// ITS FOSS — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
Local AI Weekly #5: AI Gets a Desk Job
This week, AI went to the "office". Linus Torvalds says he actually likes using AI, and his new kernel branch credits Claude Code for the code, the tests and even a draft of the commit message. Office suites are being rebuilt so agents can edit your documents. And Big Tech wants its agents inside every work app you use, including the office app.
The question I keep asking is whose desk the agent sits on. If it lives in someone else's cloud, so does your work. That's why the local and self-hosted options matter.
I've been testing openKylin 3.0. It ships with Kylin bot, an AI assistant that can change desktop settings for you. With openKylin's own hosted model, I could successfully make the agent change the system settings.
But my local and frontier models did not fare as well. When assigned a task, my Qwen model with Ollama replied that it changed system settings when it was not changed in reality.
I will be sharing all this in a video later this week. Stay tuned for that.
BetterOffice is an Apache-2.0 office suite you embed in your own web app, with DOCX, XLSX and PPTX editors built on Rust and WebAssembly. The interesting part is that an AI agent edits as a peer, and its changes show up as tracked changes you accept or reject.
ArtCraft, the folks behind those Adobe clones, has moved on to Microsoft Office. WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft are Rust clones of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, built with Claude. The READMEs claim high parity with Office, but the numbers are self-reported and the apps are pre-alpha. I'll believe it when it is tested in real world, with real use cases.
Razorpay open sourced slashdocs, a self-hosted place where agents publish HTML reports and your team comments on them. The agent reads the comments and pushes the next version. It's MIT licensed and ships as a single Go binary.
Raven calls itself a "harness of harnesses." It splits a task into pieces and hands them to specialist agents, including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Hermes. It's Apache-2.0 and pre-alpha (again). Sorry but so many new tools in alpha stage these days. But that's the joy of discovering new tools, right?
Two big announcements this week, not that you can download them (yet).