Question
Can a local worker handle a bounded engineering task?
A useful result needs a finish line, relevant context, and a human who checks the answer.
What I built
A bounded local worker.
The toolkit supports repository exploration, first-pass review, test ideas, diagnostics, and candidate patches through a local Ollama model.
Key design decision
Advice remains untrusted.
The toolkit filters repository context, blocks sensitive paths by default, and prints candidate diffs instead of applying them.
Artifact
Limitations
Useful depends on the whole workflow.
Token savings depend on the task, model, context size, and verification overhead. A bounded interface does not guarantee a fixed reduction.