Toskar / Documentation
Your local AI, from setup to Team
Install a model, connect your computers, and put local AI to work. These pages describe version 1.11.2.
Toskar Pro is the app for your computer, from the Mac App Store and the Microsoft Store. Toskar Core is the free, open-source service: Homebrew, Linux packages, and Docker.
- What Toskar doesToskar runs AI models on computers you already own. Toskar Pro is the packaged app for your computer, and Toskar the app for your phone…
- Install and start your first chatToskar Pro is distributed separately from this Core release. The release files are Toskar Core. Verify them against SHA256SUMS.txt. Core…
- ChatThe composer has the profile, the model, Run on, Effort, and Memory. Model Auto picks an installed model for each message: a quick question…
- Long chats and auto-compactA model can read only so much at once: its context window. When a chat grows long, Toskar's auto-compact sends the older messages to the…
- Get more careful answersToskar has four ways to give a question more care: Effort in the chat, a reasoning model, a profile's Reasoning level, and comparing…
- MemorySay “Remember that…” in any chat, and Toskar keeps it across chats, restarts, and model changes. “Forget…” removes a memory, and “What do…
- Connect knowledgeKnowledge keeps catalogs, prices, policies, and documents searchable. When a profile or a specialized AI uses a source, the passages that…
- Choose and manage modelsModels separates discovery, installed models, and running models. Choose the target computer before installing or managing models. A…
- Schedule an automationAn automation is a prompt that the daemon runs on a schedule. Price checks, stock checks, release summaries, and one-time research are the…
- Train your own AITrain builds a small assistant that is good at one job. Training teaches your AI how to do its job. Connected knowledge gives it the…
- Tools, permissions, and connected servicesProfiles control which tools a model may use. Turning on a capability allows its tools. In advanced mode, each tool has a permission…
- What pictures and clips needToskar makes pictures and clips on your own computers; the prompt and what it makes aren't sent anywhere. Each model needs enough memory…
- NotificationsThe bell next to the Toskar name shows unread notifications: finished and failed automations, tools an automation skipped, finished or…
- Profiles & OrchestrationA profile is a saved assistant: how it works through requests, its models, tools, memory, and the computers it runs on. General Assistant…
- Connect your computersComputers discovers other Toskar instances on the local network. Pairing establishes trust between computers; it is separate from enabling…
- Run a Team profileProgramming uses the Team strategy: a planner splits your request into parts, a worker writes notes for each part, the answer is written…
- Compare independent draftsA profile can have its answers drafted three times, independently, and compared before you see one. Small models make reasoning slips, such…
- Connect another app through the APIOpen API Access to copy the endpoint and run Test API. The default base URL is http://127.0.0.1:7331/v1. Use GET /v1/models to find a model…
- Use Toskar on your phone, tablet, or TVThe Toskar apps for phones, tablets, and TVs chat with the models on your computer, with your chats, memory, and knowledge. The device and…
- Reach Toskar away from homeAccess from anywhere lets the phones, tablets, and other devices you paired reach Toskar when they're away from home. It's off until you…
- Share Toskar with other peopleEveryone in your home or team can use the same Toskar, each with their own chats, memories, files, and automations. Nobody sees anyone…
- Open a chat page for the people you serveA chat portal is a page with only a chat on it, in your own name, logo, and colours, for customers, students, or anyone you help. It…
- Run without a desktopExtract the matching Linux headless archive and run the daemon from the extracted directory. Keep the bundled web directory alongside it.…
- Privacy, encryption, and what left this computerAre my chats private? Yes. Your chats, memories, knowledge, and files stay on this computer. Only people who can sign in to your account on…
- Settings and storageSettings controls appearance, the default profile, where chats run, model lifecycle and storage, downloads, notifications, history, tool…
- Diagnostics and performanceDiagnostics shows the health of the control service, the model runtime, the database, networking, storage, and the API, with a plain status…
- Is my model using the GPU?Each running model shows where it runs, on Models › Running and on the Performance overview. Toskar reads this from llama.cpp when it loads…
- TroubleshootingStart with What I did under the answer: it names the model that answered and why, and what went wrong. No reply or a model load failure…
- Report a problemMost errors have Report this beside them: in the app and the desktop app, on the phone and tablet, and on the TV. It opens the report so…
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