Clive — a friendly CLI for local LLMs

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Clive v0.1.0 has launched as a local-first CLI coding assistant for running open-source LLMs on your own machine.
It supports streaming chat, multi-file agent tasks, preview-and-apply edits with rollback, and safe diff-based file changes.
Built in Rust and released under the MIT license, it also includes integrated Ollama model management.
The tool offers a more ergonomic, privacy-preserving way to use local models for coding and automation without sending prompts or files to external services.
