Tolaria: Free macOS Markdown Knowledge Base App Built with AI Agents
A genius created a desktop app on macOS for managing Markdown knowledge bases and collaborating on them. It’s called Tolaria.
It’s free + open source, and it looks like it will stay that way.
He built it in three months.
As he says, Tolaria is the main point of interaction with his AI agents: they create new notes, link them to existing ones, and edit the current ones. For them, everything is transparent because these are just regular markdown files. In a sense, it’s his implementation of the LLM-wiki by Andrej Karpathy.
Also, Tolaria is the biggest experiment he has done in AI-assisted software development:
• 2000 commits
• 100,000+ lines of code
• 3000+ tests / 85% coverage
• 9.9/10 code quality
• 70+ architectural decisions (ADR)
He’s also publishing the project as a clear example of his approach to AI coding—you can see how the documentation is structured, what’s in the AGENTS file, which hooks are used, and so on.