5ire
A cross-platform desktop AI assistant and MCP client with a local knowledge base.
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A desktop MCP client with built-in document retrieval.
You plan commercial use; its modified Apache 2.0 licence requires a paid licence for defined commercial cases.
About 5ire
5ire is a desktop assistant and MCP client that works with OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama and other providers. It adds tools through MCP servers, a local knowledge base, a prompt library, bookmarks, quick search and usage analytics. The tools feature needs Python, Node.js and uv installed.
5ire is a project written primarily in TypeScript, with 5.4k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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