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Nimi is the installable, open-source, local-first personal AI product. Nimi Home is the entry point, currently hosted by the Desktop app, and a multi-provider Runtime runs local and cloud AI behind it. Characters, conversations, creations, stories, and worlds are the experiences you meet inside Nimi.
What You Can Do Today
- Follow the release. No stable download is published yet. Watch the GitHub repository or join the Discord for the announcement.
- Build an app. Developers can already create Nimi Apps through the Developer Mode local-development path. Start with Create A Nimi App.
- Understand the product first. The Platform overview explains what Nimi is and how its pieces fit together.
Choose Your Path
- New to Nimi? Read Platform for the product model, then Runtime for how AI work runs, then SDK for how apps plug in. Desktop and Realm round out the picture, and the Glossary explains any unfamiliar term.
- Evaluating the project? Read Platform Vision and Platform Architecture, then Runtime and SDK Boundaries. About the length of a long blog post.
- Building an app? Start with Create A Nimi App, then the SDK docs. For a working capability demo see Use Nimi Lab; when something fails, open Troubleshooting.
- Adopting Nimi Coding? Nimi Coding is the specification-management tooling the Nimi repository itself uses, published as an npm package. Read the overview, the installation guide, and the CLI reference.
For role-specific walkthroughs (world creator, app developer, auditor, and more), see Personas. For what is installable right now, see Installation And Availability.
Reader Scenario: Can I Use Nimi Today?
You heard about Nimi from a friend and want to know if you can use it right now.
- You open the Platform overview and learn what Nimi is: a personal AI product that installs on your own machine, with your characters, conversations, and worlds kept local-first.
- You check Installation And Availability and see that no stable end-user download is published yet.
- You star the GitHub repository and join the Discord, so the release announcement reaches you when it lands.
- If you also write code, you don't have to wait: the Developer Mode path already lets you create a Nimi App and run it locally.