MWirelabs/ne-agent

Terminal AI agent for Northeast India's low-resource languages. Local, offline, multilingual routing (search, translate, transcribe). # NE-Agent **A terminal-based AI agent for Northeast India's indigenous languages.** *Northeast India is home to 220+ indigenous languages, yet open-source AI agents built specifically for them remain rare.* Built on the **NE-Stack** by MWire Labs, Shillong, Meghalaya. --- *Demo: Language detection → Tool routing → Retrieval, Translation or ASR → Local response.* --- ## Installation ```bash pip install ne-agent ollama pull qwen2.5:1.5b ollama serve ne-agent ``` Requires Python 3.9+ and Ollama. GPU recommended for translate/transcribe; search runs fine on CPU. --- ## What is NE-Agent? NE-Agent is one of the first publicly available open-source AI agents built on indigenous Northeast Indian language infrastructure. It detects the input language, routes each query to the right tool (retrieval-augmented search, Khasi-English translation, or speech transcription), and generates grounded responses. Everything runs **locally**: no API keys, no cloud, no internet required at inference time. Designed as a reference implementation for low-resource, multilingual agentic AI systems --- ## Features - ✅ Fully local, no API keys, no cloud - ✅ Offline after setup - ✅ Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) - ✅ Speech transcription (ASR), 8 languages - ✅ Khasi → English translation - ✅ Automatic language identification (11 languages) - ✅ LLM-based tool auto-routing - ✅ Rich terminal UI --- ## How it works ```mermaid flowchart TD A[User Query text or audio] --> B[NE-LID Language Detection] B --> C[Tool Router qwen2.5:1.5b] C --> D[search NE-Embed + FAISS] C --> E[translate NLLB Khasi] C --> F[transcribe NE-ASR] D --> G[Rich Terminal UI] E --> G F --> G ``` A single entry point handles heterogeneous requests, no need to specify a mode. Audio bypasses the router and goes straight to transcription; text queries are routed dynamically. --- ## Architecture | Component | Role | Model | Notes | |---|---|---|---| | **NE-LID** | Language ID | fastText, 11 language …