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LLM Libraries

SDKs and libraries for building applications on top of language models.

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get-md

Nano Collective

Recommended

Fast, lightweight HTML, PDF, DOCX and Markdown to Markdown converter optimised for LLM consumption. Converts files or URLs in under 100ms, with optional AI-powered conversion using a local model. Library and CLI.

  • Open source
  • Local-first
  • Privacy-first
  • Self-hostable
[ LLM Libraries ]

json-up

Nano Collective

Recommended

Fast, type-safe JSON migration tool with Zod schema validation. Fluent builder API for versioned migration chains, full TypeScript inference, async migration support and automatic version tracking.

  • Open source
  • Local-first
  • Privacy-first
  • Self-hostable
[ LLM Libraries ]

LangChain

LangChain

Framework for developing applications powered by LLMs. Provides agent orchestration, tool calling, memory and integrations with hundreds of model providers and data sources in Python and JavaScript.

  • Open source
  • Local-first
  • Self-hostable
[ Agent Frameworks ][ LLM Libraries ]

llama.cpp

ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov)

Recommended

LLM inference engine in C/C++ with minimal dependencies. Runs quantized GGUF models on CPU and GPU across Apple Silicon, x86 and CUDA, and powers many local AI applications.

  • Open source
  • Local-first
  • Privacy-first
  • Self-hostable
[ Local Inference ][ LLM Libraries ]

LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex

Data framework for connecting LLMs to your own data. Document loaders, indexes and query engines for building RAG pipelines and document agents in Python and TypeScript.

  • Open source
  • Local-first
  • Self-hostable
[ LLM Libraries ][ Search & Knowledge ]

prompt-scrubber

Nano Collective

Recommended

Local-first utility that strips identifying content — emails, secrets, file paths, URLs, phone numbers — from prompts before they reach a cloud LLM, mapping each value to a stable placeholder so responses can be rehydrated locally.

  • Open source
  • Local-first
  • Privacy-first
  • Self-hostable
[ LLM Libraries ]

Hugging Face Transformers

Hugging Face

Recommended

Hugging Face's model-definition library for state-of-the-art transformer models in text, vision and audio. Load thousands of pretrained open models for local inference or training in PyTorch.

  • Open source
  • Local-first
  • Privacy-first
  • Self-hostable
[ LLM Libraries ][ Open Models ]