Скачать или смотреть Building a cost-effective CLI Agent: Local Tools Meet AI Without the API Overhead (progress report)

This is an update on my effort to build a command-line tool to collaborate with an AI agent — without calling external APIs or burning tokens for local tool use. In this video, I break down my latest work on a CLI framework where local computation and LLM reasoning work side-by-side.

I walk through the journey of trying to fine-tune TinyLlama for tool invocation using the MCP protocol, hitting limits with small context windows and training failures — and why I ultimately pivoted to Llama 3.2 3B Instruct for built-in tool usage support.

Next up I’ll be hooking those tool calls into the shell and completing the feedback loop.

I’m learning more about local-first AI, command-line automation, as I go.
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