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Bits

Open-source, local-first agent that stays awake on your own computer and remembers in plain files
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About Bits

Bits is a small daemon that runs on your own machine as an always-on personal agent. Conversations live in a local SQLite journal, and what the agent knows is stored as Markdown files you can open, edit or delete yourself - no vendor cloud holding your memory hostage.

The privacy model is explicit: the vendor says there is no Bits server, and only model calls leave your machine. Point it at a local model through Ollama or LM Studio and nothing leaves at all.

Instead of answering with walls of text, Bits responds with usable interfaces, and a connectors system and GitHub repo round out the open-source project.

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Perfect for

Privacy-conscious users who want a persistent personal agent without handing their data to another cloud, and tinkerers who like their tools inspectable and open source.

Solves these problems

Cloud assistants forget you between sessions and keep everything on someone else's server. There is no middle ground between a stateless chatbot and a surveillance-grade cloud agent.