Open source · local-first

The Jellyfish Assistant, on your own hardware.

Free to self-host, and yours to shape. Released October 20, 2026.

Release

October 20, 2026

Counting to midnight, Pacific time.

What you get

Local-first

It runs on a machine you control, with local models, and reaches a cloud provider only where you've allowed it. No operator, no shared tenancy, no telemetry.

Private by architecture

Memory, credentials and logs are encrypted at rest under a key sealed to your machine. A recovery key, printed once, brings it back on new hardware.

Every model, by your rules

Keep personal work on local models and bring keys for frontier providers where you want them. You decide which model handles what, and what each one may see.

Yours to shape

Every boundary has a public contract that says exactly what an add-on must declare and may assume. Layer on first-party add-ons, third-party ones, or your own — a tool, a memory module, a page, a model provider — and modify anything for your own system.

Read the contracts →

What you'll need

A Linux machine you control.

  • Operating systemLinux with systemd user services and rootless Podman.
  • Sealing the keysystemd 256 or newer, so the master key can be sealed to the machine.
  • ModelsA GPU that Ollama supports for local models, keys for the cloud providers you choose, or both.
  • LicenseAnnounced with the release.

Release news

Be there on day one.

The source link appears here on October 20.