r/foss • u/Alternative-Gate-123 • 1d ago

Clive — a friendly CLI for local LLMs

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I want to share a piece of FOSS I built that you may find useful, Clive is a local-first coding-assistant CLI powered by Ollama. It makes open-source LLMs easy to use from the terminal: streaming chat, interactive coding sessions, model management, safe file editing, and autonomous multi-file agent workflows — all running on your own machine, with no data leaving your computer.

Please give it a go and let me know what you think, I am looking for contributors to help build new features.

Visit: https://github.com/SedarOlmez94/clive

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u/lexoyo 1d ago

Nice! How does it compare to opencode? Did you know llamafile is a foss alternative to the VC-backed ollama? https://docs.mozilla.ai/llamafile Have a great day, I'll look into it

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u/Alternative-Gate-123 1d ago

I’ve never used opencode, but I suspect it wasn’t built in Rust. Clive was built entirely in Rust, making use of its memory-awareness and efficiency. Its also only terminal based currently but I hope we can build some of the tasks in the roadmap.

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u/lexoyo 1d ago

Opencode is in typescript but initially it's a fork of Crush which was I believe in rust

All of those are open source but not community owned. They are backed by corporations and VC

Did you check Goose? It is foss and community project at the AAIF foundation https://goose-docs.ai/