Sidekick AI Agent
by johnbean393A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.
Sidekick is an open-source ai agent by johnbean393, written mainly in Swift, with 3,321 GitHub stars and the MIT license. Its code was last updated Sep 30, 2026.
Scan summary: scanned Nov 5, 2026 at commit 83b3e6e. No capabilities flagged by our checks. Scan policy
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- lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle@2.6.4: 2 known vulnerabilitiesGHSA-g3hp-f6mg-559v, GHSA-hg88-v3cw-3qrh
Sidekick.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcshareddata/swiftpm/Package.resolved - lowLow. Minor, or common in normal tools. Shown for information.No manifest declaring network access and environment variables (agent.json)
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