5ire: Cross-platform desktop AI assistant and MCP client trends on GitHub

5ire is a cross-platform desktop AI assistant that also works as an MCP client, compatible with OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Doubao, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama, and more. Tool capabilities come via MCP servers for accessing the file system, system info, databases, and remote data, and an official MCP server marketplace helps discover and distribute tools. The local knowledge base uses bge-m3 as the embedding model, parsing and vectorizing docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf, txt, and csv for local RAG. It also offers API usage and cost stats, a prompt library with variables, session bookmarks, and cross-session keyword search. Before using tools, developers must install Python, Node.js, and uv locally as the MCP server runtime; those not using tools can skip this. Due to native module dependencies, 5ire must be packaged per platform, and macOS builds require APPLE_TEAM_ID, APPLE_ID, and APPLE_ID_PASS for notarization to avoid security warnings. Developers wanting to contribute or build on it can follow the dev environment setup guide, while site integrators can use the one-click server install integration guide. This mainly affects developers connecting to multiple model APIs at once and teams extending local tools with MCP: the former can use usage stats to understand cost distribution, while the latter can install MCP servers directly from the marketplace and bring local documents into RAG without building the whole environment themselves.