LocalAgentCLI
LocalAgentCLI is a local-first AI command-line assistant with a persistent shell, chat and agent modes, remote and local model backends, tool execution, session restore, and a centralized safety layer.
Features
- Interactive
localagentclishell with slash commands, history, tab completion, and streaming output - Remote provider support for OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, and generic REST APIs
- Local model support for MLX, GGUF, and safetensors backends
- Chat mode with context compaction, pinned instructions, and automatic repository-root
AGENTS.mdloading - Agent mode with planning, tool execution, approvals, rollback, and undo support
- Persistent config, model registry, sessions, logs, and cache under
~/.localagent/
Installation
Recommended:
pipx install localagentcli
Development install:
git clone https://github.com/rainzhang05/LocalAgentCLI.git
cd LocalAgentCLI
pip install -e ".[dev]"
Optional backend extras can be installed manually:
pip install "localagentcli[mlx]"
pip install "localagentcli[gguf]"
pip install "localagentcli[torch]"
pip install "localagentcli[all]"
LocalAgentCLI also prompts to install missing backend dependencies automatically the first time you load a local model that needs them.
Quick Start
Launch the shell:
localagentcli
localagent remains available as a compatibility alias.
On first launch the setup wizard creates ~/.localagent/config.toml.
Common commands:
/help
/status
/setup
/mode chat
/mode agent
/set
/models
/providers list
/session save my-work
/session load my-work
Local and Remote Models
Remote providers:
/providers add/providers list/providers test <name>
Local models:
/setto choose the active local model or provider model interactively/modelsfor the interactive Hugging Face picker (backend → family → live Hub-discovered model) with continuously refreshed download progress/models install hf <repo>/models install url <url>/models list/models inspect <name[@version]>
Development
Run the required checks locally:
python -m pytest --cov=localagentcli --cov-fail-under=80
ruff check .
ruff format --check .
mypy localagentcli/
python -m build
python -m twine check dist/*
Documentation
Project documentation lives in the repository:
1 maintainer
Metadata
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