# LocalGhost (slim)

> Pre-release, open-source personal AI server that runs on hardware its owner keeps, started in London in December 2025.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md (~9,050 tokens) · this version ~1,580 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**E · 45.8/100 · rank #396 of 452 · #9 in Local AI · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: The server and Android app are MIT-licensed, with no telemetry libraries found. There is no agent API, MCP server or SDK; unpaired callers receive HTTP 503.

Disclosure: LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed. The review panel doesn't review it, and letme never picks it.

## Facts

- Kind: Model platform · vendor: LocalGhost · category: Local AI · legal entity: LocalGhost.ai Ltd (company number 17213100, registered in England and Wales, incorporated 12 May 2026) · provenance 82/100
- Local only (HTTP)
- Auth: Token · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Status: Pre-release, Phase 1 of the public roadmap. No software release and no hardware on sale (about page, 23 September 2026)
- Daemons running: ghost.secd, framed, searchd, oracled, synthd, watchd, noted, voiced, tallyd and cued on the founder's box. ghost.shadowd is a stub
- Models: Gemma 4 12B instruct Q4_K_M on llama-server (llama.cpp v0.5.0), EmbeddingGemma 300M Q8_0 for search, Gemma 4 E2B (2.2 GB) on the phone, Whisper large-v3-turbo for voice notes
- Search: Postgres full-text and vector search, fused with reciprocal rank fusion
- Hardware: Founder's box is Debian 13 with an RTX 4070 (12 GB) in a Thunderbolt enclosure. June 2026 reference build about £1,130 in parts
- Access: Android app only (Kotlin, no Google Play services, minSdk 35). Mutual TLS to ghost.secd, PIN unlock, two-day session token
- Storage: LUKS2 volume with the key sealed to the TPM through go-tpm, mounted in ghost.secd's private mount namespace. Argon2id from the PIN without a TPM
- Network: The phone runs web searches and reads pages for the box. Since 1 October 2026 the box polls seven crypto exchanges every minute, and fetches ECB rates and news feeds itself when the phone is off Wi-Fi
- Code: About 61,000 lines of Go in server/ and about 31,000 lines of Kotlin in app/. 233 commits from 30 December 2025 to 2 October 2026, no tags or releases, no CI workflow
- Security policy: Reports to info@localghost.ai with PGP. Acknowledgement within 72 hours, response within 14 days, 90-day disclosure, no bounty

- Scores: Reliability 59, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 44, Agent ergonomics 2, Security & auth 52, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 71, Transparency & trust 77 · negative events -3 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the local-software lines, because LocalGhost runs on its owner's hardware with no hosted service, and its status page covers only… · Schema & documentation, Read with the API lines, since the listing's kind is platform, and scored on what a model can read and call. · Agent ergonomics, Read with the tool lines, as for any platform, against the surface an agent can reach. · Security & auth, Read with the tool checklist, credential model first. · Payments & pricing, Read with the self-hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, wisp 0.0.3 on 3 October 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, MIT for the server and the app, all of it public.
- Sources: 40, open questions: 5, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: memory.store, memory.search, memory.user, memory.delete
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json
- Vendor link: Linked by the vendor from https://github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost, checked 2 October 2026. It doesn't affect the grade.
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/localghost.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost from a page on localghost.ai or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/LocalGhostDao/localghost, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Don't call a LocalGhost box. Every request without the paired phone's certificate gets a 503 that looks like an outage
2. Reach a person's LocalGhost archive through the person and their phone. Nothing in wisp 0.0.3 opens it to an agent
3. Read a 503 from a box as no certificate, a retired phone, a locked box or a down daemon. The response never says which
4. Don't treat the README's list of what leaves the phone as complete. The app also calls Frankfurter, Wikipedia's summary API and Android's geocoder
5. Run `ghost-cli ghost.<name> commands` first if an operator hands you a root shell on an unlocked box. It lists command names only, takes key=value arguments and prints JSON

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