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Agents that run on your machine and keep what they learn
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"Runs locally" is not the same as "private"

"Runs locally" is not the same as "private," and I say this as someone shipping a thing that runs locally.
Your projects, agents, notes, database, secrets: they're in a directory on your disk. Unplug the network and they're still there, still readable, still yours.
Inference is a different story. Unless you're running a local model, your prompts leave your machine for your provider. Local storage doesn't change that.
An updater that checks for a new build is a network call.
A peer-to-peer mesh is not end-to-end encryption. Those are two different claims.
Open Wireshark, run the thing, watch what connections it makes. A packet capture won't tell you everything, but it can test some of those claims.
What else do you see people fold into "runs locally" that doesn't belong there?

What does your agent forget between conversations?

A question for anyone running agents in a day job rather than in a demo.
Mine used to lose things between conversations, and I only noticed because I kept retyping them. None of it was hard for the model. It was just gone by the next morning.
What I ended up doing was making the memory a file rather than a habit a title and a body, on disk, that the job opens already holding, and every other job can read.
The harder half is what happens when two of those notes disagree. Facts go in a base of their own, one plain sentence each. A new one is compared by meaning against everything already in there, and every near pair stops and asks for a ruling both true, merge them, one wins, or drop the new one. Nothing commits while a pair is open.
What's the thing you re-supply most? I'm collecting them, because I want to know whether they're the same for everyone or just mine.