tabbyml/tabby repository overview

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 [email protected]⁠.
• 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.

⁠👋 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

1. Set up the Rust environment by following this tutorial⁠.

2. Install the required dependencies:

# For MacOS
brew install protobuf

# For Ubuntu / Debian
apt install protobuf-compiler libopenblas-dev

1. Install useful tools:

# For Ubuntu
apt install make sqlite3 graphviz

1. 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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