This is just the foundation! More tools will be added - and I'm working on making an editor so you can paste in whatever tool you want and have your characters use it ;)

Second news is I got Windows builds working!
I don't have a Windows PC to test with right now (and haven't had time to tinker with a VM) , so if you want to give it a try and let me know how it goes, here's the link:
https://github.com/compass-ai-chat/compass/releases/tag/v1.0.1

I've got a lot planned already - but I'm curious to hear if there's any feature you want to see in an AI Chat program that no-one's made yet?

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[–] SsxChaos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry to ask, but I couldn't find anything that would help me understand what's this project about exactly, the GitHub repo does provide details and the informations here sound a bit blurry, however your hype about it makes it feel like it's something big and important, which is why I had to ask, if you could provide more clarity around and about this project?

[–] nordwestt@techhub.social 1 points 1 week ago

@SsxChaos Of course - that's a good question! Every project has a beginning, and this is the beginning of this one

Been working on it since November last year after I made a PR for OpenWebUI, as I realised that there wasn't really a lightweight, cross-platform, open "client" for AI (and if there was I hadn't been able to find it, since I really wanted one!)
So I started working on Compass for fun and kept going.

Now it's pretty stable and polished and I'm ready to start letting people know about it - while I keep working on it and adding features

Feel free to try out the demo at compass-ai.chat where you can also read a bit more

[+] miau 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] nordwestt@techhub.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@miau Hey there - yes that's a good shout! Been focusing so much on desktop experience, stability and polish

I'll give the mobile UX a bit more love (it needs some after recent refactors!), and then I'll try to get it listed on fdroid

Can I ask you weren't completely satisfied with existing tools? just looking for what I can do better so this doesn't just feel like "yet another AI app"

[–] miau 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, sorry, I ended up deleting my previous comment and didnt notice you had replied

But what I miss in other apps are things like being able to do text search in the chats, share files/media into the LLM, just as I would in a chat with a human person, the ability to select a message and ask the llm to regenerate it. To be honest I havent seen many android apps with all this funcionality that are LLM agnostic (meaning I can either plug ollama or another LLM of my choice). The ollama android app is very good but does not support openai/gemini.

[–] nordwestt@techhub.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@miau Ahh do you mean text search through ALL chats? so you can find a specific conversation?

We have file sharing for characters, so you can give it access - but yeah I still need to add a little "media" button for the chat so it's easier to share on-the-go

Regeneration is a good one! And very easy to implement :)

[–] miau 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, I tend to keep relatively long chats with LLM. Spedially when using reasoning models the chat history grows quickly. So being able to search for some text string in a given chat would be helpful. But I understand this might be a not so common use case.

Awesome that you already have file sharing, I will be sure to take a look!