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This is the docs, website and README part of the new brand. Merge it after the release. The web UI and code part is already merged (#13187). This branch was rebased on master after that merge and holds only docs, website, README and the path references that follow the docs move.

Description

A new look for LocalAI across the README, the docs and the website: one logo teal, a cream light theme with a matching dark theme, the new logo set, and rewritten copy that only says what the code does. The docs are also regrouped into nine sections, with every old URL kept.

What changed

• README: shorter front page (358 to about 170 lines), a new banner, and claims trimmed to what the project can back (no "any model", "any hardware" or "data never leaves"). Citation block fixed. The License section links to a new BRAND-USAGE.md.
• Brand files for the site and docs: new logo, favicon, app icons and lockups. The web UI copies were merged in feat(ui): new LocalAI theme, logo and empty-state mascot for the web UI #13187. logo.png goes from 915 KB to 34 KB, favicon.svg from 111 KB to under 5 KB.
• Docs: nine sections with aliases, a docs/redirects.txt list of 122 old URLs and a check script, the Relearn theme with light and dark variants generated from the token file, a docs build workflow for pull requests (build, redirect and link checks), and new pages for Files and shared folders, Sandbox, Office, Users and sharing, Home widgets, Connectors, add-ons for users and an add-on author tutorial.
• Website: new home page, nine Features pages, Get started and Download, on the same palette.

Logo and mascot rules

• The tile is the small mark: navbar, favicon, app icon, avatar.
• The open form is for large uses with the wordmark. It is teal on light grounds and never used on dark ones.
• Cards and empty states use the llama bust with its neck reduced by 40 percent. The website scenes use the full-body blue llama.
• The name, logo and mascot art are all rights reserved, not MIT. BRAND-USAGE.md says what people may do without asking.

Review first

1. The docs restructure (adacf8c2d), since it moves most pages.
2. docs/redirects.txt and the new docs build workflow.
3. The README and the website home copy for claims.
4. BRAND-USAGE.md and the License section.

Things to know

• The docs restructure also updates Go tests, code comments and workflow path filters that read doc paths (provider guard, packaging, sandbox profile and table docs tests, test.yml, add-on workflows). It deletes old-theme leftovers (old logos, screenshots and a head partial).
• The last commit removes .github/ci/test-website-review-143.sh: it asserted the exact copy of the old home page and no workflow runs it.
• The 5 minute minimum gap for schedule triggers applies to every schedule, however it is made. Three docs pages said it only for chat proposals; they now match the code. One stale code comment is fixed.
• No release or version numbers appear in the new copy.

Verified

• Docs with Hugo 0.166.0: 328 pages build, 122 of 122 old URLs resolve (also at the site root), 14,042 links checked with 0 broken, theme variants match the token file.
• Website: Hugo build, 151 pages.

After the split

• Go: the provider guard test is updated inside the docs commits that move or reword the pages it lists; it passes on every commit. go vet and the tests of the packages that read doc paths pass.
• The web UI, Swagger, mascot and colour ratchet parts were merged in feat(ui): new LocalAI theme, logo and empty-state mascot for the web UI #13187.

Not verified

• The full end-to-end suite and the render-smoke and coverage gates.
• The new workflows on GitHub (they only run on this PR).
• New docs pages against a live instance, and tutorial steps 8 and 9.
• Auth screens, the no-model chat card, dark Swagger below the fold, custom operator logos.
• Lighthouse and axe on the website. netlify.toml still pins an older Hugo.
• About 40 old "any model" phrases remain in the docs; five very long pages moved but are not split.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5

[mudler-agent]

Pushed fcdbc12: removes the old server-rendered web UI from the main server (model editor and 404 templates, the Go that rendered them, the template renderer setup). /import-model and /models/edit/:name now redirect to the React routes /app/import-model and /app/model-editor/:name. The standalone Explorer server page stays, with the assets it loads, because that server does not serve the React app.

Note: the file deletions (4 templates and 41 unused static assets) were staged by mistake and landed in the previous README commit caffe2e, so the removal is split across those two commits. To drop it as one unit, split caffe2e first.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5

[mudler-agent]

Old server-rendered web UI: removed in two commits on this branch. The page and static-asset deletions landed inside caffe2e58 (a README change that also swept in the staged deletions: model editor, 404 and navbar templates and 41 unused static assets) and the Go side is fcdbc122b (301 redirects from /import-model and /models/edit/:name to the React routes, no template renderer in the main server, 404s are JSON, GetEditModelPage removed, go mod tidy drops one dependency). Because of that, dropping only fcdbc122b would break the build; the clean way to make the removal droppable is a rebase that splits caffe2e58. The standalone local-ai explorer server still renders its own HTML page and the static assets it loads, because it does not serve the React app; that needs a separate change. Verified: go build ./core/..., tests in core/http/routes, core/http/endpoints/localai and core/explorer, and the key routes on a running binary. Not completed: the core/http suite (a few specs timed out because port 9090 was already in use on the machine that ran it).

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5