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sean campbell
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Willow – local-first AI stack, phone reads desktop KB over LAN, no cloud relay

A phone running Willow on Termux sent a signed command to a desktop running Willow on Linux. The response came back in under a second — 70,000 knowledge atoms, live system status, no Discord, no Telegram, no API call to a third party.

Willow is a full local-first AI stack: Postgres/SQLite knowledge graph that persists across sessions and models, 40+ MCP tools, a skill system that works with any LLM (Ollama is the default, cloud keys are optional addons), and a LAN command server — HMAC-SHA256 auth, shared token, ~100 lines of Python.

The knowledge graph is yours. The inference runs on your hardware. The nodes talk directly. Nothing requires permission from a provider or a credit card on file.

 GitHub: https://github.com/rudi193-cmd/willow-1.9                                                                 
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The full concept paper is in docs/CONCEPT.md — it explains why this doesn't exist yet and what it took to build it.

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