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A local model as your agent's brain

Point a KDCube agent at a model on your own machine — served by Ollama — and let a user pick it for a single conversation. A small models gateway translates the existing provider: custom path; a reserved descriptor property turns it on.

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2026-07-17

Instruction profiles: a pickable brain-style for your agent

An agent's instructions compose from blocks, so it can offer named profiles a user picks per conversation — including a distilled set for local models.

instruction profilesagent capabilitiescomposable instructionsmodel pickid-based contract
2026-07-17

The Self-Governing ReAct Round: State Machine, Live Gates, and Honest Feedback

A KDCube ReAct turn is a state machine that runs the model, watches what it generates as it streams, decides in real time what may reach the user, and — when something goes wrong — tells the model exactly what happened before asking it to continue.

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2026-07-17

Your Agent Is Not a Prototype

Your team's agent works. The executive brief on the third path to production: keep it, wrap it thin, and let the runtime do the rest.

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2026-07-16

The Second Project: Running an AI Agent for Real Users

Your agent works. The second project is the AI agent infrastructure around it — identity, spend, evidence, updates. A runtime takes it off your roadmap.

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2026-07-16

Keep the Agent. Add the Runtime.

Your agent already works. Production should keep it — the framework, the behavior, the edge you built — and add the runtime around it.

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2026-07-16
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