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Local-first AI tools, built for the people who use them

Nano Collective is a home for privacy-respecting, local-first AI tools that help developers build, automate, and ship faster without surrendering control.

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Featured Projects

Independent open-source projects shipping under the collective.

[ 01 ]

Nanocoder

An open-source, local-first coding agent. Automate your workflows without sending your proprietary code to the cloud.

  • >Local-first architecture
  • >Multi-provider model support
  • >Extensible skills system
  • >Workflow automation
nanocoder v1.31.0
Welcome to Nanocoder
An open coding agent for your terminal, built by a community collective rather than a company. Bring your own model, keep your code on your machine, and owe nothing to anyone.
⎇ main (default) · ~/code/my-app
Resume session /resume
Select model /model
Help /help
Quit /exit
Tip: Use @ followed by a file path to add that file to context.
> Ask anything...
▶ normal mode on · ctx: ~1%
[ 02 ]

Nanotune

Fine-tune LLMs locally on your own hardware. Optimize weights for your specific workflows effortlessly.

  • >LoRA & QLoRA training
  • >Automated benchmarking
  • >GGUF/Ollama export support
Nanotune - Training
Model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct
Examples: 782
Iterations: 150
Progress:████████████████████100%
Iteration: 150/150
Training Loss
1.070.15
Train Loss: 0.1500
[Ctrl+C] Stop training (checkpoint saved)
[ 03 ]

Roster

Alpha

An agent-run organisation, powered by GitHub. Hire AI staff whose brain is a repo: a charter, a memory, and a scheduled session that does a day's work unattended and hands off.

  • >One repo per staff member
  • >Scheduled, unattended sessions
  • >Composable, org-wide prompts
  • >Any coding agent, including Nanocoder

In alpha and run daily against a live org. Nothing changes anything without --apply, and finished work waits as a pull request for a human to merge.

Brain
Chief Technology Officer · 2 facts
Search facts and files
setup-step-drop-offmeasured
38% of accounts never finish the setup step (n=212, Jun to Aug).
So: nothing upstream of it is worth spending on until it moves.
approve-outboundboss
Nothing goes out under the company name unread.
So: finished work waits in drafts/; never schedule a send.
[ 04 ]

Sentinel

Alpha

Continuous, configurable security and code audits across the repositories in your GitHub organisation, filed as issues for a human to act on.

  • >Scheduled organisation-wide audits
  • >Rule packs you write
  • >Findings filed as issues
  • >Local models as a first-class path

In alpha and under active development toward v1. Expect breaking changes, and treat it as a triage layer rather than a replacement for a formal security audit.

$ npx @nanocollective/sentinel init
+ sentinel.yaml
+ .github/workflows/sentinel.yml
+ rule-packs/
$ sentinel run --rule-pack ./rule-packs/anchor.md
audited 4 repositories · 3 findings
filed my-org/payments#218 [high]

Featured Packages

Lightweight utilities built by the community.

[ pkg ]

get-md

A fast, lightweight HTML to Markdown converter optimized for LLM consumption. Clean, well-structured markdown with intelligent content extraction.

[ pkg ]

prompt-scrub

Local-first PII scrubbing for LLM prompts. Maps emails, secrets, and paths to stable placeholders and rehydrates model responses locally.

[ pkg ]

json-up

A fast, type-safe JSON migration tool with Zod schema validation. Fluent builder API with automatic version tracking and full TypeScript type inference.

Why Nano Collective

The principles behind our tools.

[01]

Privacy First

Your code, your data. Our tools are built to run in environments where you retain complete control over your intellectual property.

[02]

Open Source

Built in public by developers, for developers. We believe the future of AI tooling should not be locked behind proprietary APIs.

[03]

Local First

Harness the power of your own hardware. Run powerful AI workflows locally without cloud lock-in or subscription fees.

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Latest Updates

From the community discussions.

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How nanotune training now survives a Ctrl+C without lying about it

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Nanocoder v1.31.0: Anthropic caching, auto titles, retry caps, .nanocoderignore

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Why Mermaid validation was rejecting valid diagrams - and what fixed it

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prompt-scrub v1.4.0: encrypt local session files at rest

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Bring your project under the umbrella.

The Nano Collective is a home for independent projects, not only our own. If you are building AI tooling that respects privacy, runs on the user's own hardware, or opens up something proprietary, it can ship under the collective's brand, distribution rails, and infrastructure defaults. Anyone can propose. No application form, no contribution history required.

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