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Local AI agents should be easier to uninstall

One underrated test for local AI-agent tooling: can you uninstall it cleanly?

A lot of local agent setups sprawl across:

  • env files
  • provider config
  • Docker containers
  • local databases
  • MCP server config
  • project folders
  • generated logs
  • background jobs
  • secrets

If I cannot answer what was installed, I probably cannot confidently remove it.

That is why uninstall is part of trust.

A local agent control plane should know:

  • what it installed
  • what config it created
  • what jobs it started
  • what containers or processes belong to it
  • where logs live
  • which secrets/config keys are referenced
  • what can be safely removed

This is one of the boring but important reasons we are building Armorer.

Repo:
https://github.com/ArmorerLabs/Armorer

The pitch is not magic autonomy. It is local control: install, configure, run, observe, stop, repair, and eventually remove agents without guessing what state is left behind.

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