Istara

Active·★ 16·MIT·Updated 2026-10-22

Istara is a local-first AI agent platform for UX research that runs entirely on your hardware with five specialized agents and 53 research skills. It features a governed self-improvement pipeline, multi-model validation, and an evidence chain methodology. All data remains private and no cloud subscription is required.

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$ Install

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/henrique-simoes/Istara/main/scripts/install-istara.sh | bash

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Features

01Intelligent Chat with grounded conversations and source-aware answers

02Atomic Research Findings with traceable evidence chain

03Automated 30 Laws of UX compliance auditing

04Multi-agent swarm with specialized agents for different tasks

05100% local-first, zero cloud dependency for privacy

Compatibility

macOS

macOS (Homebrew & shell)

Verified via docs

Linux

Linux (shell)

Verified via docs

Windows

Windows (source only)

Verified via docs

Quick start

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/henrique-simoes/Istara/main/scripts/install-istara.sh | bash

Use cases

↳Conducting UX research interviews and analysis locally

↳Running design audits and usability evaluations

↳Automating competitive analysis and survey synthesis

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Agentic Research Orchestration for UX Research and Product Development. Vibe and handcoded by a social and data scientist with background in many research domains and open-source

16MIT

Last commit1d ago

StatusActive

CategoryWorkflow Automation

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