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> **Status: Alpha**
> Tiles is currently alpha-quality software. It is usable for everyday tasks, though you may encounter bugs and performance issues.
## Getting Started
A local-first, collaborative AI assistant that works for you. Built with open models and decentralized protocols. Learn more on our [overview](https://www.tiles.run/book/overview) page.
Download Tiles for macOS or Linux: https://tiles.run/download
Then run the following command to start Tiles:
```bash
tiles
```
## Documentation
Full documentation is available in the Tiles Book: https://tiles.run/book
## About
Tiles is part of [User & Agents](https://www.userandagents.org) network. The shared goal is to empower people by designing and building software that provides agency, control, and choice in our digital lives. We believe that privacy adoption at scale must work *backwards* from preserving utility. This means negligible impact on user experience, model intelligence, throughput, latency, tool use & agentic capabilities, and web access. With Tiles, we aim to deliver “just works” experiences through best-in-class privacy-focused engineering while offering unmatched convenience in our consumer products.
Tiles Privacy is also a signatory to the [European Social Stack](https://european.social/#signatories) initiative, supporting an open, interoperable, and publicly accountable digital ecosystem for Europe.
## Contributing
Ideas, issues, and pull requests are welcome.
Start here:
- [Contributing to Tiles](CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Developing Tiles](HACKING.md)
## License
This project is dual-licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0:
- [MIT License](https://github.com/tilesprivacy/tiles/blob/main/LICENSE-MIT)
- [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/tilesprivacy/tiles/blob/main/LICENSE-APACHE)
Downstream projects and end users may chose either license individually, or both together, at their discretion. The motivation for this dual-licensing is the additional software patent assurance provided by Apache 2.0.
