Top LOCAL-FIRST GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

An agent workbench for ongoing work: preserve goals and progress, connect events and schedules, and resume when the next condition is met.

The pipe layer of an AI nervous system — one interface connecting provider neurons to your application, across three inference types: generate, stream, and a calibrated decide (via TypeSafe Jev). MCP-native, voice (TTS/STT/realtime), RAG, memory, file processors. Powers Tara, Yama and Clairvoyance at Juspay.

Open-source agent-native visual production workspace where humans and coding agents edit the same live canvas — local-first, BYOK image/video models.

Local image or text → game-ready 3D on your own machine. Retopology, repaint, rigging and animation helpers, in a web viewer and a CLI. Runs Pixal3D, TRELLIS.2, Hunyuan3D and SF3D. Apple Silicon and NVIDIA. Every result carries its licence.

Local-first desktop activity tracker — see where your hours go, with on-device AI daily summaries and optional multi-device sync

Click any React UI element, jump to its exact JSX/TSX source, inspect proven API data flow, and prepare reviewable AI patches. Local-first and development-only.

Native macOS clipboard history, snippets, and local-network sync with Android. Built with Swift/AppKit and Flutter.

Let your AI coding sessions talk to each other. Coordinate parallel work, exchange reviews, and hand off unfinished work between Claude Code, Codex, and other supported clients. Local-first. Independent sessions.

A queryable second brain over your scattered notes and docs - hybrid retrieval (vector + BM25), section-level citations, and an MCP server so AI agents can use it. ~300 lines, no LangChain.

The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first.

Self-hosted clipboard and file ferry for devices on one private network: a single Go server with a built-in web app, so any browser is a client. Native iOS and Android apps are optional.

Keep Claude Desktop chats safe when switching accounts — local-first backup and restore for conversations.

An open-source native macOS file converter. Local image, video, audio, PDF, and archive tools built with SwiftUI and AppKit.

Binders for macOS: local-first dictation, meeting notes and memory, with an MCP server for your AI tools. Private by design, free, open source.

AI side-question layer — ask aside, stay on track.

Native macOS transcription for selected-app audio and microphone input, using Apple’s on-device speech frameworks with durable timestamped Markdown output

Local-first AI companion PWA with optional Android shell, self-hosted relay, portable memory, and reusable UI packs.

Claude Code, Codex and Pi write down everything you do. bough draws it and prices it: a day, the work inside it, every prompt, and what each piece cost. One Go binary, runs on your machine, sends nothing anywhere.

Local-first persistent memory for OpenAI Codex: governed recall, progressive disclosure, no hosted vector database.

OpenAI Privacy hackathon - Paris, 🏆 winning project