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What you'll build By the end of this guide you will have a working AI agent that runs entirely on your own laptop: a small open-weight model served by Ollama, a clean agent loop that lets the model propose and execute tool calls, a set of tools wired in through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), short- and long-term memory, and the guardrails that keep the whole thing from looping forever or shelling out something it shouldn't. You will also have a routing rule for the moments when a small local model is the wrong tool and the job belongs in the cloud. The audience here is deliberately two-sided. If you are a Chennai or Bengaluru indie hacker on a 16GB MacBook who wants to stop burning credits on every experiment, this gets you an agent that costs nothing per token. If you are on a London…
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