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Harbor

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the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Developers who want a ready made local AI stack without manually wiring together separate services.

W2 What

Harbor is a CLI and companion app that runs a pre configured set of open source LLM tools such as backends, front ends, and utilities together via Docker Compose.

W3 Where

Runs locally on any Docker capable machine, orchestrating dozens of interchangeable services with one command.

W4 When

Actively developed since 2024 by maintainer av with regular service additions.

W5 Why

Removes the tedious configuration work of pairing inference backends with UIs, vector stores, and other companion tools.

W6 With

Depends on Docker and Docker Compose and integrates services like Ollama, llama.cpp, and Open WebUI.

W7 Watch

Open source under Apache 2.0 on GitHub, no account required, everything runs locally in containers.

docker-composellm-stacklocal-llmollamaopen-webui

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