Guaardvark

The self-hosted AI studio. Chat with your own files, hand tasks to agents that use a real desktop and browser, run parallel coding agents, and generate video, images, music and voice. Everything runs locally, on your own GPU.

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Why Guaardvark

• It runs on your machine. Language models, retrieval, agents and every generator run on your own hardware, through Ollama, ComfyUI and Guaardvark's own GPU services. No cloud API keys, no per-token or per-minute fees, nothing reported home. Web access, posting and every other outbound path stay off until you switch them on or start them, and all of them are declared in one file, egress.json.
• One install is the whole studio. Chat and RAG, screen agents, coding swarms and a full media pipeline share one GPU through a single orchestrator, so a video render and a language model take turns instead of fighting over VRAM.
• Your coding agent can drive it. A built-in MCP server, fifteen agent skills and a Claude Code plugin let Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and other agents run every flow: "make a music video from this song", "film this script", "train a LoRA of this character", "swarm this refactor".
• You approve what matters. Nothing posts and no voice is cloned without an explicit yes from you, and fixes Guaardvark writes for its own code wait for your review. The MCP server hides desktop, shell and browser tools unless you allowlist them.

Quick start

Linux with an NVIDIA GPU (16 GB for video, 12 GB for the Wan 2.2 5B; chat, RAG and agents run on less, see the hardware tiers). A fresh Ubuntu desktop has no curl or git; run sudo apt install -y curl git first.

curl -fsSL https://guaardvark.com/install.sh | bash

Then open http://localhost:5173. The script is install.sh from this repository: it clones to ~/guaardvark and runs ./start.sh, which installs everything on the first run. To read it before it runs, download it first (curl -fsSL https://guaardvark.com/install.sh -o install.sh, read it, then bash install.sh), or install by hand.

Add it to Claude Code (two lines, no clone):

/plugin marketplace add guaardvark/guaardvark
/plugin install guaardvark@guaardvark

Other ways in: Docker · macOS on Apple Silicon · the CLI from PyPI · the full install guide. The current release is in the VERSION file.

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