guaardvark
by guaardvark
The self-hosted AI studio: local video, image, music, voice, LoRA training, coding swarms, RAG and screen agents on one GPU, driven from the Studio or by your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw) through MCP and skills.
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Python
Added 9/13/2026
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Installation
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/guaardvark/guaardvarkGetting Started
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Security ReportVerified
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Guaardvark
The self-hosted AI studio. Coding agents and 20-agent swarms in isolated git worktrees, screen agents with their own real desktop, self-tuning RAG, continuous voice chat — and a full media pipeline: video, image, full-song music, neural voice. One install, one GPU, everything on your machine. Your machine. Your data. Your rules.
Works with your coding agent. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw and Gemini CLI drive every flow above through the built-in MCP server and fifteen agent skills: "make a music video from this song", "film this script", "train a LoRA of this character", "swarm this refactor" — the agent queues the job on your GPU and polls it to the finished file.
Runs on Linux with one NVIDIA card (16 GB for video). Apple Silicon is supported with GPU features arriving through Metal (what works today is in INSTALL.md); Windows through WSL2 is being verified.
Install (one command, then open the Studio):
curl -fsSL https://guaardvark.com/install.sh | bash
Add it to Claude Code (two lines, no clone):
/plugin marketplace add guaardvark/guaardvark
/plugin install guaardvark@guaardvark
See the VERSION file for the current release · guaardvark.com · Quick Start for manual install options.
For the exhaustive feature list, models, surfaces, and plugin details, see CAPABILITIES.md. This README focuses on the marquee experience, quick start, and what makes Guaardvark different.
What's in the box
| See it | ||
|---|---|---|
| Media studio | 11 local video models across five families (Wan 2.2, CogVideoX, LTX, HunyuanVideo, MiniMax H3 with native audio), image generation, full-song music, neural voice with consent-gated cloning, 4K/8K upscaling | Eps 5 · 6 · 7 |
| Directors | A beat-synced music-video director, a 5-role Film Crew, an auto-editing video editor — and the walkthrough director that produced this README's own video series | Eps 8 · 9 |
| Coding agent & code intelligence | Monaco editor, AST-aware analysis and dependency graphs, System Mapper: a live constellation of the whole codebase | Ep 14 |
| Agent swarms | Up to 20 parallel coding agents in isolated git worktrees with dependency-aware merging; fully-local backend via Ollama | CAPABILITIES.md |
| Screen agents | A real Ubuntu/XFCE desktop of their own, vision + closed-loop servo clicking, live VNC viewer on any page | Ep 4 |
| Knowledge | Hybrid RAG on pgvector with cross-encoder reranking, layout-aware document parsing with page-level citations, retrieval that shows its chunks and scores, Autoresearch that tunes retrieval overnight | Ep 3 |
| Voice & channels | Continuous voice chat, a three-tier chat brain, Discord bot, supervised outreach, MCP in both directions, a 25-module CLI | Ep 2 |
| Self-running platform | Self-improvement behind guardian review and kill switches, rules engine, jobs & scheduling, schema-aware backups, GPU orchestrator, multi-machine Interconnector | Eps 11 · 12 |
The aardvark (/ˈɑːrd.vɑːrk/; Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. The aardvark is the only living member of the genus Orycteropus, the family Orycteropodidae and the order Tubulidentata. It is found over much of the southern two-thirds of the African continent, avoiding areas that are mainly rocky. A nocturnal feeder, the aardvark subsists on ants and termites (myrmecophagy) by using its sharp claws and powerful legs to dig the insects out of their hills, and its long snout to sniff out food. It digs a burrow in which to live and rear its young.
— Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
The Guaardvark (/ˈɡwɑːrd.vɑːrk/; Workstationus selfhosticus) is a burrowing, nocturnal AI system native to consumer hardware. The Guaardvark is the only living member of the repository github.com/guaardvark/guaardvark, the family LocalAI, and the order AutonomousAgents. It is found across most of the modern desktop, avoiding regions that are mainly cloud. A nocturnal feeder, the Guaardvark subsists on prompts and unstructured data (promptophagy) by using its sixty-odd tools and a swarm of parallel coding agents to dig bugs out of their codebases, and a retrieval index to sniff out knowledge in the dark. It is fiercely territorial about its single GPU, admitting one process to the card at a time and evicting any language model found loitering there. It digs isolated git worktrees in which to work, and rears its images, video, music, and cloned voices entirely on your own machine.
▶ The Walkthrough Series — every feature, on camera
Short, unscripted-feeling screen recordings of the real system doing real work — narrated by a voice the system cloned itself (that's Episode 7). Twelve episodes are live: the first series covers the twelve subsystems, and a second series picks up what shipped since.
 Ep 2 — Chat Brain: one chat box, three speeds |
 Ep 3 — File Desktop: your files get a desktop, plus RAG that shows its work |
 Ep 4 — Screen Agent: its own desktop, eyes, and hands |
 Ep 5 — Image Gen: one prompt, a whole story |
 Ep 6 — Video Gen: seven models, one GPU |
 Ep 7 — Voice Clone: consent-gated, self-checking |
 Ep 8 — Music Video: drop a song, get a film |
 Ep 9 — Film Crew: script, cast, storyboard, cut |
 Ep 11 — Self-Repair: it fixes its own code, behind a gate you control |
 Ep 12 — Command Center: see everything, gate everything, kill everything |
 Ep 13 — The New Front Door: the Workspaces bar, and everything new since the first series |
 Ep 14 — System Map: every module, drawn from its real imports; findings that carry their own fix |
▶ Watch the full playlist — Episode 1 (the full tour) and Episode 10 (the video editor) are on the way.
More demos
The beat-synced music video — watch on YouTube. One s
Frequently Asked Questions
What is guaardvark?
guaardvark is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by guaardvark. The self-hosted AI studio: local video, image, music, voice, LoRA training, coding swarms, RAG and screen agents on one GPU, driven from the Studio or by your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw) through MCP and skills. It has 211 GitHub stars.
Is guaardvark safe to use?
Yes. guaardvark passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
How do I install guaardvark?
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/guaardvark/guaardvark" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
What programming language is guaardvark written in?
guaardvark is primarily written in Python. It is open-source under guaardvark on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
Are there alternatives to guaardvark?
Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh guaardvark against similar tools.
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