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🖥️ Openyak: Local-First Desktop AI Agent

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Openyak is an open-source, local-first AI agent built for desktop work. Its core proposition is clear: no accounts required, no telemetry, and full user control. You can run local models via Ollama or Rapid-MLX, or bring your own API key to use cloud providers. This direction caters to the growing developer demand for privacy and data security. This is not another chat wrapper — it is attempting to be an open-source alternative to tools like Cursor or Claude Code, assisting with coding and daily tasks directly on the desktop. While it is still in its early stages, the bring-your-own-key approach for a clean desktop agent addresses a specific and real user pain point.