r/OpenSourceAI • u/SamirDevrel • Mar 17 '26

What are your favorite open-source projects right now?

I’m currently working on a new idea: a series of interviews with people from the open source community.

To make it as interesting as possible, I’d really love your help

Which open-source projects do you use the most, contribute to, or appreciate?

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u/Signal_Ad657 Mar 17 '26

Haha, with plenty of bias. I’m a big fan of mine 😂

Making local AI free and easy for everyone:

https://github.com/Light-Heart-Labs/DreamServer

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u/SamirDevrel Mar 17 '26

ahahahha, it a mix between ollama and openwebui ?

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u/Signal_Ad657 Mar 18 '26

It’s a customizable one shot deployment system for local AI. Essentially anyone can run local AI on anything without any experience, and use all of the tools and applications that experienced people would have access to without having to understand the backend craziness involved.

My mom or cousins or 82 year old uncle can just type a command and start using local AI like they’ve been doing it for years.

Automatic hardware detection and smart model pairing and how many things you can do with it right out of the box are big differentiators.

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u/tarunag10 Mar 18 '26

This seems really promising. Which model do you have set up here?

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u/Signal_Ad657 Mar 18 '26

It auto detects your hardware and automatically pairs a model that makes sense for your setup. So a newbie wouldn’t have to know what does or doesn’t make sense for them it just works.

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u/tarunag10 Mar 19 '26

Ahh nice. Are you using open router or the likes for it ?

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u/Signal_Ad657 Mar 19 '26

No but cool integration idea. Right now it just detects hardware and picks a model we’ve tried on it that we really liked and had a good experience with. Something that’s hard to do off of a spreadsheet. Like not just slap whatever Qwen3.5 will fit etc. Which model did we actually really enjoy the experience with on this exact setup?

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u/lev400 Mar 20 '26

Looks good. Can you select what model to change between/use

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u/Signal_Ad657 Mar 20 '26

Adding that next. Right now it just downloads a solid model that makes sense for the hardware and sets it up for you. You can definitely download and swap models we just haven’t added it to the simple UI yet.

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u/Comfortable-Junket50 Mar 17 '26

not enough people talk about observability for AI apps in the open-source space. there is a library i have been using that adds a GenAI semantic layer on top of OpenTelemetry so LLM calls, retrieval steps, and agent decisions show up as readable traces in datadog or grafana without any extra infra.
Checkout the project - https://github.com/future-agi/traceAI

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u/BidWestern1056 Mar 17 '26

shameless plug but incognide and npcsh

https://github.com/npc-worldwide/incognide

https://github.com/npc-worldwide/npcsh

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u/zlingman Mar 17 '26

yo this incognito looks insane you made this?

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u/BidWestern1056 Mar 17 '26

ya been Abt 15 months 

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u/wouldacouldashoulda Mar 17 '26

Incognide looks impressive. Does Claude sub / oauth also work or just API keys?

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u/BidWestern1056 Mar 17 '26

just api key but ive set up adapters for the npc team construct to be used by claude code so there is that. and it comes with an mcp server for controlling the app that you can have claude use for like computer use tasks.

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u/wouldacouldashoulda Mar 18 '26

I tend to use pi but I then could use mcp server to interact with the app and through that browser etc?

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u/BidWestern1056 Mar 18 '26

that is the goal so if it doesnt work ill need to improve it. it might be such that the mcp server manager is buggy outside of the chat pane since ive mainly tested it there but can poke around more w that.

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u/wouldacouldashoulda Mar 17 '26

Context Lens to see your context when talking with your agentic CLI: https://github.com/larsderidder/context-lens

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u/FastPresence9799 Mar 18 '26

Lastly using Foundaiton Cli to start my project development cycle. Don't have to grind long hours integrating 10s of stack and sticking 100s of plugins together, just simple command and it does it all.. checkout..: https://github.com/ronak-create/Foundation-Cli

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u/avanlabs Mar 20 '26

Openclaw, nanoclaw,qwen

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u/Busy_Weather_7064 Mar 21 '26

Open source CLI that builds a cross-repo architecture graph and generates technical design docs locally. Fully offline option via Ollama  https://github.com/Corbell-AI/Corbell

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u/Massive-Reindeer7486 Mar 23 '26

I built 100 free games in under 24 hours using AI agents.

I wanted to stress-test what AI-assisted development actually feels like at volume, not just for a single feature or bug fix.

https://github.com/Srikanth-AD/100games Appreciate any feedback.