The Launcher
Cloak Forge Launcher
A local-AI dashboard for your own Mac — no cloud, no subscription, one download.
What it is
Cloak Forge Launcher is a terminal app that turns a fresh Mac into a working local-AI setup in one step. Open it, and it scans your hardware, works out the biggest language model your machine can actually run well, and gets a local model server (Ollama) running — bundled in, nothing to install first. From there you chat with the model entirely on your own device. Nothing you type leaves the machine.
The dashboard — hardware, models, and connected add-ons, all in one screen.
What it does
- Hardware-matched model picks. Scans your CPU/GPU and unified memory, then recommends a model sized to fit — from a fast 1.7B model on modest hardware up to 235B-class models on a high-end workstation, always the largest size that will actually run well rather than just the largest that downloads.
- Download and remove models freely. Pull any size at any time with visible live progress, and remove one later to free disk space — re-download it again whenever you want. Nothing is one-way.
- Local, on-device chat. Talk to whichever model you have active, with optional file, shell, and web-search tools it can call — each one permissioned to ask every time, auto-approve, or stay fully read-only, your choice.
- Connections. A growing set of add-on modules that plug into the same local model instead of shipping their own separate AI — more on this below.
The models it can run
All 4-bit quantized, all Apache‑2.0 licensed. It always defaults to the largest general-purpose size your hardware can run well; the vision and coding sizes are opt-in — listed and downloadable, but never chosen for you automatically.
| Size | Download | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| 1.7B | 1.4 GB | Fast and light on almost any Mac. Fine for a single, simple tool call at a time; not for multi-step reasoning. |
| 1.8B (vision, opt-in) | 1.8 GB | The lightest way to send it an image — basic description and detection, no tool-calling. |
| 8B | 5.2 GB | A real step up in reasoning. Reliable for one tool call at a time; still shaky chaining several together. |
| 7B (vision, opt-in) | 6.0 GB | Meaningfully better at reading documents, charts, and screenshots than the smaller vision size. |
| 14B | 9.3 GB | A dependable everyday default — handles both single- and multi-step tool use with reasonable judgment. |
| 30B (coding, opt-in) | 18 GB | Tuned for code and agentic tool use, with a 262K context window for large codebases. Stronger than the general 32B size at exactly this, weaker at open-ended writing. |
| 32B | 20 GB | Strong general reasoning and dependable multi-step tool use — chaining tools, recovering from a bad result, nuanced instructions. |
| ~70B-class (MoE) | 28 GB | A mixture-of-experts model giving roughly 70B-class quality at a fraction of the active compute. Chats well; can't call tools. |
| 235B-A22B (MoE) | 142 GB | Frontier-class reasoning with full tool-calling. Realistic only on a very high-end unified-memory or multi-GPU workstation. |
Connections
Add-on modules that plug into the same local model instead of shipping their own — one AI setup on your machine, a growing set of tools that share it.
Available now
Cloak Forge Email
Reads your inbox, drafts AI replies, and can auto-send for rules you turn on yourself — running on the exact model you already have loaded, no separate account or cloud service.
Why local
No API bill that scales with usage, no account, and no dependence on a provider staying up or staying priced the way it is today. The trade-off is honest: a local model is not going to out-think a frontier hosted one. What you get instead is a setup that is entirely yours — private by construction, working offline, and still yours in five years regardless of what any AI company does.
Cloak Forge Launcher
- macOS · Apple Silicon
- bundled Ollama — no prior install
- hardware-matched model pick
- local chat, on-device
- permissioned file / shell / web tools
- Connections — add-on modules, same local model
Unsigned build — macOS asks you to clear it on first open (one Terminal command, covered in the readme). Apple Silicon only for now.