TuxAide – Local AI assistant that runs in your Linux terminal without cloud or API setup

TuxAide is a local AI assistant that intercepts natural-language questions typed directly in the terminal and returns answers inline, powered by Ollama and the qwen2.5-coder:7b model, with no cloud calls or API keys required.

The tool explains commands and answers questions in the user's language without executing anything, and uses Smart RAG (a technique that retrieves relevant documentation like man pages) to tailor responses—simple questions return answers in 3–5 seconds, command-specific queries in 8–15 seconds.

Installation is a single curl command that bundles Ollama, the model, and shell hooks; the project requires 5GB minimum RAM (8GB recommended), runs on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, Arch Linux, macOS, and ARM/Raspberry Pi, and is open source on GitHub.