Dragomand is a per-user Linux daemon that provides fully offline machine translation to desktop applications via a single D-Bus API. It runs Mozilla’s Bergamot/Marian models - the same models behind Firefox Translations - manages model installation and memory residency, and verifies model downloads by SHA-256. Apps call a common interface so editors, browsers, clipboard tools, KRunner, GNOME Shell, LibreOffice and accessibility software can share one copy of each model instead of loading their own. The daemon is D-Bus-activated and exits when idle, so nothing runs permanently; network access is used only to fetch models or on explicit update checks, keeping text private by design.
Version 0.1.0 ships the daemon with D-Bus API v1, a dragomanctl CLI, install-on-demand downloads, an LRU “keep-warm” policy with memory-pressure eviction, and integrations including KRunner, GNOME Shell search, a LibreOffice extension and a KTextEditor plugin. Bulgarian↔English is implemented end-to-end, and supporting every language pair Mozilla publishes is the stated scope. Documentation, install instructions, integrations and source code are provided; the project is free software under GPL‑3.0+, site content CC BY‑SA, and development is sponsored by Vute Tech.
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