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I built JARVIS — a local-first AI assistant you actually own (macOS + Linux, MIT)

A developer known as C.Studva has open-sourced Jarvis CLS, a local-first AI assistant for macOS and Linux under the MIT license. The assistant runs entirely on-device with no cloud dependency, using faster-whisper for speech recognition and local voices, and includes a model chain with an on-device fallback. The project comprises about 16,000 lines of code with 646 passing tests and has undergone five rounds of adversarial security review.

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Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are thin clients. The intelligence lives on

someone else's servers, every word you say leaves your house, and the moment

the vendor has an outage — or you're on a plane — they mostly stop working.

I wanted the JARVIS I was promised: always on, genuinely helpful, and mine.

So I built one — Jarvis CLS — and open-sourced it (MIT).

~/.jarvis

— exportable and clearable.faster-whisper

), local voices (piper

/pyttsx3

), and a model chain that always ends in an on-device fallback. Unplug the internet and it keeps talking.No account. No forced cloud. No fixed voice. No "sorry, I can't reach the server right now."

It's ~16,000 lines, 646 passing tests, ruff- + mypy-clean (enforced in CI),

and hardened across five rounds of adversarial security review.

macOS

cd jarvis-unstoppable && brew install portaudio && make setup && make run

Linux

cd jarvis-unstoppable && bash scripts/install_linux.sh && make setup && scripts/dev_run.sh

Leave the API keys blank to run fully local/offline, or add them for a cloud brain.

Because an assistant that listens to everything you say should be one you can

read the source of. It's MIT, source-available, and self-hostable. If that's the

kind of assistant you've wanted, a ⭐ helps others find it — and I'd love to hear

what you'd build on top of it.

Repo: https://github.com/reapersapprentice/Jarvis-CLS

— C.Studva

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