chipper
Basic Information
Chipper is a developer-focused, self-hosted toolkit for building and running retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and knowledge-enabled model workflows. It provides a lightweight, modular architecture with both a web interface and a CLI so you can ingest documents, split and embed content, index vectors, run queries, and combine retrieval with local or remote language models. The project also functions as a proxy for Ollama, enabling third-party Ollama clients to use server-side retrieval, prompt overrides, and model selection. Chipper is containerized for easy deployment and is built on Haystack, Ollama, Hugging Face, ElasticSearch, Docker, TailwindCSS and related tooling. The project began as a private local RAG tool to preserve author privacy and evolved into an extensible service for experimentation and teaching.