I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to make changes.
Some such projects use CORS to allow read back as well. I haven’t read Apfel’s code yet, but I’m registering the experiment before performing it.
the 2 hard limits of Appel Intelligence Foundation Model and therefor apfel is the 4k token context window and the super hard guardrails (the model prefers to tell you nothing before it tells you something wrong ie ask it to describe a color)
parsing logfiles line by line, sure
parsing a whole logfile, well it must be tiny, logfile hardly ever are
I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to make changes.
Some such projects use CORS to allow read back as well. I haven’t read Apfel’s code yet, but I’m registering the experiment before performing it.
AFM models are very impressive, but they’re not made for conversation, so keep your expectations down in chat mode.
Anyone tried using this as a sub-agent for a more capable model like Claude/Codex?
The combined (input/output) context window length is 4K. Claude would blow through that even when trying to read and summarize a small file.
project started with
trying to run openclaw with it in ultra token saving mode, did totally not work.
great for shell scripts though (my major use case now)
Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
It’s a very small model but I’ve been playing with it for some time now I’m impressed. Have we been sleeping on Apple’s models?
Imagine they baked Qwen 3.5 level stuff into the OS. Wow that’d be cool.
The vision models and OCR are SUPER
Any know if these only installed on Tahoe? I'm running Sequoia still and get an error about model not found.
> Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 26 Tahoe or newer, Apple Intelligence enabled
Really like demo cli tools description. Are they limited by the context window as well? What’s your experience with log file sizes?
the 2 hard limits of Appel Intelligence Foundation Model and therefor apfel is the 4k token context window and the super hard guardrails (the model prefers to tell you nothing before it tells you something wrong ie ask it to describe a color)
parsing logfiles line by line, sure
parsing a whole logfile, well it must be tiny, logfile hardly ever are
Notes.app handles big notebooks without choking on storage?
Cool tool but I don't get why these websites make idiotic claims
> $0 cost
No kidding.
Why not just link the GH Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
He did?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624647