Docent- An Open Source Private AI assistant in your terminal
Chat with your PDFs and Office files, search the web, and connect MCP servers, all from the terminal. If no local agent is running, the CLI downloads the framework and models it needs and starts one itself. It installs as both docent and smartloop; the two are the same command.
- ▪Chat with your PDFs and Office files, search the web, and connect MCP servers, all from the terminal.
- ▪If no local agent is running, the CLI downloads the framework and models it needs and starts one itself.
- ▪It installs as both docent and smartloop; the two are the same command.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 7,559 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/smartloop-ai/docent |
| Publication time | Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:24:12 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-04T17:44:54.936Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-04T17:44:54.936Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | IBrQKBVIBKWM · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Docent Your private AI assistant. Chat with your PDFs and Office files, search the web, and connect MCP servers, all from the terminal. If no local agent is running, the CLI downloads the framework and models it needs and starts one itself. It installs as both docent and smartloop; the two are the same command. More at: docs.smartloop.ai Install macOS and Linux curl -fsSL https://smartloop.ai/install | sh Windows (PowerShell): irm https://smartloop.ai/install.ps1 | iex The binary goes to $CARGO_HOME/bin (~/.cargo/bin) when a Rust toolchain already owns that directory, since it is on your PATH anyway; otherwise to ~/.local/bin.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.