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Operational field manuals — local AI · Mac & PC · cloud · agents · harnesses · loops · agentic engineering
The internet is full of AI theory. These are the manuals for actually running it: exact commands, exact configs, model-by-RAM tables, working agent loops, and the failure modes nobody writes down. Written like field manuals because that's what they are.
Field TestedManual index — free issue
| Designation | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| FM-01 | Run Your First Local AI Agent in 20 Minutes Ollama + a working plan→act→observe loop in ~80 lines of Python. Runs entirely on your machine. | Free |
| FM-02 | Ollama on a Mac: The Complete Field Manual Apple Silicon, unified memory, the model-by-RAM table, and the settings that fix slow or broken setups. | Free |
| FM-03 | The AGENTS.md Template That Fixes 80% of Agent Failures Why coding agents fail, and the copy-paste briefing file that stops it. Template included. | Free |
| FM-04 | Local vs Cloud AI: The Break-Even Field Manual The actual cost math — hardware amortization vs per-token pricing — and when each side wins. | Free |
| FM-05 | The Model Picker: Which Local Model for Which Job Task × hardware → model. Coding, reasoning, general, edge — with quantization defaults. | Free |
Every manual carries a "last verified" date and is revised when the ground truth moves. If a command in a manual doesn't work, that's a defect — report it.
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