Tiles

We’re proud to be an anchor project in the @mozilla.org Foundation Human-Scale Al Incubator. We’ll be doing this alongside a cohort of builders making purpose-built tech sized to the problems it’s meant to solve. Seven more spots are open now with up to $500k over two years in non-dilutive funding.

Tiles and @solpbc.org are hosting our first IRL user testing session in Bangalore after the conference wraps up, exclusively for our giveaway participants! Food and drinks are on us! :) RSVP at: atmo.rsvp/p/lexoskelet...

Tiles version 0.4.19 Alpha 23 has been released. MTP is now opt-in, with a new --mtp flag for tiles run and persistent configuration under [llama]. Inference server warnings are now surfaced in the CLI, and fixed an issue where tiles update could install multiple versions. Release notes ↗

Tiles version 0.4.17 Alpha 21 has been released. The new default model is Gemma 4 12B, using Unsloth’s Q4_K_M GGUF. Added quantization tags to Modelfiles and automatic MTP decoding. Upgraded Pi to upstream v0.84.2, plus minor fixes for macOS notarization and GGUF model downloads. Release notes ↗

Share Tiles chat sessions publicly or privately while retaining ownership with AT Protocol: www.tiles.run/blog/atmosph...

New project added to our project list! @tiles.run Local first AI using atproto for data sharing - seems esp. useful for labs interested in sovereign compute or working on sensitive data

We now compensate our contributors, thanks to all our individual supporters on GitHub Sponsors and a Partner Contribution Tier sponsorship from @jeremie.com, founder of @solpbc.org, made possible through @userandagents.org Open Collective. Help keep Tiles Privacy independent: www.tiles.run/sponsor.

Slides from our talk, “Tiles: Own Your AI with local models and open protocols,” are now available. The website will be updated once the recording is published. www.tiles.run/blog/own-you...

Tiles has a Caldir plugin now. Why run the harness in the cloud when you can run everything entirely on-device! Install the plugin: www.tiles.run/plugins/caldir Demo: chat.tiles.run/YXQ6Ly9kaWQ6... Plaintext go brrr! Thanks to @t4t5.com for building such a great calendar CLI!

We’re at @localfirstconf.com! Grab some Tiles stickers and magnets from the conference swag table.

Tiles version 0.4.15 Alpha 19 has been released. Added ATproto lexicon support for shared chats, an uninstall command to remove Tiles from the system, and various bug fixes across tool calling and the harness. Release notes: chat.tiles.run/YXQ6Ly9kaWQ6...

Tiles version 0.4.14 Alpha 18 has been released. Adds plugin support, starting with Skills. Install plugins from a local ZIP archive or a remote URL using tiles plugin install. Verified plugins are listed at tiles.run/plugins. Release notes: www.tiles.run/share/YXQ6Ly...

Tiles version 0.4.13 Alpha 17 has been released. Adds Linux support with llama.cpp, configurable inference runtime controls, capability-based P2P syncing with UCAN, improved device linking, and reliability improvements for tool calling and streaming. Release notes: www.tiles.run/share/YXQ6Ly...

Tiles team is coming to Pune FOSS 4.0 on June 20. See y’all there. fossunited.org/c/pune/punef... @fossunited.mas.to.ap.brid.gy

We figured out how to exit Tiles CLI properly and wrote a deep technical dive into standard streams, pipes, Unix processes, how system signals behave with parent processes, blocking UI I/O, and how async Rust helped fix it: www.tiles.run/blog/control...

Tiles version 0.4.11 Alpha 15 has been released. Adds a new command /reasoning that lets the user toggle the model’s reasoning effort at runtime. Fixes a crash in the REPL when it receives SIGINT (Ctrl+C), and minor refactors to the tool call code. Release notes: www.tiles.run/share/YXQ6Ly...

We’ll be at Local-First Conference 2026 in Berlin talking about Tiles. Come by and say hi.

Tiles version 0.4.10 Alpha 14 has been released. www.tiles.run/download Adds support for tool calling with Pi’s Read, Write, Bash, and Edit tools, fixes a DNS resolver issue, and includes a major refactor of the inference and REPL systems. Release notes: www.tiles.run/share/YXQ6Ly...

Tiles version 0.4.9 Alpha 13 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds support for privately sharing chats over ATProto, along with routine refactoring and improved error handling.

Tiles source code is now mirrored to Tangled. Follow along for updates and ongoing development. tangled.org/tiles.run/ti...

Tiles version 0.4.7 Alpha 11 has been released. tiles.run/download Health command upgrade and other QoL improvements. Sync process now exits automatically after syncing. Fixed issues with the initial db connection, and where model downloads did not resume for partial downloads.

How we package and ship Tiles: www.tiles.run/blog/ship-it...

Tiles version 0.4.6 Alpha 10 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds peer-to-peer device sync, built with @iroh.computer's QUIC networking stack, and encryption at rest for local chats.

Tiles version 0.4.5 Alpha 9 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds peer-to-peer device linking for both offline and online networks, built with @iroh.computer, along with bug fixes for the auto-update system.

Tiles version 0.4.4 Alpha 8 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds support for a fully offline, portable installer alongside the network installer, with the default gpt-oss-20b model bundled, and daemon process implementation for handling background tasks reliably.

Tiles version 0.4.4 Alpha 8 has been released. tiles.run/download Adds support for a fully offline, portable installer alongside the network installer, with the default gpt-oss-20b model bundled, and daemon process implementation for handling background tasks reliably.

Tiles version 0.4.3 Alpha 7 has been released. tiles.run/download Turn-based chats with SQLite persistence. Release artifacts now include a .pkg bundle for easier installs. Support for non-Harmony models such as qwen 3.5-4b. Bug fix for venvstack generating multiple tar archives.

Tiles version 0.4.2 Alpha 6 has been released. New onboarding flow for account and data setup, an OTA updater, and Harmony renderer support for gpt-oss-20b, enabling configurable reasoning effort and improved response quality. Release notes: www.tiles.run/changelog#0....

Tiles runs local AI. That means the Python runtime must be deterministic and portable across machines. With Alpha 4, we now bundle layered venvstacks with pinned dependencies to guarantee reproducible execution. How it works: www.tiles.run/blog/move-al...