Ada

About

Ada is a powerful, open-source personal AI assistant designed to run entirely on your own hardware, ensuring complete privacy and control over your data. Unlike commercial AI services, Ada offers advanced features like long-term memory, web search, custom personalities, and tool use without subscription fees or cloud dependencies. By providing your own compute, you gain an extensible AI companion that learns from your conversations, integrates with various interfaces including editors, and empowers you to build custom capabilities, making AI accessible and user-controlled.

Key Features

• Private by default with no telemetry and offline operation after setup
• Copilot-style code completion via Neovim and MCP integration
• Multiple interfaces including CLI, Web UI, Matrix bot, and editor integration
• 2 GitHub stars
• Local-first personal AI assistant with long-term memory (RAG)
• Extensible specialist system for web search, OCR, and log analysis

Use Cases

• Creating custom AI tools and personalities for specific tasks without cloud dependencies
• Enhancing personal productivity with a private, learning AI assistant
• Boosting developer workflow with local code completion and log analysis capabilities