# 🐾 Tabby
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Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, offering an open-source and on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot. It boasts several key features:
* Self-contained, with no need for a DBMS or cloud service.
* OpenAPI interface, easy to integrate with existing infrastructure (e.g Cloud IDE).
* Supports consumer-grade GPUs.
🔥 What's New
- 12/12/2025 Get your GitHub issues implemented by connecting them to Pochi tasks and create PRs directly from the sidebar with a breakdown of CI/Lint/Test results vscode@0.20.0.
- 07/02/2025 v0.30 supports indexing GitLab Merge Request as Context!
- 05/25/2025 💡Interested in joining Agent private preview? DM in X for early waitlist approval!🎫
- 05/20/2025 Enhance Tabby with your own documentation📃 through REST APIs in v0.29! 🎉
- 05/01/2025 v0.28 transforming Answer Engine messages into persistent, shareable Pages
- 03/31/2025 v0.27 released with a richer
@ menu in the chat side panel.
Archived
* **02/05/2025** LDAP Authentication and better notification for background jobs coming in Tabby [v0.24.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.24.0)!✨
* **02/04/2025** [VSCode 1.20.0](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/TabbyML.vscode-tabby/changelog) upgrade! @-mention files to add them as chat context, and edit inline with a new right-click option are available!
* **01/10/2025** Tabby [v0.23.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.23.0) featuring enhanced code browser experience and chat side panel improvements!
* **12/24/2024** Introduce **Notification Box** in Tabby [v0.22.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.22.0)!
* **12/06/2024** Llamafile deployment integration and enhanced Answer Engine user experience are coming in Tabby [v0.21.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.21.0)!🚀
* **11/10/2024** Switching between different backend chat models is supported in Answer Engine with Tabby [v0.20.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.20.0)!
* **10/30/2024** Tabby [v0.19.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.19.0) featuring recent shared threads on the main page to improve their discoverability.
* **07/09/2024** 🎉Announce [Codestral integration in Tabby](https://tabby.tabbyml.com/blog/2024/07/09/tabby-codestral/)!
* **07/05/2024** Tabby [v0.13.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.13.0) introduces ***Answer Engine***, a central knowledge engine for internal engineering teams. It seamlessly integrates with dev team's internal data, delivering reliable and precise answers to empower developers.
* **06/13/2024** [VSCode 1.7](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/TabbyML.vscode-tabby/changelog) marks a significant milestone with a versatile Chat experience throughout your coding experience. Come and they the latest **chat in side-panel** and **editing via chat command**!
* **06/10/2024** Latest 📃blogpost drop on [an enhanced code context understanding](https://tabby.tabbyml.com/blog/2024/06/11/rank-fusion-in-tabby-code-completion/) in Tabby!
* **06/06/2024** Tabby [v0.12.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.12.0) release brings 🔗**seamless integrations** (Gitlab SSO, Self-hosted GitHub/GitLab, etc.), to ⚙️**flexible configurations** (HTTP API integration) and 🌐**expanded capabilities** (repo-context in Code Browser)!
* **05/22/2024** Tabby [VSCode 1.6](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TabbyML.vscode-tabby) comes with **multiple choices** in inline completion, and the **auto-generated commit messages**🐱💻!
* **05/11/2024** [v0.11.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.11.0) brings significant enterprise upgrades, including 📊**storage usage** stats, 🔗**GitHub & GitLab** integration, 📋**Activities** page, and the long-awaited 🤖**Ask Tabby** feature!
* **04/22/2024** [v0.10.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.10.0) released, featuring the latest **Reports** tab with team-wise analytics for Tabby usage.
* **04/19/2024** 📣 Tabby now incorporates [locally relevant snippets](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/pull/1844)(declarations from local LSP, and recently modified code) for code completion!
* **04/17/2024** CodeGemma and CodeQwen model series have now been added to the [official registry](https://tabby.tabbyml.com/docs/models/)!
* **03/20/2024** [v0.9](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.9.1) released, highlighting a full feature admin UI.
* **12/23/2023** Seamlessly [deploy Tabby on any cloud](https://tabby.tabbyml.com/docs/installation/skypilot/) with [SkyServe](https://skypilot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/serving/sky-serve.html) 🛫 from SkyPilot.
* **12/15/2023** [v0.7.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.7.0) released with team management and secured access!
* **10/15/2023** RAG-based code completion is enabled by detail in [v0.3.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.3.0)🎉! Check out the [blogpost](https://tabby.tabbyml.com/blog/2023/10/16/repository-context-for-code-completion/) explaining how Tabby utilizes repo-level context to get even smarter!
* **11/27/2023** [v0.6.0](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.6.0) released!
* **11/09/2023** [v0.5.5](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.5.5) released! With a redesign of UI + performance improvement.
* **10/24/2023** ⛳️ Major updates for Tabby IDE plugins across [VSCode/Vim/IntelliJ](https://tabby.tabbyml.com/docs/extensions)!
* **10/04/2023** Check out the [model directory](https://tabby.tabbyml.com/docs/models/) for the latest models supported by Tabby.
* **09/18/2023** Apple's M1/M2 Metal inference support has landed in [v0.1.1](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.1.1)!
* **08/31/2023** Tabby's first stable release [v0.0.1](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.0.1) 🥳.
* **08/28/2023** Experimental support for the [CodeLlama 7B](https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/issues/370).
* **08/24/2023** Tabby is now on [JetBrains Marketplace](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22379-tabby)!
👋 Getting Started
You can find our documentation here.
- 📚 Installation
- 💻 IDE/Editor Extensions
- ⚙️ Configuration
Run Tabby in 1 Minute
The easiest way to start a Tabby server is by using the following Docker command:
docker run -it \
--gpus all -p 8080:8080 -v $HOME/.tabby:/data \
tabbyml/tabby \
serve --model StarCoder-1B --device cuda --chat-model Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct
For additional options (e.g inference type, parallelism), please refer to the documentation page.
🤝 Contributing
Full guide at CONTRIBUTING.md;
Get the Code
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby
cd tabby
If you have already cloned the repository, you could run the git submodule update --recursive --init command to fetch all submodules.
Build
-
Set up the Rust environment by following this tutorial.
-
Install the required dependencies:
# For MacOS
brew install protobuf
# For Ubuntu / Debian
apt install protobuf-compiler libopenblas-dev
- Install useful tools:
# For Ubuntu
apt install make sqlite3 graphviz
- Now, you can build Tabby by running the command
cargo build.
Start Hacking!
... and don't forget to submit a Pull Request
🌍 Community
- 🎤 Twitter / X - engage with TabbyML for all things possible
- 📚 LinkedIn - follow for the latest from the community
- 💌 Newsletter - subscribe to unlock Tabby insights and secrets
🔆 Activity

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