catai

🚀 Exciting Updates Coming Soon!<br><br>New UI, Function Calling, and more amazing features are on the way! Stay tuned for updates.

Run GGUF models on your computer with a chat ui.

Your own AI assistant runs locally on your computer.

Inspired by Node-Llama-Cpp, Llama.cpp

Installation & Use

Make sure you have Node.js (download current) installed.

npm install -g catai

catai install qwen3-4b-q4_k_m
catai up

Features

• Auto detect programming language 🧑‍💻
• Click on user icon to show original message 💬
• Real time text streaming ⏱️
• Fast model downloads 🚀

CLI

Usage: catai [options] [command]

Options:
  -V, --version                    output the version number
  -h, --help                       display help for command

Commands:
  install|i [options] [models...]  Install any GGUF model
  models|ls [options]              List all available models
  use [model]                      Set model to use
  serve|up [options]               Open the chat website
  update                           Update server to the latest version
  active                           Show active model
  remove|rm [options] [models...]  Remove a model
  uninstall                        Uninstall server and delete all models
  node-llama-cpp|cpp [options]     Node llama.cpp CLI - recompile node-llama-cpp binaries
  help [command]                   display help for command