johnpsasser / lifeboat
Offline emergency assistant: a local LLM and a 200 GB offline library on one Mac, with cited answers and no internet.
Why this job: says: local llm; topics: apple-silicon, llama-cpp, local-llm
What it does
- Cited answers. Every claim carries a [n] citation. Click it to jump to the exact passage. The
- Steps first. Answers lead with numbered actions, then explain. They name danger signs for
- Safety rules in the prompt. The model must never invent doses, dilutions, wire sizes, or plant
- Child-dose guard. A check in code, not in the prompt, reads every finished answer. If the
- Hybrid search. Keyword (BM25) and meaning (vector) search over every passage, plus Wikipedia's
Get started
./lifeboat fetch 1 2 4
# base models + core archives + PDFs, about 55 GB
./lifeboat fetch 3
# later: the 'best' and 'tiny' chat models (34 GB)
./lifeboat fetch 5
# later: full English Wikipedia with images (119 GB) - Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 6 days ago
- Stars
- 42
- +38 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.1.0
- Released 6 days ago
- Built with
- Python
- 66% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- None
- No issues filed
- Pull requests
- 0 merged
- 1 waiting
- Releases
- 1
- 1 in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 66%
- JavaScript 18%
- Shell 7%
- CSS 7%
Topics
- apple-silicon
- disaster-preparedness
- emergency-preparedness
- first-aid
- kiwix
- llama-cpp
- llm
- local-llm
- offline
- offline-first
- rag
- self-hosted
Project record
- JobLocal LLMs
- StatusNew to our list
- Commits6
- Forks8
- Watching0
- CreatedNov 3, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 8, 2026