Skip to main content
← Back to news

sift: recognizes and summarizes every file with a local LLM, fully offline

Tools & releases
sift is a zero-dependency Python tool that detects a file's real type by content (not just extension), extracts its structure, and asks a local LLM — Ollama, LM Studio or MLX-LM — to classify and summarize it. Nothing leaves the machine; it counts its own numbers and reports files that talk to the assistant.

Get the next local-AI briefing

Once a week, the top selection from iaLocale: articles, news and resources on local AI, and more.

After signing up you receive a confirmation email (double opt-in). Without confirmation we send nothing. No spam, we promise.