Meet Tars: The Local-First, Autonomous AI Sidekick for Your Terminal

For the past few months, I've been obsessed with a single question: Why do our AI assistants live in the cloud, while our work lives on our machines? Most AI coding assistants today are great, but they feel like "visitors." They have a limited context of your system, they require expensive subscriptions, and they often struggle with long-running tasks that require actual autonomous execution. That's why I built Tars . What is Tars? Tars is an autonomous, local-first AI assistant powered by Google's Gemini models. Unlike a standard CLI wrapper, Tars uses a Supervisor-Orchestrator model. It lives in your terminal, but it acts like a background service that can manage its own memory, schedule its own tasks, and even heal itself if things go wrong. Core Features: Autonomous Persistence : Tars has a background "Heartbeat" service. You can give it a complex task (like refactoring a library or monitoring a server), and it will work on it autonomously until it's done—sending you a notification