I built a 81-tool, fully local AI desktop assistant with PySide6 and Ollama (here is the architecture)

Why a desktop app, not another chat UI

VS Code gives you an editor. Cursor gives you an editor + chat bolted on. Sentience is a different shape of animal: a native desktop window where the AI is the primary surface, 81 first-class tools hang off a ReAct loop, and the whole thing runs offline against Ollama with no telemetry, no extension marketplace, and no monthly bill.

It is about 6,200 lines of Python. The license is MIT. The window opens in under a second on a cold start.

The shape: a window, an agent, and a tool registry

[Sentience window (PySide6)]