local-ai-mac: Practical guide to running LLMs locally on Apple Silicon, with a focus on architecture, memory scaling

by dmitryryabkov · Agent Tool · ★ 70

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Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 57/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars70
Forks5
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseMIT
Quality Score57/100
Open Issues1
Last Updated2026-06-13
Created2026-04-02
Platformsclaude-code
Est. Tokens~23k

About local-ai-mac

Running (and coding with) Local AI on a Mac This is a comprehensive guide on how to run AI models and coding agents locally on a Mac. I gathered various bits and pieces of information scattered across the internet into a single resource. If you have a spare Mac lying around, you can turn it into an “LLM server” and use it instead of paying for OpenAI, Claude, etc.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with local-ai-mac for enhanced workflows:

  • houtini-lm — semantic(0.27)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (54%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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