Agents & AI
Coding agents, local models, and infrastructure that drives itself.
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The story of the wiki both humans and agents can use We still pick Obsidian for quick notes — but in the agent era docs are created at 100x speed by TUI agents on a remote box. A story of the wiki we borrowed, the failover we tuned, and the dynamic spac Read article Why I Built a Local AI Agent Hub (And Why You Might Want One) Cloud agent APIs are expensive, rate-limited, and leak your data. Here's the local-first alternative I run on a homelab: one Docker MCP gateway, a dozen tool servers, any local LLM — and what breaks along the way. Read article Use Case Deep Dives: Four Walk-Throughs You Can Replicate Four end-to-end local AI agent pipelines on the MCP gateway: academic research downloads-to-knowledge-base, multi-source web research with screenshots, document conversion, and multi-day orchestrated research. Read article Connecting Your Local LLM to MCP Your LLM speaks OpenAI function calling, not MCP. Bridging Ollama and LM Studio to a Docker MCP gateway — the client code, the context-window math for tiers of tools, and the connection issues you'll hit. Read article Lessons Learned, Gotchas, and What's Next Six weeks of running local AI agents on a Docker MCP gateway, distilled: context-window math, volume-path perspectives, the colon separator, longLived discipline, and the roadmap from Neo4j to multi-agent swarms. Read article Homelab Setup: 12 MCP Servers in Docker Compose The full Docker Compose configuration for a local MCP gateway: host directory layout, per-server config.yaml overrides, volume strategy, the tier system, and how to add and remove servers. Read article Patching the Gateway: When Open Source Doesn't Quite Work Docker MCP Gateway silently ignores config overrides, breaks tool filtering with --servers, and hides a separator character. Diagnosing and patching three bugs in Go — with tests — plus what's changed upstream since. Read article Chat bridges for a coding agent: Signal, Telegram, Slack How to drive a home coding server from a phone — and why the channel choice is the least important decision. Allowlists, API surfaces, and permissions are where the risk lives. Read article A project is a directory, not a process opencode's headless server drives projects it never started. The mental model that unlocked remote control of dozens of repos. Read article