needle

About needle

A foundation model for mobiles, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. The whole model is a single 8-29 MB binary built on our Simple Attention Network, and we trade general chat capacity to beat models 10x its size on mobile tool calls and match 2-3x bigger models on extraction. Tool calls: given the functions your app exposes, Needle picks the right ones and fills every argument from what the user said. Ask for two things and you get two calls in order; ask for something no tool covers and you get an empty list, not a guess.

cactus edge-ai foundation-model function-calling llm on-device-ai tinyml tool-calling

Quick Facts

Stars	11,638
Forks	743
Language	Python
Category	AI Tool
License	Apache-2.0
Quality Score	65.6103141459638/100
Open Issues	29
Last Updated	2026-09-19
Created	2026-02-24
Platforms	python
Est. Tokens	~15k

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with needle for enhanced workflows:

functionary — semantic(0.36)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (62%)
sgr-agent-core — semantic(0.28)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (60%)
aci — semantic(0.27)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (60%)
core — semantic(0.27)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (59%)
forge — semantic(0.24)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (58%)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is needle?

needle is Automation foundation model for tiny devices: 2-bit, 8-29 MB, tool calls, structured extraction and embeddings on phones, wearables, smart homes, robots, cars and microcontrollers.. It is categorized as a AI Tool with 11.6k GitHub stars.

What programming language is needle written in?

needle is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as cactus, edge-ai, foundation-model.

How do I install or use needle?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the needle GitHub repository at github.com/cactus-compute/needle. The project has 11.6k stars and 743 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does needle use?

needle is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

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