The security-first, offline, code review Africa's laptops can actually run for free.
# getdebug-edge
**CodeRabbit-class code review — free, offline, and private — built for the
laptops and realities African developers actually have.**
An on-device, offline autonomous coding agent for the Africa Deep Tech Challenge
2026 — Laptop LLM Challenge. Point it at a project folder and a small AI model
running entirely on your machine flags bugs, security vulnerabilities, and
correctness issues with suggested fixes. No cloud, no account, no per-seat
pricing, and your code never leaves your laptop — which for fintech and
health-tech teams is not a convenience but a compliance requirement.
getdebug-edge is a from-scratch, contest-eligible spinoff of getdebug's
"analyze → flag → fix" workflow, rebuilt to run entirely on an 8 GB commodity laptop
with integrated graphics and zero cloud dependency. Where getdebug is a hosted SaaS
calling a cloud LLM, getdebug-edge runs a small quantized coding model locally via a
single persistent `llama-server` process (model loaded once, reused for every chunk)
and orchestrates its own observe → think → act loop over localhost — no cloud API,
no network call once the model is downloaded. Hardware-tuning choices (context cap,
KV-cache quantization, threading, RAM safety margin) are documented in `SCOPE.md` §7.
See `SCOPE.md` for the full problem statement, constraints, model
choice, architecture, and benchmark plan. See `REPORT.md` for the
contest-required technical writeup (fill in once benchmarks are run).
## Status
**Working end-to-end and measured by the canonical ADTC profiler.** Run through
the official profiler in a container pinned to the contest spec (4 CPUs, 8 GB
RAM, swap disabled): the shipping **Q4_K_M** model measures **2.21 GB peak RSS
→ S_eff = 68**, `throttled=false`, no OOM, no crash, and **acc_norm = 0.82** on
lm-eval `arc_easy` (the automated accuracy stage). A full agent review over a
real multi-file repo peaks around ~3.5 GB (the tool's end-to-end footprint —
Python orchestrator + linters — vs the 2.21 G …