I'm Krish, a developer from India. For the past 8 months I've been building Ankita — a free, open-source desktop AI assistant. Terminal + Electron app, plugin/skill system, local-first by design. It runs scheduled jobs on its own, has a live browser that clicks and types on real pages, and talks to you over Telegram.
It's real and it ships: v2.4.3 is out, there's a real test suite under test/ that runs with npm test, and the releases are being downloaded (55 across all releases so far).
I'm looking for contributors. Not free labor for my roadmap — people who want to learn real-world Node.js and Electron by building something people actually use.
The core agent is plain Node.js modules with a small dependency footprint; the heavy deps live only where they have to — Electron for the desktop shell, Playwright for the live browser. The layout:
tools/) — one module per tool, grouped by domain: filesystem, git, web, browser, images, automation. Tools declare whether they need approval; the agent loop respects it.skills/) — markdown playbooks the agent loads on demand: ankita-dev, commit-review, web-research, bug-repro, release-notes. Contributing a skill is a legit first PR. desktop/) — Electron + React: chat, browser stage with takeover, personas, plugin management.
These are real open issues, each with its current state verified in the issue body:
API_BASE. Add 3–5 named custom provider slots switchable at runtime. Scoped, well-defined, good first issue. hacktoberfest. help wanted. CONTRIBUTING.md — short setup (npm install, npm test, npm link), strict but fair rules
Repo: [https://github.com/akyourowngames/A.N.K.I.T.A](https://github.com/akyourowngames/A.N.K.I.T.A)
If you've been waiting for a "good first issue" that isn't a toy repo — this is a living codebase with real releases and a maintainer who actually merges. Come build.