diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 9607e1a9c2e29..6a4493598f478 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -14624,6 +14624,13 @@
     github = "oaksoaj";
     githubId = 103952141;
   };
+  ob7 = {
+    name = "ob7";
+    email = "dev@ob7.us";
+    github = "ob7";
+    githubId = 6877929;
+    keys = [ { fingerprint = "5C1C 0251 FA85 8C62 0E96  7AC5 2766 5625 0571 34E4"; } ];
+  };
   obadz = {
     email = "obadz-nixos@obadz.com";
     github = "obadz";
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/te/tenere/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/te/tenere/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fd2a56b74331e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/te/tenere/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  rustPlatform,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+}:
+rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
+  pname = "tenere";
+  version = "0.11.2-unstable-2024-12-05";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pythops";
+    repo = "tenere";
+    rev = "0f3181ab23066aa69aa4fec387a7e16578078179";
+    hash = "sha256-HKPCX0bmXkB3LwvgE1li3dlWTgpW5CXuWZNq3mFY6FY=";
+  };
+  cargoHash = "sha256-u6QCs3RaLeRoVfhRzUG7wwx7kd0O3KyiC5vhZ3mE7UM=";
+
+  requiredSystemFeatures = [ "big-parallel" ]; # for fat LTO from upstream
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Terminal interface for large language models (LLMs)";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/pythops/tenere";
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ob7 ];
+    mainProgram = "tenere";
+  };
+}