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ai: ground answers in a live library map, budget the context
Response-quality work, all aimed at giving the model enough context to
answer accurately:

- Every chat's system prompt now carries a live library map (today's
  date, counts, and the exact names of channels, domains, zims, and
  inventories, capped and cached 60s).  Exact spellings are in context
  before the first token, and the list_collections round-trip — minutes
  on slow hardware — is usually unnecessary.
- The request is budgeted against the model's real context: oldest
  turns are trimmed first, the current question is never dropped, and
  an over-budget turn gets a clear "start a new conversation" error
  instead of a silently truncated prompt.  cache_prompt reuses the KV
  cache for the stable prefix, which is most of the latency on a Pi.
- context_size plumbing fixed: selecting a model adopts its catalog
  default (the 4B was running at 8k instead of 16k), and llama-server
  runs --parallel 1 so the single user gets the whole context.
- temperature is configurable in ai.yaml (default 0.3 — small models
  call tools far more reliably near 0.2-0.3 than at server defaults).
- One worked tool-use example per mode is prepended to every
  conversation; small models imitate far better than they obey.
- scripts/ai_eval.py scores the assistant against a live WROLPi on
  mechanical checks (finished, called the right tool first, included a
  WROLPi link, no external URLs) so prompt changes stop being validated
  by anecdote.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 18:23:24 -06:00
.circleci test: the component suite has not run since cypress 15, on any machine (#661) 2026-08-12 21:57:07 -06:00
.github ci: raise the test timeout to 120s, and run controller tests on pull requests 2026-08-08 18:05:44 -06:00
.run Video downloads have many more options. Downloads are migrated. 2024-11-28 09:48:57 -07:00
alembic files: extract refresh compare into its own module; drop file_group.idempotency (#717) 2026-09-20 20:58:19 -06:00
app ai: the Chat tab — SSE streaming chat with modes 2026-09-24 18:23:22 -06:00
controller ai: package llama-server for all three deployments, with idle unload 2026-09-24 18:23:21 -06:00
debian-live-config ai: package llama-server for all three deployments, with idle unload 2026-09-24 18:23:21 -06:00
docker ai: live-chat fixes from first real-model run 2026-09-24 18:23:23 -06:00
etc ai: the /api/chat agent loop — SSE streaming, modes, tool execution 2026-09-24 18:23:21 -06:00
modules ai: ground answers in a live library map, budget the context 2026-09-24 18:23:24 -06:00
pi-gen ai: package llama-server for all three deployments, with idle unload 2026-09-24 18:23:21 -06:00
release Retrying build image uploads multiple times before failing release attempt. 2026-06-11 19:46:31 -06:00
scripts ai: ground answers in a live library map, budget the context 2026-09-24 18:23:24 -06:00
test Modifying Video/Channel/RSS Downloaders so that they can download videos, but audio only. These audio files are grouped under their channel directories. 2026-04-14 15:33:01 -06:00
wrolpi ai: keep slow-CPU chat streams alive 2026-09-24 18:23:24 -06:00
wrolpi_mcp ai: wrolpi_mcp becomes a thin proxy over /api/ai 2026-09-24 18:23:22 -06:00
.coveragerc Adding coverage config which ignores non-API directories. 2024-10-16 18:56:03 -06:00
.dockerignore A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
.gitignore Fix API stalls: non-blocking switch worker, threaded searches, indexed Videos page (#678) 2026-08-29 16:17:53 -06:00
.gitmodules Adding FileGroup.published_date/author/etc. Creating script which converts a Singlefile to an Archive FileGroup files. 2023-10-23 18:09:08 -06:00
.gitpod.yml Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
.mcp.json.example Removing WROLPi admin functionality that is now in Controller. 2025-12-19 18:41:27 -07:00
alembic.ini Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
conftest.py ai: add the /api/ai blueprint, the read-only LLM tool catalog 2026-09-24 18:23:20 -06:00
demo_link.jpg Replacing demo image. 2023-01-30 13:27:26 -07:00
docker-compose.yml ai: package llama-server for all three deployments, with idle unload 2026-09-24 18:23:21 -06:00
help.sh help.sh: move DB integrity scan out of startup diagnostics 2026-07-22 19:47:35 -06:00
icon.ico A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
icon.png Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
INSTALL.md Docs: recommend Raspberry Pi Imager instead of Etcher. 2026-07-03 18:58:54 -06:00
install.sh Disambiguate 'git checkout release' in install.sh 2026-06-27 13:57:27 -06:00
join_discord.png A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
LICENSE A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
main.py ai: ai.yaml config, model catalog, and the GGUF downloader 2026-09-24 18:23:21 -06:00
pytest.ini ci: raise the test timeout to 120s, and run controller tests on pull requests 2026-08-08 18:05:44 -06:00
README.md Postgres -> SQLite hard cutover: the database moves into the media directory. 2026-07-12 14:09:37 -06:00
repair.sh Hotspot captive portal: welcome page with the WROLPi's address (#709) 2026-09-13 20:10:02 -06:00
requirements.txt build(deps): update rarfile requirement from >=4.2 to >=4.5 (#682) 2026-09-03 16:25:24 -06:00
test_all.sh Creating test_all.sh script to run all frontend and backend tests. 2025-12-17 15:11:57 -07:00
UPGRADE.md Documenting WROLPi Portable USB, splitting install docs into INSTALL.md. 2026-05-28 21:33:22 -06:00
upgrade.sh upgrade: restart services when the upgrade fails before code changes (#669) 2026-08-19 18:52:53 -06:00

WROLPi

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WROLPi Logo

WROLPi is a self-contained collection of software to help you survive the world Without Rule of Law.

WROLPi is intended to be run on a Raspberry Pi with an optional external drive attached. It serves up it's own Wi-Fi network so that any user with a laptop/tablet/phone can connect and use the library created by the maintainer.

Table of Contents

Features

  • Videos
  • Web Archives
  • Maps
  • Wikipedia
  • File search
  • eBooks (EPUB / PDFs)
  • Wi-Fi Hotspot
  • Universal search
  • Food Inventory management
  • One-Time pad generator, encrypter/decrypter
  • Synchronizer/duplicator
  • Food storage calculator

Module features matrix

Module View Search Download Project
Videos yes yes yes yt-dlp
Web Archives yes yes yes Singlefile
Wikipedia yes yes yes Kiwix
eBooks yes yes planned EPUB/PDF
Map yes yes yes Protomaps
Podcasts/Audio yes planned planned

Demo

YouTube Demo Video

Download

Images are available at wrolpi.org

Try WROLPi!

You can try out WROLPi by running the docker containers.

  1. Install docker-ce and docker-compose
  2. Copy the latest WROLPi code.
    • git clone https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi.git
  3. Change directory into the code base.
    • cd wrolpi
  4. Initialize git submodules
    • git submodule update --init
  5. Build the containers.
    • docker-compose build --parallel
  6. Create volumes.
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-data
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-rendered-tiles
  7. Initialize the database (SQLite in the media directory).
    • docker-compose run --rm api db upgrade
  8. Start the docker containers.
    • docker-compose up
  9. Browse to WROLPi.

More Docker documentation is available in docker/README.md

Install WROLPi

Full installation instructions are in INSTALL.md. Pick the option that matches your hardware:

  • WROLPi Portable (Live USB) — boot a complete WROLPi from a USB stick on any x86 PC or laptop. Nothing is installed to the computer; the first boot creates a persistence partition on the USB so your library, database, and configuration survive reboots.
  • Debian 12 — install WROLPi onto an x86 PC or laptop.
  • Raspberry Pi — install WROLPi onto a Raspberry Pi with an external drive.
  • Docker — run the WROLPi containers on an existing Linux host.

Charter

Guiding Principals

  1. Storage is cheaper than power.
  2. Two is one, one is none.
  3. Run silently.
  4. Primary, secondary, tertiary.
  5. Secure as a bookshelf in your home.

Physical properties

  1. A WROLPi instance should be capable of running with a minimal of hardware:
    • Raspberry Pi
    • SD card
    • External USB hard drive
    • Power supply and cables
    • Wi-Fi USER device such as a phone, tablet, or laptop.
  2. A WROLPi instance should consume a minimal amount of electricity during WROL event. It is expected power will be scarce when WROLPi is needed most.

User expectations

  1. A WROLPi instance should be run and maintained by a person (MAINTAINER) with a moderate amount of Linux and Raspberry Pi experience. It is expected that they should be able to do this using only the documentation on their WROLPi.

Software properties and capabilities

  1. A WROLPi instance should be able to "factory-reset" itself without any outside services.
  2. WROLPi should function completely without any internet services.
  3. A user should have easy access to their data if WROLPi fails:
    • For example, a user can watch their videos by navigating a short and intuitive directory structure and opening the video in their preferred video player.
  4. WROLPi should be self-documented. The UI should contain a tutorial for USERS as well as the MAINTAINER.
    • If the UI isn't functional, the code should be documented such that a user can restore functionality.
  5. WROLPi should favor pre-processing, rather than processing during a WROL event. Such as re-encoding a video, or processing captions. This is to ensure that when a user adds content during non-WROL time, the processing for optimum performance is already done for a WROL event.

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