Balanov/shim
Tiny local-first AI harness: any model, MCP and Agent Skills, natural-language CLI. Zero dependencies. MIT.
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A tiny, local-first AI harness for people who prefer a terminal. One static binary. Zero dependencies. No TUI. No telemetry. MIT. Model-agnostic coding agents are everywhere. Setting them up is still too hard: provider IDs, API endpoints, MCP JSON, skills directories, and a new interface for every tool. Shim is the small adapter between you and all of that. Measured on the maintainer's Windows machine for v0.1.0: 7.29 MiB stripped binary and 9.96 ms median process startup for shim --version over 30 runs. This is a local measurement, not a cross-platform performance guarantee. Get a static binary for Windows, macOS, or Linux from Releases, put it on your PATH, then run: On PowerShell, use .\shim.exe when running the binary from the current directory. Go 1.25+: Windows also has scripts/build.ps1; Unix has scripts/build.sh. Shim has deterministic offline phrases for common English and Russian management commands. For other languages, assign a local…
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- Why Shim?
- Install
- Download
- With Go
- From source
- Two ways to use it
- Just talk
- Use the complete CLI
- Model providers
- Skills
- MCP
- Permissions and safety
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Tiny local-first AI harness: any model, MCP and Agent Skills, natural-language CLI. Zero dependencies. MIT.
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- Balanov
- Primary language
- Go
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- 415
- Forks
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- License
- MIT
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- main
- Created
- 2026-11-02T17:54:29.000Z
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- 2026-11-02T17:54:55.000Z
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