand toggle, Universal model importer, new backends: sglang, ik-llama-cpp, TurboQuant, sam.cpp, Kokoros, qwen3tts.cpp, tinygrad multimodal
- March 2026: Agent management, New React UI, WebRTC, MLX-distributed via P2P and RDMA, MCP Apps, MCP Client-side
- February 2026: Realtime API for audio-to-audio with tool calling, ACE-Step 1.5 support
- January 2026: LocalAI 3.10.0 — Anthropic API support, Open Responses API, video & image generation (LTX-2), unified GPU backends, tool streaming, Moonshine, Pocket-TTS. Release notes
- December 2025: Dynamic Memory Resource reclaimer, Automatic multi-GPU model fitting (llama.cpp), Vibevoice backend
- November 2025: Import models via URL, Multiple chats and history
- October 2025: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for agentic capabilities
- September 2025: New Launcher for macOS and Linux, extended backend support for Mac and Nvidia L4T, MLX-Audio, WAN 2.2
- August 2025: MLX, MLX-VLM, Diffusers, llama.cpp now supported on Apple Silicon
- July 2025: All backends migrated outside the main binary — lightweight, modular architecture
For older news and full release notes, see GitHub Releases and the News page.
Features
- Text generation (
llama.cpp,transformers,vllm... and more) - Text to Audio
- Audio to Text
- Image generation
- OpenAI-compatible tools API
- Realtime API (Speech-to-speech)
- Embeddings generation
- Constrained grammars
- Download models from Huggingface
- Vision API
- Object Detection
- Reranker API
- P2P Inferencing
- Distributed Mode — Horizontal scaling with PostgreSQL + NATS
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Built-in Agents — Autonomous AI agents with tool use, RAG, skills, SSE streaming, and Agent Hub
- Backend Gallery — Install/remove backends on the fly via OCI images
- Voice Activity Detection (Silero-VAD)
- Integrated WebUI
Supported Backends & Acceleration
LocalAI supports 36+ backends including llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper.cpp, diffusers, MLX, MLX-VLM, and many more. Hardware acceleration is available for NVIDIA (CUDA 12/13), AMD (ROCm), Intel (oneAPI/SYCL), Apple Silicon (Metal), Vulkan, and NVIDIA Jetson (L4T). All backends can be installed on-the-fly from the Backend Gallery.
See the full Backend & Model Compatibility Table and GPU Acceleration guide.
Resources
- Documentation
- LLM fine-tuning guide
- Build from source
- Kubernetes installation
- Integrations & community projects
- Installation video walkthrough
- Media & blog posts
- Examples
Team
LocalAI is maintained by a small team of humans, together with the wider community of contributors.
- Ettore Di Giacinto — original author and project lead
- Richard Palethorpe — maintainer
A huge thank you to everyone who contributes code, reviews PRs, files issues, and helps users in Discord — LocalAI is a community-driven project and wouldn't exist without you. See the full contributors list.
Citation
If you utilize this repository, data in a downstream project, please consider citing it with:
@misc{localai,
author = {Ettore Di Giacinto},
title = {LocalAI: The free, Open source OpenAI alternative},
year = {2023},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI}},
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A huge thank you to our generous sponsors who support this project covering CI expenses, and our Sponsor list:
Individual sponsors
A special thanks to individual sponsors, a full list is on GitHub and buymeacoffee. Special shout out to drikster80 for being generous. Thank you everyone!
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License
LocalAI is a community-driven project created by Ettore Di Giacinto and maintained by the LocalAI team.
MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto mudler@localai.io
Acknowledgements
LocalAI couldn't have been built without the help of great software already available from the community. Thank you!
- llama.cpp
- https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
- https://github.com/cornelk/llama-go for the initial ideas
- https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
- https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
- https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- exo for the MLX distributed auto-parallel sharding implementation
Contributors
This is a community project, a special thanks to our contributors!