{"slug": "clive-a-friendly-cli-for-local-llms", "title": "Clive — a friendly CLI for local LLMs", "summary": "A developer built Clive, a local-first coding-assistant CLI powered by Ollama, written in Rust and released as v0.1.0. It enables streaming chat, safe file editing, and multi-file agent tasks entirely on the user's machine, with no data leaving the computer.", "body_md": "For the last couple of weeks, as the cost of frontier models kept climbing, I started experimenting with open-source large language models.\n\nWhat surprised me: for most of the tasks I'd normally hand to Claude or GPT, a **local** open-source model did the job just as well — and sometimes better.\n\nThe problem was the ergonomics. [Ollama](https://ollama.com/) makes running local models genuinely easy, but I wanted a smoother terminal workflow — streaming chat that didn't feel clunky, safe file editing, and the ability to run real multi-file agent tasks without leaving my shell.\n\nSo I built **Clive** 🦀 — a local-first coding-assistant CLI powered by Ollama.\n\nEverything runs on your machine. No prompts, code, or files ever leave your computer.\n\n`serve`\n\n, `pull`\n\n, `rm`\n\n, model recommendationsIt's written in **Rust**, MIT-licensed, and just hit its first release, `v0.1.0`\n\n.\n\n```\nbash\n# Clone and install (from source for now)\ngit clone https://github.com/SedarOlmez94/clive.git\ncd clive\ncargo install --path .\n\n# Start Ollama and pull a coding model\nclive ollama serve --detach\nclive ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:latest\n\n# Chat!\nclive chat \"Explain Rust's ownership model in two sentences\"\n\n# Or run an autonomous agent over your files (preview first)\nclive agent \"Refactor error handling and add tests\" \\\n  --files src/main.rs \\\n  --verify \"cargo check -q\"\n```\n\n", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clive-a-friendly-cli-for-local-llms", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/sedarolmez94/clive-a-friendly-cli-for-local-llms-36l9", "published_at": "2026-08-01 20:21:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-01 20:40:18.325488+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Clive", "Ollama", "Rust", "SedarOlmez94"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clive-a-friendly-cli-for-local-llms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clive-a-friendly-cli-for-local-llms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clive-a-friendly-cli-for-local-llms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/clive-a-friendly-cli-for-local-llms.jsonld"}}