Compass AI (my #opensource project) now supports configurable tools, and these can be given to Characters for them to use during your chat session!

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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  • Chaos
    4•6 days ago

    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?

    • nordwesttOP
      1•5 days 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

    • nordwesttOP
      1•5 days ago

      @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”

      • @[email protected]
        1•3 days ago

        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.

        • nordwesttOP
          1•2 days ago

          @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 :)

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 days 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!