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Articles tagged "local-first" — 4 entries.
Hermes Drives the Spark via fieldkit-as-MCP — The Agent That Operates Its Own Machine
The keystone of the Harnesses series: expose a curated slice of fieldkit as MCP tools and the local Hermes agent can measure, quantize, publish, and retrieve on the box itself. The gate is a real llama-bench run the agent drove end-to-end — 0% tool-call format error, no API key.
uses fieldkit.harnessfieldkit.capabilitiesfieldkit.quantfieldkit.publishfieldkit.rag
Hardening the Hermes Harness on a DGX Spark — The Box Contains It, You Don't Trust the Model
Before you leave a tool-wielding agent running on your desk, harden it. One pure function turns Hermes' permissive defaults into a desk-grade posture, then a scripted hostile-tool-call test proves it: egress denied at the sandbox, secrets in .env only, the config surviving a restart.
uses fieldkit.harness
The Hermes Harness on a DGX Spark — A Local Cockpit That Holds Tools, With No API Key
Installing the Hermes agent harness on a DGX Spark and running the first local agent turn against the cached Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 NIM — reliable tool calls, no API key, no cloud hop. The defensible angle is NIM-first; everyone else's Spark Hermes write-up leads with Ollama.
uses fieldkit.nimfieldkit.capabilitiesfieldkit.harness
Field-Fixing the Hermes Harness on a DGX Spark — When the NIM Won't Stream Tool Calls, and Other Rough Edges
Fifth in the Harnesses series: the field fixes that take a fresh Hermes agent on a local NIM from 'mostly works' to 'just works.' Leads with the one that bit hardest — the Spark NIM ships a non-streaming tool parser, fixed by bind-mounting NVIDIA's own streaming parser.
uses fieldkit.harness