Automation & AI agentsFree-model brain (Zero / Altron)
Free-model brain (Zero / Altron)
An assistant’s brain assembled entirely from free models: eight local ones plus free access, an agent with 33 tools, memory, and search over a personal knowledge base.
What it is
An assistant living on a paid interface has a permanent cost and dies together with the balance. The opposite arrangement is built here: several free sources with roles and fallbacks, where a local model always closes the chain. If a free quota runs out or an external service goes down, the assistant gets weaker and keeps working.
A brain is not just a model. There is also an agent with 33 tools — that is, with real actions behind them; memory between conversations; and search over a personal knowledge base, so that an answer can quote your own documents.
Specifications: Node.js, eight local models plus the Groq free tier, and knowledge-base search. Stated plainly: development has been frozen since 31 Jul 2026 and has not been re-checked since — the work stands here as it was left.
Nearby work
Zero — an offline voice assistantA voice assistant that wakes on its name and thinks on the laptop’s graphics card: no internet, no login, an answer in 0.3–0.6 seconds.My own automation serverMy own server carrying over a hundred automations around the clock: bots, digests, finance, reminders, nightly backups, app synchronisation.Quality Watchdog — a guard that reads the automations themselvesA watchdog that reads how the automations are built rather than the run log, and catches what breaks silently.