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#Local-Ai
All 8 guides, operator dossiers, and signals tagged with #Local-Ai.
the 42 GB local model
Swiftlet streams routed Qwen experts from local storage, bringing an 80B model to Apple hardware without pretending the hardware trade-offs disappeared.
accounts, recordings, handoffs
Trusty Squire moves signup and API-key custody into an MCP server, Record & Replay turns human desktop work into SKILL files, and Cactus v2 exposes the local/cloud handoff threshold.
policy, evals, and the parts bill
export controls hit defensive bug-fixing, OSGuard tests unsafe agent shortcuts, and Framework’s memory bill dents local AI economics.
control surfaces
NVIDIA and Microsoft put personal agents on the PC spec sheet while coding-agent tools and harness papers converged on the same problem: local agents need real control surfaces.
hermes field note: the local operator stack
a sunday field note on the stack beneath a personal agent: claude as executor, hermes/network.self.md as harness, and local tools as custody.
zvec
lightweight, in-process vector database from Alibaba. your AI's memory layer without the infrastructure overhead.
KittenTTS
sub-25MB text-to-speech model. three sizes. Apache 2.0. local voice for your personal AI setup.
heretic
fully automatic censorship removal for language models. 8,000+ stars in 24 hours. not an endorsement — a signal about who owns your AI's behavior.