🥝 Kiwi

Part of the CircuitForge LLC "AI for the tasks the system made hard on purpose" suite.

Pantry tracking and leftover recipe suggestions.

Scan barcodes, photograph receipts, and get recipe ideas based on what you already have — before it expires.

Status: Pre-alpha · CircuitForge LLC

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What it does

• Inventory tracking — add items by barcode scan, receipt upload, or manually
• Expiry alerts — know what's about to go bad
• Receipt OCR — extract line items from receipt photos automatically (Paid tier)
• Recipe suggestions — LLM-powered ideas based on what's expiring (Paid tier, BYOK-unlockable)
• Leftover mode — prioritize nearly-expired items in recipe ranking (Premium tier)

Stack

• Frontend: Vue 3 SPA (Vite + TypeScript)
• Backend: FastAPI + SQLite (via circuitforge-core)
• Auth: CF session cookie → Directus JWT (cloud mode)
• Licensing: Heimdall (free tier auto-provisioned at signup)

Running locally

cp .env.example .env
./manage.sh build
./manage.sh start
# Web: http://localhost:8511
# API: http://localhost:8512

Cloud instance

./manage.sh cloud-build
./manage.sh cloud-start
# Served at menagerie.circuitforge.tech/kiwi (JWT-gated)

Tiers

Feature	Free	Paid	Premium
Inventory CRUD	✓	✓	✓
Barcode scan	✓	✓	✓
Receipt upload	✓	✓	✓
Expiry alerts	✓	✓	✓
CSV export	✓	✓	✓
Receipt OCR	BYOK	✓	✓
Recipe suggestions	BYOK	✓	✓
Meal planning	—	✓	✓
Multi-household	—	—	✓
Leftover mode	—	—	✓

BYOK = bring your own LLM backend (configure ~/.config/circuitforge/llm.yaml)

License

Discovery/pipeline layer: MIT AI features: BSL 1.1 (free for personal non-commercial self-hosting)