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  "title": "A local agent is a runtime, not one model",
  "description": "A local agent stack combines models, orchestration, memory, skills, MCP tools, permissions, judges, and output guards.",
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  "why_it_matters": "Local inference is operationally useful only when the surrounding runtime can coordinate work, preserve evidence, constrain actions, and recover from failures.",
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    "harness-engineering",
    "mcp",
    "agent-ops"
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    "Hermes Agent",
    "Model Context Protocol"
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    "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/architecture"
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