argus

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Rust alternative to Python VLM servers, ending vision-language stacks that exfiltrate frames

argus is the Remade with Rust pin for this lane: keep the product shape, change the safety floor, and stop shipping the old C or cloud default by accident.

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Instant benefit

ffai-argus is vision-language captioning and VQA in pure Rust: SmolVLM-256M-Instruct: the real architecture, a SigLIP tower, a pixel-shuffle connector and a Llama decoder: running on candle, and reproducing the reference implementation's caption byte-identically from a raw image file. No Python runtime, no ONNX, no llama.cpp. Images and.

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Deploy with GitHub access

1. Confirm you can open https://github.com/Remade-With-Rust/argus.
2. Add the crate to your project (crates.io when published, otherwise git):

   cargo add ffai-argus ffai-core ffai-media

   Git pin: cargo add --git https://github.com/Remade-With-Rust/argus.git

3. Prove the pin with cargo check before the next agent prompt can swap it for a C or cloud default.
4. Read the builder field note for composition: /learn/argus/.