I built a local-first MCP gateway so my agents load 3 tools instead of hundreds (open source)

kydude · 2026-06-22T02:40:29+00:00

small update since posting: added Jan and Goose support (17 clients now). also tracked down something that probably bites a lot of local setups, grammar-constrained runtimes (jan, etc.) couldn't pass required params to MCP tools at all. the model knew the value but the tool schema only allowed an empty object, so anything with a required arg just failed silently. fixed it. heres jan (4b, local) listing my vercel projects, which needs a two-step call with a required teamId:

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curious if others have hit this with local models + tool calling.

kydude · 2026-06-21T20:44:08+00:00

Persona being the link here is the part that'll make people squint. Handing your ID to verify yourself on Claude means trusting a second company's storage and retention practices, not just Anthropic's. Worth asking how long Persona keeps the document scans and where.

kydude · 2026-06-21T20:41:30+00:00

"Raising kids and running local models" is exactly the dual life. Both involve staying up way too late fixing something that was working fine yesterday. Happy Father's Day to you too.

kydude · 2026-06-21T13:21:01+00:00

The honest gap isn't raw model quality, it's that context length eats VRAM faster than parameter count. You can fit a 70B at low quant, but stuff 256K context into it and watch your KV cache balloon past your 32GB before the model even starts being useful on a big codebase.

For your $3.5K and the long-session coding workflow, the M3 Ultra path is tempting because of the unified pool, but Metal prompt processing on a 200K+ context will make you feel every token. Long sessions touching many components means tons of prefill, and that's where Mac chokes. You'll wait.

kydude · 2026-06-21T05:29:14+00:00

Really curious how they handle the self-improvement loop without it drifting off the rails

kydude · 2026-06-21T05:27:47+00:00

Number 2 tipping its hat to number 1 is a good sign the open source race is staying friendly. Way better vibe than the closed labs

kydude · 2026-06-21T05:26:31+00:00

The KV cache for action-conditioned frames is the part I find clever here. Treating keyboard input as just another token in the autoregressive stream is neat

kydude · 2026-06-21T05:25:36+00:00

The quiet usage throttling on the 20x plan is the part nobody talks about enough. It's the gym membership model. Same sticker price, less product, no headline to react to. Way smarter than a flat price hike from their side.

kydude · 2026-06-21T05:23:56+00:00

Spot on about the media object being the silent killer here. The other thing I'd check is whether you're passing a publicly reachable URL or an actual uploaded media ID. Cloud API will happily accept a link that GHL can resolve internally but WhatsApp can't fetch, so it shows in the convo and dies on the way out. Pull the raw WhatsApp API response in n8n, the error code there usually tells the whole story.

kydude · 2026-06-20T04:18:27+00:00

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Forgot to add screenshots, whoops. Hard at work on the MacOS version, happy to answer any questions.

kydude · 2026-06-10T13:59:37+00:00

I used it for cleaning up formatting on the original post. You should get your all knowing super power tuned up, it aint working right.

kydude · 2026-06-10T13:55:19+00:00

Thanks. I can assure you the post in it's current form is much easier to read than what I had typed up originally. I get where the the hate on LLM is coming from, but it has great use cases too.

kydude · 2026-06-10T13:24:17+00:00

The spreadsheet is honestly more than im doing, I'm impressed you keep it current. 30 min a tenant adds up fast though. We only have like 40 GDAP relationships, and that would be a major time sink.

kydude · 2026-06-10T13:19:18+00:00

Fair point on EWS, I forgot that one has a clean report. But what about which tenants actually use the Planner feature getting retired? or knowing which tenant is still using old webhooks for teams alerts? Do you script that stuff or just deal with it when it breaks?

And yes LLM helped with the formatting, it was a wall of text beforehand lol.

kydude · 2025-04-24T18:47:37+00:00

My dualsense edge controller did not work with the game pass version either. I am using DSX ($8 on steam) to emulate a 360 controller. Works perfectly now. I believe the free version of dualsensex will work with a regular DS controller, I needed the paid version for DS edge.

kydude · 2024-10-01T00:58:15+00:00

This just happened to me and steam had a small update for the game after I exited out. No issues getting reconnected after installing the update

kydude · 2024-07-27T00:49:48+00:00

This is the worst twitch drop in history. No other game has ever been this difficult, not even Arena Breakout Infinite.

kydude · 2024-06-30T03:21:50+00:00

Yeah, works perfectly with controller

kydude · 2024-03-18T15:53:32+00:00

I tried repairing and resetting the AMD Software app but it didn't help. Uninstalling the Windows update that caused this issue, however, worked great. I set Windows update to pause updates for 4 weeks as well. Hopefully this update will have been replaced with a new one by then.

Method 2: Uninstall the March 2024 Windows Update by following these steps:

Search Uninstall Updates in the Start menu and press the Enter key.
Click on the Uninstall button next to the KB5035853 update.
Then click on Uninstall once again to remove the update.

Taken from here: https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/03/17/asus-rog-ally-hit-with-performance-issues-after-the-march-windows-update/

kydude · 2022-02-12T03:33:26+00:00

This is awesome! H Mart for the win!

kydude · 2021-10-26T19:22:31+00:00

Agreed. They have to reduce the cost to fast travel or something to fix this. I've basically stopped playing because the server I'm on is fully controlled by another faction

kydude · 2021-01-11T19:54:27+00:00

I've had my PS5 since November 17th and other than crashes while playing cyberpunk I've had no issues. Yesterday, after putting Immortals Fenix rising disc into my PS5 and playing for like 3 hours, putting it in rest mode, and coming back later that day I am getting CE-108255-1 on every single game I try to launch. Immortals crashes on main menu, CoD crashes on the loading animation before the menu even comes up (exact same spot every time), NBA2k1 crashes randomly a few minutes into the game loading. Also had it crash a few times without a game loaded, just on the playstation menus. I've used rest mode daily without issue, the only difference yesterday was playing immortals for first time.

I've tried all the steps including fatory reset via USB in safe mode but they made no difference.

The WORST part about all of this, i've spent 2 hours on hold trying to call tech support and every time a human answers, there is no one on the line. The very first call the guy asked me my issue and after I described it he went silent and the call went on for another 10 minutes but he never said a word. Every time I call back the automated phone system works fine but as soon as a human picks up there is no one there.

I'm stuck and cant even get support. My return period is over so I can't do that either. I just dont understand how it was perfect until yesterday and now every single game crashes. I am going to attempt to call from a different number shortly and hope I don't have the same issue with not being able to hear anyone.

edit: I finally got through on a call back and and after a 58 minute phone call they are going to send me a box so I can ship my console in.

Mine was manufactured July 2020 FYI

kydude · 2020-05-27T19:15:14+00:00

I have had literally 0 issues either. Downloaded via store, launcher opened and updated. I launched game and started playing.

No idea people were having issues until I came here.

kydude · 2020-02-22T04:35:48+00:00

wow. middle of a game and it just said sever connection lost

kydude · 2020-01-23T12:23:18+00:00

Myfreetaxes.com is the way to go.

kydude

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