# Meet editorial-guide-ramalama: An AI Assistant That Checks Your Fedora CommBlog and Magazine Articles Against Editorial Guidelines

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Author: Ananya Nalavathu

Published: 2026-08-25T12:47:18Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Fedora Community Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/fedora-community-blog.md>)

Topics: [Fedora](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fedora.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Local AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/local-ai.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [On-device AI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/on-device-ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [articles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/articles.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [fedora-project-community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fedora-project-community.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [local](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local.md>), [mentored-projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mentored-projects.md>), [oci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oci.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [rag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rag.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces editorial-guide-ramalama, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation assistant built for Fedora contributors. It checks drafts against Fedora's editorial guidelines and published articles, cites specific guidelines when it identifies problems, and suggests actionable fixes. The tool uses RamaLama to run open models locally as OCI containers, with built-in ingestion, chunking, and retrieval, avoiding API keys and external services.

## Source excerpt

By Ananya Nalavathu and Francois Gonothi Toure Introduction Open source communities run on contribution, and contribution runs on documentation, storytelling, and knowledge sharing. At the Fedora Project, that means the Fedora Community Blog and Fedora Magazine, two publications that give contributors a voice and give the community a way to stay informed, inspired, and connected. [...] The post Meet editorial-guide-ramalama: An AI Assistant That Checks Your Fedora CommBlog and Magazine Articles Against Editorial Guidelines appeared first on Fedora Community Blog.