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Install Assistia and its AI components on macOS

Assistia installs and starts the AI components locally on your Mac.

1. Install from Assistia

  1. Open Assistia.
  2. Click Settings at the bottom right.
  3. Click Install missing components.
  4. Assistia checks Ollama, ComfyUI, and the developer agent, then installs only what is missing.

ComfyUI and the developer agent are installed in Assistia's local data with dedicated Python environments. If the required version is not available, Assistia uses uv to prepare it automatically.

2. Manual Ollama installation

You can also install Ollama from the official page: Download Ollama.

After installation, check in Terminal:

ollama --version

If Assistia cannot find Ollama automatically, enter its path in Settings, then Ollama path.

Path examples
  • Apple silicon or Intel/usr/local/bin/ollama
  • Homebrew Apple silicon/opt/homebrew/bin/ollama
  • macOS application/Applications/Ollama.app/Contents/Resources/ollama

3. ComfyUI and developer agent

In most cases, no extra system configuration is required. Assistia installs ComfyUI and Aider inside its own application folders.

After installation, download models from Settings: Ollama models for chat and ComfyUI models for image generation.

4. Start

  1. Open Assistia.
  2. Assistia starts Ollama on 127.0.0.1:11434 when the component is installed but stopped.
  3. If ComfyUI is installed, Assistia also tries to start its server on 127.0.0.1:8188.
  4. Use the Chat tab to talk and the Image generator tab to create images.

Main sources: Ollama, ComfyUI, Aider and uv.