ASK: an open local LLM + RAG desktop knowledge assistant
Huge-Conference-1193 · reddit · 2026-10-29
A developer released ASK, a standalone desktop knowledge assistant that pairs a local LLM with RAG to answer questions grounded in your documents.
It's built in Python with CustomTkinter, uses nomic-embed-text as the default embedding model for the search index, and supports multiple local models including qwen3:8b, qwen2.5-coder:7b, llama3.2 and qwen3-9b variants with 32k/16k context.
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