Minima-AI-Inc/minima
View on GitHub ↗On-premises conversational RAG with configurable containers
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What you need to know
Open-source, on-premises/containerized RAG engine that indexes local documents and exposes them to ChatGPT (custom GPT), Anthropic Claude, and MCP clients, with fully-local Ollama or custom OpenAI-compatible LLM modes.
Install
./run.sh docker compose -f docker-compose-ollama.yml --env-file .env up --build
Usage
- •Copy .env.sample to .env and set LOCAL_FILES_PATH, EMBEDDING_MODEL_ID, EMBEDDING_SIZE, plus OLLAMA_MODEL/RERANKER_MODEL (Ollama) or LLM_BASE_URL/LLM_MODEL (custom LLM).
- •For Claude Desktop add the minima MCP server via 'uv --directory <project>/mcp-server run minima' in claude_desktop_config.json.
- •For GitHub Copilot configure .vscode/mcp.json to run run_in_copilot.sh; the chat UI runs at http://localhost:3000.
- •For ChatGPT mode, copy the OTP printed in the docker terminal into the Minima GPT.
Key features
- ✓Four modes: isolated Ollama, custom OpenAI-compatible LLM (vLLM, TGI, LiteLLM, LocalAI, OpenAI API, etc.), ChatGPT custom GPT, and Anthropic Claude.
- ✓Recursive indexing of .pdf, .xls, .docx, .txt, .md, and .csv files under LOCAL_FILES_PATH.
- ✓Qdrant vector storage with Sentence Transformer embeddings.
- ✓Optional Electron desktop app (cd electron && npm install && npm start) for fully local installs.
Best for
Privacy-conscious on-premises RAG over your own documents with ChatGPT, Claude, or local LLMs.
Caveats
- ⚠Only Sentence Transformer embedding models are currently supported; EMBEDDING_SIZE must match the model.
- ⚠Requires Python >=3.10 and uv installed for MCP usage.
- ⚠Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPLv2).
- ⚠Custom LLM mode skips reranking and uses direct retrieval for performance.
Platforms: Local · WebClients: Claude Desktop · GitHub Copilot · ChatGPT
Reviewed 2026-08-18
Topics
aiclaudecustom-gptsdockerdocker-composehuggingfacelangchainmcpmodel-context-protocolollamaqdrantsentence-transformers
- Stars
- 1,048★
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- 107
- Language
- Python
- License
- MPL-2.0
- Created
- 2024-11-02
- Last push
- 2026-01-22