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Running a local model as an agent, honestly

What breaks when a 12B model has twenty-one tools and a real machine to act on, what the traces showed, and which guards actually held. Every number below was measured before it was written down.

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Guide · living document · source on GitHub

Building a local agent you can trust — what we learned, in order

The decisions behind Kora, a desktop agent on a 12B local model with real access to one person's files, mail and voice — each with the incident that forced it and the mechanism that holds it. Rendered from github.com/Kairos-commu/kora.

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Catalogue · living document

Tool-calling failure modes on local models — a field catalogue

Every way a local model has broken tool calling in one real agent, September 2026, with the mechanical guard that stopped each one. Observed on gpt-oss:20b, qwen3.5:9b and gemma4:12b through Ollama.

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