Shlexball

Shlexball is a local LLM-powered file search tool for macOS that converts natural language descriptions into bash commands to locate files on your machine. Running a lightweight 1.5B parameter model, it works on Apple Silicon with minimal RAM usage.

Designed for privacy-conscious users, all processing happens locally—no data is sent to external servers. This makes it safe for searching sensitive files and API keys. According to the creator's benchmarks, it outperforms larger cloud-based models like Gemini 3.5 Flash and 31B parameter Gemma in file search tasks.