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Survival LLM is a free, open-source desktop AI assistant and offline knowledge library for macOS and Windows. It runs a local language model and searches an offline collection of medical, emergency, repair, survival, how-to and encyclopedia material, then answers with the passages and articles it used as sources. The library can contain about 1.5 million articles, including Wikipedia, iFixit, WikiMed, MedlinePlus, government guidance and practical reference material.
The app uses Ollama for local model inference and an SQLite FTS5 index with BM25 ranking to search roughly 1,500-character passages. It provides tools for searching the library, reading articles and opening cited passages, and can index user-provided PDFs, Word documents, EPUBs, web pages and text files. It also supports editable instructions, locally stored memory notes and configurable reasoning and response-length limits. After setup, the models, library, user files and settings remain on the computer and the app is designed to work without an internet connection, although updates and initial downloads require internet access. The application code is licensed under MIT; library materials retain the licenses of their original sources.
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A free open-source desktop app providing a local AI assistant over an offline library of ~1.5 million articles including Wikipedia, iFixit repair guides, and survival/how-to knowledge. It cites sources for every answer, supports adding your own files, and runs on Mac and Windows without internet.
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