Nano Collective - Powerful AI Tools, Open for All

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>Open Source AI Tools

Local-first AI tools, built for the people who use them

Nano Collective builds privacy-respecting, local-first AI tools that help developers build, automate, and ship faster without surrendering control.

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Open-source tools built by the community.

An open-source, local-first coding agent. Automate your workflows without sending your proprietary code to the cloud.

  • >Local-first architecture
  • >Multi-provider model support
  • >Extensible skills system
  • >Workflow automation

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✱ Welcome to Nanocoder

1.28.1

Tips for getting started:

1. Use natural language to describe what you want to build.

2. Ask for file analysis, editing, bash commands and more.

3. Be specific as you would with another engineer for best results.

4. Type /exit or press Ctrl+C to quit.

/help for help

Ollama·gemma4:12b·~/Library/Preferences/nanocoder/agents.config.json·⎇ main (default)

What would you like me to help with?

normal mode on

· ctx: ~1%

Fine-tune LLMs locally on your own hardware. Optimize weights for your specific workflows effortlessly.

  • >LoRA & QLoRA training
  • >Automated benchmarking
  • >GGUF/Ollama export support

Nanotune - Training

Model:

Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct

Examples: 782

Iterations: 150

Progress:████████████████████100%

Training Loss

[Ctrl+C] Stop training (checkpoint saved)

Featured Packages

Lightweight utilities built by the community.

A fast, lightweight HTML to Markdown converter optimized for LLM consumption. Clean, well-structured markdown with intelligent content extraction.

Local-first PII scrubbing for LLM prompts. Maps emails, secrets, and paths to stable placeholders and rehydrates model responses locally.

A fast, type-safe JSON migration tool with Zod schema validation. Fluent builder API with automatic version tracking and full TypeScript type inference.

The principles behind our tools.

[ Core Philosophy ]

Privacy First

Your code, your data. Our tools are built to run in environments where you retain complete control over your intellectual property.

Open Source

Built in public by developers, for developers. We believe the future of AI tooling should not be locked behind proprietary APIs.

Local First

Harness the power of your own hardware. Run powerful AI workflows locally without cloud lock-in or subscription fees.

Supported by

Sponsorship funds the people building open, privacy-respecting AI tools, and keeps every line of it free at the point of use.

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