CrustAI – Self-Hosted AI for Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord via Ollama, Zero Cloud
CrustAI is a self-hosted AI solution designed for messaging platforms like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord. It operates locally without relying on cloud services, ensuring user privacy and control. The software is open source and available under the MIT License.
- ▪CrustAI allows users to connect their favorite messaging apps to a local AI assistant.
- ▪The solution requires Node.js version 20 or higher to operate.
- ▪It is designed to eliminate subscriptions and telemetry, prioritizing user privacy.
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Story provenance
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Record
| Original publisher | Netlify |
| Canonical URL | https://crustaidocs.netlify.app/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 17:23:43 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T17:34:57.931Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T17:34:57.931Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | AWkhIMDx38gJ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Netlify.