What Agent Plugins 1.0 Gets Right About Portable Tooling
A closer look at the portable packaging layer for skills, commands, hooks, and MCP configuration.
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Testing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in a Local Agent Loop
A small Ollama-based test of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning as a local tool-calling worker.
Muse Glimmer Shows What a Practical Local-Agent Stack Looks Like
How Muse Glimmer, LoRA, QLoRA, and quantization fit together when you build a local agent for real work.
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