A local AI Assistant for Linux called Meera (and a recipe for building something similar)

Hi, I'm a hardware engineer who has coded in Verilog all my career. But ever since I got myself an RTX 5090 last year, I started experimenting with software and running local LLMs. An AI agent for Linux desktop sounded like a good project to take up and I started on it back in November and many weekends later, I think it is in a good enough shape to share. AI usage - Many forums have seen lots of AI assisted projects lately, so I want to be upfront: I used Cursor to help me code.