Launching today
Reika
A coding agent CLI designed around small local models first
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A coding agent CLI designed around small local models first
9 followers
Reika is a coding agent CLI for local and hosted models, designed around local models first. It doesn't make a small model more intelligent but it provides a better experience using them day to day. Even if you're not part of the absolute range that Reika is designed for, using larger local models or hosted ones will still provide a solid experience out of the box.
Reika was a project I never intended to make public because it was part of my own personal local AI stack. But as I worked on it to make it usable as a daily driver, I thought it would be nice to make it public for others to see and use.
I initially built it to see how much I could get the harness to make small models, especially at low quantization and context to not feel terrible to use. So while Reika doesn't solve the intelligence side, it tries to solve the overall experience when using small models at the absolute scale.
A lot of the testing and pain came through working on my M2 MacBook Air 16GB trying to run models like Qwen3.6 35B A3B and Qwen3.8 27B all day in agentic coding, maxing out the RAM and limits of my own machine. So the base of Reika comes from a legitimate source of truth.
Anyways, hope you all enjoy it :)