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Sloth Valet: a local AI that tidies my Downloads overnight (and can undo everything)

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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Sloth Valet is a small Linux tool that tidies a messy Downloads folder while I sleep. It waits until files have been left alone for a while, asks a small open-weight model running on my own mach…

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  1. 2026-10-24 13:49 · DEV Community — AI
    Sloth Valet: a local AI that tidies my Downloads overnight (and can undo everything)

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