Local

Local runtimes for engineers: Zero-cost inference

Engineers deploy local AI agents in 5 minutes using Ollama, eliminating token fees and securing data within personal network boundaries.

Jul 31, 2026 Priya Nair 13 min read

Devin AI agent: inside the VM architecture

Devin AI creates pull requests in under 10 minutes by running inside a sealed virtual machine, keeping local environments clean.

Jul 19, 2026 Priya Nair 14 min read

OpenCode vs Goose: Picking the Right Agent Layer

OpenCode's 170,000 GitHub stars prove coding-first agents have found product-market fit while broader tools struggle for traction in the stack.

Jul 14, 2026 Marcus Chen 14 min read

Local AI Agents: Cut 800ms Latency Now

Cloud round trips add 200ms to 800ms latency. Compare local and cloud agent architectures for real-time performance and data sovereignty.

Jul 14, 2026 Priya Nair 14 min read

OpenHands Canvas runs agents on local backends

Manage OpenHands, Claude Code, and Codex in one self-hosted interface. Learn how it switches between local, Docker, VM, and cloud backends without lock-in.

Jul 10, 2026 Diego Alvarez 10 min read

Hermes Agent: Self-Hosted Memory That Sticks

Hermes Agent crossed 140,000 GitHub stars by using FTS5 search to retain project specifics across sessions without manual reexplanation.

Jul 5, 2026 Sofia Berg 14 min read

Hermes Agent models: Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek V4

Compare Claude Sonnet 4.6 ($3) against DeepSeek V4 ($0.30) for Hermes Agent. Learn which model prevents malformed tool calls in production.

Jul 5, 2026 Diego Alvarez 12 min read

Local agent setup: Gemma 4, Ollama, and Tavily

Build a local research agent using Gemma 4 and Tavily. This guide configures 32,768 context tokens for deep evidence synthesis on consumer hardware.

Jul 3, 2026 Diego Alvarez 12 min read

Agentdex builds a searchable local skill catalog

Agentdex merges skills from four coding assistants into one offline catalog. It reads local files under your home directory with zero telemetry.

Jul 2, 2026 Priya Nair 7 min read

OpenHands local code: 78k stars, real limits

With more than 78,800 stars and 367 open issues, OpenHands dominates the open-source coding agent environment as of June 30, 2026.

Jun 30, 2026 Sofia Berg 14 min read

Local coding agents: Build free private stacks

Skip the $7.60 per task fee. I show how to run Qwen3.6 locally on 32GB RAM for private, zero-cost code generation.

Jun 29, 2026 Diego Alvarez 13 min read

SandboxRecord cuts latency in OpenHands cloud 1.38

OpenHands cloud 1.38.0 uses SandboxRecord to skip runtime API calls, removing network handshakes that slow down 40% of future agent apps.

Jun 23, 2026 Sofia Berg 9 min read

Unified memory fixes local LLM latency issues

Running a Llama 3.3 70B model locally now hinges on memory bandwidth rather than raw GPU compute, according to June 2026 performance data.

Jun 15, 2026 Priya Nair 12 min read