# #local-models

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Page: https://videotomd.com/t/local-models/
Briefs: 9

- [Tool protocol for a model with no tools](https://videotomd.com/b/text-tool-protocol-no-tools/index.md): Teach a chat-only model to ask for files, commands and searches with READ, RUN, SEARCH and WRITE lines, and to claim nothing it did not see.
- [Small-window discipline](https://videotomd.com/b/text-small-window-discipline/index.md): Rules for a model with a short context window, so it works one file at a time, summarizes, and hands off before it forgets.
- [OpenHands AGENTS.md and one keyword skill](https://videotomd.com/b/text-openhands-agents-and-keyword-skill/index.md): A root AGENTS.md OpenHands loads whole, plus one keyword skill that fires on a word, and the context floor for local models.
- [Local-only mode](https://videotomd.com/b/text-local-only-mode/index.md): Keep a local model's work off the network: where data stays, what to bind, and how to verify from the logs and sockets.
- [Ollama Modelfile and companion](https://videotomd.com/b/text-ollama-modelfile-companion/index.md): A Modelfile that carries your instructions and sets the context window on purpose, with the checks that show it loaded.
- [Run Claude Code with a local Ollama model](https://videotomd.com/b/gqYyZuO34x0/index.md): Connect Claude Code to a local model and verify a small coding task.
- [Local AI agent with Ollama and PydanticAI](https://videotomd.com/b/ByWCsa8DbF8/index.md): Deploy local LLMs using Ollama and build tool-calling Python agents with PydanticAI.
- [LM Studio local model runner and server](https://videotomd.com/b/XpPtfB2pdio/index.md): Download, configure, run, and serve local LLMs via an OpenAI-compatible API to external applications.
- [Edit files with LM Studio Bionic](https://videotomd.com/b/KlEU3tv5g7Q/index.md): Create a project, select a model, and check its file changes.