Friendly Kobold

A koboldcpp manager.

Core Features

modern UI for koboldcpp with full support for Linux Wayland
download and keep up-to-date your koboldcpp binary
better surface the ROCm-specific builds of koboldcpp from YellowRoseCx and from koboldai.org
manage the koboldcpp binary to prevent it from running in the background indefinitely
automatically unpack all downloaded koboldcpp binaries for significantly faster operation and reduced RAM+HDD utilization (up to ~4GB less RAM usage for ROCm)
adding presets for a basic flux or chroma image generation setup

Prerequisites

Volta - JavaScript tool manager (installs correct Node.js + Yarn versions automatically)

Setup

Install Volta (if not already installed):
```
curl https://get.volta.sh | bash
```
Clone the repository
Install dependencies (Volta will auto-install the correct Node.js and Yarn versions):
```
yarn
```
Start the development server:
```
yarn dev
```

Linux Wayland support

Additional configurations have been written to help with ideal Wayland support, but as per current Electron guidelines, the user should set ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT to wayland in their environment variable according to the Electron Environment Variables documentation.

Future features

Not all koboldcpp features have currently been ported over the UI. As a workaround one may use the "Additional arguments" on the "Advanced" tab of the launcher to provide additional command line arguments if you know them.

Future considerations

It would make a lot of sense to transition this project to Tauri from Electron. The app size should drop from ~80MB to ~10MB; however, users on obsolete OSes (with outdated WebViews) will very likely encounter issues. In addition, I would need to learn Rust to rewrite the BE (Electron main code), but at least we can re-use all the React code. The app would be much smaller, faster and memory efficient, but not work for some users. I think it's a worthy tradeoff.

Dev notes

Maximum compression doesn't work well on Linux and causes the app start time to be over 30 secs. Reducing compression for Linux's AppImage builds, which increases file size by ~20MB, but makes its start up time reasonable again.

License

AGPL v3 License - see LICENSE file for details

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