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LEANN

Discover LEANN, the innovative AI platform that transforms your laptop into a powerful semantic search tool with zero cloud costs and full privacy.

Introduction

LEANN is an innovative vector database and personal AI platform. It transforms your laptop into a powerful RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system, enabling semantic search across millions of documents—file system, emails, browser history, chat logs, codebase, or external knowledge bases—locally, with zero cloud cost and full privacy.

Key Features

  • 97% storage reduction vs. traditional solutions, no accuracy loss
  • Graph-based selective recomputation and high-degree preserving pruning
  • Computes embeddings on-demand, not stored
  • Ready-to-use RAG for everything: documents, code, emails, history
  • Fully compatible with Claude Code (MCP), drop-in semantic search
  • Open-source, privacy-first, zero cloud dependency

Use Cases

  • Personal AI assistant on your laptop
  • Semantic search for local and external knowledge bases
  • Private, cost-free RAG for enterprise or individual
  • Intelligent retrieval for code, documents, and more

Technical Highlights

  • Graph-based vector storage and pruning
  • On-demand embedding computation
  • Python implementation, easy to extend
  • MCP service, compatible with Claude Code

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LEANN
Resource Info
Author yichuan-w
Added Date 2025-09-04
Type
Project
Tags
RAG OSS Utility MCP