Crosstalk-Solutions/project-nomad
Project NOMAD is an offline-first knowledge and education server. Wikipedia, thousands of books, courses, maps, and optional local AI, all running on hardware you own with no internet required.
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[](https://www.projectnomad.us) [](https://discord.com/invite/crosstalksolutions) [](https://benchmark.projectnomad.us) Project NOMAD is a self-contained, offline-first knowledge and education server packed with critical tools, knowledge, and AI to keep you informed and empowered — anytime, anywhere. Project NOMAD can be installed on any Debian-based operating system (we recommend Ubuntu 26.04 LTS; 24.04 LTS and Debian 12 are also supported). Installation is completely terminal-based, and all tools and resources are designed to be accessed through the browser, so there's no need for a desktop environment if you'd rather setup NOMAD as a "server" and access it through other clients. Before you start: NOMAD itself needs about 5 GB of disk and under 1 GB of RAM. The offline content you add afterwards is what actually fills a drive, and the AI Assistant is what drives the memory requirement up. See Device Requirements for both, and the FAQ for individual content sizes. Note: sudo/root privileges are required to run…
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- Project NOMAD
- Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
- Installation & Quickstart
- Quick Install (Debian-based OS Only)
- Advanced Installation
- How It Works
- What's Included
- Device Requirements
- Minimum Specs
- Optimal Specs
- Running AI models on a different host
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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What this repository does
Project NOMAD is an offline-first knowledge and education server. Wikipedia, thousands of books, courses, maps, and optional local AI, all running on hardware you own with no internet required.
Repository facts
- Owner
- Crosstalk-Solutions
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 37,566
- Forks
- 3,749
- Open issues + pull requests
- 93
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2025-06-24T15:35:01.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-13T19:33:25.000Z
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