Top LOCAL-FIRST GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

An open-source Office workspace where people and AI agents create, collaborate, and review together.

Long-term memory runtime for AI agents — plain Markdown as the source of truth, local ranked retrieval, and an independent sleep-time Manage layer. Claude Code and Codex share one store. No API key.

A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.

Local-first AI coding agent desktop: Electron + Rust host core + pi Agent Harness + user-installable plugins

A local multi-agent harness that works with your existing Claude Code, Codex subscriptions, allows you to run an office of agents

Autonomous LLM Trading Asterism — a research-only multi-agent trading platform with evidence-first research, an auditable console, Shadow simulation and explicitly authorized broker execution.

🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files, HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export. 🤖 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / DeepSeek Harness / OpenCode & 20+ CLIs via BYOK.

Open-source desktop AI agent for tools, files, knowledge, workflows, and real deliverables.

Local-first desktop widget for tracking token usage, costs, and limits across 40+ AI coding tools—including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and OpenClaw—with multi-device sync.

A control plane with a durable state kernel for long-horizon agents and teams. Keep work moving and improving across sessions, with less human attention.

An open-source, local-first writing workspace where you can write with Claude Code and Codex, drawing on your own sources and past work.

A trustworthy context layer for AI that remembers, plans and acts — free text into typed commitments, decisions and memories, each with its evidence, in a SQLite file you own. MCP, HTTP, library and typed client.

OpenHuman is the fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness. Written in Rust

Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub and Open Project.

Local-first research memory for Codex: checkpoints, progress ledgers, and Markdown/JSON paper notes. Early alpha.

Open firmware for the Echo Show 5, 1st and 2nd gen: Alpine Linux instead of Android, no Alexa. A local Home Assistant voice satellite with its own touch screen, on-device wake word, SSH and A/B over-the-air updates.

The open-source AI research workbench for scientific research and agent workflows. Local-first, model-agnostic desktop app with extensible skills, MCP tools and connectors, Python/R execution and traceable artifacts for reproducible research on macOS, Windows and Linux.

Persistent project intelligence and memory plugin for DSH: architecture analysis, cross-session context, TODOs, and optional hybrid retrieval

AI conversations that actually remember. Never re-explain your project to your AI again. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tyvKNccgqN

Cross-platform local MCP capabilities for ChatGPT with Chrome integration, Goal, Compact & Resume, and durable multi-agent workflows.