Bushpilot
Charted routes through the chaotic LLM landscape.
Run Claude Code, OpenCode, Aider, Cline, or Pi locally on Apple Silicon — without guessing context limits, tuning MLX flags, or crashing unified memory.
brew install frank321/bushpilot/bushpilot
Why Bushpilot?
Hardware-aware sizing
Reads your chip and live free memory, greys out models that won't fit, and computes safe context length, concurrency, and estimated tok/s before you download.
Active memory backstop
Polls free memory and macOS pressure (kern.memorystatus_level) continuously and tears down the server cleanly before your Mac freezes.
Shared server + live hot-swap
Attach multiple coding tools to one local endpoint and swap models live (m on the dashboard or inside your tool) without restarting sessions.
Curated MLX + speculative decoding
Ships a tested MLX catalog (models.json) with optional mlx-dspark speculative-decoding variants measured up to 3x faster.
Quick Start
brew install frank321/bushpilot/bushpilot bushpilot
bushpilot auto-splits your terminal (iTerm2, tmux, or Terminal.app) to start the server dashboard and attaches your coding tool.
See the Guide for .zip/source installs, two-terminal mode, and tool config, or Architecture for safety mechanics, Ollama comparison, and benchmarks.