mirror of
https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI.git
synced 2026-04-29 03:24:49 -04:00
bcef72b9c1
* fix(tests): inline model_test fixtures after tests/models_fixtures removal The previous reorg removed tests/models_fixtures/ but core/config/model_test.go still read CONFIG_FILE/MODELS_PATH env vars pointing into that directory, so `make test` failed with "open : no such file or directory" on the readConfigFile spec (the suite ran with --fail-fast and bailed before openresponses_test). Inline the YAMLs (config/embeddings/grpc/rwkv/whisper) directly into the test file, materialise them into a per-test tmpdir via BeforeEach, and drop the env-var lookups. The test no longer depends on Makefile plumbing. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] * refactor(modeladmin): extract model-admin helpers into a service package Lift the bodies of EditModelEndpoint, PatchConfigEndpoint, ToggleStateModelEndpoint, TogglePinnedModelEndpoint and VRAMEstimateEndpoint into core/services/modeladmin so the same logic can be called by non-HTTP clients (notably the in-process MCP server that backs the LocalAI Assistant chat modality, landing in a follow-up commit). The HTTP handlers shrink to thin shells that parse echo inputs, call the matching helper, map typed errors (ErrNotFound, ErrConflict, ErrPathNotTrusted, ErrBadAction, ...) to the existing HTTP status codes, and render the existing response shapes. No REST-surface behaviour change; the existing localai endpoint tests cover the regression net. Adds focused unit tests for each helper against tmp-dir-backed ModelConfigLoader fixtures (deep-merge patch, rename + conflict, path separator guard, toggle/pin enable/disable, sync callback). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(assistant): LocalAI Assistant chat modality with in-memory MCP server Adds a chat modality, admin-only, that wires the chat session to an in-memory MCP server exposing LocalAI's own admin/management surface as tools. An admin can install models, manage backends, edit configs and check status by chatting; the LLM calls tools like gallery_search, install_model, import_model_uri, list_installed_models, edit_model_config and surfaces the results. Same Go package powers two modes: pkg/mcp/localaitools/ NewServer(client, opts) builds an MCP server that registers the 19-tool admin catalog. The LocalAIClient interface has two impls: - inproc.Client — calls services directly (no HTTP loopback, no synthetic admin API key). Used in-process by the chat handler. - httpapi.Client — calls the LocalAI REST API. Used by the new `local-ai mcp-server --target=…` subcommand to control a remote LocalAI from a stdio MCP host. Tools and their embedded skill prompts are agnostic to which client backs them. Skill prompts are markdown files under prompts/, embedded via go:embed and assembled into the system prompt at server init. Wiring: - core/http/endpoints/mcp/localai_assistant.go — process-wide holder that spins up the in-memory MCP server once at Application start using paired net.Pipe transports, then reuses LocalToolExecutor (no fork) for every chat request that opts in. - core/http/endpoints/openai/chat.go — small branch ahead of the existing MCP block: when metadata.localai_assistant=true, defense-in-depth admin check + executor swap + system-prompt injection. All downstream tool dispatch is unchanged. - core/http/auth/{permissions,features}.go — adds FeatureLocalAIAssistant; gating happens at the chat handler entry plus admin-only `/api/settings`. - core/cli/{run.go,cli.go,mcp_server.go} — LOCALAI_DISABLE_ASSISTANT flag (runtime-toggleable via Settings, no restart), plus `local-ai mcp-server` stdio subcommand. - core/config/runtime_settings.go — `localai_assistant_enabled` runtime setting; the chat handler reads `DisableLocalAIAssistant` live at request entry. UI: - Home.jsx — prominent self-explanatory CTA card on first run ("Manage LocalAI by chatting"); collapses to a compact "Manage by chat" button in the quick-links row once used, persisted via localStorage. - Chat.jsx — admin-only "Manage" toggle in the chat header, "Manage mode" badge, dedicated empty-state copy, starter chips. - Settings.jsx — "LocalAI Assistant" section with the runtime enable toggle. - useChat.js — `localaiAssistant` flag on the chat schema; injects `metadata.localai_assistant=true` on requests when active. Distributed mode: the in-memory MCP server lives only on the head node; inproc.Client wraps already-distributed-aware services so installs propagate to workers via the existing GalleryService machinery. Documentation: `.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md` is the contributor contract — when adding an admin REST endpoint, also add a LocalAIClient method, an inproc + httpapi impl, a tool registration, and a skill prompt update; the AGENTS.md index links to it. Out of scope (follow-ups): per-tool RBAC granularity for non-admin read-only access; streaming mcp_tool_progress for long installs; React Vitest rig for the UI changes. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(assistant): extract tool/capability/MiB/server-name constants The MCP tool surface, capability tag set, server-name default, and the chat-handler metadata key were repeated as bare string literals across seven files. Renaming any one required hand-editing every call site and risked code/test/prompt drift. This pulls them into typed constants: - pkg/mcp/localaitools/tools.go — Tool* constants for the 19 MCP tools, plus DefaultServerName. - pkg/mcp/localaitools/capability.go — typed Capability + constants for the capability tag set the LLM passes to list_installed_models. The type rides through LocalAIClient.ListInstalledModels and replaces the triplet of "embed"/"embedding"/"embeddings" with the single CapabilityEmbeddings. - pkg/mcp/localaitools/inproc/client.go — bytesPerMiB constant for the VRAMEstimate byte→MB conversion. - core/http/endpoints/mcp/tools.go — MetadataKeyLocalAIAssistant for the "localai_assistant" request-metadata key consumed by the chat handler. Tool registrations, the test catalog, the dispatch table, the validation fixtures, and the fake/stub clients all reference the constants. The embedded skill prompts under prompts/ keep their bare strings (go:embed markdown can't import Go constants); the existing TestPromptsContain SafetyAnchors guards the alignment. No behaviour change. All tests pass with -race. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(modeladmin): typed Action for ToggleState/TogglePinned The toggle/pin verbs were bare strings everywhere — handler signatures, service implementations, MCP tool args, the fake/stub clients, the inproc and httpapi LocalAIClient impls, plus 4 test files. A typo in any caller silently fell through to the runtime "must be 'enable' or 'disable'" check. Introduce core/services/modeladmin.Action (string alias) with ActionEnable, ActionDisable, ActionPin, ActionUnpin and a small Valid helper. The compiler now catches mismatches at every boundary; renames ripple through one source of truth. LocalAIClient.ToggleModelState/Pinned signatures change to take modeladmin.Action. The package is brand-new and unreleased so this is a free public-API tightening. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(assistant): respect ctx cancellation on gallery channel sends InstallModel, DeleteModel, ImportModelURI, InstallBackend and UpgradeBackend all pushed onto galleryop channels with bare sends. If the worker was paused or the buffer full, the chat-handler goroutine blocked forever — the LLM kept polling and the request leaked. Wrap the five sends in a sendModelOp/sendBackendOp helper that selects on ctx.Done() so a cancelled chat completion surfaces context.Canceled back to the LLM instead of hanging. Adds inproc/client_test.go with a pre-cancelled-ctx regression test on InstallModel; the helpers are shared so the same guarantee covers the other four call sites. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(assistant): graceful shutdown for in-memory holder and stdio CLI Two related leaks: - Application.start() built the LocalAIAssistantHolder but never wired Close() into the graceful-termination chain — the in-memory MCP transport pair stayed alive until process exit, and the goroutines behind net.Pipe() didn't drain. Hook into the existing signals.RegisterGracefulTerminationHandler chain (same pattern as core/http/endpoints/mcp/tools.go:770). - core/cli/mcp_server.go ran srv.Run with context.Background(); a Ctrl-C from the host (Claude Desktop, mcphost, npx inspector) or a SIGTERM from process supervision left the stdio loop reading from a closed pipe. Switch to signal.NotifyContext to surface the signal through ctx and let srv.Run drain. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(assistant): typed HTTPError + propagate prompt walk error The httpapi client detected "no such job" by substring-matching on the error string ("404", "could not find") — brittle to status-code formatting changes and to LocalAI fixing /models/jobs/:uuid to return a proper 404. Replace with a typed *HTTPError whose Is() method honours errors.Is(err, ErrHTTPNotFound). The 500-with-"could not find" branch stays as a transitional fallback documented in Is(). Same change covers ListNodes' 404 fallback for the /api/nodes endpoint. Adds httptest tests for both 404 and the legacy 500 path, plus a direct errors.Is exposure test so external callers (the standalone stdio CLI host) can match without re-string-parsing. Also tightens prompts.SystemPrompt: panic when fs.WalkDir on the embedded FS fails. The only realistic cause is a build-time //go:embed misconfiguration; serving an empty system prompt to the LLM is much worse than crashing init. TestSystemPromptIncludesAllEmbeddedFiles catches regressions in CI. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(modeladmin): atomic writes for model config files The five sites that wrote model YAML used os.WriteFile, which opens with O_TRUNC|O_WRONLY|O_CREATE. A crash mid-write left the destination truncated and the model unloadable until manual repair. Pre-existing behaviour inherited from the original endpoint handlers — fix once now that there's a single helper. Adds writeFileAtomic: writes to a sibling temp file, chmods, syncs via Close(), then os.Rename. Same-directory temp keeps the rename atomic on the same filesystem; cleanup runs on every error path so stray temps don't accumulate. No new dependency. Applied to: - ConfigService.PatchConfig - ConfigService.EditYAML (both rename and in-place branches) - mutateYAMLBoolFlag (drives ToggleState + TogglePinned) atomic_test.go covers the happy path plus a read-only-dir failure case that asserts the original file is preserved (skipped on Windows where the chmod trick is POSIX-specific). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * chore(assistant): prune dead code, mark stub, document conventions Three small cleanups landing together: - Drop the unused errNotImplemented sentinel from inproc/client.go. All five methods that used to return it are wired to modeladmin helpers since the Phase B commit; the package var is dead. - Annotate httpapi.Client.GetModelConfig as a known stub. LocalAI's /models/edit/:name returns rendered HTML, not JSON, so the standalone CLI's get_model_config tool surfaces a clear error to the LLM. A future JSON-only /api/models/config-yaml/:name endpoint is tracked in the agent contract; FIXME points at it. - Extend `.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md` with a "Code conventions" section that documents the audit-driven rules: tool/Capability/Action constants, errors.Is over substring matching, ctx-aware channel sends, atomic writes, and graceful shutdown. Refresh the file map so it lists tools.go and capability.go and drops the removed tools_bootstrap.go. The tools_models.go diff is a comment-only change explaining why the ModelName empty-string check stays at the tool layer (consistency across LocalAIClient implementations, since the SDK schema validator only enforces presence, not non-empty). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(assistant): convert test files to ginkgo + gomega The repo convention (per core/http/endpoints/localai/*_test.go, core/gallery/**, etc.) is Ginkgo v2 with Gomega assertions. The tests I introduced for the assistant feature used vanilla testing.T, which made them stand out and stripped the BDD structure the rest of the suite relies on. Convert every test file in the assistant scope to Ginkgo: pkg/mcp/localaitools/ dto_test.go — Describe("DTOs round-trip through JSON") prompts_test.go — Describe("SystemPrompt assembler") server_test.go — Describe("Server tool catalog"), Describe("Tool dispatch"), Describe("Tool error surfacing"), Describe("Argument validation"), Describe("Concurrent tool calls") parity_test.go — Describe("LocalAIClient parity"), hosts the suite's single RunSpecs (the file is package localaitools_test so it can import httpapi without an import cycle; Ginkgo aggregates Describes from both the internal and external test packages into one run). httpapi/client_test.go — Describe("httpapi.Client against the LocalAI admin REST surface"), Describe("ErrHTTPNotFound"), Describe("Bearer token") inproc/client_test.go — Describe("inproc.Client cancellation") core/services/modeladmin/ config_test.go — Describe("ConfigService") with sub-Describes for GetConfig, PatchConfig, EditYAML state_test.go — Describe("ConfigService.ToggleState") pinned_test.go — Describe("ConfigService.TogglePinned") atomic_test.go — Describe("writeFileAtomic") core/http/endpoints/mcp/ localai_assistant_test.go — Describe("LocalAIAssistantHolder") Each package gets a `*_suite_test.go` with the standard `RegisterFailHandler(Fail) + RunSpecs(t, "...")` boilerplate. Helpers that previously took *testing.T (newTestService, writeModelYAML, readMap, sortedStrings, sortGalleries, etc.) drop the *T receiver and use Gomega Expectations directly. tmp dirs come from GinkgoT().TempDir(). No semantic change to test coverage — every original assertion has a direct Gomega counterpart. All suites pass with -race. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test+docs(assistant): drift detector for Tool ↔ REST route mapping Honest gap from the audit: the parity_test.go suite only checks four methods, and uses the same httpapi.Client for both sides — it asserts stability of the DTO shapes, not equivalence between in-process and HTTP. If a contributor adds an admin REST endpoint without an MCP tool, or a tool without a matching httpapi route, both surfaces silently diverge. Add a coverage test plus stronger docs: - pkg/mcp/localaitools/coverage_test.go introduces a hand-maintained toolToHTTPRoute map: every Tool* constant must list the REST endpoint the httpapi.Client hits (or "(none)" with a documented reason). Two Ginkgo specs assert the map and the published catalog stay in sync — one fails when a Tool is added without a route entry, the other fails when a route entry references a tool that no longer exists. Verified by removing the ToolDeleteModel entry locally; the test fired with a clear message pointing the contributor at the file. Deliberate non-test: we don't enumerate live admin REST routes from here. Walking the route registry requires booting Application; parsing core/http/routes/localai.go is brittle. The "new admin REST endpoint → MCP tool" direction stays a PR checklist item — see below. - AGENTS.md gets a new Quick Reference bullet that calls out the rule and points at the test by name. - .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md tightens the existing "Companion: MCP admin tool surface" subsection from "if useful, consider..." to "MUST be considered, with three concrete outcomes (tool added, deliberately skipped with documented reason, or forgot — which breaks the contract)". Adds a checklist item at the bottom of the file's authoritative checklist. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(assistant): drop duplicate DTOs, surface canonical types Audit feedback: localaitools/dto.go reinvented several types that already existed in the codebase. Replace the duplicates with the canonical types so the LLM-visible wire format stays aligned with the rest of LocalAI by construction (no parallel structs to keep in sync). Removed (and the canonical type now used by the LocalAIClient interface): localaitools.Gallery → config.Gallery localaitools.GalleryModelHit → gallery.Metadata localaitools.VRAMEstimate → vram.EstimateResult Tightened scope: localaitools.Backend → kept, but reduced to {Name, Installed}. ListKnownBackends now returns []schema.KnownBackend (the canonical type already used by REST /backends/known). Kept with documented rationale: localaitools.JobStatus — galleryop.OpStatus has Error error which marshals to "{}". JobStatus is the JSON-friendly mirror. localaitools.Node — nodes.BackendNode carries gorm internals + token hash; we expose only the LLM-relevant fields. ImportModelURIRequest/Response — schema.ImportModelRequest and GalleryResponse are wire-shaped, mine are LLM-shaped (BackendPreference flat, AmbiguousBackend exposed). Side wins: - Drop bytesPerMiB; vram.EstimateResult already carries human-readable display strings (size_display, vram_display) the LLM uses directly. - Drop the handler-private vramEstimateRequest in core/http/endpoints/localai/vram.go and bind directly into modeladmin.VRAMRequest (now JSON-tagged). Both clients pass through these types now where possible (e.g. ListGalleries in inproc.Client is a one-liner returning AppConfig.Galleries; httpapi.Client.GallerySearch decodes straight into []gallery.Metadata). All tests green with -race. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(assistant): extract REST route paths into named constants httpapi.Client had 18 bare-string path sites scattered across methods. Pull them into pkg/mcp/localaitools/httpapi/routes.go: static paths as package-private constants, dynamic paths as small builders that handle url.PathEscape on segment values. No behaviour change. Drops the now-unused net/url import from client.go since path escaping moved into routes.go alongside the path it applies to. Local-only by design: the server-side registrations in core/http/routes/localai.go remain bare strings. Sharing constants across the pkg/ ↔ core/ boundary would invert the layering today; the existing Tool↔REST drift-detector in coverage_test.go is the safety net for that direction. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] * docs(assistant): align with shipped UI and dropped bootstrap env vars The LocalAI Assistant doc still described the older iteration: - The in-chat toggle was renamed from "Admin" to "Manage" (the badge is now "Manage mode" and the home page exposes a "Manage by chat" CTA). - LOCALAI_ASSISTANT_BOOTSTRAP_MODEL / --localai-assistant-bootstrap-model and the bootstrap_default_model tool were removed — admins pick a model from the existing selector instead, no env-var configuration required. - The shipped tool catalog includes import_model_uri but didn't appear in the doc; bootstrap_default_model appeared but no longer exists. - The Settings → LocalAI Assistant runtime toggle wasn't mentioned as the preferred way to disable without restart. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] --------- Signed-off-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 and maintained by Ettore Di Giacinto.
📖 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
Autonomous Development Team
LocalAI is helped being maintained by a team of autonomous AI agents led by an AI Scrum Master.
- Live Reports: reports.localai.io
- Project Board: Agent task tracking
- Blog Post: Learn about the experiment
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}},
Sponsors
Do you find LocalAI useful?
Support the project by becoming a backer or sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website.
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!
Star history
License
LocalAI is a community-driven project created by Ettore Di Giacinto.
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!