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Technical notes.
Field notes on local LLM infrastructure, coding-agent workflows, evaluation loops, and the places where language models should hand authority back to deterministic code.
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Local LLM Operator Workbench
A practical local-first coding-agent stack built around LM Studio, model presets, and MCP.
Operational notes for running local coding agents: LM Studio as an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, task-specific presets, MCP scope, and context budgets that keep edit loops responsive.
- LM Studio
- Local-first
- MCP
- Qwen
- Gemma
Coding Agent Model Routing
Plan/act separation, local fallbacks, and choosing the smallest capable model for each loop.
A compact routing doctrine for coding agents: planning versus acting, local versus hosted, fast versus deep, and when to split a task instead of feeding one giant context window.
- Plan/Act
- Model routing
- Context budgets
- Local-first
- Workflow
Cline Ops Discipline
Workflow rules for keeping coding agents narrow, reviewable, and out of runaway context.
The operating model behind using Cline for repo work: repo questions, plan-edit-verify passes, broad-task discovery, and monitoring for tasks that start to sprawl.
- Cline
- GLM
- Repo workflows
- Large tasks
- Verification
Cline Evaluation Lab
A local exploration of smoke tests, contract tests, and agent regression signals.
A look at an evaluation stack for coding agents: provider smoke tests, transform contract tests, end-to-end tasks, metrics, and reporting patterns for catching regressions.
- Evals
- Smoke tests
- pass@k
- Regression testing
- Cline
AI Observer
A lightweight terminal telemetry experiment for command, error, and repo-state context.
A small local observer pattern: shell hooks capture command/error metadata and snapshot repo state so an assistant can understand what changed without relying on shell history.
- Shell hooks
- Telemetry
- Git snapshots
- Operator context
- Local only
LLM Trader Runtime Boundaries
LLMs propose trades; deterministic services validate, gate, and sign.
A note on the runtime boundary in LLM Trader: committee agents can generate proposals, but the risk gateway owns policy, quote freshness, audit records, and signing.
- LLM Trader
- Risk gateway
- Deterministic policy
- Shadow lanes
- Audit