OnsetLab

Local tool-calling AI agents with SLMs

Build once, run anywhere. Your models, your tools, your machine. OnsetLab is an open-source framework for running tool-calling AI agents locally. Turn small language models into agents that can call real tools, work with your local environment, and stay under your control. No cloud lock-in, no hidden execution, no surprise data sharing.

Discussion (1)

Riyanshi Bohra 3 months ago

I built OnsetLab because I kept running into the same problem: most AI agent tools assume everything has to run in the cloud. For a lot of things I was building, that felt heavy, expensive, and harder to control than it needed to be.

OnsetLab is my attempt to make AI agents work locally. You can take a small language model, let it call real tools, and run everything on your own machine. No hidden execution, no surprise data sharing.

This is still early and very much a learning project, but I’m excited about where local and on-device AI is headed. I’d love to hear how others are thinking about local agents, tool-calling, or privacy-first AI.

Thanks for checking it out!