# SlothSort > Source: > Published: 2026-10-23 15:33:01+00:00 *This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19)* **SlothSort** is a lazy person's file butler. It watches your Downloads folder (or any folder you point it at), reads what's actually inside each file, and then renames it with a sensible name, sorts it into the right folder, and archives anything stale, all by itself and all on your own machine. No more `Screenshot 2026-10-12 at 11.42.07 (3).png`, `final_FINAL_v2.pdf`, or a Downloads folder with 900 mystery files. You drop things in, SlothSort files them away overnight, and in the morning you get a short digest of what it moved and why. If it isn't confident about a file, it leaves it alone and flags it, and every move can be undone with one command. Anyone who has ever said "I'll clean this up later" gets to be a little lazier. [Add your GitHub repo link here. On DEV you can embed it directly with the `{% embed https://github.com/your-username/slothsort %}` tag.] SlothSort is built around a **local open-weight model served through Ollama**, so the whole pipeline runs without a network connection. `watchdog` that notices new files and queues them.`{ "new_name": ..., "folder": ..., "confidence": ... }`.` slothsort undo` can reverse it. The folder rules live in a plain config file, so changing how SlothSort behaves means editing a few lines, not retraining anything. Sorting your files means the tool has to *read your files*: tax documents, invoices, medical reports, private screenshots. That is exactly the kind of data I don't want to send to a server I don't control. Running an open-weight model locally made that possible: For a "set it up once and forget it" tool, that reliability matters as much as the privacy. [Optional: embed your DevRelay session here with the `agent_session` tag, or paste a link to it.] [Replace these with your real numbers, or delete this section if you'd rather not include it.]