LearningCircuit/local-deep-research

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~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.

Stars: 9.1k
Forks: 824
Open beginner issues: 48
Indexed issues: 727
Avg merge: 3d 13h
Merged PRs (30d): 290

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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723 open issues indexed

web: settings-page API-key save uses full force_refresh; research page's targeted refresh_provider is cheaper Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6620 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
web: model discovery gives no feedback for a wrong/unsupported API key Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6619 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
settings: static llm.provider options list is stale (missing all providers added after requesty) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6618 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
providers: google/anthropic list_models overrides don't trim whitespace API keys Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6617 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
model dropdowns list non-chat ids (embeddings/rerank/multimodal) that fail at runtime Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6616 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
metrics: cost cards show $0.00 for QwenCloud (and DeepSeek/Atlas Cloud/Requesty) — no pricing entries Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6615 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Flaky: test_download_queue_claim_routes_4691 fails with "'Mock' object is not iterable" depending on test order Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6611 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
_search_failed latch on a shared search-engine instance races under parallel search Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6610 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
harden(search): collection-engine cache — invalidate on library_init/Zotero/notes creations, generation counter, logout lifetime, engagement-test carry-over Open

database from-review-extraction python rag severity:suggested

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6609 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
fix(db): close the raw SQLCipher connection when the reserved-file identity check refuses Open

database from-review-extraction python security severity:suggested

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6608 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
fix(llm): close the upstream generator in RateLimitedLLMWrapper stream/astream — yield outside try leaks the connection on consumer close Open

from-review-extraction llm-providers python severity:suggested

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6607 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
POST /settings/save_settings commits a partial batch after a failed write Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 82/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6606 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
SSRF refusals in safe_requests, content_fetcher and the API router log or raise the raw URL Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6605 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
journal_quality follow-ups from the #6434 review: probe log volume, scope handling, unused lookup Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6603 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
_validated_collection_id echoes alias UUID spellings and logs the raw value unbounded Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6602 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
library.html interpolates doc.id into inline onclick handlers Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 84/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6601 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Route-table parity scanner cannot see 404s raised by helpers outside the router module Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6600 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
ODT export runs pandoc on report content without the PDF exporter's URL guard Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6599 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
search_engine_library still runs the full RAG stats query per collection to decide eligibility Open

performance

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6598 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
safe_requests.py still logs raw URLs in its remaining warnings Open

security

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6597 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
NOTIFICATION_FLOW.md still recommends logger.error(f'... {e}') in exception handlers Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6594 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Journal-quality fetch stage still trusts dataset field types (crashes on hostile records) Open

security

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6593 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
library_delete's document_ids list has no item-count or length bound Open

security

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6590 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
test_pdf_service: accept-control test resolves example.com via real validate_url — live DNS in a unit test Open

ci-cd from-review-extraction python severity:suggested tests

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6589 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
pdf_service: harden the PDF retry path — ensure-guard before except URLFetchingError, narrow the blanket except + log refusal reasons, surface skipped resources Open

from-review-extraction python security severity:suggested

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6588 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
settings: provider settings are unreachable via search while another provider is selected Open

from-review-extraction javascript priority: low severity:nit ui-ux

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 82/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6587 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
settings.js: fold the provider-emptiness check into the provider condition — the early return bypasses the tab filter (hardening) Open

from-review-extraction javascript priority: low severity:suggested

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6586 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
collection_details.js's showError is shadowed by services/ui.js, so its errors are silently dropped Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6585 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
News page 'Run Once' posts start_research without the chosen provider Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6584 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Dead formatFileSize fallback disagrees with the shared formatBytes formatter Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6583 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
research.js shows the ChatGPT catalogue error without the non-blank guard the Copilot path uses Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 90/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6582 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
log_sanitizer: extend the URL-query stop-set with > and backtick, and pin the accepted fragment/space edges Open

from-review-extraction priority: low python severity:nit tests

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6581 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
fix(security): bound the _URL_QUERY_STRING_RE path segment — quadratic backtracking on many-`://` scrub_error inputs Open

follow-up-work-complete from-review-extraction priority: high python security severity:should-fix

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6580 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
research.js compares stored model IDs case-sensitively while the dropdown resolves case-insensitively Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6579 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
reset_to_defaults keeps whitespace-only secrets that the save path treats as blank Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6577 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Remaining EgressContext builders resolve the primary engine without resolve_run_primary_engine Open

security

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6575 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Browser install for the remaining Puppeteer/Playwright test packages is undocumented and inconsistent Open

ci-cd

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6574 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Wiki-link autocomplete in note-detail.js commits on Enter during IME composition Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6573 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Benchmark grader policy check runs without the username, and the start routes enforce no egress policy Open

security

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6572 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
bug(search): global search.max_results silently overwrites per-engine default_params.max_results for all engines Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6569 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
db: reserved-file check cannot catch swap-open-swap-back on database creation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6568 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
fix(rate-limit): eliminate separate connection checkouts in remaining tracker.py metrics_writer callsites Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6562 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
fix(metrics): reuse in-scope session in search_tracker.record_search to prevent multi-connection self-deadlocks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6561 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
fix(download): move HTTP downloads outside DB session in download_resource to prevent QueuePool exhaustion Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6560 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
fix(rag): release DB write lock before embedding network calls in library_rag_service Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6559 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
AccountLockoutManager: flooding logins for throwaway usernames resets a victim's counter and can permanently disable lockout for new accounts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6546 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
source_based and focused_iteration strategies still let an empty citation 'content' erase the answer Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6540 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Socket deliveries slide server-side session life without a timeout check Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6539 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Inline session expiry in validate_session never severs the session's sockets Open

security

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6538 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Intermittent: change_password chain vs open hammers hands out a mis-keyed engine Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#6537 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026

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