Open-source setup, done properly

Setup guides you can actually follow.

StackGuide covers commercially licensed open-source AI and developer tools, with commands and settings checked against the project's own documentation — not copied from a README, and not guessed.

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Latest guides

AI tutor

How to Install and Run DeepTutor Locally

Run a personal, document-grounded tutor with PyPI, Docker, source, or CLI only, and configure an LLM provider.

Developer tool

How to Install and Use Graphify

Turn a codebase into a queryable knowledge graph so your AI coding assistant can answer with scoped, explainable context.

SEO

How to Install and Use Claude SEO

Audit a website with Claude Code, get a scored, prioritised action plan, and check AI-search readiness.

This Week in Open Source AI

A short weekly roundup of projects worth your attention, with a licence note for each — because the licence is part of the decision.

Issue #1

This Week in Open Source AI, Issue #1

DeepTutor, Graphify, Claude SEO, VoiceStudio, and PRINTFILM — a local voice studio, a film-making pipeline, and three familiar names, checked against their repos.

Compare before you install

Comparison

Best Open-Source AI Tutors and Study Assistants You Can Self-Host

Four real projects compared on licence, stars (as of October 30, 2026), setup difficulty, and local-model support — with the caveats stated plainly.

Tool

License Checker

Pick a licence and get a plain-English summary: commercial use, attribution, source disclosure, and copyleft. Or paste a GitHub repo URL and look up its licence via the public GitHub API.

Why StackGuide?

Checked, not invented. Every command, version, and feature in a guide is tied to the project's current README or docs. When the docs do not state something, the guide says so.
Licensed and attributed. Each guide names the project, its author or organisation, and its licence, with a link to the licence file.
Written for real setups. Guides cover prerequisites, the main install path, alternatives, first use, troubleshooting, and honest limits.
AI-assisted, with a paper trail. Guides are AI-assisted and checked against official documentation, as explained on the disclosure page.