tai — Linux AI Troubleshooting Agent

tai is an agentic AI-driven troubleshooting tool for Linux systems. It autonomously investigates issues on remote hosts via SSH, analyzes relevant logs and configuration files, and provides a clear diagnosis along with suggested remediation steps — all without making any changes to the target system.

Overview

Given a problem description and a target hostname, tai connects to the remote system over SSH, gathers relevant data (logs, configuration files, service status, etc.), and uses a locally-hosted AI model to reason about the root cause and recommend solutions.

The agent operates in read-only mode at all times. It will never modify the target system under any circumstances — all suggestions are presented to the human troubleshooter for review and action.

Supported Distributions

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• RHEL
• Rocky Linux

Example Workflow

A troubleshooter receives a ticket reporting that the Apache service on a remote server has failed to start. They provide tai with:

1. The ticket description or error message
2. The hostname of the affected system
3. Any relevant directories to focus on

tai then connects to the host, reads through system logs, service configurations, and any other related files, and returns a structured analysis of the likely cause along with recommended next steps.

Suggested Tooling

Component	Tool
AI inference backend	vLLM
Model	gemma4:a4b

Note: A suitable implementation language for this project is yet to be determined.