Using Local Coding Agents

Many people reached out to me in the past asking about my local agent stack as well as how I set up my local agent stack. So, I thought it might be useful to put together a little tutorial on how to set up a local (coding) agent using open-source tools and open-weight LLMs. Figure 1: Overview of the local stack, that is, a coding agent harness that uses a local model hosted through an inference engine / runtime server. This article is a tutorial on setting up a production-ready coding agent with a fully local stack. We will use a locally served LLM together with a local coding harness that can read files, make edits, run commands, and verify changes as shown in the figure above. Here, we can think of the LLM as the engine that provides the reasoning and code generation. And the…