Tired of Claude adding bugs to your code? Think Codex needs to learn its place after the rm -rf / incident? Readonly is a CLI assistant with ZERO write capabilities.

Inquire about your codebase in peace with no overpriveleged "automode". Readonly is the ONLY way to use LLMs while preserving a 100% free-range, organically farmed codebase.

Our Readonly guarantee promises zero writes for 30 days or your money back.¹

Getting Started

Readonly is currently in ALPHA. Use at your own risk.²

Note

You must have ollama installed! Get it here --> https://ollama.com/download

While in development the model is currently set to a local version of Qwen 3.5. Install it with ollama with:

ollama pull qwen3.5

Now just clone the repo and run locally with:

bun install && bun dev

And now you're ready to start reading. Stay safe out there!

Footnotes

1. Terms and conditions may apply. ↩

2. That risk is of course much smaller than giving Claude unrestricted sudo access like you're currently doing. ↩