slothsort: Local Gemma model tidies messy folders by reading and renaming files

A developer built slothsort, an open-source tool that uses a small open-weight model, Gemma 3 4B, running locally via Ollama, to read the contents of files in a cluttered folder. The model proposes a sensible destination folder and a descriptive, date-prefixed filename for each file, such as renaming an unhelpful 'download.txt' to a lease renewal document. The tool is a dry run by default, requires an explicit flag to move files, supports one-command undo, never overwrites existing files, and skips in-progress downloads. Its author says it cached results per file so scheduled nightly runs only process new arrivals, and it sends no data to the cloud. The project was submitted to a Hacktoberfest open-source AI challenge and is available on GitHub under the MIT license.
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